POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
This is going to be a short, to the point post as I am short on time this morning. I know this won’t surprise you that they have been lying to you, but the extent of the lies and cover-up is astounding. Watch the video below, and it will all come into focus
I am going to be watching this closely to see if it is acted on in a vigorous manner as it should be. As always stay alert, stay free.
I have been watching the Democrat party antics over the past few weeks and it’s pretty obvious that it doesn’t really matter what the issue is, they are against it. They call themselves the resistance. I remember the first time I heard a Democrat say that it was HIllary after she lost to Trump. As usual all of the parrots on the left immediately picked up on it and “resist” was the word of the day.
The strategy is getting pretty long in the tooth now, so we all know what is really going on. They think they can bus people to various sites, pay them to carry signs and plaques, and get to chant pre-written verses in front of legacy media cameras and convince the general populace that everyone is rising up against Trump and the Republicans. Sorry, it isn’t working anymore. Everyone knows Sorros, and Act Blue are behind these shenanigans.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
This is where it started. “Sleepy Joe” didn’t always believe this. The Democrats figured out if they flooded the nation with illegal immigrants that they could change the balance of power in Congress. Joe saw himself as being a major benefactor of that plan. He saw himself at the top of the chain of command. They surmised that an unbridled flow of immigrants would be impossible to undo. This is why the Democrats are crying foul on deportation. Trump is undoing their plans. They don’t give a rat’s ass about the poor immigrants real economic plights; they are seeking power using them as pawns in a game of power grabbing. The Democrats have been using blacks in the same manner for years, but the blacks aren’t growing in sufficient numbers to facilitate their plan.
The left changes positions more than Stormy Daniels. You can’t count on them being consistent on anything except being inconsistent. 80% of the people in this country are very happy with Trump’s policies, especially illegal immigration. But the Democrat fools are willing to look like idiots taking the opposite side. I don’t know a single person that likes paying taxes. I don’t know a single person that is happy with the way the government wastes our tax dollars. Apparently, the Democrats are totally delighted to pay taxes and see the money wasted on foolish projects.
However, you have to give the Democrats credit for coming up with an amazing plan, vandalizing Tesla Cars. Talking about a stroke of genius. Vandalizing Tesla cars that are no longer owned by Elon Musk, but are highly likely to belong to another Democrat. How smart is that? 100% Darwinian.
Gotta close up the office for the day. Figured I should write something before everyone starts thinking the old man died. I am in fact alive and well, celebrated my 84th last week by Pulling our travel trailer down to river in the Cascade Mountain foothills in central Oregon. Spent four days taking in nature.
I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the past. I have a very active life in the present. I have a friend that literally lives in the past. When you sit and talk with him, he has dozens of pictures on his phone from his days as a young man working as a construction carpenter. I avoid getting into conversations with him, so I don’t have to see his pictures for the 50th time. He’s a nice enough guy but damn he’s boring. All old guys like to reminisce about how things used to be, but you have to find new people to tell your stories to. You’ve obviously heard the saying;“The older I get, the better I was”.
That said, sometimes something triggers my mind that takes me back. That happened this morning when I was reading a news article about Tina Louise. She was the glamour girl on the TV sitcom “Gilligan’s Island”. Wow, her life as a child was a sad story. By the way, not to make you feel really old, but she just celebrated her 91st birthday.
It caused me to reflect on my own childhood, which by the way was unquestionably the best years of my life. That’s how it should be. Your childhood should be the best years of your life. Your body is brand new, everything works great, you can run as fast as you can for as far as you can, rest ten minutes and do it again. The best part is there is no residual pain for the next three days. You lay your tired little body down in bed, go to sleep immediately, and don’t wake up until sunrise. You didn’t have to get up and pee three times.
Every single day of my life while living in my parents’ home (with the rare exception of my mom being ill) I woke up to the smell of breakfast cooking and coffee brewing. How great is that. I got dressed went to the kitchen and mom had four or five menu items I could choose from. During the school year she would help me get ready, give me a hug and kiss, and send me on my way. She just made it impossible for me to have a bad attitude, while filling me with gratitude. I loved and adored my mom.
