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MUNCHY's avatar

We all see the world through our own eyes. Not everyone is swimming in a sea of Tik Tok and Instagram but you and your ilk probably are. Why? Because you were born in a place and time where they were available and the internet became part of you. You are part of the system and emotionally react to the stories that are fed to you. That humanness is what clever young people are trying to put into AI to make it really intelligent.

The guilt you feel at being helpless to save children in Gaza serves a purpose to those who order the wars and "pandemics" etc. They can make reality be whatever they want as they control the system and they can divide and distract us using media. You are helping them by including words in your article that perpetuate their story lines.

When they build their smart cities we will be told it will be for our own good and for the planet. The fact that "they" own the mines and central banks should be shelved under "best not to look at". Like the accepted science that maybe, just maybe, should be debated.

Cybernetic management won't stop at urban development if they can manage humans better than they do at the moment. Those of us who resist will be of particular use for educational or entertainmnet purposes.

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Matthew's avatar

That's a great quote from Freud. Similar to the idea that the meaning of life is life itself. I'm a recovering addict myself which has made the concept of "lack" and objeit petit a really appealing to me. I found your work through searching that and Rollins work. Addicts experience the void to a heightened degree and will engage any behavior they can find to fill the void. Your comment about Hegelian existentialism is apt because in recovery programs the solution to that void is found largely in service to other people and spirituality. I've found this to be the best possible answer to the lack. The spirituality is left open to the individual and seems broadly to be the cultivation of relationship. Relationship to oneself, others, and the Universe (God, Tao, Nature, Etc.)

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