Ep. 77 More on The Social Dilemma and Dr. Paul Congdon Computer Network Neurosergeon

Welcome Morons or rather followers of a moron.  I do have a real guest for this episode but I want to get to a couple of things first. First of all… this is the first episode since the passing of supreme supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  Relative to what there is to know about her, I don't know much, but I do want to share with you two things about her and her passing that I found to be extraordinary, the first being President Trump's initial reaction and response to her passing.  I've tried to share this with a couple of non Trump supporters and they immediately told me that not only did they not hear it, but that they had no desire to hear anything about Trump's comments on someone with the integrity of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  And I'll bet all of you Libby McLiberson's out there are all up in arms over Trump's replacement being confirmed before the election and blah, blah blah… by the way Fox News, Yes Fox News has a story as of this recording and I'll read you the headline:  "Majority of Americans think winner of presidential election should select Supreme Court nominee, poll finds" But now I'm already digressing… If you're liberal or a democrat or any kind of a non-Trump supporter and have not heard his informal response, you should… and will because you're about to hear it.  It was as he was leaving a rally and it might be a little difficult to hear because in the background and in all of it's irony, you can mainly hear Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" being played to the crowd that had assembled…. Did you hear that?  He almost sounded human!  There was a statement of reverence for the work of what has to be one of the greatest Americans and greatest supreme court justices in history.  You don't have to like Trump and you can go on hating him, but if you are not willing to acknowledge that moment of even slight humility, then you are part of the problem.  I'll say this many times from now on, but if you are not willing to sit and listen to someone who disagrees with you… and not tell them they're wrong or convince them you're right… if you can't just sit, set your bullshit and your agenda down for a few minutes and listen… then how can you expect someone else to listen to you?  In that regard, you are part of the problem. Which leads me to the second profound and extraordinary aspect of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's life was that her best pal on the supreme court, was someone on the opposite end of the spectrum politically and opposed to views of the law.  A person I found arrogant and pompous and that was Justice Antonin Scolea.  But there they were good friends.  Ginsberg spoke at his funeral… Why can't we see some of that… any of that in the legislative branch of our government?  And if it does exist, why don't we see it?  If it does exist, for the sake of argument, we don't see or hear about it because negative news SELLS.  It attracts eyeballs and ears and that means more advertising dollars for the bogus news sources from CNN to Fox and that takes us to our guest and more on the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma"... God DAMMIT what a brilliant segue! My guest is a professional computer geek and I would go so far as to say he is like a supreme court justice of computers.  His name is Paul Congdon… actually Dr. Paul Congdon because he has his doctorate in some form of computerology from one of the esteemed Universities of California where he was also a professor.  He worked for Hewlette Packard for many, many years both in the united states and abroad.  How do I know someone so intelligent?  I went to high school with him of course.   I get his take on The Social Dilemma along with a few short clips from the documentary and some other stuff… it's Commentary from computer nerds about other Computer Nerds on Netflix on… The Modern Moron... CLOSE - Dr. Congdon had a great point that I want to reiterate and that was "The tools Social Media and News Media companies are using to target you can also be used to vet out the story lines of the news you read."  Do you want that?  You should.  Do you want to know that CNN is tainting their headlines with inflammatory jargon?  Do  you want to know that Fox is doing the same thing.  Or are you fine strapping on the news feedbag and living in the "Willful Ignorance" that we are stuck in? Also, from a regular segment we're starting called "Trumperceptions", which is a way to learn to accept this person by understanding a little about this Magnificent Moron and what makes him tick, or have ticks if you wish. This is from Gwenda Blair, Author of the book "The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President".  She is also a lecturer at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  In her book she draws an extremely interesting connection between Donald Trump and author-slash-minister Norman Vincent Peale.  Does that name sound familiar?  If you're over 55 it should as he wrote one of the most famous self-help books of all time, before there was even the term self-help books.  Remember "The Power of Positive Thinking"?  Yeah, he wrote that book in 1952 and he was also a minister for 52 years at The Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, one of the oldest protestant churches in America dating back to 1628.  Guess where the Trump family attended church?  That's right... at the home of the Power of Positive thinking.  Trump was married there on his first wedding and both of his parent's funerals were at that church.  Here is  Author Gwenda Blair on this subject courtesy of Business Insider magazine… (clip) Knowing this isn't supposed to make you like Trump, but it should help you understand why he behaves the way he behaves and that should hopefully calm you down a bit over this whole nonsense.  If it doesn't, maybe YOU have some work to do as opposed to everyone else? Finally, the first presidential debate was this week and I had the incredible good fortune to NOT watch it.  I will say this, the debate and every presidential debate for the last 20 years could have easily been reigned in by using the correct types of microphones and simply turning them off when either idiot reaches their time limit.  There is a clock counting down the seconds they have left and if they go over American can watch them move their mouth and say nothing, which is probably what they were doing for the first two minutes they were trying to speak. So why don't we do that?  So simple, such common sense.  So why don't we do that?  Because the news industry wants you to hear Trump tell Grandpa Joe he's a senile old man.  The News Corporations want you to hear Biden tell Trump to shut up.  That makes for more eyes and ears for longer periods of time on their Network, their Newspaper, their website or their app… and that means you're looking at their advertisements just like Dr. Congdon was saying as well as the other industry experts on The Social Dilemma Documentary.  It is a dilemma and we really need to educate ourselves.  Thank you again to my guest, watch that goddamn documentary, click subscribe, and like and all that b.s. so I can get an advertiser and sell out like everyone else.  Majority of Americans think winner of presidential election should select Supreme Court nominee, poll finds - Fox News The Trumps' family church explains everything you need to know about Donald - Business Insider | YouTube  The power of Trump's positive thinking – POLITICO