I rarely saw my dad in the mornings, he had already left for work. My special time with my dad came later in the day. I would walk up to the intersection about a block north of our house and wait for him. He would pull over and stop, I would climb onto the running board of the car, he would put his arm around me to keep me from falling off. When we got to the house, he would open his lunch box and give me a Hostess cupcake he saved for me. Just a simple little ritual that created a cherished memory.
My mom had an established dinner hour (called supper back then). It wasn’t optional. It happened the same time every day except Sunday. You were expected to be there, your face and hands washed. It as a serious event. Talking was kept to a minimum. Fun and laughter were reserved for after supper. If you acted out during supper, you were seriously reprimanded.
Holidays were celebrated with vigor in the family home. My father was blue collar worker, with a modest income, and my mom was a homemaker. So, my parents obviously didn’t have a large disposable income. That didn’t stop them from creating really fun holiday events. We would get together with aunts, uncles, and cousins. the ladies would cook up some great food, the men made homemade ice cream, and we played until we were exhausted.
Summer vacations were always on a river or lake. My dad was an avid fisherman, and my mom would cook up his daily catch. Of course, the trips to and from in my dad’s 1930’s and 1940’s cars were always and adventure as well. One terribly stormy night coming home from the lake, our 1937 Plymouth quit running as we came into a small town. My dad nursed it to a garage and got it repaired. While it was being repaired, a tornado came very close to the town. The truck and auto repair shop was in a tin covered building. My mom got all of us kids and we sat under a semi-truck inside the garage until the storm passed. The wind, rain and hail pounding down on that tin building was terrifying.
Kids today have dozens of electronic devices available to them for entertainment. We had TV and radio. We didn’t have a TV until I was nine years old. The only thing on it that I wanted to see was the western movies on Sunday afternoon. We actually interacted as a family during the evening hours, talking and playing games. Working on hobby projects, doing jig saw puzzles. Simple stuff, but fun. Summertime on the front porch drinking iced tea and listening to my dad’s stories about his early years we heard countless times but somehow never got old.
Both of my parents have been gone for a long time now. I don’t think I conveyed the message very well of how much I appreciated what they did for me. As a matter of fact, I know I didn’t, and I regret that. If you’re fortunate enough to have a living parent or two, and they provided you with a happy childhood, and supported your endeavors no matter how crazy, let them know you appreciate it and love them for it.
POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEW EVENTS.
I’M NOT SURE DEMOCRATS HAVE MENTAL AUTONOMY REGARDING MUCH OF ANYTHING.
If you don’t have the mental strength to make your own personal decisions, the Democrat party is the place where you need to be. Over the years it has been obvious to me and others, these people operate as a monolith. Tucker Carlson once put together a montage of the legacy media talking heads all parroting identical phraseology to describe some event that involved the so-called right-wing folks.
It is a proven fact that the deep state actors give the media folks their marching orders when it comes to reporting their version of the news. Hence, they all use the same words, the same phrases. That came to light when Twitter was owned by Jack Dorsey. Parag Agawal was, and likely still is a total left-wing hack. FBI and CIA actors were deeply embedded in Twitter. That fact was exposed by Matt Taibbi.
This sad mindset is being spoon fed to youngsters as early as elementary school. Teachers are a super high percentage of lefties, freshly indoctrinated by colleges and university professors. So, when you enroll your child in public schools, they are teaching them a lot more that reading, writing and arithmetic. This is exactly where the monolithic mindset begins.
CLIMATE CHANGE, THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE
The favorite “psyops” tools in the left’s toolbox are those “things” that are impossible to verify. They cite works by climate scientists that you never heard of, telling us that we are certainly doomed if we don’t toe the line to avert this certainty. They start teaching this to kids that think everything that comes out of the teacher’s mouth is pure gospel. By the time the kid graduates from high school they are certified climate nuts. Now you have a double-edged sword, you have youngsters that are totally indoctrinated climate believers and because they are young, are willing to defend that position with violence if deemed necessary, like destroying property and hurting innocent people. Because they have been indoctrinated, they feel whatever action they take is reasonable and acceptable.
This is actually brilliant planning on the part of the left. This indoctrinated group of people are willing to hand over their hard-earned dollars, and their freedom to support a cause that is sketchy at best.
