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Note: EVF / Mirrorless cameras have thoroughly obsoleted the rangefinder as a camera paradigm. But they are also on the verge of sending the DSLR to extinction, I think. Please see some thoughts on this at this link.
Exactly two years ago, in April 2011, I said goodbye to my Leica M9 in anticipation of an inevitable "M10". During that time, I used a Sony NEX-5, then an NEX-5N quite effectively as a digital back for my M lenses.
I finally got my hands on the new 24MP M Typ 240, after a long wait. I had a chance to take 20 pictures, before I had to send the camera back to Germany, after Leica issued a factory recall. In a rare faux pas, Leica discovered the strap lugs on the new M came off! So they had to find a fix.
So in the short time I had the camera, here are my first impressions.
The best M camera ever
Undoubtedly, this is the best M camera Leica has ever made. It feels like an M, the finish is great, and it is beautiful to see, touch and feel. Emotionally, very satisfying. The classic preview lever is gone and ergonomically, it could have been a little better. But overall, the best M camera ever.
Big camera / Small lens vs. Small camera vs. Big lens
After being used to a Sony NEX for two years, the M feels big and heavy. I have been waiting eagerly for a compact Sony NEX-9 in the E-mount with a full-frame sensor, but I recently found out that such a camera will not work with M-mount lenses from Leica, Zeiss or Voigtlander.
The Leica M cameras have a micro lens array that is needed to make the M lenses work with a full-frame sensor, and no other manufacturer will have this in their camera. So unfortunately, a full-frame mirrorless EVF camera from anyone not named Leica will simply not work with Leica M lenses of focal length 50mm or shorter. A huge bummer!
That means if there is an NEX-9 or similar camera, that would have to be used with traditional SLR / DSLR lenses, such as the Leica-R, Zeiss, Nikon, Canon, etc. However, the NEX-9 will be much more compact than the Leica M. So it leads to a peculiar paradigm - the relatively big M body with the tiny M lenses vs. the small NEX with the big SLR lenses.
Pictured above for comparison: the Leica M240 + Leica 50mm f/1.4 Sumilux-M shown next to a Sony NEX-5N + Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux-R.
The NEX + the bigger lens is still less bulky and weighs less compared to the M240 + the M lens. The M240 wins if I have to carry a camera + 3 or more M lenses. But the NEX wins for camera + 1 or 2 SLR lenses.
I am done with the RF as a camera paradigm
I used to be very good focusing with the rangefinder in my old M9. But after two years of using a Sony NEX with manual focusing lenses, I am through with the rangefinder. Done, finished, no more RF.
The more the resolution, the harder it is to accurately focus using the RF. Higher resolution ruthlessly exposes poor focusing. The vast majority of the M8 and M9 pictures uploaded on flickr today are poorly focused by proud owners of a Leica M camera who don't know what they're doing.
Although the RF in the M240 is probably the best RF Leica has ever made, unless you own bionic eyes or have a subject matter with a lot of nice, high-contrast vertical lines at the dead center of the frame, it is tough to focus with the RF. Over time, the RF coupling will also inevitably drift.
So with higher image resolution, the RF is increasingly a liability, and it is time to retire it. But a lot of people love the RF.
In my case, I have two reasons for putting the RF out of my life:
First, I am now too used to the paradigm of compose-first-focus-next. That is what the Sony NEX with its focus peaking does brilliantly. I cannot do that with a RF, which only focuses in a small region in the center of the frame. I find that extremely restricting.
Second, after my cataract surgery, although my vision has dramatically improved, I find it difficult to use a rangefinder with my glasses on. I have no problem with manual focusing using either a DSLR or an EVF/mirrorless.
So I am through with the rangefinder as a camera paradigm. Of course, I could use an EVF with the M240. But I am needlessly paying for the expensive RF mechanism, and the EVF is an expensive option I should not have to pay for!
Also, the EVF on the M 240 sucks. More detail below.
Image quality
So is it worth it, for all the cost and aggravation? Hard to say. Focused accurately and at relatively low ISOs (800 or below), and in good daylight, the M240 delivers excellent IQ, with superlative colors, sharpness, micro contrast and dynamic range. And two very smart people have independently told me the M240 images are excellent for making large prints.
