Wow, I get a little hot under the collar in this week’s sermon, but as always, I let the energy of the gods and goddesses who speak through me come out in whatever way they want and need. I’m reminded of those fiery sermons given by backwoods tent revival ministers and it’s somewhat exciting. After all, inspiration is real and emotions provide the power which the words carry and convey.
Check out Shoshana Zuboff’s video below. In it, she gives a good synopsis of what the tech giants—Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple—are doing to us without our awareness and without our permission. Let me give you a hint, the words “harvest” and “render” are involved. For an in-depth study (that I highly recommend), get her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
In my view, very few are educated enough on this subject because even though the creepy feeling is there, people are just too addicted to their devices (like the monkeys in Elon Musk’s lab!) to take it in and then actually do something about it.
But again, to me, this is the central crisis of our time. Not race, gender, politics, economics, or climate change—this. Because surveillance capitalism is destroying human freedom itself—one click at a time—and no one is paying attention to it. People are too busy using social media to assuage their addictive behaviors or fool themselves into thinking that if they are sharing messages of love then it’s OK.
But we (all of us, regardless of our intentions) are frogs being boiled alive, friends. Take a good look.