Tales I Tell Myself — Vol.6
“Twitter Watch Vol.11”
Twitter Watch Volume 11 is also chapter 28 of my last self-published book “Tales I Tell Myself” (published 30th March 2024), it’s also the 5th chapter in the third Act of this book entitled “Friday Afternoon in The Matrix” and here she is, in all her contentious glory.
Well, after a lucky 7 images from my spiritual home of Ironbridge and a couple of promotional links for a book I’m incredibly proud of.
"The Bird is Freed! - Twitter Watch Vol.11" - original article
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“The Bird is Freed!”
Twitter Watch Vol.11 — Let the freedom bell ring!
29th October 2022
He’s a “Sith Lord” one did wail before one of The Matrix’s more prominent children cried “it’s like the gates of hell have opened tonight” and amid furious hand wringing and righteous anger, the so called liberals and progressives that used to reside on my side of the political divide did wail and all because someone, a Billionaire admittedly, promised everyone the absolutism of our inalienable rights to free speech.
Elon Musk and his fanciful idea of allowing the freedom of speech on his social media platform?
What a Fascist!
Oh but he’s a Billionaire and we can’t have Billionaires buying and enjoying total ownership of an informational town square. Really? I don’t know a huge amount about Jeff Bezos and whilst I do know he has an incredibly successful delivery platform and unparalleled distribution network that has somersaulted Amazon into the corporate stratosphere, he doesn’t strike me as a traditional “Newspaper Man” of old, permanently inky fingers and forever peering over the top of his half cocked glasses as he approves that day’s headlines in the Washington Post. Perhaps he does. Maybe he does this as some kind of sexual kink. Who the fuck knows? We shall never know and perhaps that’s all for the best. But a Billionaire owner of the Washington Post? Where’s the outrage? The gnashing of teeth?
The wailing of The Matrix and their chosen children?
I know a little more about Bill Gates. I know he’s a Billionaire software developer and since the closing of the year 2019 and the opening of a 2020 when the world would never, ever, be the same again, we all got to know and see with our very own eyes who Bill Gates really is. This particular Billionaire is now a farmer you see, and an expert on all things medicinal and through his vaunted and prestigious charitable foundation he’s funding enormous research into vaccine development and with the sky falling and mother earth only given a decade or so in which to live, he’s also funding incredible research into dimming the sun (DIMMING THE SUN!) in order to save the planet.
A kind of destroying the village to save the village kind of deal.
Brilliant.
Now Bill Gates doesn’t strike me as much of a farmer or a doctor or a virologist or even a reverse crop duster as he takes aim with sand and soil to spray the sun in an effort to dim it. Where are the questions as to Mr Gates veracity and suitability for these life changing roles he’s appointed himself to? He states, unequivocally, that he wishes to dim the sun (DIM THE SUN!) but there’s no moral outrage or even speculation as to his mental faculties for even suggesting such a ridiculous, dangerous and James Bond style villainous idea. It’s well known that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest funder of the World Health Organisation as well as the Vaccine Alliance otherwise known as GAVI. But take a cursory glance at the major media, academic and societal titans that dominate our lives and telescreens and you’ll see very prominent and very healthy and hefty financial contributions, grants, donations and funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Where is the outrage and the obvious questions surrounding impartiality, let alone the equally obvious links that become chains and chains that become bonds between this Billionaire and the established societal order? They say that turkey’s don’t vote for Christmas and so a mainstream media so very well funded by Mr Gates’ foundation isn’t going to turn on its paymaster. Or maybe Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and a raft of other multi Billionaires are the “right” kind of Billionaires?
And Elon Musk isn’t?
Now as regular readers of my column here at “Postcards from the edge of the World” will testify, I’ve written, at enormous length too, of my love and distrust of Elon Musk in equal measure. It perfectly suits my contrarian nature. He loves the film “True Romance”, he’s a free speech absolutist and most importantly of all, he reiterates time and time again a simple eight letter word and the most precious eight letter word of all:
Humanity.
