Prologue: Trivial Accessories to the Machine
"The beleaguered – even “obsolete”– individual will be entirely de-skilled, reduced to a passive, inert, “trivial accessory to the machine.” - Lewis Mumford (b. 1895)
While automata and self-powered mechanical amusements have been coveted objects since the early days of clockworks, the story of humanoid machines that additionally carry the potential to revolt against their operators first appeared in the early 20th century, after which it became a theme extensively developed through science fiction, film and pop culture.
The actual term “robot” was introduced in a 1921 play entitled RUR (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by a Czech playwright, Karel Kapek (b.1890). While subsequent depictions of robots proliferated, they were mostly depicted as crudely mechanical, reflecting only a small portion of the more complex psychological characteristics passed down through fables of “possessed” demons, devils, molochs, dybbuks and vampires. The implication here is a connection between the robotic and the demonic both sharing space within their human host.
More unsettling is the idea of physical humans that through some type of psychological or biological alteration, gradually (and sometimes imperceptibly) assume a greater share of machine-like traits, such that distinctly human behaviors become more diluted until they may gradually disappear and become irretrievable.
The most memorable example of this theme that I recall from my youth, was the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, initially released in the wake of the red-scare witch-hunts of the McCarthy era and which has had a few remakes since then.
The idea it presented was that someone familiar to you might look and sound like themselves, when in fact they were just the soulless shell of that person, animated and manipulated, like a puppet, by a parasitic alien-like intelligence that had invaded and seized command over their body.
As an adult, I spent two decades employed in LIVE THEATER & CIRCUS, during which time I played a multitude of characters that required putting on and taking off “masks” - each one possessing its own unique identity and narrative, independent of myself.
As human film actors today are often indistinguishable from their synthetic digital counterparts, and as our own everyday bodies become more dependent upon prosthetics, implants, pharmaceuticals, enhancements and remote devices, the line between what is “real” about us and what is not - between what is natural and what is artificial - grows more blurred.
One impact of society rapidly reshaping itself along more purely technological lines, is the media’s obsession with creating and maintaining a dominant near real-time CONSENSUS set of beliefs and narratives, which we are told the majority of people hold in common. Whether that is even close to true or not is hard to say.
What is easier to say with some certainty though is that the primary tool for making such a consensus possible is the pervasive and immersive presence of mediated public relations, chiefly conveyed through the fully weaponized medium of television, which alongside other “entrainment”-type technologies, does a masterful job at capturing human attention.
The powerful and ubiquitous dissemination of global propaganda has over time served to corral the mass of the world’s populations inside certain strict ideological and behavioral containment structures, where they come to share similarly broad and collectivized assumptions. People afflicted by this highly centralized brand of mind control; I will refer to here and going forward as “TECHNO-LIBERALS.” Though they may appear to impartial observers as more lockstep fascist than liberal, in their own self-perceptions, the softer, more empathic term of liberal is far more acceptable for them and the media to accept.
What we see all around us today is that the primary agendas of the emerging global technocratic and data-centric “techno-fascist” state, require that the mass of humans offer no opposition to plans long in development for a socio-biological merger of man and machine into a singular “TRANSHUMAN” hybrid species that intermingles aspects of both, and which puts an increasing part of human destiny under the control of an elite ruling class directorate, which constitutes what Aldous Huxley referred to as early as 1932, as a “scientific dictatorship.” (Curiously enough, it was Huxley’s brother Julian Huxley, founder of UNESCO and president of the British Eugenics Society who in 1957 coined the term 'transhumanism' by way of explaining the concept as 'the next phase of eugenic evolution.’)
The steps along the way to that end are measured now in terms of nanotech and biotech advances, key parts of which we can see fully folded into the Covid mRNA injection agenda and PR campaign.
At the same time, this very same transhumanist game plan has a long history of operating in alignment with concurrent clandestine government programs, not the least of which have also involved introducing vast quantities of foreign man-made, unnatural and toxic substances into our air, water, weather and food, which over time produce pernicious effects on human health.
In considering this planned merger merger of our biology with biotechnology, we can see that every step along the way has served to make us individually more programmable, behaviorally more predictable and a more embedded part of multiple digital networks, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Bodies (IoB) - all of which inevitably leave us more trackable and traceable, with each incremental step being invariably accompanied by a new round of social and personal behavioral surveillance restrictions.
Such social engineering and overt efforts at tracking and control, that in previous generations had to be done externally, using observation, threat and force, can now be done discreetly, internally, more remotely and invisibly at the biological and nano-levels and generally even without the individual’s awareness that this is happening.
