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Re-Education

how controlled and monitored our kind of timely reminder for an-
lives have become. As we walked other eye test, but who says I need
past the entrance of a branch of another eye test? And knowing that
the very same eyeglass shop where sorcery works by suggestion, it’s
she got her glasses a year before, easy to fall into such traps by simply
The global manipulators have which I think should be more than turning into the shop as we passed
somehow perfected the art of us- 40 kilometers apart, I got a text by when we received the messages.

ing technology to influence the five message on my phone which says Meaning that the response a person
“Dear Mr Samuel, it has been 1 year
gives to those suggestions is really
human senses to both manipulate, since your last eye test. Please come in for what the control and manipulation
control and alter choices, decisions your Free Annual Eye Test. Thank you.” of human reality is. Being able to
suggest to you what you should do
Imagine the message came right as
and desires. we walked past the entrance to the and by that, implant in your head
Some call it marketing strategy eyeglass shop . the idea of that very thing they just
suggested to you.
but it’s what it is...Mind Con- We were so jazzed by that experi-
trol. ence because my wife too got the Pay attention
same message. Now here is the The global manipulators have some-
thing. How on earth did they know how perfected the art of using tech-
prefer to buy etc., and then using I was passing a branch of their shop nology to influence the five human
that information and data to suggest at that very moment and how was senses to both manipulate, control
things to you. In fact, they sell the my movement captured on the very and alter choices, decisions and de-
data to big companies for marketing. day it became one year since we had sires. Some call it marketing strategy
But who in God’s name gave these visited their other shop? I really do but it’s what it is...Mind Control.
guys such power to invade and per- not know and not knowing is what So you find yourself entering a shop
vert people’s choices and decision bothers me. Another question is, is to get something specific that you
making by encroaching on their this monitoring of my phone done had in mind but changing your mind
privacy? The answer is the people. by the eyeglass shop based on the and getting something else because
Some call it technological advance- phone numbers we registered with it was subtly suggested to you by
ment and the convenience of using them when we visited or the mobile the advert and promotion showing
artificial intelligence, but they will service provider whose sim cards on the big wide screen on the wall.
be surprised where really this whole we use on our phones? That too That is not an advert created to help
issue of AI is going when it finally bothers me because I do not know. you make a better choice but a tool
arrives there. It’s not a good space, But what I do know is that, the en- to alter your thinking and choice
it is evil and it’s your liberty, your tire experience is not a coincidence. making by controlling and manipu-
freedom and your personal data that Because if you look carefully at the lating reality around you. And that
is financing the madness. message I got and the wording, you tool of manipulation was paid for to
see a deliberate usage of words that the tunes of millions of dollars.
Spy agents? suggests it was not a coincidence.
Sometime last year, I had gone with Look at this carefully and you will The direction the world is going in
my wife to change her glasses in one see what I mean: Please COME is not really good and one has to be
of these optician’s shops located in IN for your Free Annual Eye Test . armed with some information about
a shopping mall where they also do And this invitation to come in was how things are done or else one will
eye tests. I will skip the name of the right at the door of the shop like a keep falling into the trap set by the
shop. She did her eyeglass change salesperson standing right there and faceless data miners and reality ma-
and I thought I should just check saying come in. nipulators. Think where your data
my eyes for the fun of it. I did the is going when you sign up for stuff
eye test and nothing was wrong, It is clear that there is a deliberate online and when you post stuff on
so we left. Around the middle of monitoring of people that is done the internet. For you just may not be
February this year, I was walking using technology. For me I did not dealing with service providers but
with my wife in Nairobi central even remember it had been a year spy agents, and also remember that
business district and something hap- since we visited the initial shop. To the internet never forgets.
pened that got me thinking about some people, it may look like some

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