The 19th century was an era of industrialization and the creation of modern societies. The invention of electricity, telegraph, telephone and movie allowed people to better communicate, make fresh kinds of art and entertainment. This encouraged the improvement of humanity.
The 20th century became a informing signal to which superb inventions in the hands of madmen can lead. The Earth Ball was almost demolished by 2 monstrous planet wars followed by an era of tv called the colloquially tiny screen. tv has become a further facilitation of the access of the average bread eater to culture and art at a level previously intended only for the richest elites. erstwhile the magic box with the screen reached almost all apartment, you no longer gotta buy costly tickets to perceive to and see for yourself the world's best symphonic orchestras, jazz virtuosos, or most celebrated singers. We don't gotta go to Paris to watch the celebrated French cabarets, or even the equivalent of the dancers at Moulin Rouge. Humanity and humanism rose to further levels of development.
The 21st century, on the another hand, showed that humanity had ceased to control the negative effects of computer-smart-informatic madness. Futuristic visions of robots that have mastered the planet have ceased to be a genre of science-fiction creation, as the robot-human era, or Homo-numericus, began completely unnoticed.
I, here in this column, am not going to scare anyone, nor to make fun of myself about the Homo-sapiens degrengolada, but I just want to draw attention to the problem of the slow agony of humanism and humanity in the form known to us so far.
For many centuries our past has been identified by a name, a surname, a place of birth and a country of residence. In the 21st century, individual decided to change this and the most crucial identifier of the citizen of all modern state became the PESEL number. erstwhile you go to the office, you gotta give your PESEL number. You want to registry with a doctor, you request a PESEL number. You want to support any candidate in the election, it's not adequate to sign your own signature, due to the fact that you gotta give the PESEL number and no election committee will registry candidates who have been supported by voters by name and address, but without PESEL numbers. Sometimes I feel that PESEL has become more crucial than his name. shortly there may be specified absurdities that the conductor of the symphony orchestra will not be named by name but by PESEL.
It is besides easy to imagine how the tv editor will announce any fresh movie directed by PESEL 520220..... and on the first frames of the movie will be seen: the main function of the male game PESEL 66.05.17...., and the main function of the female function PESEL 77.07.18.... The aphises announcing the performance of a well-known artist will besides begin with words: on 1st December 2035 there will be a celebrated opera vocalist in our town named PESEL 02.09.08...
In university dean after examination sessions, the results of individual students will be displayed as follows:
1. PESEL 66.06.16... very good
2. PESEL 670825... minus good
3. PESEL 680929... enough
4. PESEL 660222... plus good
5. PESEL 650529... insufficient, etc.
Another area essential for the functioning of homo-numeric is banks.
When we put a credit card in the ATM, the question about the PIN immediately appears. erstwhile we usage a payment card at the store, the seller demands a PIN number on the terminal. Santa Copernicus's law on the displacement of better money by worse money has already reached the very tallness of opportunity. First, gold money was pushed out by silver coins. Then the silver was replaced with copper and then copper with paper and plastic banknotes, until finally, in the Homo-numeric era, it is already planned to completely liquidate the cash and our cash resources will stay only on hard drives of the bank computers, and the money can only be traded through impulses in terminals. The ATMs won't be there due to the fact that they're an extra cost. mill owners, workshops and all private business activities cannot operate without NIP numbers. erstwhile celebrated factories were identified by a surname specified as Cegielski, and besides celebrated merchants were celebrated for their names, like Wokulski, and in the Homo-numeric era the taxation recognition number of the NIP is more crucial than the surname!
Dehumanizing societies is not only about expanding numbering, but besides about introducing anti-humanistic customs specified as a kovid order to carry muzzles on the mouth in public places. Through the pandemic announced by the rulers of our world, another anti-human customs have been introduced. For example, it was considered that it was dangerous to shake hands to greet or say goodbye, and the leading politicians of all countries began to pounce, which was formerly considered rude and even impertinent. Children were banned from approaching their grandma or grandpa by threatening seniors with the anticipation of fatal fevid infection by their granddaughter or granddaughter. As for communes, it was recommended not to go to church. They warned not to meet with a large household group due to the fact that they could infect each other. No large weddings and public gatherings were forbidden. Everything was expected to be remote: distant work, distant dating, and even distant sex as the safest.
Then the vaccine madness was declared, suggesting that whoever did not get vaccinated would die. During the Nazi period, anyone who was opposed to Nazism, Germany defined the enemy of the nation. During a period of creeping socialism, opponents of communism were called troublemakers, vain dwarfs of reaction, and even fascists. In the period of the world's kovid-pandemic, however, everyone who refused to instill themselves almost all media judged against worship and religion and there was no worse "enemy of the people" than an anti-vaccinated animal. There utilized to be racial segregation in Germany and the United States, and in the 21st century vaccination segregation was announced in the vast majority of countries in the world! Those who had no certificate of vaccination against covid were not allowed on board the plane, could not enter the museum or the opera, and teachers in Poland were threatened that all anti-vaccinationists would be expelled.
So the 21st century restored racism in a somewhat changed form. Interestingly, erstwhile Putin started planet War III, abruptly the pandemic subsided and nobody in Poland or Europe required mediocre refugees from Ukraine to get vaccinated, while they were encouraged by economical methods to make PESEL numbers for themselves and their children. You want 500+ for your kids, you should get them PESEL etc. etc.
The most common form of communication in the 21st century, which is the Internet, besides requires "Homo-numericus" to operate passwords to log in, codes to usage the network, etc. Justice is besides steeped in numbers, due to the fact that without the number of the case there is no anticipation of proceeding the procedural files. Judges to handle individual cases are drawn by a heartless computer.
Readers could now ask me: is there anything more dehumanized than Homo- Numericus?
I answer immediately: Yes, unfortunately it did, and Putin wants it back! I remember something like "Homo-sovieticus", but in the era of the Internet, smartphones and satellite phones it is no longer possible to reconstruct the alleged "dictature of the proletariat". As I hear on tv that there was a “New Left” in Poland, I explain to my grandchildren that this is not new, but an old commune with left propaganda.
We now live in capitalism, which, however, has not turned out to be a paradise on Earth, due to the fact that workers are treated not as people with various individualisms but as...a cost in the production sphere. The most crucial thing is simply a circumstantial profit digit, and labor, that's something that's little profitable. Banks introduced credit and ATM cards not to make people's lives easier, but to increase profit. The more customers usage plastic cards alternatively of cash, the little you gotta hire cashiers, money convoys, etc.
I appeal to the Dear Readers not to let them to make themselves Homo-numericus. Don't be ashamed of your nationality like that celebrated actor who turned out to be just a primitive drunk behind the wheel of a luxury car. Show pride in the past of Poland and the achievements of our ancestors. Identify yourselves by your own name, even erstwhile you comment on the Internet. People who are afraid to give their name to the public are even afraid of their own shadow, yet we live not to be afraid.
Do not get out all day in front of computers or television, but go for walks in the forest, in the mountains and in the sea, and you will find that the real planet and people encountered on the road have much more to offer us than computers, smartphones, tv and mobile phones, which frequently require a numeric password.
A man sounds arrogant and it's not just some... homonumericus.
Rajmund Pollak