Faced with such imperceptible data-harvesting, it is also important to understand that this is NOT a feature of a future that is coming, but rather a description of a reality that is already HERE.
While we have now considered a few of the interconnected transhumanist agendas and how they are being used to advance a global technocratic coup d’état for planetary dominance, the most pressing question that follows from that realization is who or what might possibly be able to stop or slow the advance of such a covert and largely silent and “invisible” war.
To this question, I would say that our best and most enduring defense is to be found in an awakened and inspired human consciousness overwhelmingly imbued with a “felt” sense of truth and courage, which might enable us to openly and quickly unmask (and so resist) evil in whatever form it might take and wherever it might appear.
In order for mankind to avoid the cataclysmic endgame which the digital dictatorship has long planned for us, we must realign ourselves not just with the elemental allies of love, empathy and compassion but also with those MOST energetic and untamed parts of our nature that can then be put to the task of raising a powerfully defiant counter-offensive.
Such a stalwart defense necessitates reconnecting with those primordial currents within us; so purely God-like at their core that from them arises all substantive mysteries and mythologies.
Diabolical ruling class initiates are everywhere trained to identify mythological and psychological human targets first and foremost. What more obvious spot to attack humans than at the roots of their consciousness, and there to inject them with the most devious “spells” intended to attack that root level awareness.
What anti-human entities desire is easy access to those parts of the psyche where TRAUMA can be initiated. In any such instance of “mass psychosis” or what the Belgium psychologist, Dr. Mattias Desmet calls “mass formation,” of which Covid-1984 is a perfect example, the goal must be to always get the “target” to undermine themselves before any overt physical aggression needs to be taken against them.
Such manipulation at subconscious levels provides the raw material from which their master propaganda narratives are spun. A similar inference is also suggested when their manufactured cyborgs are referred to as “Centaurs” or when they give their anthropomorphic robots names like “Sophia” and “Kronos.”
Time has shown us that those of the ruling class are only tangentially concerned with whether or not there is any positive or moral effect to their actions, or even whether they EVER offer anything truly good. What matters to them is rather appearances - that their efforts “sound” AND “look” good - so that they can continue doing what they are doing unimpeded, while the mass of people remains duped into believing that the elite’s corrupt actions are actually positive, moral and philanthropic.
I think it is important that we do not cede ANY mythological or imaginary territory to misanthropic transhumanism, much less to any of their anti-human agencies, institutions and agendas.
I would further insist that all ancient mythologies be solely OUR inheritance... a birthright which derives NOT from any arm of government or mechanism of law but rather from the depths of the earth and from the labyrinth of dreams in which we are each of us protectors, as were the fabled Minotaurs of the Imagination.
Unless we recapture and reanimate our ancestral soul in union with those ancient prehistoric sources of power, nature, and vision, we shall have lost our chance at both redemption and independence. Instead, we will have tragically let down our guard and so allowed ourselves to become victims of others’ ambitions, which makes us no longer capable of striking genuine terror into the hearts of our would-be transhumanist rulers/slave-masters.
We must be in pursuit of just THIS sort of insurrection and unflagging desire to save and resurrect human life on Earth if we are to keep from vanishing altogether from this earthly place of our origin.
A SECOND related phenomenon inside the rise off all things ROBOTIC, and equally influential on my young self, involve spectacles of large-scale and brutal MILITARISM. My first clear recollection of what this looked like was through World War II documentary war footage that I watched on our 1950s small-screen television.
Sadly, militarism, as a spectacle of power and violence remains central to our daily diet of TV shows and movies. As a society, we have repeatedly shown ourselves incapable of seeing behind the violence to its political, economic, and ideological origins.
At some deep level, we continue to allow ourselves to become convinced of the necessity for war, for rituals of death and for allowing our leaders to order constant and senseless acts of violence against other nations and populations. Eighteen years in the Middle East and nary a whimper of home-side protest, even though those populations have never attacked us, as our propaganda would have you believe. We can only subscribe such blindness to the truth to a twisted support, identification, and psychopathic attachment to might over right.
For myself, in those early years of childhood, my attention was particularly riveted by viewing mass political gatherings and by the bold and fearful symbols of National Socialism, and by its extravagant outward displays: the abrupt straight-arm salutes, the startling shouts of “Sieg Heil!”... the mechanized goose-stepping troop formations… the “Panzer” tanks, the “Stuka” dive bombers, the jolting air-raid sirens… the very word “blitzkrieg,” the pictures of limp emaciated bodies piled up in the internment camps, the massive and precisely organized crowds dwarfed by giant red and black swastika banners, illuminated by burning torches and roaming searchlights.