The climate change issue is a very useful tool for taxation, taking away your freedom of choice regarding how you manage your businesses, your homes, and what vehicles you choose to own. It is just another form of ammunition to destroy the Constitution and empower the socialist movement.
HIDING SCHOOL ACTIONS FROM PARENTS REGARDING THEIR CHILDREN
Another important psyop tool public schools use, is convincing young students that parents are their common enemy. This is pretty easy because parents represent authority, and the school is able to put forth the idea that maybe that authority is misdirected or out of date. The goal of the public schools is put a wedge between the student and their parents, so they create a “follower”. They are in essence creating a future Democrat voter. The government under the Joe Biden openly directed the DOJ and FBI to intimidate the parents that dared to question what the schools were doing. Do you need any more proof than that? That however was a huge tactical mistake by the left, it got them thrown out of power. (among other dumbass ideas)
THE PERFECT MAN AND WOMAN
The left seems to know what the perfect man and woman are supposed to be yet can’t tell you what a woman is. They have no problem telling you what the perfect man should be and how he should act. Apparently, the left thinks a man should be more like the woman that they aren’t able to describe. So, one can only assume that the left’s idea is that both men and women should have one testicle each. What else can you surmise? The leftist women are getting more masculine and leftist men are getting more feminine.
Through DEI they are trying to create women that do things that require body strength only a man can possess. If I am passed out in my burning house, I sure as hell don’t want a 120 lb firefighter trying to carry me out. Likewise, thinking that a 150 lb. female cop can arrest a 230 lb. male that is high on meth is really stupid. Even stun guns don’t phase those guys. All your going to accomplish is getting another seriously injured or dead cop.
The left has been engaged in social engineering for as long as I can remember, and it ain’t working. They have trying to convince us that really fat people are fine, it’s OK that the person is eating themselves to death, they are beautiful. No, they’re not, they’re pitiful. They need medical intervention to save their lives.
They are trying to tell you Trans people are great, you should celebrate them. No, trans people have a mental illness and can be very dangerous to themselves and others. Trans women can be very dangerous around biological women. If you don’t believe me, you ain’t paying attention.
The left seems to think they know how to fix all of the social ills. Even though they were a major contributor to most of them, they don’t know jack shit, and need to shut up, and stop practicing identity politics. They only make things worse and everybody is catching on.
DRIVING THE POINT HOME
2008 Elon Musk unveiled his first electric car. It was unbelievably innovative. It was what the climate nuts had been praying for. Zero emissions and long-range batteries. All of that and it was very high quality. It didn’t look wonky, and it was fast. Really fast. Elon was the climate savior.
Then he starts Space X and does more incredible things, like launching his own satellites and creating Starlink so you can have internet most anywhere. The left thinks they found Superman.
Then the unthinkable happened, he revealed that he is a die hard patriot and loves the USA a lot. Buys Twitter and kicks out all of the lefty lunatics to restore free speech. Another arrow to the heart of the left. But the absolute worst happened when the made a pact with the devil, Donald Trump, and started dismantling the magic money machine the left had been building for years.
Now the left is desperately looking for a big chunk of kryptonite to kill their once upon a time Superman. So, you see, it never was about climate, it was always about power. Trump and Musk are stripping away their power and it’s “makinemcrazy”.
Thank you so much for reading Steel Pencil. I appreciate all of you. Stay vigil, keep searching out the truth, and speaking out about the lies.
Not that view, my view. I couldn’t do an article on “THE VIEW”, the TV version, I couldn’t tolerate Whoopi or Joy more than like 30 seconds. Whoopi Goldberg is disgusting. Joy is just pathetically dumb.
I wanted to do another article in this format because it’s more relaxed and casual. Knee update; It’s been 12 weeks since my knee replacement and it’s doing very much better. I think I’m actually going to survive being hacked up and glued back together. I have learned a lot about this procedure and the healing process, and nothing is precise. Some people bounce back and are up and around very quickly. Others like myself take longer. (age is a critical factor) You just don’t know how you are going to do until you go through it. I’m feeling better about it every day. The little milestones are as exciting as the larger ones.
