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Old 26-07-2020, 03:48 PM
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Earlier, herein-above, I mentioned what is termed predictive programming. There is this theory that the entertainment industry, no matter where one lives in the world, is used not simply to entertain the masses but rather that its primary purpose is to keep sheeple distracted from thinking about real and important issues, as well as a means of subtly and gradually influencing their thought processes via conditioning the public to accept a particular meme or propagandist belief.

I describe the so-called "ascension" which proponents within the transhumanist movement preach, as being pseudo-transcendence, and yet we have an arguably pro-transhumanist film released only a few years ago, titled Transcendence.

Not every futurist narrative on the big or small screen promotes the transhumanist agenda. In fact, one of my favorite tv series, the Outer Limits (the color series from the mid-to-late '90s, and not the original b&w one that aired in the '60s), within its seven seasons, contained many a cautionary tale in their depiction of it. Here are but a few noteworthy examples:

"Blood Brothers": Is the story of two brothers who work as medical researchers in the pharmaceutical industry. The one warns of the possible adverse side effects of the drug they've been testing on simian test subjects; the other, an ambitious, mercenary businessman, thinks that his company has struck a gold mine, and can only think of profiting from his brother's extraordinary breakthrough, wanting it released onto the market regardless of the potential health consequences.

"Virtual Future": Tells the story of a corrupt billionaire tycoon and trailblazer within the VR community, who ends up misusing a roboticist's latest invention, illustrating once again that technology placed in the wrong hands can be or often is used for evil ends.

"The New Breed": It's the story about a man who injects himself with a supposed medical breakthrough, based on nanotechnology. In what at first appears to be a good idea, with a few beneficial results, in the end turns out for the scientist to be a majorly regretful act, a living nightmare. Gradually, the nanobots end up turning on him, working overtime, functioning not as anticipated, and the poor fellow becomes a freak of science, a grotesque mutation sporting fins on the sides of his neck and a new set of eyes in the back of his head.

"Unnatural Selection": It concerns itself with the controversial issue of eugenics, of selective breeding -- this idea in which only those people whose genes are deemed worthy (i.e. "superior") are permitted to reproduce. Albeit, this specific narrative involves a variant on that motif: here in this story, the genetic engineering of humans remains an underground activity, yet one in which some adults looking to have the "perfect" set of children still choose. These sons and daughters of theirs are scientifically bred, based on biological and temperamental features and qualities they prefer in people and thus want "their" offspring to have. Although they are warned that there might be some complications, a chance that their child might turn out to be an ugly and violent genetic aberrant, many couples go ahead anyway with the procedure.

"Re-Generation": The issue of human cloning is the theme of this one.

"Stream Of Consciousness": This episode envisions a future where the Internet has been rendered obsolete. In its place is a society where practically everyone is continually, 24/7, hooked up to a network by means of a small device that's attached to a cord, hung around the ear. Downloading/uploading info merely becomes a matter of putting in a mentally communicated request to the stream and waiting the few seconds it takes for the data to be sent the person via this aforesaid device, directly into the mind. Convenient? Yes. A person has immediate access to an encyclopedias-worth of information. But consider one of the major drawbacks to this: Since nearly every book in existence has been transferred onto the stream, a person no longer has to read or even to know how to read in order to be kept (mis)informed (or potentially indoctrinated). Say hello to global illiteracy ... save for a few of the "disabled" outsiders as they are called in this story who aren't connected due to their possessing a "neural defect" and who thus are put into a position of having to acquire information the old-fashioned way, by way of book-reading. The inhabitants of the planet, the ones online as it were, have been rendered intellectual no-brainers. The human mind has been commodified, co-opted into serving a mere utilitarian function. Is there even such a thing as a spiritual individual in this God-forsaken, dreadfully unimaginative society, as portrayed in this narrative? Neither can I imagine much if any meditation taking place within the lives of these global citizens. Here, computer technology has stripped people of their souls.
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Old 19-10-2021, 04:46 PM
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The wealthy Techno Lords are moving apace to replace the innate human soul, mind and spirit with virtual "reality" multipliers.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/15...ransformation/
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