..."The technology, the surveillance, the centralized management of everything: this is just how the future works now"...Poppycock. The psychos are trying to use technology to keep the pendulum from swinging back in the other direction. They will fail. And when the pendulum swings back I hope it takes off a few heads as it does.
Everything works with cyclic rhythm. Nothing is static or unmoving forever.
This whole series assumes that bigness is inevitable. It is not. Social systems that rely on localized supply chains, localized administration and localized means of distribution can survive despite disruptions that would stop distribution at a global level. That is because they generally respect free will, whereas despotic distribution systems do not. This whole drive for efficiency is one of the sources of the disruptions we see now. Efficiency, by it's very nature stifles creativity and therefore the ability to be human.
It is true that localized commerce is by nature inefficient, but those inefficiencies is what drives improvements. If the local economy becomes too institutionalized, the lack of a centralized administration means it will fail far sooner than a big, gigantic institution and the disruption leads to a better version of what it once was.
If conducted this way, we would see that the further away a government is from you, the smaller it needs to be in your perception of what you need the government for. This doesn't mean that the local government is big, but only needs to be big enough to let individuals accomplish what they need or have only enough social services as necessary to prevent people from falling from the system. And I bet it will vary from one community to another, and people will generally be satisfied with their government. It is the desire for one size fits all that created these monstrosities we call bureaucratic overreach that created the problem this series attempts to address.
The idea that small, local structures are inherently more resilient than large institutions is appealing, but anthropologically inaccurate. As Graeber, Luhmann, and Elias have shown, small social forms can be flexible, but they are also vulnerable to the more structured systems that surround them. Resilience does not depend on size, but on symbolic and institutional coherence. A weakened society, whether centralized or local, can be rapidly reconfigured by a more coherent cultural or political system.
The real reason for the Fall of the Berlin Wall is enantiodromia by cluelessness gold:
During a hastily arranged press conference in East Berlin, official Günter Schabowski MISTAKENLY announced that travel restrictions were lifted immediately, leading to crowds gathering at border checkpoints.
By 10:45 p.m., the commander of the Bornholmer Straße crossing allowed guards to open the gates, allowing East and West Berliners to pass freely and begin demolishing sections of the wall.
Modern societies believe that technological and institutional systems are irreversible and inevitable. This is a historical anomaly; previous civilizations saw history as cyclical and prone to sudden reversals. The normalization of technological integration, surveillance, and centralized management creates a sense of permanence that masks underlying vulnerabilities.
Enantiodromia: The Swing to Opposites. Carl Jung introduced "enantiodromia": when systems are pushed too far in one direction, they generate forces that swing back in the opposite direction. Attempts to engineer total stability suppress essential human needs (meaning, spontaneity, autonomy), which accumulate beneath the surface and eventually re-emerge explosively. Historical examples include the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Protestant Reformation, where apparent stability masked deep-seated tensions.
Emotional Saturation Threshold. People tolerate contradictions and pressures for long periods, but trust and legitimacy erode beneath the surface. Once an emotional threshold is crossed, what seemed stable can collapse rapidly. Outward compliance does not equal genuine legitimacy; emotional exhaustion, resentment, and alienation can build up invisibly.
Closure and Systemic Rigidity. "Closure" occurs when institutions become insulated from feedback and prioritize their own continuity over adaptability. Systems suppress dissent, manage perception, and equate procedural continuity with legitimacy, leading to epistemological and psychological fragility. The more rigid and closed a system becomes, the more vulnerable it is to sudden destabilization.
The Manufacture of Inevitability. Modern governance uses crisis narratives, technological dependency, and informational asymmetry to normalize the belief that alternatives are impossible. Citizens adapt to systems not out of conviction but because alternatives seem unimaginable or too costly. This adaptation is reinforced by digital platforms and algorithmic management, which shape perception and emotional response.
Technological and Cognitive Closure. Advanced systems shape not just behavior but the environment in which judgment and adaptation occur. Dependence on technological infrastructure makes disengagement difficult, even as trust in institutions wanes. Information abundance leads to fragmentation and distraction, making coordinated resistance or alternatives harder to imagine.
