Money does not relate to wealth, resources, commodity. Money has been a symbolic representation of only one thing: power. It is power, or rather the will to power, that drives society forwards and keep the drones in their appropriate stations. All human communal gatherings describe distribution of power and its use. Despite the wonders of technical , cultural, and social advancements, man can not escape his biologic nature as a social animal; and all social animals from ants to lions live in hierarchy of power. Since the beginning of human history, men have lived in hierarchies, serving their masters faithfully. Why should the future be any different?
MMI technology has the potential for enlightenment, true, but more likely, it will be used as the perfect mind-control mechanism to produce willing slaves with not even the concept of the humanist poison of "freedom." When a man's perceptual matrix can be easily corrected via a simple stroke of code deletions or code insertions, the mankind may be able to live in the type of eusocialist organization we observe in insects. When our masters live for eternity, so too will power discrepancies and resource inequality last for eternity. It will be a necessary transition for men to evolve from semi-social beings to eusocialist hive-mind colony, under the benevolent supervision of their kings.
Our masters are too clever, too entrenched, too powerful to effectively resist. The libertarian voluntarists and the Marxist SJWs are but pawns serving the same masters, whose consolidation of power, inexorably continues unabated. Whether a social matrix collapses in decentralized, regional fiefdoms to be parceled out to our masters' guard-dogs, like that of the Central and South American Narco-states; or a social matrix melded into indistinct, borderless nonentities with the centralized state bureaucracy the only legitimate authority, a la the EU, CCP, USA, is irrelevant to our masters' designs. In the end, we all serve our worldly masters, willingly or unknowingly.
I have rarely read a response that gave me more food for thought than this. I have indeed seen the potential for eusociality to be a weapon wielded against free men, and much of what you say is undeniable. I am confident that this will be done - although probably not on Earth, as the complexity of the technology and the all too common hubris of the most brilliant of scientists lends existential danger to would be overlords that might apply this here - at least at first.
This reveals the mechanism that completely obviates the threat of utter subjugation and reduction of humanity to masters and slaves: the extent of the universe. Only madmen beyond reason would try to create a slave race genetically on Earth with extant, or nascent technology, and those threaten the rational psychopaths that truly rule this realm, and likely will continue to. Any such experiments will be crushed and prevented with all dispatch as threats to the families with power.
Once space travel provides a buffer between those in power and potential experimental learning experiences (failures), it will also provide a route to absolute freedom.
There will be no stuffing of that genie back in the bottle. There eusociality will be tried, and free men will be free of any overlords, and their money.
As ever increasing comprehension of technology potentiates more rational development - and this is not so much technical advance as political - strip mining ancient forests for brown coal, ores, and monocropping of prairies and savannahs will be over. As ecological forces are better harnessed to provide for the needs of humanity on Earth, many will also be using that same developmental technology to leave Earth altogether for fairer vistas, specifically where they can develop their societies as they see fit.
While the population of humanity will burgeon beyond reckoning, that of the Earth may well dwindle, despite the essentially limitless carrying capacity of our planet when rationally developed. Nature will probably rule most of it, with people able to experience every part of the spectrum of wilderness to civilization without threatening the ecosystems as we do now. The threat we pose is almost only due to the bloodthirsty competition for the resources that may be extracted profitably when the costs of development are offshored. For example, the cost of restoring the ancient forest in Germany that hasn't been developed in the last 12kya aren't going to be borne by the mining company, but government, making it profitable to mine the brown coal beneath it. Rational development will render such atrocities untenable, and actually profitable development will provide better solutions.
Regardless, once men are spaceborne, they will be ungovernable, and utterly free to conduct their affairs as they see fit. Space operas, like Star Wars, make pretense that interstellar space might be able to be controlled by some kind of government, but the nature of spacetime makes that impossible. No government can take centuries to respond to rebellion, and relativity makes more rapid response inconceivable.
Once that is possible, what are venal overlords to do? Maybe some can buy some slaves and create their hedonistic seraglios in some corner of the galaxy - until free men find them and cleanse them from the universe.
