Me•Dia
Our God?
m e :
from Latin: ego, mei, mihi
d i a :
From Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (devá), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).
“Ego-God” is one possible translation for the incredible dominance that the Media beast exerts on our daily lives. The daily news feed defines our cultural identity and reinforces the narratives that define a shared reality. Media acts as the supreme deity of these times, telling us what is ‘true’, and what we should believe. Even TV News anchors have stated that it is their job to tell us all what to think. And most importantly— “how to think.” In essence, the priests and priestesses of the Daily News Feed are devotees of a system of programming and the maintenance crew of an established order; and this makes them devotees of the paradigm that pays their rent or mortgage. This type of devotion seems pseudo-religious in a manner of speaking.
Therefore, Me Dia— from another vantage point— may translate as ‘My God’, or ‘Our God’.
What might the neurolinguistic detectives tell us about the word ‘Media’, and the power over our conscious minds that the daily dose of Media and its content may impose?
For one thing—the news-casters (casting spells?) are in effect, “Reality-Shapers.” Just as the Schwabian Wef’ers have a designation within that particular corporate hive called,“Global Shapers.”
As a minor digression— a nostalgic memory of an ad campaign that was broadcast frequently on television during the 1980’s comes into focus. The ad campaign— no doubt created in order to support Nancy Reagan’s advocacy efforts in allegiance with her husband Ronnie’s “War on Drugs”— came out with the “Just Say No” meme that became a grandstanding national narrative that was parroted ad nauseam by US politicians.
I saw Timothy Leary during his 1988 tour of nightclubs in Southern Calif, and his witty reply to Nancy’s directive was, “Just Say— No Thank You.” Dr Tim had a dry understated wit, and I agreed that it is more polite to tell the street pusher that you’re not interested, while remaining civil.
“JUST SAY, NO”…the TV ad campaign
“This is your brain.”[egg is intact]; and— “This is drugs.”[insert frying pan here]
“This is your brain on drugs.” [C.U.-egg frying in pan]
Drug Awareness—updated for the transhumanist agenda circa 2023…
“This is your mind before programming” :
“…and this is the mind “chipped” and/or altered via mRNA injections.” :
Tele- “Vision Programming”
…Perhaps starting with Marshall McLuhan’s analysis would be useful.
“In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.” (19)
“What we are considering here, however, are the psychic and social consequences of the designs or patterns as they amplify or accelerate existing processes. For the “message” of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs.” (20)
“Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot.
For the content of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.
The effect of the medium is made strong and intense just because it is given another medium as content. The content of a movie is a novel or a play or an opera. The effect of the movie form is not related to its program content. The content of writing or print is speech, but the reader is almost entirely unaware either of print or of speech.” (31)
The Tele-Vision matrix relies on a “programming” schedule in order to maintain its perceived necessity as vital sustenance for our daily lives; as if a daily ‘check in’ with the Media narrative(s) is akin to spiritual worship. Media is a techno-church and ‘social’ media has become a replacement for authentic real-time social interaction. It was obvious to many people that the lock-down phase of the scam-demic cultivated a reliance on Zoom meetings and SmartFone screen time in lieu of a Friday night gathering at the local pub or tavern. This is just another aspect of the totalitarian tip-toe…all in plain sight. Meantime, the Media enforced the perception that it wasn’t safe to congregate with fellow humans.
WHO OWNS THE MEDIA?
“About 15 billionaires and six corporations own most of the U.S. media outlets. The biggest media conglomerates in America are AT&T, Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, National Amusements (which includes Viacom Inc. and CBS), News Corp and Fox Corporation (which are both owned in part by the Murdochs), Sony, and Hearst Communications.”—PR-Pioneer
BREAKDOWN OF THE TOP NEWS NETWORKS (as of March 9, 2021)
Who Owns CNN?
The ultimate owner of CNN is AT&T. The CNN parent company is Warner Media LLC, which also owns HBO, Otter Media, Warner Brothers, and Turner Broadcasting System. Warner Media is then owned by parent company AT&T.
Who Owns Fox News?
Fox News is owned by the Fox Corporation, which is owned in part by the Murdoch Family (39% share). It’s also important to point out that the same person with Fox News ownership, Rupert Murdoch, owns News Corp with the same 39% share, and News Corp owns the New York Post, HarperCollins, and the Wall Street Journal.
Who Owns NBC?
The owner of NBC and MSNBC is Comcast. NBC’s parent company is NBCUniversal, an umbrella company that also owns Fandango, Hulu, Universal Pictures, and Telemundo. NBCUniversal is then owned by parent company Comcast.
Who Owns ABC?
ABC News is a branch of ABC, which is a branch of Walt Disney Television, which is a branch of Disney Media Networks, which is part of The Walt Disney Company. Disney owns almost too much to mention here; we’ve made a chart of what companies are owned by Disney previously.
