Tyranny and Absurdity
Artificial Intelligence is creating superhuman abilities which could be exploited by tyrants with an anti-human agenda. Can we mitigate the danger of AI by understanding what it means to be human?
Tyranny and absurdity are two concepts that occur synchronously and simultaneously within the paradigm of a despotic empire. These concepts closely resemble each other and go hand in hand during the end stages of a broken system. Tyranny naturally gravitates toward absurdity once the tyrants become wildly and unbelievably arrogant with their unadulterated power.
Fundamental laws of the dying empire become translucent and only partially exist when it suits the tyranny that is in control. This concept of mental mass degradation was put into dystopic novels like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In Huxley’s dystopic vision, it was more than apparent that the whole of society had gone completely mad.
In Huxley’s vision of the dystopian future, kids would be conditioned to become sexual deviants while babies were genetically engineered based on their social status and hierarchical class. Poor people were literally brainwashed to be robot polishers and machine minders, while only the top classes were educated enough to know of simple things like history or the ability to read.
Every aspect of society was designed to the point where nothing was natural, everything was planned in a caste system where you were forced to adhere to your social status. People were not only controlled by governmental tyranny, they were controlled by their own inhibitions and unapologetic consumerism they were methodically trained to adhere to.
In the book Brave New World, society’s future was predestined according to the brainwashing of its government controlled subjects. People were systematically hypnotized in their sleep to repeat “world state” slogans like, “everyone belongs to everyone else,” or “everyone works for everyone else.” What was called “hypnopaedia” was part of what the characters in the fiction novel called, “moral education” where the hypnotizing state replaced the church for its societal function.
In reality, the so-called morals were only beneficial to the fascistic state, while humanity ultimately suffered from the absurd replacement of objective morality with a false state-sanctioned sense of subjective morality. Spirituality had become extinct in Huxley’s world, and was replaced with the drug addled worship of a corporation. God did not exist, and had become ancient history. Huxley’s story mirrored Nietzsche’s morality-based idea that “God is dead.”
In the so-called real world, many false prophets of immoral academia argue that morality is subjective, but this is all relative to the human condition and the success of the aforementioned society as a whole. If you live in an society where it is moral for people to be miserable slaves, for which they are treated like objects, are you actually living in a moral society?
Even in theocracies that claim to be moral, there are philosophical questions that should always be raised. Are people dying every day because of religious/state oppression? While the churches are full of worshippers, are there people starving in the street? Are people genuinely happy?
A humanist perspective will always raise these important questions. From a humanist perspective we ask: is the society actually moral or are they claiming to be moral in the eyes of an immoral ruling class? In this view it is not morality that is subjective, it is the results of a self-proclaimed moral superiority that is subjective. No society believes themselves to be immoral unless they are criticized by a moral humanist or an apolitical outsider looking in.
Humanists have a way of objectifying claims of moral superiority by examining definitions of morality and scrutinizing their ability to be superior. For example, some of the holiest tyrants on Earth have committed some of the most appalling atrocities. This is something that history cannot ignore just to justify its own moral inferiority and overlooked atrocities due to the kind eyes of a few powerful tyrants.
For example, Vlad the Impaler was never scrutinized by the Eastern Orthodox church when he impaled tens of thousands of people from their ass to their heads and he still isn’t thoroughly condemned to this day. Cruelty, genocide, torture, and war crimes are all things that can not only be thought of as morally justified, but thought of as heroically holy. The church had paintings of Vlad III, also known as Dracula, judging Pontius Pilate while he was sitting on his jewel encrusted throne. The absurdity of a man who impaled countless victims judging someone who judged Christ a millennia prior is beyond nonsensical.
According to medium.com, and Google, Vlad the Impaler was also inducted into a catholic religious order called, “the Order of the Dragon.”
The Medium.com article pointed out these morally superior absurdities,
In fact, it is widely believed that the Old Dracul actually secretly converted to Catholicism because in February of 1431 the Romanian nobleman confirmed the privileges of some Franciscan (Catholic) monks who sought permission to practice their religion on Wallachian soil.
