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in the 25th revised edition of Malleus
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The word for
what is happening is Gleichschaltung.
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| Front fanged and highly venomous... |
I’m drawn to mention this
because I am, in fact, really ill. And the reason for that,
needless to say, is an instinctual distaste for groupthink and collectivism. Indeed, I share the recently declared
conviction “that everything in the world is becoming the same, that choice is a
chimera, and what a free market really does is make lateral plagiarism where
everything is a copy of everything else.” No précis better exemplifies the
catch-22 of your own imagination, since it is altogether impossible to
distinguish a
piece of solipsistic feedback from the
vortex of smoke and mirrors made by and for a self-defining civilization. Indeed, it is
the fundamental postulate of its feedback mechanism, that it is not possible to
beat the system. And I'm sure I don't need to remind you that there is no "Them." There is only "You" and a "global newsroom run by robot editors" boosting covert consumer generated news feedback while you're thinking about escaping the economic and digital predicament you are in.
Or could it be that we have become Elois of eternal contentment;
weak, vacillating, purposeless human beings taking no further part in the
history of the world? That we mature on hand-held tablets which are designed
chiefly to nurture our bodies and brains while
we absorb a precisely calculated balance of intellectual nutrients? Inert fibrous pods growing in an organised
pattern all over the entire planet, performance, activity and emotions being controlled by the
Morlocks! [3]
That concept is called
hydroponics.
Most
of the growth is synthetic. Only about 10% is organic. The rest continues to
tick upwards at the rate of one new pod every few seconds. Perhaps too late,
as the years wear on, will we ever know that we became subject to a vast,
unidentified digitalised mutation. Cognitive computers and neuromorphic chips
are hacking the human mind. At the time of this
writing, well over two billion pods are caught up in a highly professional
operation for the mass production of all kinds of intravenously fed life forms.
Neuro-engineered, industrially reared and fattened in conditions designed to maximise
profit by turning them into consumers in the shortest possible time, they are
kept permanently indoors, treated like clones and flushed with dopamine. Having
forfeited their individuality and their independent egos, they exist inside their
own single, solitary information system controlled by the Morlocks. For
it embraces - as
far as I can judge - a shared extrapolation from the banks of
every computer wired into the global id. Fuelling hallucinations, delusions and genuine
psychoses, this form of hyperstimulation is experienced daily by millions of
regular users whose parasympathetic system has
learned how to cohere in a cluster that
combines the consensual hallucination of
the individual pod with its aggregate computational muscle.
And the virtue of
such an algorithm clearly lies in its performance. Or, as Isaac Asimov found:
“The individual human being is unpredictable, but the reactions of human
mobs can be treated statistically. The larger the mob, the greater the accuracy
that can be achieved” - until at some point,
finally, the system kills off the consensual units and replaces them
with what become matrix elements that can no longer place themselves outside
the aggregate as individuals. It only remains to express the laws of this
algometry in a concise form, so that one can begin to
explore the prospect of translating
the accuracy of its results, its scope and its complexity into a pattern that can be exploited in socio-economic
terms.
[1] “‘Fair use’ as in expropriating a commodity from one
party, charging a second party for advertising on it and allowing a third party
to use it.” Dr Amanda Foreman.
[2] Google: “Do the right thing!”
[3] “(mostly men, white, living in San Francisco, aged 25-35)” - Driven to Distraction. Josh Glancy. The Sunday Times 30.10.2016
[3] “(mostly men, white, living in San Francisco, aged 25-35)” - Driven to Distraction. Josh Glancy. The Sunday Times 30.10.2016
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Malleus Maleficus is an
advocate of English liberal democracy, and the anonymous author of an
historiographic apology of the British Empire.
1 comment:
What fresh hell is this? And I tell you what,
this is Satan in corporate form!!
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