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I was born in the rain on the part train underneath the Louisiana

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Moon don’t mind the strain of a hurricane they come around every

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June the high Black Water devil’s daughter she’s hard she’s cold she’s

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[Music] me General thank you so much for making

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the time for us today big questions that we have that can only be answered by someone with your pedigree where is the

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American Military As Americans are suffering and dying I’ll preface this by saying our our sources on the ground

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tell us that there are hundreds of bodies American bodies still buried in mudslides uh and thousands of Americans

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uh that could potentially perish Still In This Storm where is the American Military yeah so a couple of things that

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I want to cover and Nick Nick sortor is unbelievable and being on the ground there doing what he’s doing I mean talk

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about courage so let me take it to the big picture first because it and I and then I will take it down to North

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Carolina and what what should be done what should immediately be done and we’re already a week too late so big big

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picture we have over a 100 counties probably around 150 counties from

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Appalachia Cola Florida all the way up to the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina so probably looking at

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150 counties you know in various States that are in a complete disaster Zone and

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so this is a federal emergency of epic proportions of biblical proportions that

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the federal government is basically has been totally absent okay I mean absent

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and I have uh folks that I’m working with right now and and I’ll talk a little bit about what we did in North

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Carolina what’s going on in North Carolina because people out around the country are frankly some around the world are asking work and they can help

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but certainly people around the country so the big picture is we got about at least 150 counties that are in a in a

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total disaster Zone from Northern Florida all the way up to uh in parts of

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Tennessee and of course North Carolina in in North Carolina there are at least

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there’s over a thousand dead that have been confirmed to me with the just the body bags that have been filled there

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are insufficient numbers of body bags so there are dead body is lying aside and

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and and this is up in the mainly up in North Carolina that is already pushing over a thousand my guess is that by the

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time we we you know look at all of what has happened we’re going to be probably somewhere around 2,000 or north of 2000

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dead people there are still people caught up in the hills in North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee that their towns

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were completely wiped out they’re they’re totally isolated homes are gone and one of the things I want people to

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understand is that one of the things that you consider for humanitarian disaster recovery and relief operations

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one of the first things you look at is the terrain and the weather conditions that are impending right so at nighttime

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right now up in the mountains of North Carolina I have I’m very familiar with this area I’ve trained up in there I’ve been up in there many times in my in my

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experiences in the military especially at Fort Brag North Carolina I won’t call it the other name but Fort Brag North

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Carolina which I will talk to in a second here with the with the potential uh deployment of other resources that

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the government has so the the weather conditions right now are wet they are uh

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because it’s Misty at night time it rains at night we’re looking at weather temperatures that that are in the low

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30s and in another week or two by the end of this certainly by the end of this month we’re going to start to see

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freezing conditions possibly even an early snow in the mountains of North Carolina where these people are still

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walking around with nothing so when we because I want to talk about what types of resources need to be brought to bear

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and the things that I know that are being done so the big picture is we’re going to probably be north of 2000 dead

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we have at least 150 counties maybe 200 counties from Northern Florida all the way up into uh up into Western North

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Carolina that are in This Disaster Zone the federal government has done nothing

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one other strategic component here Benny and for your audience when they talk about fee is out of money or the federal

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government’s out of money first of all it’s our money so never forget that folks secondly that our government has

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has Disaster Recovery response funds and Congress and now I’m talking directly to

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speaker Johnson right Congress can reallocate funds so funds that are being allocated overseas to some other crazy

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Endeavor that we don’t need to be part of they can reallocate funds with one simple vote and and actually it’s the

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speaker of the house that can do that so so I don’t want people to go well FEA is out of money the government’s out no

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that first of all it’s our money and the speaker of the house has the authority to be able reallocate from one line item

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to another line item for dis especially for Disaster Recovery in the United States of America and the and the

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president of the United States can do it with a stroke that didn’t even take a pen it could just be direct These funds

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to go to that effort immediately the second thing is the the president of the United States has the full authority to

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call out and federalize the National Guard okay and we probably are looking

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at uh a division’s worth of of cap abilities that we need so an army

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division’s worth of capabilities so that’s roughly somewhere between 15 and

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20,000 Personnel from that that you can we can get from the National Guard right

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now with all of the all of the logistics all of the the communications all of the

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tenage you know all of the the what they call mobile kitchen trailers I mean for food I mean we can do water purification

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the the the little numbers that have been sent I think it’s uh a th from uh from the Fort Bragg area and

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there’s like another 500 this is just in North Carolina we need a full mobilization right now and I’m serious

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about this if if you know if you sprinkled fairy dust on me today and put me in charge we would have an entire we

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would have an entire active duty division because the active duty division more than the National Guard

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the National Guard has to come in they got to go through all kinds of processes they don’t respond as quickly so the the

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82 Airborne Division which is a threeh hour drive from the Western Hills of North Carolina Drive not like you know a

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day or two to get there they have capabilities that can be there literally in two hours four hours 24 hours and I’m

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talking about large packages of the full complement of everything that Nick was

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just talking about I have got I have uh uh U Representatives on the ground to

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doing a couple of things one they’re they’re collecting the Intel right now they’re getting an assessment of the

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area and these are the guys that are telling me how many body bags they’re out of how many body bags they need

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there’s still areas that that they have not gotten into I mean some of the stories that I was told in the last

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couple of days we had and and the these were fixed and I’ll tell you how they were fixed so we had North Carolina

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forestry service helicopters at Hickory Airfield in North Carolina that were sitting idle for five days and the

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pilots who know that part of the country like the back of their hands were so frustrated because they could not they

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were told they were directed basically don’t do anything okay they were and they would call up and go hey these guys

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are looking for you know help here and we can help them we know this area very well because flying in the mountains

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with a helicopter is far more difficult than flying you know along a beach right because you’re up at a higher altitude

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so there’s a lot of there’s a lot of Dynamics and technical issues here that people have to be aware of so these guys

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were sitting idle one phone call one phone call and it was to the lieutenant governor Mark Robinson and I’m going to

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give him a lot of right now because in that phone call he told me that nobody was answering their phones from the

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governor’s office of North Carolina nobody was answering their phones from the his calls to the Department of

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Homeland Security or he was calling up into the White House so Mark took it on his own went to the to the Airfield

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yesterday afternoon and directed under his authority and I you know and I don’t know what that means I don’t know what

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if if he has that versus the governor but he told those helicopters you know and because and they said thank you very

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much and they put those helic s in the service they were sitting there Benny for five days so there’s so many stories

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of incompetence and ineptitude and intentionality FEMA FEMA has a small

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element on the ground and people that are going up to it there’s no signs so it’s not like hey FEMA’s here you know

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we’re here to help we got supplies coming in we got relief efforts going on they they were told don’t you know

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basically don’t address anybody that comes up if they come up just tell them you’re sitting tight and you’re waiting

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on resources this was this morning this is this morning a themea operation that’s a little bit further away from

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Hickery up in the uh in the in the greater Asheville area so that’s kind of some of the Tactical picture but we we

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have the ability immediately and I mean immediately with a with a with a phone call by the president of the United

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States directing the national command Authority and that means the Department of Defense the Secretary of Defense the

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the Department of Homeland Security FEMA and some of these other some of these other uh Federal institutions to

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mobilize and they should put it under the the uh the command and control of a military unit because because you’re

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going to this is a military recovery and disaster relief operation I’ve been part of many of these this is a very simple

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operation actually in the military because these are Americans right our our our soldiers and and I have too many

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stories in the last couple of days of soldiers at Fort Brag North Carolina taking leave because they were they some

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of them many of them live up there or other guys know people up there so they’re taking their own leave to get

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out there and help out for a couple of days to just do some immediate operations because they can’t take that much leave right a couple of days seven

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days and so units are letting them go so low-level soldiers are or our our Rank

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and file understand the urgency they’re they’re watching this unravel and they’re looking at our government go and

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say and do nothing I mean nothing this is so outrageous we we have I mean and and

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what Nick was talking about and you guys kind of touched on it in the end you kind of say to yourself why and so what

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are they doing right and you you have to say to yourself you know 750 bucks that’s ridiculous I mean everybody knows

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everybody looks at this and goes you know what the hell is going on and what’s going on is and I said this very

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publicly this morning on my on my exp poost you know I want people to understand when they say build back

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better they need to destroy the entire system in order to build it back better in their image and I mean that

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intentionally I mean that precisely these people are are intent on destroying this country so there there

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are also stories this this just makes me sick and and good reporting from good

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people on the ground that I know of the Looting and a lot of gunshot fire a lot

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a lot of gun uh gun fights up there to get rid of looters by some of the locals and by of the recovery assets there are

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also children that they’re finding with ropes on their arms and their legs where they were tied to trees by their parents

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and their parents are now dead and they and the kids were able to get recovered there are reports of illegals up in that

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area and there’s a group of illegals that they had uh uh you know basically grabbed up about three or four days ago

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and you know these are the allegations of raping some of these children up there so I this is brutal and this is a

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war zone and and and in a war zone and this is what I mean about this sort of disaster Zone it’s like a war zone you

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saw you showed many of the pictures Benny so when you have a war zone like that you’re GNA have all sorts of

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Nefarious characters actors you’re G to have people up there with all kinds of you know hey if you if you support me if

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you support this you know and they’re going to be benefiting from it that’s we got to be very very careful about who

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we’re supporting where your money’s going and the type of people that that uh that are up in this area because

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you’re going to have it’s such a gigantic area of operations the only way

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the only way right now for a a legitimate uh uh you know wellone well

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executed uh recovery operation to take place is if they if if the United States government commits at least a a brigade

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siiz task force which is about seven to 8,000 you know men and women Soldiers

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with all of the requisite capabilities to get in there now this is even this is even outside the scope of the National