THE DAILY REPORTS FROM THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSE HAVE BECOME AN ENTERTAINMENT VENUE
Just a few weeks ago, we reluctantly turned on the news and braced ourselves for the latest debacle from the Biden Whitehouse. We had to endure hours and hours of bad news and propaganda. Man, this is like walking out of a cavern into the bright sunlight. Looking back on it now, I think shooting out windows and burning Subaru cars and piles of Birkenstocks may have made me feel better about things. Hijacking truckloads of rainbow-colored hair dye would have put me over the top.
I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears when Joy Reid was fired. That was almost orgasmic. I never would have guessed I would have lived long enough to see her and Don Lemon pushed out. The power of Donald Trump and Maga is just too good to be true. But I’m lookin’ right at it and lovin’ every dang minute of it. I’m not kidding, I think Biden gave me PTSD. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and find out all of this ain’t true.
Guys, Trump and his gang are kicking ass. I can’t wait to see what tomorrow is going to bring. Tuesday, everyone was bemoaning how the Tesla stock was taking a beating. Wednesday, Trump announce 25% tariffs on foreign made automobiles, and Thursday Tesla stocks are through the roof. Las Vegas police and the FBI announced they caught the guy that shot up the Tesla dealer and set several cars on fire. They are arresting the Tesla vandals right and left because these idiots don’t realize they are being recorded by the Tesla Sentry cameras. Fat Albert on his ATV that was ramming Tesla cars has been arrested. These people are going to realize quickly, the price for doing these deeds is just not worth it, and it will all die down. One good thing will come from all of this; the Democrats will have to own one more chapter in the insanity that now defines their party.
If God gives me one more day on this planet, the first thing I am going to do in the morning (after consuming mini shredded wheat sprinkled with grape nuts) is to wake up my computer and turn on Fox News to see what Maga is doing on Friday.
CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR “THERE GOES DA JUDGE”. IMPEACH BOASBERG NOW!
Bozo Boasberg is playing with fire. If this genius was paying attention, he would have noticed that everyone that messes with Donald Trump ends up on the “short end of the stick”. Well all I can say is FAFO. He must have a really inflated idea of how important he is. He is going to find out he is taking on a very powerful machine and he gonna lose. Do you remember when Chuck Schumer said Donald Trump doesn’t realize the deep state has six ways from Sunday to get back at you? I think that power has been transferred to the executive branch now, and Bozo hasn’t figured that out yet. Trump pretty much owns the “deep state” now. Ain’t life great?
WHO WUDDA THUNK IT?
I have to wrap up my day now friends. But seriously, did you think you would ever see this glorious time we are living in? I thank God frequently for allowing me to live long enough to witness it. We are literally living through a historical “counter revolution. I hope and pray, that MAGA can stay strong and maintain this momentum for the next 12 years. Obviously, I won’t be around to experience it, but my fellow patriots will, and that’s all that matters. God Bless America.
This blog title is reserved for allowing me to spout off, mostly how I feel about what is currently happening, not always associated with a current news event. This where I reveal my tendency to develop conspiracy theories. I have to brag a little right here, because a lot of my conspiracy theories have proven to be true over the past ten years.
MY CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE THEORY
I have been blogging for a lot of years now. I’m not sure what year I joined WordPress, but I have published over 500 articles. I have no way of knowing the exact number of articles devoted to this subject, but I have talked a lot about corruption in our government institutions, from cities all the way up to the federal level. All of my life, I can remember scandals occurring now and then, the perp or perps get caught and thrown in the slammer. It wasn’t something that happened every day, but they were dealt with rather harshly. But it seems like for the past 20 years give or take, it’s getting way more common.
When Donald Trump took office the first time, the Democrats didn’t even try to hide their nonsense anymore. It was right out in the open. I’m not going to expound on all of the crazy stuff they did, all of you know it all too well. But I was in total disbelief watching Hillary Clinton thumb her nose at the law and then have the FBI exonerate her. I still have trouble with that after eight long years. You don’t have to be a super detective to know what really happened on January 6th, 2020. I knew what happened when I watched it on the news. I told my wife, the Capitol Police are acting like tour guides. I got it immediately. It was a set up. It was so plain to see it may as well have had subtitles.
I KNEW JOE BIDEN WAS BRAIN DEAD WHEN I SAW HIM ON THE STAGE AT THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION.
