by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
Are you prepared for the post-technological age?
It has been a while since I have published an article on the coming Big Tech crash that began in 2022.
There has been a bit of a reprieve to this coming crash here in 2023, with the $trillions of dollars being invested into the AI hype, but all that is doing is creating a huge economic bubble that is going to make the Big Tech crash even worse when this economic bubble bursts.
I have not had to write much about this lately because so many others have. Here are some sample recent articles from the financial sector where many investors clearly see the writing on the wall and are beginning to warn others about the AI hype bubble.
AI Is Being Over-Hyped: “Those Who Believe Artificial General Intelligence Is Imminent Are Almost Certainly Wrong”
Even the AI hype bubble didn’t help: Global funding plunges 49% in Q2
AI community is ‘making a terrible mistake’ in hyping the tech, says Citadel’s Ken Griffin
I began warning about the coming Big Tech crash in 2022, not only because of the financial implications that quickly surfaced after the collapse of the FTX Crypto Ponzi scheme, but because for almost the first time since the PC Computer technology revolution that started in the 1980s, people were finally starting to wake up and see the limitations of this technology, much of which began in the 1980s with the development of hardware and software consumer electronics.
These limitations were first observed in the automotive industry, where the illusions of completely self-autonomous self-driving vehicles that has swallowed hundreds of $billions for decades, came crashing down to the realities of truth, the truth that computers will never fully replace humans. See:
The Religion of the Technocrats is Failing, as is Their Technology
The Fantasy of Autonomous Self-Driving Cars is Coming to an End as Tesla Faces DOJ Criminal Probe
The huge failures of fully electric vehicles (EVs) has also surfaced this year, and that industry alone threatens to crash the entire U.S. economy as the U.S. Government continues to spend $billions on this sector, which is clearly NOT sustainable. Here are some recent articles that clearly spell doom for the EV industry:
“Shocking Number”: Rivian Owner Sees $42,000 Repair Bill For Minor Accident
Ford Will Lose $4.5 Billion On EVs This Year, Up From $2.1 Billion Last Year
Ford CEO Admits ‘Reality Check’ When He Took Electric F-150 Truck On Road Trip
The Collapse of the EV SPACs: Another One Goes Bankrupt, Others on the Verge
Unsold Electric Cars May Be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
Understanding Knowledge vs. Wisdom
As I have written in previous articles, when I write about a “crash” of the technology, and the “post-technological age,” I am NOT stating that all the technology will go away or fail.
What is inevitable is that we will recognize the limitations of this technology, including the ways it enslaves us, and we will be forced to use our God-given creativity and ingenuity to make smart uses of the technology, without depending upon it as much as we do now.
But there are very few people today who are even thinking about that day, let alone preparing for it, and they will be the ones who suffer the most.
So to prepare for the future post-technological age, we need to acknowledge the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Since the complete overhaul of the western educational system which is now built upon the false foundation of Darwinian evolutionary biology, we have exalted the physical sciences over other traditional forms of education that include the humanities and the arts.
The English word “science” has been thoroughly corrupted and is today used as a replacement for “truth.”
Knowledge and “dataism” have replaced wisdom, and “science” has replaced “religion.”
Science IS the new “religion,” because it is mostly based on belief, and not facts or truth.
It starts as its basis in the belief that life has formed by random chance over billions of years without any influence of a master designer, or “God”.
This is a belief, not a fact, and it certainly should not be called “science,” but “religion.”
“Science” today completely ignores wisdom, pretending that knowledge is the totality of truth.
This is certainly not a new way of thinking about the universe we live in, but it has taken on new shades of meaning today because of electronic technology that has developed over the past 40 years or so.
But remember, “technology” as it is defined today, is almost exclusively “electronic technology”, a very recent development in human history.
Electricity is the lifeblood of this technology, and it ALL STOPS WORKING when you cut its power source.
How many people in modern society know how to survive in this world for extended periods of time with no electricity, as humans did for many thousands of years prior to the development of this electronic technology?
Very few.
Having not only our society but our very lives be dependent upon this electronic technology is not only NOT wise, it is pure insanity.
All the knowledge and data in the world will be of no use once the electricity stops, and you have to find water and food without it.
This is the result of a highly technical society with very little wisdom.
To describe the difference between wisdom and knowledge, I like to use the illustration of the modern automobile.
There isn’t a single person reading this article today that learned how to drive an automobile by using the “scientific method” to obtain “knowledge.”
You could read as many books as you want on auto mechanics, internal combustion engines, or electronic engines and lithium batteries, but they will never teach you how to actually drive an automobile.
You could develop some hypotheses and theories about how to go about driving one, and then use trial and error to see if they work to test your hypotheses and theories.
But that would not be wise. You would probably crash the vehicle you are attempting to drive, and you might even kill yourself and other drivers.
Instead, to learn how to drive a motor vehicle, one looks for someone who already knows how to drive one, someone with more wisdom and experience than themselves, and then asks that person to teach them.
The general principle here would be that the more experience one has in successfully driving a motor vehicle, the better able they are to pass on that experience to someone else. How much they “know” about vehicles such as words printed in a book, is pretty much irrelevant in actually using a motor vehicle unless they have actual experience in driving one.
A computer, which just reads text (algorithms), cannot teach experience.
It is our life experiences that lead to wisdom, or how to apply knowledge. You could read a book about how to start a fire using a flint stone instead of a Bic lighter, for example, but until you attempt to do it and learn how to build a fire that way by experience, you will not truly “know” how to build a fire from a flint stone.
And in most cases, you will learn how to accomplish a skill like that by asking someone else who is “wiser” than you to teach you how to do it.