In addition, Lloyd Chambers, one of the best, if not the best, independent photography bloggers (subscription highly recommended!) has taken some stunning images with this camera that show exceptional details. In fair weather, this is a fantastic camera.
BUT...
And that is the part I don't like - an $8,450 camera (see below why it is $8,450) should not come with "Buts". And the M240 comes with many Buts.
But #1: Mediocre high-ISO performance. Even though the M240 has a CMOS sensor, high ISO performance of this sensor, made by CMOSIS, is not as good as the industry-leading sensors from Sony that you can see in other cameras. I would like to see what DXO comparisons look like.
But #2: Terrible EVF/focus peaking. The EVF + focus peaking on the M240 is a very amateurish implementation that is way behind the Sony NEX. Even with the EVF on the M240, I could not match how quickly and how accurately I can focus with my Sony NEX.
Seriously, I am 2-4 times faster focusing with my Sony NEX than I am with the M240's EVF. If the camera is already on, it takes me about 4-5 seconds to compose, accurately focus and click with my Sony NEX. With the M240, it takes me anywhere from 10-20 seconds, and sometimes, longer. And even after that, I could not get the best focus in quite a few shots with the M240. With the NEX, I nail the focus almost every time without fail.
Also, the focus peaking disappears just as you start pressing the shutter release button to take the picture. That is absolutely idiotic! It is a distraction that is enough to cause an imperceptible camera shake, and loss of the best focus. The only way to avoid that is to be well supported (e.g., leaning against a wall). That is not always practical, so a lot of pictures will come out sub-optimally focused. Bad, bad implementation by Leica.
Perhaps Leica could improve its EVF and focus-peaking usability in a future firmware upgrade.
But #3: Loss of hot shoe. The EVF takes away the flash hot shoe. That means, I can't use flash photography at all. So I spend $8,450 for a camera and I can't use a flash with it?!
But #4: Bulk and weight. The M240 is much heavier than cameras like the NEX-7 or 5N, which are made of durable, Magnesium-alloy bodies. An M240 + grip + EVF is almost as big as a Nikon D800E, which costs $2700, delivers 36MP and has autofocus. For the M240 to match the image quality with subjects that are close will probably require a tripod. If I'm going to be lugging around a tripod, then why bother with an M240 at all? Why not my Nikon D800E?
But #5: Poor Live View. The Live View works only at the center of the frame. You can not zoom into any other part of the frame. That is so silly! Evey a $500 NEX-3 lets you see any corner of the frame at a 10x magnification in Live View.
But #6: Lens design compromises. As cute the M lenses are, their compact size and extreme proximity to the sensor in M cameras has meant making design compromises. And typically, this has hurt in two areas: focus shift and field curvature.
A lot of Leica M lenses show focus shift, including the $7,200 new 50mm APO Summicron-M, as Lloyd Chambers has demonstrated. A $7,200 lens should not have a focus shift problem, for crying out loud! Field curvature produces funny areas on the field that come in or go out of focus, and a lot of M lenses suffer from it, including the vaunted 35mm Summilux-M, as both Lloyd Chambers and Ming Thien have shown.
With increasing resolution, is the design of the M lenses approaching a brick wall?
But #7: Insane economics. The M 240 is $7,000, but for it to be really usable, it needs the EVF ($550, which = 75% of the cost of an NEX-6 camera!), and the grip ($900). In total, $8,450 for the most basic usable system, not counting any sales taxes.
In comparison, the top of the line 24-MP NEX-7 today costs $1000, and comes with a built-in hand-grip and EVF, as well as far better high ISO performance, WiFi, autofocus, and superior video capabilities than the M 240. The next generation of the NEX will likely also have GPS built right into the camera.
And even a full-frame NEX with a whopping 36MP sensor (the same as in the Nikon D800E) will probably cost no more than $2,500, with the option to autofocus as well as a lot of other features not in the M240. That is less than 30% of a usable M240!
But #8: Doomed to a weaker technology road map. Saddled with the RF legacy, the M cameras will always be slower to evolve compared to the rapid pace at which other camera makers have been progressing.
When the 18MP M9 was introduced in 2009, it was the state of the art. Only the Canon 5D MK-II and the Nikon D3x had greater resolution. But the Leica M lenses were superior to most of the Canon and Nikon lenses. The combination made the M9 the best 35mm camera in the world for a short period of time.
