No implants for me. I'm sure they would interfere with the flow of energy through our bodies required for good health as taught by Chinese medicine. As for peanut allergies, no one had them when I was in school and most of us brought peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. Of course we had only 4 doses of vaccines. Now the kids have 72 doses by the age of 18 (and that was before covid) and many of them drop dead at the sniff of a peanut. And how do cats' sense of smell compare to dogs'? Any roach foolish enough to enter my kitchen will be pounced on quickly and killed by my tuxedo cat Cato. I wish Cato could get his claws on Soros, Schwab, Gares, Fauci, Collins, Birx, Ardern, Macron, Castreau, Scholz, and Brandon.
My apologies, for being pedestrian in my responses. I am not a scientist. I'm an old man who fancies himself a philosopher albeit a poor one. So much of what is presented as posthumanist and transhumanist seems to be coming from a position of antihumanist sentiment. I understand if this all comes from a sincere search for perfection, but as a philosopher I'd suggest that perfection in this regard does not- and cannot -exist. I don't remember who said it, but it is indeed true that perfect is the enemy of the good. Embracing a possible technological future of undetermined risk and hazard in response to dissatisfaction with the imperfections of the human condition is folly forewarned of in countless literary examples but one hardly need look past Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. As brilliant as Kurtzweil is, I feel his search for any kind of immortality to go so far as to download human consciousness to a computer system is little more than a glorified fear of death. I believe that as long as one is afraid of death one cannot fully live. Too often we think of death and life as opposites or view death as the end of life and then we spend our lives scared to death of Death. But in reality the opposite of death is birth. They are the two sides of the 'coin' of life. So much of the critique of humanity risks sounding like hatred of humanity. Hatred is just an extreme form of fear. Paul Williams wrote in Das Energi, "Self hatred is the only sin." Those who search for immortality seem to hold, as a foundational principle, that death is the failure of life, when, it seems to me, that death should be embraced and developed to be the capstone of life well-lived.
I share your anguish, Jessica. For most of my life, new and exciting tech led the way to the next adventure. Now I wonder if there was ever a time when “we” were not being played.
Thank you Jessica for eloquently voicing the disquiet that so many of us must feel about this drive to track us, trace us and biometrically measure us via wearables and implantables. All sold to us for our Safety, Convenience, Augmentation - Recommended by Yuval. SCARY!
If the WEF were concerned with improving the world (and not making as much money as possible, which has clearly been their goal forever), why have they never attempted to solve any of the most basic problems that kill children every day? How about, oh I don’t know, clean water for example? A group of billionaires that actually cared about their fellow humans could make an enormous dent in that problem. Or, if they care about population, why not throw all their money at birth control? We still have the same crappy technologies we had in the 80s! Or, what about child abuse — why not use their psyops to elevate the value of children so the Epsteins of the world know they’re wrong? I just read that planting 1.2 trillion trees would reverse climate change — why not do that, and save the world? No, they’ll never do any of these things, because they don’t really care about people. They care about money, end of story.
Excellent Jessica! One of your most fascinating articles.. my preference has always been to keep it simple and natural.. the less between one’s body and the Earths various environments the better.. that’s not to say as you mentioned there can appropriate uses of exoskeleton technology or even implants such as a Pacemaker.. the Superseding issue to me is to create and sustain a body that is truly free of the need for much in the way of mechanical interventions.. Yoga in its most comprehensive practice renders such a body..
I remember thinking how nice the "6 Million Dollar Man" idea was. Now the 100 billion dollar men have taken over. On a simple level this is just Hansel and Gretel. The wicked old lady/witch is Big Pharma, WEF, FDA, too many billionaires and we are Hansel and Gretel. Now that we have been shown to be mostly sheep I'm not sure we can stop the chips, injections, and insect diets. We really don't need mechanical and intellectual enhancement but it's coming cause the billionaires think it's great and we give them the power control everything. Dismal looking future without drastic action which probably won't happen. Yep, as always you nail it but this is pretty depressing stuff.
The devil is in the details, as your final summation suggests. This began long before Covid hit our shores, nor will it end anytime soon. How many times have you been offered a "new and a brighter" alternative, only to find that the former version had been far more useful? I once threw away a rather pricey radio and a computer printer, not because the hardware didn't work but because the new and improved version of the software failed to... and there was no hotline to call to straighten out the mess. When I related this tale to a friend, he told me he once threw out a printer because once the discounts were applied, it was cheaper to buy a new printer complete than to buy a new ink cartridge.
I could go on and on, but thankfully (for both of us) I won't. How ever shiny and bright the object might be, however glorious the possibilities may be, how magnificent a boon to the human race...
The on-the-ground reality is that the devil is winning right now and winning quite handily. There have always been opportunists. Like it or not, we swim in shark-infested waters.
Although some suggested/planned remedies/augmentations are - or will be - really beneficial, you will always have to beware of 8-legged chipsperience pushers inviting you into their parlors, or themselves into yours.