Why reversal Is hard. Modern systems are more resilient due to technological integration, but this also creates new forms of fragility (dependency, complexity, emotional distance). Reversals may be slower, more psychological, and less visible than in the past, but they remain possible because of human unpredictability.
Human Unpredictability. No system can fully eliminate the unpredictability of human beings: imagination, moral intuition, resentment, and the capacity for collective action. Legitimacy is emotionally contingent; once belief in a system collapses, change can be rapid.
Vigilance and Openness. The future is not predetermined. Openness to reversal and change depends on preserving independent thought, civic memory, moral courage, and the willingness to imagine alternatives. Freedom and the possibility of reversal require active cultural and psychological maintenance.
Implementation: These arguments suggest that organizations and societies should regularly assess not just procedural stability but also emotional legitimacy and openness to feedback. For instance, a company or government could establish independent review bodies, encourage dissenting voices, and monitor for signs of emotional exhaustion or alienation among stakeholders. Historical awareness and the cultivation of alternative narratives can help prevent the kind of closure that leads to sudden, destabilizing reversals.
The major difference between now and even just the recent past is: total biological degeneration of maybe 99.5% of the population. Physical and mental. There've always been people a quarter turn out and sickly. But not like now, not in these numbers or in such advanced state of dissolution.
Therefore, regarding this article with all its abstractions, I'd say: All Bets Are Off.
The other source of reversal may be failure due to complexity. We may return to Richard III with a point failure source collapsing the kingdom. The recent closure of the Straits of Hormuz demonstrate this- we have not yet seen the outcome in lost fertiliser production and potential starvation in poor sectors of the world.
Complexity in practice now means that nothing can be fixed except 1950's automobiles in Cuba. Most parts are thrown away and replaced, and nobody can repair the "modules." Farmers are captured by the equipment manufacturers; I could not even get Apple to supply a battery for this computer as it is too old to be "supported."
As The BarefootHealer has introduced an SF theme in the comments, I should mention the Dune series in which "Thinking Machines" are outlawed, except for a stealth machine for genetic records. And SkyNet progresses.
"For this reason, [ fill in the blank ] the future remains uncertain." Could have just gone with that. I watched Soylent Green last night. My first thought was what a terrible actor Charlton Heston was. Swaggering around - his face contorted with rage and despair as needed. The lost generation's John Wayne. But the script is real: observable, repeatable, testable as far back as there is records. These articles make me angry. Breaking down each sentence individually gives us a grocery list of realities that most 8 year olds could tell you.
1.- "anything pushed too far in one direction eventually swings back." When I was 7, there was a boy on the school playground who illustrated this principle brilliantly one day on the swings.' Let's see how high I go!" he shrieked. As he pushed the momentum until he was even with the top bar. he slipped off the seat. The audience was waiting for it. We all became as smart as Carl that day. What's more - we knew the room number at the hospital where the test model lay wrapped in hardened plaster. It was now part of our DNA. We didn't know it was called 'enantiodromia' We thought it was just Scott being - well - Scott. A couple of more banal illustrations of the same ilk and the French Revolution would just be the logical extension of all the lessons we learned from little Golden Books that hopefully someone read to us.
Taken individually every statement here is self evident [ try it ] and it's insulting to ordinary people that could - [ if they didn't have to actually work to eat ] - understand these platitudes as simple social/historical physics if they were only stripped of their linguistic esoterica. When they are, it becomes obvious that no one is actually positing solutions - just stating the obvious in more and more unusual ways.
For example: 'Le Bon examines crowd psychology and collective emotional transformation in mass societies. His work supports the essay’s argument that apparent social stability may mask deep emotional saturation beneath the surface.'
What is a 'mass society?' Is it mass like Plutonium or cemeteries? What is an argument that 'apparent social stability may mask deep emotional saturation beneath the surface.' That's just Walmart at the 1st of the month.
It's easy to tell us all how humanity is imploding in excessively elegant detail, but I would rather the august careers represented in the bibliography had become mayors, police chiefs, lawyers or at least gotten a pistol permit.
