Lex was all like "so you could theoretically speak with passed loved ones, right?" and Zuck's all like "yeah, that's known as playing god which we may get in trouble for developing".
Zucker is sugar (as ya know) in German an' I think he's on a "sugar high" with hiz own hyperactive crazed toddler-self on top of the world-sundae with a cherry, humans below just so many choco-sprinkles gettin' drowned in the whipped cream--seriously, this is DELUSIONAL in perspective, insane in ambition--an' I just HOPE an' PRAY the normies ('specially the young'uns) ain't gonna buy inta this sicko "phantasy" which leads to the end of humanity in one big sugar rush an'll ultimately make 'em all depressed an' sick.
Yer postin' here--bout "real" imagination (via yer art an' yer fun sister who knew yer "likes" so well) vs the saccharine absurd-ditty of the deranged cyber-minds reminds me a bit of the hobo camp song, "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" where:
There's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines everyday
All the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees (ha!)
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Actually, it's a swell song an' both the original writer an' all've us that sung it at summer camp enjoyed imaginin' yet knowin' it warn't reality kinda like all yer sister did ta lead ya on a wild goose chase. Today Mister Zucker Berg (funny, Mister Sugar Mountain!) doesn't wanna distinguish the two--the truly sweet that only the human mind kin envision--an' the slick sick too sweet computer generated vision that he wants to literally enforce on folks via Metaverse Ray Bans (funny, cuz that means ta "ban" the rays of the sun which he an' Gates've Hell are doin'...). Literally Zuck wants ta control vision--an' reverse it so as ta see inta the minds of all us human beans (an' make us what? jelly beans?) Between him an' fElon I'm truly wonderin' how these toddlers have so much power an' so much sugar fuel... it's not good fer any of us!
Thanks for Hardy Boys stories. I needed the laughs!
My hope is that these Raybans will fail in the same way that Google Glass failed. But these very smart tech idiots aren't asking themselves why these products might be a terrible idea. Instead, they're asking, "How can we make these products even more sneaky so that we won't have the Glasshole problem?"
You can see where this is going: having the tech stuff built directly into your head.
Another excellent and insightful article. Thank you for all that you do to wake people up to the very real dangers of these seemingly innocuous machinations all around us.
Great article - if we don't wake up technology will rob us of our humanity. I believe there is - man's /artificial world & GOD's/Natural world. I choose to live in GOD's world, alive with ALL emotions that are real & true reality. Blessings to you Karen ...
I was surprised when one of our diagnostic health labs were sold a virtual reality package on how patients were to be approached when being treated in their offices. Like you need to put on your visor as in doing video games to learn this- really?? Somebody just suckered for a lot of money. Bunch of BS.
Except that the "suckered" money expenses will be passed on to all the rest of us in terms of higher costs. And by the very people who supposedly decry the "costs of health care" to the most vulnerable citizens.
War trains on video games. Once you establish the pathway, whether with real people or obvious fictions, you are prepared and limbered to walk that pathway in real life.
They are training doctors all through the pandemic how to sell the shots. They know all about superficial vaccine apologetics, but little about the particulars. Why do you think so much funding goes to studying messaging and nudging? Virtual reality is just an extension in this case of role-playing, which they've already been making good use of.
I imagine that if this dystopian Metaverse were to materialize, humanity would rapidly collapse into a vegetative state.
Need some greenery in and around your home? Don' bother with a trip to the nursery and the hassle of tending real plants. Simply put on the VR glasses and enhance your surroundings with holograms of lush vegetation.
Likewise, the the need for paint (both the type for the walls in your home, and for art) would vanish. Perhaps even a boon for the environmentalists due to decreased VOC's floating about.
Find yourself in a middle of a war zone? No need to rebuild, as your VR glasses convert rubble into stunning architecture......of course, for this last situation, a way to harvest electrical energy from humans will be needed.
Exactly. The melding of synthetic realities with physical material reality is only possible if we consent. If we surrender our minds. The trouble is, smartphones encourage this.
Nov 9, 2023·edited Nov 9, 2023Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
This is at the heart of the trans issue for many in that predicament. My son went trans suddenly last year. In the years leading up he was exposed to very strong online cultures. Imagine first how many children have separated parents and so are given smart phones in order to keep in contact with the other parent. Imagine all of the kids who flunked out of crappy lockdown virtual school and learned to live online, because access to friends there was an escape from being stupid (lockdown school), isolated (no social), nihilistic no-future prospects (climate doom, covid contagion murder, the world is racist and bigoted and f'd), and an increasing discomfort with the body (virtual life begets dissociation and an increasingly negative physical experience).
