Revisiting the 1941 murders triggered by meteor shower on Canada's Belcher Islan

[hlat]

Revisiting the 1941 murders triggered by meteor shower on Canada's Belcher Islands
https://www.sott.net/article/354627-Revisiting-the-1941-murders-triggered-by-meteor-shower-on-Canadas-Belcher-Islands

Q: There's another strand to the book about how our increasing dependence on digital technology is having a deleterious impact on our lives.

A: I make a very strong connection between what happened in the Belchers and what happens in our world today—not so much murder as loss of life. I felt that I couldn't write about the past without writing about the present. I think the crucial occurrence was watching 9/11 two days [after it happened] on a TV in a small, ramshackle hotel in Sanikiluaq, and having the Inuit around me laugh at the screen, look oddly at it, and a little kid saying, "Funny, funny," pointing at the buildings falling over. I was not overly affected by seeing this, but I was overly affected by the old woman telling me about the murder of her best friend 60 years ago, because there was nothing mediating between her sad, wrinkled, ancient-looking face, and me, whereas there was a pitiful screen mediating between me and the killings during 9/11. More and more I saw it as crucial, that the screens were becoming the new gods, and they were distancing us from the natural world, the way religion as it was promoted by Anglican missionaries tended to distance [Indigenous] people from their natural world.

It seems that all these technologies and ideologies are creating distance between people and observable reality. In the space created, any manner of fake stories can be inserted by propagandists. It gets to a point that people believe in the fake stories more than observable reality.

 

[Laura]

Revisiting the 1941 murders triggered by meteor shower on Canada's Belcher Islands
https://www.sott.net/article/354627-Revisiting-the-1941-murders-triggered-by-meteor-shower-on-Canadas-Belcher-Islands

It seems that all these technologies and ideologies are creating distance between people and observable reality. In the space created, any manner of fake stories can be inserted by propagandists. It gets to a point that people believe in the fake stories more than observable reality.

You can say that again. I never, in my wildest imagination, could have dreamed of the way things have developed since the Cs started predicting all the chaos and turmoil that was still ahead of us back in the 90s. It just seemed impossible to get from where we were then to where they were saying we were going. But damned if it hasn't happened.

Just imagine how much crazier things will get when the action in the skies REALLY kicks up!!!