But since then, the world has raced past Leica. The Nikon D800E is the king of 35mm now, followed by other cameras like the Canon 5D MK-III, Nikon D7100, Nikon D600, Sony RX1, etc.
Mirrorless EVF cameras have been evolving especially aggressively. They barely existed three years ago, but today, APS-C sensors are almost as good as full-frame sensors, and EVF cameras are going full-frame. The Sony RX1 was the first, and within a year, it seems certain that there will be a number of EVF cameras with full-frame sensors. The prospect of a 36MP NEX-9 is especially appealing.
These cameras will work as universal bodies for any lens, except the Leica and other M-mount lenses that require Leica's special micro lens array. There are many outstanding lenses out there, including Leica-R and Zeiss ZF/ZE/E lenses that these mirrorless EVF cameras can work with.
So within a year, I expect a tidal wave of full-frame EVF cameras to hit the market, most of which will hugely outperform the M240 at a cost of about 30% of the M240. The M240 feels a little behind the times on day one.
The Leica M optics are still the appeal!
So considering everything, it is tough to logically argue the case for the M240. The only thing that keeps the M240 case alive is the optics of the M lenses.
Certain M lenses are very unique, especially the ones that use the Noctilux design (50/0.95, 24/1.4, 21/1.4). The 35/1.4 Summilux with the floating element has a strong and wavy field curvature, but it can also produce an artistic result. Lenses like these are charming for their "Leica look" images, if one knows how to use them.
There are other M lenses that are functionally exceptional, such as the 50/1.4 Summilux, the Super Elmar-M 21/3.4, The 24/2.8 and 28/2.8 Elmarits, the 75/2 and 90/2 APO Summicrons, etc. The latest APO Summicron 50/2 is the best 50mm lens ever designed, with a stunningly flat MTF, although it suffers from a focus shift.
Once you get to know these lenses and how to work them, they are delightful (although I am not a fan of the focusing tab on many of the M lenses). The lenses are the appeal of the M system.
But the elephant in the room is that Leica is not providing a tool to really take advantage of the M lenses. The M8 was a joke, the M8.2 was a hastily put together fix to make the M8 somewhat usable, the M9 was OK, but had too many usability problems, the M9P was a slap in the face to the customers, driven by arrogance ($1,000 for a piece of gorilla glass over a crappy little LCD?), the M9 Mono was another overpriced offering in which Leica did not even bother to put a high-res retina-display monochrome LCD, and now, the M240. Over-priced and under-achieving.
For all the great M optics, Leica has been demanding a very unreasonable toll to access the M lenses by pricing the M cameras absurdly high for what they deliver.
The other question, as mentioned above, is: will increasingly high sensor resolution expose the weaknesses of the M lens design? (field curvature, and especially, focus shift). Lenses designed for the DSLRs or the Sony E-mount do not have focus shift problems.
Bottom line
Two years ago, my left brain and right brain had a huge battle over my M9, and my left brain won. So I sold my M9, and I have not regretted it one bit.
Now, I find myself in the same situation. My right brain says "See how beautiful the camera is! You have such a wonderful collection of fantastic M lenses! No other camera can work with them as well as the M240 can! The APS-C cameras will only give you a crop-size image, and any full-frame EVF camera simply will not work with the M lenses. So it's a no-brainer: keep the M240. I can't believe this is even open to discussion!"
My left brain says "Anyone using an RF today is either brain dead or has a vested interest in Leica. The RF is finished as a camera paradigm. In fact, the entire M system will be obsolete soon. The M240 is an absurdly priced, $8,450 camera full of compromises and almost obsolete on day one. So it is time to not only not keep the M240, but also get rid of all the M lenses! Time to switch to a more competent EVF platform, like a full-frame NEX-9 and use it with Leica-R or Zeiss ZF lenses, which are optically even better than the M lenses. There is no need for a discussion!"
So that is where I am. Usually, when I have these arguments, my left brain wins! So I shall be likely parting ways with the M240, as well. It took me 16 months to get tired of my M9, and it took me a few days to nix the M240.
Leica had a chance to design a brand new EVF-based mirrorless camera to work with all of its wonderful M and R lenses. Such a camera could have been Leica's 35mm digital camera platform for the next 60 years. Instead, Leica once again came up with yet another set of digital extensions to a 60-year old film camera design that demands way too much money and way too many compromises from the user.
