There is another, little discussed, reason as to why vehicle manufacturers want to keep their software hidden and that is because it is often based on out of date, or unsupported, programming. I know of one major brand who has legacy MS software at the core of its operating systems, and I'm sure they are all pretty much in the same boat, except Tesla. This whole vehicle electronics edifice is built on sand.
Here's something from Scotty Kilmer about an inexpensive scan tool. Can't say I know much about the software programmed into the ECU.
A note on inflections in turning points from
the article linked to above -
"According to the authors, the First Turning is a High, the Second Turning is an Awakening, the Third Turning is an Unraveling, and the Fourth Turning is a Crisis."
The article focuses on the transition from Weimar Germany to the Third Reich but the same could be said of the transition from Tsarist Russia to the USSR, Dynastic China to Communist China or the collapse of the Empires post WWI to the system precipitated by Wilson's 14 Points, summarised below:
1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties
2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace
3. Equal trade conditions
4. Decrease armaments among all nations
5. Adjust colonial claims
6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence
7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored
8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories
9. Readjust Italian borders
10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination
11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro
12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles
13. Creation of an independent Polish state
14. Creation of the League of Nations
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/peace/fourteen-points
It is important not to engage in
presentism when analysing these points - the world system was imperial at the time, so these were really ground-breaking proposals. Wilson has his critics - especially domestically - but these points were the foundation stone of the liberation of nations, and the political incorporation of the concept of
universal rights, based on natural law, into the normative worldview.
Indeed, Hitler's ambitions can be described as the internalisation into Europe of the standard activity of the empires outside Europe during the C19th framed within the pathological ideologies that incubated during it.
We're generally in favour of Wilson's points, as they marked a seismic shift in the legitimacy of national claims to self-determination, and we utilised them to further our path to independence.
While the Free State is often regarded with distaste in revisionist history, it was, in fact, a practical tour de force in navigating a treacherous route, in a dangerous environment, to competent self-government. De Valera, despite the howls, was a superb statesman and he was from a generation (across the parties) that was experienced and prudent in its efforts to free us from the British orbit, build a functional national state, and stay out of Great Power wars. The history of the C20th is littered with atrocities from failed attempts at the same. A factional interpretation of the past isn't useful, credit must be given where credit is due if we are to learn from it.
The UK has very many fine qualities, and it has plenty of
noble examples of
good people, but its presence in Ireland was/is abusive. One can look at the brothel Dublin was turned into by its garrison, the caste system based on religion, and the poverty imposed on the people by economic policies (like the corn laws and deindustrialisation) that indentured them to produce raw materials for export to it. We can contrast this with the achievement of the
virtuous circle of growth that has gained strength since independence. One only need contrast our success with peripheralised areas in the region.
Such a program of competent independence is a multi-decade effort - without an acceptance of this little progress can be made as discontent over ideal visions of the future absorb activity and strife is chosen to distract from the hardship of practical, reasonable effort. When sitting in a cold camp in a snowstorm one should work to make it survivable rather bicker over the driest spot to sit.
I'd also say that the mechanic in the original video isn't anything like an acolyte of dark dreams - instead he's facing a threat to his livelihood, and way of life, that multitudes of Americans have actually undergone over the past number of decades. He's being optimistic and, you know, it's not a bad thing being a capable person in such times so he's a good chance of coming through it, God willing.
Is there a significant turning happening at the moment? It is possible. The cyclical occurence of this sort has been observed in history. The question really is - what arrangement and mentality will wrest control of it? There is a contest afoot for the soul of civilisation. It is not recreational in nature, but rather deadly serious. Will we descend further into madness or come to our senses? That is an open question.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ A Tale of Two Cities
The passive observation of a particular
outrage invites a
general catastrophe.
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