Technology

by Ed Cleveland

This month I want to talk about a topic that, at first glance, doesn't seem to directly pertain to the cause of White Nationalism and the struggle that our race faces. Yet, the more I thought about this topic, the more I came to realize that this could be one of the most significant issues we will ever face.

I'm talking about the “technification” of our society. Sure, technification isn't considered a “real” word... yet! But the idea behind that word will set the groundwork for this month's comments.

We live in an ever increasing technological society. The age of newspapers gave way to the age of radio. Radio fell victim to the visual aspects of television. Television expanded to include easy-to-install satellite systems that gave us hundreds of channels to watch. Satellite delivery of entertainment has slowly been losing a battle with the Internet. And now the Internet has found its way into our cell phones and even into our cars.

Where will it all stop? When I was younger I fantasized about being able to teleport across town to my friends house. Chalk that fantasy up to watching the Jew William Shatner as he portrayed Captain James Tiberius Kirk. I also wished for a car that could drive itself, jet packs for ease of getting around town, and robots that would do everything I wanted them to do... without argument!

Well, teleport technology is still a long ways off, and jet packs are too “20th century”! But we now have cars that can drive themselves, and we have robots that perform many of the menial tasks that we'd rather not do ourselves.

Sure, the self-driving car hasn't been perfected yet, but the technology is there. Just do a Google search for “self-driving car” or “robot car” and see the results that you get!

As for robots that can do menial work, all it takes is one look inside a modern radio station! I spent many years as an broadcast announcer and I still do a considerable amount of work around radio stations. And believe me; computers handle all the tasks that people used to do. You say, “That's not a real robot!” In a way, that's correct. Yet what is a robot? The actual definition is difficult to nail down. But one of the primary functions of a robot is to be able to interact within its environment and make decisions about what should be done. That perfectly defines a typical radio automation system. It controls the signal, insuring that everything stays on the air, and it manages the music or talk programs, switching things around as necessary to keep things sounding good.

Even television stations have robots. They perform the same duties as the ones in radio, but with a higher level of complexity. I'd be willing to bet that you never knew that the TV cameras on your local newscast were being run by robots. And, occasionally, one of them gets its signals crossed and a poor hapless announcer that's in the wrong place at the wrong time gets whacked!

So, as you can see, technology has advanced significantly in the last 30 years or so. We have become a generation that relies heavily on technology. I keep going back to the examples in broadcasting, as most every one of us are familiar with it, to illustrate how much reliance we have on technology. When something goes wrong with the robots, or automation, at a TV or radio station, it's rare to be able to find a “real” human being that can perform the tasks required to keep the station on the air. We have given ourselves over to the technology god, and when he fails to answer our prayers we are like a ship without a rudder.

A couple of weeks ago I was listening to a local talk station. It's amusing to hear the neo-Cons rambling on about how much better the world is because of their meddling! But that's not the point I want to make. The funny part was that - all of a sudden - it seemed like the automation at this radio station went haywire, as they started to play two things at once on the air. The talk show host was still gabbing away, but a commercial for a local car dealer was playing as well. Finally everything went silent... completely silent. It was as if some minimum-wage burger flipper was standing there wondering what he should do next so he just shut the whole thing down as confidently as he would have pulled a cheeseburger out of a small stove fire!

Is this reliance on technology bad? And, if it is, then how should we deal with it?

Before I answer that question I'd like to give you a couple more examples of our reliance on technology. These are ones that you likely experience every day.

As I was riding my motorcycle down the road the other day I saw another motorcycle rider sending a text message on his cell phone! Yep, you heard me right! Here was a motorcycle rider with a cell phone in his left hand tapping madly away at the buttons on the phone. Obviously he was rather adept at this, as he only occasionally glanced down at the screen.

Another time I was leaving a parking lot when two cars began to back out at the same time. One was in the row to my left, and the other in the row to my right. I watched as they met in the middle – their back bumpers absorbing the energy of their unexpected meeting. As I expected, both of them were talking on their cell phones at the time.

I can't imagine thinking that I'm so important that I should be talking on a cell phone while trying to back out of a busy parking lot. And I especially cannot imagine sending text messages while riding my motorcycle! So why in the world do so many others feel the need to put themselves at risk for the sake of “staying in touch”?

That's a question that I can't answer. But I can bring to light some issues with technology that will hopefully change the way you think about it. As White men and women, I believe it's extremely important to understand how much of a problem this “technification” really is.

