That was excellent VO and thought-provoking. I do believe that the latest generations (Z and others) offer up a great deal of hope, while it is also vitally important that we, as the adults in the room, discourage prolonged gadgetry as it is so devastating to the soul. God Bless you brother down there in the South. Stay strong. Stay maskless. BB.
Keep in mind the technical term for that rabbit hole we are swirling into, is a feedback loop.
It is the essence of everything from mass gravitationally swirling into galaxies and the black holes at the center, to compounding interest, to drug addiction.
When they design electrical systems, they have to install circuit breakers to make sure they don't melt the wiring.
The Ancients devised debt jubilees as circuit breakers to compounding interest, 3000 years ago.
The Western world has been surfing this wave for 400 hundred years. The problem is the positive feedback has turned negative and now it's just those of us in the West being sucked into this one.
Here is my effort to dissect it in detail, if you want the long form;
Wish I had something more meaningful to contribute other than the observation that the Mattel football game came out in 1977. I was an “early adopter”….
Excellent. Very perceptive article, tying together the deep themes. That said ...
"I fully expect Apple to come up with an *implant version* of the tech."
This seems to me well on its way with the ramping-up of (voluntary) *universal* flu shots (v0.9), (forced) *universal* COVID shots (v1.x), and now (v2.x) neverending series of (one way or another) *universal* COVID/etc shots, as well as the complementary nanobots etc. All dutifully announced, justified, and promoted by the MSM.
"Peace be upon you in Christ"
My take on this, and really, in all humility (and I'm happy to discuss, because to me it certainly clashes with the depth of your essay): It is, after several decades, well... *screamingly* obvious to me that the Abrahamic God, far from being our salvation, is the Mother of All Psy-Ops. It is the longest and most successful of all time, harnessing the evolution-developed religious impulse that exist in greater or lesser strength in most humans, to control all humans (in a lot of good ways, e.g. preventing much murder, mayhem, etc.), but send us in deep denial of our own (cognitive or any other) limitations. I dunno, maybe one has to have an 'extreme lesser' form of the 'impulse' to see this? Lucas' "Video Jesus" from 1971 gives me a chuckle. Do you really think you're better, and qualitatively so, than the sucker for *that* representation of God? Please, what am I missing here?
So even if God existed, there's still us problematic humans: We recognize humans are necessarily imperfect and limited, so then it is then impossible for any one of us humans to truly know anything *for certain* but our consciousness. That "anything" includes God (assuming he existed), no matter what "communication" he sent us. Another way to put it: For humans, it's *all* belief -- science, spirituality, and everything else. (Just in case you think I'm unwitting believer in scientism.)
I realize the illusion of God is damn powerful, sending many of the faithful into (apparently?) complete denial of the preceding, and then walking away from this debate with an internal, rationalizing dismissal. But "knowing" something perfectly, or even sufficiently, requires being one with it, and no human is the god that is required to do that. And there's all these cases of great, *believing* thinkers throughout history having their doubting episodes, and you gotta say, C'mon now...
Will you, reader, talk here about these things? We are certainly in something greater than a political upheaval -- it's an epistemological crisis.
If one wants to be optimistic, it could be that the censorship-industrial complex may wind up killing the internet if people start to unplug, as this article recommends.
The fly in the ointment (for them) is things falling apart. Particularly infrastructure. Most of the Western nations are the same. Some are actively destroying themselves. I strongly suspect we will not slowly decline and become serfs because the modern Lords, corporations and others, seem quite inept.
I do agree about the smartphones and plugging in. I am despondent when I go out and see increasing numbers using their glowing rectangles walking along the street. Everyone in cafes stares at them. Worst of all are parents with young kids, the mother lost in Facebook while the toddler stares at her. Small things amuse small minds.
That was excellent VO and thought-provoking. I do believe that the latest generations (Z and others) offer up a great deal of hope, while it is also vitally important that we, as the adults in the room, discourage prolonged gadgetry as it is so devastating to the soul. God Bless you brother down there in the South. Stay strong. Stay maskless. BB.
