{"id":33,"date":"2025-02-13T22:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/?p=33"},"modified":"2025-03-13T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:05:23","slug":"welcome-to-my-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:100vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-34\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083-1024x632.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083-1024x632.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083-768x474.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083-1536x949.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083-850x525.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/dontdrinkthekoolaid.lindaniel.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0083.jpeg 1666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Over 50 years ago I read a series of stories set in a universe known as Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds. In it the USA society had been divided in to three socio-economic classes: the Uppers, Middles, and Lowers with each class divided again the same way so you had Upper Uppers and Middle Uppers, etc. you were only allowed to associate with people of your own class and it was rigidly enforced. How it was enforced is not made clear, but that it was enforced was clear. What class you were in was easily noted by both your dress, speech, and manners. A lot like the Victorian era.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bring this up for two reasons. First I think we maybe well on the way of going back to this in the 21st century. Second is I now think I now know how it will come about. It won\u2019t be by how we dress, but what kind of \u2018social media device\u2019 we use. Each device will know what class you belong in and will limit what social media you can access to your class. This would let the Upper Uppers control what all of the class\u2019 see and hear. The dialect each class and subclass speaks will be controlled so they will be easily noticed. How they dress will be just as easily controlled by limiting what they are shown is limited by the shopping algorithms to there proper class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where you can go and where you are admitted can be easily controlled by just \u2018pinging\u2019 you phone. Indeed, law enforcement will not have to ask for your identity, they can just ping you device. And by making it a crime to have the \u2018wrong\u2019 device, or no device, on their person can make things even simpler. And finally; every person in the USA, citizen, noncitizen, visitor, or what must have their DNA on record and keyed to there device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to my nightmare.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50 years ago I read a series of stories set in a universe known as Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds. 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