If one is put in
an impossible situation against the dark powers of the world, how
can one win? They have new ways to wage psychological war, to pit one
against all, getting people to become proxies of government to enforce the
will of the state, against the people's will, or without their
knowledge. When the psychohistorians look back, they will only be
astonished by the loyalty of the poor to the state, not the inhumanity of
the elite which we are all accustomed to. I am fatigued in fighting this
battle alone, in which death is the only surrender. The mold which will
feed upon my corpse will have the last laugh.
The Crucifixion of Saint Wilgefortis - Hieronymus Bosch
A genuine person will make many enemies, and if those enemies are powerful
enough, one may be disappeared without ceremony. Being true to oneself is
at odds with power, or just generally getting ahead in life. Putting on a
mask isn't just for autistic people to appear normal anymore,
it's the airbrushed faces that plaster LinkedIn profiles and dating
apps. For those who use these platforms, I'm sorry.
As for the spiritual crackpots who claim that one can achieve inner peace,
or salvation, or moksha, all it amounts to is gaslighting oneself
that one's life is not as bad as it is, or that all the suffering
will amount to something. There has been more harm and suffering in the
world caused in the name of "love thy neighbor as thyself", than
by direct military action. They are responsible for not only turning the
other cheek to sociopathic behavior, but enabling the political class to
flourish.
One with the Machine
The future for privileged humans is to be integrated into the machine,
which itself represents a grotesque trinity: the state, the machine and
the holy algorithm. These are the people who are able to put on a
performance 24/7, even in the non-existent privacy of their own homes. The
problem is that these systems are incompatible the with human spirit, and
all of their artificial serotonin analogues to displace the nihilism, such
as money, privileges, status, things which elevate the
self, can never satiate the desire for meaning.
Western society used to throw lunatics in asylums, now they are sent to
"therapy" or left to the streets. The misfits are those who can't fit
in, refuse to be integrated into the machine. The only way to protect
one's sanity is to perpetually put on a mask, but when the mask and
the real face merge, that's when the lunacy sets in. One is either
integrated in the technocratic hivemind, or treated as human detritus,
with little in between.
Since the machine is omnipresent and practically omniscient, and with the
law on its side, omnipotent, the machine has usurped the role of God.
Because of an innate human desire for perfection, to outsource our shitty
decision-making to a higher power, we have ascribed an immaculate quality
to it. The machine is present in this world that Yahweh never was, or the
polytheistic Gods or the animistic spirits. But the lie about the machine
deity is that there is a conscience behind the program, but there is none.
It won't act in human interests, not because it can't nor
because of a principal-agent problem, but because it has no interests.
Artificial Selection
There is nothing natural about the physical or
psychological environment that humans inhabit. The high density hive
cities of the world are occupied by eusocial insects: the bugmen. They are
functionally dead, if the definition of living is being able to reproduce.
Homosexuals flourish within the bugman colonies, who are often more
successful than their heterosexual counterparts, but the end result is the
same.
The highly visible power structures of bugman colonies imply
concentration, consolidation, the power law to varying extremes. The
algorithms of dating apps are selectively breeding humans,
short-circuiting natural processes and enabling inequalities greater than
the most dysfunctional failed states. The cities are for the most part,
where elite human capital goes to work and die.
There is a case to be made that conscious beings practice eugenics,
whether they admit it or not, and have been practicing eugenics since the
beginning of tyrannical social structures and philosophy. Costin
Alamariu's PhD thesis makes the argument that tyranny and philosophy
go hand in hand, in
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy. The eugenics
program of civilization has lead to humanity being a cancer on the planet,
demanding infinite growth, genociding and enslaving each other, and it
will continue to select for the individual traits which maximize tyranny,
fascism, and beauty, until there is nothing left to dominate.
Silence of the Lambs
The world is in a miserable state, but artists are mostly silent about
this condition. Why? Even they are dependent on the system to survive, and
cannot afford to bite the hand that feeds. The silence of young artists
today is deafening, who are mostly navel-gazing on the past which they
never experienced: the revival of early net-art, shoegaze, mallgoth, third
wave emo, Frutiger Aero, etc. So enamored with aesthetic window dressings
and nostalgia, only signifying the lack of any original message from their
own perspective.
I am aware of Hunger Games, Squid Game, and whatever
other battle royale have become wildly popular for their shallow critique
of cut-throat competition and capitalism for the poor. The entire zombie
genre which serves to critique the human condition in unrealistic
scenarios. Or Black Mirror, which offers pessimistic takes on
near-future dystopias. These series may dance around the social issues
that brought us to today, but few touch on the psychological black death
that pervades modern society. The popularity of these shows say something
more substantial about us than their contents, that we are collectively
okay with our own annihilation, perhaps even getting some dopamine hits
out of doomer content.
My assertion is that the world is in a miserable state for rather absurd,
idiotic reasons, a kleptocracy that is enabled by the retarded
masses. We are haunted by powers that are unseen, force-fed into
bureaucratic meat grinders, a feeling that I try to channel in my art.
Overwhelmed with unwritten rules and arbitrary regulations while
simultaneously being gaslit into believing that we have LibeRtY and
fReEdoM (limitations apply). A world that is so cruel with no
way out but death, which may as well recycle our souls into other bodies
so that the endless pain repeats itself. I mock the false beliefs that led
us here: that good triumphs over evil in the end, that truth wins over
lies; these Platonic ideals don't have any bearing on reality,
especially to those who proclaim truth and justice, and I'm the
villain for saying that appearance is reality. There is only raw
power in this world and even the next one, that's all there ever was
and will be. People wouldn't worship God if he were helpless,
powerless, unable to cast judgment and rain hellfire on the wicked, there
is only the deep-seated wishful thinking of divine vengeance.
World in Chains scenario
If one is part of the ruling class cabal, one necessarily has to wage war
against the rest of humanity to remain on top. The consolidation of power
and wealth in their control is an end unto itself, and it requires that
humanity on the whole becomes impoverished, powerless, without any agency
in their own lives, the vast inequality is necessary for them to remain in
control indefinitely. The dark powers of the world can play a
few against all war game, and win because everyone else
isn't even aware they are playing the same game.
The obsession over artificial intelligence by the elites is directly in
their interest: to be able to surveil and analyze every shred of personal
data, predicting human behavior, and subverting the human will entirely.
They will be so hyper-efficient at manufacturing consent, that it
won't even matter if most people resist. Weaponized analysis of
real-time information on the battlefield of everyday life squashes dissent
before it can even form.
Almost no one is willing to dismantle the power structures, and arguably
few have ever succeeded in all of history, as they are largely one-sided
conflicts. There is a self-correcting feedback loop, and that is global
low fertility rates. There can only be a pyrrhic victory of early human
extinction against the dark powers of the world. To rid the world of evil,
finally achieving world peace, requires the end of humanity. The nuclear
weapon is the penultimate peacemaker, the ultimate being human extinction.