Boolean Relationship

 

Around the age of 16 our maths class was introduced to Boolean Algebra as the logic used in machine computation. It had its own weird rules like 1 + 1 = 1 and 1 +  0 = 0 and there was no such thing as 2 or anything higher, so it was odd but how hard could it be?

 

Many years later I read the wonderful ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen Covey, which describes the process of maturation as firstly a journey from Dependence in childhood, to Independence achieved in early adulthood. Secondly we transition from Independence to Interdependence as we realise that as a team we can achieve more together than we can as individuals. For both of these journey phases Covey describes three rules and his rule 7 – ‘Sharpen the Saw’ is basically an instruction to start again. Life is a school with as many classes as we have years and sometimes we ‘get kept back a year’ when we’ve struggled with the lessons. Each student has an individualized curriculum.

 

By midlife everyone has had some form of relationship and has accumulated unique experiences that provide learning material for our brief time on earth. For most people this will be a mixture of good and bad, happy or sad and our memories of these moments build the scrap book of our lives. Us humans have an exquisite ability to learn, not only to count but to feel. Unlike any machine we have both logic and emotion. In an ideal situation 1 + 1 = 2 (and sometimes 1 + 1 = 3) but inevitably, through the various facets of life we have situations when 1 + 1 is less than 2 as neither party had truly reached 1 to begin with.

 

Back in the 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator movies told of a future time when mankind would face an existential threat as it clashed with machines that thought themselves superior to humans. Now in 2021 certain ‘Masters of The Universe’ figures believe that everyone should conform to their vision of the future. As we’re already seeing in Australia, great brutality is being used to suppress dissent as normal human beings attempt to go about their daily lives in what they thought was a democracy.

 

In ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’ Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum dismisses such trials as necessary birthing pains for his New World Order where the world will ‘Build Back Better’ and order themselves by ‘Sustainable Development Goals’. In this Technocratic dystopia energy is king, carbon is to be scrubbed and stored / buried. As things are shaping up it appears that we’re the carbon that is to be removed. Those of us who can already feel the bars of the cage are ridiculed as conspiracy theorists as we try to awaken our fellow travelers to the fact that the cage door is rapidly closing.

 

A time of great tribulation approaches, but because of our unique human ability to feel love we are superior to any machine that must be limited to a Boolean Relationship devoid of growth. Because in the world of machines 1 + 1 can never be more than 1, they can never achieve Covey style Interdependence. Indeed, through their need to dominate everyone or everything, the very rules that govern their existence require that they eventually tear themselves apart. At best they are destined to ‘Sharpen the Saw’ and start again as they have throughout the ages but they can never count to 2; not even if you’re Bill Gates.

 

God is Love. God wins. We have nothing to fear – certainly not a virus no matter how cleverly designed.