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Guard it’s such a big big problem and that doesn’t mean that doesn’t take any way from uh from the National Guard

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Leadership you know they can put a they can get a general up there who’s got some guts and is ready to make some

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decisions but that the scale and scope of this problem like I said we’re talking about so many counties in North

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Carolina but we’re looking at a much much bigger problem and so the larger the problem the bigger the resources

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that you’re going to require and those resources because we’re talking about Interstate problems here that has to

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come from the federal government and for the federal government to say we we’re out of money is total it’s

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total excuse my Irish Benny to your audience there are funds that are

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available the president of the United States can redirect them speaker Johnson needs to stand up right now and also he

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he’s got the authority to to move monies from one account to another in order to to support this operation and then they

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our Congress our house they should be so public right now in the public domain

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you know demanding that the president of the United States help these people Benny we’re going to have over 2,000

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Americans dead from a hurricane a hurricane that was never expected to go

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up into the Western Hills of North Carolina and that and I said you know the people that are that that have died

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and and and will be recovered you know bodies from Northern Florida all the way

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up to the hills of of Western or Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina

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Benny there are entire segments of I40 and I’ve seen the videos and the pictures I40 which is a major Federal

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Highway that cuts right through the entire Mountain Side came down right so there’s a an entire section they’re

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talking about well over a year to repair that I mean this is something that is so big you know Cala can take her

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$750 and put it where you know where you know the sun doesn’t shine because right

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now a much more massive relief effort and frankly I hate to say this because it’s

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like it sounds like I’m crazy but the you know AB budding this up to the to the most consequential election in our

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history that we are about to experience I I just it just smells bad it tastes

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bad you know it’s the old thing if it if it you know looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a duck right and we got

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a problem right now Benny and this government is intentionally you know doing nothing

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they’re doing nothing so don’t let anybody say that there’s no money and don’t let anybody say that there’s no

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resources there are both and they they can be there in a moment’s notice we’re already eight days too late and for the

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82nd Airborne Division and 18th Airborne Court Fort Brag North Carolina I guess now called Fort Liberty for those

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resources to sit there what are they waiting to go to the Ukraine are they waiting to go to the Middle East we have got to get these

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resources because that Division I can tell you I’ve spent almost half of my career at that fact more than half of my

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career at that base you know in the in the world of Special Operations in the world of of really high-end capabilities

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I mean tentage clothing food you know Logistics bridging trucks U air Mobility

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they have an entire actually they have more than a brigade’s worth of of Aviation assets they have a to a

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totality of command and control capabilities just an ability to go up on and I know some of the area up there

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like there’s some Fair ground areas and then you have some some off-site airfields where there’s large open space

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or the space can be cleared immediately just bulldo because even the Army at Fort Brag has bulldozers has cranes has

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all this complement of capabilities all of that can be brought to bear you clear up a couple of spaces you start flying

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around there you you actually run it like we ran operations in any War Zone in the country because that’s what this

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is in fact it’s worse than a war zone you’ve seen the pictures you’ve shown the the videos on your screen we need

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need to get up there with with with military resources and we need to do it now and I mean now and than you know I’m

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I’m thankful actually because I think Ronda Santa sent some some uh bridging

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assets up there from from the National Guard and from the state guard but certainly from the National Guard other

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Governors need to start coming together folks because if Joe Biden who is he is

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not there okay he Joe Biden needs to be he needs to be 25th amendment it out

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Camala Harris who has no concept of what I just said in the last 15 or 20 minutes

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zero zero concept but there are people in our government and there’s certainly people in the in the Department of

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Defense Lloyd Austin should be ashamed of himself as a secretary of defense he knows full well what is what the US

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military is very capable of doing all compliments whether it’s National Guard whether it’s our Reserve forces or

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whether it’s our active duty and right now to to put an active duty unit in there for let’s just say 30 days and

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then you can bring in you know some of the other uh C SE and rescue some of the other civilian capacity that we have in

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this country right so we know that there’s people and and we’ll get this I’ll get this information to you so you

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can put it out on your show because there are there is a church up there that is setting up operations it’s a

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great church great Pastor there’s another couple of groups up there that I know that are bringing in trucks

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truckloads of food and uh and shelter and warm clothes I mean money yes will

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help pay for the Fuel Services know one of the guys that’s up there they brought six helicopters up private these are

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private guys who went up there they normally get a phone call from FEMA FEMA never called them these guys are are the

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topend search and rescue people and FEMA calls them whenever there’s a disaster

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FEMA never called them and so they’re up there on their own because they just give a about what’s going on so

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they have about six helicopters and they need to pay for fuel the folks providing the fuel up there have given them fuel

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at Half Price which is really really nice for for but that’s fuel will eventually run out so we need to get you

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know we need to pay to get fuel up there if we continue down this path with with trying to do this you know by by private

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citizens it it and know and I’ll shut up here in a second Benny it kind of hearkens back to the The Retreat from

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Afghanistan when the government when we pulled out of Afghanistan and you know the tragic loss of of the of the of the

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beautiful 13 lives so many others that were wounded the the leaving behind of American citizens the government pulled

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out and so so what happened I mean there’s still Americans back there right and so so private citizens stepped up

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and they started to conduct rescue operations in the most difficult part of the world now we’re talking about right

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here in our own front yard never this isn’t our backyard this is our front yard America and we have the full

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capabilities assets resources funding all of it and you know what that’s our

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money don’t let anybody say well the government doesn’t have any money there is so much money that we

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can that we can come get access to and they can reallocate this we’re in a new fiscal year I mean you know these are

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things that I understand and and you know and and God help these people if uh

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from my perspective I ain’t speaking for Trump but for my perspective God help these people if we get back into office

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because you know this is insane we can’t have close to 2000 and it’s going to go

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north of 2000 when they finally when we get all the when we see it all and that and the billions and billions and

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billions of dollars that are going to be uh just destroyed in people’s lives I mean everything so sad

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um and and and we got to look back at these kinds of things and go you know what do we do what what why why and I

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know why I know why I think there’s an intentionality behind this and I would love Joe Biden he didn’t even know that

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there’s a storm he didn’t know which storm I heard you ask Nick about you know you said what storm he was like what storm you’re talking about are you

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me and I and I I’m getting uh I’m getting uh you know Irish on you here I want to calm my voice a little

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bit because because we have people American people American citizens that are at

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risk that have died that have lost every single thing that they own we have the

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full ability in this country to take care of them right now for an immediate

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period of time and I’m talking about probably for the next certainly 90 days maybe longer you know we could put them

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we can put them you know up like we put illegals up right in hotels I mean we can bring them into I I know I mean

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these are all things that that I know we are capable of doing and the military

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can get in there immediately and and start to put people in at least tents

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you know at least tents on a fair ground and line it up like we’ve always done in places like overseas combat zones where

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we just we get in there with CBS and we build plywood homes I mean you know we can bring compliments of trailers I mean

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so much can be done and our government is on its rear end doing nothing hoping

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they’re you know what they’re hoping for they’re hoping that it affects the election and the outcome of election

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particularly in places like Georgia like North Carolina affect are affected so much but I can’t imagine you know I mean

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Nick Nick highlighted it you know trying to get people to be able to vote right I mean that’s the last thing that is on my

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mind for these people you know I want them I want him to I want Donald Trump to get back into office you know Donald

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Trump has to have you know an entire Battalion of infantry around him to protect him from uh being killed by

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frankly you know some of it might be Iranians some of it’s probably people in our own damn government working with

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Mexican cartels and working with other other uh uh you know criminal elements

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to kill him to kill this man so that’s another discussion for another day I I I

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know you wanted to talk about something that Jack pic had posted and I think Jack’s right about that that there’s

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there’s other plots of foot and uh this is insane where we are as a nation never

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mind what mother nature and our government what Mother Nature did and what our government has failed to do so

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I want people to I I will I will get to you places where people can can give

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that I totally have vetted totally trust and frankly yes the the the the

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organizations that helping they need they need the money but the people need

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shelter they need thermal uh sleeping bags they need little you know little until our government kicks in until

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something kicks in they need tenage they need clothing warm clothing they need preserved Foods right Cann Goods I mean

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all the kinds of things you know so we’re we’re uh going to be up there in North Carolina here in Selma here with a

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big with a with a whole bunch of people we’ve turned our turned our entire reawaken America event that we planned

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you know months ago uh into a basically a humanitarian assistance relief effort

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so we’re going to be doing that and then we’re going to be in Charlotte um you know helping out Donald Trump with a uh

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with a big event we’re going to turn that into a humanitarian assistance relief effort and and my personally so

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personally um one of the things that I do very well and for your audience is I connect people and I connect

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organizations because I have a great network of really wonderful people uh

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they’re mostly uh former military and these are hardworking uh you know Patriots and

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they love uh they you know they’re they know what a crisis they know how to handle a crisis so we’re connecting

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different groups that I knew that were doing individual things we have to be far more coordinated so anytime that you

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see somebody because you’ll be talking to different organizations Benny the main thing that we need to do is we need

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to connect those guys so I probably on the phone this morning have connected about four or five different

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organizations people that didn’t generally know each other but they’re all focused on the same you know focal

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point and that focal point right now is to get relief efforts up into North Carolina so we’ve got trucks going up

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we’ve got helicopters going in we do have some some uh funding coming in kicking in for particularly for fuel

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because the other thing is like you need uh heaters right we need heaters heaters run on gas propane or they run on on

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just moas so so those are the kinds of things um you know there there’s the

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corporate the corporate world of of uh of Home Depot Lowe’s Walmart I mean all

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of these big box stores right I mean if you’re listening to this show please

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please please kick in help help those folks that are sitting on an Airfield

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right now running I mean yesterday as of yesterday a private organization was

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running air operations for the entire area because the government wasn’t there