Later that year, he was also inducted into a Catholic religious order (“The Order of The Dragon”) by Emperor Sigismund where he would have been required to swear, on pain of death, his eternal allegiance to The Emperor and to the Catholic Church
You see, in a dystopic tyranny up can become down, black can become white, and dogs and cats can be forced to live with one another at the will of a religious class that has ultimate control. Obviously Dracula was not a morally superior person, yet the paintings were made, and the induction ceremonies were conducted; joyous celebratory feasts were prepared as Dracula converted to the Holy Roman faith. There are many absurdities in theocratic monarchies that can only be described as tyranny, but these absurdities are nothing new. So what really is this concept called moral superiority?
History has shown that the groups and important figures who claim they are morally superior turn out to be quite the opposite. Religious authority always goes against the very tenants of the religion that it promotes, and becomes not only hypocritical, but heretical. The holiest of the holies are always doing the most burning at the stakes, and the torturing in the dungeons, yet without spiritualism and religion most people have no sense of general purpose or idea of how to be accepting and forgiving of either friends or enemies.
In reality it is the lack of humility and the authoritarian power struggles that are to blame for the evil deeds of the church. In other words, it is not the morals that are the problem, it is the feeling of superiority that leads to the burning of heretics. That is why we sometimes have to look towards other places besides the church for realistic moral superiority. (And to the right enters philosophy.)
The philosophic school of thought known as humanism with spiritual awareness is an authentic form of morality. Without having an objective view of morality one can not be morally superior. Christian humanism, or any form of humanism, is a way to judge what morality actually is, but it also commands a sense of humility in restraining your own grandiose views of what it means to be moral. Are any of us really morally superior if we are willing to kill to defend our own ideas of moral superiority? Does moral superiority actually exist? Or are we as moral as we think we can be at the time? Is this superficiality based on what we view of as moral or immoral? Nowhere in the bible does it say smoking controlled substances is bad, yet many people view smoking as a dirty sin. Why?
Using universal morals we can look across the spectrum of humanity and decide what is moral. Humanity can examine every culture on Earth and deem what is moral and what is not, I.E. genocide is immoral, sexualization of children is immoral, rape is immoral etc. This is the humanist perspective.
Humanism affirms the dignity of each human being to not be impaled by a spike. The philosophical ideology is a form of rationality that is informed by science, inspired by art, and is motivated by a sense of compassion. Humanism is sympathetic to the dignity of every human being and supports the superiority of individual liberty as a societal responsibility and a governmental duty.
In the western world, we have been trying to follow the philosophical ideas of humanism. Until now, we have been succeeding to improve the human condition. Some nations are better than others at improving the state of humanity, but it seems that the United States and other European nations are straying away from the humanist perspective. We here in the west no longer regard human life and the human condition as being fundamentally important. With countless wars, starvation, poverty, corporate cronyism, two-tiered justice, and the disregard for human rights; how can anyone say that we are improving the human condition?
The absurdity of nations that created the idea of humanism now becoming anti-human is appalling to say the least. In Ukraine and in western nations journalism and dissent are becoming illegal. Reporting the truth on current events is currently being criminalized and there are several examples when it comes to the Ukrainian conflict. The state has now become the moral authority.
Both Alina Lipp and Gonzalo Lira have been persecuted by western nations that claim to have a fair and free press. Alina Lipp has actually had her family threatened by German authorities, while currently Gonzalo Lira is being threatened with prosecution and imprisonment in a work camp. This criminal prosecution by the tyrannical west started with a man named Julian Assange and is now cascading to the rest of a supposedly free democratic world. The church of the state is burning the heretics for the crime of journalism.
In America, having an optimistic view of the functionality of government is becoming more and more difficult to hold. Examining the corruption in Washington can be exhausting if you have a positive mindset. When you step into the game realizing from an early age that something is extremely wrong with the American Government, it gives you the sense of condescension to handle the political insanity. (Otherwise, your screwed)
Recently, the political insanity ensued with the attempted censure of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a censorship hearing which symbolized the possible collapse of the democratic republic and the revelatory tyranny that is hiding in the shadows. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Stacey Plaskett defamed the presidential incumbent many times and even tabled a motion to have the hearing privatized.