My father had dementia, and my brother-in-law had dementia. I had other people in my life that were slipping away, if you’ve experienced it you know it when you see it. It was perfectly clear in 2019 during the convention that Joe was on his way to the 24-hour care facility. The one with the locked fences and gates. But with an army of lawyers manipulating the voting laws, and non-stop media lies, coupled with a fake pandemic, they managed to get the old half dead guy into office. The bad thing about dementia is that it never gets better, only gets worse rather quickly.
I am no lover of politicians; anyone that knows me knows that well. However, there is one good thing about politicians, they never stop talking, and they always end up spilling their guts to the wrong person. That wrong person is always more than willing to share that information. My latest theory is that someone that was close to the inner workings of the Biden Whitehouse, will get pissed off, and lay it all bare to get revenge. Then we will learn about the rampant use of the “Autopen”. My guess is that the most prolific user of the “Autopen” was Jill Biden. I think Jill Biden felt justified to stand in for Joe, based on being his wife and caretaker. The Marine band played a song for her at events that was a substitute for “Hail to the Chief” when Joe wasn’t present. How do you think that happened? Check it out below.
I just had to put up the video by Sky News for your entertainment. Even though it makes the point that Jill Biden was a little more than just the First Lady, it also revisited Kamala’s horrific excuse for a campaign. Holy cow we really dodged the bullet on that one.
IT SEEMS THE LEFT IS EITHER REALLY CONFUSED OR HAS LOST IT’S MIND COMPLETELY.
When you think about wind power, solar power, electric cars, electric stoves, electric aircraft, electric carving knives, electric scooters, etc, etc. you automatically categorize these as leftist wet dreams. The left would really like to see all carbon powered machines melted down and reproposed into shoe racks for their Birkenstocks, or electric bicycle racks, or maybe goals for soccer fields.
The left has this passion for the environment which they claim covers all things harmful to human and animal life. No caveats, it covers anything you might imagine. Especially air quality. They have created massively stringent emission controls for ICE vehicles so your lungs will not be destroyed by carbon emissions. Yet, in light of this pious, self-righteous, better than thou facade, they think nothing of setting entire cities on fire, burning automobiles, tires, oil, gasoline, and all manners of items that emit extremely toxic smoke and gasses. In a nutshell everything they say is bullshit.
Now that they have a vendetta against Elon Musk, they have no problem setting Tesla cars on fire which emit some of the most poisonous gasses known to man from the burning battery platforms. Not to mention all of the other products that make up that car. These actions and others by the left are totally contradictory to what they claim to support and try to shove down our throats constantly. So, my advice to all of you, when some leftist moron starts talking about climate, and anything else related to the environment, simply say “shut the fuck up you lying piece of shit”. Now I know you may say, why would you say something so crude? Remember who you are speaking to, and their ability to comprehend. Most lefties only have a vocabulary of less than 100 words and most of those words contain less than six letters.
Steel Pencil News Review will return soon, I didn’t want you to forget The View from St. Charles. This is my pressure release valve. Thank you for taking the time to read my rants. My readers are very special to me, I appreciate each and every one of you.
POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
GETTING HARDER TO FIND NEWS ARTICLES THAT ARE EVEN A LITTLE BIT EXCLUSIVE.
Ureka, I found one that I think is very exciting and way long overdue. There is a major legal battle that is going to take place this summer related to activist judges usurping the powers of the President.
Apparently this power the federal judges think they have stems from a lawsuit against the government way back in 1935 when the president fired the head of the FTC. According to legal experts the wording in the lawsuit was incorrect and the Supreme Court decision allowed it to stand which has been the linchpin for federal judges to usurp the powers of the President of the USA.
You can expect Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to address this issue with the Supreme Court later this year possibly this summer. If the DOJ is successful, it will end the irritation of activist judges interfering with Presidential powers.
It’s looking like we are in for an all-out battle to define who can do what to whom. Going to be interesting to watch for sure.
POLITCALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
THE APPEARANCE OF MY BLOG WAS NOT MY CHOICE. ONE DAY WORDPRESS JUST CHANGED THE FORMAT. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO RECOVER THE PREVIOUS SETTINGS. ???