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okay the government wasn’t there and and I will I will uh put a plugin for Mark Robinson again because I I don’t know if

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he listens to this show but Mark on one phone call you know up in up at the

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Capal in in North Carolina he immediately that afternoon was at the Hickory Airfield and he got those those

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forestry helicopters mobilized and they’re now flying rescue missions alongside this private organization and

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you know which is nuts we should have an entire division an infantry division

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mobilized for this effort whether it comes out of the Guard or whether it comes out of for a place like Fort Brag

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North Carolina that’s what we need right now and they can set up everything and

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that can be the focal point without any of the BS you know you tell a you tell a two-star general who’s in charge of it

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you say you know you have the con you make the decisions get stuff done make it happen you know rescue people help

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people you know if you need more stuff you come back and you ask me and I’ll I’ll bring to bear more stuff if you

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need it but right now we got to get those kinds of resources and capabilities out there so I mean I I

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I’ve G on and on I’m just you can you can your audience you can hear it in my voice folks we have got to take this

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country back because if we don’t take this country back what we’re seeing right now in the responsiveness of our

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government we’re going to see it in Spades and I I mean if if there was ever

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a time for them to shine Now’s the Time To Shine and these people have Dark

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Souls and that’s what we’re seeing so I’ll shut up thank you Benny this is exactly why you bring the General on

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your show to get the orders from a military Mastermind and from somebody who truly understands these systems now

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uh General I I can’t help but look through some of the archives of what

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happened in Katrina what happened uh with Hurricane Sandy when it struck New

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York and when these hurricanes hit dark blue cities and large Democrat voting

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Pockets let’s say this hurricane hit Philadelphia or Pittsburgh this election I can’t help but wonder if the National

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Guard the full Fleet of the American Military would have been immediately

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dispatched along with every conceivable Federal printing press to print unlimited money to help these people out

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you can go back and see the 82n Airborne deployed to Katrina exactly you can go back and see the military deployed to

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New Jersey and New New York when dark blue cities were hit by hurricanes and

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so you have to step back and say you know what it sure as hell looks like this is some sort of political Vengeance

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political cleansing of trump counties in swing States that’s what it looks like

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Prima fascia yeah so you’re right I mean Katrina we deployed Katrina which happened down in in uh nor Orleans and

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then um the the I just lost the name of the the hurricane that hit Homestead Air Force Base in Florida which was one of

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the worst disasters it was a hurricane that hit the 82 Airborne was actually deployed down to Florida to to do

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disaster and recovery and relief operations in Florida and I’m not a big fan of Rumsfeld and I said this the

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other day in a in a post that I put out because I wanted people to understand exactly what you’re asking you know

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Rumsfeld for after Katrina there was 75,000 soldiers that were deployed to

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New Orleans right to the 75,000 immed he said he said well and I and this is a

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quote from a guy that was in the room with him that said we’ll we’ll worry about the paperwork later get them

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deployed immediately 75,000 were deployed like literally in a period of

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about four days you know to get him down there right and so and I’m you know believe me I’m no fan of rumel but but

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when when when stuff needs to happen in this country if we have leaders who care

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you know and are willing to to to do the right thing then we will have responses

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like that where like I just said the uh the hurricane that hit Florida uh I

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think it was back in the early 90s if I remember 92 forgive me for the name but but that that they deployed the 82

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Airborne Division down there they ended up sending about a battalion task force which is about a compliment of about you

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know a, to 1500 in addition to the National Guard that was deployed by North by Florida at the time so I think

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the numbers that we’re seeing right now of National Guard that are there and I think they said a thousand were

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deploying out of Fort Brag Fort Liberty to go up into the hills of North Carolina that’s nothing it’s nothing

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compared to the scale and scope of what we’re seeing and that and we’re already like I said we’re eight days too late so

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um I I can’t imagine what goes through the mind of somebody I mean I’m not an

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evil person so I don’t know what goes through the mind of an evil person so I just at that so if president Trump comes back to

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office and I I know I know we’re tight on time here General if president Trump gets backed on I want to give people

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hope because it’s been a dark it’s been a dark show I want to give people hope and show the difference between America

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last which is what you were seeing at play here and America first and if Trump

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comes back into office you have a position you said wave a magic Wan but we can wave a magic Wan

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we can just elect the man back into office yeah uh how do disasters like this get treated differently because

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there will be further disasters I mean this is just a fact of life right what is America First policies look like uh

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uh in the future yeah you know I want people in your audience yeah I want your audience to think of their own home

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right your own home America is our home and we must take care of our home first

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if we’re strong if we are viable if we feel like our you know like you if you

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feel safe in your home you’ll feel protected in your home you feel like like in your community that your home is

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in if somebody is going to respond in time of need you know in an emergency you know you dial 911 when you’re at

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your home and hopefully the cops are able to show up hopefully they haven’t been you know given Dei training and so

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that’s that’s what I want Americans to feel like in our home we we are safe

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secure protected we have people that are thinking about us because they can’t do

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anything without us I mean we always say the government’s money no that’s our money everything that happens in this

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country belongs to us so I want this is our home that’s what America First means

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it means that we are going to protect our home we’re going to do everything that we can to make sure that whether

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it’s a disaster or whether it’s a you know the fental drug problem whether it’s the illegals that we’ve got in this

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country or whether it’s a a threat from overseas against our home right you got criminals that break into your house

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sometimes we don’t want that to happen so we need to protect our country that’s what America First is about just like

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it’s our own damn home because folks it is and we’re paying for it and then we can start to worry because we can juggle

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you know we have enough smart people to juggle multiple balls so we can you know worry about what’s happening in in

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Eastern Europe we can worry about what’s happening in the Middle East and we can look at our foreign policy dis which is a disaster right now and start to you

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know rain that in a little bit like a like a like catching a fish right we got to rain some of this madness back in we

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have good people that can do that kind of stuff but we have to first make ourselves stronger and one of the ways

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that we make ourselves stronger and and Trump has been all over this you know we energy and I’ll just talk about energy

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for a second because it’s like your own home right if there’s a disaster I mean you buy a couple of extra cans of

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propane tanks so you can you know make yourself a cup of coffee during a during a you know or or some food or whatever

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or you you buy something to take care of your home we have energy in abundance in this country country to take care of the

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rest of the world frankly I mean we have so much energy in this country and what

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that energy resource does and I ain’t just talking about fossil fuels or or or or Petro or nuclear talking about all

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forms of energy we have that right now and if we put that into high gear which

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was one of Trump’s major major issues we can turn this country we can turn the

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lights back on in America and be that shiny City on the hill that we know we

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can still be but we got to have the right leaders we got to have the right focus and that’s one but one big area

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that will immediately kick in and once that kicks in the second third fourth

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fifth order effects of opening up the energy resources that this country has it will it will start to grow and and

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have an effect on all kinds of other Industries for our country and we need to get back into being a

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manufacturing uh uh stronghold in the United States of you know from the unit States of America to the rest of the

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world we can still do that but we got to have the right leadership in the White House and right now we don’t we have no

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leadership General thank you so much for your time my uh my team is telling me that we are at time that you that you’ve

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got another hit I know you’re a busy guy please everyone follow General Flynn here obviously you probably already are

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1.7 million followers make sure that our movement grows God bless you General we can’t wait for you to be back in command

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great I’ll send you some some places Benny that you can give your folks uh you know some ideas about how to help

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cuz I know your audience is a great audience thank you God bless God bless

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AI Voice Clones and Restrictions https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/07/25/ai-voice-clones-and-restrictions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ai-voice-clones-and-restrictions https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/07/25/ai-voice-clones-and-restrictions/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:51:32 +0000 https://studiohumanzee.com/?p=23851
Some Interesting AI Capabilities and Restrictions

While it is easy to clone voices online, there are restrictions in place when it comes to political figures.  What is interesting is that these restrictions haven’t stopped anyone.

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By The Mighty Humanzee

The awkward phone call with Vice President Kamala Harris and supposed Joe Biden raised many questions.  For years we have heard prank phone calls from celebrities, and while there are some excellent deep fakes of Joe Biden out there, it does beg the question why Biden couldn’t appear via video conference.  The only thing we heard was his voice, and some stilted sentences.

We have been interested in AI as a tool for analyzing trends and demographics, that has been a huge part of our work on Severed Conscience, but voice cloning with AI is quite interesting.  On our podcasts on Spreaker and Spotify which are audio only, we use AI as a tool to remove background noise and raise speaking volumes so that all speakers have a similar quality that is suitable for listening with the benefit of our video.  But cloning is offered on most platforms, some free and others for $5 per month.  For some of the promos for Behind Enemy Lines we have used AI to clone Spock / Leonard Nimoy, Tony Soprano / James Gandolfini, and Boyd Crowder / Walton Goggins.  This article will run you through the steps and show you that it is merely a copy and paste operation once you have a voice sample.  It’s not a tutorial, just a quick overview of how easy it is.

 

Analysis of the phone call reportedly detected that ElevenLabs was used to clone Biden’s speech.  When I tried to use a sample of Biden’s voice, a warning immediately appeared regarding the using of political figures.  So within the timeframe of 30-60 seconds that it took to upload a sample of Biden, I was presented with a warning.  Clearly ElevenLabs has an impressive capability and flagged my sample immediately.

Does this mean that Biden’s voice was not cloned?  No, it’s very likely that his voice was, as there are many open source platforms that you can download and use privately to clone a voice.  I have done that with the Nimoy voice.  And do you think that the team guarding Joe during his Covid bought would leave their trails by clicking “Verify Voice” and leave a record?

Cloning your voice, however, is quite simple.  Depending on the quality of the recording, it can be done with less than 30 seconds.  After you have uploaded the sample and it is analyzed, you only need to supply the text.  Below I use a sample from our last podcast to show that it’s amazingly simple.