To move past a static description of institutional dysfunction, my next work analyzes a dynamic collision: the intersection of an uncontrollable technocratic drift and a profound anthropological mutation. Modern bureaucracies operate under a dangerous illusion. They believe that layering surveillance, procedural rigidity, and digital control will eventually stabilize the social order. In reality, this relentless tightening achieves the exact opposite. By systematically erasing human feedback loops, the technocratic apparatus deprives itself of the capacity to adapt, transforming its superficial permanence into acute systemic fragility.
However, a system never collapses into a vacuum; it collapses against the living reality of the population it attempts to manage. When institutions push communities past the threshold of emotional and psychological saturation, outward compliance erodes invisibly. This triggers a genuine anthropological reconfiguration. Human unpredictability, long dismissed by technocrats as a mere administrative error to be erased, mutates into deep-seated alienation and the organic creation of decentralized alternatives. Ultimately, the technocratic machine is engineering its own undoing, entirely blind to the fact that the human variable cannot be digitized out of existence.
Since the scam — which was a test case for global compliance — an active war has been waged against humanity, disguised as 'polycrisis'.
In the Western World, this is felt and seen by only a limited group; the rest still wallow in (too much) comfort, accept the lies and propaganda of the MSM, or are otherwise distracted.
Although the scholars cited in the article are indeed relevant to certain aspects, the nature and scale of the current power grab are unprecedented.
Jung's enantiodromia is perhaps the most universal and far-reaching, and therefore the most applicable to the current situation.
That is indeed an accurate summary of what the scam actually entailed.
I could add a few things here; regarding the mild bioweapon (not a virus, because those do not exist) that was most likely deployed, in combination with 5G, and the fact that certain sources predicted the Covid scam as early as 20 years ago, but more important is what the scam initiated.
The invasion of Ukraine can also be traced back entirely to documents from the 1930s, and even long before that era, Ukraine's essential geographical location and, consequently, its 'geopolitical' (read: axis of power) significance were discussed in deep state circles.
The staunch outbreaks of fire in the Middle East that began with the Hamas invasion on October 7, 2023 - entirely orchestrated by Israel, were also predicted long ago, as another core component of the long-running agenda behind the global power grab.
Roughly speaking, since the industrial era, absolute power no longer resides in (merely) military power, but rather in monetary power.
For a long time now, this has not been solely about assets, but about the virtually invisible management of money (capital) flows.
As far as I know, Escapekey is the only one that properly highlights this aspect from a historical perspective, based on very extensive documentation.
In doing so, he reveals the biggest elephant in the cathedral of deception.
Virtually all historical events of roughly the past 300 years are somehow related to this.
A more recent example in this context:
"Ein Wirschaftswunder fällt nie vom Himmel" (An economic miracle never falls from the sky) is illustrative of the fabricated economic upswing in the run-up to WWII.
Escapekey's work is among the most significant, because he literally exposes that which is hidden in plain sight.
Ultimately, however, in my opinion, there is a more sinister (evil) objective connected to the agenda, one that goes beyond absolute power in a material sense.
Prince was right when he uttered his legendary words in 1999 during the Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards ceremony:
"Don't be fooled by the internet. There's a war going on. The battlefield's in the mind. And the prize is the soul."
The Internet is the network that serves not only for IoT, but also for IoP, or perhaps more appropriate: IoH(ybrids).
To countless unsuspecting citizens, this sounds like a scenario from a bad science fiction movie. However, the technology has existed for decades and has since been refined and miniaturized to such an extent that those unsuspecting citizens can be hacked virtually unnoticed, and perhaps they are even already being hacked (through frequency modulation, among other methods).
Since you and the readers of your stack are (presumably more) open to this, I would like to add something regarding the last aspect — concerning the domain not directly perceptible by the senses.
The youngest generations on Earth are, on average, more sensitive and intuitive.
I observe this in the children within my family and those of friends and acquaintances.