Yep, two articles ago, all of my settings I been using forever, just disappeared. I have been trying to recover them but have been unsuccessful. Thanks for your encouragement for my successful recovery, it seems to be working. My ability to do normal stuff has really improved over the past week. Two days ago, I got up enough courage to attempt to climb up into my antique military truck, and I did it. Today I did it again, started up the old girl and let it get up to operating temperature. I was actually able to operate the clutch and brakes. That is a major milestone.
I AM NOT ALONE IN MY FEELINGS
I think a lot about what I see and experience. Maybe that’s what drives me to write blogs. We just went through a horrific time period with Biden and the Democrats literally attacking America daily, tweaking and twisting all of our long-held traditions and destruction of our Nation’s basic moral character. We were forced to endure that, for four long years. It was like a virtual prison. It was in fact a bit scary to ponder the idea that the Democrats would somehow make into power for another four years. I didn’t and still don’t think our country could have survived that.
Looking back on Donald Trump’s first four years it was highly successful economically but was pretty chaotic as well with the constant attacks by the Democrats. Using his first four years as a benchmark and knowing he could only hold office for four years, I admit I thought it might be a better idea to run a candidate that could string two terms together. This is why nobody is trying to recruit me for a political analyst. I had it totally wrong.
GOTTA KEEP THE BULL IN THE PEN
The Democrats knew that if Trump ever got back into power, there would be hell to pay after how they treated him in his first term, and how they manipulated the election in 2020. This became clear when they unleashed the barrage of lawsuits against him to try to derail his 2024 campaign. This backfired on the Democrats in a major way. The more they tried to persecute him the more popular he became. Americans hate to see anyone treated unfairly. Then they literally tried to kill him in Butler, PA. The Democrats created an all-American Icon. The voters were also sick of the way the Democrat lawmakers ran roughshod over everyone. Election day 2024 time for redemption.
Donald Trump and his team had four long years to lay out the plans for his second term. You can bet that the plan you are seeing executed right now has been planned down to the last detail. The people he picked for his cabinet were very carefully chosen to make certain there would be no detractors or outright saboteurs. He hit the senate with his cabinet picks so quickly, they barely had time to react.
THE ENEVITABLE BLITZ
If my math is correct, President Trump and his entourage have been in charge for 48 days today. The president has signed (at last count) 83 Executive orders. Donald Trump’s team know exactly what they are doing. They are going to hit the Dems with everything including the kitchen sink. They have the Democrats totally off balance, wandering around acting like fools. The party that was a pack of attack dogs in Trump’s first term look like lemmings. During Biden’s presidency, the Democrats transformed themselves into a deranged cult of miscreants.
The Democrats see the federal government as deity. It’s a form of worship. When you see the government as your god, you will do anything to protect it and to make it more and more powerful. The Republicans and Independents are Christians for the most part and have a totally different outlook on government. I find it amusing how the Democrats refer to the capitol building in D.C. as sacred. Historically invaluable yes, sacred no. I find the Democrat approach to abortion abhorrent. How can you be that invested in murdering children? They had Planned Parenthood trailers in front of their convention?? That’s sick.
So, as I see it, the Biden presidency was a true blessing. It was a form of mental cleansing the country had to endure so they were able to see the clear path forward which was Donald Trump. It was the awakening and the beginning of a counter revolution. The effectiveness of Trump’s second term was greatly enhanced by four years of Joe Biden and his band of thieves.
THE CHALLENGE
This is the time to work even harder when you’re on top or out front. We can’t let the Democrats out maneuver us in the midterms. We need to bolster our strength in Congress. We need to choose the President’s successor carefully so that we can hopefully dominate D.C. for at least 12 more years. I won’t be around that much longer, but I have a lot of progenies that will be. I naturally want them to live the American Dream.
I smell something lovin’ from the oven, so I’m gonna go investigate. God bless everyone and the USA.
POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE ARTS.
Our family produced several natural born artists that possessed multiple talents. Only one chose to follow his talent as a vocation. He has been working in the movie industry his entire life and is recognized as one of the top animators and story board artists. He just happens to be my nephew (my sister's son) We grew up together as a very close family. He developed and produced three well known cartoon series that were shown on Nickelodeon for several years. He is currently working on a feature length animated movie.
Even though he is my nephew, he is really more like my little brother. We remain close even though we live in adjoining states. We talk on the phone usually once a week, and of course art and family usually dominate our conversations.