That is really unfortunate. I don't want to spend that kind of money for a camera that comes with so many excuses, and gets in my way. The camera is a tool that should serve me. Not royalty that I must serve!
This is still a fabulous camera for those who love the rangefinder. But that is not me.
I will hang on to at least some of my M lenses for a while - there is a hope that Leica will be forced to come out with an non-RF EVF camera with an M mount. Or perhaps there will be some other FF EVF camera that might work with M lenses. So I will wait to see what happens in the FF EVF world before deciding on what to do with my M lenses.
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Above image taken with a Nikon D4 + AI-s Nikkor 28mm f/2.8
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Obsolete railway wagons, abandoned on old railroad tracks. Pre-dusk sky. Picture taken near Palaiofarsalos railway station, Central Greece (AAA_3202)
Lying in an inaccessible gravel pit are three well preserved examples of obsolete technology from the 1920s. They are acoustic mirrors designed to pick up the sound of approaching aircraft before they were visible. They were never taken into use because of the development of radar prior to World War 2. here are the 20 foot and 30 foot sound mirrors.
For 114 Pictures in 2014- #4 Obsolete
I guess quill pens have long gone except, perhaps, for students of caligraphy! Probably my fountain pen is on borrowed time too. But happily candles seem to endure. Shot with the Sony RX100
See the whole of my 114 in 2014 set here: www.flickr.com/photos/e_liddell/sets/72157639380892645/
Sorry, there is nothing special nor artistic about this photo. Just a plain obsolete item. We still have tapes that were-are special to us!
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My in-law's old telephone came to mind when I saw the Flickr Friday theme, obsolete. If a landline is not obsolete, certainly the rotary dial would qualify.
This phone now resides in a toy box that we maintain for visiting youngsters. It remains a big hit with our great-grandchildren.
Somehow, the first cell phones seem more antiquated. www.flickr.com/photos/jmschneid/15501489831/
Commuter walking past obsolete pay phones, TTC Islington Subway Station, Toronto.
Olympus PEN-F
Panasonic Lumix G 20mm f/1.7 II
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Film projector from way back when.
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Heritage Museum
Vanderbijlpatk
South Africa
Found inside of a semi-abandoned “light plant” built in 1905. See more pictures from this location on my “Abandoned” blog:
T-Max 400 developed in D-76. Nikon FG. Printed on matte surface fiber based paper and colored with Marshall's Photo Oils.
Produced between 1956 and 1965 by Chicago based Imperial Camera Corp, Imperial Savoy was one of the first 6×6 cameras they produced under the Imperial name. It takes a 620 roll film, giving 12 6×6 exposures. 620 film is pretty much identical to 120 film with the exception that the spool it’s wound around has thinner ends, making the roll of film shorter.
From: darlscamerashelf.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/imperial-savoy-2/
Crazy Tuesday - Obsolete Electronics
This plumbing blow torch was made by Butler Metal Products in Preston Ontario in the 1940-1950's.
The factory closed in the 1990's and the city of Preston amalgamated with Galt and Hespeler to become Cambridge in 1973.
I inherited this blow torch from my father-in-law about 1972 and tried it once for plumbing. I had pumped it up too much and the flame blasted out about two to three metres (six to ten feet), thus I turned it off, never used it again, and instead bought a new propane plumbing torch, which was much safer.
On one of Diana's and mine many adventures while in New Mexico. We were on our way to Cerrillos, and I wandered off the main road (route 14) along some back roads..we ended up in someone's backyard...which he said (when he saw us shooting he caame out) was an old shop. Good thing he was a nice guy! lol I found a ton of old junked cars. This was shot in a feature called "Grainy Film on my camera, its SOOC.
Be well all, and please check out Diana's stream to see more photos from our trip! -> www.flickr.com/photos/ladybugdi/ Man, did we have a great time! lol
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Explore..thank you all! :)
Octal base metal envelope tubes were introduced by GE in 1935 followed shortly by glass envelopes. Pin 1 (of 8) had been reserved for grounding the metal enclosure, however glass freed pin 1 for more complex designs such as dual triodes and pentodes.
Flickr Friday - Obsolete
A historic lighthouse in Moreton, The lighthouse was built in 1763 by The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company to guide shipping safely to the Port of Liverpool and is the oldest lighthouse built from bricks in the United Kingdom. The lighthouse became obsolete and was closed in 1908. The last lighthouse keeper was a Mrs. Williams, the only known female lighthouse keeper of the period.
