Automaton FactoryOp-Ed by Melissa Dykes Society is going the way of all those dystopic films. Willingly. Not the ones about the police state or the panopticon; the omnipresent surveillance state is already here, has been for a while now. The death of privacy. The tyranny of total transparency for everyone else, national security for the State. A place where information is constantly being extorted from us. A place where police look up your color-coded threat score based on your social media posts before they ever lay eyes on you during a traffic stop or 911 call. A place where they know it is youbased on four credit card purchases. A place where computers can decode your thoughts and translate them into sentences without you saying a single word. A place where we spy on ourselves and spy on each other while the system spies on everyone, every minute, every hour, every day, day after day after day. No, you may have seen some of the films I mean. Not the zombie apocalypse programming. Not the 2012 apocalypse programming. Im talking about the ones where people have been stripped of their emotions and individuality to bring order out of the chaos of nonconformity, to do away with the danger of outliers. The ones where people have been sold a mockery of peace built on uniformity. Where sameness saves and individuality is certain doom. Have you seen The The Giver? Divergent? Or Visioneers maybe? It all goes back to Brave New World, albeit with electronic soma, and people learning to love their servitude. The pathway to this place has been lined with low expectations. Setting the bar so low, its almost on the ground. Have you thought about what you want out of life? What your goals are? Do you have a goal? Most people dont have the time anymore or inclination to think about what they really want out of life or what their life means. Most people have beensocially engineered to believethat the only worthy goal in this world is material wealth anyway. Consumerism. The American Dream, as hijacked and sold to us since World War II by Edward Bernays. But in a society where the 62 richest people have amassed more wealth than half the planet (and they arent even counting the Rothschilds), a lot of human beings have been forced down to the bottom of Maslows hierarchy of needs. The physiological rung of the ladder. Treading water to make sure the most basic needs for survival are met. I just want to be able to pay the bills or I just want a car that doesnt break down every other five minutes so I can get back and forth to the job I dont really like but am forced to go to every day so I can pay the bills. If you have that covered, the next level is safety. Security.Health. Stability. Children arent even raised to know what stability is anymore.Considering we live in a society based entirely on fear, mostly fear of death, this one is hard for the majority to get past. Without fear, the perpetual terror programmed into us, the constant state of emergency that justifies more and more centralized powerovera society programmed to be paranoid so it will passively hand off its rights, well they couldnt justifymore and more and more control mechanisms without that constant fear. And those bottom two levelsof the pyramid are where more and more people are living out their entire lives in our modern, techno-driven world. If you call it living. Im not sure what it is sometimes, to be honest. Sleepwalking might be more appropriate. Instagram. Tweet. Vines. Bite-sized chunks of our day passed off in a sentence or two on a social media platform. If someone hits like, guess that means you exist. Jack Handey had deeper thoughts. The other day a woman on her cell phone almost walked right into us in a store. She was completely oblivious to the world happening around her. The store couldve been bombed, she couldve been mugged, a dragon couldve swooped down from the skies and snatched her up and she might not have even noticed any of it. Aaron turned and apologized, as if he had been in the wrong, then realized she wasnt paying attention anyway. He remarked, Never mind, you arent even paying attention are you? The woman just continued to drift away from us, dreamily, like a ghost. It took her at least 20 to 30 steps before she turned back and shoot a stern look in our direction, like the comment finally caught up with her brain, long enough after the fact that we werent even sure if she fully knew why she looked back at us to begin with. And people have walked into walls this way. Light poles on sidewalks. Or theyve drifted off those sidewalks and into oncoming traffic while talking on those phones. They get on the phone behind the wheel of a car, turning it into a death machine on wheels. Theyve checked out. Theyre neither here, nor there. Where has everybody gone? Its happening earlier and earlier. The social engineering that its normal to have a smart phone/palm-sized supercomputer on your person at all times anywhere you go. Seventy seven percent of two year olds now use mobile devices on a daily basis, according to a recent study. Can you believe it? On top of that, parents use these devices as stand-ins and babysitters: 70 percent give their kids mobile devices to keep the children busy while they do household chores, 65 percent do it to keep their kids calm in public, 58 percent to run errands, and 28 percent to put their children to sleep at night. Wow. To say nothing of the effects of children absorbing microwave radiation in higher amounts than adults, if a cell phone could cook dinner, put bandaids on boo boos and give hugs and kisses, would kids even need parents? (Oh wait, thats what the robots will be for) And I feel old for remembering a time when people went to the grocery store and made it through the produce section without calling someone. Fancy that. Worse, however recent studies have also shown that babies raised by cell phone/technology distracted parents may actually be missing vital social cues in a biological window that without that undivided attention given at the proper time it is detrimental to the development of the childs nervous system. If missed, itmay literally effect the childs ability to process pleasure properly for the rest of his or her life. Were right back to that dystopic society of emotionless drones And there it is. The cybernetic new world order out of chaos the churning out of automatons, living things turned into and programmed like and by machines, assimilated into a network, a system where the smart devices are the millions of micro-mechanisms of control over the masses. What reality are we crafting? What is this place gonna look like in ten years? Five? Will webecome less like ourselves, even aswe become more obsessed with ourselves?Know thyself? Or know thy Facebook profile version of thyself? This place feels more like the Matrix by the day. Oh, and now DARPA is working on a microchip implant (aka wetware, to make it sound cool) that will use the electrochemical signals in our brains to control computers. DARPA who designed the Internet Im typing this on right now. A brain implant. Can you see people lining up for this hip, trendy new tech? Stories on this new and exciting development described itwith lines like, The federal government wants to read your mind Yep. In real time. I wonder,if the brain can control the computer, can they make a computer that can control the brain? Do I even have to ask at this point? Does anyone even realize or care how far down the rabbit hole weve fallen? Hello? Hello?? Is there anybody out there? Melissa Dykes (formerly Melton) is a co-founder of TruthstreamMedia.com. She is an experienced researcher, graphic artist and investigative journalist with a passion for liberty and a dedication to truth. Her aim is to expose the New World Order for what it is a prison for the human soul from which we must break free. We have become a society of haves and have notsthose that have the ability to think critically and find real information and those that have not. We have always been such a society, as Veri Tas above points out. Hello Mellisa, Yes, we are here and there are more than you might realize. The zombie-like followers have always existed, only the technology has changed. No. We have never had anything like this in our society ever. The combination of peer pressure and the risk of enduring condemnation and hell-fire made millions of moronic people reach for their last pennies in churches around the globe. Organised religion was invented to prevent people from maturing into self-reflecting, autonomous beings with the freedom to explore their own truth and spiritual path. Those people were undisciplined and easily led, and would eagerly bay for the blood of anyone accused of being on the devils side. They were just as vacuous as the tech-addicted young today, but infinitely more violent. We reap what we sow, stop blaming elites and/or aliens. Its our fault. Ours. Hey Missy, Wha happened, you never got past your first two tiers? Do not despair! Accept the fact that we are but Neoterics. big bucks are spent on keeping the zombies zombiefied. Bigger ones are spent on convincing you that they already are; much like this absurd article attempts. Evidently you dont go out in public or you are a phone addict yourself. Were out here and are just as frustrated and outraged as you are. I used to know some 20 to 30 important telephone numbers by heart. Today I know only my own. If I lose my i-phone Im screwed. Wont be able to call anyone. This is sick. above is the article that I would have written myself, apparently many of us would have written it. During many years,my comments written via twitter or bloggs would show that I have already written this article many time over. 