The naysayers will smirk at this assertion and point to the voluminous amounts of satellites he’s firing into a near earth orbit which bathe us all in the internet radiation soup of The Matrix or particularly his Neuralink organisation creating microchip implants for the human brain. I don’t disagree with you, and nor do I want to fight with you like the simpering children calling Elon Musk a Fascist for his absolutist stance on free speech. I’ve written to Elon on the subject of his brain microchips many times and I’ve beseeched him to beef up his security, sleep with one eye open and one hand on a gun and I hope with all my heart he’s locked away his technological microchip secrets in a vault deep within his Bond villain lair. We simply can’t let the bad guys get their hands on the technology or we’re all fucked and humanity and the human family, so dear to both you, me and Elon himself, will be no more.
I also realise I’m using a heavy dose of false equivalency here by throwing together the lives and times of Bezos, Gates and Musk, but I do however find it endlessly fascinating (and I can’t believe you weirdos can’t see it. Or do you prefer not to? Social Media Editor) how the anointed ones are doted over, fawned over and treated as though they are the very definition of Gods living amongst men, even if they’re seriously planning, funding and scheduling the hurling of sand and dust at the sun in an attempt to dim it (DIMMING THE FUCKING SUN!) but they get a free pass to play King of the World whilst another member of the ghastly Billionaires club is pilloried as some kind of anti-Christ for promising the adherence to the absolutism of free speech on his social media platform.
Doesn’t this strike you as odd?
I can guarantee you that if Elon Musk bought Twitter and then said he wouldn’t change anything about the operation of the platform, the performance and manipulation of the algorithms and particularly that he wasn’t an absolutist for free speech and the current absurdly one sided argument in the digital town square was to continue, he’d be lauded like the second coming, the Musk Messiah if you will.
I must admit I haven’t enjoyed the early calls for accounts to be blocked/banned even though these particularly high profile scoundrels and vexatious vermin from all corners of established society have provably lied, over and over again during the years of the pandemic. They (politicians, health officials, media personalities and even those lovely Billionaires) must be held to account and many of them must spend the rest of their lives in prison for the untold damage they’ve inflicted upon society and their incarceration a lesson to all those who wish to threaten OUR human family ever again. But calling for their censor or banning on Twitter is first nowhere near enough and secondly a mirror image to the once freedom loving democratic progressives who used to scream for their freedom of speech and who now call a Billionaire a Fascist for promising to give them it.
Look, listen and let me be clear (I thought you despised people starting a sentence with Look or Listen or Let me be clear? Social Media Editor) ultimately, Elon Musk can’t grant you or secure your freedom of speech. Nor can anyone else and neither can a Governmental or “Authority” figure take it away. It’s yours as a cliched ridden “God given right” or if you prefer, a more adult and conscious inalienable right as a sovereign and free human being. Whether appropriated by God or by the creator of the simulation or Matrix, we have inalienable rights from birth to the freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, the freedom of speech and the freedom to exercise our individual bodily autonomy and we’ve either forgotten this, chosen to ignore these precious human values or maybe they’ve been trained out of us? I’ve said those two simple words “inalienable rights” over and over again since the turn of 2020 and sadly I have to report that most people look at me as though I’m a piece of moldy cheese.
I guess that if you scare the populace via a well financed foundation hard and often enough you’ll get your desired outcome: a servile mass of humanity who unquestionably believes the contents of their telescreens rather than checking and investigating who funds those doom laden, apocalyptic contents, and who needs free speech when I have others to speak for me, and well, inalienable rights, what even are they anyway?
Tis all a vexatious vaudevillian show full of vacuous vermin.
But man who wants to dim the sun (DIM THE SUN!) good
Man who wants to solidify the absolutism of free speech (FASCIST!) bad?
Blimey.
The human family is in a far worse shape than even I cynically imagined.
Viva humanity.
Thanks for reading. I hope this message in a bottle in The Matrix finds you well, prospering, and the right way up in an upside down world.