Crazy Tuesday: Obsolete electronics
Death surveys his domain from the keypad of a BlackBerry Curve, last produced in 2013.
I found this obsolete tank parked outside a Logistics Depot somewhere in the UK.
I say somewhere as I did not record the name of the town.
It would be interesting to know the details of this former weapon of war but despite my best efforts I have been unable to ascertain any relevant information.
Somewhere in England.
7A roars through Clematis, gaining momentum for the long climb ahead into Emerald. Standing in the siding are three unserviceable NQR wagons, one of which holds G42's original boiler - the current boiler having come from the ex. Fyansford garratt, which was heavily modified to adapt it for use in G42.
This was bought over 20 years ago for our grandchildren who have long outgrown it. It is Obsolete but still hard to give away.
Built in 1954, the incinerator Dickson was, at that time, the most modern in North America. It has been built to replace these old incinerators where horses were used for harvesting waste.
In the 1920s, the city of Montreal was struggling with dumps that gave off strong emanations, sources of diseases of any kind. This explains why at the end of the decade, it was decided to build a first incinerator at the corner of Papineau and des Carrières Street and a second at Atwater Street.
But, with the advent of the first garbage dumpsters, the existing facilities have became obsolete and a new incinerator was required. In 1954 begins the construction of the new incinerator on Dickson Street. The unloading platform was located above the street level to facilitate the unloading of trucks and allow the discharge of waste directly into large pits. Also, the exterior routes to access the platform were heated to prevent ice formation during winter and all operations were mechanized and dry waste was organized to burn without fuel. The heat emitted by the combustion was recovered and used to heat municipal buildings nearby.
The Dickson incinerator was equipped with two chimneys and represented at the time a gem of waste management technology . However, as this source of pollution was too large, it was responsible for the degradation of the air in the area. The authorities have decided to cease its activities in 1978.
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One for the 365 treasure hunt, number 61 Stamp.
We've had these stamps for years and hardly ever send anything in the post ... birthday and Christmas cards are about all we post.
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Lens: EF 17-40 mm f/4L USM
Filters: Nisi 1000nd, Hoya Polarizer
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The concept of this image and write-up stems from the book Between Two Ages, which was written by Zbigniew Brzezinski and published in 1970. The content of this book deals with issues from the Cold War era. Much of the information is obsolete, yet some of it can be applied to our time. He even left a few nuggets of insight into the globalist plan.
Brzezinski wondered how America would fare in its transition from the industrial age to the technetronic age (the digital age or the third industrial revolution). Currently, we are in transition between the third industrial revolution and the fourth industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries and introduced mechanization and industry. The second industrial revolution took place in the late 19th and early 20th century and brought electricity and mass production. The third industrial revolution, from the mid-20th century to the present, gave us computers and the internet. We are currently entering the fourth industrial revolution. It will usher in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, quantum computing, blockchain and digital ledgers, digital tokenization and crypto assets, virtual and mixed reality, biotechnology and transhumanism. The fourth industrial revolution will introduce a new worldwide economic system based around digital biometric IDs, central bank digital currencies, social credit scores, and carbon footprint trackers. During COVID-19, the transition of the fourth industrial revolution was referred to as the Great Reset or Build Back Better. Understand this: they cannot bring in this new system without the implementation of digital IDs!
The elitist scum don’t have the power to take over the world by force. They must seize it slowly through deception, propaganda, social engineering, and technology. Technology has both unified and fragmented society. Civilization was once separated by time and space. A person on one side of the world didn’t know what was happening on the other side. A traveler or messenger would have to travel a long way to relay distant news. Technology gave us the radio, the television, and the internet. As technology advanced, it reduced time and space between people. This sped things up. Today, we find people with similar interests online. We put less effort into local friendships that build community. We, instead, build impersonal relationships with people from around the world. We have isolated ourselves from the real world and those around us. This isolates us from our social support system, and we become lonely. A similar situation happens with nations. Nations also had a certain amount of time and space, which acted as insulators against excessive friction. This gave them room to maneuver, and it gave them the distance needed to maintain their own identity.