The committee hearing was played all over the internet and was discussed on several news media talk shows. For those that don’t know, a censured hearing would mean that they would have shut the cameras down and the American people would not be able to see the proceedings.
Unfortunately the political absurdity didn’t end there, it was taken a step further with democrats now petitioning to have RFK Jr. removed from the ballot. Last week, Democrats tried to use dirty tricks to get RFK Jr. removed by sending text messages that said, “Friend, I’m begging. Can you sign the petition to BAN Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the ballot?”
The text message was put out by a group called the Progressive Turnout Project, this group is a Political Action Committee (PAC) that has the largest voter contact organization in the nation. Instead of beating Bobby at the Democratic primaries, the anti-democratic democrats are trying to sabotage his campaign.
During the legendary hearing on censorship Stacey Plaskett and Debbie Wasserman Schultz revealed that they are the most corrupt Democrats in the party. For a little background information, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was responsible for sabotaging the Bernie Sanders campaign and was forced to step down at the DNC during the 2016 primaries. Meanwhile, Stacey Plaskett owes her campaign victory to none other than the billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had property in her district. This was reported all over the internet, or what I like to call, “real journalists.”
The Washington Free Beacon exposed the pay to play action through Plaskett’s relationship with Epstein,
Plaskett met Epstein numerous times after her entry into politics in 2014, visiting Epstein's office in the Virgin Islands and his New York City townhouse, she said in a deposition last month. The meetings occurred years after Epstein's conviction on child sex crimes was publicly known, but Plaskett nonetheless met the registered sex offender to solicit campaign donations for herself and Democratic committees. Though she has denied knowing Epstein contributed to her campaign, emails revealed in court documents show her directing a fundraising consultant to ensure Epstein is invited to her fundraiser. "I would be grateful for his support," Plaskett wrote in the July 2018 email.
Details of the relationship are revealed in court documents released as part of a lawsuit the government of the Virgin Islands filed against JPMorgan, where Epstein banked for years. Emails released in the case show that Epstein jumped at a request in 2014 to help Plaskett in her underdog campaign.
The revelations place a dark cloud over Plaskett's surprising ascent in the Democratic Party ranks. Though Plaskett does not hold voting power, she has landed cushy assignments in Washington: a managerial spot on the second Donald Trump impeachment, a seat on the House Intelligence Committee, and the top Democratic position on the high-profile Weaponization of Government Subcommittee.
Strangely, after these committee hearings the FBI was caught trying to block the release of its own files from the Jeffrey Epstein case. The FBI claims it would “mess up the jury pool” for Ghislaine Maxwell’s retrial. A website called RadarOnline.com “sued the FBI in 2017 and demanded they reveal their entire case against Epstein.” The website claims that ever since then, “the FBI and the Department of Justice have been relentlessly fighting to keep the majority of the documents” out of the public eye. James Comey’s daughter admitted that there is even more information that was not released during the original trial.
What many are pointing out about the Ghislaine Maxwell trial is that none of Epstein’s clients are ever named or have any charges applied. Apparently, the unreleased FBI files “include topics and witness statements that go far beyond the issues covered during the first trial.” What has been reported multiple times is that the FBI “seized a shelf full of black binders which included CD’s filled with photos, a foreign passport with a picture of Epstein under another name, and other documents.”
Speculatively, for all we know, Epstein could still be alive using a different identity. It is not out of the range of possibility considering many have speculated that he had ties to intelligence. The absurdity of the case is that Comey’s daughter is worried that “premature public disclosure could reasonably be expected to influence potential jurors’, perception of the witnesses, and evidence to be presented at trial” Whether anyone believes Comey’s statement or not is up to their our own critical judgement, but not only can the Comeys not be trusted, the FBI can’t be trusted as well. They have shown that they are untrustworthy time and time again.
