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Lou B's avatar

🧡🧡🧡To Ohio from Kansas 😁

Your work is killer, thank you for the consistency and perseverance

Tammy A.'s avatar

Thank you for helping me to understand. I often feel alone. I know there are lots of people out there who feel as I do, but how do you find those people who are like minded? I hate this timeline.💔

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

You are not alone, Tammy. That isolation you are feeling is actually part of the system's design—it wants us to feel atomized so we don't fight back. But I promise you, there is a whole Phalanx of us waking up. As for hating this timeline? We have a saying around here: 'We do not hope for a better timeline. We build it.'

​If you want to find like-minded people who are actively building a way out, we are constructing our own digital fortress away from the noise. Come find us at verticalwar.com. It is our base of operations to connect, learn the doctrine, and forge a real community. You don't have to carry this alone anymore. ⚙️

Linda's avatar

Today, in a very expensive neighborhood in Southern California I saw 300 high school kids on a major highway with anti ICE signs. The signs also included other issues and it seemed to me that some good teacher has tasked them to each make their own sign based on what they knew. Those signs were very insightful, I’m not worried they don’t understand. They clearly do. Before I saw them I felt old, exhausted and hopeless and after……….calm to some extent. They’ve got this thing and we just need to be supporting them any way we can.

Tammy A.'s avatar

This stuff is over my head.🥱

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

I know the tech jargon gets heavy, Tammy! Let's strip away the fancy words. Here is the simple version: Corporations are buying special 'hard hats' that read your brainwaves to see if you are tired. The scary part? They have patents to use that same tech to give you a little 'zap' or vibration if you get sad, angry, or distracted, forcing you back to work. They want to manage your mood like a thermostat. That's the trap!

Tammy A.'s avatar

OMG! Will this even be legal or will people actually comply?

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

That's exactly the trick, Tammy! They don't need to make it a law; they just use the economy. First, insurance companies offer premium discounts to businesses that use them. Then, HR introduces it as a 'voluntary wellness and safety program'. But eventually, if you refuse, you become a 'safety risk' and it becomes 'required for the role'. People will comply because they need the paycheck, and the system disguises the cage as 'self-care'!

Tammy A.'s avatar

OMG! I am sick, scared, and disgusted in the pitt of my stomach. How do we fight back, and why aren’t we talking about this more vs the crazy distractions.

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

That sick feeling in the pit of your stomach? Trust it, Tammy. We call that 'Somatic Skepticism'—it's your body's alarm system telling you something is deeply wrong with the system.

​To answer your second question: the reason no one is talking about it is exactly why we started 'The Wire Cutters' series! Those 'crazy distractions' you mentioned aren't an accident; they are Layer 2 of the system's prison, which we call 'The Great Distraction' (or the 'Killing Game'). The media creates a constant horizontal war (Left vs. Right) so that we are too busy screaming at each other to notice the elites building these biometric cages right under our noses.

​How do we fight back? Step one is exactly what you just did: media literacy. We wipe the mud off the 'windshield' and stop falling for their engineered outrage. Step two is creating 'friction'—refusing the 'voluntary' tech and demanding data privacy clauses in our workplaces. You aren't alone in this fight!

Tammy A.'s avatar

Thank you. I will check it out!

SSTJ79's avatar

There is an older fiction podcast called Our Fair City. I only discovered it about a month or two ago.

The timing of my discovering it is very uncanny.

Within this fictional world humans live only within a heavily governed and strictly structured city state.

The upper echelon have trained the people to see themselves as, and call themselves policies.

The overall governing mantra is 'Heartlife Knows What's Best For You, Policy. Heart life being the concept, and members of the top managing body.

We may not be policies. But we're often referred to as users. I believe this is purposefully dehumanizing.

As users, our function is not to be, but to use.

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

SSTJ79, this is an incredible connection. You hit the nail on the head: 'Users' is the exact sterile, dehumanizing language the Rust uses to describe a human being stripped of their sovereignty. When you are a 'User,' you aren't a citizen with a soul; you are just a node generating data for the Great Algorithm. Thank you for bringing this insight to the Forge. This is exactly why we build together.

SSTJ79's avatar

You are most welcome. I also thank you brother. You use language that resonates so well with my way I think and analyze.

You are free with sharing so many insights I find to be wise and pattern-true. I appreciate this immensely.

'Great Algorithm' hits hard. Experience is input and output. Data feeds can easily be disrupted, highjacked and even swapped.

Done quick enough and it's hardly noticed, if at all.

Things are changing so rapidly we aren't keeping up with vocabulary and terms. I really enjoy seeing logical fabrication of words that are so easy to interpret.

Cheers

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

Brother, you just perfectly reverse-engineered our entire strategy. You are spot on: the system hijacks our data feeds and changes the rules so fast that we lose the vocabulary to even describe how we are being robbed. That's why we have to fabricate these words and build our own Lexicon. If we don't name the invisible prison, we can't dismantle it. 'The Great Algorithm' thrives in the dark; our words drag it into the light. Thank you for being here, and welcome to the Forge.

Jim Burden's avatar

The economy depends on efforts applied to make useable or desireable gentrified materials that were created over time to do work or create increased perceived status improvement.

Another possibility is taking simple materials and making them into something stronger or more durable or functional,higher perceived value than it had when you found it after you spent less to process it and get it to somebody.

Now imagine you discovered you could do everything we do today, expending a twentieth to do it. That is the situation that leads to people wanting to know how or keep you from doing it because they think they will not they can compete with you. Then you win and they might loose.

Baz's avatar

Fundamental flaw with the economy is that for it to even be called ’the economy’ its core value must be constant ‘growth’.