For example, when television first came on the scene in the 1950's Americans gathered around this strange new box to watch mind-numbing shows like “Jack Benny” and “Your Hit Parade”. We look back on this as the “good ole' days” yet it was anything but good! TV stole our imagination and our creativity. Reading books became “boring” to the youth of the 1950's. Live theater was something that just wasn't as important as it once was. Furthermore, TV ripped a piece of our lives away and replaced it with a new drug that would slowly work its way through all aspects of society – cigarettes! Suddenly, smoking became extremely hip! And untold millions would die because their favorite TV actor was always seen with a cigarette hanging from his lips.

Of course I'm completely disregarding, for the moment, the influence that the Jews have demonstrated throughout their control of all forms of media, including television.

That's just one way that technology has changed us. But that doesn't even come close to the rest of the things I'm going to tell you about in the next few minutes.

Let's talk about cell phones. When I was a boy I lived in a pretty typical small town. We had neighbors that we talked to and family gatherings were something that happened on a regular basis. However no one had a cell phone. Of course this was a long time ago before cell phones were ever dreamed of. Yet we still managed to stay in touch. How could we have done that without a cell phone?

Well, first of all we would talk on the “regular” telephone. And these weren't cordless phones either. In fact, they had this round device on the front of them that was used to dial a telephone number. Of course this is where the term “dialing” started! Use that fact to amaze your kids!

But back on topic again... Other than just talking on the phone, we'd drop by our friends and families houses on a regular basis. If there was something that we needed to talk about, it could wait until we either spoke to them on the phone or dropped by. There usually was no sense of urgency to talk to one of them.

Today we spend countless hours each month using up our cell phone minutes for things that were unheard of 20 years ago. We see a strange site on the road and we have to call two people to tell them about it. Something interesting is on television and we call our friends to ask them to tune in. And if we're not actually calling them, we're sending them a text message. Are these things in our life so important that we need to tell people about them immediately?

Oh yeah... and those cell phones with cameras built in... don't even get me started on those!

Another of those pieces of technology that we take for granted is the Internet. I have to admit that I love how easy it is to research various topics by just typing a few simple words into a search engine. It's true that a lot of the information available on the Internet is just plain incorrect, so it takes a sharp mind to separate the good from the bad. But, still, it gives us a great tool for finding out almost anything.

And it also gives people an easy way to locate information about you or I that we might not want to expose to the world. Like our financial history, or the places we've lived over the last 15 years, or our home address and phone number... shall I go on?

Technology is neutral. It is neither good nor bad. Just like any tool, technology can be used by people to make our world better, and it can be used by people to destroy our world. We, you and I, can use technology to help further the cause of White men and women, but the ADL can use it to spread their lies throughout the world.

I'll give one more example on how technology has changed our society, then I'll dig into the even deeper questions about the technification of our world.

Within the medical community, there can be no doubt that technology has given us some fantastic gifts. We're working on ways to map our DNA, and it's quite possible that we are within reach of being able to cure cancer just by manipulating a persons genes! Then there are things like the MRI, which can scan deep into the human body, searching for tumors and other problems, without having to perform surgery. We have machines that can sustain a person that is brain-dead almost indefinitely. There's a joke in there somewhere about our politicians, but I'll leave it alone!

Yet even that technology has a down side. 30 years ago no one had even heard of a “living will”, but today many hospitals will not permit you to have surgery unless you have a living will. Since a machine can sustain your life if something goes wrong, the hospital needs to know that you really want to be kept alive. True, that before we had that technology people just simply died. But that is the way of nature. We've simply discovered a way to temporarily cheat the rules of nature with our machines.

So here we are with machines that can do almost everything for us. And that brings me to the most serious point of this whole broadcast; What happens when technology fails?

It's likely that everyone listening to this broadcast or reading this transcript remembers the so-called “Y2K bug”. The entire world began to panic because of the possibility that technology would fail when the calendar rolled over to the year 2000. Computer systems would lose data, elevators would stop working, aircraft would fall from the skies... all because no one had the foresight to take into account that computers would suddenly assume that it was the year “00” - a year that technically didn't exist.

Well, as we're all aware technology never failed. There were some extremely minor problems with some computer systems, but by and large the world – on January 1st, 2000, went on as if nothing had changed.

The Y2K issue should have been a true wake-up call to White Nationalists everywhere. Not because of the knee-jerk reactions of the general population, which were based on meaningless fairy tales of doom delivered, mostly, by the conspiracy nuts. No, the wake-up call should have been in the fact that we were just as unprepared for technological disaster as the vast majority of the population.

