Posted on 05/31/2022 8:43:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Know, O prince, that between the years after the USSR fell, and the years of the rise of Chaos, there was a global world undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars – Washington, Moscow, Beijing, London and Brussels – connected by a spider-web of container ships, floating cruise palaces, nonstop air transportation, fiber optic cables. But the proudest civilization of the world was Christendom, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither rose a class of sullen-men, with the power of that great civilization in hand, with gigantic pathologies and gigantic visions, determined to replace the Western foundational principle “under God”, or at least “under reason” with “under us”.
That ruling elite was so bedazzled by its legacy that they felt unbound, even to the moral and intellectual legacy of the civilization on whose shoulders they perched upon. Psychologically freed at a stroke from the past, they embarked on projects to radically remake humanity and the planet, not according to possibilities, but according to desires. It was possible, through the use of information technology, to create a universe of illusion, “a single, universal and immersive virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)” in which we will all live; while underneath, unheeded and forgotten, hums a physical base layer providing power, water and food, perpetually maintained and renewed by marvelous automata. Voters living in this world of magic would lose track of sordid reality, while the Woke would be kings and the masses along for the ride.
The most singular aspect of the rise of Woke mumbo jumbo is its relationship with the astonishing technological development that sustains it; enabling what may be called a “sword and sorcery” regime....
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I am post-woke. That is just all two-years-ago. In fact, I just skipped it.
Nice Conan reference by the author.
In depth read later.
People in the comments seem a bit pessimistic, thinking that with all the tech at their command the WEF types will have a hold on us forever, but I think about the Tower of Bable...
Which is not to say it won’t be bad for a while, just that it willnot last.
People in the comments seem a bit pessimistic, thinking that with all the tech at their command the WEF types will have a hold on us forever, but I think about the Tower of Bable...
Which is not to say it won’t be bad for a while, just that it willnot last.
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