Why FACEBOOK is Evil: A dad shoots his daughter’s laptop

I’ll have to say that I agree with this father who saw the nasty comments his daughter put on Facebook about him and his wife. Should the father have unloaded a clip from his .45 into the laptop of his daughter for what she said about his family on Facebook? Absolutely!!!!!!!

I still get many questions as to why I do not have a Facebook account. The answer is that I think Facebook is evil, and I don’t care to participate in it. I do put a Facebook “like” button at the bottom of my posts and I see every day that hundreds of my hits come from Facebook where my readers put links to my articles on the Facebook walls to share with their friends. I recognize the upsides to having Facebook, it keeps you in easy touch with family and friends, and provides a timely status as to the activity of a person. As a matter a fact, a co-worker of mine just yesterday was trying to get a flight out of Dallas but it was delayed, so based on his Facebook page he was able to announce to everyone concerned that his flight would be later than anticipated.

But—Facebook does too much, knows too much, and tricks the user into revealing too much about themselves. About ten years ago I read a book by Jim Marrs called Rule by Secrecy. It’s a conspiracy theory book that talked about the Bilderburgers, the Rothschild’s and the One World Order type of stuff as might be expected. It also spoke about the methods the CIA and FBI were employing to attempt to put chips under everyone’s skin so they could track them easily. When I finished that book I wrote in the front, “THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS BOOK.” I meant dangerous because knowing such things can warp your view of the world and can take the mind down a rocky slope of disillusion. However, at the time of reading that book people were openly angry about the cameras that police were having put up at traffic lights calling them “big brother” and the idea of tracking people anywhere they went was still science fiction. So the CIA and many other organizations found a more subtle way to impose their will on the American and world population so to make their job much easier, they found a way to trick us into giving them all the information they’d have to spend months, perhaps years gathering and allowing our own need for voyeurism to drive a complete end to our freedoms. They put their money behind Mark Zuckerberg and allowed the program of Facebook to do all the work for them. Apparently the CIA is so in love with Zuckerberg that the Facebook founder has earned the ominous nickname from the intelligence community—the Overlord.

Now, it must be disclosed that the segment you just watched is from The Onion which is a social satire show on the Independent Film Channel, which I am a fan of. So the facts shown in that episode are rooted in reality but are not literal. For instance, I don’t think Zuckerberg is an official CIA agent. But, the billions of dollars that came his way came from somewhere and as anyone who works with money knows, “he who has the gold rules.” Zuckerberg didn’t have any money, but he had the ability to make something like Facebook which a whole army of government workers couldn’t fathom, so they took our tax money in indirect ways and gave it to Zuckerberg to purchase his alliance.

Yes—I’m aware that the CIA is reading this. The FBI is too. Go drink another coffee boys, and see if there’s another doughnut in the break room, because I could care less. I know a few agents and my assessment of them are that they are government workers, just like cops, and teachers, and I have made it pretty clear what I think of them. They have a high opinion of themselves that is not based in reality, but on the strength of their pay checks, which to me is just looted money. I don’t value their service and they don’t keep me safe. I’m perfectly capable of doing that for myself. Because of my beliefs my family has been followed, bugged, and harassed for years. It was really bad in the late 90’s up until around 2005. My wife was followed all over town by strange men in white vans. When she’d go to the grocery they’d get out and follow her around the store.

None of this ever got violent. It was just harassment. It started when we took our kids out of the Mason School System to home school them because we disagreed with the 4th grade curriculum of teaching children to put on a condom. We felt that sex education was our job, and our kids were not interested in sex in the 4th grade, so we elected not to participate. The school retaliated by trying to separate my wife from the kids during school events which my wife frequently volunteered for, so we pulled the kids out of school and taught them ourselves. It was one of the best decisions we ever made as parents.

But the social ramifications where ominous, our families turned against us in a radical way, some of that family worked for school systems as superintendents and teachers. The police began to harass our street. Neighborhood kids began to harass my children as they rode their bicycles around the neighborhood. I responded by video recording everything that happened and the police responded by recording everything we did. After a few years of this it became evident that we were recorded everywhere we went about everything we did.

The constant pressure was unsettling to my wife who treasures her freedom and privacy. We’d have conversations knowing that there were listening devices picking up on everything we said and it took her a long time to realize that the idiots on the other end of the line were just mustache men with fat bellies and inflated egos propped up with tax dollars. They were to my mind peons to my overman concept. As I explained to my wife about 10,000 times, “who cares if a fly on the wall sees or hears what we do. Who cares if they can hear us having sex? We don’t mind the dog at the end of our bed as we kick him off, why should we care about some FBI agent, or other law enforcement personnel? What is there to know about us that we don’t want them to?”

