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.
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.
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.
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.
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.💔
How do we find each other? A huge black cloud is above us all. I havnt felt truly happy in years. I see no joy in others either. I truly, honestly think tech is the worst thing we are facing. I havnt watched cable television since 2014. I have no time to read. I try to keep abreast of news by any means, all kinds of platforms, etc.
I'm on my way to ditching it all. Im just hesitant to bc how in the world will I know what is going on?
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.
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.
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.
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???
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.
This is too much to absorb at one glance. Maybe I’m now more than ever. Glad that I live over 100 miles from the nearest city, surrounded by 5000 mi.² of silence.
And God blessed me with a little kitty cat Lucy to look after me
But one thing remains true, “Whoa to the inhabitants of the Earth, for the devil has come down onto you with great wrath, for he knows that he has but a short time” Revelation ch 12
Ethan you are a wonderful writer, clairvoyant communicator, and clear thinker. Before you and others talking about the Rust I could only rely on fiction to shine a light.
I just listened last night to a medical doctor warning about “ technology” being introduced to treat the body. It actually has the capacity to alter DNA. Her premise was humans will be modified to be part machine. Kinda glad I am 80. Her prediction though was for much to be happening by 2029 I think it was…
I don't trust any medical intervention these days, I need to go to the dentist, but, until I find a dental conspiracist, I won't, I didn't trust the nose swab, no injectibles, only private supplement companies. Even chocolate, I used to enjoy the odd Toblerone but now I see they don't use cocoa, just synthetic. Unfortunately, trying times, I tell my kids how I could eat sweets that were just sugar, or real potatoes chips, now they can't do anything, unless they make their own.
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.
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.
This is what Palentier is trying to do to us.
Does it play in Commiefornia?
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
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.
Fundamental flaw with the economy is that for it to even be called ’the economy’ its core value must be constant ‘growth’.
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.
🧡🧡🧡To Ohio from Kansas 😁
Your work is killer, thank you for the consistency and perseverance
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.💔
How do we find each other? A huge black cloud is above us all. I havnt felt truly happy in years. I see no joy in others either. I truly, honestly think tech is the worst thing we are facing. I havnt watched cable television since 2014. I have no time to read. I try to keep abreast of news by any means, all kinds of platforms, etc.
I'm on my way to ditching it all. Im just hesitant to bc how in the world will I know what is going on?
How do I use it
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.
Where do you get your LSD?
This stuff is over my head.🥱
OMG! Will this even be legal or will people actually comply?
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.
Thank you. I will check it out!
Awesome work, thank god I wouldn’t be seen dead in a baseball cap.
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.
On the forehead or in the hand hmm
It’s true and devastating
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???
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.
This is too much to absorb at one glance. Maybe I’m now more than ever. Glad that I live over 100 miles from the nearest city, surrounded by 5000 mi.² of silence.
And God blessed me with a little kitty cat Lucy to look after me
But one thing remains true, “Whoa to the inhabitants of the Earth, for the devil has come down onto you with great wrath, for he knows that he has but a short time” Revelation ch 12
Ethan you are a wonderful writer, clairvoyant communicator, and clear thinker. Before you and others talking about the Rust I could only rely on fiction to shine a light.
"As I’ve written before regarding the Unskilled Lie, the elite use language to devalue your labor. Now, they are going to use biology."
--> The "Unskilled Lie" link is broken, it should point to https://constructamiracle.com/p/the-unskilled-lie-how-corporations I guess..
Transhumanism in full flow. The loss of connection to our soul. Step away from the technology and back to the earth and community.
I just listened last night to a medical doctor warning about “ technology” being introduced to treat the body. It actually has the capacity to alter DNA. Her premise was humans will be modified to be part machine. Kinda glad I am 80. Her prediction though was for much to be happening by 2029 I think it was…
I don't trust any medical intervention these days, I need to go to the dentist, but, until I find a dental conspiracist, I won't, I didn't trust the nose swab, no injectibles, only private supplement companies. Even chocolate, I used to enjoy the odd Toblerone but now I see they don't use cocoa, just synthetic. Unfortunately, trying times, I tell my kids how I could eat sweets that were just sugar, or real potatoes chips, now they can't do anything, unless they make their own.
Thank you for letting us read your work!
You need to create a profile on Upscrolled; it doesn't belong to any of the billionaires.