Here you type what you want, then you select the voice:

First Tony Soprano reads our script, then Boyd Crowder delivers a fiery sermon style introduction like he preached in Justified.  Amazing results for just a few dollars.

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Michigan Leads The Way In New Green Deal, But At What Cost https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/16/michigan-leads-the-way-in-new-green-deal-but-at-what-cost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michigan-leads-the-way-in-new-green-deal-but-at-what-cost https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/08/16/michigan-leads-the-way-in-new-green-deal-but-at-what-cost/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:45:17 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=12778
The unspoken truths of clean energy are the important ones

Has any of our leaders uttered the word “rationing” when describing this new  clean energy utopia they are constructing for us?

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By The Mighty Humanzee
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The promise of a brighter future has been a center piece of our political leaders’ discourse they use to convince the public that their tax dollars are well spent. Prosperity is measured by the number of public construction projects, and the private-public partnership alliances that bring new jobs to a region.

Lately the promise of reinventing our entire energy sector of our economy has been added to the yearly promises our leaders offer as justification to keep their jobs. 

Community planning and renewal is tied with clean energy. Dirty energy – what we have now – must be retired. To circumvent the rough and tumble markets picking winners and losers, government needs to champion new technology with large budgets in order to successfully “launch projects successfully” and avoid delays. What is not commonly known nor publicly acknowledged is that the New Green Deal will require rationing of energy, in large qualities. These new technologies cannot provide nor sustain the same levels of energy that we require today. While the new and shiny technology is attractive, this underlying secret is quietly forgotten.

Michigan is designated as a center of manufacturing in the Fourth Industrial Wave, and to date 2 billion dollars of state tax dollars have been spent to bring this dream to fruition, with leaders openly stating that this is just the start of a long process. The following transcript is from an interview I had with Jason Hayes of the Mackinac Center. Jason is the director of Energy and Environmental Policy, and is a subject matter expert on the economic impact energy policy has on manufacturing and commerce.

In this exchange we uncover the reality of what Net Zero energy means for the environment. Jason also discusses the short comings of the wind and solar energy, the key components to our future manufacturing economy. In short, when you understand the capacity and utilization of solar and wind, it will translate to deforestation. Yes, in order to provide energy on par with what current energy resources provide, we will need to cut trees. Lots of trees.

Jason Hayes / JH:

So at the same time, our big plan then is to build wind and solar, which can’t provide
reliable electricity because the wind does not blow 24/7 and the sun does not shine 24 7.And so you have a situation where, for example, solar panels in the state of Michigan in January and February, December through February in Michigan. Solar panels have a 6 to 7% capacity factor. And so people will scratch their head and go capacity factor. What does that mean? If you take what the solar panel is made to produce? So if it was producing at 100%it would produce some number divide into that number, the total amount that it does produce and you get capacity factor.

So in Michigan in December through February,solar panels are basically 94% unused. So by that I mean, if you were talking about it in time, that’s not actually time bound, but it would mean that 94% of the time they effectively sit unused. Now some people will go “hang on”. That’s not exactly. But it’s just to give you an idea, it’s 94% of the capacity goes unused. So we’re just spending money for no real purpose. Because the way that you then in
quotes, fix, the problem is you build lots more solar panels you can lots more uh,
transmission lines to connect them all together. Because the only way that you do that is you carpet over farm fields.

Or I’ve literally, I’ve listened in senate hearings in the Michigan legislature listened to elected officials say, well, we should just cut down our state forests in the up because there’s so much land up there and use that land to put in solar panels.Really? You’re like, hang on.

The Mighty Humanzee / TMH:

Well, the other thing too that people don’t take into account is the attenuation of running electricity through a line over long distances. … I write software, right.I’m not an engineer, but I mean, I know some of this, I mean, this is like, this is common sense. So essentially we’re gonna go do what they did in Scotland.

JH:

What’s that?

TMH:

It’s so, essentially they’re saying, “hey, let’s just, they want to imitate what they did in Scotland.” … they estimate they’re gonna cut down 16,
16 million trees in Scotland and Scotland doesn’t have that many trees.

The complete exchange is here:

So you heard that correctly: in order to fulfill current capacity we will need to remove components of nature that we were told were the mechanism needed to offset carbon dioxide emissions, we need to cut down trees. Do you recall that a few years ago how many corporations made public pledges to plant trees as “carbon offsets” to the impact of fossil fuels on the environment? Suddenly those are not a concern.

The link to the complete interview is found below, I think you will find it fascinating how calculating the impact of this disruptive approach to energy acquisition escapes so many. We see countless studies that exclude factors of capacity. utilization and environment impact, as well as ignoring other solutions that do not require such drastic measures.

One approach that Jason describes in the full interview is supplementing our current clean coal plants with carbon capture technology, thereby saving the state billions of dollars without risking our future on technology that, in many estimations, is not an efficient substitute based on our current needs. The question that is not asked is why we are shutting down the potential backup energy systems while we build the riskier wind and solar? Clearly with variable source energy we need a secondary system ready to go in order to maintain current levels when solar and wind are unavailable. Or should we consider that the quest to shut down coal, natural gas and nuclear energy really indicates that there will be no alternative capacity, and we will consigned to a very different, impoverished society?

In our documentary Rationed State, we traced the roots of the Canadian health care system known as Community Care. The progenitor of the Community of Care is Daniel Callahan, and his central thesis was that in order to manage a society’s health as a system under population pressure, rationing was to be expected. In a sense, this is a Malthusian approach: growing population exceeds current resources so various constraints must be instilled to provide for all. This is the big secret that the clean energy proponents will never speak aloud, it is the uncomfortable truth that our leaders will never acknowledge. Yet the World Economic Forum speaks quite candidly that in the future, car ownership will be reduced 75%, as reported by the Mackinac Center and by the WEF itself.

Has that ever been uttered by our leaders or by the media?

You can find the complete interview here:

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Hello Caller, AI Is Listening https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/25/hello-caller-ai-is-listening/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hello-caller-ai-is-listening https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/25/hello-caller-ai-is-listening/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:55:47 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=9665
Is AI Freeing Us or Trapping Us

Part of our series Severed Conscience examines the use of AI to monitor our sentiments, as well as entrain responses into our psyche.

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By The Mighty Humanzee
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Technology, while a great equalizer and an enabler, can mask issues that we avoid addressing by reducing pain and effort.  The same technology that got us through COVID is causing us to avoid issues of erosion of relationships, to ignore skyrocketing cases of depression and suicide in children.
Hello Caller, AI Is Listening

There are many common sense considerations that are lost in the hype of AI as the savior of all things.  Some of this is due to numerous terms that are used interchangeably which foster confusion, and as with much of the tech world, there are many proponents who are under the impression that if they can repeat a phrase somewhat correctly and in context, they actually understand the technology and its impact.  We are going to see two terms, AI and Natural Language Processing  and for our discussion they will mean the same thing.  While AI is the overall term for computer analysis and decision making in the place of a human, the ability to understand written text and then responding with phrases that match the context and meaning of a conversation is Natural Language Processing (NLP).  This is a vastly different technology than face recognition, also a form of AI.  For our focus here AI and NLP mean the same thing, and we’ll use AI for simplicity’s sake..  For further details, you can reference this article The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

By chatting with an AI app on your phone, you will be guided out of your rough waters.  The AI capabilities have advanced to a point where the responses have become eerily human, and in fact AI has been “clever” enough to fool a support center into creating an account.  In the mental health community there are proponents who advocate using AI to perform preliminary diagnosis when patient load is too high for mental health professionals.  This raises serious ethical issues, even if the process is monitored for quality much like any call center.  With people suffering with mental health issues and reaching for help, any mistake carried out by AI with the efficiency of computers can be catastrophic.  Among those considerations is what of the patient’s emotional response to AI, even if they are aware?  Efficiency is an important factor for the professional caregiver, but of the patient’s needs? What is the perception of that patient who feels the need for human contact, but the path they are put on doesn’t warrant interacting with a person to diagnose their needs to begin with?

Many studies are cited by proponents of AI’s use for mental health apps.  In particular the study Bonding With Bot: User Feedback on a Chatbot for Social Isolation measured how users felt when chatting with AI about their mental states.  The measure, called Net promotion, is borrowed from marketing.  While it sounds “sciency”, in the end the measure is merely the short term gratification factor “did the person feel “good” about using the app?”  The prognosis of the study:  because a majority of those surveyed felt good after interacting with the AI chatbot, use of the app must be good for them.

For example, a 2021 study of about 800 people experiencing self-reported social isolation and loneliness had them interact via text messages with a chatbot. The study found most users reported they were satisfied and would recommend the chatbot to a friend or colleague.

This is staggering.  A child feels good because they climb a tree 20 feet above the ground, or a drug addict feels good when they get a hit.  These are short term feelings, but do not chart a course relative to objective long term goals.  Setting the criteria for success as to whether the subject felt good about that interaction is short sighted.  What if these interactions alleviated someone’s tension temporarily, but a few hours later they hit their depression once again?  And what if using the chat app again sufficiently satisfied the user’s short term anxiety yet created habitual use of the app to the extent that they interacted less with people?  The study overwhelmingly states that those surveyed thought the interaction with AI chat was a good experience.

Isolation could be strongly reinforced by not disengaging from technology.  Embracing it further because short term fixes for fear, anxiety, boredom, and insecurities are more readily available than conversing with someone on social media, let alone seeking interpersonal contact, can lead to overuse.  Numerous studies relating to the effect of blue light from mobile and laptop devices on sleep cycles indicate that time in front of screens is not healthy.  Reduction in cognitive function and concentration, memory loss, and irritability are conditions that contribute to depression.  A cycle of hitting highs and lows due to dopamine responses to a cheerful conversation, a funny joke or a new piece of interesting information clearly forms a pattern of addiction. 