As people increasingly moved to the big cities, it became harder for them to make and maintain friendships. Agenda 21 of the United Nations aims to relocate individuals from rural areas to the cities. They call it sustainability. They will use endangered species as an excuse to keep or push people off the land. Aww, those poor endangered turtles and frogs! The Bundy Ranch standoff highlighted some of these things. “When the U.S. government declared the Mojave desert tortoise an endangered species in 1989, it effectively marked the cattle ranchers of Nevada’s Clark County for extinction. Rancher Cliven Bundy once had neighbors on the range: when the tortoise was listed, there were about 50 cattle-ranching families in the county. Some of them fought court battles to stay, rejecting the idea their cattle posed a danger to the tortoises. But, one by one, they slowly gave up and disappeared. Clark County is not an isolated case. Disputes over land rights are playing out in many Western states, especially in rural areas, where some residents and lawmakers question the legitimacy of the federal government’s claim to swathes of land.” They also want to designate more and more land as parklands and protected areas.
Previously, I posted a write-up inspired by three Canadian government documents. These documents said that climate change would eventually drive people off parts of the land, and that insurance companies would not provide insurance to anyone living in such areas. They also talked about regularly using weather manipulation. Shocker! One thing I failed to mention was their plan to give large tracts of land to the Indians. They admitted that this would cause anger, protests, and violence. British Columbia passed legislation to incorporate this United Nations declaration into law: the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The government is now working towards giving the Indians vast plots of land. The Indians are claiming a city not far from me! This would destroy private property rights in the province. Read the communist manifesto, and you’ll see who desires to abolish private property. Decolonization! Truth and reconciliation! This is nothing new to me; I knew these things were coming many years ago. I knew they would use the Indians to drive us from the rural areas into the cities. Eventually, they will remove the Indians from the land. They are but pawns.
Agenda 21 is the 100-year plan of the United Nations to implement global governance. They must rely on public-private partnerships (governments, corporations, NGOs, and billionaires) to execute their plan. This is a form of fascism! As we speak, governments, corporations, and billionaires are swallowing up rural lands. Rural data centers, anyone? Save the environment! Climate emergency! Mismanage the forests to create wildfires. Mismanage logging to cause flooding. 15-minute smart cities are the future! How about Saudi Arabia’s megacity NEOM, which will be 170 kilometers long! NEOM will be a special economic zone—a Network state. Or what about Tri-State City, which would span across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany? Get the farmers off the land; we need to build our Tower of Babel! “The next Global superpower will be a Network state.” These megacity Network states will be part of a worldwide techno-feudal system. In the Book of Revelation, there are ten kings, just sayin’.
When one era ends and another begins, the lines get blurred. At the time, it’s hard to distinguish which era is which. This new era will shape our society culturally, psychologically, socially, and economically. It will affect all aspects of our lives. In order to bring us into this age, they will need to swap the old system with the new. The old is not compatible with the new.
AI will replace many jobs, so we must introduce Universal Basic Income. Yet, to truly solve this problem, we must merge man with AI. Transhumanism will bring about worldwide equality! These post-humans will become dependent on the new system. There will be no going back to the old system or way of life. They must deal with their loss of humanity. They must find a new sense of meaning in this brave new world. Their perceived reality will be different, yet their new sensations will be quite real.
Everyone will be completely malleable. We will tamper with their very essence. We will modify their personality, manipulate their behavior, exploit their emotions, control their reason, and guide their conscious decisions. No longer will propaganda be needed to manipulate them. “I foresee the time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.” Indeed, Brzezinski mentioned using chemicals for mind control and altering the human genetic structure. He also believed that in a few decades, “they could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations.” Such a society would be dominated by technocrats whose claim to power would be superior scientific knowledge. They would not hesitate to influence public behavior with the latest modern technology. They would keep society under close surveillance and control.
People’s reality has moved from a local to a global context. Brzezinski doesn’t like the term “global village,” instead, he likes the term “global city.” A village has important characteristics such as: “personal stability, interpersonal intimacy, implicitly shared values, and traditions.” A global city, on the other hand, is “a nervous, agitated, tense, and fragmented web of interdependent relations.” The interactions of the global city lack intimacy, which causes insecurity. The high-trust culture associated with village intimacy will be absent from the nervous interaction of the global city.