There will undoubtedly be readers who — like me — sensed a change in 'the energetic field' during the lockdowns, especially in urban areas.
That change is permanent; that is to say, after the scam, cities did indeed start buzzing again, but not with the same intensity as before 2020.
Jung was fascinated by Nietzsche's 'superior perception'.
He devoted years of study to this and concluded that Nietzsche drove himself to madness due to a lack of spiritual ventilation (an outlet).
Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch was his 'mind construct' that actually served as a substitute for GOD (who has been killed by humanity).
According to Jung, spiritual ventilation is necessary for humanity, as it embodies the connection with the metaphysical domain (~'the all/universe').
Spiritual ventilation also means 'giving something back to humanity', which reinforces the collective.
This is one reason why attempts are made to alienate people from their neighbors and why young people in particular are being manipulated in every possible way.
There are countless critics who see through the agenda and report on it, but who regard the spiritual domain as 'deception/distraction'.
In my view (based on experience), that is a gross misjudgment.
Yes, there's much deception from the cabal — think of Kabbalah, Theosophy, and religions in general (all hijacked) — but that doesn't negate the need for spiritual ventilation.
In the Foundation and Empire series, Isaac Asimov describes this quite well.
Even though the Empire declined as Hari Seldon had predicted, to the point that the Foundation was able to conquer it, the appearance of the Mule was a complete shock to the system. It was impossible to factor in his ability to manipulate emotions and minds because Seldon's analysis could not and did not take into account individual aberrations, but focused on the collective population as a whole cohesive unit. Seldon relied on vast numbers to support his theory, but one single, seemingly insignificant factor threw the whole thing out of sync.
..."The technology, the surveillance, the centralized management of everything: this is just how the future works now"...Poppycock. The psychos are trying to use technology to keep the pendulum from swinging back in the other direction. They will fail. And when the pendulum swings back I hope it takes off a few heads as it does.
Everything works with cyclic rhythm. Nothing is static or unmoving forever.
I agree with you 👏.
💯😉
Pop culture equivelent fore the TL.DR crew,
"...the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."-Senator Leia Organa to General Tarkan, Star Wars IV
Wonderful antidote to what seems to be the same concept articulated seventeen different ways.
This whole series assumes that bigness is inevitable. It is not. Social systems that rely on localized supply chains, localized administration and localized means of distribution can survive despite disruptions that would stop distribution at a global level. That is because they generally respect free will, whereas despotic distribution systems do not. This whole drive for efficiency is one of the sources of the disruptions we see now. Efficiency, by it's very nature stifles creativity and therefore the ability to be human.
It is true that localized commerce is by nature inefficient, but those inefficiencies is what drives improvements. If the local economy becomes too institutionalized, the lack of a centralized administration means it will fail far sooner than a big, gigantic institution and the disruption leads to a better version of what it once was.
If conducted this way, we would see that the further away a government is from you, the smaller it needs to be in your perception of what you need the government for. This doesn't mean that the local government is big, but only needs to be big enough to let individuals accomplish what they need or have only enough social services as necessary to prevent people from falling from the system. And I bet it will vary from one community to another, and people will generally be satisfied with their government. It is the desire for one size fits all that created these monstrosities we call bureaucratic overreach that created the problem this series attempts to address.
The idea that small, local structures are inherently more resilient than large institutions is appealing, but anthropologically inaccurate. As Graeber, Luhmann, and Elias have shown, small social forms can be flexible, but they are also vulnerable to the more structured systems that surround them. Resilience does not depend on size, but on symbolic and institutional coherence. A weakened society, whether centralized or local, can be rapidly reconfigured by a more coherent cultural or political system.
The real reason for the Fall of the Berlin Wall is enantiodromia by cluelessness gold:
During a hastily arranged press conference in East Berlin, official Günter Schabowski MISTAKENLY announced that travel restrictions were lifted immediately, leading to crowds gathering at border checkpoints.
By 10:45 p.m., the commander of the Bornholmer Straße crossing allowed guards to open the gates, allowing East and West Berliners to pass freely and begin demolishing sections of the wall.
