The mass of humanity are regarded as animated actuarial tables by those who would rule us. From Visayas Outpost at visayasoutpost.substack.com:
What Have We Wrought?
Watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, oh fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable,
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable…
– Supertramp
Sept. 14, 2023
Admittedly, it is no easy task in 2023 determining which end of the narrative Zeitgeist I find myself on. Not wanting to add unnecessary noise to the buzzing of the hive, it can be best to wait until there is something that feels important enough to say. And so it is that a few recent article trends in my news circle have sparked such a moment; because they helped put into place a clearer way of thinking about the nature of the threat we Humans face on this Earth.
What piqued my eyeballs as soon as I saw it was an article describing Michael Shellenberger’s testimony to the House Select Committee on what he calls The Censorship Industrial Complex. A comprehensive and interlocking method used by government and social media companies to engineer what we think and say. This concept is not new to you, Readers, but it is significant that someone has given it a name, and it has been presented to Congress.
Immediately on the heels of that was further proof of Shellenberger’s observation, in the recent announcement about U.S. Special Operations Command’s involvement with Accrete AI in developing a military-grade “AI” censoring tool which will ultimately run on social media. These things come as no real surprise either, but the sheer nefariousness of this tool is something to behold. It purports to analyze all content everywhere, in real time, to determine the threat level to the narrative. To stamp out ‘embryonic’ ideas as soon as they show up. The “AI” is able to calculate their likely impact, and stop ‘misinfo’ before it can start.
A song like Rich Men North of Richmond would not have lived on YouTube, or ever seen the light of day. Maybe you post something to a forum and it immediately gets altered. Insidious. Twitter (‘X’) is now using ‘user definitions’ in a way to not only regionalize content but granularize it to the individual level, such that no two user experiences are the same. So you may have an echo chamber of one, friends, with all of your followers being bots.
Found in the comments and worth reading.
https://johnmerryman.substack.com/p/why-culture-is-not-reality
Saw a mindbender about Breakfast In America cover from Supertramp having 911 and other symbolisms present.
Poor Boy is my favorite from the what me worry Crisis What Crisis.
Alfred E. Newman taught me everything and there was Cracked for anything that wasn’t in MAD.
A soft weak queefy Karen uber Alles society will end up controlling nothing and surrounded by enemies, internal and external.
Twas Ever Thus.