We will be free. It's only a matter of time and engineering.
Our masters need not force MMI onto their subject population, since by merely using current propaganda apparatus, the drones will voluntarily demand MMI installation and subsequent subjection. As nearly every man in the developed, as well as developing, world now possess some form of mobile phone, so too will be MMI in the near future. As more people use MMI for sociocultural functions, MMI will become indispensable, and those who control the interface via AI will attain absolute control over the drones. The chaos of democracy will become ordered, as the drones vote according to their masters' directions, convinced by the algorithm of the MMI that their masters' will is their own desire. Why would such development be a threat to our current masters, when an orderly society, maintained by slaves who are chained by their own perceptions, ensure their ascendancy for the foreseeable future?
MMI may obviate the need to create genetic inferiors to serve as slaves, but everything is a cost-benefit analysis, and it may be that creating genetic untermenschen is more cost effective than installing MMI on all the subject population. If man can perfect artificial womb for existing cloning technology, then creating the untermenschen to serve as unskilled labor force would be more cost effective.
Space colonization need also be analyzed with cost-benefit analysis. What is the benefit, for our masters, of space exploration and colonization compared with the cost of such endeavors? Other than mining asteroids for rare minerals, colonization has no justifiable benefit for our masters. Even if there exists more cost effective space travel option other than using ICBMs, then that technology will also be monopolized by our masters. Without massive support from Earth government/society, colonization of different planets will be impossible. There is no rational reason for our masters, who have achieved and will continue to enjoy unparalleled dominance over their drones, in form of genetic engineering and MMI algorithm control, to ever consider planetary colonization.
Population levels can be curtailed through strategic famine, sterilization, and birth control means. When our masters perfect cloning technology, the human society will establish equilibrium with the planet, according to our masters' designs, by producing sterile humanoids to serve as drones and technicians. As ants, bees, and wasps do not rebel against their hive-mind, so too, will man evolve to eusocialist existence, in which nonconformity becomes an impossibility.
Cool article! As somewhat of an Englishman I am shocked at what my forebears did and find it hard to reconcile with who I am along with fellow English people today. I'd suggest, hypothetically, that there were other hidden agents at work in this regard, too.
As a Gnostic, I suggest this technology already exists and the archons have it at their disposal--we are living in their matrix and they understand its mechanisms. My concern in that regard are any attempts to permanently trap consciousness within an artificial unit...This should never be allowed by the greater powers that be, and IMO., won't be allowed--ergo, the great kaboom once again. Perhaps if the archons grew up we might be able to see your vision but until such a time I don't think it likely.
Peace...
I don't know anything about Archons, and little enough about Cecil Rhodes. I only picked on him because I had just read @corbettreport's post, not because I blame him personally for the various ills of the world. He did do some things, I hear, that are abominable, and I have no doubt that less visible perps likely exceeded anything he actually did do.
I also have English forebears, amongst a horde of others, and guess that I just refuse to explore the mindset of people that could do the things ascribed to them, not only the English. I say 'I can't understand how they could do that', but I really won't. I have trouble enough with my own sins, and have no need to intimately explore those of others.
I am quite convinced I don't want to be stored on a chip. I prefer the known evils of meatbaggery to the lack of them such proffers.
Interesting essay. "REAL WEALTH" is a particularly fascinating topic, and I think it relates to "the pursuit of happiness" that our forefathers had the foresight to acknowledge and commend. As I get older, that, for me has changed dramatically from what it was at a younger age, and has always had little to do with "stuff," or the acquisition of it.
I also appreciate your anti-Malthusian view of human population and lack of "scarcity." Right there with ya, man.
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I like your predictions and would like to add that "technology" does not always have to be manifested in it's grossest physical form to exist and tech. with the capabilities you speak of may already exist and be in operation. With the convergence of bio/tech and quantum physics, science is most likely taking us full circle to what the ancients already new - we are the most powerful technology in this reality.