I realize later the disastrous consequence of these factors, and some more, upon young people like my son, my son who now wishes to surgically remove hated parts and lives closeted by the feared whims of mundane actual people who might not *see* him for the woman he *really* is.
Imagine access to porn as a gateway to discovering first that you are gay (because why else would a boy respond to those kinds of videos), then that you are a furry, then that you are not even your own body..... In addition to an infinity of fetishes and dangerous sexual attachments. Imagine how the young have been taught to righteously affirm each other over identity, without any embodiment to their interactions.
If you want to imagine what these kinds of experiences might be like:
E45. October 15, 2021 Helena a detransitioner on Gender a Wider Lens podcast. Very interesting insights about trans culture and what the trans experience is like and about.
Look up Helena Kerschner, including mothers day article 2023 ON PITT
Also this:
16 year old wrote an incredible essay to wake us up to how ubiquitously children are accessing porn, and how it is shaping and influencing them.
Now imagine the import of the developing virtual world after reading the above essay. Some unknown They could manipulate them into hellish insanity. Even without a They, the structure is enough for disaster.
I'm working hard to imagine the Back to Basics movement where young and old detox from fake life in favor of adhering to embodied knowledge and relationships. Grass has already become a woo woo earthing phenomenon (you can pay to be guided through the experience), and maybe it could for some become enhanced only by an imagination exposed to simpler mediums, like the written word, and less by the imagination shaped by more engrossing fake mediums.
When my son was little, he was part of a play school in which a hot topic for the parents and staff was the effect of movies and media on not just the child who watches, but on the greater community of children. There was a strong sentiment that children's fantasy play and behaviors became overwhelmed when even one or two children were on Disney. The children became Other as they would play out what they had seen. They would obey the mandate to explore being (not pretending) the characters. Play was not simply what each person naturally was, but became an artifice of play.
For my son the impact was profound. One encounter with kung fu characters led to acting out fighting upon peers. Scary things became spirits which could be seen and spoken to. Friends had to engage, and be corrected to align with the manipulated other-created fantasy, or disengage when overwhelmed.
What does maturity look like, even for us adults of a prior generation, in encountering these kinds of manipulations upon our imagination, framing, meaning-making, self-concepts?
I'm writing a fantasy/sci-fi novel about this exact future... I'm chatting with so many people who are realising the terrifying future that is just around the corner. And what you said about 15 year old boys absolutely nails it. When this reality hits, most people will just not have the discipline to not give themselves over to it.
The voices never stop spreading propaganda through "partial lies" and half-truths, especially by those who seemingly oppose the inhumanity of transhumanism, but oddly advocate a theological justification for the genocide in the Middle East.
On the other hand, there are those who seemingly advocate for not only the destruction of Israel as a state but the extermination of the Jews because that's what the result would be, as well as the continued oppression of Palestinians under Hamas. I get it. I spend many hours crafting my essays, so I don't feel the need, nor do I have the time to make in-depth responses to comments that take a few seconds to make. That said, I welcome opposing views and have often said you should start your own Substack.
Since you're prideful of your erudition it would behoove you to take a bit of time researching the historical/political development of Israel and its purpose within the British/US Empire. You might discover that the most avid advocates promoting the formation of Israel were either atheists or rabid antisemites.
Btw, it's understandable how someone with your huge intellect would find it painful to humble yourself by responding to comments from those who you do not consider worthy.
Jeez. That is very bitter talk. Here is the point. It is very difficult for me to imagine that we'd have these kinds of interactions in person. If you were in my community I'd either politely avoid you or ask you to take a talking walk or tea with me to hear you out properly and aim for real and relational communication.
What can we expect from each other here (online) ? And what do these kinds of interactions serve?
Zucker is sugar (as ya know) in German an' I think he's on a "sugar high" with hiz own hyperactive crazed toddler-self on top of the world-sundae with a cherry, humans below just so many choco-sprinkles gettin' drowned in the whipped cream--seriously, this is DELUSIONAL in perspective, insane in ambition--an' I just HOPE an' PRAY the normies ('specially the young'uns) ain't gonna buy inta this sicko "phantasy" which leads to the end of humanity in one big sugar rush an'll ultimately make 'em all depressed an' sick.
Yer postin' here--bout "real" imagination (via yer art an' yer fun sister who knew yer "likes" so well) vs the saccharine absurd-ditty of the deranged cyber-minds reminds me a bit of the hobo camp song, "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" where:
There's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines everyday
All the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees (ha!)
