\u201eThe amount of disinformation is equal or superior to the amount of information.\u201c
\nThis eminent piece of wisdom was coined by me. It is the first reason why I am not impressed by the huge collection of data the powers that be gather on us. Sure, if they focus on me, for whatever reason, all of my life will be illuminated but this is hardly new. During the Sixties and Seventies, the Swiss secret service kept elaborate tabs on \u201eThe Movement\u201c. You were nobody if you didn\u2019t have such a tab and, fortunately, they also spied on me. We all had the opportunity to view our folders in the Nineties. You wouldn\u2019t believe the nonsense the deep state claimed to know about me. First of all, I didn\u2019t live near Basel but in Canada at the time. They also labelled me and a friend \u201ethe theoreticians of the movement\u201c \u2013 we translated song texts by Patti Smith, The Doors, Bob Dylan or The Rolling Stones to German. A lawyer I didn\u2019t know called me up one evening to ask me if his name figured in my tab too? And so on. Yes, I know, it is more about consumer preferences and credit ratings nowadays. So what? My second reason not to worry: computers search for buzzwords but in the final analysis the evaluation has to be done by people. Will half the population soon evaluate the other? Who then is to evaluate the evaluators? And who is left? Think about it!
\nUnfazed yours,<\/p>\n
Susanne G. Seiler<\/em><\/p>\n Believe in this. Young apple seeds, Believe in the swinging sounds of jazz, Let the voices of dead poets Bob Kaufman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201eThe amount of disinformation is equal or superior to the amount of information.\u201c This eminent piece of wisdom was coined by me. It is the first reason why I am not impressed by the huge collection of data the powers that be gather on us. Sure, if they focus on me, for whatever reason, allContinue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBelieve Believe<\/h3>\n
\nIn blue skies, radiating young breast,
\nNot in blue-suited insects,
\nInfesting society\u2019s garments.<\/p>\n
\nTearing the night into intricate shreds,
\nPutting it back together again,
\nIn cool logical patterns,
\nNot in the sick controllers,
\nWho created only the Bomb.<\/p>\n
\nRing louder in your ears
\nThan the screechings mouthed
\nIn mildewed editorials.
\nListen to the music of centuries,
\nRising above the mushroom time.<\/p>\n