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“A Thing That Peers in at Bedroom Windows”
Until last week the rascally Russians were credited with swinging the 2016 election to President Locker-Room-Mouth, with Boris and Natasha yanking both the voting machine levers and our chains.
This week it’s all the fault of Cambridge Analytica, which is not located in any Cambridge but in New York.
Or so they would have you believe.
If you call something Cambridge or Oxford it sounds all cool and sophisticated, and the neologism analytica is soooo Big Bang Theory swoon-worthy.
Apparently, Cambridge Analytica is a room full of not very nice people using their STEM (but not any sense of ethics) to snoop on all the computers in America and all the ships at sea to gather gossip that can be used for marketing and for manipulating elections.
The tee-shirt boys at Facebook – not the Russians - have admitted to cooperating with Cambridge Analytica in giving – or selling – access to everything you have ever posted to that infamous scheme.
The sneaker-boys employ such euphemisms as psychographic micro-target, digital operations, multiple data teams, enhanced predictability models, data analytics, data farming, data scraping, cross-referencing, analyzing, and synthesizing to poke around in your mind, your heart, and your soul to sell (does anyone really think that Facebook is financed by rainbows and pixie dust?) to advertisers, governments, and wanna-be goverments to manipulate your mind, your heart, and your soul for their purposes, not for your good or the common good.
The axiom that progress is good is an error in logic, for some progress is bad indeed.
“Hero to general, from general to politician, from politician to secret service agent,
and thence to a thing that peers in at bedroom and bathroom windows, and thence to a toad,
and finally a snake – such is the progress of Satan.”
- C.S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost
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