Reality

My favorite all-time Star Trek episode....was 'Spock's Brain'.

Around season 3, it was produced.  Basic theme?   A group of low-intelligence/IQ aliens from Sigma Draconis VI beam aboard the Enterprise....sedate the crew, and surgically remove Spock's brain to serve as the new "Controller" for their underground computer complex that sustains their society.

The aliens have divided up into the surface-dwelling Morg males and underground Eymorg females.  

Neither group seems bright enough to do much....so they need a machine called the "Teacher" to temporarily boost their intelligence for complex tasks, but otherwise function at a childlike level.

Lately, this episode has been on my mind, and I'm beginning to believe society has evolved on Earth to such a point, that we are Morg/Eymorgs in various ways.

This Somalia group in Minnesota who figured out various ways to siphon off tens of billion over the past decade?  Well....I don't think they were bright enough on their own to figure out this scheme....so I'm wonder what 'Spock-brain' they found to get them smart enough to steal.

Consequences

I sat and watched a podcast this AM....an American gal....proclaiming she was able to get into some med-school program....with a 2.7 GPA and 498 MCAT.

Presently....the general standard to get into the better med-school programs....is a GPA of  3.9 and average MCAT score is 518 (out of 528).

In essence....she got into medical school because of DEI and Affirmative Action

What you have to worry about....one day....as clinics, rural med-operations and inner-city hospital 'bosses' look for cheaper doctors....they will start to primarily hire these DEI folks in abundance.  

As  you get treated in various ways....you start to question and use AI to double-check on what the doctor said. Then....after five or six goof-ups....you (as a customer/consumer)....will begin to refuse the services of this clinic/hospital. 

A decade or two in the future....we will have 20,000 doctors in the US....who no one really wants to trust or use.

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  Back around 2011...while I worked in the DC region...I came to have a chat with a Homeland Security guy who was familiar with the Hoover-FBI building.  He noted around the late 1990s....problems were popping up and a group of engineering guys were asked to look at the over-all structure...for renovation purposes.

At the end of their survey....they advised the building was constructed in a marginal fashion, and they were leaning toward tearing it entirely down...for a fresh start.  

This past week, the Director finally said 'enough' and the end of occupation of the building is upon us. 

Just a humble guess....there's probably forty other buildings in the capital area....in similar situations.

2.  I seriously believe...if you gathered up one-hundred American adults....drilling down into their 'reality'......more than 60 have some five or more fake things that they believe in. 

3.  By 2050....almost every single American will be monitored around the clock, with AI registering your location, movement, accomplishment-of-the-day, and your bad habits.  

4.  After the soccer championship games end this next summer....a wide assortment of non-American visitors will say that LA and Seattle....are homeless cities and should be avoided at all costs.