Doug, for the record, I know of no “Factions of Ushawks are looking at having … Air California Adventure take over the USHPA”.

And even if I did, that would belong in another topic.

As for this topic, I remember when I first read the book “1984” by George Orwell. I was still in high school, and 1984 seemed far in the future to a younger me.

The premise of the book was certainly a terrifying future, but I dismissed it as being impossible because it would require so many people to watch all the cameras and change all the history books and magazines and newspaper articles. Such a “Ministry of Lies” would be far too top-heavy to be sustainable.

Of course, I hadn’t grasped the future power of computers at that young age. We will soon have AI “bots” doing all of those things (monitoring us and changing our history) and much much more.

Sadly, it is already happening here at the SHGA. With a few keystrokes, the entire club history – including the voices of those who are no longer with us – has been taken down – “disappeared”. And the vast majority of this club just pretends it didn’t happen.

The warnings of 1984 will become reality through the apathy of those too lazy to stop it.