Alterhuman, transhuman, identification is reality, all postmodernist claptrap for capitalists to sell back to people and insure they never develop class consciousness.
Great article. It’s not just loneliness, but alienation as well as delusion created by the artificial digital world, that is often completely disconnected from reality.
Mass mental illness, in the West and especially in the US, is something that needs to be very seriously addressed. It will make the population putt in a strongman’s hands.
This is a very interesting series, and I thank you for it, Kenaz.
What I still hear is how truly terrifying it is to be subject to and/or ruled by gossip.
Historically, gossip has been one of the weapons of the weak. It has also been useful for building communities. (At least this author thinks so...) https://going-medieval.com/2024/06/14/on-gossip/
However, as your series has been showing, gossip can become the preferred weapon of the Strong, too. And in that case, the weak - and the lonely, and the isolated - are meat, and the strong shall eat.
Alterhuman, transhuman, identification is reality, all postmodernist claptrap for capitalists to sell back to people and insure they never develop class consciousness.
None of it is real.
Great article. It’s not just loneliness, but alienation as well as delusion created by the artificial digital world, that is often completely disconnected from reality.
Mass mental illness, in the West and especially in the US, is something that needs to be very seriously addressed. It will make the population putt in a strongman’s hands.
This is a very interesting series, and I thank you for it, Kenaz.
What I still hear is how truly terrifying it is to be subject to and/or ruled by gossip.
Historically, gossip has been one of the weapons of the weak. It has also been useful for building communities. (At least this author thinks so...) https://going-medieval.com/2024/06/14/on-gossip/
However, as your series has been showing, gossip can become the preferred weapon of the Strong, too. And in that case, the weak - and the lonely, and the isolated - are meat, and the strong shall eat.