No One Makes A Monkey Out Of Me (That's - Apparently - Just The Way We Are)

It's been within the last decade that I first said AI was overblown, and - lo and behold - Apple's finally agreed with me. It only took their college-educated engineers 10 years to see what a guy with a GED saw immediately. But that's about par for the course.

It's been over 15 years after TMR first wrote about San Francisco's One Taste cult - later researched in "Women Getting Squirrelly (And Collecting Nuts)" - when we read in NYC "Founders of ‘Orgasmic Meditation’ group found guilty of forcing employees into sex acts". DUH.

I mean, Wow. Seriously: That's not just an issue of time, but of space AND comprehension, too. Theres a lot of distance there, no matter how you look at it. And we're not just talking about One Taste, but how long it takes for American society to identify, and then act, against - not only the obvious but - what the society, itself, is doing. To itself. We're talking a really, really s-l-o-w response time. In the Information Age. What a mindfuck.

 

"Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ wellness company convicted in forced labor trial" is a headline that proves, after almost two decades of linguistic conditioning, the media doesn't even know where the quotes go, whenever one of theses cults starts calling itself a "wellness company." What is a "wellness company"? What is "wellness"? Clearly, in the end, it has something to do with tricking people into doing things against their will,...to make them well. Well.

Here's something semi-related with bite in it: 

"The consequences of,...scientific fraud are profound, as history shows. In 1998, Andrew Wakefield’s study in The Lancet falsely linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Though it was retracted in 2010 after evidence of data manipulation, vaccination rates dropped, leading to measles outbreaks. Public health efforts were diverted for years to counter this misinformation." 

 And those "consequences" - after Wakefield was disbarred for what amounted to racist experiments on black kids almost 30 years ago - also included being turned into a NewAge celebrity, dating Supermodel Elle MacPherson, and his buddy, RFK, Jr., becoming America's new director of health. So he's doing,...well. Because, as we all witnessed with our own eyes, nobody brought up Andrew Wakefield, even once, during RFK, Jr's supposedly-thorough Congressional vetting process. Because this is a society taking a really long time, to grasp what it's doing. To itself. 

We make it very clear - looking at how we process 30 years of history - the truly amazing thing is that we grasp anything at all.