We live in a world that is, in all its official operations, utterly materialist, spirit-less, God-less.
However, such is our innate need for what we call "religion" - it is therefore possible for the rulers and their minions to manipulate the masses, by hinting at Mysteries.
These hints of hidden mysterious depths are intended to tap-into the starved craving for a spiritual dimension below the surface; to inspire and motivate our officially meaningless/ purposeless/ pointless lives.
I can see this PSYOP at work in one strand of the "AI" propaganda; the repeated hints at "something mysterious going-on" with the programs - something uncanny.
This is usually presented in terms of a threat - some terrifying capability; although it might at other times refer to beyond-human powers and insights.
(Maybe the "AI" is really thinking. Maybe it has a will of its own? Maybe its intelligence and understanding are so-far superior to yours that it is literally super-human - such that what seems idiotic incompetence or gibberish, is actually a qualitatively greater ability?)
The hints are nearly-always a soft-sell; refraining from asserting anything specific about the nature and abilities of the "AI" under discussion - leaving "us" to join-the-dots, and make the desired inferences.
I observed the same phenomenon during the Birdemic, where the alleged-germ was surrounded with an aura of uncanny unpredictability.
There were multiple wild "science"-media speculations about the nature, properties, effects of the supposedly-new infectious agents*.
In face of this "mysterious" "novel" disease; it seemed that everything that generations of research had discovered about viruses and respiratory disease - and how to manage them - was thrown-out!
Abruptly, the opposite was proposed and given credibility: speculation was rife... Albeit that speculation was abruptly terminated by government diktat.
The PSYOP "sell" proceeds by describing supposedly strange occurrences, and by raising disturbing or profound questions about what might be happening - generating an atmosphere of mystery; then the individual reader or viewer is generally left to "draw his own conclusions".
This has the advantage of drawing-in the target, and inducing him to participate in his own deception - plus, the deployment of alleged strangeness, hints, and use of questions enable deniability of any particular claims or agenda.
At the end of the day, such marketing techniques may create a sense of profundity and spiritual expectation around the subject matter.
With post 2022 "AI" - in face of this PSYOP-induced sense of uncanny mystery - decades of experiential knowledge about the nature and effects of computers has been thrown-out - and the wildest speculations, fears, and optimisms have been encouraged!
The PSYOP has generated a swirling maelstrom of anecdotes, hints, and suggestions as to what this allegedly new "AI" actually is, its "character", what it can do, what it should do...
Albeit, as with the Birdemic - this situation is soon and abruptly terminated by state/ managerial diktat: as the "AI" systems are coercively imposed on our society and our lives with mandatory force.
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*The Birdemic was said to have many completely new symptoms - such as losing smell (anosmia) and post-acute fatigue "long" Birdemic) - ignoring that these had always been known to be characteristic of some strains of influenza, as indeed were all the symptoms of Birdemic. Simultaneously it was asserted that, in 2020 only, influenza itself had completely disappeared for the first and only time in recorded history - so that it was literally never diagnosed in 2020; and this not-diagnosing led to virological speculations about the "mysterious" property of Birdemic to suppress influenza... "Maybe" the Birdemic virus could also "mimic" a vast range of other diseases, which are therefore probably the Birdemic-in-disguise? And spread in new and mysterious ways; such that, although a microscopic "virus" transmitted by aerosol from lung-to-lung; maybe it could nonetheless be intercepted and blocked by swabbing surfaces, by wearing porous facecloths, paper aprons, and plastic gloves? Maybe its transmission could be stopped by two yard social-distancing indoors; but maybe the "virus" could also spread across vast distances when outdoors. Yet maybe this teleportation across vast distances might be prevented by people staying in their gardens, or houses? Altogether; the Birdemic was the archetypal riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma..
This is a very helpful identification. I was in the process of conversion in Spring 2020 and I distinctly remember experiencing what you describe in myself, with a bit more of “reading tea leaves” in government responses. I didn’t “wake up” from that until mid-March where the statistics from that cruise ship made it obvious there was no real danger, and from there I figured I would have to endure many months of bizarre theorizing and illogical reactions. My favorite was many months later, after the switch from masks bad to masks mandatory took place, my firm’s “COVID Expert” shared a theory that wearing a mask would make COVID milder if you caught it bc it was analogous to milkmaids’ resistance to smallpox. Good thing I was on mute on that call bc I burst out laughing.
ReplyDeleteBut as fun as it is to mock others, I’ve never quite sorted out in myself why I *did* fall for it, early and hard albeit relatively briefly. I think you’ve hit on why. AI did not impact me the same way, but I’m not sure why other than that literally every single instance of it anyone showed me to impress me was mediocre in a particular way: style without substance or self-contradicting text, that sort of thing. But maybe I was spiritually primed better having been immersed in real mysteries for 5 years now.
@Mia - The scale and depth of deception in 2020 was unprecedented in human history - so it is doubtful whether anybody fully recognized what was going on.
ReplyDeleteAnd indeed, when there was such a combination of lying, venality and incompetence, layer upon layer and interacting - it means that 2020 can never really be understood.
I remain uncertain about what was the combination of active creation of the agent, lies about it, virological and epidemiological ignorance/ incompetence, selectivity/ exaggeration, and sheer invention and colossal quantities of deliberate mass manipulation.
(And indeed, terrorizing manipulation of national governments behind the scenes - which must surely have happened to generate the global lockdown. My personal suspicion is that national leaders were probably told that a highly-infectious and very lethal biowep had been lab-made but escaped - whether accidentally or deliberately - and was killing a very high percentage of cases. It is even possible that this was attempted, but didn't work out - because lethality seems - in early weeks, before stats were subverted - to have been less than the nasty strain of influenza in 2017-18, which nobody had even noticed at the time.
https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2020/04/six-numbers-from-official-sources.html