Keep in mind the technical term for that rabbit hole we are swirling into, is a feedback loop.
It is the essence of everything from mass gravitationally swirling into galaxies and the black holes at the center, to compounding interest, to drug addiction.
When they design electrical systems, they have to install circuit breakers to make sure they don't melt the wiring.
The Ancients devised debt jubilees as circuit breakers to compounding interest, 3000 years ago.
The Western world has been surfing this wave for 400 hundred years. The problem is the positive feedback has turned negative and now it's just those of us in the West being sucked into this one.
Here is my effort to dissect it in detail, if you want the long form;
https://johnmerryman.substack.com/p/why-culture-is-not-reality
C'mon... Just keep using a "smart"phone 24/7 connected to Guulag[Google]/Appe/Amazon and BE HAPPY!
"Given the emerging state of Serfdom"... emerging?! It's been like this (what I label modern slavery) since at least 1790.
"Our" CURRENT CIVILIZATION https://postimg.cc/t7by4c9n
Lucky for the OWNERS we - herds of modern moron slaves across the Planet - aren't willing to do ANYTHING to CHANGE it.
We just love to complain about stuff.
Wish I had something more meaningful to contribute other than the observation that the Mattel football game came out in 1977. I was an “early adopter”….
Excellent. Very perceptive article, tying together the deep themes. That said ...
"I fully expect Apple to come up with an *implant version* of the tech."
This seems to me well on its way with the ramping-up of (voluntary) *universal* flu shots (v0.9), (forced) *universal* COVID shots (v1.x), and now (v2.x) neverending series of (one way or another) *universal* COVID/etc shots, as well as the complementary nanobots etc. All dutifully announced, justified, and promoted by the MSM.
"Peace be upon you in Christ"
My take on this, and really, in all humility (and I'm happy to discuss, because to me it certainly clashes with the depth of your essay): It is, after several decades, well... *screamingly* obvious to me that the Abrahamic God, far from being our salvation, is the Mother of All Psy-Ops. It is the longest and most successful of all time, harnessing the evolution-developed religious impulse that exist in greater or lesser strength in most humans, to control all humans (in a lot of good ways, e.g. preventing much murder, mayhem, etc.), but send us in deep denial of our own (cognitive or any other) limitations. I dunno, maybe one has to have an 'extreme lesser' form of the 'impulse' to see this? Lucas' "Video Jesus" from 1971 gives me a chuckle. Do you really think you're better, and qualitatively so, than the sucker for *that* representation of God? Please, what am I missing here?
So even if God existed, there's still us problematic humans: We recognize humans are necessarily imperfect and limited, so then it is then impossible for any one of us humans to truly know anything *for certain* but our consciousness. That "anything" includes God (assuming he existed), no matter what "communication" he sent us. Another way to put it: For humans, it's *all* belief -- science, spirituality, and everything else. (Just in case you think I'm unwitting believer in scientism.)
I realize the illusion of God is damn powerful, sending many of the faithful into (apparently?) complete denial of the preceding, and then walking away from this debate with an internal, rationalizing dismissal. But "knowing" something perfectly, or even sufficiently, requires being one with it, and no human is the god that is required to do that. And there's all these cases of great, *believing* thinkers throughout history having their doubting episodes, and you gotta say, C'mon now...
Will you, reader, talk here about these things? We are certainly in something greater than a political upheaval -- it's an epistemological crisis.
If one wants to be optimistic, it could be that the censorship-industrial complex may wind up killing the internet if people start to unplug, as this article recommends.
One can only hope…🤔
The fly in the ointment (for them) is things falling apart. Particularly infrastructure. Most of the Western nations are the same. Some are actively destroying themselves. I strongly suspect we will not slowly decline and become serfs because the modern Lords, corporations and others, seem quite inept.
I do agree about the smartphones and plugging in. I am despondent when I go out and see increasing numbers using their glowing rectangles walking along the street. Everyone in cafes stares at them. Worst of all are parents with young kids, the mother lost in Facebook while the toddler stares at her. Small things amuse small minds.