Dr. Ben Goertzel: Beware America's Military Industrial Advertising Complex!

What you're saying is of one very important point that we need to move past the military gatekeepers of technology, right? It's not just military now though. It's it's big tech which are advertising agencies in Media things that are constantly predicting your next purchase right? Yeah, cuz if you think if you think about it and I mean even in a Semi-democracy like like we have in the US I mean those who control the brainwashing of the public in essence control who votes for what and who controls the brainwashing of the public is Advertising agencies and who increasingly are the biggest advertising agencies are the big tech companies who are Accumulating everybody's data and using it to to program their minds to buy things so this is what's programming the global brain of the human race and of course there are close links between big tech and And the military look look Amazon has what 25,000 person headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia right next to the Pentagon And then I mean China it's even more direct and unapologetic, right? So it's a new like military industrial advertising complex which is is guiding the evolution of the global brain on The planet which found that with this past election right with all the intrusion by foreign entities trying to influence the election That they've these giant houses set up to write bad stories about whoever they don't want to be in office Yeah in a way that's almost a red herring But it I mean the Russian stuff is almost a red herring, but it revealed what the processes are Which are used to program Oh because I think the whatever programming of Americans minds is done by the Russians is many minuscule compared to the programming of Americans minds by By the American American corporate and government elite It's fascinating that anybody's even jumping in as well. Yeah Sure It's it's interesting and if you look at what's happening in China, that's like yeah. Yeah. Yeah They're they're way better at it than than we are much more horrific, right? And that's why it's more it's more Professional it's more polished. It's more centralized Yeah on the other hand for almost everyone in China China's a very good place to live and you know the Level of improvement in that country in the last 30 years has just been astounding right like you I mean you can't you can't argue with how much better it's gotten there since then shopping took over It's it's tremendous because they're not they've embraced capitalism to a certain extent They've created their own unique system. What labels you give it is is almost arbitrary They they've created their own unique system as a you know crazy hippie libertarian anarcho-socialist freedom-loving Maniac that system rubs against migraine in many ways on the other hand empirically if you look at it It's improved the well-being of a of a tremendous number of people So hopefully it evolves and it's one but the way it's evolving now is not in a more Freedom love well, it's not in a more freedom loving and anarchic direction. What one would say it's positive in some ways and others My fell in love with a Chinese woman Yeah, it's great reason we had a baby recently she she's not from Hong Kong she's from mainland China I met her when she was doing her PhD in computational linguistics