Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 11:38 AM
Subject: "Psychological ( Y2K ) Warfare" ( declared ) by GartnerGroup
...
19981107 -- "Psychological ( Y2K ) Warfare" ( declared ) by
GartnerGroup ...
IMHO,
"Psychological ( Y2K ) Warfare" has been declared on populations of
the globe with the Gartner Report, "Y2K Too Shall Pass" <
http://gartner12.gartnerweb.com/public/static/home/00073955.html > (
see snip below ).
Until this fateful report, I had considered GartnerGroup one of the
more esteemed Year 2000 ( IT business ) research organizations. The
big guns ( GartnerGroup, ITAA, et al ) are being called out to quash
( well articulated and researched ) Y2K-related information they've (
justifiably ) disseminated in recent years through excellent research
and testimony.
In spite of the pretty graphs <
http://gartner6.gartnerweb.com/public/static/home/00073955.html > and
highbrow ( ever increasingly politicized ) verbiage, the realm of
intellectual ( and psychological ) denial has finally been breached
by the Y2K behemoths.
The realities and vulnerability of the "fragile infrastructure" to a
total ( network ) collapse from a success level of only 90% ( Y2K
remediation ) by societies at-large, has enormous consequence to
TWAWKI ( The World As We Know It ). These are ( clumsy ) treading
into dangerous waters!
Describing bank runs and long-term preparations as the worst things
that could happen in the face of "devastated" economies, is less than
disingenuous. I consider it morally bankrupt and evil!
GartnerGroup's "Hurricane" analogy is way out of the base lines.
There is no evidence ( status reporting is not the doing! ) that the
Year 2000 Techno-Ambush won't be universal and catastrophic ( for
computer-based societies ) in scope and effect for a large portion of
the population on the planet. Neutron bomb is a realistic analogy.
Yes! People are going to perish! Buildings and edifices will remain
standing, however, as uninhabitable ) monuments to the Year 2000
Techno-Ambush.
For crying out loud! It is reality that military and policing forces
around the world ( Canada and Britain! ) are quaking in their boots (
literally ), preparing ( pro-actively ) for prospects of massive
civil unrest and chaos leading up to the Year 2000, and thereafter.
GartnerGroup is incorrect with the proclamation that Year 2000
disruptions are "not the end of the world." The disruption of the
global infrastructure will, indeed, be the end of the world _as we
know it today_. It will be a relatively instantaneous, population
hurling-event into a retro-lifestyles of the mid-19th century,
adversely affecting more than half the population on our planet.
Who are these plebian, grossly in-denial, wannabe "psychologists"
trying to kid ( or appease )? GartnerGroup ( and their ilk ) have,
forthwith, lost any useful purpose and credibility! They have become
Y2K-ill-fated corporate lackeys and purveyors of corporate snake oil,
groping to protect their own ( ill-fated )assets.
It's time for individuals of the world to take Year 2000-matters and
rat ional preparations into their own, capable, soon-to-be low-tech
hands. The consequences of not doing so, are much too grave to be
left to the whims and mercy of denial-blinded corporations and
governments.
. Do not bother to ask for, or trust in, Y2K "status reports (
fiction )."
. Do prepare for global infrastructure disruptions, of
indeterminable duration.
. Do seize public officials with demands to mobilize and utilize
every possible ( especially local ) public human and material
resources toward Year 2000 calamity preparations, on a worst case
scenario basis -- YESTERDAY!!.
Time is the premium and primary commodity. It is time to re-educate
affected populations to the "rigors" of doing without ( substituting
... {with} ):
. Water ( with collection/rudimentary purification )
. Food (mass) production/distribution ( with sharecropping/canning )
. Heat [ natural gas ( NG )/electric distribution ] ( with safe
coal/wood methods )
. Sanitation ( with rudimentary/disease-mitigating methods )
. Clothing ( with handmade sackcloth and hair shirts )
. National Defense ( with "Minute Man" militia )
. Medication/Medical/Dental technologies ( with herbs/first aid/ugh!
)
. Currency ( with metals/bartering )
. National Defense ( with "Minute Man" militia )
. Communications ( with Pony Express/"The Postman" )
. Mass transportation ( with equestrian/steam )
. Police ( with Neighborhood Watches/Self-defense )
. Courts ( with local Justices of the Peace )
. Schools ( with local teachers, teaching the basic R's in existing
facilities )
. Work ( with handcrafts/harvesting ... where possible, continued
Y2K remediation! )
. Entertainment ( with local live theater and community social
functions )
. Pets ( with guard dogs/livestock )
Heeding Year 2000 psycho-babble from sophomoric, ill-fated
institutions in societies, will lead down folly lane. It's the
networks! They're broken and can't be fixed in time. Do what you
and your loved ones must, and are able, before it's too late to be
too late.
There won't be any help from the general media on the Year 2000
issues, either.. They are bought and paid lackeys of corporate
masters with vested interests in jeopardy -- regardless of what the
Year 2000 meltdown outcome. Only courageous individuals and small (
some Internet-based ) news sources will be allowed to provide real
information -- trust, but verify.
Oh yes! Keep your eyes on the money and leaders ( public and private
) for the only you will need to heed during and after the Year 2000
meltdown.
Regards,
Robert Mangus
"I'm a computer 'Y2K-bomb' technician. If you see me running, try to
keep up." RMangus
"Sometimes a majority simply means that all of the fools are of one
mind." [Author Unknown]
# # #
-- Robert Mangus (rmangus@mail.netquest.com), November 17, 1998.