10/28/2024
Lowkey, we live in a totalitarian state that’s not just ahead of our recognition of it, but also seeks to control our capacities to understand anything. They don’t just shape the narratives. They deliver the narratives. All the dystopian books I read in high school are like child’s play versus what we’re really up against. Truth and beauty and rewarding lives do exist and continue to be possible here in the US, but there’s no getting around the reality that our tax dollars help fund some of the worst human rights atrocities and unjust wars in modern history. And we fund a surveillance state that has instant access to pretty much all electronic devices in our homes, right now.
The use of certain words and topics on social media will get you blacklisted. It’s been leaked already, and many different platforms have roughly the same hidden censors. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Microsoft, IBM, and many more all openly admit to cooperating and working with various federal agencies like the FBI, CIA, and NSA, among others. The NSA has physical taps into the ocean wires that connect the internet across continents. They’ve infiltrated the entire digital world. These forces are above and behind almost every president since Ford too, regardless of the party.
And they’re eating it all up. The foundations of our minds are directly tied to the conditions and contexts of the living systems all over this world. Killing each other and wrongful violence against life in any context has more consequences than just the loss of individual lives. It also ripples out across generations and minds. Trauma encoded into our DNA. Epigenetically haunted by the atrocities of our predecessors and cultures. Like aiming to slowly drive our entire species into dissociated insanity as the whole global system (and the madness that drives it) ruins one of the most precious places in the entire universe.
It’s also important to keep in mind that constructing some sort of externalized evil beyond yourself is at least partially a form of projection. The evils of the US federal government and its various agencies manifest through people and their actions. People like you and me, working their jobs.
