Hurley Burly.

If you have any sense of history at all, any sense that giant institutions have always tried to impose their world-view on the population they seek to control and, therefore, profit from, you should be very sensitive to the current dogma being propagated by nearly every giant company and thousands more smaller companies who are those giant company's willing executioners.

AI is almighty, god-like and great. Any mistake is your fault and acceptable. And any deviation from today's current technology orthodoxy subjects the deviator to excommunication modern-style. 

This morning, I came across an ad from Oracle--a malign company if ever there was one. By the way, like the drug dealer/child-killer driving a giant SUV and flaunting his wealth and power, Oracle of late is doing the same. Consider this.

This sort of growth doesn't happen to a half-a-trillion dollar company if some sort of manipulation and prestidigitation isn't happening. Something is going on that is about as kosher as a church basement potluck dinner in Pork Belly, Iowa.

Growth this precipitous is simply not tenable. It's the human contact equivalent of Elizabeth Hurley deciding I am Mr. Wonderful. If that somehow happens, something is amiss. 

Back to the 19-page ad I saw for Oracle this morning. Here are just some of the dogma masquerading as truth statements I pulled from their downloadable brochure.

What I find striking in all this is how Oracle's claims are so distant from any reality I've ever encountered. Much like church dogma in the age of Galileo or RFK-anti-science dogma coming from much of amerika today. Much like the arrogant dogma of statements like these from WPP, my ex-employer.

HINT: When your market cap has dropped from $32B to $6B in ten years, and you've shed 70% of your employees, calling yourself a creative transformation company ain't cool. It's like a rapidly metastasizing cancer hiring a PR-firm and calling itself a "rapid cell-growth organism."

As it pertains to Oracle and their long ad, I found this footnote. All of the data in their slides above comes with this as their source.

2019! 

Really, they're citing "scientific" data from a study that's almost seven years old? That's a bit like taking a photograph of an acorn and calling it a future 300-foot-tall giant sequoia. 

The best thing that came from being born during the era of LBJ and Richard Nixon, of Vietnam and Watergate, of long-hair and middle-fingering norms is that we learned to question. Everything.

Something is rotten in the world when trillions are spent telling you how great AI is and you've yet to see any evidence of it other than you can make a video of your dog talking from a still photograph. 

Despite trying to force it down my throat, I'm not sure AI is winning anymore hearts and minds in the workplace than amerika did in Vietnam fifty years ago. Compliance is not acceptance.

Something stinks here.

In a time of universal dogma, questioning is a revolutionary act.