Maybe Idiocracy is The Way out?
Historical Reversals {Luc Lelièvre} ~ summary
Modern societies believe that technological and institutional systems are irreversible and inevitable. This is a historical anomaly; previous civilizations saw history as cyclical and prone to sudden reversals. The normalization of technological integration, surveillance, and centralized management creates a sense of permanence that masks underlying vulnerabilities.
Enantiodromia: The Swing to Opposites. Carl Jung introduced "enantiodromia": when systems are pushed too far in one direction, they generate forces that swing back in the opposite direction. Attempts to engineer total stability suppress essential human needs (meaning, spontaneity, autonomy), which accumulate beneath the surface and eventually re-emerge explosively. Historical examples include the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Protestant Reformation, where apparent stability masked deep-seated tensions.
Emotional Saturation Threshold. People tolerate contradictions and pressures for long periods, but trust and legitimacy erode beneath the surface. Once an emotional threshold is crossed, what seemed stable can collapse rapidly. Outward compliance does not equal genuine legitimacy; emotional exhaustion, resentment, and alienation can build up invisibly.
Closure and Systemic Rigidity. "Closure" occurs when institutions become insulated from feedback and prioritize their own continuity over adaptability. Systems suppress dissent, manage perception, and equate procedural continuity with legitimacy, leading to epistemological and psychological fragility. The more rigid and closed a system becomes, the more vulnerable it is to sudden destabilization.
The Manufacture of Inevitability. Modern governance uses crisis narratives, technological dependency, and informational asymmetry to normalize the belief that alternatives are impossible. Citizens adapt to systems not out of conviction but because alternatives seem unimaginable or too costly. This adaptation is reinforced by digital platforms and algorithmic management, which shape perception and emotional response.
Technological and Cognitive Closure. Advanced systems shape not just behavior but the environment in which judgment and adaptation occur. Dependence on technological infrastructure makes disengagement difficult, even as trust in institutions wanes. Information abundance leads to fragmentation and distraction, making coordinated resistance or alternatives harder to imagine.
Why reversal Is hard. Modern systems are more resilient due to technological integration, but this also creates new forms of fragility (dependency, complexity, emotional distance). Reversals may be slower, more psychological, and less visible than in the past, but they remain possible because of human unpredictability.
Human Unpredictability. No system can fully eliminate the unpredictability of human beings: imagination, moral intuition, resentment, and the capacity for collective action. Legitimacy is emotionally contingent; once belief in a system collapses, change can be rapid.
Vigilance and Openness. The future is not predetermined. Openness to reversal and change depends on preserving independent thought, civic memory, moral courage, and the willingness to imagine alternatives. Freedom and the possibility of reversal require active cultural and psychological maintenance.
Implementation: These arguments suggest that organizations and societies should regularly assess not just procedural stability but also emotional legitimacy and openness to feedback. For instance, a company or government could establish independent review bodies, encourage dissenting voices, and monitor for signs of emotional exhaustion or alienation among stakeholders. Historical awareness and the cultivation of alternative narratives can help prevent the kind of closure that leads to sudden, destabilizing reversals.
The major difference between now and even just the recent past is: total biological degeneration of maybe 99.5% of the population. Physical and mental. There've always been people a quarter turn out and sickly. But not like now, not in these numbers or in such advanced state of dissolution.
Therefore, regarding this article with all its abstractions, I'd say: All Bets Are Off.
The other source of reversal may be failure due to complexity. We may return to Richard III with a point failure source collapsing the kingdom. The recent closure of the Straits of Hormuz demonstrate this- we have not yet seen the outcome in lost fertiliser production and potential starvation in poor sectors of the world.
Complexity in practice now means that nothing can be fixed except 1950's automobiles in Cuba. Most parts are thrown away and replaced, and nobody can repair the "modules." Farmers are captured by the equipment manufacturers; I could not even get Apple to supply a battery for this computer as it is too old to be "supported."
As The BarefootHealer has introduced an SF theme in the comments, I should mention the Dune series in which "Thinking Machines" are outlawed, except for a stealth machine for genetic records. And SkyNet progresses.