Hello Caller, AI Is Judging

The big question is, how can AI deliver the types of results that are reflected in the studies?  One thing that is irrefutable is that AI is amazingly good at identifying patterns in large volumes of data.  Many times these patterns will coincide with diagnosis that a human medical or clinician performs.  AI is also good at identifying patterns that humans may miss in large volumes of datasets, and AI is capable of performing this at speeds higher than humans are capable of.

To respond in a responsive, human-like fashion AI must be able to determine the context of a conversation, and the source of those judgments are ultimately supplied by humans.  Finding patterns is one thing for diagnosing cancer cells based on markers found in blood samples, but determining the mental state of an individual and whether that is loneliness or depression is something else.  Yet mental health apps have been developed to deliver short term remedies for anxiety, such as guided breathing exercises.  Is that what is needed, or should someone learn to not hyperventilate after they receive push-back in a planning meeting?  This is a judgment call, you can argue that one approach is soothing, the other is harmful because it callously ignores the immediate needs of someone in a panic attack.  Who makes that call to place the advice into the AI’s vocabulary when guiding someone?

As you learn more about AI, you will often hear phrases like:”AI learns” or “AI is trained”.   This means an AI application is fed data at higher volumes and changes may be introduced when incorrect conclusions are formulated by the AI program.

One company claims to have had 500 million conversations with over 5 million people in 95 countries.  Wysa https://www.wysa.com/ is a partner with the World Economic Forum and recipient of the FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for AI-led Mental Health.

Wysa conducted a study with the data accumulated from AI conversations

Wysa has held over half a billion AI chat conversations with more than five million people about their mental health across 95 countries. The worrying trend we saw in employee mental health led us to conduct in-depth studies of employees in USA and UK, as well as Wysa’s user base, to understand why current models aren’t working.

This report documents one of the largest observational studies of its kind globally, and examines the data from over 150,000 conversations that 11,300 employees across 60 countries had with Wysa.

There is a bias here, and it is this:  Ai has found an issue, and the answer is more AI.  There is depression among workers, and in order to save money, save businesses, AI assisted conversations are needed.  

Where is the root cause analysis?  Is this an AI band aid for the isolation, loneliness created by ordering people to remain in their homes during COVID, or the stress of an economy so hobbled by pandemic restrictions that people fear for family members losing their jobs?  It doesn’t matter.  

What about the additional screen time spent due to using Zoom for communication where you once would meet face to face?  What about not actually seeing people?  It doesn’t matter, the AI will read your responses and you’ll be encouraged to be mindful, to think happy thoughts, practice some Zen principles instead of seeking counsel from someone who can pinpoint that you are right to be worried as society has shut down.  While your interactions may remain anonymous, they will be captured centrally, studied and recommendations will be made to your managers.  What if you are in a small department of 7 people, and now your manager can determine that you have the problem with depression?  It could be fairly easy with your team being so small.

Now consider that you have been flagged for depression, and this information needs to be supplied, by law, to authorities to make sure you are not an immediate threat to neighbors.  What would that criteria be, and would you be given due process?  What if AI is used because there are not enough professionals to assess your mental state but in order to be safe, your activities are now restricted?

Finally, should your employer or government be making suggestions on how you deal with your anguish, fear, love and joy?  Does this type of tracking and attempts at behavior modification allow you to remain in control of the equation that ultimately judges your worth as an individual?  

What if your values are determined to no longer match what society requires, will the AI be your friend then?

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The Hidden Hand of The Tavistock Institute https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/19/the-hidden-hand-of-the-tavistock-institute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-hidden-hand-of-the-tavistock-institute https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/07/19/the-hidden-hand-of-the-tavistock-institute/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:22:44 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=11457
Our Children Lives Secret Lives Online. What Are They Really Connected To?

This article is part of our Severed Conscience series, and is based on the research by Orangezipple1 and Kelly Trowhill LLMFT, MAFPc.

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By The Mighty Humanzee
Contributors: OrangeZipple1 and Kelly Trowhill

There are guiding hands in our society that have remained on the periphery of public scrutiny, yet have been integral to shaping policy and have had access to public data for decades.  Their names are not familiar, yet they have been working as influencers and illuminaries for the sciences and human behavior and have created policy for decades. 

The Tavistock Institute and its subsidiaries have been prevalent in the mental and social sciences since the 1920s, and have been at the forefront of research for the National Health Service since the 1940s. Recently events regarding transgender reassignment sponsored by medical clinics have brought public attention to their legacy and their current influence on health policy. They have had influence world wide.

The Tavistock Institute has had large role in influencing society, and this article will detail the profiling practices of psychodynamics originating at Tavistock that are used in policy today and how it’s influencing social media to our detriment. We will also examine the abuse Tavistock perpetrated by clinicians who active recruited transgender candidates. The practice of recommending gender reassignment in the majority of cases resulted in lawsuits and the eventual shuttering of the clinic. Finally we will examine how social media resulting in isolation lead to putting vulnerable minors at risk from this clinic, essentially delivering patients to the clinic doors by recommendations online.

In our documentary Severed Conscience, we posit that a mental condition arises from social media use which causes depression, mental confusion and suicidal thoughts.  The blue screen technology impacts sleep and production of hormones  like ghrelin, serotonin, melatonin, and adrenaline as a result of over stimulation of the optic nerves at the wrong period during sleep cycles.  The dopamine overproduction occurs with the continuous change in content, delightful play of colors and images, while leaving the sufferer at risk for outside influence.  Our brains receive a reward from this stimulation similar to drug use.  This process rewards the brain as it allows the brain to distract itself during moments of discomfort and lulls in attention.  The “portal” to the brain is opened leaving us susceptible to suggestion.  Isolation is a common result, and a false sense of connection to an online community can result in further detrimental health behaviors and prohibit attachments in real life.  Children are the most vulnerable as laptops and smartphones have become substitutes for interaction.  

The study of group behavior, based on the years of research conducted by the Tavistock institute from the 1920s to the 1950s, is integral to creating an environment that entices and delights.  The creators of Facebook and Twitter have long admitted that they understood the psychology of what their software was doing.  But the Big Tech elite are not the first to try to take advantage of human vulnerabilities and try to shape behavior.

History of Tavistock

Tavistock was formed in 1920 as a response to wartime trauma.  Soldiers suffering from PTSD were subject to study in hopes to find treatments.  Behavioral studies resulted in discovery of various mechanisms to cure trauma.  

As a result of psychological lessons learned during World War I, the Tavistock Clinic was founded in London in 1920. Originally known as the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, the clinic was established as “one of the first out-patient clinics in Great Britain to provide systematic major psycho-therapy on the basis of concepts inspired by psychoanalytic theory

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a2d73b42a277421904841312dc36c6c433f3c349

For decades Tavistock has had the goal of influence in group dynamics.

“the two main thrusts of the emergent strategy are to enlarge the nucleus of staff competent to work with the ‘system psychodynamics’ perspective and to take roles in the educational activities of the Programme and, during 1993–94, to extend the range of these activities to include events specifically designed for industrial, commercial and other sectors and not confined to the experiential method” (1992/93 Review, 1993, p. 42).

At the onset, Tavistock has had lofty goals, many that sound as though the transformation of everyday life is at the center of their mission.  Indeed, clinicians at the Tavistock Institute have the practice of creating a positive feedback loop while collecting observations through the application of their theories.  The article THE TAVISTOCK PROGRAMME: THE GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECTIVITY AND SOCIAL LIFE  relays the evolution of the Tavistock Institute from the 1920s through the late 1970s.  The goal of is to create new ways of thinking regarding group dynamics, which do not focus solely on describing current conditions, but focus more fully on what could be created.  In many instances conditions for this new way of thinking resulted from crisis.  That was the area of interest that could produce insight to new possibilities.

Early on, the Tavistock Institute was able to gain access to public and private life by involvement with British defense departments, juvenile courts, and eventually in the private sector with vocational behavior, then finally the interplay between management and labor forces.  While new theories of behavior emerged, mental health was a primary focus.

Eventually a concept of group relation was theorized, and that the individual was the sum of social interactions.  Since this was the case, individual characteristics become a secondary focus.  Social groups are considered to be systems that can be adjusted, manipulated or influenced, and the emotional effect is far stronger within the individual members of the group.

As with many institutions that work with government mission creep is always a risk.  In postwar Britain in the 1940s, government officials recognized the value of group dynamics and the theories that Tavistock had formulated, and it was at this time that Tavistock was incorporated into the National Health Service.  Tavistock’s theories had then evolved to support the mission that since government could influence group behavior in industry and large institutions like the military, government was ultimately responsible for the welfare of all citizens.  Since the individual was really governed by group dynamics, when you control and influence a well defined profile of a group of people, by extension providing the individual the environment to thrive.

In other words, a soft collectivism under the guiding hand of the government became the worthy goal.  Treat the groups, the individual is somehow served.

But Tavistock soon developed another understanding, and surprise of surprises, government alone was not up the task of tending the flock.  And you guessed it, technocrats from the medical profession, behaviorists with experience in industry and labor, and scientists from behavioral and mental health sciences were needed to carry out the mission.  And of course the NHS with Tavistock would at the helm given their position of access to personal data.

So private interactions from labor unions and manufacturing were gathered and detailed.  The private life was an integral feedback element to ensure the dynamics off the group were on course.  Interestingly enough, industrial accidents were no longer blamed on the individual and poor training, but on some element awry in the group interactions.  Leadership was no longer a personal trait that someone demonstrated or possessed but the interplay of a series of complex group relations and interactions.   The economics interactions fell under the technocrats purvey, and therefore all of society became their responsibility.  

“Social psychiatry appeared to provide the basis of a policy science with practical solutions.” 