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Actually, it's a swell song an' both the original writer an' all've us that sung it at summer camp enjoyed imaginin' yet knowin' it warn't reality kinda like all yer sister did ta lead ya on a wild goose chase. Today Mister Zucker Berg (funny, Mister Sugar Mountain!) doesn't wanna distinguish the two--the truly sweet that only the human mind kin envision--an' the slick sick too sweet computer generated vision that he wants to literally enforce on folks via Metaverse Ray Bans (funny, cuz that means ta "ban" the rays of the sun which he an' Gates've Hell are doin'...). Literally Zuck wants ta control vision--an' reverse it so as ta see inta the minds of all us human beans (an' make us what? jelly beans?) Between him an' fElon I'm truly wonderin' how these toddlers have so much power an' so much sugar fuel... it's not good fer any of us!
I LOVE your artwork and your stories! I wish I could see and read all of them. You have such a beautiful gift. Thanks for sharing ❤️😁
“They draw us
deep into a world where no lips press,
no laughter peals, no talk of love disturbs,
where the only sound’s a tuneless humming,
and, there, a cold that stops the heart”
---Jon Roberts
Like I said it before your drawings are beautiful,
they have the kind of soul and depth that AR/VR utterly lacks
Have you ever watched the 'Black Mirror' series?
Thank you. I've watched some of the Black Mirror series. Very disturbing stuff!.
"And he gave them eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear"
That's right.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/human-like-ai-deceptive-dangerous/5834350
Thanks for Hardy Boys stories. I needed the laughs!
My hope is that these Raybans will fail in the same way that Google Glass failed. But these very smart tech idiots aren't asking themselves why these products might be a terrible idea. Instead, they're asking, "How can we make these products even more sneaky so that we won't have the Glasshole problem?"
You can see where this is going: having the tech stuff built directly into your head.
Great essay. Too bad for us innovative technology leaves no room for wisdom.
Another excellent and insightful article. Thank you for all that you do to wake people up to the very real dangers of these seemingly innocuous machinations all around us.
Great article - if we don't wake up technology will rob us of our humanity. I believe there is - man's /artificial world & GOD's/Natural world. I choose to live in GOD's world, alive with ALL emotions that are real & true reality. Blessings to you Karen ...
Thank you. Blessings to you.
I was surprised when one of our diagnostic health labs were sold a virtual reality package on how patients were to be approached when being treated in their offices. Like you need to put on your visor as in doing video games to learn this- really?? Somebody just suckered for a lot of money. Bunch of BS.
Except that the "suckered" money expenses will be passed on to all the rest of us in terms of higher costs. And by the very people who supposedly decry the "costs of health care" to the most vulnerable citizens.
War trains on video games. Once you establish the pathway, whether with real people or obvious fictions, you are prepared and limbered to walk that pathway in real life.
They are training doctors all through the pandemic how to sell the shots. They know all about superficial vaccine apologetics, but little about the particulars. Why do you think so much funding goes to studying messaging and nudging? Virtual reality is just an extension in this case of role-playing, which they've already been making good use of.
Sign over a friends desk at work, in the 1990's; (when virtual reality hit the markets)...
IF YOU THINK VIRTUAL REALITY IS GREAT, YOU SHOULD TRY ACTUAL REALITY.
Words to live by. Best from Oregon
I imagine that if this dystopian Metaverse were to materialize, humanity would rapidly collapse into a vegetative state.
Need some greenery in and around your home? Don' bother with a trip to the nursery and the hassle of tending real plants. Simply put on the VR glasses and enhance your surroundings with holograms of lush vegetation.
Likewise, the the need for paint (both the type for the walls in your home, and for art) would vanish. Perhaps even a boon for the environmentalists due to decreased VOC's floating about.
Find yourself in a middle of a war zone? No need to rebuild, as your VR glasses convert rubble into stunning architecture......of course, for this last situation, a way to harvest electrical energy from humans will be needed.
Exactly. The melding of synthetic realities with physical material reality is only possible if we consent. If we surrender our minds. The trouble is, smartphones encourage this.
As always, an essay that gets right to the heart of what it means to be human, and free. Thank you, Karen.
Our imagination is our greatest power, and anything that disrupts, co-opts or otherwise interferes with it will destroy us. Period.