Money does not relate to wealth, resources, commodity. Money has been a symbolic representation of only one thing: power. It is power, or rather the will to power, that drives society forwards and keep the drones in their appropriate stations. All human communal gatherings describe distribution of power and its use. Despite the wonders of technical , cultural, and social advancements, man can not escape his biologic nature as a social animal; and all social animals from ants to lions live in hierarchy of power. Since the beginning of human history, men have lived in hierarchies, serving their masters faithfully. Why should the future be any different?
MMI technology has the potential for enlightenment, true, but more likely, it will be used as the perfect mind-control mechanism to produce willing slaves with not even the concept of the humanist poison of "freedom." When a man's perceptual matrix can be easily corrected via a simple stroke of code deletions or code insertions, the mankind may be able to live in the type of eusocialist organization we observe in insects. When our masters live for eternity, so too will power discrepancies and resource inequality last for eternity. It will be a necessary transition for men to evolve from semi-social beings to eusocialist hive-mind colony, under the benevolent supervision of their kings.
Our masters are too clever, too entrenched, too powerful to effectively resist. The libertarian voluntarists and the Marxist SJWs are but pawns serving the same masters, whose consolidation of power, inexorably continues unabated. Whether a social matrix collapses in decentralized, regional fiefdoms to be parceled out to our masters' guard-dogs, like that of the Central and South American Narco-states; or a social matrix melded into indistinct, borderless nonentities with the centralized state bureaucracy the only legitimate authority, a la the EU, CCP, USA, is irrelevant to our masters' designs. In the end, we all serve our worldly masters, willingly or unknowingly.
I have rarely read a response that gave me more food for thought than this. I have indeed seen the potential for eusociality to be a weapon wielded against free men, and much of what you say is undeniable. I am confident that this will be done - although probably not on Earth, as the complexity of the technology and the all too common hubris of the most brilliant of scientists lends existential danger to would be overlords that might apply this here - at least at first.
This reveals the mechanism that completely obviates the threat of utter subjugation and reduction of humanity to masters and slaves: the extent of the universe. Only madmen beyond reason would try to create a slave race genetically on Earth with extant, or nascent technology, and those threaten the rational psychopaths that truly rule this realm, and likely will continue to. Any such experiments will be crushed and prevented with all dispatch as threats to the families with power.
Once space travel provides a buffer between those in power and potential experimental learning experiences (failures), it will also provide a route to absolute freedom.
There will be no stuffing of that genie back in the bottle. There eusociality will be tried, and free men will be free of any overlords, and their money.
As ever increasing comprehension of technology potentiates more rational development - and this is not so much technical advance as political - strip mining ancient forests for brown coal, ores, and monocropping of prairies and savannahs will be over. As ecological forces are better harnessed to provide for the needs of humanity on Earth, many will also be using that same developmental technology to leave Earth altogether for fairer vistas, specifically where they can develop their societies as they see fit.
While the population of humanity will burgeon beyond reckoning, that of the Earth may well dwindle, despite the essentially limitless carrying capacity of our planet when rationally developed. Nature will probably rule most of it, with people able to experience every part of the spectrum of wilderness to civilization without threatening the ecosystems as we do now. The threat we pose is almost only due to the bloodthirsty competition for the resources that may be extracted profitably when the costs of development are offshored. For example, the cost of restoring the ancient forest in Germany that hasn't been developed in the last 12kya aren't going to be borne by the mining company, but government, making it profitable to mine the brown coal beneath it. Rational development will render such atrocities untenable, and actually profitable development will provide better solutions.
Regardless, once men are spaceborne, they will be ungovernable, and utterly free to conduct their affairs as they see fit. Space operas, like Star Wars, make pretense that interstellar space might be able to be controlled by some kind of government, but the nature of spacetime makes that impossible. No government can take centuries to respond to rebellion, and relativity makes more rapid response inconceivable.
Once that is possible, what are venal overlords to do? Maybe some can buy some slaves and create their hedonistic seraglios in some corner of the galaxy - until free men find them and cleanse them from the universe.
We will be free. It's only a matter of time and engineering.
