Suggestion: Please stop being ‘fascinated’ by technology. Start being skeptical of it. It’s about to be used against you. No… it’s being used against you now, but without your explicit knowledge. Even the tech that has your approval (implicit compliance via terms of service) is not being given to you for altruistic purposes. Rather, an exchange is being made. Your data for your soul (your soul being made predictable, mutable by corporate and governmental interests, and sellable to capital interests of types you can’t imagine). Convenience and autonomy are inverse, just as are security and freedom. More technology is not better. That’s a dullard’s assumption. Was the atom bomb good? More technology further abstracts you from reality, autonomy, and freedom. Abstraction from reality dehumanizes you—for we are the creature that deals with reality. If you’re not a human (or if you’re only technically a human, but have been removed from participation in reality, whether by your own interests and fascinations or by force), you’re a commodity, and if you position yourself as such (again, whether knowingly or otherwise, and however innocently) in capitulation to market forces (technology and capital interests) you’ll be treated as such. And commodities have no rights.
Think: do you assume mRNA gene alteration technology is default good? Was social media default good? Was the machine gun default good? 5G is effectively cattle tracking technology. Is that good? Is that worth faster download speeds? Did anyone ask if they could constantly track and irradiate your children? See what I’m getting at here? If you don’t exercise your right as a human, it will be alienated from you…those “inalienable” rights are very pesky to technique’s drive toward commodifying you, abstracting you from your individuality, your soul, that keeps you human. It wants you transhuman at least, and a pure commodity at best. Think about the incentives of an objective system, then ask yourself if we don’t live in a market, an economy, an objective thing that means to place a value on us and our consumption at every turn. Think about who gets punished: those who disrupt markets. Think about what is immoral: market disruption, at bottom. Racial bias for instance: market disruption, just labeled as immoral. What is it restricting at bottom? Increased commerce.
Capital and technique are objectively alienating, centralizing, and economizing forces. Begin rejecting technology RIGHT NOW, or enslave your descendants to unimaginable suppression of free will, autonomy, and capacity for independent thought. Tech systems obliterate anti-system factors in their march toward economization.
Social credit (being tested by Google), nudge psychology (used by every tech company), crypto (you think it’s decentralized but it’s actually hyper-centralized once it’s converted to govt-backed digital currency…soon) and blockchain / smart contracts / trust less transactions…these all add up to further alienation of you from your work product, your labor, the righteous burden you carry for your family: the thing that gives you purpose.
Tech 👏 Is 👏 Not 👏 By 👏 Default 👏 Good 👏 But we’ve taught ourselves and our children, via cute (split tested) blue and green and yellow and red logos to trust it. And IT is allying QUICKLY with government for ENFORCEMENT–not convenience. Tech > technology > technique: has no morals. It is objective and objectifying (of you) by nature. It is the force that fascinates us, and it is our undoing. Sharks are fascinating, but they aren’t looking out for your own best interest. They have no moral viewpoint on preserving your humanity; neither does technology. 😁 // end rant //