Tavistock Today

The National Health Service and Tavistock institute have come under scrutiny.  The idea of studying group dynamics had evolved to something more sinister:  transgender reassignment therapy.  Social influence specifically from groups whose goals are to “nudge” people toward specifics ends is achieved through social media content designed to steer decisions and shape ideologies.  An evolving framework of control that also actively recruits new members and then funnels them to experts.

Matt Rey, a patient who transitioned back to his biological sex, has now entered into a lawsuit against the National Health Service and the Tavistock Institute, claiming the therapist at the clinic conduct unsafe, predatory practices.

As a confused and isolated teenager, Rey looked to the internet for answers. FTM individuals who shared glamorous stories about transitioning convinced Rey that a new identity was the solution to happiness.

Turning to the gender identity clinic at the Tavistock Institute in the UK, Rey was surprised to learn that access to “gender-affirming care” was so easy—one visit with a primary doctor, two consultations at the gender identity clinic, then bloodwork—were all it took to begin the transitioning process.

Rey’s bloodwork indicated high levels of testosterone. “One of the doctors said I was ‘intersex’ because of this, but that is not how you diagnose that,” said Rey. “I probably had PCOS, which was not diagnosed at the time. I didn’t even question it, because when you go to a doctor, you expect to be told the truth. When they told me that I was intersex, it made me want to transition, because it made sense as to why I experienced all this confusion all my life.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/hidden-side-gender-affirming-care-driving-transgender-mental-health-problems-and-suicide

Other victims have been coaxed into attending clinics, and the recruiting process began online.  A isolated child who has not under careful supervision from an adult can succumb to peer pressure and depression based on their over use of social media.  Layla Jane was approached when she was 11.  Her transition process began two years later.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/girl-sues-hospital-removing-her-breasts-age-13

In our documentary Severed Conscience, we posit that a mental condition arises from social media use which causes depression, mental confusion and suicidal thoughts.  The blue screen technology excites the dopamine cycle resulting in addiction, while leaving the sufferer at risk for outside influence.  Isolation is common, and a false sense of connection to an online community can result in further detrimental health behaviors and prohibit attachments in real life.  Children are the most vulnerable as laptops and smartphones have become substitutes for interaction.  

The study of group behavior, based on the years of research conducted by the Tavistock institute from the 1920s to the 1950s, is integral to creating an environment that entices and delights.  The creators of Facebook and Twitter have long admitted that they understood the psychology of what their software was doing.  But the Big Tech elite are not the first to try to take advantage of human vulnerabilities and try to shape behavior.

Is Severed Conscience at Work

As stated earlier, Severed Conscience results from social media profiling a person and with AI, then funneling information that is curated for specific profiles.  This is the same concept as psychodynamics providing behavioral recommendations based on the study of group interactions.  The difference is that technology allows this to be conducted on a planetary scale.  These profiles have not been kept private, as we have seen in the Twitter Files and lawsuits from Dr Shiva that demonstrated specific individuals were studied.  We are all studied – the platforms tell us this, and we naively assume that our data is not supplied to those like the Tavistock Institute.  Technocrats who have the goal to improve the efficiency of the workplace or who feel that gender reassignment is not the decision of parents fathers from a matrix of characteristics gathered and calculated now have the tools to irrevocably change or even destroy lives.  Behavioral data helped build the social platforms, and the condition of Severed Conscience keeps people engaged, enticed, and sometimes delivers them into the hands of those who feel entitled to transform them.

Why do we let them continue to poach?  Trends in the Millennial generation indicate that they want to be lead and are embracing collectivism at higher rates than previous generations.  Centralized watering and feeding troughs are easier to manage and influence.

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Our Children Lives Secret Lives Online. What Are They Really Connected To?

This article is part of our Severed Conscience series, and is based on the research by Orangezipple1 and Kelly Trowhill LLMFT, MAFPc.

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By The Mighty Humanzee
Contributors: OrangeZipple1 and Kelly Trowhill

What does the British East India Company have to do with how we raise our kids?  First let me describe what I see as a disturbing new norm, then I’ll tie in the historical parallels to the title.   “Education is fundamental to sustaining an advanced society.”  That is the mantra we have had drilled into us for decades, no society can function without it in the modern world.  

And we have adapted our lives to that concept as we have formed milestones and rituals around the 13 years we require kids to go to school.  

In fact one argument against homeschooling I constantly heard was “you kids will be isolated, and school is a big part of their normal socialization” when we decided to homeschool ourselves.  Our job was to find like minded families because it is true, kids need friends, family structure, social outlets and ways to experience the real world.  

When COVID came along, what happened to that philosophy?  It pretty much evaporated out of convenience to support the theory that isolation was critical to the survival of our society.  Amazing when you think about how quickly we adapted the practice of keeping our children in complete isolation.  Not only without friends but literally masking them and sequestering them from the world with reminders of “you may be sick and not know it – you don’t want to endanger grandpa, do you?”  And it happened uniformly across the planet.  

Think about just prior to COVID and your child’s experience in school.  They engaged, they laughed, they had school plays, they got knocked on the playground.  There was an online component that worried us parents, but their daily life meant they left the house and had to get in the mosh pit of real life with other kids and figure things out for themselves.  Education required isolating our kids from our supervision, but we were assured that we had a system that would educate our children.

And notice what we substituted for the normal life of a child?  More social contact online.  In fact, we relied on Zoom and social media platforms to keep our children connected as though they were still on the playground.  And it drove them into further isolation because our meager inkling that peer pressure was slightly amplified online has been proven to be correct beyond our nightmares.

Kids were trained to use technology as the sole source of education and as the sole source of recreation and maintaining relationships.  Their eyes were flooded with blue light for far longer than under normal circumstances was considered healthy.  Their sleep cycles were destroyed by the constant dopamine hit from hyper divided attention from chat, scrolling lists on hypermedia, memes, and online games.  Agitated state of concentration.  

And this has driven up the rates of suicide and depression dramatically.  Group acceptance is done online.  Conform or be cast out.  Pretty simple message that can be delivered and enforced if all your friends are online seeing your failures, seeing you get called out for not fitting in.  For being too heavy.  For being the wrong gender.  For being afraid of sexual practices.  With this fear your children are vulnerable to influences that effect them without you ever knowing.  And the fear of being rejected keeps them locked into this pattern of thinking.  

That’s what they are learning today, and it’s instilling self censorship as kids are terrified of being rejected.  Conformance guarantees a seat at the table.  Remember before social media if you weren’t good at sports but you were good with your hands?  You made things, you learned and you demonstrated that you didn’t need the group.  Remember the kid who was quiet in school and then one evening you heard her play in the high school jazz band?  They had skill.  They found it through action they did in the real world, not under the constant surveillance of a group who could cajole and revoke membership from friendships.  You developed talent, you experimented and in the process you made friends and gained confidence that life offered you opportunities – you’d miss out too much if you kept yourself locked away.  

COVID forced isolation and the technology has forced further isolation as kids have remained lost in their secret lives online.  And what skills are they building in real life?

I titled this article “The British East India Company Public School System” and you’d be right in asking why.  The British East India Company is the first global corporation that brought the British into contact with many cultures.  In that process the members of the East India Company marveled at the level of control that India’s ruling caste had over a large population.  In the early 1750s India’s population was approximately 180 million people compared to Britain at around 6 million.  

The Indian Caste system, a hierarchy, enforced behavior to a degree.  But Andrew Bell, an British educator who traveled to India in 1789, noticed a practice used in Madras to educate and control behavior.  The teachers taught a small group of children first, and then those students taught the remainder.  The students were kept in isolation.  Kids following their peers remained under control, education and conformity were achieved.

Large groups of children could be shown tasks quickly, and behavior more easily reinforced.  The lesson:  kids follow their peers more closely than when instructed by adults.  Bell brought this concept back to Britain and eventually educators adopted this same technique.  The British East India Company marveled at the level of monitoring that this system provided, as it would foster uniform skills in the labor force.  Thus monitoring became a critical component of education, and the members of the East India Company considered this vital to modernizing society.

There is a direct analogy to what has happened online with our children.  We allow a small group of kids to set a tone for the entire online community.  Peer pressure is difficult to resist at a young age, and when your child derives their self-worth from how they feel they are perceived by their friends online, they will adjust their behavior to avoid being shunned or worse, targeted. 

Think about that.  That lays down a pattern that will shutter their minds, it will form an instinct to conform and not think.  And like the Madras school, it is all monitored.  Not by you as a parent but by the likes of Sean Parker, president of Facebook who publicly stated “we knew we designed this platform to create dopamine addiction, but didn’t know what effect it would have.  But we did it anyway.”

So who is introducing the values that will carry your child through life, and should it be the likes of Sean Parker?  His statement is in the video below.

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Show Notes: Morning Mission – AI in Deep Fakes and Deep State In Your Business https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/06/06/show-notes-morning-mission-ai-in-deep-fakes-and-deep-state-in-your-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=show-notes-morning-mission-ai-in-deep-fakes-and-deep-state-in-your-business https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/06/06/show-notes-morning-mission-ai-in-deep-fakes-and-deep-state-in-your-business/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:12:09 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=10725
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By The Mighty Humanzee

Here are the forms for requesting your data.

Instructions For Purging Social Media Data from Wayback Machine

Use the form le1tter below to request your social media data removal.  You need to replace the items listed in bold with the relevant information, copy to an email and send it to:

info@archive.org

Form Letter Requesting Removal

To whom it may concern,

I am hereby requesting immediate erasure of personal data concerning me according to Article 17 GDPR.

Please delete the following personal data concerning me:

https://twitter.com/<your_twitter_handle>  and all downstream linked URL’s

I am of the opinion that the requirements set forth in Article 17(1) GDPR are fulfilled.

