Was there anything sinister behind the global Internet outage experienced today, July 19, 2024? Although limited in duration, it wreaked havoc with many systems, such as banking, including causing a cascade of airline flight cancellations.

This was, indeed, sinister because it is a deliberate incursion into the human civilization to cause a disruption in the basic infrastructure which, in today's world, is largely dependent on information technology via a working Internet. That dependence on computers and computer-processed information for almost everything taking place now was intended as a trap. The lure of convenience, speed, and greater seeming power and reach to have everything connected globally, and done electronically, has been embraced wholeheartedly for its advantages and convenience, but without a deeper awareness and realization that it creates a kind of house of cards that is fragile and works as a substitute for things more concrete and reliable. When everything depends on the Internet, everything can be stopped wholesale by a cyberattack of sufficient magnitude and precision application. That was what was on display in this event. It was sufficient to bring many things to a halt, and while it was clearly the consequence of a system update allowing the problem to be traced and corrected, there are ways that the availability of all these modern automated systems, driven by computer intelligence, can be taken offline in ways harder to diagnose and correct. You will see this happen down the line. So this was a dress rehearsal, a kind of a foretaste of what can happen. The goal is ultimately to make everyone live in fear, in seeing how truly fragile their existence has become, when nothing will work and nothing can take place because there can be no communication, no transportation, no goods and services of any kind, no way to make a living, no places to go to get basic needs met, like food or medicine, so it is a preview of coming attractions.