Thanks!
Our masters need not force MMI onto their subject population, since by merely using current propaganda apparatus, the drones will voluntarily demand MMI installation and subsequent subjection. As nearly every man in the developed, as well as developing, world now possess some form of mobile phone, so too will be MMI in the near future. As more people use MMI for sociocultural functions, MMI will become indispensable, and those who control the interface via AI will attain absolute control over the drones. The chaos of democracy will become ordered, as the drones vote according to their masters' directions, convinced by the algorithm of the MMI that their masters' will is their own desire. Why would such development be a threat to our current masters, when an orderly society, maintained by slaves who are chained by their own perceptions, ensure their ascendancy for the foreseeable future?
MMI may obviate the need to create genetic inferiors to serve as slaves, but everything is a cost-benefit analysis, and it may be that creating genetic untermenschen is more cost effective than installing MMI on all the subject population. If man can perfect artificial womb for existing cloning technology, then creating the untermenschen to serve as unskilled labor force would be more cost effective.
Space colonization need also be analyzed with cost-benefit analysis. What is the benefit, for our masters, of space exploration and colonization compared with the cost of such endeavors? Other than mining asteroids for rare minerals, colonization has no justifiable benefit for our masters. Even if there exists more cost effective space travel option other than using ICBMs, then that technology will also be monopolized by our masters. Without massive support from Earth government/society, colonization of different planets will be impossible. There is no rational reason for our masters, who have achieved and will continue to enjoy unparalleled dominance over their drones, in form of genetic engineering and MMI algorithm control, to ever consider planetary colonization.
Population levels can be curtailed through strategic famine, sterilization, and birth control means. When our masters perfect cloning technology, the human society will establish equilibrium with the planet, according to our masters' designs, by producing sterile humanoids to serve as drones and technicians. As ants, bees, and wasps do not rebel against their hive-mind, so too, will man evolve to eusocialist existence, in which nonconformity becomes an impossibility.
Cool article! As somewhat of an Englishman I am shocked at what my forebears did and find it hard to reconcile with who I am along with fellow English people today. I'd suggest, hypothetically, that there were other hidden agents at work in this regard, too.
As a Gnostic, I suggest this technology already exists and the archons have it at their disposal--we are living in their matrix and they understand its mechanisms. My concern in that regard are any attempts to permanently trap consciousness within an artificial unit...This should never be allowed by the greater powers that be, and IMO., won't be allowed--ergo, the great kaboom once again. Perhaps if the archons grew up we might be able to see your vision but until such a time I don't think it likely.
Peace...
I don't know anything about Archons, and little enough about Cecil Rhodes. I only picked on him because I had just read @corbettreport's post, not because I blame him personally for the various ills of the world. He did do some things, I hear, that are abominable, and I have no doubt that less visible perps likely exceeded anything he actually did do.
I also have English forebears, amongst a horde of others, and guess that I just refuse to explore the mindset of people that could do the things ascribed to them, not only the English. I say 'I can't understand how they could do that', but I really won't. I have trouble enough with my own sins, and have no need to intimately explore those of others.
I am quite convinced I don't want to be stored on a chip. I prefer the known evils of meatbaggery to the lack of them such proffers.
Thanks for a thought-provoking reply!
Interesting essay. "REAL WEALTH" is a particularly fascinating topic, and I think it relates to "the pursuit of happiness" that our forefathers had the foresight to acknowledge and commend. As I get older, that, for me has changed dramatically from what it was at a younger age, and has always had little to do with "stuff," or the acquisition of it.
I also appreciate your anti-Malthusian view of human population and lack of "scarcity." Right there with ya, man.
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I like your predictions and would like to add that "technology" does not always have to be manifested in it's grossest physical form to exist and tech. with the capabilities you speak of may already exist and be in operation. With the convergence of bio/tech and quantum physics, science is most likely taking us full circle to what the ancients already new - we are the most powerful technology in this reality.
Perhaps, forever is the blockchain and our words
that lay upon it, this was a very enjoyable read!
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