Added to that was the messianic figure of Adolph Hitler, with his sharp sudden gestures, inflamed eyes and emotionally charged speeches - which to my young mind, made him appear as a demonic power that could transform great masses of people into cold-blooded legions of mechanical functionaries.
While I know now that what I was seeing back then was also an orchestrated product of skilled wartime PROPAGANDA and disinformation, at the time, not being then cognizant of such things, I fell, as most of us still do, into believing the terrifying story of a breed of humans (NOT at all like “US”) who had surrendered their humanity and their “goodness” to cruel and motorized hostility under the hypnotic spell of their exalted “Fuhrer” - a figure who quickly became for me, the sum fixation of ALL my childhood fears, even to the point where I was kept awake at night by thoughts of him grabbing at me from under my bed or springing out from behind my not tightly closed closet door.
As I matured, the questions that followed from that youthful anxiety re-focused themselves on the MORAL PSYCHOLOGY of the German people themselves. This led to my posing the proverbial question of HOW a relatively homogenous, modern and well-educated population, not so different from our own, could put themselves so unconditionally and irreversibly under the unquestioning control of National Socialism.
I no longer wonder how such descents into blind fascism occur, as I can see an abundance of similar stresses, drives, moral confusions at work all around us today, and especially those slips and slides that follow from the Covid “pandemic,” as clearly evidenced by the forceful and incremental expansion of ALL forms of propaganda, censorship, surveillance, and state-ordered restrictions on personal liberty that when seen together, point to the inevitability of even more draconian steps to follow.
I have in the course of drafting this book, taken to referring to this next level control matrix of our current various societal-control agendas as a global “PROPAGANDA OPERATING SYSTEM” (POS). What this refers to is a fully globalized media-centric, root-level set of instructions that are sanctioned and adopted from all sides not just by technology, but also by media, by politics, by finance, by corporations, by television “science” and by near limitless amounts of law enforcement and military power.
Taken together, the “POS” is what drives the mass of people through rationalized social-engineering and behavior modification programs within the now much expanded Military-Industrial-Intelligence Complex, which serves the ruling elite’s game plans under cover of addressing the perilous threats posed by new terrifying and deadly medical, biosecurity and bio-terrorism concerns.
Those same fixations of my youth, which when combined with more recent examples of brutal behavior on the part of the wealthy and powerful oligarchy to control and profit off innocent and ignorant people has led me now to ponder more deeply what it MEANS for us today to be human.
How in our observable behaviors, in our various actions taken, in those responsibilities assumed or rejected as well as in our struggle to exercise free will in the face of socially enforced conformity, do everyday people still manage to hold to the challenge of remaining psychologically free and morally autonomous.
What follows in this extended meditation/essay is in large part an attempt to grapple with some of those questions - many born in my early uncomfortable awareness of evil and injustice, and in my more recent observations of the ways that we are being set up to become an increasingly “mechanized” and “mediated” society, constantly threatened with the loss of our personal sovereignty, while enduring constant social and economic insults, made more abusive through technological advances that seek to govern our responses - externally of course - but also internally at “bio/nano” levels, which serve to dissolve our old freedoms and to sharply curtail the once wider range of our individual behaviors.
Many may hope and believe that the current lockstep “pandemic” situation in which we find ourselves now will somehow conclude, at which point we will be restored to an old one from earlier, more normal times where commonly recognized rights and autonomies were a more common part of life.
Alas, I am not one who believes that will happen.
Ultimately, if indeed we are entered now into a “dark night of the soul,” as I sadly, unfortunately and predictably believe we are, what I hope then to foment in what follows here is a more open-minded meditation and debate on the deleterious effects upon the human soul of misused wealth, behavioral conditioning, unchecked power, moral relativism, fraudulent science, predatory capitalism, perpetual propaganda, rampant and exponential technological advances and ruthlessly accelerating inhuman demands for non-stop “progress” and “productivity.
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ALL CHAPTERS:
Prologue - Trivial Accessories to the Machine
Chapter 1 - All your Cyborgs Will Be Techno-Liberals
Chapter 2 - That Which Tallies the Numbers, Sets the Rules
Chapter 3 - All Rebellions Must Be Scheduled in Advance
Chapter 4 - Binge-Watching the Incomprehensible
Chapter 5- A Propaganda OS as State Religion
Chapter 6 - Ignorance as Comfort Food
Chapter 7 - Their War to End All Wars
Chapter 8- Was there Something We Forgot?
Chapter 9 - In Any Other World
Epilogue - Preparing Our Souls for the Ancestors