It is very simplistic to attribute all dysphoria, subtle and not so subtle dystopian trashing of all things beautiful and good and intrinsic to life, to vaccines. Yet after reading many of Toby Roger's stacks, I find myself doing just that. Wondering how deeply corrupted is the human brain, spirit and body? (I just received my very hard to find copy of Coulter's 'Vaccination Social Violence and Criminality, The Medical Assault on the American Brain'.) ****** I highly recommend 'Edwardian Farm' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72jhKwankOjOBOaI-4X-gSsOgDbXK0Cp . This has always been my dream - for humans to follow earth's magical and beautiful rhythms and dictates. This is exactly how far I wish we had "progressed" in our technology. BICYCLES! Yes! However, one of my sons has been working on this https://openairships.weebly.com is whole life. He also likes the hovering , Jessica. **** Oh, and if you are 200 years old, I am now 500.
"Stakeholders in society will need to agree on how to ethically make these amazing technologies a part of our lives."
OK I got stuck struck way back at this line! Who the hell are the stakeholders? Seems to me that there has been little ETHICALLY done with this round, so why would I trust them [oh that's right No Trust for "authorities" anymore and AREN'T ALL HUMAN BEINGS STAKEHOLDERS. Screw this idea that there is someone out there that will decide how to make anything a part of my life but me.... But that seems implicit.
If you haven't read The Highest Frontier By Joan Slonczewski, sci fi from 2011, scary prescient... Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel.
THANKS JESSICA - always thought provoking... XOXOX Lindy Bless Your Heart!
Might not be so bad except you KNOW there's going to be bureaucrats involved in making decisions about who gets what augmentations, and if a government office drone hasn't found a way to screw something up it's because that particular something hasn't been discovered yet.
It's interesting how they say stakeholders in society need ethically decide how to make these technologies part of our lives. I don't see any ethical stakeholders at all and anything that's going on in this world especially at the WEF. I understand prosthetics being enhanced for people that lost limbs, I can understand people needing hearing aids or even being able to see better but whatever is happening now is none of those things. What they are trying to accomplish is to take over the world and be able to control us. Imagine how bad all of this would have turned out if we all would have had these implants right now. No one would have said no to these jabs. Our implants would have told us how wonderful they were and we would have just believed it.. There would be no discernment from God it would have been discernment from the people in charge.
Jessica thanks for the deep beauty of your work, self and being.
And for this particularly transcendent article.
Do we make life hell because we fear death that is not.
Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration is a thrilling offering of the switch from dark to light.
Other interpretations and paths to peace are available:)
We only borrow angels, yet we do not realise that we do not need to earn our wings; we already have them.
Love and thanks.
Something is working hard to obliterate homo sapiens. It feels...alien.
It makes me so sad that I agree with you on so many things! Jessicisms. Ha ha! Mrs Malaprop, eat yer heart out!
No implants for me. I'm sure they would interfere with the flow of energy through our bodies required for good health as taught by Chinese medicine. As for peanut allergies, no one had them when I was in school and most of us brought peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. Of course we had only 4 doses of vaccines. Now the kids have 72 doses by the age of 18 (and that was before covid) and many of them drop dead at the sniff of a peanut. And how do cats' sense of smell compare to dogs'? Any roach foolish enough to enter my kitchen will be pounced on quickly and killed by my tuxedo cat Cato. I wish Cato could get his claws on Soros, Schwab, Gares, Fauci, Collins, Birx, Ardern, Macron, Castreau, Scholz, and Brandon.
My apologies, for being pedestrian in my responses. I am not a scientist. I'm an old man who fancies himself a philosopher albeit a poor one. So much of what is presented as posthumanist and transhumanist seems to be coming from a position of antihumanist sentiment. I understand if this all comes from a sincere search for perfection, but as a philosopher I'd suggest that perfection in this regard does not- and cannot -exist. I don't remember who said it, but it is indeed true that perfect is the enemy of the good. Embracing a possible technological future of undetermined risk and hazard in response to dissatisfaction with the imperfections of the human condition is folly forewarned of in countless literary examples but one hardly need look past Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. As brilliant as Kurtzweil is, I feel his search for any kind of immortality to go so far as to download human consciousness to a computer system is little more than a glorified fear of death. I believe that as long as one is afraid of death one cannot fully live. Too often we think of death and life as opposites or view death as the end of life and then we spend our lives scared to death of Death. But in reality the opposite of death is birth. They are the two sides of the 'coin' of life. So much of the critique of humanity risks sounding like hatred of humanity. Hatred is just an extreme form of fear. Paul Williams wrote in Das Energi, "Self hatred is the only sin." Those who search for immortality seem to hold, as a foundational principle, that death is the failure of life, when, it seems to me, that death should be embraced and developed to be the capstone of life well-lived.
“Many children expect to develop super powers themselves.”
So related … First recall Goebbels propaganda. Then Operation Paperclip. Then consider von Braun collaborating with Disney to set the stage for the Space Race. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/vonbraun/disney_article.html
I share your anguish, Jessica. For most of my life, new and exciting tech led the way to the next adventure. Now I wonder if there was ever a time when “we” were not being played.
