Here's How You're Being Programmed
Tech companies scare me.
They control your life or will do so.
In fact Amazon went the length to disable a man's access from his very own smart house.
All a company will have to do to kill us is stop letting us use their product. That’s how dependent we have become.
‘How do tech companies control us?’ and ‘How is society programmed?’
is what I’ll be talking about in this article.
The Amazon Incident
It all started from a misunderstanding.
An Amazon delivery bro heard a racist comment from the house while delivering a package.
He reported this comment to his superiors in Amazon.
They not only denied this man access to Amazon but even blocked him from using his very own smart home; something which he bought, a house that belongs to him.
To make matters worse the ‘racist comment’ was the automated doorbell which the delivery bro misheard.
Amazon didn’t even apologize for the misunderstanding.
The thought that a company can have so much power over my life, terrifies me.
We have no choice, We need them
I don’t want to use such products, but it’s almost impossible not to.
In the modern world, most jobs require you to have a smartphone. If you don’t know something you’re expected to google it. School work probably needs it too.
Not only the GPS which directs us has internet but even the cars we drive are starting to have internet connections, which means tech companies will have control over them too.
In China, there’s this app called WeChat which is a combination of pretty much every app. People use it for all purposes from banking to dating. Which means it has ALL your data.
Chinese people describe the app as being as important as water or electricity.
The government even has full access to this app; they don’t even deny it. You can get arrested for DMing a friend you hate the president.
The amount of data the Chinese government has makes controlling its citizens easy.
Most countries don’t have apps as powerful as WeChat, but I tell this story to show you how powerful social media can get.
In fact, the UK and US governments have used social media for surveillance as exposed by Edward Snowden.
With all this data they have about you, there’s a lot they can do.
They can control your thoughts
At school, you mindlessly grind all the work given to you.
Without thinking about what’s important to learn or not you just take it in.
Once you are out of school, you’ll probably work for one of these tech companies cause who doesn’t depend on them for jobs?
There you will probably do whatever work is given to you without questioning it.
When you decide to relax you’ll probably mindlessly scroll shorts, reels, or TikTok.
Or attend to those pop-up text messages.
This leaves you no time to observe and think your own thoughts.
And the thing with short-form content is you don’t choose what you watch, you just watch what comes in your feed.
This allows tech companies like Google or Meta to put their own propaganda.
I’m not saying they use it for propaganda, but they can if they want you to.
If not for propaganda they certainly do control your behaviour.
If you think you’re immune to their conditioning think again:
Social media even uses the same principles as a casino’s slot machine does to keep you addicted.
With just 10 likes Facebook knows your personality better than your colleagues do. And after 300 likes Facebook knows your personality better than your spouse does(source).
These tech giants know the Google searches you wouldn’t show to friends. They know the questionable sites you’ve visited. They might even know some of your most personal text messages.
Tech social media giants flick switches and control us like remote control robots directing us wherever they wish.
Right now it’s all profit-minded, but it can also be used to brainwash us to follow their religion(ideals and beliefs).
Non-tech-company programming
This section includes the other psychological programming that happens in society apart from the one done by big tech companies
(There’s of course government, news, politics. I don’t wanna delve much into those here though)
Music
Music influences your mood and thinking.
I’m not saying that mainstream music is propaganda nor am I saying it’s evil.
I’m just saying it shapes society on a large scale. But if someone wanted to, they surely could use music to program you.
I don’t think anybody is currently using mainstream music to control you, but it does shape whoever listens to it.
Just not to be influenced by mainstream music, I find listening to niche music cool.
Influencers
Influencers, not surprisingly, influence culture.
They influence lifestyle and the words you use.
Like rizz. And all the other gen-z words.
Rarely is it used for propaganda, but mostly for advertising products, and sometimes scamming you *cough cough logan paul*
Surprisingly though, US documents revealed that Russia has actually paid youtubers like Tim Pool, and The Rubin Report around 100,000 dollars per video, to make videos on certain topics to influence.
100,000 per video for 2 million subscriber channels!! Russia understands social media’s power in influencing ideology.
School
School has to be one of the most widescale influencers. I’ve yapped about the schooling system before if you’re interested.
Steps to avoid this dependency
Meditate/ Journal. Notice your thoughts, behavior, and thinking patterns.
Try avoiding mindless scrolling. Even better if you can avoid social media.
As much as possible don’t use products that are connected to the cloud/internet, you products you fully control once you buy them(like use regular bulbs instead of smart bulbs)
To attain real self-dependence you would probably have to be self-employed and grow your own food, but it’s not very realistic or possible for everyone.
(and no, I don’t practice what I preach, at least not enough)
I find it hard to live without the internet. And I don’t like it.
I want to do some sort of no-internet challenge for a month or less. Still thinking about it.If you’re interested in joining DM or email me.
I tried a different writing style, a somewhat conspiracy theory style, but tried sticking to some facts.
Anyways, Thanks for reading - Mr.Stickman