AGE 86 ~ The Virtual Kingdom

[StratOcastle]

Actual Problem

I worked before computers became mainstream. So I overhear my boss talking to someone who can't figure out how to send an item. Well, in the old days you weighed it, put the address on, payed to mail it and that was it. They were unable to figure out how to send it because they didn't know how to communicate/please the computer.

We use to use paper and pencil and a guy called a checker to fill orders. Now we have an expensive computer, we have an expensive laser gun, and we have an IT department that can't fix things as fast as I can hand write orders. We have buffering problems the IT says we shouldn't have, so they can't fix it.

So they program these systems and they get their information from people who put ambition above integrity. They make this flawed system integral to doing the actual work so if the computer fails it makes the actual work much harder as to please the computer whenever they get it running.

What we get is a sleepy upper middle class with comfort level wages that actually have fake jobs. I'm not questioning their vast knowledge in crunching some numbers, but if they explored the results would the company benefit from their efforts? I overhear a lot of meetings between the shot callers and at the end of the day the shots ring hollow.

I submit to you that computers are wonderful servants and you know the rest of the cliche. They should be tools and should be a luxury apart from the integrity of work. If your island is the Amish and you want to embellish, so be it. I encourage it. But we find ourselves in a world where without the computer people don't know what to do. Nobody knows how to Amish a problem anymore.

When I played utopia I noticed this mentality creeping in. I liked Pimp because it was a useful tool. After Pimp was considered passé we had a slew of over intricate systems that were cold and uninteresting to me. They sure were interesting to conformists. And despite this wonder of information the kingdoms didn't evolve. Why didn't they evolve?
Because you can't replace perception with information.

Perception tells us we must have enough flexibility to take advantage of opportunity. When we get rigid because we think we are enforcing order, we vanquish opportunity. All we have are the perceived logistics, leading to the vulture mentality. The animal mentality of fearing the superior and eating the inferior. As men we have a higher calling. We should not reinforce instinct through technology, but use technology to enhance opportunity.