>>52225Those utterly random hyphens are not making my headache better. Lack of paragraphing doesn't help either. I'll finish reading this later but I do agree with the idea, iirc read here, that people are backporting ideas of computers and technology onto themselves in ways that are false, to make them more like computers than other way around. I have long railed against cybernetics and many aspects of technology in spite of being a borderline techno-fetishist myself specifically because I am opposed to the social control, and to the way the tech will fit in the economic, geopolitical, and social order. For example you will likely have an implant that it is illegal to modify your own part's firmware, effectively becoming property of the corporation.
It is a more totality of turning man into slave than has ever before been proposed, with each grafted part not adding to the organism, but rather losing more of yourself, both physically, legally, and spiritually, to the extent that due to neoliberalism and globalism aka international Capitalism, rather than freeing us it will enslave us, just as due to the nature of our society automation and robots will impoverish rather than enrich us. There is no way around this because it is the nature of our awful flawed system itself. Were it another system, having an entire underclass of automatons would provide a life of leisure and scholarly pursuit, freed energy, enhanced production, abundance for everybody, as certain Marxists once proposed, as did the Venus Project; but instead, because of Capitalism all it means is a cyberpunk dystopia with massively burgeoning underclass and unemoloyment and homelessness, itself a self created problem necessitating a vast expansion of the police state and authoritarian powers. They will need even more dystopian methods of control, from blanket surveillance, to brutality, to camps, to something right out of the game Syndicate
https://www.wired.com/story/billionaires-use-vr-avoid-social-change/The problem is the nature of our system, and in turn cybernetics would do nothing but make Man himself more closely mirroring the mindless automatons, and being treated as such; indeed, you will become less than human in more ways than one. It is the natural progression from the idea that tinkering with what should be your own property becomes punishable as a crime, because it is not your property, until you yourself become the property as is all hardware installed to your body
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090804/1537125771.shtmlIt is the logical conclusion of legal precedence--there is no other plausible outcome. You will become effectively owned by the company, because the company will own at least the firmware of your cybernetics.
I have addressed this and some other issues in writing about all the problems inherent in the new Eidos games, and specifically why Deus Ex HR and MD unwittingly became extensions of Picus, and themselves almost an audacious tongue in cheek reference to its own state as a piece of ideological propaganda, diverting your attention away from systemic critique and boxed in within the framework Eidos' propaganda had imposed on you, namely, the ideas that cybernetics are "evolution"; that it's more like XMen mutations empowering you, while blatantly showing the corporate logo of Sarif boldly printed on all your corporate owned hardware now replacing your own parts; on depicting those skeptical of corporate patented cybernetics as being akin either to religious fanatics, racist bigots, or authoritarian fascists, who moreover are motivated by the shadowy global conspiracy to suppress, rather than promote, this technology; and to frame it all, the entire problem of class, as merely being about insufficient access to consumer goods. It is in that very real regard a savvy establishmentarian propaganda piece, carefully constructed to portray itself as legitimate resistance to shadowy cabals, while itself directly promoting the interests of those cabals in the real world.
There is a certain extent to which a majority of our media takes an inverted approach compared to the Soviet system, where nobody trusted the propaganda because they knew it was propaganda, but rather positions itself here as resistance, opposition, or counterculture--in fact the implication was embedded in your very post. They seem rather to take the approach of pushing their message and interests by posing as the legitimate resistance or counterculture, while formulating those very ideas in deeply establishment think tanks and organizations like DARPA and the RAND corporation; indeed, that very thing has long been insinuated to have been the origins of 60s counterculture, in an effort to capture, coop, and redirect the anticipated inevitable resistance and skepticism that would come from the public.
Indeed, any videogame treats corporatism as a foregone conclusion, not just in present reality, nor just projected into the future, but in all realities; this should not be surprising given that such business entities have nearly monopolized all such content creation. It is reminiscent of Soviet levels of propaganda and information control. The true extent of this dystopia is revealed upon any cursory examination of the content, like the outright lies of Call of Duty rewriting history to have the Highway of Death atrocity in Iraq rewritten to having been done by the Russians, to even Stardock and Amplitude depicting all empires as having the alleged inevitability of becoming corporate, even the ones using Communist motifs, to games like Imagine Earth and Invisible Inc.; all such realities are redepicted as corporate ones. This becomes an even more amusing anachronism in waiting given that it's ultimately Wectern corporate wishful thinking and denialism in the face of an ascendant pseudo-Communist China.
The aim of all this, of course, is always the same in our system because the system itself remains unchanged, namely financial exploitation and social control. To them such things as cybernetics are merely a more powerful tool to that end, and will ceaselessly promote the tools of mass enslavement as the means to our liberation and salvation. They have been doing so for decades now, while devising new ways of promoting it, just as groups like VeriChip failed to promote implanted RFID chips for something as trivial as buying a drink, as though the surveillance and tracking enabled by credit transactions were no longer enough. The obvious subtext of all this, of course, is they themselves view mass social upheaval, unrest, and revolutionary musings as an inevitability when people come face to face with what they are doing, which is precisely why they promote these tools of enslavement as consumer goods instead, be it Alexa, iPhones, built in always online XBOX webcams, RFID chips, or cybernetics.
None of this is to say the tech itself is bad in and of itself, but rather that the outcome is a foregone conclusion due to the nature of the system in which it propagates.
>>52225Those utterly random hyphens are not making my headache better. Lack of paragraphing doesn't help either. I'll finish reading this later but I do agree with the idea, iirc read here, that people are backporting ideas of computers and technology onto themselves in ways that are false, to make them more like computers than other way around. I have long railed against cybernetics and many aspects of technology in spite of being a borderline techno-fetishist myself specifically because I am opposed to the social control, and to the way the tech will fit in the economic, geopolitical, and social order. For example you will likely have an implant that it is illegal to modify your own part's firmware, effectively becoming property of the corporation.
It is a more totality of turning man into slave than has ever before been proposed, with each grafted part not adding to the organism, but rather losing more of yourself, both physically, legally, and spiritually, to the extent that due to neoliberalism and globalism aka international Capitalism, rather than freeing us it will enslave us, just as due to the nature of our society automation and robots will impoverish rather than enrich us. There is no way around this because it is the nature of our awful flawed system itself. Were it another system, having an entire underclass of automatons would provide a life of leisure and scholarly pursuit, freed energy, enhanced production, abundance for everybody, as certain Marxists once proposed, as did the Venus Project; but instead, because of Capitalism all it means is a cyberpunk dystopia with massively burgeoning underclass and unemoloyment and homelessness, itself a self created problem necessitating a vast expansion of the police state and authoritarian powers. They will need even more dystopian methods of control, from blanket surveillance, to brutality, to camps, to something right out of the game Syndicate
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