People can Use the Computer, but They Cannot Understand It

This is hardly surprising. We learned how to use machines, almost as soon as they were invented. We did not learn how they worked - and were not encouraged to. This was how the Industrial World worked - but it did not work very well, and produced a series of World Wars, terminating in the Holocaust.

I have been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. And like everyone else, knew something had gone wrong - but did not know what that something was. We did not understand the effect of all these machines on the people who used them. And, in fact, were determined to not understand this effect. Why? I have no idea - but I am certain that we were determined to not know.

Then a new machine was invented - the Computer. That did not produce more World Wars - but produced effects even worse - we started destroying everything, including ourselves.

Why? Here again, I do not know - but this destructiveness is so common and so widespread it takes a superhuman effort to overlook them - but a superhuman effort has been made.