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[THE FOLLOWING IS AN EDITED COMMENTARY THAT WAS SENT TO THE OPINION EDITORS
OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD AND THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS
AND THE LETTERS EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH]
THE MIND FILLED DRIVE TO MACHINATE
Dear Editor,
Do the computer “geeks” have any idea where they are taking us?
They may well have weighty intellects but I’m struggling to see and feel that they have even the slightest clue about their own human side.
Steve Jobs was a leader who knew about humanity. He may have had a hard edge to him but perhaps he had to have that steely determination and focus in an industry full of oh so clever wannabes and prima donnas. Are they full of themselves or what? What they are giving us is what they pontifically want to give us rather than what we need.
They are not taking us with them they are dragging us screaming down a path towards uncertainty and unhappiness. They don’t give a tinkers toss about anything other than their own interests and that oh so lucrative bottom line.
The other day I wanted to reinvest a Term Deposit at a Bank. The staff did not give me assurance that they knew what they were doing. They seemed under-informed and understaffed. Is that because of the process in train knowing that their jobs are becoming redundant swallowed up by the age of technology?
Try walking into a telco seeking that dying thing called “customer service”. You get the feeling that the only help they are providing is to help themselves to their next sale.
The tech giants present the aura that they are so cool. AI personified. An answer for everything except how to feel…anything. Walky talky tech savvy versions of the "Stepford Wives". They speak their own language and bugger you my friends.
In fact I’m feeling most uncertain about our collective future and that most of those who are leading us (not all) have even the slightest clue about vision or planning a humane balanced direction forward. Too many leaders are totally caught up with decisions about our material lives but they have no idea about calming the out of control fear, anger and uncertainty bubble that is the process of bursting.
These leaders are the blind leading the blind. They are programmed to maintain the status quo taking us round in incrementally diminishing circles rather than having any sort of clue about creating a world of well being.
They are rehashing what has been rehashed over and over. What they are good at is putting band aids on all matters. "Ya' know she'll be right mate". She won't ya' know.
Here’s a clue. The old tropes are dead in the water.
We need some courage and foresight to forge a new direction.
Are Human beings being written out of the equation of our own future?
We have become lost in a conundrum for self survival that is taking us nowhere except oblivion.
Artists are meant to be “the prophets of our times”. Even most of them are being neutered in the rush to nowhere except material wealth or celebrity. Too many (not all) are selling out to the God of Mammon.
Watch out world you are walking the razors edge and we need to step back from the brink of our own stupefying ignorance.
Where is the vision of hope and a humane plan for our future?
We need a feeling of reassurance that this Age of Technology is moving us somewhere other than self destruction. The tech warriors for example might try to design for our humanity! They might try taking on the challenge as a sea change for our better well being.
Whether we want to accept it or not human beings are meant to be “the crown of the creation”. But we seem to have forgotten who we are in a break neck rush towards our own blindly ignorant demise.
We need to start learning how to Celebrate our own life.
Back to the classroom. We all need to do some home work on ourselves.
Kind regards, Neville Williams is a Sydney Artist
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