Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Tsubion's avatar

Hi Rob. Good points as usual.

The nanotech, AGI and materials science revolution as depicted by Ray Kurzweil et al was slated for the 2035-2045 time slot when all the magical capabilities were supposed to come online for natural born humans whether they wanted to or not (because it would be everywhere and in everything i.e. a transformational evolutionary event).

For now, my take on these so-called advancing technologies and interventions including vaccines and 5G is that they intentionally cause harm which is then patched up by the medical industry. Even the supposed benefits - more time in front of screens or engaging with random people online etc - are not actually that beneficial in the end and lead people to a form of madness going round and round in deliberately created bubbles of existence.

So even if we try to avoid these new technologies and interventions as much as possible these industries are soldiering on until something breaks.

And I find myself criticizing all sides now because they all appear to want the same outcome in the end. And that outcome is looking like dystopia or collapse at the moment.

Expand full comment
DrLatusDextro's avatar

'Circling the drain' appears a common past time, while competing others (unwittingly or wittingly) work hard to continue the cull. Meanwhile, we are really not a lot closer to accurately identifying the instigators.

And now we contend with another fear laden assault, one from McMaster University, the perfect tertiary hot-bed of dystopia.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/disturbing-scientists-advance-new

Reframing the entire context, intentions, extant and emerging constraints of our global prison without being accurately aware of the identity, explicit motivations and ideologies of our competing jailers is an extraordinary task of discovery and inference. It is intellectually and emotionally exhausting. Still, when in a war one fights until the end or until one wins. It is as simple, and the terms, as ruthless as that.

It strikes me that in all the knowledge we have collectively acquired we may eventually unveil with precision those explicitly evil, mortal, fallible, toilet paper dependent individuals, those abject well heeled megalomaniacs, who consider in their deluded hubris and psychopathy that they are supremely fit to rule the World and dispose of mankind and its prosperity as they see fit.

Then, in that time, we will have won and one prays, a new ontology emerges.

Perhaps when people feel that they have nothing left to lose, then maybe, just maybe they will awaken. What bothers and distracts me most is that either way, the hubris burdened maniacs exercising their perverted insanity will see this as a double benefit. It is a perfect murderous Catch-22.

But then, there are always unintended consequences and quite unforeseen events?

Expand full comment
18 more comments...

No posts