So I am aware that these days virtually nothing is private. The scanners at the airport can see through your cloths. Drones can fly outside your bedroom window. And recording devices can pick up everything you say from many yards away. This information is obtained by the cowards of the government who have turned our hard-earned money against us by stealing it from us through legalized theft and propping up citizens like Zuckerberg in the name of safety. I am not troubled that Google watches every email I send and receive. I view such things as information given in a public place. And if people want to see what I put on YouTube have at it. That’s why I posted it. Or this blog site, I put it up to share with people so they might learn something. If it was private, I’d keep it in my head where it’s safe. But Facebook crosses the line for me. It has evolved into a form of behavioral control that I reject completely. It crawls too far into people’s lives and does everything that Jim Marrs warned about in Rule by Secrecy by making people want to behave like herds of sheep, which goes against everything I personally stand for.

Because of Facebook, my extended family often knows things about other family member’s way before my wife and I do. Facebook allows for that voyeuristic tendency, that secret passion to look at what your neighbor is doing from the comfort of your own home. But it’s a trick; your behavior is being plotted and analyzed carefully. Your contacts and the entire network of your contacts are scrutinized by pot-bellied piggies on the other of a monitor. Everyone is watching each other looking for leadership. The herds of Facebook users are being watched by the herds of the government workers in the CIA and none of them have the guts to step away and be independent.

What I mean by independence is doing things in your life without looking to see what your neighbor is doing, as if reassurance is needed. It is that human need for acceptance, which causes us to look at another human being and see if they have done it first before we dare try that is the downfall of our civilization and Facebook perpetuates it by encouraging it.

This is why those who fear to stand on their own two feet and be comfortable in their own lives can be controlled by some master—an overlord if you will. In my family, it took me almost 10 years to get my wife used to the idea that she could and was watched everywhere we went. It was a trip to Cancun where all our cloths were all over the beach and a Mexican security guard patrolling the area was trying to get a peak of the action. My wife saw the behavior of voyeurism that was inherit in all human beings as we dealt with the guard. I treated the guard like he was as useless as a dog at the end of our bed. His eyes and opinion mattered about as much to me as a fly on the wall or the dog at the end of our bed. And what he said to the other dogs at the guard-house mattered as much. It didn’t matter that he had an AK-47 in his hands. Having a gun is one thing, having the courage to use it, or the knowledge, is another. After that, the unnerving sensation that we were constantly being watched and analyzed by weak-minded, fearful human beings had less impact. We had shifted gears as a couple and learned to live our lives from that perspective.

It still doesn’t make this entire tendency toward voyeurism right. It just means that my expectations for the human race must be broke down into another category. And Facebook is a good gage of that. Those who use it to spy on their friends and neighbors, or even those in law enforcement are of the “sheeple” mind-set, which is they are comfortable in the herds of human existence and can easily be steered about by the overlords like Zuckerberg and the CIA.

But these are the same idiots who couldn’t find Osama bin Ladin even though he was right in front of their faces and had a porno addiction. So much for the effectiveness of the CIA, they have been dumbed down like the rest of society to watching for the status of people on Facebook to know what is happening. I know firsthand what it feels like to be watched by these people, even targeted. And it’s no different from the spider that spins a web in the corner of your bedroom. Its eyes and ears mean nothing because it is small and harmless. I’m certainly not going to kill it for being there. I might scoop it up and take it outside if I feel like taking the time to do so, but I’m not going to avoid undressing in my bedroom because the spider can see. But I’m also not going to invite spiders into my house so that they can make a mess with a network of webs all over my bedroom, and that is what Facebook is. It’s a web of voyeuristic spiders that just clutter up your life. And since I don’t wish to be tangled in their webs, or constantly brushing them away from my skin, I keep Facebook out of my life as much as possible.

