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Smithson Winst's avatar

Superb run down as always. My only issue is the treatment is a little clinical, with so many bullet points & summarisations & repetitions making it look AI generated. I've no idea if you use it as a tool. I've no objection to anyone using it for assisting / expediting writing, I've not used it myself.

Question is, who is responsible for this & ...well how to take it down only time will tell since we've been telling ourselves these dystopian tales for so long it makes one wonder about the cause & effect of this self-imposed programming, it's clearly in plain sight (for some of us) yet for most things in the world just look 'natural' or 'banal' when of course they are anything but. Of course it's an endless academic argument as to when humans started removing ourselves from the 'natural' environment (was it the Industrial Revolution? The invention of agriculture?) & most of us couldn't exist, physically, psychologically or emotionally within nature... but most would also prefer to, if given the choice remain human yet are on a trajectory towards the TRANShuman, which I've been watching passively for decades along with all the 'theories' parallel to the mainstream without really being able to reconcile them - until more recently looking into history and looking (to the degree I can stomach, usually indirectly) at politics etc.

There are definite ideologies & cultural ontologies for these corrupt and inhuman obsessions with destroying everything & enslaving everyone & those who practice them have names & addresses yet are embedded within us like John Carpenter's 1988 sci fi thriller 'They Live'. There is always the metaphysical question of whether this is simply a natural stage of our development as humans and/or if we are actually going to do something about this blatantly psychopathic, narcissistic & insidious pedocracy which is installing what you describe above in real time in plain sight for anyone to see.

Christine Jones's avatar

Yes - academia and education have excelled at engineering and fabricating Agent Smiths (policy & procedure compliant) throughout every level of the structure and we know them as neighbours, co-workers, friends and family. The tiny minority architecting and financing this trajectory could not achieve their aims and ends without the greater mass of Agent Smiths. Each one of us individually can refuse to function as an Agent Smith - but the costs for doing so are very high when they are the majority, but it’s what is necessary and pretty much the only agency any individual has - But Not Through Me.

Svartbergs view's avatar

In 2012 I was reading Digital Demens by Manfred Spitzer. His work has been a following me for I read it, and now with the digital school, AI these marxists are attacking our kids all to create the digital dystopia that your work so very well describe.

How will kids ever be able to see AI fake and real.

https://substack.com/@svartbergsview/note/c-180603884?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1owtpi

Cathrin's avatar

Ich bin vor kurzem auf Folgendes gestossen:

"...Im Jahr 1956 erhielt KOLMOGOROW die Möglichkeit eines For-

schungsaufenthalts am MIT. Die beiden 1953 und 1956 erschienenen Aufsätze

KHINCHINS wurden übersetzt und beide 1957 in den USA und der DDR veröf-

fentlicht. Die Rehabilitierung der Kybernetik war damit abgeschlossen....."

Das heisst, 1956 erhält ein sowjetischer Wissenschaftler, der sich mit Kybernetik befasst, die Möglichkeit eines Aufenthaltes am MIT. In der ehemaligen DDR war es Georg Klaus, der sich intensiv mit Kybernetik befasste, einen Lehrstuhl bekam und wohl ebenfalls internationale Anerkennung genossen hat. Zufall? ;-)

esc's avatar

yeah russian cybernetics was revived in 1954 post-stalin

Cathrin's avatar

Bedauerlicherweise stoßen Menschen im mittleren Lebensalter darauf, dass Dinge anders begründet sind als zuvor erlernt. In einem Alter, in dem man für das System, in Bezug auf “Nützlichkeit”, (Arbeit, Abgaben) unrelevant wird. Daher würde eine Arbeit zu diesem Zyklus interessant sein. Wie wird Kybernetik gesellschaftlich angewendet. Insbesondere Informationsflüsse, deren Aufbau. Aufgestellte politische Strömungen, die jede Störgrösse bedienen und das Prinzip einer dezentralen Steuerung umsetzen, statt Veränderung. Es scheint ebenso perfektioniert wie die wirtschaftliche Umsetzung mit Hilfe kybernetischer Werkzeuge.

Roger's avatar

In our conventional disease-care systems whether in the privatized US system or in national health systems, I see analogies to same Marxist control systems. I havent thought it through completely but all the parts are there.

We have an "ethical" model that sees the body as a mechanical system, that can be treated by palliating/suppressing whatever part needs it. There is a vanguard of medical boards and regulators that establish the permissible ethics of the system. No intention of whithering away. They have to protect us from alternative systems of medicine. Exit ramps are shut when possible. Harsh measures are taken against those who oppose the system. They see the future where there is complete biochemical control of the human body.

No feedback from failure. ICD medical codes dont code for medical failure (e.g. vax injury), only acceptable outcomes like heart disease, or infections.

Total centralization of control via insurance companies, hospitals or national health systems. Control is embedded in the hospital protocols, insurance payments, medical schools or coercion of doctors.

The same four layers exist which are:

Matter / Land / Space — physical territory and bodies

Energy / Resources — labor

Information — communication, coordination, signals

Knowledge — education, ideology, frameworks for understanding reality

Knowledge Layer:

Content moderation policies (what’s considered ‘misinformation’)

Platform recommendations (what’s ‘authoritative’)

Educational standards

AI training data curation

All Hail our Marxist medical systems.