This is at the heart of the trans issue for many in that predicament. My son went trans suddenly last year. In the years leading up he was exposed to very strong online cultures. Imagine first how many children have separated parents and so are given smart phones in order to keep in contact with the other parent. Imagine all of the kids who flunked out of crappy lockdown virtual school and learned to live online, because access to friends there was an escape from being stupid (lockdown school), isolated (no social), nihilistic no-future prospects (climate doom, covid contagion murder, the world is racist and bigoted and f'd), and an increasing discomfort with the body (virtual life begets dissociation and an increasingly negative physical experience).
I realize later the disastrous consequence of these factors, and some more, upon young people like my son, my son who now wishes to surgically remove hated parts and lives closeted by the feared whims of mundane actual people who might not *see* him for the woman he *really* is.
Imagine access to porn as a gateway to discovering first that you are gay (because why else would a boy respond to those kinds of videos), then that you are a furry, then that you are not even your own body..... In addition to an infinity of fetishes and dangerous sexual attachments. Imagine how the young have been taught to righteously affirm each other over identity, without any embodiment to their interactions.
If you want to imagine what these kinds of experiences might be like:
E45. October 15, 2021 Helena a detransitioner on Gender a Wider Lens podcast. Very interesting insights about trans culture and what the trans experience is like and about.
Look up Helena Kerschner, including mothers day article 2023 ON PITT
Also this:
16 year old wrote an incredible essay to wake us up to how ubiquitously children are accessing porn, and how it is shaping and influencing them.
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-are-our-fourth-graders-on-pornhub
Now imagine the import of the developing virtual world after reading the above essay. Some unknown They could manipulate them into hellish insanity. Even without a They, the structure is enough for disaster.
I'm working hard to imagine the Back to Basics movement where young and old detox from fake life in favor of adhering to embodied knowledge and relationships. Grass has already become a woo woo earthing phenomenon (you can pay to be guided through the experience), and maybe it could for some become enhanced only by an imagination exposed to simpler mediums, like the written word, and less by the imagination shaped by more engrossing fake mediums.
When my son was little, he was part of a play school in which a hot topic for the parents and staff was the effect of movies and media on not just the child who watches, but on the greater community of children. There was a strong sentiment that children's fantasy play and behaviors became overwhelmed when even one or two children were on Disney. The children became Other as they would play out what they had seen. They would obey the mandate to explore being (not pretending) the characters. Play was not simply what each person naturally was, but became an artifice of play.
For my son the impact was profound. One encounter with kung fu characters led to acting out fighting upon peers. Scary things became spirits which could be seen and spoken to. Friends had to engage, and be corrected to align with the manipulated other-created fantasy, or disengage when overwhelmed.
What does maturity look like, even for us adults of a prior generation, in encountering these kinds of manipulations upon our imagination, framing, meaning-making, self-concepts?
I'm writing a fantasy/sci-fi novel about this exact future... I'm chatting with so many people who are realising the terrifying future that is just around the corner. And what you said about 15 year old boys absolutely nails it. When this reality hits, most people will just not have the discipline to not give themselves over to it.
Good luck with the novel!
The voices never stop spreading propaganda through "partial lies" and half-truths, especially by those who seemingly oppose the inhumanity of transhumanism, but oddly advocate a theological justification for the genocide in the Middle East.
On the other hand, there are those who seemingly advocate for not only the destruction of Israel as a state but the extermination of the Jews because that's what the result would be, as well as the continued oppression of Palestinians under Hamas. I get it. I spend many hours crafting my essays, so I don't feel the need, nor do I have the time to make in-depth responses to comments that take a few seconds to make. That said, I welcome opposing views and have often said you should start your own Substack.
Since you're prideful of your erudition it would behoove you to take a bit of time researching the historical/political development of Israel and its purpose within the British/US Empire. You might discover that the most avid advocates promoting the formation of Israel were either atheists or rabid antisemites.
Btw, it's understandable how someone with your huge intellect would find it painful to humble yourself by responding to comments from those who you do not consider worthy.
Jeez. That is very bitter talk. Here is the point. It is very difficult for me to imagine that we'd have these kinds of interactions in person. If you were in my community I'd either politely avoid you or ask you to take a talking walk or tea with me to hear you out properly and aim for real and relational communication.
What can we expect from each other here (online) ? And what do these kinds of interactions serve?
Relational communication? These interactions serve to reveal the truth. A virtue that's extremely difficult to find on every social platform.
What truth are you seeing in the interaction you had? Sincere question.
The contradictions of pious pretenses using the pretext of opposing technocratic tyranny.