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We are most likely headed toward technocratic feudalism.

Who's going to get a bailout now?

How does one work around Gorgon Stare technology? What's the end game of these tighter and tighter controls?

I want to do thought experiments of how this plays out if the rich don't come back down to team human. Can we do so using informed sources (PR wire, marketing strategies, US Naval Research Academy papers and social planning of the Rand Corp, the horses mouths of technoligists, finance, and futurologists)? What will the overreaction be of climate change?

How long can a state of emergency last and how far can it go? Financialization brought with it the absolute incapacity of politics (a narrow logic of war) to solve problems. The game is all about risk avoidance. I speculate that societies in a constant state of emergency and risk avoidance are eventually going to get burned out. People are going to be rather stunted at dreaming, being entrepreneurs, or making the innovations needed for capitalism to continue. And what are the current innovations even largely made of? Offering these technologies that privatize our very inner lives, our thoughts. We are the ai being managed to be more predictable in a complex society. I can't see anything but stagnation at this point.

Will the population be seen as surplus, media so saturated that camps won't even be needed (society like an open air prison) to slowly ease people into feeling to hopeless to have children, and too poor to survive or be healthy?

And I refuse the roles of professional militant, religious missionary (activist). They haven't worked, and they're not working. We need new relationships with the earth, and each other that render the old ones useless. We're not going to fight against these powers and win. We've spent too much time focused on them instead of us. That's all us so-called 'do nothingists' are saying. Remain open, curious. How to not be afraid of ruins, of failing, and learning how to fail forward. Let this system exhaust itself. Help it deplete. Let's quit paying for food. What are we getting out of being the only species that pays (we rent ourselves) to live on this planet? Even CVD is a modern condition, entirely from the shit 'food' we're so often sold (those same companies also have major stakes in pharma). Ellul maintained that this system was the poison and the cure in the same dose.

I wanna live and die on my feet, on my own fucking terms, with you.

The main contaigen is a state of emergency, from phillistines without dreams, in a self-contained bubble of the delusion of having over being. (I think of the Yes Men, and the cheeky Situationist that wrote the elite a manual for them (that actually hilariously undermined them). More funny experiments. Laughter takes the piss out of these Muppets. One also thinks of storytellers, who in the worst of times undermined Victorianism, and the Film Production Code. One can absolutely take wind out of the sails of control freaks and their herding behavior.