Could be. At the end of the day is it really that important whether it is all being driven by some kind of cabal or just an idea? It could be real people (or entities), making real plans... but it also could be something like an idea or a mind virus that has infected our civilisation. We can call it The System. The System does not work by itself. It has to have at least someone to make plans and supervise execution. So, I'd say it is not fully automated. The power pyramid exists. However, we might never know what is at the top of this pyramid. Is it some kind of supernatural being, Baal, Moloch, some powerful people, secret societies, or just an idea that is corrupting us from top to bottom?...
That said, Kaczynski was right. He might have chosen wrong methods to express his opinion, but in general he was right.
...unusual amount of "bee" symbolism that comes up...
Yes, they use this kind of symbolism in movies as well. If you pay attention there's a lot of beeswax type hexagonal pattern appearing in movies. Usually it's in the background, environment design, some logos and such. I mean it's rarely in your face, but it is very prevalent. Especially in modern movies.
Speaking of which, it seems that there are several such symbols and patterns that appear in movies and other media over and over again. Some call them markers or programming markers. Most visible ones are hexagons, globes, dinosaurs and (for some reason) stags with antlers.
Why do you write them emails and messages in the first place?
Because I'm not next to them or even in the same city as them at that moment. My point was that those are people I know in real life. I know that they are not bots, shills or whatever.
It plugs into transhumanism, which is to get people to behave as predictably as machines.
Yep, seems like it. Another detail here is that it makes everyone write in the same style, with same structure of sentences, using the same words and same definitions.
Most people already appear to think like machines...
True. This homogenisation of human thinking has been going on for a while now. I'm old enough to remember time before the internet and I can tell with certainty that people were much more original back then. Ways of thinking, of approaching things and viewing the world in general were much more varied back then.
If this continues, then the end result will be something closer to ant hill or bee colony than to human society as we know it. I guess that is precisely what they want to create.
Well, yeah, kind of, but people are at least being forced to think once in a while. Even if they don't want to. Now, if this borg thing continues, then at some point you'll be able (and even encouraged) to live your life without using your brain at all... and that is where our humanity stops and meatsack appendage existence begins.
Who knows... We'll see.
Here are some more or less optimistic options:
Maybe there'll be some kind of classic renaissance. When everything new is AI slop, perhaps people will turn to classics.
Or, maybe there'll be some kind new forms or live art. Live performances would be impossible to fake with AI. Jazz improvizations, anyone...
Alternatively there may emerge some kind of strong neo-luddite movement. I myself started as very strong tech optimist and now I'm very close to being an actual neo-luddite. I do kind of think that tech brings more bad than good to society. I do not have accounts in most of social networks. I do not have an AI chat/assistant account of any kind. I very rarely even engage with it and even then I only use some random open no-login options.
...That all said you could be right. Our society is being deliberately destroyed and what they are building in its place is an inhuman nightmare. I agree with that. We'll see. Will humanity survive? Same as you, I'm not entirely sure of that...
Do you know that art is now completely destroyed by AI?
I actually predicted this some while ago. Even recently I was telling some relatives that AI will destroy music, movies and literature and I was met with disbelief. "But, but, look how easy it is to create great sounding music nowadays! Isn't that great?" Yeah, sure, it might be interesting and fun to create with AI. Yet, in a very short while no one will listen to that shit. No one will watch AI generated movies and sure as shit no one will invest hours and hours into reading some AI generated slop novels. Even worse, because of everything will be so saturated with AI generated slop no one will compose, write or create by themselves anymore.
That's a good point. Usually people focus on how someone look and not much else, but those that have this ability can tell that something is amiss. You can feel that this is not the same person. Yes, appearance is an important factor, but it's not the only one.
What if all those botched "surgeries" is the moment when they are being replaced? They can't create a perfect copy. So they do the best they can and tell the masses that it's just a surgery, a depression, drug use, aging or some other such bullshit.
Check out this video. Particularly his quick interview after the awards (starting at about 00:17). This is not Carrey. Also, why would he be so nervous about saying few sentences in French? He's an actor, for fucks sakes! That's what he's been doing for all his life. Acting. His whole argument is illogical. Besides, check out at about 00:39, he's clearly saying "I'm dead!" with emphasis. Well, they always tell the masses the truth in one way or another, I guess...
"Plastic surgery" is kind of a standard excuse in cases like this one. I don't really buy it. I think it's bullshit. Especially in this case.
Carrey has made his entire carrer making expressions and impersonations. His ability to wriggle face like a rubber is one of his main assets. Plastic surgery seriously limits making any type of expressions. Everyone knows it. He'd be absolutely insane to go for it.
Also, why is it that they always look significantly worse than before? Isn't it a little bit suspicious? Apparently Hollywood is full of hack doctors who constantly botch celebrity faces and yet they still go for it and no one complains? Right?
Why is it that no one talks about it openly. It's just celebrity looking way different than before and everyone just whispers behind their backs or something... I don't know... I think at least some of them would have talked about this or that surgery. It's not like it's a taboo or something. I've seen normies freely talking and even publicly documenting their plastic surgeries without any problem. Why is it that celebrities are so shy on this subject?
All in all, I think this "plastic surgery" thing is a very convenient excuse. Especially for normies.
This is so incredibly evil. Who knew depressed people want to die, right? Fuck, this is the definition of depression: people do not see a point in life and want to die. It's a mental illness...
In any case, at this point it should be clear to everyone that depopulation agenda is true. They are killing off useless eaters (as they like to call us) and they are not going to stop at MAID alone. We are at war.
