Many, many, actually a manyfinity of blog-posts and opinions about recent mass Apple addiction. It’s like people can’t get enough apples. Where they “eating” only “vegetables” all these years? I will not reiterate the idea that can be seen here and here and many other places.

What I want to put in light is a simple comparison. Nowadays you can see the Apple stores overcrowded. It’s like a mass hypnosis, a sense of all-so-waited sense of freedom. It’s like the 90’s in my country (from exUSSR) and neighboring ones.

Those times, people got sick of communism which they called a slavery. This is a parallel to Microsoft for the recent years. And then people rushed head-ahead to democracy, blinded by the sense of freedom, never wanting and waiting to see that there is a slavery in democracy itself - just another flavor and more fancy-boxed. It’s the same with Apple – people blindly follow the sense of freedom they have about Apple (based on supposition of Open Software ideology behind the Apple initial philosophy), not seeing the closed boxes into which they sell themselves to Apple (iPhone 3G, players, DRMs, etc.). All this turnover of open-Apple into slavery-Apple – it’s all because of the money. This is the same as discredited democracy by money-greed of Enron, BlackWater Corp, Helliburton and alike.

If taking a conspiracy perspective and thinking lunatic way, here are some thoughts. Behind all big corporations (who aim your money and freedoms and whose goals are to make you dependent on them and sell yourself to them metaphorically speaking) are usually and mainly the same persons and circle of interests. It doesn’t matter who is today ruling the masses – as long as they keep the people mind’s busy. Yesterday it was Microsoft with their PC and Win, which separated each individual into it’s own social cell, who prefer to date virtually rather than trying to socialize in a park for example. It may have distracted masses minds from essential things like Federal Reserve Bank being a private corporation and things alike. Today is Apple with their highly addictive, nearly hypnotizing and entertainment-oriented devices. Entertainment is good, but with limits, because as someone once said “This country is a fucking amusement park”. Tomorrow it can be Google, which is being prepared now and every single second now for it’s social-center-command-and-control-point. It’s all about your money, your freedom and your mind.

And for the end – don’t get me all wrong. I am not saying technology and it’s advancement is bad. It is a wonderful thing. The problem is it’s final and real use, it’s way of being delivered and the way it acts and affects people and societies.

Just my two cents…