Coherent Reality: The Demolition of One
On identification — with the self, the tribe, the machine — and the deferential distance necessary for survival. {Jan Wellmann (Jun 21, 2026)
https://substack.com/home/post/p-202948251
“The purpose of a system is what it does”.
Stafford Beer
"For this reason, [ fill in the blank ] the future remains uncertain." Could have just gone with that. I watched Soylent Green last night. My first thought was what a terrible actor Charlton Heston was. Swaggering around - his face contorted with rage and despair as needed. The lost generation's John Wayne. But the script is real: observable, repeatable, testable as far back as there is records. These articles make me angry. Breaking down each sentence individually gives us a grocery list of realities that most 8 year olds could tell you.
1.- "anything pushed too far in one direction eventually swings back." When I was 7, there was a boy on the school playground who illustrated this principle brilliantly one day on the swings.' Let's see how high I go!" he shrieked. As he pushed the momentum until he was even with the top bar. he slipped off the seat. The audience was waiting for it. We all became as smart as Carl that day. What's more - we knew the room number at the hospital where the test model lay wrapped in hardened plaster. It was now part of our DNA. We didn't know it was called 'enantiodromia' We thought it was just Scott being - well - Scott. A couple of more banal illustrations of the same ilk and the French Revolution would just be the logical extension of all the lessons we learned from little Golden Books that hopefully someone read to us.
Taken individually every statement here is self evident [ try it ] and it's insulting to ordinary people that could - [ if they didn't have to actually work to eat ] - understand these platitudes as simple social/historical physics if they were only stripped of their linguistic esoterica. When they are, it becomes obvious that no one is actually positing solutions - just stating the obvious in more and more unusual ways.
For example: 'Le Bon examines crowd psychology and collective emotional transformation in mass societies. His work supports the essay’s argument that apparent social stability may mask deep emotional saturation beneath the surface.'
What is a 'mass society?' Is it mass like Plutonium or cemeteries? What is an argument that 'apparent social stability may mask deep emotional saturation beneath the surface.' That's just Walmart at the 1st of the month.
It's easy to tell us all how humanity is imploding in excessively elegant detail, but I would rather the august careers represented in the bibliography had become mayors, police chiefs, lawyers or at least gotten a pistol permit.
To move past a static description of institutional dysfunction, my next work analyzes a dynamic collision: the intersection of an uncontrollable technocratic drift and a profound anthropological mutation. Modern bureaucracies operate under a dangerous illusion. They believe that layering surveillance, procedural rigidity, and digital control will eventually stabilize the social order. In reality, this relentless tightening achieves the exact opposite. By systematically erasing human feedback loops, the technocratic apparatus deprives itself of the capacity to adapt, transforming its superficial permanence into acute systemic fragility.
However, a system never collapses into a vacuum; it collapses against the living reality of the population it attempts to manage. When institutions push communities past the threshold of emotional and psychological saturation, outward compliance erodes invisibly. This triggers a genuine anthropological reconfiguration. Human unpredictability, long dismissed by technocrats as a mere administrative error to be erased, mutates into deep-seated alienation and the organic creation of decentralized alternatives. Ultimately, the technocratic machine is engineering its own undoing, entirely blind to the fact that the human variable cannot be digitized out of existence.
This touches (more) on the actual situation.
Since the scam — which was a test case for global compliance — an active war has been waged against humanity, disguised as 'polycrisis'.
In the Western World, this is felt and seen by only a limited group; the rest still wallow in (too much) comfort, accept the lies and propaganda of the MSM, or are otherwise distracted.
Although the scholars cited in the article are indeed relevant to certain aspects, the nature and scale of the current power grab are unprecedented.
Jung's enantiodromia is perhaps the most universal and far-reaching, and therefore the most applicable to the current situation.
I just came across this on the internet:
https://substack.brownstone.org/p/the-big-picture-of-extraordinary
That is indeed an accurate summary of what the scam actually entailed.