THE GRID-LOCK DOWN
Neuralink™ and the Starlink™ system could be the death knell for any Jedi knight. To eschew the development of the human’s whole brain potential, and negate the pineal-third eye “seeing” skill set—and defer to the mechanical and robotic “regulated” design preferred by the Technocrats— may indeed support a zombie-bot unhuman(and inhumane) dystopian hellscape. I’ve written about this, as have many other notable observers, and it is incumbent upon us to get off the Grid and instead choose to embrace our innate connections with Nature and the Earth. This is the divine plan. Obviously, the Technocrats are not aligned with anything resembling divine plans or even an enlightened consideration for the Source outside their own self-limiting ego minds.
The Tech-ego-cult relies on the media-grid in order to fortify the artificial-intelligence-by- design organizational grid. It’s a very insidious loop and a “program.” Some years back I recognized how the terms, “TV Programs” or “Television Programming” might have a different meaning than many of us had realized.
As a child of the 60’s I was hypnotized by the cartoons on Saturday mornings. After 3-4 hrs of watching the escapist fare, a parent would say— “It’s a beautiful day, time to go outside for a bike ride and play with your friends.” Childhood back then was free of cell phones and cell towers and FaceBook. I recall a sense of discovery and liberation, especially when I was outdoors. Life was magical, and no TV program could replace those days spent in the woods or riding the bike down steep hills amidst the squirrels and birds swooping down from the skies above. As I reminisce I sit here typing away with a screen in front of my face—imagining a return to the typewriter and typeset, awaiting an editor to review today’s article. Alas…
MEDIA MATRIX FLOW CHART
What Lies Ahead?
A quick look at Neuralink™, and in particular, its use of language in support of a new paradigm technological platform:
Verbatim from Neuralink’s website—
“Robotics”
“To make Neuralink implants a reality, the robot is absolutely necessary on two fronts: first, the threads are smaller than a human hair and cannot be grasped, manipulated, and accurately inserted by a human surgeon. Doing this requires micron precision for the grasp, tens of microns of precision for localizing and tracking the moving brain during insertion, and high speed in order to get hundreds of threads in quickly. Second, scaling to hundreds of thousands then millions of patients means that not only must the thread insertion be automated but also the planning and execution of the rest of the surgery. Without doing so, the supply of neurosurgeons quickly runs out.
Executing on both of these requires novel sensing, kinematics, computer vision, precision mechanical and electrical design, optics, and really everything to do with the design, control, and use of safety critical high precision mechatronics systems.”
As for Neuralink’s surgical robot research—on the face of it, what could possibly go wrong with an advanced machine that assists in the maintenance of a flesh and blood human being? I can see a military application for auto-bots able to provide surgery for wounded soldiers, i.e., surgeon-bots unaffected by the stresses of warfare; and yet—shouldn’t an advanced human society be capable of negotiations and cooperation as a united species, thereby avoiding the horrors of war altogether? On the other hand, a surgeon-bot at the scene of a car accident might perform miracles. Then again, as long as the DoD seems hellbent on creating a terminator-style super soldier, where’s the real oversight and input from wiser humans who still have a human being’s mind—and heart?
The troublesome detail has to do with who’s behind the tech push, and what the actual intentions are behind creating a hybridized homo sap Mach II. I consider it a sci-fi horror show to think of a doctor-bot deciding how humans should be re-designed and improved. In my purview, when bots are directed by an AI overlord, and advocate how and when, and with what tech to redesign human beings, this spells the end of humankind.
The technocrats and their smart young acolytes seem to enjoy fabricating new cool terms to no end. Terms like: kinematics, mechatronics—that indicate yet more technological interaction(or interference?) with analog homo sapiens—a species that has survived despite dramatic Earth changes and cultural paradigm shifts throughout the millennia. Speaking in techno-gobbledegook around a lab might be thrilling for some techie-geeks enamored with their own self-image—and yet, the human mind is still in charge on some level, regardless of the AI-directed software program that appears to be one potential master and commander of the Human experiment at hand.
What will a next paradigm information system look like? The solution that rings the bell of Truth for me is “Open-Source-Everything.” No more spy vs spy hijinks, and no more fake news littered with subliminal advertising messages. The present day Media matrix is also a jailer, and this fact alone is a profound jigsaw puzzle piece as we endeavor to define and create the greatest freedom possible for mankind.
John Lennon talked about “Nutopia” as one possibility.
postscript:
Another definition for DIA (humor)
Defense Intelligence Agency
“The director of the DIA is the main adviser to the secretary of defense and to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on matters related to military intelligence. The agency is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Following World War II, U.S. efforts to collect, produce, and distribute military intelligence were scattered and uncoordinated.”—Britannica
Note to Self: After WW II, the military intelligence programs were “scattered and uncoordinated”—and what about today?
sources:
War on Drugs: https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs
Lennon remembered: https://publicdelivery.org/war-is-over/
Starlink: [operated by SpaceX]
https://www.starlink.com/
McLuhan: https://u.osu.edu/thompson.3374/2020/07/20/understanding-media-by-marshall-mcluhan/