A global community fragments humanity. It detaches people from their traditional roots. In the past, an individual only associated with their family and village. Eventually, their reach expanded to other regions of the nation. Today, we associate with a global community. The past had greater cohesion and harmony than the global ecosystem of today. Currently, experts from around the world collaborate to solve problems. This sounds like ‘global citizens,’ from a ‘global community,’ solving ‘global problems.’ Kumbaya! Social engineering at its finest!
Mass media exploits our fragmented society, creating a highly controlled society. Cultural change will come through social engineering. People will deliberately and consciously choose to follow what they’ve been fed. According to Brzezinski, electronic devices could be used to educate children from home. This is reminiscent of COVID-19! During the next plandemic or climate lockdown, these “developments may become the handmaidens of constructive change.” Brzezinski also concluded that feminism would enhance society’s cultural growth and standards. Of course, anything that corrupts and fragments society helps the globalist agenda.
“A community of the developed nations must eventually be formed if the world is to respond effectively to the increasingly serious crisis that in different ways now threatens both the advanced world and the Third World.” They want to bring together the leaders of the developed world to discuss global problems. As you can see today, we have globalist entities like the G7 and G20. They desire to use global cooperation to string the world’s nations together, using “a variety of indirect ties.” They can then steer those nations by using various intergovernmental organizations. Of course, their crowning jewel is the United Nations. They must have interconnected cooperation—a cooperative community of nations. They want the rich nations to help the poor nations, because they don’t want the third world to revolt against the system. Foreign aid, here we come, cha-ching, cha-ching! Foreign aid is also a great tool for guiding the Third World in the desired direction.
Brzezinski said that sovereignty is fiction. He stated that they must make “intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure.” Cashless society, here we come! They want to build an “international structure of production and financing” for international trade. In progressive stages, they want to introduce free-trade areas. Of course, these free-trade areas (economic zones) are really megacity Network states. They want to bring in a “global taxation system.” Woohoo, a global carbon tax!
Just think! A man on a white horse brings peace to the Middle East. Then the Jews start building their new temple. Strange, a rider on a red horse then comes to take peace from the earth? The Enlightenment tradition has failed! Liberalism has failed! Democracy has failed! Free market capitalism has failed! Therefore, we’ll introduce a new authoritarian system! Stakeholder capitalism (fascism), here we come! Green economy, here we go! Fight the state, fight diversity, have your civil war, the red horseman will slaughter you with his sword. Oh, wait, what do we have here? The mother of all harlots—the world religion—rides in on the Beast with seven heads and ten horns (kings). We’ll create a one-world religion and bring spiritual unity. Hey, let’s have a ceremony for the new Jewish temple! Now, the vision of the trashumanists will come true: an AI god will be introduced. Oh, what’s this abominable idol of desolation sitting in the temple? World, here’s your new AI god! Surprise, surprise, a zealous Jew kills the antichrist at the celebration. Wow, say it ain’t so, the antichrist comes back to life! “He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.” Hooray, the christ has risen! Let’s worship the antichrist and his Image. Then the Beast and the ten kings destroy the harlot (Revelation 17:16). She served her purpose; we have the true christ now! Ta-da, all people must take the Mark of the Beast-chip. Finally, the world has transitioned into the new age. It’s an age of global technocratic governance and transhumanism.
The mindset of some of these globalists and transhumanists could be used to create a sci-fi movie: The technocrats rule as kings in their Network states. They recreate mankind in their own image (trans-humans). They recreate nature (trans-nature). Eventually, the useless eaters—the peasant class—are done away with. No upgrades for you! The technocrats then fight to outlast, outwit, and outplay one another, until they destroy the earth and what’s left of mankind. Next, they inhabit the planets, recreating the universe (trans-universe). In the end, they fight until one is left standing. The winner is declared god!
“This new perspective involves growing recognition that man’s propensity for scientific innovation cannot be restrained—that as long as man’s mind functions, scientific innovation will be one of its expressions.” ‒ Zbigniew Brzezinski
Our world appears to be like The Truman Show: scripted and fake! I’ve stumbled upon numerous things over the years, and I hope to study them deeply. It would take a lifetime of reading. Nevertheless, I think it’s possible to find the evidence needed to answer my questions.
What if wars are planned?
What if communism was aided and abetted?
What if fascism was nurtured too?
What if protests are planned?
What if economic crashes are deliberate too?