I could add a few things here; regarding the mild bioweapon (not a virus, because those do not exist) that was most likely deployed, in combination with 5G, and the fact that certain sources predicted the Covid scam as early as 20 years ago, but more important is what the scam initiated.
The invasion of Ukraine can also be traced back entirely to documents from the 1930s, and even long before that era, Ukraine's essential geographical location and, consequently, its 'geopolitical' (read: axis of power) significance were discussed in deep state circles.
The staunch outbreaks of fire in the Middle East that began with the Hamas invasion on October 7, 2023 - entirely orchestrated by Israel, were also predicted long ago, as another core component of the long-running agenda behind the global power grab.
Roughly speaking, since the industrial era, absolute power no longer resides in (merely) military power, but rather in monetary power.
For a long time now, this has not been solely about assets, but about the virtually invisible management of money (capital) flows.
As far as I know, Escapekey is the only one that properly highlights this aspect from a historical perspective, based on very extensive documentation.
In doing so, he reveals the biggest elephant in the cathedral of deception.
Virtually all historical events of roughly the past 300 years are somehow related to this.
A more recent example in this context:
"Ein Wirschaftswunder fällt nie vom Himmel" (An economic miracle never falls from the sky) is illustrative of the fabricated economic upswing in the run-up to WWII.
Escapekey's work is among the most significant, because he literally exposes that which is hidden in plain sight.
Ultimately, however, in my opinion, there is a more sinister (evil) objective connected to the agenda, one that goes beyond absolute power in a material sense.
Prince was right when he uttered his legendary words in 1999 during the Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards ceremony:
"Don't be fooled by the internet. There's a war going on. The battlefield's in the mind. And the prize is the soul."
The Internet is the network that serves not only for IoT, but also for IoP, or perhaps more appropriate: IoH(ybrids).
To countless unsuspecting citizens, this sounds like a scenario from a bad science fiction movie. However, the technology has existed for decades and has since been refined and miniaturized to such an extent that those unsuspecting citizens can be hacked virtually unnoticed, and perhaps they are even already being hacked (through frequency modulation, among other methods).
Got it.
Since you and the readers of your stack are (presumably more) open to this, I would like to add something regarding the last aspect — concerning the domain not directly perceptible by the senses.
The youngest generations on Earth are, on average, more sensitive and intuitive.
I observe this in the children within my family and those of friends and acquaintances.
There will undoubtedly be readers who — like me — sensed a change in 'the energetic field' during the lockdowns, especially in urban areas.
That change is permanent; that is to say, after the scam, cities did indeed start buzzing again, but not with the same intensity as before 2020.
Jung was fascinated by Nietzsche's 'superior perception'.
He devoted years of study to this and concluded that Nietzsche drove himself to madness due to a lack of spiritual ventilation (an outlet).
Nietzsche's concept of the Übermensch was his 'mind construct' that actually served as a substitute for GOD (who has been killed by humanity).
According to Jung, spiritual ventilation is necessary for humanity, as it embodies the connection with the metaphysical domain (~'the all/universe').
Spiritual ventilation also means 'giving something back to humanity', which reinforces the collective.
This is one reason why attempts are made to alienate people from their neighbors and why young people in particular are being manipulated in every possible way.
There are countless critics who see through the agenda and report on it, but who regard the spiritual domain as 'deception/distraction'.
In my view (based on experience), that is a gross misjudgment.
Yes, there's much deception from the cabal — think of Kabbalah, Theosophy, and religions in general (all hijacked) — but that doesn't negate the need for spiritual ventilation.
In the Foundation and Empire series, Isaac Asimov describes this quite well.
Even though the Empire declined as Hari Seldon had predicted, to the point that the Foundation was able to conquer it, the appearance of the Mule was a complete shock to the system. It was impossible to factor in his ability to manipulate emotions and minds because Seldon's analysis could not and did not take into account individual aberrations, but focused on the collective population as a whole cohesive unit. Seldon relied on vast numbers to support his theory, but one single, seemingly insignificant factor threw the whole thing out of sync.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
What a profoundly apposite article thank you
This is a great of piece of writing.