Btw, India has three different medical systems that compete - homeopathic, Ayurvedic and conventional. All three have regulators, medical schools and hospitals. Doctors of all three can see patients in any hospital.

Neelu's avatar

oh boy here we go...!

fun fun fun

Will Freemen's avatar

It will be great if you can write a similar article about the capitalism that rules the world today. Marxism is clearly not the answer to a free and fair world, but neither is today's capitalism controlled by the banksters. In the end we still need better economic systems than the current one. What's your ideal economic system?

esc's avatar

Today’s capitalism isn’t capitalism. Were it, the big banks would have collapsed in 2008 for starters. Completely ridiculous that they get bailed out regardless of what they do, and that arguably begun in 1987 and became the rule with LTCM in 1998.

The central banks are at the root of it, ultimately. Plank 5 favours them, exclusively.

Alanna Hartzok's avatar

Excellent! will you get more into decentralization, the right to exit the stack and still be able to survive which points to the right to the earth as a birthright? I am looking for this. let me know. alannahartzok@gmail.com

Prajjwal Rathore's avatar

Amazing article! Lack of substantial and direct references to specific marxist texts was my favourite part!

esc's avatar

my favourite part is that no marxist idiot has challenged the main issue whatsoever.

because they can't.

Prajjwal Rathore's avatar

Mostly because Marxists refrain from arguing in the abstract. Randomized formatting in bolds and italics is a poor substitute for reading and responding.

esc's avatar

Marxists ONLY debate in the abstract. Everything is deferred to 'morality', and so forth.

None EVER speak of practical solutions.

How will 'equity' be measured but for surveillance. Ah, oops, better not reply to that one, right?

Hagfish Bagpipe's avatar

PS: 29 total comments on this excellent article -- esc, you're obviously not on anyone's payroll. But you could be. I wonder if you get offers. You should. Writing is a perilous profession.

esc's avatar

hah if i ever did, i was too spergy to pick up on it clearly

Hagfish Bagpipe's avatar

Anyway, getting back to my comment on your fine article -- 8 months later -- and elevating from subcontinental bovine excretory marxoid comical cheap shots -- isn't the system you so exhaustively describe inherent in the nature of modernism? Wouldn't the rejection and reform of El Modernismo require the rejection and reform of the Enlightenment? What system might replace the Enlightenment? Okay, not really a topic for an 8 month old chatbox. But it makes me wonder. Please keep up the great work.

Hagfish Bagpipe's avatar

"Mostly because Marxists refrain from arguing in the abstract."

(Peels of derisive laughter!) -- MARXISTS ONLY ARGUE IN THE ABSTRACT YOU CURRY DERANGED NINNY!!!

That's its most distinctive characteristic. Thanks for a good laugh, though, Mr. Prajightohit Rohfgytren.

(Sorry Esc, I was on my way to writing a complimentary comment on this fine article when distracted by this hilarious cow-worshipping, street-shitting marxist nonsense presenting irresistible ridicule target.)

Prajjwal Rathore's avatar

I should be opening this app more often than reading an actual text. Regardless, I'm open to people arguing that Marxists only argue in the abstract. Although, I do find it interesting that the argument still is with no evidence. Please mention the canonical marxist texts written in abstract, I'll be happy to recheck my thought. Unlike you, I am open to it :)

(Always a treat to see racist stuff mentioned in brackets. Formatting is really a game changer, isn't it?)

JAS's avatar

Fantastic post which has provoked some interesting comments.

Smokey Putnum's avatar

Yeah, but ‘Tribal Communism’…. 🥱

Mark K's avatar

"The twentieth century was a bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one."—NN Taleb

MakerOfNoise's avatar

esc - Great work. The part where you talk about the years that "improvements" to the theories of centralized governance were created is my favorite. All centralized governments share similarities, they all seek to expand their powers and control.

No's avatar

A brilliant piece of work that clarified a lot. Your skill at communicating complex topics in a readable, and dare I say 'fun' way is awesome. Thank you. Lots to think about.

J973's avatar

can't it be summarized better?

Dave Bross's avatar

More on Mr. Marx...wealthy heir.

I don't necessarily agree with this writer on all counts but he does find or notice interesting things no one else does: https://mileswmathis.com/marx.pdf

Bert's avatar

We have a word that summarizes all of this. It's "Slavery". The slave owners strive for perfection and keep upgrading their repression tactics - including changing the slaves themselves.

GreatNorthMedia comments's avatar

written for Ignoramus westerners with a naive perception of reality no wounder this article reached 1000+ read

esc's avatar

i love comments like yours. gives me an opportunity to see who writes what.

here's from your most recent essay:

"This estrangement and abhorrence among different civilizations have gravely thwarted international cooperation. Given this, the Global Civilization Initiative, as a the tools and wisdome to address the demands of our times and lays a blueprint to transform turbulence into harmony.

...

This approach challenges the notion of an inevitable "clash of civilizations" and moves beyond historical constraints. Alongside its other global proposals, China offers inclusive strategies for improving global governance, addressing common challenges, and fostering a more stable and hopeful world."

you strike me as less 'great north canada' and more 'great north china'. in fact, this entire piece reads like CCP propaganda.

anyway, i knew these comments wouldn't comment on the main material. because the truth is that there is no off-ramp from the dictatorship of the proletariat beyond the one i detailed.

and we both know you'll do anything but address this major issue.

https://greatnorthmedia.substack.com/p/go-east-young-man