What if the Federal Reserve is privately owned?
What if we were taken off the Gold Standard to kill the middle class and indebt us?
What if most of our politicians are puppets?
What if political parties are one big uniparty?
What if our democracy is an illusion?
What if Western Intelligence is run by outside interests?
What if the CIA assassinates American Presidents?
What if the CIA assassinates people like Charlie Kirk too?
What if the CIA is behind the mainstream news?
What if the CIA is behind Hollywood too?
What if the CIA is behind the music industry?
What if the CIA is behind the drug epidemic? What if they want sex, drugs, and debauchery too?
What if the CIA is behind the drug cartels?
What if the CIA is behind the Mafias?
What if the CIA is behind the gangs?
What if the CIA is behind domestic terrorist attacks? What about 9/11 too?
What if the CIA is behind many of the international terrorist groups?
What if the CIA is behind many of the mass shootings?
What if the CIA is behind many of the serial killers?
What if the CIA uses brainwashing and mind control?
What if the CIA was behind the feminist movement?
What if the CIA was behind playboy and Hugh Hefner?
What if the CIA was behind Hustler and Larry Flynt?
What if the CIA was behind Jeffrey Epstein?
What if the CIA is behind human sex trafficking?
What if the CIA is behind human trafficking?
What if the CIA is behind the porn industry?
What if Western intelligence was behind major occult figures?
What if Western intelligence was promoting the occult?
What if Western intelligence was promoting the New Age movement?
What if esoteric ideologies have shaped our thinking to accept the new world order?
What if the CIA assassinated foreign politicians and installed puppets? What if these puppets allowed the World Bank, IMF, and corporations to rape their natural resources and make them debt-slaves too?
What if the CIA is behind many of the AI companies? What if their CEOs are in bed with Trump too?
What if the Internet is a net and the World Wide Web is a web to ensnare us?
What if our education system is meant to dumb us down and indoctrinate us?
What if sex education is meant to make the youth promiscuous?
What if race and gender theory are preparing them for a transhuman society without race and gender?
What if schools are sexually grooming children?
What if the lack of discipline in schools spoils and ruins them?
What if they discourage old-school parental discipline such as spanking?
What if the welfare system is used to make people dependant?
What if the welfare system was used to break up the black family? What if abortion is used to keep their population numbers down too?
What if birth control was legalized for population control?
What if abortion was legalized for population control?
What if homosexuality was legalized for population control?
What if they made AIDS in a laboratory?
What if they weaponized cancer?
What if they weaponized Lyme disease and other diseases? What about Dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Autism too?
What if antidepressants fry our brains? What if they cause suicides, killings, and mass shootings too?
What if they use frequencies, microwave technology, and 5G to harm and control us?
What if chemtrails rain down heavy metals? What if they block sunlight too?
What if plastics screw with our hormones? What if microplastics can be linked to chronic diseases too?
What if they put fluoride in the water to pacify us?
What if genetically modified foods modify us?
What if AI is meant to replace us?
What if Climate Change is a hoax?
What if green energy is a scam?
What if COVID-19 was a plandemic?
What if mRNA technology alters DNA?
What if vaccines are for population control?
What if they are trying to sterilize us? What if sterilizing agents have been found in baby products too?
What if multiculturalism is meant to replace our culture?
What if mass immigration is meant to bring down the West too?
What if work visas are meant for cheap labour?
What if modern technology is meant to rewire our brains?
What if the purpose of the United Nations is world governance?
What if they’re building a surveillance society?
What if they’re building a cashless society?
What if they’re building a transhuman society?
What if ten rulers control the world from behind the scenes? What if they’re the patriarchs of the wealthiest families in the world? What if they’re Satan’s minions too?
What if?
Revelation 17:12-13: “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the Beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the Beast.”
Created for Macro Monday's Weekly Theme, October 10th: "Obsolete". This week's challenge is to dust off some "vintage" (and hopefully) loved objects that for one reason or another lost their place under the spotlight to newer (not always better) technology or way of doing things.
From the good 'ole days in the darkroom . . . my wind-up Gilbert Interval Timer. I've traded in my darkroom and all it's supplies for the "newer technology" of Photoshop. I still keep this timer on my kitchen counter. My one precious memento of the old ways . . .
EXPLORED! October 11, 2011 ~~ Many, many thanks to everyone!!