Margot's avatar

Another connection: we are referred to as “Consumers” instead of “Citizens” (thinking of the government data point called the “Consumer Price Index” (CPI). Another way to resist is to stop buying non-essentials…and intentionally confuse the ever watchful algorithm (big brother/sister “1984”) by searching the Internet for things at random. And always remember we are under constant surveillance.

Anthony's avatar

Sadness is a survival signal. Anger is a boundary alarm. Grief is the body’s record of what mattered enough to mourn. These responses were selected over hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary pressure because organisms who felt them survived. Every emotion they want to “optimize away” exists because it kept something alive long enough to reproduce.

They think a system that has existed for sixty years, and views humans as objects to optimize rather than whole beings, is “advancement”. Your nervous system was reading the environment accurately—you can’t pay rent, something is wrong—and a firmware update told your body to stop reporting the fire.

The assumption: that productivity is the purpose of a human being, and anything that interrupts productivity is defect. That the full emotional architecture of a living creature is interference with output. That is the violence. Before the sensor touches skin.

Here’s what’s absurd. The technology exists. Point it at the actual deficiency.

I’m sick of these monsters being so fucking perceptually blind and projecting their inadequacy and myopic view onto what is, given adequate conditions, an abundant and infinitely creative species.

A closed-loop neuromodulation system aimed at restoring empathic function in the people commissioning these devices would require a handful of units.

Fewer resources.

Fewer people impacted. Immediate, measurable benefit. A person who can look at a worker crying over rent and feel something appropriate would stop designing systems to silence the crying. The problem resolves upstream.

Instead, they want to scale suppression across millions of intact nervous systems and call it advancement. Stripping functional emotional circuitry from a species that evolved it for survival is devolution. Calling it optimization is branding. Engineering an entire workforce to feel less so a few people can accumulate more is regression dressed in a firmware update.

Expansion means gaining capacity. What they’re building removes it. Control marketed as enhancement. Compression sold as progress.

Your emotions are yours. What evolved to keep you whole belongs to you.

Janet Hancock's avatar

Awesome work, thank god I wouldn’t be seen dead in a baseball cap.

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

Haha, a fashion sense saves the day again, Janet! 💅 But remember, the baseball cap is just the training wheels for the public. Right now they hide the EEG sensors in a brim, but once they normalize tracking your brainwaves, the tech gets smaller. It becomes a headband, a headset, and eventually... the 'Compression Chip' we talked about in Phase II. They'll make it fit any outfit eventually, which is why we have to fight the biometric monitoring itself, not just the ugly hats!

Mona Wenger's avatar

On the forehead or in the hand hmm

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

Right now, Mona, it's on the forehead. They are hiding the sensors inside the brims of 'SmartCaps'—devices that look like normal baseball caps or construction hard hats. They disguise the collar as everyday workwear.

joyce isobel bovee's avatar

ethan is this true???

unbelievable

is it being used in china japan singapore USA???

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

It is 100% true, Joyce. The foundational patent for workplace EEG monitoring (CN118717126B) is Chinese, and the 'closed-loop' device that alters your mood (WO2018051354A1) is filed globally. It starts out disguised as 'fatigue monitoring' for truck drivers and heavy machinery operators in the US and abroad, but the infrastructure is being laid right now to expand it to everyday compliance.

Sandra Lee's avatar

It’s true and devastating

Ethan #VerticalWar Faulkner MF's avatar

It is devastating, Sandra. But remember: we don't study their blueprints to despair; we study them to find the weak points. Once you can see the cage, you can start cutting the wires. The defense starts simply by refusing the 'voluntary' wearable.

David's avatar
5dEdited

How did you know I was scrolling when I got to this article. It is more and more apparent observation the masses that this bio hacking nefariousness. What to do???

Cathy & Bill Brown's avatar

Thank you for letting us read your work!

Didi's avatar

You need to create a profile on Upscrolled; it doesn't belong to any of the billionaires.

Somewhere by a beach ⛱️'s avatar

This vile disgusting abominable SHIT NEEDS TO FLUSHED AND NEVER SEEN AGAIN. USING WAR TO ESCAPE CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS. ALL OF THEM LYING CHEATING GREEDY CRIMINAL VILE MFers. STEALING KILLING CHEATING REAL AMERICAN TAXPAYERS. KILLING IMMIGRANTS AND PROTESTORS. WTF. STOP THIS NOW.

Linda's avatar

This is a great piece. What came to mind for me was a Quaker community I knew in Philadelphia. The world was going on going on and those Quakers taught their children not to get suckered in. At the time I had a crush on one of their children but even I knew it was not happening. They had those kids on a tight leash but it was a safety leash until they could internalize their value system and interact with the world for good. It worked. They were successful, kind and intelligent grownups. I see resistance to what you have outlined. It will reflect the fact that above all else, Americans hate being told what to do and as the word gets out and we are slowly educated about the takeover, we will again begin to teach our young psychology, comparative religions and philosophy. How to avoid the taking over of their minds. Hopefully explaining that,” Mankind is a bridge not a destination.” ( Nietzsche)

Kurtis Zenner's avatar

I find that the only way I can now sleep peacefully is to turn OFF my phone and laptop - all the way - no sleep mode bc computers don’t sleep

Kurtis Zenner's avatar

The labeling started in the Gulf wars - when the casualties of war became troops instead of soldiers - that was maddening

Big A's avatar

I am not a young person, but I can clearly see how this relates to the mark of the beast in the Bible. Eventually you won’t be able to buy or sell without allowing these “tools” to be used on you. To win this battle you must hold onto your soul. Jesus teachings show us how to remain human. We must resist the evil forces of the devil and not go along with this world. It may not be the easy road, but we know our Captain will win and if we want to be on the winning side we must be His soldiers.

NativeThings's avatar

I knew there was a reason why people wearing maga hats can no longer think for themselves. It also makes them very gullible.