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NK Moral Hacks Attack US Virtual Hacks and Win, for Now Printer friendly page Print This
By Dallas Darling, WN
World News
Sunday, Dec 21, 2014

Since America’s movie industry shows what is supposed to occur, and nothing occurs unless it is in the movies, most Americans are unaware that the age of artificial intelligences and automated perceptions and living is already here. And since media technologies alters psychological attachments and emotional needs and wants, neither do they realize that they live what they see on and in and through the movies, unable to distinguish reality from telegenic imaginations and virtual fantasies. This is especially true since most adults, from the time they were born, learned about reality through watching and participating in a world of multi-electronics and virtual experiences. The movie industry has become so realistically invasive and inverted that it not only watches and records Americans but lives through their everyday lives.

Is it any wonder, then, that North Korea’s government allegedly hacked and threatened the Sony Corporation over its release of “The Interview.” The movie ends with the assassination of Kim Jong Un, when a missile hits his helicopter causing his head to catch on fire and explode. For its part, the U.S. government was involved at high levels with the movie’s content and production. Sony, headquartered in Japan, traded emails with America’s State Department and Rand Corporation, both of which gave their blessings and encouraged the assassination scene.(1) They also hoped it would lead to regime change, causing someone to actually assassinate Kim Jong Un. Given that humans already have a precarious view of reality, asynchronous participation, viewer engagement,  and content migration have caused Americans to slip into an abyss of insubstantiality.

If the allegations are true, it is obvious that North Korea’s hack police have been working overtime. But so too has America’s virtual hackers. Having Sony Emails hacked and with threats of a 9-11 redux, movie outlets have decided to forgo airing the “The Interview.” Political leaders and pundits are claiming the controversy is an act of war, and that the U.S. has lost its first cyber war of the 21st century. Some have even declared it to be the Pearl Harbor of the First Amendment. The notion of freedom of speech and press, however, has never been unlimited nor absolute. In fact, they always entail a certain amount of responsibility, always occur in the context of community, and should not inevitably infringe the liberty of others. While one is free to believe in abstract ideas, one is not necessarily at liberty to commit defamation, hate speech, libel, or actual malice.

The moral hackers have attacked the virtual hackers and won, for now. It is a rare victory against the shapers and makers of reality-those who gain access to human minds and their data, controlling their thoughts and behavioral processes. Since Americans are continually exposed to incessant warfare and interactive violence via the movie industry, their world is not so virtual-it is their reality. At a deeper and more subconscious level what they see in the movies is happening to them. Movies have collectively erased historical contexts, eliminated the distinction between virtual and real, and shaped policy. When merged with the Pentagon and State Department, war movies and violent action heroes are so real and powerful that they have pushed the U.S. over the brink of sanity. Americans believe and live a mere continuation of what they have been watching “virtually” and doing “automatically” for years.(2)

At what point does a nation and its people, which continually experiences such virtual realities and violent artificial intelligences, and then tries to recreate the same really real virtual realities and automated violent behaviors as in “The Interview,” actually become negligent, irresponsible, or even insane? At what point do they step into oblivion? And was it really the North Korean government that hacked into Sony’s computers, or was it the Guardians of Peace, an anonymous organization promoting understanding and stability? Or was it a false flag planted by the U.S. Government in order to hack into and gain control of the Internet? With regards to America’s virtual warriors and hackers, and when considering the past few decades of perpetual wars, one must wonder who and what is the greatest threat to national security.



Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John‘s Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. 


(1) www.antiwar.com. Emails Reveal US State Department Influenced Sony’s “The Interview” so as to Encourage Assassination and Regime Change in North Korea. By Dan Sanchez, December 18, 2014.
(2) Brockman, John. What Should We Be Worried About. New York, New York: Harper Perennial, 2014., p. 39.


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