Like SNOWFLAKE does, he sees things others may have missed.
So, there was a recent TV series call Pluribus that I watched then read up on.
Apparently many critics and fans considered the series an analogy of AI taking over our lives.
I suppose. But I saw something different.
In some future time a virus spreads throughout the world. One of the few people NOT infected is this blond lady from the US.
This virus makes everyone docile and happy. It also links every human infected with every other human, so they all have a hive mind. Except a few, including this American woman, who remains independent.
Now, I did see the show as an analogy, in terms of American "independence" vs the hive mind of progressive society.
Let me explain:
The heroine of the story is the only American survivor. Throughout the show she talks about remaining an individual and not interested in being part of a collective. Meanwhile, the other survivors, all of them from third world countries, decide they rather by part of the hive. Be happy, give up your freedom. Get it?
Moreover, she lectures the other survivors as if she, an American of course, is the only one among them with the determination to keep her independence and freedom. Sound familiar?
Except one other. A Hispanic from some South American country. His part in the show is to travel across rugged terrain on foot just so he can reach the US. Ah ha, an analogy of an illegal alien risking a long journey to reach the US.
Finally, our heroine, the only American not infected by the virus, decides the world needs to be made back to where people enjoyed individual liberties and to accomplish that she is prepared to take drastic measures, and so at the conclusion of the series, she obtains a nuclear device. (have to watch the show to find out how she does this).
In other words, you better support rugged American style individualism or else!
Mind you, my mind has been polluted by woke ideology, progressive thinking, leftwing brainwashing, so I will read all kinds of things into a TV show that really should be viewed as JUST entertainment.
The DOGE ethos—characterized by cutting contracts and government workers, consolidating data across agencies, and importing private sector practices—remains fully in force. While several media reports have suggested that DOGE has all but fizzled out, DOGE affiliates are scattered across the federal government working as developers, designers, and even leading agencies in powerful roles.
FAHRENTHOLD: Yes. I'm really interested in the questions of how these databases coming together. I do think that could, in many ways, be the most important long-term legacy of DOGE.
If we start to see that the government is able to marshal all this data and the service of immigration enforcement, for instance, or if the IRS comes and ask you about your immigration status. If the government's priorities are suddenly able to be acted on by all these independent agencies. And that bureaucratic firewalls don't stop them anymore. That interaction with the federal government could be so different in a couple of years that we see that as DOGE's actual biggest impact.