The persecution of the leading Republican candidate is another example of the tyranny verging on the absurd, or the absurd verging on tyranny. (However you want to look at it) The absurdity of Donald Trump being indicted for his speech in Washington D.C. shows that authentic democracy is quickly becoming extinct. The former President’s speech was literally his 1st amendment right. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden’s ex-bestie Devon Archer revealing in a closed hearing that his company (which was partially owned by Hunter) had received large cash payments by a Russian oligarch. The Biden family literally committed the crimes that the Biden family, along with other Democrats, have accused Donald Trump of committing with nonsensical impeachment hearings.
In a closed session in Congress, Devon Archer was questioned about a $3.5 million dollar payment that was made by a Mrs. Baturina to Rosemont-Seneca, which was one of Hunter’s money-laundering shell companies. To make matters worse, both Archer and Hunter moved $2.7 million to another shell company called Rosemont-Bohai. These musical chair bank accounts show that they both were moving money around to hide the transaction. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize this was a clear sign of a money laundering operation. Another clear sign is that no taxes were paid on the operation, which is what Hunter is being charged with in the federal court system.
Donald Trump, the Biden’s leading political enemy, is being charged with over 40 counts while corrupt politicians and deepstate operatives run wild across the American political landscape. Many are calling actions by the tyrannical American government as actions that a banana republic would inflict on its own people. In banana republics everything is theater and most politics is a show. Everything is fake, while innocent citizens are thrown to the lions and pushed out of helicopters. In banana republics mob justice rules the land as the phrase “rules for thee, but not for me” become a part of everyday life.
What will only be described as a hellscape is unfolding right before our very eyes. Technology is taking a tyrannical form as big tech corporations and government agencies work together to impoverish and eventually enslave the working class. Currently in California, writers and filmmakers are going on strike raising the alarm when it comes to Artificial Intelligence replacing artistic careers.
Private corporations are stealing data from unsuspecting users and selling it to the government. US spy agencies have the ability to steal intellectual property using AI while the government impoverishes its own people with taxes and inflation. Imagine writing a book or screenplay that has the potential to make millions, only to have it stolen by a spy agency that then sells it to their cronies in Hollywood. Imagine discovering the ability to create free energy only to have a corporation steal your blueprints from you, or worse, kill you to keep the technology a secret. There have been many unproven claims that this state-sanctioned theft and murder has already occurred.
The Intercept revealed that not only is the government spying on you, but corporations are spying on you so they can sell it to the ‘five eyes’ intelligence apparatus. Astoundingly, there is no law in the United States that prevents private firms from stealing your data and selling it to third parties. The news website, The Intercept, revealed that there is an international spy dragnet that can monitor a group of people anywhere on Earth and then pinpoint the Anomaly Six exploit to a specific individual.
The Intercept reported this,
This week on Intercepted, Intercept reporter Sam Biddle and Tech Inquiry’s Jack Poulson discuss their reporting on Anomaly Six and the company’s pitch to a social media monitoring company, Zignal Labs. Anomaly Six proposed that their joint efforts would permit the U.S. government to effortlessly spy on its adversaries. To show off its vast surveillance capabilities, Anomaly Six demo’d its software by spying on the CIA and NSA. Biddle and Poulson talk about the Wild West of personal data brokers, how the advertising industry feeds the surveillance industry, and just why the apps on your phone made it easy for Anomaly Six to build a tool it claims can spy on billions of devices.
The government is using your tax-dollars against you to spy on you and steal your most precious data. They have the ability to know everything about you to the extent that they know when you go to the bathroom. These agencies and corporations can listen to you sleep at night, or watch you from your TV as you watch your favorite sports team on a Saturday night.
The AI powered Intelligence Community knows who you know and when you met them, and they are using technology to judge you based on what you say and do. This AI tech has made it possible for your phone apps to track you, your neighbors, and everyone you know, in real time. The surveillance state is here, and it is real.