Thank you Jessica for eloquently voicing the disquiet that so many of us must feel about this drive to track us, trace us and biometrically measure us via wearables and implantables. All sold to us for our Safety, Convenience, Augmentation - Recommended by Yuval. SCARY!
If the WEF were concerned with improving the world (and not making as much money as possible, which has clearly been their goal forever), why have they never attempted to solve any of the most basic problems that kill children every day? How about, oh I don’t know, clean water for example? A group of billionaires that actually cared about their fellow humans could make an enormous dent in that problem. Or, if they care about population, why not throw all their money at birth control? We still have the same crappy technologies we had in the 80s! Or, what about child abuse — why not use their psyops to elevate the value of children so the Epsteins of the world know they’re wrong? I just read that planting 1.2 trillion trees would reverse climate change — why not do that, and save the world? No, they’ll never do any of these things, because they don’t really care about people. They care about money, end of story.
Excellent Jessica! One of your most fascinating articles.. my preference has always been to keep it simple and natural.. the less between one’s body and the Earths various environments the better.. that’s not to say as you mentioned there can appropriate uses of exoskeleton technology or even implants such as a Pacemaker.. the Superseding issue to me is to create and sustain a body that is truly free of the need for much in the way of mechanical interventions.. Yoga in its most comprehensive practice renders such a body..
I remember thinking how nice the "6 Million Dollar Man" idea was. Now the 100 billion dollar men have taken over. On a simple level this is just Hansel and Gretel. The wicked old lady/witch is Big Pharma, WEF, FDA, too many billionaires and we are Hansel and Gretel. Now that we have been shown to be mostly sheep I'm not sure we can stop the chips, injections, and insect diets. We really don't need mechanical and intellectual enhancement but it's coming cause the billionaires think it's great and we give them the power control everything. Dismal looking future without drastic action which probably won't happen. Yep, as always you nail it but this is pretty depressing stuff.
The devil is in the details, as your final summation suggests. This began long before Covid hit our shores, nor will it end anytime soon. How many times have you been offered a "new and a brighter" alternative, only to find that the former version had been far more useful? I once threw away a rather pricey radio and a computer printer, not because the hardware didn't work but because the new and improved version of the software failed to... and there was no hotline to call to straighten out the mess. When I related this tale to a friend, he told me he once threw out a printer because once the discounts were applied, it was cheaper to buy a new printer complete than to buy a new ink cartridge.
I could go on and on, but thankfully (for both of us) I won't. How ever shiny and bright the object might be, however glorious the possibilities may be, how magnificent a boon to the human race...
The on-the-ground reality is that the devil is winning right now and winning quite handily. There have always been opportunists. Like it or not, we swim in shark-infested waters.
Although some suggested/planned remedies/augmentations are - or will be - really beneficial, you will always have to beware of 8-legged chipsperience pushers inviting you into their parlors, or themselves into yours.
It is very simplistic to attribute all dysphoria, subtle and not so subtle dystopian trashing of all things beautiful and good and intrinsic to life, to vaccines. Yet after reading many of Toby Roger's stacks, I find myself doing just that. Wondering how deeply corrupted is the human brain, spirit and body? (I just received my very hard to find copy of Coulter's 'Vaccination Social Violence and Criminality, The Medical Assault on the American Brain'.) ****** I highly recommend 'Edwardian Farm' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL72jhKwankOjOBOaI-4X-gSsOgDbXK0Cp . This has always been my dream - for humans to follow earth's magical and beautiful rhythms and dictates. This is exactly how far I wish we had "progressed" in our technology. BICYCLES! Yes! However, one of my sons has been working on this https://openairships.weebly.com is whole life. He also likes the hovering , Jessica. **** Oh, and if you are 200 years old, I am now 500.
"Stakeholders in society will need to agree on how to ethically make these amazing technologies a part of our lives."
OK I got stuck struck way back at this line! Who the hell are the stakeholders? Seems to me that there has been little ETHICALLY done with this round, so why would I trust them [oh that's right No Trust for "authorities" anymore and AREN'T ALL HUMAN BEINGS STAKEHOLDERS. Screw this idea that there is someone out there that will decide how to make anything a part of my life but me.... But that seems implicit.
If you haven't read The Highest Frontier By Joan Slonczewski, sci fi from 2011, scary prescient... Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel.
THANKS JESSICA - always thought provoking... XOXOX Lindy Bless Your Heart!
Might not be so bad except you KNOW there's going to be bureaucrats involved in making decisions about who gets what augmentations, and if a government office drone hasn't found a way to screw something up it's because that particular something hasn't been discovered yet.
It's interesting how they say stakeholders in society need ethically decide how to make these technologies part of our lives. I don't see any ethical stakeholders at all and anything that's going on in this world especially at the WEF. I understand prosthetics being enhanced for people that lost limbs, I can understand people needing hearing aids or even being able to see better but whatever is happening now is none of those things. What they are trying to accomplish is to take over the world and be able to control us. Imagine how bad all of this would have turned out if we all would have had these implants right now. No one would have said no to these jabs. Our implants would have told us how wonderful they were and we would have just believed it.. There would be no discernment from God it would have been discernment from the people in charge.