During our last conversation, we discussed artificial intelligence. He and I both have very similar feelings about it, so the following opinions and observations should be considered mutual.
Mitch has created numerous characters for his projects. Those characters are strictly products of his imagination and creativity. In other words, those characters although just images on the screen, Inbody a little bit of their creator. They came from his mind, created from his energy. The likelihood of another artist creating the same exact character on the other side of the world is not even remotely possible.
So, as AI grows and develops, I think it's inevitable the human involvement in creativity begins to shrink. I think it's sad to think that someday, young people may not have the opportunity that my nephew had to be part of a world of creativity, to be able to produce entertainment strictly from imagination and talent.
I have seen the power of computers and robotic machines and it's a bit scary. I recently watched a YouTube presentation of a shop that has a large array of computer driven robots, and they are producing metal body panels for automobiles in minutes from raw flat sheets of metal. You might say ; "what's the big deal? Auto manufacturers have been stamping metal panels in minutes for years. The big deal is these machines are miniscule compared to the large hydraulic presses, and a form doesn't have to be made to put into the press. These robots simply make the parts from scratch. There is no "tooling" required, they just command the robot to make a different part. So again, you are taking the human being out of the equation, you no longer need machinists, welders, millwrights, crane operators and etc. Just a robot, and a programmer. This is brand new territory; we are going to a place we have never been before.
Admittedly I'm nowhere near being an expert on AI. Here is what I have heard the experts say, As AI learns a task, it can actually figure out how to improve its performance on its own. They say it can analyze data such as computer programming and figure out how to improve it and even begin writing programs on its own. If I understand correctly what I am hearing, you could upload dozens of novels, or movie scripts and AI could actually learn to write on its own. I jokingly told my nephew it looks like AI is already at work, the plot on the average TV show looks like an old story line that has simply been modified. I think most of what we see on TV is regurgitated crap. That said, maybe AI could come up with some better stuff. Seriously, could we see a time in the future when a human tells a computer to write a story about a fictitious event and the computer churns it out in an hour?
This is sounding to me like humans are voluntarily making themselves irrelevant to a large degree. Are computers going to be calling the shots in government, creating art, and humans are going to be manual labor? I'm serious, how far does this go? Does it get to the point that it can't be turned off? Can it get to the point humans can no longer control it?
What makes this more likely to happen, is humans historically love to create machines that do their work for them. I have owned several homes with swimming pools. Pools require a lot of maintenance to keep them beautiful and inviting. One of the mundane tasks that takes a lot of time is vacuuming. I am seeing this new "crawler" vacuum that even climbs the walls of the pool and sticks it's nose out of the water and cleans the perimeter tiles. This machine learns the shape of your pool and cleans every square inch. How great is that? This is simply an illustration of how lazy we are and how quickly we are willing to hand off our responsibilities to machines.
The bottom line is that being 84 years old in mid-April, it's highly unlikely that I will see any significant results of this. My world is not likely to be seriously impacted by any of this stuff. However, it is highly interesting me, and stirs my imagination. If any of my readers have real-world experience with AI, I would love to hear from you.
In closing, I will treat you to a sample of my nephew's creativity.
POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. WARNING; MAY REQUIRE SOME HARD SWALLOWING
I am constantly perusing the internet for interesting videos and information on a variety of topics. I ran across this one today by Professor Jeffery Sachs. I am not familiar with Mr. Sachs, but I listened to him with an open mind. I think you should as well. I have known for some time that the United States has been involved in some, let’s say, questionable activities in foreign countries. Namely the CIA. Take a listen, if you feel like responding, let me know what you think.
I seriously doubt if anyone reading this will deny that the legacy media in this country is basically state-run media. It’s pure propaganda. More and more people are waking up to this, and their ratings reflect the distrust Americans have in them. Professor Sachs makes the statement that the US urged Zelinski to walk away from peace early on. All of the stories I heard several years ago, said it was Britain. I always suspected the goal of the Western Powers was to inflict as much damage on Russia as possible without actually putting “boots on the ground”. Well, it appears that my suspicions were correct. Form your own conclusions, I have formed mine. Let me know how you feel. Would love to hear your feedback.
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