Terry A. Davis: It's Okay We're From The Internet Ep.2 (Scrumpmonkey)
In the 1990s I chatted with Davis on Usenet. He was obviously very intelligent, but beyond that he was very honest and friendly. That is when he was in a state of mind to be so. On some odd occasions he'd collapse to incoherence between sentences. I mean in the sense that he'd connect his thoughts and ideas to things which seemed completely unrelated. I'm actually deeply saddened about the way he left us, because I believe we lost an extremely powerful soldier or general for God.
I don't have to repeat here some of the things Davis used to say in posts and videos. Most of it has been memed to such a degree it will outlive us all. What I'm thinking of now is my impression of Uncle Ted and others who have almost certainly been messed with in various ways by powerful and corrupt agencies.
- We know they have plotted to drive specific individuals insane by harassment and defamation.
- We know they focus tremendous attention on the most intelligent (high IQ, academic performance) people.
- We know that they've deployed chemicals, radiation, sex, and deep psychological attacks against unsuspecting (and frequently innocent) people.
What if Terry was right about everything? I used to trust our authorities, at least to a certain extent, but after all we've seen why would I? I know Terry was a good man in an unfortunate state, and he tried to tell us things we didn't understand. And Terry was much more intelligent and accomplished than 99% of us.
Anyway, that's what's on my mind today. RIP King Terry. I really do miss you.
Imagine being smarter than everyone else around you. So much so that nothing you say makes sense to them. You become ostracized by the groups you're around because of the massive difference. You try to prove your worth to them, that you indeed make sense, and you create a FUCKING OPERATING SYSTEM from scratch (sorry for yelling). Hardly anyone cared. Still ignored and ostracized by those closest to you. You begin to realize that this just wasn't the world you were supposed to be in. Become homeless. Start talking to God. The CIA was listening instead.
Smart guys like Terry and Ted are treated like shit because they aren't conforming and probably did not possess the capacity to do so. The spooks want predictable mid-wits that they don't have to babysit all the time. Smart people tend to rock the boat with every word they speak, every action they make without even knowing it. Due to the hiring practices in the agency's ranks (based on that horrific recruitment ad), there's going to be a lot of resentment when they have to follow someone who isn't socially acceptable/savvy but who is incredibly intelligent. They don't like those types. Reason being because computers and AI have already pretty much negated the need for types of this kind, so they're harder to place in the workplace, they want little socialites, sales men basically. So these types pose a threat to the predictability templates the agencies have designed as little cash farms for the taxpayers to graze on before they get 'retired.' They are an unintended 'surplus' of unplaceable intelligence.
When they find guys like this, they pretty much terrorize them, whether they understand it or not (either party), wrongly thinking that this terrorization will 'spook' them into conformity. It doesn't. The terrorized party just adapts and acts even weirder. That's usually when things go wrong because whichever spook is doing the 'spooking' is probably not as smart as the target. Adaptation turns into tragedy while the 'target-er' burns up with jealousy and envy. Another law must be passed. A new pariah is born. A new fake category is made up for the ill-defined group of usual suspects that keeps pumping out geniuses: White Supremacy.
Both Terry and Ted could have been incredible men working within the structure of society if not for the abuses they suffered at the hands insecure fools. I'm still appalled at the John Kiriakou interview where he said they actively look for narcissists to join their ranks. I can't imagine a worse type of inductee. Like, let's grab up the most insecure, lying, impatient, overconfident, impulsive, takes-everything-personal, passive-aggressive, untrustworthy and untrusting people imaginable to corral these hyper-intelligent nerds using psychosis-inducing verbal threats designed in Harvard social science laboratories. It's insane on its face.
As for the quotes I tagged from your post: every socialist I've ever met is always totally incoherent and cannot relate to others without relating it with something like: 'didja see the game last night?' Not to rip on sports, but that, for instance, is a very smooth, flat path; Terry was climbing a mountain, a brief moment of incoherence should be expected while working at those heights. The sports people may as well just start quoting Hamlet at random, expecting me to pick up what they're putting down. There is no relating to a socialist; there is no one there.
And I say "relate to others" very specifically: it is not a method of conforming with one another; it is a method of realizing the other person in front of you. If you're always running off of some idiotic script, you can't actually relate to anyone on any level which is useful or meaningful. It's already pre-determined. You must run a little off script so that the one in front of you actually becomes real to you. It is really amazing when both people in the reaction feel this process, but I have the feeling that this is not the aim of any of these agencies. Love itself really seems to be a problem for them unless it's some hollowed-out, paperback-trash version of it.
In summary:
The Central Intelligence Agency is there to centralize intelligence – to bring it to the center.
They do not like anything that can be considered radical – that which will radiates outward.
Yet they seem to be creating more of the latter and incapable of making the former happen.
Something's wrong, search "CIA recruitment ad" then watch their video to understand what.
It starts with a 'q' and rhymes with 'boat-uhs.' The sort of thing they had in the Soviet Union.
I cared. He had lots of neat and weird ideas, and all the skill required to implement them, which made him fun to chat with. Hell, I'm probably responsible for some of the sillier limitations in his OS. The graphical limitations seem like the kind of thing I'd suggest, or at least support, depending on how much beer I'd consumed. The lack of networking isn't me though. I like networking. (There are reasons for these ideas, but maybe beyond the remit of this discussion.)
This. They don't want strong, independent people. They want weak, dependent cattle who won't kick when milked. Most of the bosses and teachers I can remember said things like:
You don't even have to be trying to accidentally fall outside the boundaries they want you confined in, mentally or physically. Think about the sad excuses they contrived for the raids on Ruby Ridge and the Davidian compound.
Thank you so much for being there for him.
My last boss made it abundantly clear I was to sit at my desk, do not walk around unless to use the bathroom and definitely do not talk to others. On a review online some guy said the boss was worse than a CIA interrogator, not sure how he would know, but I would believe it, thankfully without having actual exposure to one. A fed, maybe, but only an older great-uncle that was retired. Never fucked with me like my last boss. I think he was trying to induce some form of mental illness to be perfectly frank. Picked on me as if I had drowned his firstborn in some other life.
I don't actually think I'm very smart, but man do they seem to favor 'social correctness' over competence nowadays. Especially since their unspoken rules apparently forbid telling the 'social convict' what they're even doing wrong in the first place. I can see why people breakdown, become homeless and despondent. Ted was 100% right about over-socialization; it invariably leads to anti-social behavior in a certain, probably unacceptable, level of the population. Universe 25-style social decoherence.
Also, again, so awesome you got to chat with him. A bit jealous, but glad.
I don't mean to pretend I was a close friend. I just appreciated what he was trying to do with his OS, and eventually did. There were a lot of ideas and projects at the time, most of which I can't remember and nothing came of them as far as I know. Temple OS is one of the few which ever reached an appreciable state of completion.
As I said, he was a good man and certainly was a brilliant computer scientist. His collection of skills was undeniably unique. Very few people had his dedication.