Wisdom Comes with Age and Experience
You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:32)
Modern society which is built upon the false foundation of Darwinian biology falsely believes that we are the most advanced human race that ever walked the earth, mainly due to our electronic technology.
But the records of the Ancient Scriptures record human lifespans reaching above 900 years old, prior to the worldwide flood that dramatically changed the world and human lifespans that began to decrease.
We have no idea what kind of wisdom and “technology” existed in ancient times with such long lifespans, where wisdom could be passed down to generations in the double digits.
What was travel like back then? What was communication like back then? What did music and art look like back then?
We sometimes get glimpses of this technology that possibly remained through some generations after the Flood, with stories like the fall of the city of Jericho, where the entire city was destroyed by a specific pattern of blowing trumpets, using musical notes and energy to bring down walls. (See Joshua Chapter 6)
Many ancient artifacts, such as the Great Pyramids in Egypt, show a technology that is unknown to modern man, and which modern man, with all of his electronic technology, cannot reproduce.
Wisdom, which is practical knowledge gained mainly through experience, is primarily obtained by seeking out instruction from those older and wiser than ourselves.
But look at the way western culture treats our elders and seniors! We pump them up with vaccines and drugs, and then toss them aside as worthless members of society as we exalt youth and external beauty.
Seek Wisdom from the Wisest Person in the Universe
Aurora Borealis, “Northern Lights”
Very little of what we learn throughout our short life here on earth is learned directly through the “scientific method.” Most everything we learn in life is taught to us by others, usually by others older and more experienced (wiser) than ourselves.
So who is the oldest and wisest person in the universe?
The one who created it.
The book of Job in the Old Testament portion of the Bible is one of the most ancient pieces of literature available to us today. This book is very very deep, and someday I might feel qualified to actually write an article about it.
The character of Job apparently lived among the first generations after the great flood of Noah, and he was probably well over 100 years old when it was written, and the text states that he lived another 140 years after it was written.
It deals with the eternal question as to why many evil people prosper, while many righteous people suffer. After recording some dialog that happened in heaven, the rest of the book is a debate between Job and his accusers, former “friends.”
Job maintains his innocence over his accusers, and demands to question his Judge.
God then speaks in chapter 38, and this is one of the longest recorded dialogues by God in the Bible. It starts like this:
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.
Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?
Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?” (Job 38)
Indeed, who is wiser than the Creator of the universe?
When Jesus walked the earth, he claimed to have come from God, and to be one with him. His death and resurrection removed all the barriers between us and God, so that we could know him directly.
“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
And you know the way to where I am going.”
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. (John 14:1-14)
When the first believers in Jesus began to meet together after his resurrection during the First Century, Paul wrote a letter to some of them who lived in the Greek city of Corinth.
He explained who had wisdom, and who did not.
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1:18-31 – emphasis mine.)
This then, is the wisdom that is available to all of us today! We can have direct access to the oldest and wisest person in the universe, if we ask in faith.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:5-8)
Faith in technology is insanity. Technology is neither good nor evil in and of itself, but trusting our lives to it will not only disappoint us, it will betray us.
Seek true wisdom from the oldest and wisest person in the universe, to understand your own purpose in this life, and what you are supposed to do next.
Read the Ancient Scriptures, the Bible, and pray for wisdom, as James wrote. See:
Should You Read the Ancient Bible? Is The Bible Accurate or Corrupted?
But it does take time to read and study the Bible, so do not limit yourself to just studying the Scriptures.
God can speak to you directly, through dreams and visions, and even by spending time in nature, surrounded by God-made things, rather than the virtual technology man-made world that so many of us spend most of our day in.
I have learned to take more time out to spend outdoors, surrounded by God’s creation. I have some very tall, ancient trees on the property where I am currently staying. Instead of just walking through them each day, I have learned to stop, and examine them, and to just be still in their presence.
By doing this I discovered that the path I was walking ran over a huge root system that connected several of these very tall trees that are many hundreds of years old, standing tall probably long before this country was even founded, when only the Native Americans lived here.
There is energy there, a kind of energy you can feel from living things that are far older than yourself. It is an ancient energy that far precedes any of our modern technology.
What will happen if I decide to spend more time among these ancient trees each day? I don’t know, because that kind of wisdom is mostly lost to this generation I am part of. The Bible has much to say about trees, specific trees in specific locations at different points of history.
Maybe this kind of energy among trees that are so ancient can counter the negative energy that flows out of technology, like EMF radiation? I really do not know, as this kind of wisdom is mostly lost to us today.
The Japanese do have some knowledge in this area, called “Shinrin-yoku”, or “forest bathing.”
GreenMedInfo has a section on some of this research.
The Bible is also full of examples where God spoke directly to people through dreams and visions, and most of Corporate Christianity rejects anything like this today, claiming that things like “miracles” only happened in the past.
If you bring up any kind of ancient wisdom or ancient forms of healing in Christian Churches today, most will dismiss it as “New Age” and demonic, while they all run to their doctors to get their latest vaccines and drugs.
But it is the pharmaceutical medical cult that is “new,” having only existed since the late 1800s.
Other practices of healing are much older, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which is over 5000 years old, and Ayurveda healing in India which is over 4000 years old.
There is nothing “new” about them, but even these ancient forms of healing are being snuffed out today in favor of pharmaceutical companies and modern medical systems.
So turn off your TV and get off of the computer for a while each day, and go talk to God, and ask him for wisdom, REAL wisdom.
Without this kind of wisdom, you have very little chance of surviving what is about to fall upon this planet, or to be able to live independently in the coming post-technological age.
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