Thanks, what a brilliant article, love how you opened with the scene from Network, I saw Network in early 2020 and realised how close it was to what is actually happening.
I have often quoted from Network over the last 4 years, here is one of my favourites.
So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any s--t you want to hear.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!
Exactly. The film was so dense in tragic satire. The hero was liberated into just another scam. The frailty of another characters self destructive lusts and communist radicals more capitalist than the capitalists. anyway we are soon to go from the tube to VR.
Great article. Is mirrors upon mirrors. And whenever you see what seems to be the truth, it becomes reflection of what isn't. We're locked in a mirror game, where everything you apparently you say or think or do is captured and mirrored on the Great Albatross of Artificial Intelligence and corporate control. They know what you're thinking,
do they know what you're feeling? Do they know what you perceive.
Strikes me that the game is very much distorted. Global control of everything.
Question is. Is it really this bad?
Are we in this maze of contradiction and confluence.
. What can we do if even our thoughts become read in a hive mind.
Things going so fast and why is this happening, and who is controlling.
Thanks, what a brilliant article, love how you opened with the scene from Network, I saw Network in early 2020 and realised how close it was to what is actually happening.
I have often quoted from Network over the last 4 years, here is one of my favourites.
So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any s--t you want to hear.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L3l4wyJfEg
Exactly. The film was so dense in tragic satire. The hero was liberated into just another scam. The frailty of another characters self destructive lusts and communist radicals more capitalist than the capitalists. anyway we are soon to go from the tube to VR.
Great article. Is mirrors upon mirrors. And whenever you see what seems to be the truth, it becomes reflection of what isn't. We're locked in a mirror game, where everything you apparently you say or think or do is captured and mirrored on the Great Albatross of Artificial Intelligence and corporate control. They know what you're thinking,
do they know what you're feeling? Do they know what you perceive.
Strikes me that the game is very much distorted. Global control of everything.
Question is. Is it really this bad?
Are we in this maze of contradiction and confluence.
. What can we do if even our thoughts become read in a hive mind.
Things going so fast and why is this happening, and who is controlling.
And where is the gateway to escape.
not really that bad. Its worse :)