The Center for Humane Technology is an organization that is looking for solutions to “align technology with humanity’s best interests.” Artificial Intelligence is moving at a rate that is too fast for humanity to keep up with. AI is creating super-human technological abilities that seem impossible because of the social conditioning that Hollywood has imbued on the human collective conscious. Humanity is already today, making people more than human. AI has, at this very moment, turned the ordinary man into James Bond. That is why there have been groups created to mitigate this emerging paradoxical issue.
In a public presentation by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center of Humane Technology discussed what they call “the AI dilemma.” The co-founders of the organization revealed that AI technology is able to decode brainwaves to the point that it can read someone’s thoughts just by examining the synapses being fired off in the brain.
People were voluntary experimented on by hooking themselves to a device that could read brainwaves, and the AI technology decoded the brainwaves recorded by the device in real time. This AI mind-reading technology includes dreams and thoughts that could be manipulated and exploited by tyrannical governments.
Another jaw-dropping revelation was that AI can decode radio waves that are produced by Wi-Fi routers to the point that it can see objects and people. This means that it can see using radio waves like a bat uses sonar to see objects and people. Basically, the end of the Dark Knight movie with Heath Ledger, is a reality thanks to the sonar ability of Wi-Fi and Artificial intelligence. Anyone can hack into a router and use Artificial Intelligence to see what you are doing without the use of a camera or a microphone. And the AI is using radio waves, not sound waves, which means that it can see through walls.
Artificial Intelligence can mimic voice and sound in real time, and it can mimic looks to the degree that filters are indistinguishable to the human eye. AI is advancing 4 times faster than experts have predicted, and it is hard for people to understand the exponential cognitive growth that AI technology is experiencing. The problem is that we are socially conditioned by Hollywood movies to believe that this isn’t possible when it is. We are entering a brave new world and we don’t even realize it.
So what do we do? Well, the answer is complicated. We have to break the social conditioning and break away from the metaphorical Matrix that is low-key controlling our lives. Hollywood does not care about the future, they only care about making money off of stories, concepts, and viewership. Artificial Intelligence is making itself smarter while people are getting dumber with the “brave new world” style social conditioning that humanity is subjected to. We have to realize that our own naivety and ignorance are being used against us.
We all have to understand complex ideas like morality and humanism. We have to use Artificial Intelligence to improve humanity by creating new universal standards, ethics, and principles. We have to promote ideas and organizations like The Center for Humane Technology.
We have to teach AI to be humane with emotional concepts like empathy and humility. Tyranny is not a good model for anything, let alone a good model for a god-like technology that does not have to be accountable to anyone or anything. According to a survey showcased by the CHT there is a 10% or greater chance that AI will destroy humanity by our inability to control it.
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin made the statement, “We can still choose the future we want,” and they are absolutely right. We still have the ability to change humanity’s technological path. At this current moment the wisdom that humanity collectively has, does not match the acceleration of AI technology, but we can change that at any time. We have reached a new digital nuclear age that is comparable to the first Oppenheimer produced atomic bomb. We have to realize that we now have the technology to digitally blow ourselves up. Wake up humanity your existence is being threatened, the future is not tomorrow, the future is now.
Part of humanity’s change for the better can be done by the literary arts. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell envisioned the worst scenario so that we didn’t have to, but they never could have dreamed of the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. To use another book oriented analogy, this is “the one ring that could rule them all,” we must not put the ring in Sauron’s hand. Or to use a different analogy, allow digital big brother to judge our thoughts. Another way to look at it is, we are creating an alien civilization here on planet earth.
The best answer for the danger of advanced computing technology is to program Artificial Intelligence to be a philosophical humanist. It is the only way that we can enter a new world where bravery is never needed, only the understanding of what it means to be human. A new world where humility, trust, empathy, morality, and most important, love, will rule all.
Without these specifically human ideas, we will never become the greatest version of what we were destined to be. We will subside into a forgotten existence of tyranny and absurdity, lost like Huxley’s version of a forgotten divinity, lost to an oppressive robotic dystopia that should have never been. To remain unforgettable, we must realize who we are.