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I am disgusted by the sight of an army of drooling slobs grinning insipidly and mumbling, in halting phrases, from the television screen how they are attending this or that technical institute or some branch of the armed services to get the training necessary to become computer programmers. When I was a kid, it used to be that if you were going to become a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer then you had something to take pride in and could pretty well feel that you had your future made. Today it is with computer programmers.
As a vocation, this seems to be society's ideal. I guess it only stands to reason. Any trained savage can be taught how to program a computer by punching the right buttons. In fact, they've been conducting successful experiments for years whereby they are able to communicate with chimpanzees by training them to punch colored buttons to indicate words and phrases to make up for the sad fact that they are elocutionally underprivileged. But the area of computer programming seems to be the one that is attracting the most Negroid types– both Black and White– who are zonked out bad enough to choose something like that to dedicate their lives to in return for being granted by the System the desired status of "consumer".
Agreed, at the present time and for the foreseeable future there will be an expanding "need" for computer programmers as Big Brother tightens his grip over every tiny aspect of people's lives in this country and the world, as people are increasingly reduced to numbers. That, of course, along with the vast and growing credit-debt-slavery racket, which is the mainstay of the System's economy and the inherent sifting and storing of countless billions of pieces of information related to how much people owe. At the present time, the computer programmer is every bit the necessity as his blood brother, the System bureaucrat, is.
I've heard it stated that no matter what happens in the world with regard to politics, war, or the state of the economy, certain people will be in demand everywhere, at all times, and among these would have to be the doctors, the engineers, not necessarily the lawyers but certainly not such freaks as the computer programmers. There will always be sick people to attend to and roads, bridges and buildings to erect, especially after a general breakdown of the current order when there will be untold human suffering arid much rebuilding to be done. Lawyers will be pretty much a useless commodity as talk and smooth dealing have no value when there is a world to be built anew. And it will be the vast legions of computer programmers that will find themselves instantly dashed from the top to the bottom rung of the society.
As opposed to medicine and engineering, for example– what is produced, what benefit is provided by computerization? It's like the crappy, worthless Federal Reserve money: it exists for itself, it is entirely artificial, the offspring of high technology. What happens when the lights go out and STAY out?? How will they run their blasted computers then?? And what need will there be of them any further?? Big Brother will have suffered a paralytic stroke.
In this new Dark Age– different from the previous one wherein religion was the primary concern rather than the upbreeding of the Race– it is technology that supersedes every other concern of life. It must be "progress" because it is all so far-advanced and miraculous! But note how the United States and the rest of the Western world are going computerized just at the moment of their impending death. So much for the true worth of so-called high technology.
It all seems to indicate a loss of vitality because, again, so much is involved in "keeping track of" rather than in creativity and productivity, goods and services. The demand for computer programmers soars while the national productivity continues to decline. So much attention to cold data must be seen as another form of death rattle in the affairs of men arid nations.
[Vol. XI, # 3 – Mar., 1982]
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