"Hook it up to the internet," they said. "It will make life easy!!", they said.
The freezer cyberattacks we saw last month how freezers in France, as well as in some U.S. military base dining facilities were hacked, resulting in food spoilage. Now, the same thing has happened in Europe, in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg and Estonia. The hackers didn't just turn the freezers off; they turned them up, making the freezers into ovens, with the result being a great deal of food spoiled....
Whoops! Maybe that "Hook every. damn. thing. to the 'net!" is not a good idea.
You see, The Moderns have forgotten GKChesterton's maxim:
...There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.” ...
In the instant case, The Moderns chose not to put up a fence in the first damn place.
These are the same people who demanded that you take The Vaxx.
The outcome(s) were predictable.
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