Yes. Also, giving names to generations is likely a psyop in itself. It's a classic Divide and Conquer. Alienate groups of people from each other and keep them apart. The more various division lines there are the easier masses can be controlled and manipulated.
Yeah, they need some slaves, but not all of them. Above all, they need those slaves to be obedient. So, the plan seems to be: cull most and put the rest under strict digital control. Say, reduce population by some 90% and make everyone else into a literal biorobot without any free will to speak of, thus dividing human race into two absolutely incompatible castes - almost like two separate species - small in numbers, but very powerful ruler caste and larger in numbers, but totally controlled slave caste.
I'm from EU and I definitely do not see any natalism here. If anything we are currently being ruled by a literal death cult. Currently they are doing everything they can to prevent people forming healthy families and having healthy and mentally sound kids. Almost all of the EU leaders are despicable abominations who hate their own people. They don't even try to hide it anymore. Also, it seems that Canada is on the way out as well. What with all their (heavily promoted) "voluntary" euthanasia policies and all that. I won't even mention UK, which is basically done at this point.
All in all, I'd say natalism is the last thing we should be worried about. It's the literal death cult that is ruling over us we should worry about. Sometimes they might be pretending to be for family or kids with all their digital id and similar shit, but in reality all of that works towards depopulation and polarisation of society all the same.
This thought has passed my mind as well. Not only regarding recent years, but also regarding past social upheavals as well.
For example, is there some great German literature from 1935-1945? I don't mean propaganda material (of whatever side). I mean just some good books, good novels, good writers etc. I can't find them. It's almost as if there were no new (and good) books released in Germany during the period of 1935-1945 or so.
It's not only about Nazy Germany. It's also about all other great social upheavals as well. Good art suddenly disappears. You can find only propaganda material, but just good quality art becomes almost non-existent. Which seems very strange, to be honest. No matter the ideological underpinning of some period or place there still should be some good artists and good art, right? Right?
Apparently not... It seems that art of all types degrades in all (or almost all) socially unstable environments.
That said, I'm aware that Netflix and it's likes are little more than pure propaganda. I guess my general point is that it seems that ideology and social upheavals of any type tends to degrade art.
But that's the actual goal here! To make citizenry as much dependent on the state as possible. They'd love to get masses trembling about power outages and internet disconnections as much as possible. That would mean that ordinary normies would be supportive of state control even more!
Currently you could survive without state support at least for some time. There's cash, there's gasoline cars, there's independent gardening, decentralised heating etc... It would be hard, but doable. With all digital, however, you'd be completely dependent on the state. Totally. Your survival would quite literally be dependent on state power. It's incredibly evil plan actually. The state and corporate power is the greatest evil there is. Especially when state and corporate powers merge, which they basically already have.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. All of that is happening. But the big questions is: What do we actually do about it?
Spreading info is one thing and that's good, but are there some other things that could be done to avoid total digital prison... or at the very least slow it down or dilute its effects?
I don't know...
What I do know, though, is that I'm not really ready to live in the future they are preparing for us. If they really go on with it I'll probably end up as a total loner staring at the wall all day. I'm already preparing myself to leave all social media when they make ID mandatory to log in to your account. I'm not yet sure what will I do when the next steps come... In any case, with each passing day it seems more and more like a good hill to die on.
Probably... we'll see. There's also an option to divide your life in two. If they really force you use completely cotrolled and monitored device, then it should be used only for official government business and nothing else at all. Everything else should be done on a different device and from different accounts. This is not optimal, just one of the possible options that comes to my mind.
Damn, I've read so many of his books... His earlier stuff is kinda ok. Except some weird stuff here and there, of course. Lately, however, he's gone downhill pretty heavily. Especially since the scamdemic started. Now, I'm wondering: Was he always like that? What does it say about other - let's call them - content creators? He wasn't really that political before 2000s. It was quite easy to overlook some weird bits here and there and consider him a somewhat sane human being.
Could be three. Likely not 14.
Will we be legally obliged to own a smartphone? I do own one, but if some clerk or official asks, I do not, because my main calling phone is not a smartphone. Also, I do not have any government or official apps installed even on my secondary phone.
If government makes smartphone ownership mandatory, I'd like to get it for free, please... and if anyone wants to make me buy one myself, then sorry, I'm veeery poor and simply can't afford it (wink, wink). (That said, of course I understand that they do have their ways to force people. This is just an idea of a strategy one might try to use when the time comes.)
Yeah, I've come to this conclusion as well. Many people are still clinging to the notion that tech is just a tool, that it is neutral and all that. Well, it's probably not. Some are hoping for social networks to spread the message, some others are seeking for digital salvation in open source, crypto, blockchain etc, etc. Of course, that's nice and all, but I'm not sure I believe in tech solutions anymore. Tech was never meant to liberate or help people. TPTB see tech only as a tool of control and nothing much more.
Hell, maybe that even was one of the main reasons why UK left the EU. So they could test run this digital prison in a single "independent" country before they impose it on the whole continent.
I see your point, but I suspect that those people do not think they're doing something wrong. They do not see AI in the same way as we do. For them it's just this new fun tool that makes things easier. Like spell checker.
The problem is that most people are unable to connect the dots and think in perspective. It's like they simply do not have this concept that A leads to B and B leads to C.
You can see this phenomena all around us. People treat each event, each technology, each media talking point just as single isolated entities, but they cannot connect them and make some kind of logical conclusions. Even if someone has managed to see through one particular lie it doesn't mean that they'll be able to see through the next one.