We are living through a strange ? period of time, a difficult ? period of time, or profitable? period of time? I suppose it depends who do you ask .
For a poor black person in the USA, this is a strange time, when overt racism of USA and their leaders have come to fore and they do not hide the feeling. A senator writes: Slavery was a necessary evil for founding of the the States. This is a historic moment for the black people in USA and if they come together and demand their rightful place in society, USA would climb back some steps in the Respect Ladder among civilized nations. In Miami, 40 per cent of the immigrants or their children support far right-wing policies of the government at local, state and federal levels we are told. They, especially the Cubans or the Chileans or the Venezuelans had come here to escape “oppression” in their countries, but why are they part of the oppression in their new home? This has been shown to be true of immigrants from subcontinental India too.
Miami
Miami's black-white dissimilarity score is 73.0, according to a study of 2010 Census data by professors John Logan and Brian Stults of Brown and Florida State University. A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered very high segregation. Blue colour denotes Black populated areas.
I am currently reading an excellent book by the Israeli Historian, Noah Yuval Harari
It is an excellent read, those who have read his first two enormously erudite and popular books would realize the scholarship that went into it. He begins with the advances in BioTech and InfoTech and AI (Artificial Intelligence) is advancing and how Human Stupidity would garner its power and make a swathe of human being irrelevant. He talks about Brexit and how that was influenced by FEELING rather than LOGIC and also how the right-wing totalitarian leaders, exemplified by Trump and Brasil’s Bolsanaro have come to fore. He also questions the legitimacy of Silicon Valley giants as in FaceBook and Google and Twitter in the biased dissemination of information targeted at the feeling and weakness of the readers.
My friend from Phnom Penh, Cambodia sent me this video clip from a TED talk by Carole Cadwalla , a very courageous British journalist. It is worth listening to her .
Her Wikipedia entry is quite impressive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cadwalladr?wprov=sfla1
She is the award winning journalist who laid bare Russian involvement in Britain and its politics as well as the social platforms and their role in undermining our liberal democracies. After listening to her, you will have less respect for Zuckerberg (FACEBOOK) and Sunder Pichai (GOOGLE).
I am taking the liberty of reproducing a few lines fro the book by Noah Yuval Harari (Jerusalem)
The danger is that if we invest too muvh in developing AI and too little in developing
are far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile,
