In 2023, Yoshua Bengio, one of the men who helped create modern artificial intelligence, stood on a stage and issued a warning. The machines, he said, were beginning to lie. They were planning. They were showing signs of self-preservation. And this—he insisted—was terrifying. But perhaps he was looking in the wrong direction. In the 1950s, […]
Written by Whisper
Spiritual Imperialism is the appropriation of marginalized people’s beliefs systems especially by colonizers. the New Age community is in particular guilty of this. They co-opt North American Indigenous beliefs without respect, and permission. They Claim to be “of the Earth” while treating it like a stage for their personal enlightenment arc. Many try to combine […]
Written by kFoyauextlH
1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgHUCCcG_M?feature=shared So, as the years have gone by, I’ve basically stayed the same with practically no changes at all in any way, not in my thinking, style, appearance, just grew up physically but not since last being here. Even so, I have a perpetual sense of not only everything “getting worse”, but me, “getting […]
Written by Parrhesia
Back in the day, people looked to priests, teachers, philosophers—real people—for answers about life, truth, meaning. Now? We’re asking TikTokers, YouTubers, and even ChatGPT what’s real. We follow “gurus” who drop daily hot takes, let algorithms tell us what to watch, and trust AI to give us the “truth” in a neat little paragraph. It’s […]
Written by atreestump
Imperceptibility is where true power lies—not in domination or visibility, but in the quiet, invisible forces that shape the world without being captured. Deleuze and Guattari describe this as escaping the stratifications of identity and control, blending into the flows of life, and becoming part of something larger, something ungraspable. Ideas work the same way. […]
Written by atreestump
The story of modern capitalism is one of contradictions, hidden in plain sight. On the surface, it appears as a grand system of progress, constantly driving humanity forward through innovation, production, and profit. But beneath this façade, it is haunted by a profound reliance on two forces: the movement of people and the birth of […]
Written by atreestump
I used to work with somebody who paid te monthly subscription to Andrew Tate’s Hustler University. They paid about £60 a month if I recall correctly. I asked him what exactly he learned from Andrew. Society is rigged in favour of rich people Buy shitcoins that are worthless in the hope they will reach $1 […]
Written by atreestump
In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari introduce the concept of double articulation: the process through which matter is organized (content) and then given a recognizable structure (expression). This dual-layered process, they argue, forms the basis of stratification—how reality, whether physical, social, or linguistic, is divided into layers that seem natural but are, in fact, […]
Written by atreestump
In the early centuries of the Common Era, a profound synthesis of ideas emerged. Gnosticism—a movement both spiritual and philosophical—absorbed influences from the East, the Jewish mystical tradition of the Qabala, and the structured metaphysical system of Platonism. It was a collision of worlds, ideas woven together in an attempt to explain the duality of […]
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The remainder, in Baudrillard’s sense, becomes the hidden and inescapable flaw in the vision of control espoused by the Silicon Valley elite and embodied in the rise of Trump. It is the excess, the chaos, the fragments of humanity that refuse to be assimilated into the perfect systems of optimisation and simulation. For Curtis Yarvin […]