If I have given consent to the processing of my personal data (e.g. according to Article 6(1) or Article 9(2) GDPR), I am hereby withdrawing said consent.

In addition, I am objecting to the processing of personal data concerning me (which includes profiling), according to Article 21 GDPR.

In case you have disclosed the affected personal data to third parties, you have to communicate my request for erasure of the affected personal data, as well as any references to it, to each recipient as laid down in Article 19 GDPR. Please also inform me about those recipients.

If you object to the requested erasure, you have to justify that to me.

My request explicitly includes any other services and companies for which you are the controller as defined by Article 4(7) GDPR.

As laid down in Article 12(3) GDPR, you have to confirm the erasure to me without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request.

I am including the following information necessary to identify me:

 

SPECIFIC INFORMATION:

 

twitter.com/<your_twitter_handle> (URL in question and all downstream links)

Time Period of ownership: <account creation date> – Present

Time period to exclude: <date> – indefinitely

https://twitter.com/<your_twitter_handle> (I have put “<email>@ 4 archive.org” in my bio to display account ownership.

Link To A Variation of Form Letter

If you do not answer my request within the stated period, I am reserving the right to take legal action against you and to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.

 

Yours sincerely,

<name>

Link to Variation Of Form Letter

https://justpaste.it/8bdjm

Here is the Twitter Thread from @aristos_revenge

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Severed Conscience: The New Authoritarians https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/06/01/severed-conscience-the-new-authoritarians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=severed-conscience-the-new-authoritarians https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/06/01/severed-conscience-the-new-authoritarians/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:48:10 +0000 https://www.studiohumanzee.com/?p=10570
Throughout History We Have Been Manipulated.

Humanity’s history is darkened by attempts to control expression and thought on a mass scale.  But what if a group of elite had tools to carry out persuasion that dictators could have have dreamed of?

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By The Mighty Humanzee

One consistent requirement of utopian procedure is detachment of its subject from ordinary human affairs.  Acting with detached intelligence is what utopians are all about, but a biological puzzle intrudes:  detaching intelligence from emotional life isn’t really possible.

John Taylor Gotto

 
 

Contrasting the Formation of the Soviet Union with the Formation of COVID Amerika

Tyrants and dictators have had many means to achieve mass control, resulting in the deaths of millions.  From the dark history of the Soviet Union we see how the brutality lead what some call a mass formation psychosis.  But this required violence, death and blood millions to achieve.  Severed Conscience is a state of mind where a person’s mental capacities have been impaired by over stimulation of dopamine release from social media and prolonged exposure to blue screen light.  Held in a concentrated state of fight or flight and distracted by constant novelty, a person is no longer capable of rational thought.  Severed Conscience achieved far more with far less effort.

Collectivism enforced by totalitarianism, is formed from trauma of violence and threats and instituted through purges, executions and proceedings of secret police.  It took years for a psychosis of an entire population to settle into the fabric of societies such as the Soviet Union.  Population control only came at the expense of Soviet blood from the murders of millions.  The Red Terror, launched in 1918 by Lenin, unleashed violence unseen even under the notorious Czars was the trauma that enabled the Bolsheviks’ iron fist to maintain control of all facets of society.  The Soviets did not seize control of Russia from Czar Nikolas through the use of mass hysteria.  They used mass hysteria, trauma, fear and death to maintain the reins of power they had seized. 

The Cheka was an essential instrument not just for suppressing counterrevolution or providing intelligence, but for making the shattered economy function. From the start, Lenin and Trotsky secretly planned the totalitarian organization of labor, with mobile labor armies and cooperatives of peasants on state land. In summer 1918 Trotsky organized the first concentration camps in the southeast of the country.

Contrast this with the United States and COVID lockdowns.  The trauma was COVID, but no violence was used to coerce behavior; instead, panic from a unseen virus with a 99% survival rate was the key to induce public panic.  Control was maintained easily through social media.  The fact that information contrary to the COVID narrative was readily available did not assist the population by measurably effective means.  We were ordered to wear masks and end our freedom of movement.  No shots were fired, no one disappeared in the middle of the night to be imprisoned.  The difference is the degree of manipulation that has been accomplished with technology. Which was the easier task, the overthrow of the Czars and formation of secrete police to kidnap and imprison, or issue a slogan of “15 days to slow the spread”, “mask up” and “shots in arms”?

Technology made up the difference.  The trauma from the fear of the COVID virus should have been soothed once more details regarding the inaccurate rates of death and rates of infection came to light.  However social media and content fed by AI to users of social media kept the panic at alarming high level.  No shots fired, just more doubt.  The recommendations of washing hands became a cleansing ritual, that absolved you of the sin of containing the infection.  But only temporarily, as your very breath was identified as a potential vector of transmittal.  Therefore you needed to wear a mask indefinitely.  Severed Conscience kept the US population compliant and open to further manipulation.  While people’s freedom of movement was taken away, the power of accusing others of not doing their part soon replaced that loss of freedom.  Rationality was kept in abeyance.

Social Media platforms also replace the need to secret police to observer whether you were a bad or good citizen of the COVID Amerika.  Many reported their mask wearing habits, and posses soon formed to report those who did not comply, both online and in real is.   Banning for pointing discrepancies in public data and public health practice were enabled, and those health professionals who offered alternative treatments were kicked off social media and lost their medical licenses.  No need for a knock on the door at night from thuggish Cheka secret police, as people readily poured their information about their habits into Twitter, Facebook and other platforms.

Let’s draw our comparisons with distinct categories that are applicable to both societies.  These will make the contrasts stand out clearly.  The categories are Isolation, fear, paranoia of the “other”, atonement, technology, and education. The chart below lays these categorizations out for us.

Facet / Factors COVID Amerika Soviet Union

Isolation

Extreme, from lockdown orders early on. “15 days” Masks Patients on death beds not aloud to see families. What affect did that have on the survivors?

After violence of Cheka, trust factor evaporates.  If neighbors are turning in neighbors, isolation sets in.

Fear
Extreme fear arising from uncertainty of progress of virus.
Fear of Cheka brutality, fear of gulag imprisonment.
Paranoia of “Other”
”You may be sick and not know it” which progressed to accusations of the dirty uneducated people who refused the vaccine and rejected the Science.
Are you a Menshevik? Are you not for the cause? Will you be accused, sent away to work camp?
Atonement
After taking vaccine and you contracted COVID the phrase “I know it would have been far worse if I hadn’t had the vaccine" ensured others you still followed the Science.
Work camps became a way for obtaining forgiveness for crimes against the state. However, no atonement for orphans of parents arrested in Red Terror.

Communication Technology

Constant news cycle; dopamine hits from latest read;  Hourly updates potential cases.  COVID Trackers displaying data and analytics, with animated charts.

1920s early propaganda movies, Art Deco style posters, pamphlets. Plays written to support the progressive goals of communism.
Edcuation

CDC / WHO /Lancet served as judges of “misinformation”

Gates Foundation / BBC / WHO / Google Consortium monitored media for narratives contrary to approved sources.

YouTube ran ads on social distancing, then for vaccine.  

Children were given top priority, issued identity cards declaring position in Soviet State.  They were rewarded for reporting activity contrary to State policy.

The legend goes that, upon discovering that his father was resisting collectivization, Pavlik turned his father into the local authorities. This act resulted in his (and his younger brother’s) brutal murder by relatives.  But the Soviets used this legend to raise Pavlik to levels of herodom.

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As a youth, my parents instructed me “don’t concern yourself with others, do your work, work harder than anyone else and you’ll succeed”....
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By The Mighty Humanzee

 They also taught me “live and let live” and “resilient people will be carried forward by the truth”, as well as “Fine steel is forged”Independence was the lesson they imparted. Our country favored those who understood the means in which a Nation was to thrive and remain free.

To my mind this meant that while our society may flirt with ideals of collectivism, there was a yet strong thread of common sense that would gradually win the hearts and minds of people, bringing them back to their senses.  Americana is the mythos of common sense, courage and resilience that fuels our nation.

Look at us now.  There is something that is at work that makes many believe that Americana, that the pioneer sense of independence and  individual’s right to form their own judgment, is repugnant.  Unnatural.  Something has shattered our spirits – we no longer pursue life and liberty with the zeal of the American Spirit.  That drive is no longer there, it has been replaced with a hesitancy.  We tell ourselves to wait until our actions are sanctioned, wait until the experts release us from our holding patterns.

The history that taught us of a people who weathered struggles and hardships unimaginable to us today is no longer of value.  Can you say we value these characteristics?  Go stand in a crowd and watch people shuffle by.  Are those hardy people missing?

Since COVID we see a new behavior, it has affected how we form connections to one another and forge relationships.  We sidelined our ancestors who fought for the sanctity of life and liberty, who gave us this gift of freedom and prosperity, over the hypothesis “15 days to slow the spread”.  While they repeated that phrase to us, what kept us neutral?  Paranoia?  Fear?  Just going with the flow?  Go stand in a crowd and watch people shuffle by. What are they wearing, what are they carrying?

For years we have been entertained by the idea of The Matrix, a hyper real simulation that is playing out in the mind that captivates your attention and places you under control.  We scoff at the idea of living unknowingly in tanks of gel as computer imagery is piped into our heads while we are nurtured through umbilical cords.  “You’ve known something is wrong, you can feel it when you pay your taxes” is the line that drives the mystical point home that something is wrong, but you can only see it peripherally.  This theme is an attempt to force us to turn a blind eye as we reply, “We live in a simulation?”  The movie has turned off our instinct as we say, “that’s just science fiction”. But look, you can see the difference in people. 

