Information Control

Sometimes I wonder if nature planned for humanity to evolve into this. Give superior cognitive abilities, nimble appendages, and a well-equipped vocal system to a species, and before you know it, that species will form advanced societies, fabricate some bizarre beliefs about higher beings, and overpopulate and exhaust the planet in their names.

It’s taught that the advent of the printing press elicited one of the most pivotal turning points in human history. A more efficient means of distributing information and knowledge made the age of enlightenment and subsequent ages of advancement possible. It’s sad that, although centuries have passed, much of humanity is still living and thinking in the dark ages.

Until only a couple of decades ago, the church had a very tight control over what information its members could access. Now, the Internet allows devastating information to be dispersed further and faster than ever possible. It’s almost comical how the church doesn’t bother to widely and specifically address the “dangers” of criticism that is available on the Internet. The quorum of the twelve is busy naively warning members about Internet porn while the free flow of knowledge is undermining everything.

Information control is a key element of any cult’s power. The church is getting careless and losing its grip on that control. I guess that’s what happens when you give the dispensation of the fullness of times to a bunch of fogies. It must have something to do with technology and the generational gap.

I guess the church’s divine revelation as a means of getting information just doesn’t measure up to what the rest of humankind uses.

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