Have you considered what would happen to you if the electricity at your house was cut off for an extended period of time? Do you have an electric range? If so, how would you cook your food? If it were the winter, how would you stay warm? If summer, how would you stay cool?

Then think about what would happen if that failure was over a large region, perhaps even an entire metropolitan area. Now you would have millions of people without electricity. It would also be likely that telephone service, and that includes cell phones, would be unavailable. There would also be the possibility that water supplies would be cut off, as water pumps would not be working if there was no electricity. What would you do then?

I don't want this broadcast to become a “survival guide”. That certainly isn't my intention here. Besides, there are a lot of excellent resources on the Internet and at your local library that will help you prepare for disaster. I just don't see any reason to re-invent the wheel.

Instead I want you to think about how you use technology on a day-to-day basis. Think about the things that you need as opposed to the things that make life convenient. Then focus on those needs, and look for ways to start eliminating your dependence on technology, at least from a practical standpoint.

Why would I want us to do something like that? After all, wasn't it the White race that gave us all this great technology? The answer is a resounding yes! We did bring this technology to the world. And we should use it as necessary to make our world a better place. But we should never, and I repeat NEVER, become reliant upon that same technology. While there are those around the world that have shunned all forms of technology, that is not a healthy way to live. The idea here is to strike a balance whereby technology makes our life easier, but it isn't the central focus of our existence.

Since I've already talked about the potential failure of the electrical grid in a major city, let's focus on that aspect of technology. First, do you have a way to stay in touch with others if all the power goes out in your area? There are literally dozens of ways to keep in contact with others that doesn't require a reliance on the power companies. Amateur Radio is one excellent means to keep in communication. When I was a kid getting an Amateur Radio license required that you learn Morse Code. Today that's not the case. Getting a license is as easy as studying some basic electricity texts and learning some of the FCC rules.

Another method to stay in touch is with the “Family Radio Service”. Those are the little walkie-talkies that you see everywhere. The prices range from under $20 each to over $200 each, depending on the features of the unit. The problem with those radios, as opposed to Amateur Radios, is their limited range. You can't carry on a conversation more than a few miles away, and that's under the best of conditions.

Another tried-and-true method of communication is the message board. No, I don't mean an Internet message board. These are the ones that have been around for much longer than the Internet. Usually they are a cork board or something similar in a library or a public building. If you have arranged in advance with others to look for messages there, then it becomes easy to stay in touch with them. Just plan on having someone check that board daily for new messages.

Of course, there's also another old-fashioned method of communication that has served us well for thousands of years – the courier! Even someone on a bicycle could carry messages between one area and another. And, if the power failure lasts for an extremely long period of time, the courier could be the only way to get messages from one person to another. Driving would likely become impossible, as none of the gas pumps would work. And even if they did, with no traffic signals the roads would become quickly impassible.

I've focused on an electrical grid failure, because I see that as the most likely issue that we technically-dependent people would encounter. But there are other things that could hamper us as well. Even if no disasters hit, being so reliant on technology could prove fatal for us if we don't realize some of the other dangers that await.

Let's look at that cell phone of yours. Do you realize that every text message you send is archived on a server someplace? Yeah, I know... so what if those little “I love you” messages are stored on a computer in New York. Big deal, right? Wrong! What if your text message to a friend said, “My boss is a complete jerk!” Would you want your boss to read that? If not, then why did you bother to send it out to your friend?

Then there's the fact that every call you make on your cell phone is logged and stored on those same servers. If you regularly make calls to the Radical Militia Hotline, then the cell phone companies, as well as anyone else, could easily discover that. Think about what would happen if that information found its way into the wrong hands.

This is why I say that our reliance on technology is a bad thing. But, again, there has to be a balance. We cannot completely shun technology. Instead we need to be wise when it comes to the use of technology, and come to an understanding that technology, while useful and good, is just like any other tool. A knife is a tool, yet it can be used to destroy the lives of others. A car is a tool, but a car can also be a hindrance if it is the only way we have to get around and there isn't any fuel available to purchase.

Perhaps what we all need to do is take some time and evaluate our own personal use of technology. If you can easily say that you could give up your Internet, cell phone, cable, and automobile today, then you are likely already weaned from the destructive effects of technology. But if you wince when you suddenly realize that you might have left your Bluetooth headset in the other room... it could be time for a reality check! Then, and only then, will the technification of our society begin to subside.

I'm Ed Cleveland...Thanks for joining the Nationalist Coalition again today.