The necessity for the human being to rise past the need for social reassurance is why I look to the overman as the intended goal of our species. If being human is defined by the weakness for public acceptance than moving beyond those needs would be the definition of an overman. An overman does not worry about the overlords. They do not have power over the overman’s life. The overman does not care about the happenings of those pathetic creatures. The overmen do not care if millions of eyes are upon them everywhere they go, for it is no different in the forest where thousands of insects and the cells on the leaves of trees are aware of a human in their midst’s and they observe carefully for the sanctity of their own survival. The eyes of the CIA, the FBI, of Zuckerberg and all the rest are just that to me, the eyes of insects whose lives rise and fall by the nature of their existence. Their feeble minds are bound to imprisonment for all eternity because they are stuck in a world built by acceptance and believe that by controlling the behavior of the masses that they can ensure the survival of all. But it’s just another web built by just another spider which can be swept away in an instant at the will of the overman, and there’s nothing the spider can do about it.

And as to how Facebook is evil let me refer to the definition of evil by one of my favorite philosophers Ayn Rand from the great book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. “Evil is not consistent and does not want to be consistent. What it wants is to inject itself into the life-sustaining process sometimes—short-range, out-of-context, at whim. To achieve this end, it needs only a single concession by the good: a concession of the principle involved, a concession that evil is proper “sometimes.” Such a compromise is evil’s character of liberty. Thereafter the irrational is free to set the terms and spread by further whim, until the good—and man—is destroyed.” That is what Facebook is all about. That is why it’s evil.

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16 thoughts on “Why FACEBOOK is Evil: A dad shoots his daughter’s laptop

  1. I understand how you feel, but for those of us with a lot of friends/family out of town, Facebook can be great. But lol. mostly I agree with you.

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  2. Keep your friends close…

    I agree with it all… But as you would say and I quote “you’ve got to beat them at their own game”

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  3. We had dinner witth a bunch of friends about a year ago @Montg. Inn. The food came and one of them took out his smart phone, took a picture of the plate of food and continued to post it and chat away while we were eating and conversing. He may have set it down twice.I was furious. Zero manners. Addicted. If he can’t police himself at that at an adult dinner table, many things must be out of control.
    I walk through the grocery stores these days with 90% of the people on their phones. I look at them as see they are no longer able to make eye contact with a stranger and nod or say hello. They’d rather unattach themselved from any situation that they would have to be responsible for.
    I tell people I hate my cell and I never talk and drive and they think I’m inept as a human I’m sure. Heaven forbid I mention I don’t FB. I can hear it now…”How do you keep in touch?” LOL
    I invite friends to lunch and coffee often, go to dinners, email and pick up the phone and say hello. I have no family here. All out of the country or state. We skype. No one uses FB. I guess we’re just not that interesting 24/7. 😉

    When I read about the couple murdered in Tennessee for defriending a woman, I wasn’t surprised.

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  4. I don’t see Facebook as evil per se, any more than I see cell phones or guns or television as evil. It’s what you do with it in my opinion. As NLKM said, my wife uses it to post pictures and updates about our family so that out-of-town family can keep in touch. I don’t care if the inept pot-bellied voyeuristic moustache men know that my son won his event in the Science Olympiad a couple of weeks ago. (Side note: the school said “We have nothing left to challenge him with.” I guess they don’t realize my wife and I are continually educating our children.) We just see Facebook as another communication medium and realize that there is no such thing as privacy in the electronic medium.

    It’s like I’m always saying: historical perspective. I’ll bet that the first man who did not stand when a lady came to the table was seen as uncouth. I know my mother thought that women wearing pants was proof of the decline of Western civilization. Elvis of course was Satan to many adults.

    By the time my kids are parents it may be the norm to not talk to anyone on the street at all, and everyone at the dinner table will be texting and IM-ing. I already know married couples who sit in separate rooms at night and IM each other on the computer. I just see it as society constantly evolving…just not for the better for those of us who hold “traditional” values dear. I just realize that it’s never going to go back to “the way it was.” Has that ever happened in the history of man without a total “reboot” of the culture? Are we headed for Sodom and Gomorrah? Many formerly great cultures and empires rotted from the “inside out” and fell…have any ever reversed course and righted the ship? Once generations have lost their values is there any way to instill them back in the next generation?

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  5. Good comment. I’ll buck that trend til I’m pushin’ up daisy’s. IMing from seperate rooms? Just because everyone else is doing it makes me move even further away. I’m about ready to throw the Tv in the street. Old school values are very contagious just as all this new hype is. You just have to be the one to make it “cool.”

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    1. Have you ever seen the movie “To Sir With Love”? It was made in 1967 with Sidney Poitier as a former Electrical Engineer who loses his job and begins teaching high school in one of England’s worst neighborhoods. The kids start out as disrespectful and uncouth and by the teacher’s example they learn self-respect, which of course you must have before you can respect others. Say what you will about the movie’s “teacher instills values that the parents didn’t” message 🙂 What I’m getting at is that the teacher did show them that it was “cool” to act with dignity and respect. Hopefully you’re right Cyd and there are more young people like Paul Townsend than I think.

