Disruption

“I was not directly involved in developing technological advancements, but I knew people who were. I was rather impressed with the whole thing. All of the decentralized tools were replaced with centralized services, which collected information on people. We also had the services written with planned obsolescence in their design. Instead of designing hardware to fail, we limited the life of the software which supports any given device. People could continue to use their old hardware but they would not get updates for their software. Over time, the old systems become increasingly incompatible with the new software requirements. This way, as better data collection and increases in dependence are created, it becomes easier to implement and replace the old systems. Now, the whole design of technological advancement makes people more dependent on corporate services over time.”
“Similarly, social norms can be planned in the same way”, he said. “Each generation becomes easier to guide people into channels that we desire. We build upon a generational distrust. The experience of older generations becomes something to be rejected by younger generations. Anything that we don’t want is labeled old and outdated. Not only software, but also ideas and people, can be rejected in this way.”
“The younger generations don’t understand why things were built they way they were. If it seems old to them, they won’t even look into it. It is much easier to get the younger people to accept the new corporate controlled standards. They don’t know anything else. We also promote the idea that change is good, no matter what that change may be.” After a short pause, he said, “And, of course, we control those changes."
“I still find it hard to believe that people can be so easily manipulated.”, I said.
“That is part of the manipulation. By using techniques, like The Big Lie, we make it hard to believe. We have had well over a hundred years of science and research into how to manipulate people through advertising and storytelling. Part of it is making people believe that they are not being manipulated. In general, people don’t want to believe they are manipulated. It destabilizes their reality.”
“The generational split has also allowed us to better disrupt the left. We used to send in enforcers and assassins to disrupt the organizing of the leftist factions. It was a very ugly business. Now, we disrupt the leftist organizations through funding pro market groups who introduce the market economy as a leftist ideal, or they reject the left entirely and embrace the market. Today, the younger generations do not understand that the left’s central organizing principle has been the abolition of private property. Our disruptors call themselves post left, and introduce individualism and market principles into ideologies that are inherently communist and collectivist. We build on individualistic tendencies. We target the younger people, and influence them directly. We teach them to distrust their elders. In this way, the younger generations disrupt political organizing for us by rejecting the standards of older generations. It creates infighting which further discredits the old leftists. Most of the younger generation go on to become capitalists and consumers themselves.
He paused, he was clearly very proud of their accomplishments in disruption. He had a sort of glow that one gets when discussing some great achievement. Like a sports fan boasting about their teams win.
“The leftists are truly pathetic”, He continued. “If they were smart, they would see through all the these tactics. They could build their own social networks, but they don’t. They could organize a whole separate society, if they truly wanted to. Instead they rely on the ones we gave them, with the purpose of disrupting their movements.”
“Are you on the same social networks?”, I asked.
He replied, “No, or course not, we don’t use Google or Facebook or any social network built for consumers. We never have. We have our own social networking infrastructure, which we maintain separate from the general population. We charge high subscription fees, just in case any consumer stumbled onto them. The data we generate remains private, contained within our own private servers.”
“The radicals and consumers don’t even understand that the technological changes that would allow them freedom from the game already exist, we use them ourselves. We are now independent of the physical and social infrastructure, which is starting to collapse.”