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Tag Archives: Cybernetics
Zero Point: Our 4th Industrial Revolution Against Their Great Reset
By Joaquin Flores Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Genesis 1:26 – And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 3D printing, 4IR, 4th Industrial Revolution, Cybernetics, Dystopia, Global Reset, Great Reset, ID2020, Klaus Schwab, Oligarchs, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism, World Economic Forum
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THE RISE OF THE CYBORGIAN CONSUMER
By Elva Thompson Source: Waking Times “You don’t take over the world with gaudy displays of violence. Real control is surgical, and invisible.” ~ John Greer – Person of Interest, Season 4, Episode: YHVH The Posthuman (or Transhuman) Movement was formally … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged apophasis, Chaos, Consumerism, Cybernetics, Cyborgs, Information, Nick Bostrom, Posthumanism, Stephen Brown, Technocracy, technology, Transhumanism
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The Varieties of Psychonautic Experience: Erik Davis’s ‘High Weirdness’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies By Erik Davis Strange Attractor Press/MIT Press, 2019 Two months ago, I devoured Erik Davis’s magisterial 2019 book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, History, media, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged 1970s, Consciousness, Cybernetics, drugs, Entheogens, Erik Davis, Esoterica, High Weirdness, history, Neuroscience, parapsychology, Philip K. Dick, Philosophy, Psychedelics, Robert Anton Wilson, Science fiction, Shamansism, spirituality, Technocracy, Terence McKenna, the Seventies, Visionary Experience
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Stick to the Plan
Reclaiming central planning from the clutches of corporations By Brendan James Source: The Baffler What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state—Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Amazon, automation, big data, capitalism, central planning, Cybernetics, Economics, elites, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Stalin, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Manufacturing Panic: Social Engineering, Domination and Control
By S.C. Hickman Source: Techno Occulture In the 21st century, the social engineering of dread and longing have evolved into a bio-political arena of terror and a psycho-political culture of internalized domination. The globally deployed technology of the spectacle transforms … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, education, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged automation, Consciousness, Cybernetics, Deep State, Dystopia, JPL, media, Philosophy, propaganda, social control, Social Engineering, Spectacle, surveillance state, Technocracy, technology
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Snow, Death, and the Bewildered Herd
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain Few people at this hour – and I refer to the time before the breaking out of this most grim war, which is coming to birth so strangely, as if it did not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, History, media, news, Philosophy, propaganda, Psychology, society, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Boris Pasternak, C. Wright Mills, Cybernetics, Death, Eugene Ionesco, Information, Jacques Ellul, Literature, Marshall McLuhan, media, news, propaganda, technology, Walter Lippman
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