The conspiracy against you
If you ever get the feeling that entire systems and bureaucracies
are stacked against you, the common person, you would be
justified.
As long as you aren't anywhere near the political and economic elite,
you exist to produce excess value to corporations and governments, you
are human capital.
Systems do not serve people, you serve the system which subjugates
you. Even the most
passive resistance
will be met with state-sponsored violence.
You could put up symbolic gestures of rebellion, maybe a "Free
Palestine" sticker here or there, a protest against police brutality,
or some boring anti-woke rant, but you're still acting within the
framework of the system where they want you. The moment you are an
actual threat to the system is when you're behind bars or dead.
Splitting and schizophrenic systems
There could be a digital footprint of you that is on LinkedIn
pretending to be a normal person begging for a job, or on Instagram
chasing clout, or on pseudonymous gaming platforms raging at others.
There could be all these facets of you, combined into a single persona
which corporations working within the fascist state have correlated to
you via machine learning algorithms.
There is a face we present at work when we want to survive in a
hostile corporate environment, a face we present when we pay our taxes
so that we don't get murdered by the government, a face we present to
strangers so that they don't attack or rob us.
“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and
I attended with my real face” ― Franz Kafka
Total financial control
A world where your entire means of survival can be
frozen and seized, where every transaction leaves a trail and can be audited, makes
resisting the system from within the system difficult or impossible.
Any decentralized, grassroots resistance will fail without elite
revolt and institutional support. It would be completely irrational to
sacrifice one's livelihood for the benefit of strangers, and end up
accomplishing nothing. The only sort of resistance one can pose is
passive and symbolic.
The world already ended
Nobody can revolt when there is no will to do so. It is too burdensome
to worry about fighting a system that no one consented to, for the
benefit of people who hate you. Keep doomscrolling, and let the system
devour your soul. Remaining numb to your own oppression, being aware
of it while being powerless to address it. There's no one driving at
the wheel, and entire nations are led by clowns.
The machine God
There is a God-shaped hole which has been replaced by political
ideologies, quasi-religious belief in artificial intelligence, and the
scam is that it is somehow for the benefit of humanity. The same
technology employed by Palantir and the IDF to kill Palestinians in
Gaza, is just a test run for what will occur around the world.
The omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God is real in the form of the
state, corporations, and machinic pattern recognition, and there's no
way to escape the eyes of the Palantiri for most of us.
Work and die
Spend most of your waking hours working, thinking about work outside
of work, planning on getting the next job to do more work. Work unpaid
overtime or else you lose your job or don't get the raise you
desparately need.
For all but the most affluent people, housing is largely unaffordable,
people struggle to survive by paying for food, water, rent,
transportation, and raising children is often out of the question due
to how burdensome it is.
Exchange your life force for worthless baubles. Save up enough money
for retirement, only to die prematurely from disease or accident.
Maybe your family members get some inheritance, but if you're like
most atomized individuals, your money returns to the gods of capital.
Zero trust society
The complete callousness in which strangers treat each other, with no
empathy, fearing retaliation with no recourse because the justice
system sure as Hell won't protect anyone but the most unscrupulous,
immoral people.
They want us to distrust each other and have quasi-religious faith in
experts, science, academics, institutions and government. Everything
you read is tailored to your echo chamber, convincing you that your
problems are due to [group of people you hate].
No value of human life
Most people's lives aren't treated as worth more than that of an
insect, giving credence to the term bugman. You could be
forced to disappear, your family blackmailed into silence, and nobody
would notice or care. If anything, they will say that you deserved to
be disappeared.
If you're a minority, they will blame all their problems on you. If
you're the majority, the minorities will band together against you.
You can't win either way, and the system thrives on atomized
individuals with nothing but group identity.