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      1. I practically only watch old movies and have seen To Sir several times. I adore it. TCM, AMC et al.
        I also listen to a lot of swing and big band. Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald. I’m not all Black Sabbath, political news and shotguns. Those things keep me grounded in a time when I was growing up that was plain simple. That ended quickly with a drivers license! LOL Bring on the Twisted Sister!!
        Now I look on those days fondly and seek them.

        NKLM…you’re an exception to the rule. I bet you wouldn’t have taken a pic of your food and ignored the conversation at a dinner. I know you wouldn’t. My comments are geared for the extreme misuse. He might as well had just done a big line of cocaine on the table. Same thing. He was going to proceed with that post if the Pope had asked him to knock it off.
        I have nothing against smart phones. It’s FB I detest and the addicts that let it dictate their every waking move.

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      2. Gosh. I always read this comments hours after they’re posted…love to sir with love and Sidney potier…I could Sing you that song word for word too:)

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    2. These are great comments. Facebook is such a large part of peoples lives these days, but that dosn’t make it great. I’m happy to see some thinking being put down here, because the discussion is important.

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      1. Ok, gotta chime in for the haters:) of smart phones, in a small defense I drive between 800-1200 miles a week for work….I will drive and check email or text…often when I pop into a store to grab something, it’s literally the only time I have to check in, and often I have to been able to receive an email from a customer and put out a fire–so during the day, yes, I will be checking my phone and responding….then back in the car I go. If you see me on the weekend in my out of work mode, you probably wouldn’t even know I have a company issued “babysitter”. I agree, people are less likely to engage in spontaneous conversation, funny when our group got together did any of us shut up to even take a breath? No phones that day, lol!

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  6. Facebook will be probably be gone or minimized and seen as “uncool” as Myspace has become in the relatively near future. It’s inevitable. Facebook has already taken steps to change its interface to seem new and fresh. One day, despite these changes, Facebook will be seen as “old” and a new media with a different feature set will be “cool”. There have already been attempts to dethrone Facebook, and one day someone will succeed.

    Twitter has already pretty much obsoleted e-mail for the under-30 crowd. Twitter won’t last forever either.

    It reminds me of “Phil’s Power Rangers Theory”. One of the most brilliant TV shows ever is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It’s basically the same show, episode after episode, much like many formulaic programs (A-Team, that includes you 🙂 ) The thing Power Rangers did was change the show every year or so to a whole new theme. Power Rangers in Space, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Power Rangers in the Sea….and on and on. They just changed the location and objects that the Rangers changed into. (Note: the whole show was adapted from a Japanese program.) For some reason this held kid’s attention for years instead of the usual two or three-year show burnout. Facebook is trying to do the same thing. Time will tell if the succeed.

    The funny thing is (as my wife is quick to point out): Facebook has become just another way for corporations to advertise their products and services. (As a capitalist, I have no problem with that.) You can’t get on any web site these days without seeing a Facebook and Twitter link. At the end of the day it’s no different than a radio or TV station. Radio and TV exists not for your entertainment or education but to sell advertising dollars. Facebook is the same thing. It’s just another product research tool meant to find out your preferences to market to you more efficiently with targeted ads…dressed up in a wrapper of a social media network.

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  7. Looks like this one ruffled some feathers, Rich. I regularly post links to your work on FB, but as of last night they are being blocked as spam. A badge of honor for you, but too bad for the rest of us who still need to spread the word and try to open the eyes of a lot of other folks. The group fighting the Westerville school levy really need to read yesterday’s post.

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    1. All my posts are being put into spam and not just the Facebook one? Well, this is becoming quite normal. The point all along has been to mislead the public any way possible, and pointing out the facts does get in the way of their agenda. I think I was pretty fair to Facebook. But I’m not the one working with the CIA. They are. I pointed out the good things and the bad things, and those bad things are facts. It’s their site, so if they want to control the information, I suppose it’s their right. But that should tell everyone what they are really about.

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      1. They really need the information, and where there’s a will, there’s a way, so if you give me permission I will copy the relevant text into a FB “Note” and (add a directive for them to visit your blog for more) and see if I can share it with them that way. I’m working on it now, but won’t post until I get the thumbs up from you.

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