{"id":27539,"date":"2017-03-19T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=27539"},"modified":"2017-04-11T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:51:03","slug":"lights-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=27539","title":{"rendered":"Lights Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lights-out.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27543\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lights-out.jpeg?resize=333%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lights-out\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lights-out.jpeg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lights-out.jpeg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lights-Out-Cyberattack-Unprepared-Surviving\/dp\/055341996X\"><em>Lights Out<\/em>\u00a0<\/a> by long-time journalist Ted Koppel, about how vulnerable our electrical grid is to hacking. Considering the current news, I think Koppel has really hit on something.<\/p>\n<p>When you measure people\u2019s feelings and intuitions about 2017 and a Trump presidency, they\u2019re all over the map. Facebook, the dog park, emails, neighborhood conversations: no collective consensus.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, one woman said she felt it might spell the end of humanity. An Aussie commenter on our blog, Darren, said he didn\u2019t feel humanity would end, but that the volume of dissent so prevalent during 2016 would get really loud. At the dog park, I half-jokingly do a countdown to Armageddon (which was the the inauguration, now 8 weeks past).\u00a0\u00a0 I speak to former Sanders supporters who reluctantly voted for Clinton and they say the Democratic party needs to move toward a more progressive platform.<\/p>\n<p>So where are we as a country, a nation, a society?<\/p>\n<p>Well, sadly, we seem to be caught in a nightmare. You know the kind of nightmare I mean. The dark cellar you can\u2019t escape, the place where monsters are breathing hard but you can\u2019t see them, the grave where the dead whisper, <em>If you don\u2019t learn from history, then history repeats itself.<\/em> We are in the midst of a Stephen King novel where the monsters are larger and more powerful than even King imagined.<\/p>\n<p>We have a president\u00a0 who tweets his foreign policy stuff, pisses off countries like China and North Korea, and then has his blonde Barbie doll, Kellyanne Conway, go on TV talk shows to spin whatever he says. We have a racist- Jeff Sessions \u2013 who\u00a0 for attorney general \u2013 and a VP who tried to mandate funerals for every aborted fetus, a climate change denier and CEO of Exxon as Secretary of State. We have billionaires and millionaires as the guys who will dictate policy at every level.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump lasts for four years, we may be wearing oxygen masks like they do in Bejing just to get through the day. But since Trump dismisses the intelligence community, we may be facing something even more dire: a blackout that lasts weeks or months because the electrical grid is hacked \u2013 by the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, Iran, who knows? Trump has made a lot of enemies already.<\/p>\n<p>Koppel argues that it\u2019s not a matter of <em>if <\/em>the grid goes down, but<em> when.<\/em> Think about it. No running water, no sewage, no heat or AC, no gasoline, grocery store shelves go empty, no internet, email, facebook, instagram, twitter. Social media goes as dead as everything else. Koppel\u2018s sources estimate that <em>one in ten Americans<\/em> would be dead within the first year.<\/p>\n<p>Given the recent headlines, the president and his policies, his\u00a0 cabinet, <em>Lights Out<\/em> may be the ultimate Dystopian novel \u2013 except that the book is non-fiction. My question is what can we do collectively and individually, within our own lives, to minimize this man&#8217;s influence? Can we collectively imagine and set intentions for a saner government? Is that enough?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I\u2019m reading Lights Out\u00a0 by long-time journalist Ted Koppel, about how vulnerable our electrical grid is to hacking. Considering the current news, I think Koppel has really hit on something. 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