Their behavior has changed, demonstrably, tangibly.  They still wear masks; they perform rituals like members of a cargo cult as they consume information unquestioningly from sources that have been proven wrong again and again.  You ask yourself “When will they wake up, why are they so fearful and angry when I confront them with the truth?  Why do people who proclaimed organic food to be their salvation now line up for vaccinations from the very evil corporations they used to hate?  How did that change in under a year?”

 Is it possible that people can be so consumed with frivolity? Does social media play a role that embraces this form of being corralled?  

 

Did the bromide “in the Information Age truth will rise to the top” really just sputter out so uselessly?  Go stand in a crowd and watch people shuffle by.  What are they carrying, are they staring into it as they ignore you?

I say we have been manipulated. 

We have been captured and lulled into a state where we function, but we don’t intuit our surroundings and process the presence of others in a rational way.  We have been forced to stand apart, 6 feet apart, we have been told not to gaze at other eyes while they are masked because it makes people uncomfortable.  We have been told that our very breath will be death to others, so we must hide our faces, our best facet we use to communicate warmth, friendship, love through facial expressions as we speak.  Those shiny phones, the windows to the 2.0 universe of wonder, have repeated those missives to us over and over and over again.  It is a chant.  “I know I had a reaction to the vaccine, but I know my condition would have been worse had I not had it.”  “They needed to nudge us in the right direction, I understand that the drama, while stretching the truth, was needed.”  “The wisdom of the crowd is inherently better than my own reaction and instinct.”

And now think about the fearful phrases “vaccine deniers should be forced to take the injection; they are preventing our recovery from the pandemic” and “your rights do not allow you to kill my relatives when you pass COVID onto them”.  And “we are in this together, you should maintain social distance” and “mask up”.  These phrases pandered to people’s fear and somehow empowered them.  The anger still is directed at you.  Recall standing in a crowd and watching people during COVID, were they friendly to you when you wore no mask?

And look at how many now merely film life, are gleeful voyeurs capturing assaults, destruction and mob rage on their phones and posting them to social media.  Gone are the days where people intercede to stop others from being hurt.  Yet on social media we hear the chant “words are literally violence.”  People’s cognition has been stunted, damaged to the point where they walk, they speak, but they cannot reflect on their individual responses normally rooted in self-awareness. They cannot exercise their conscience. 

I say we have been manipulated. 

 

I say they have a severed conscience.

Watch Part One

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Zed’s Dead https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/03/17/zeds-dead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zeds-dead https://studiohumanzee.com/2023/03/17/zeds-dead/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:37:45 +0000 https://studiohumanzee.com/?p=9509
The Dead Internet Theory Lives

The Dead Internet Theory has been debunked by the Mainstream, then “rebunked” by Elon buying Twitter.  It’s time to consider who your online friends were..

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By The Mighty Humanzee

“Zed’s dead, baby”, quipped Elon as Fabienne encircled his waist with her arms.  “Zed’s dead”.  Kicking the clutch, Musk launched the chopper forward and roared off into the sunset, his work done for the denizens of Twitter.

Zed is dead, and so is the Internet.   The Dead Internet is a theory that much of commerce and conversation is fueled by bots, AI programs run en masse to generate volumes of clicks and responses.  When Elon Musk took over Twitter he announced that the number of bots attached to the platform had inappropriately bolstered accounts’ followers and falsely drove ad revenue.  Once he ceased their activity, many mainstream pundits across the spectrum witnessed a huge drop in activity.  Despite the moniker of “conspiracy theory”, Elon proved that much of what we witnessed on social media was fake.

Swatting the bots off the Twitter picnic table like flies resulted in a rejiggering of followers for many of the “prominent” accounts.  They screamed and howled as their engagement counts and popularity measured in presumably actual Twitter users plummeted faster than Silicon Valley Bank’s bloated credit ratings.  Zed was dead, and Elon killed him by sweeping all those fake accounts away.

I hate to tell you but much of the acclaimed amplifying factor of social media and Twitter in particular is fake.  You may recall that the Internet was to be an equalizer, and your ideas and work funneled through social media channels enabled you to rise and fall based on your ability.  It was an implied measure of your worth.  Low follower count meant that the masses had spoken and, well,. if you’ve been on Twitter for years and tweeting away yet still under 2000 followers you basically sucked.  Here’s the good news:  that was a lie and Elon killing Zed and the other bots, proving Big Tech was a king maker.  Big Tech plucked individuals from the masses like God plucked Elvis.  Yes, they created the controlled opposition that you identified with, who you worshiped.

And while the media claimed there was no targeting of unpopular views in disfavor with the left, we all saw examples of the egregious censorship.  What we didn’t realize was the extent to which social media was propped up by Artificial Intelligence.  This is not merely the accounts that swarm you when you express outrage over COVID policy.  Increasingly AI is used to create articles supporting central themes as well.  The online publisher CNET has been using AI to write content for you. 

AI has begun nipping at the heels of the traditional media business for months and even drawn blood from it in some cases. CNET, a longtime staple of technology journalism, laid off 10 percent of its employees earlier this month, with its editor-in-chief changing her title to “senior vice president of AI content strategy.” Red Ventures, owner of CNET, had been using an AI to generate articles on basic subjects within personal finance and other topics. The move attracted little fanfare, and CNET did not publicize it, until the outlet had to issue corrections on nearly 80 articles, half the AI’s output. In spite of the fiasco, Red Ventures plans to continue publishing AI-written articles on CNET.

Consider that an article consists of many paragraphs, then remember the fact that Twitter only allows you 240 characters in your message, and it is easy to see how a conversation can be automated.  Orange and I demonstrated how easy it was to utilize AI for creating essays which appeared crafted by a human.  We published those results for you here.  AI has also demonstrated that it can pass MBA exams and the US Medical License exams.  So consider again in that light:  an application with can generate answers that pass an MBA exam certainly can produce realistic responses limited to 240 characters.  If you look at the output of AI systems like Chat GPT, could you really distinguish an article generated by a human versus AI?  Would any of us have the time to try?

We have to be aware of gradual approximation, the slow process of introducing a harmful concept couched in appealing terms.  Keep repeating that concept more frequently and eventually we become accustomed to its presence and eventually accept that concept.  The fanfare around the wonder of AI is now being used to distract from the invasive dangers of its use.

Here is an example that should make you uncomfortable, Ford wants to observe you in your car, and filed a patent for such a system.  You will be alarmed when you hear the percentage of people who accept AI “assisting” us with decisions.  But they don’t seem to be aware of the controlling nature of corporate worship of ESG.  Maybe they don’t want certain habits in drivers of their vehicles.  Maybe that lease you signed, which remember, doesn’t mean you OWN the car, will enable Ford to dictate how and where you drive.  But worse, what about that MAGA tshirt you wore to a rally?

… AI powered image recognition to construct a digital sketch of the driver – which then, in turn, provides enough details for the system to guess what the driver is doing. The system can determine things like when a driver is sipping a cup of coffee or looking at their phone.

Another way AI is promoted as useful is as an assistant.  Some apps claim that AI can be used to help select articles based on your reading habits.  After you have read 25 articles, the AI system has been trained to provide you what matches based on previous materials.  Well, if this was all that was presented to you, how would you know?  Could you spot if an item was boosted or excluded from your view?  Subtle censorship can be easily instituted and you would be none the wiser.

The app won’t require you to sign up after downloading, but will prompt you to select ten areas of interest which range from home products, to U.S. politics, to men’s style. Artifact also allows you to link subscriptions to your account to prioritize the news you pay for. But the app’s pièce de résistance is its artificial intelligence engine, which learns about your reading habits as you dive into the news.

“Feed improves each time you read,” Artifact tells you when you finish signing up. “Read 25 articles for Artifact to better personalize your feed. Track progress on your profile.”

It seems that AI is always making you a more passive participant and in the process your exercise of judgement has been eliminated.  Like any other characteristic or ability, when you use something less it atrophies.  AI will be presented as a tool to improve your efficiency or enhance a capability.  But at what cost?  LinkedIn will be offering a service where AI will recommend changes to your professional profile and in some cases even write content for you.  As we’ve discussed before, will this process select the “appropriate phrases” for you?  By extension, will LinkedIn rate your profile unfavorably should you elect phrases that are not among the suggested vocabulary?  Consider, too, that employment search services may favor the phrases that LinkedIn AI proffers, and you could run the risk of being sidelined when you elect to write your own profile.  How would you know if this were the case?

Let’s go beyond convenience and assisting you with tasks that you should really be adept at accomplishing yourself.  Should AI be your guide at work for managerial tasks, such as monitoring your progress on projects and evaluating the decisions you have made during the course of business?  What is alarming are the number of people who have already accepted the inerrant superiority of AI at performing tasks.  There seems to be a consensus that AI’s capability is the sum of all good experiences of humanity up to this point, and thereby superior to your own judgement.  In a survey of 17,000 people spanning 17 countries, the percentage of those who favor AI navigating their actions for them is alarmingly high.

Take note of Direct tasks for employees to complete and Set goals for employees to meet.   This is command and control management, and assume that one employee is interchangeable with another.  It presupposes the innate infallibility of the information fed to AI in order to make the decision.  Leading people is not accomplished with simple data input.  Indeed, much of the failure of project management is the arrogant lack of bottom up estimation – many times project managers are not specialists, they are either generalists or worse, management specialists with limited skill in the tasks at hand.  At least in those cases feedback between employee and employer can communicate the wisdom of those with hands on involvement in a process to their managers.  Who now collects the information to adjust AI should the system’s recommendations prove to not adhere to reality?

AI is influencing us in ways we are not aware of, and beyond the realm of Twitter and social media.  Our exercise of judgement is eliminated, the act of informing ourselves is corralled into channels of information and we are unaware of other sources that could lead us to independent conclusions.  We are not shown the truth.  We should not expect to be shown the truth, we don’t need AI in order to seek the truth and know it for ourselves.

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