Reverberating Silicon - echolocative mapping of legacy control structures and eschatological trajectories in the aftermath of The Great Digital Redistribution.

•  Some guy talking about Epstien. 

"This is some unholy story. It has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.  It has to do with whatever this thing was. We trippedover a thing. We tripped over a structure. We named the structure "Jeffry Epstein...this was already going wrong in the early 2000s. My sense is this was a pre-internet plan that survived into the internet age, and couldnt survive contact with the internet age."

I always knew The Tommyknockers was one of #stephenking's best novels. 

Epstein was simply one such structure. 

Earlier in the clip, Williamson talks about the ramifications of having actors that believe themselves to be worthy of proritization at the cost of everyone else, coupled with the unlimited resources that can remove any rate limitation on the expression of their psychopathy. 

Reverse engineer this and extrapolate beyond just functional outliers that blew their cover and were used to compartmentalize accountability for the sinister collusive enterprises that operate in the shadows and beyond the realm of public perception. 

Work back decades, even centuries, and trace how not just individauls, but organized groups of individuals united by pure self interest and willing to discard any moral boundary in the pursuit of those interests, would have operated using the capital, resources, knowledge and access at their disposal. 

Think of schools, governments, corporations, political parties even religious institutions all being consciously manipulated using control over their material conditions and cognitive reality of their participants and subjects.

Alot of things start to make sense when you think of society as being explicity set up to pursue the selfish, possibly outright evil motivations of psychopaths who have devoted themselves to material existence and their own desires without restraint or boundary. 

If you imagine that an enterprise to direct mass consiousness has been establiahed and operated by the techno-mercantile bourgoisie since their ascension to a position of near total economic dominance, you can see the evolution of this enterprise and its tools and means of production in the same cyclical patterns of discovery, exploitation and exclusion of the extra-collusive population from control over these means of production.

The advent of film, cameras and projection ushered in the era of cinema. There was a breif period where fim-making was not entirely beholden to a corporate or other collectivist control structure. Independant filmmakers could and did exist, and used the medium to elevate class consiousness in addition to exploring the full creative potential of these techniques beyond just their utility as a means of propaganda and social control. 

But overtime, the inevitable impulse of modern industrial enterprises towards consolidation and centralization, driven by the law of economies of scale and the snowball effect of accumulated productive capital, lead to the the monoplistion of the media and content market by a handful of big studios. Just as car manufacture was consolidated into maybe four automakers and most of the agricultural output is being produced by Monsanto and its freinds. 

Communist societies were no more immune to this process than capitalist ones. If anything, the history of communism proves the inevitability not of the collapse of capitalism, but of the tendency of techno-industrial/mercantile enterprises to consolidate around centers of control and evolve into singular, complex, and somewhat functionaly self contained megaorganisms, akin to rhizomatic stands of Maple trees that operate over hundereds of acres, all connected by subteranean networks and all expressing the same set of genetic instructions. 

Sadly, their attempt to align the inevitable centralizing inertia of technological progress towards what they termed "the greater social good", only resulted in tyranny identical to or worse than the darkest ages of capitalist exploitation and slavery. 

Capitalism, being forced to put up a pretence of "free choice" and "open markets", had to develop mechanisms not of coercion, but manipulation. Whereas the communist believed his objectives were noble and therefore, any one who was noncompliant could be coerced with impunity, the capitalist had to find ways to gaslight people into acting in ways contrary to their interests. 

So they spent years making movies and TV shows that fed the values and lifestyles they needed the consumers/producers they relied on for their existence and power. Film and television, once consolidated into corporate monopolies, concentrated in the hands of three corporations liek Viacom and Disney, whose equity is probably owned by the same parties if we were able to pierce the dense layers of legal fiction used to obfuscate true control of capital. 

This was possible in part because the means of production and dissemination of old media by their nature made it difficult for autonomous production outside of the established structure of studios and distributors. Its what allowed them to control the stories we heard, the ideas we internalized, the news we were told and the opinions we were fed. 

Comes now the internet and the smartphone. Suddely, everyone has the power of production in their hands virtually. Social media, initially a promising means of social surveilance and manipulation, proved itself to be difficult to control on account of its distributed and chaotic nature. 

The first and most intense manifestation of this was Arab Spring. For decades, you had a society, multiple countries, run by corrupt dictators who used brutal violence and totalitarian control to enforce whatever agenda was the whim of the monarch or dictator at the top. They used force to impose rigid factual and idealogical frameworks and to silence all those who dared to oppose the agendas they south to enforce. Usually, this was whatever the superpower selling them weapons wanted them to do in order to keep getting the weapons needed to opress their people and pursue their chauvinistic military ambitions. 

The advent and rapid prolifertion of the smartphone suddenly put those carefuly constructued mechanisms of control in jeopardy. I dont think anyone at the top anticipated the rapid proliferation of smartphones and how it would serve, in it's nascent state at least, as the highways that would end up helping the barbarians sack the empire that built them. 

All of a sudden people are connected across entire swathes of the population. They can capture and record evidence of the control structures that thus far were able to maintain the pretense of their non-existence. This could be horrific torture of political prisoners in Egyptian jails or the reliance on racist sentiment that American law enforcement seems to be built on its treatment of minorities. And so, you have Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter. 

Frantic, the establishment flailed around to regain control. I imagine this is a moment that has occured often in the dialectical evolution of post-Columbian political and economic agglomerations; the reactionary panic of legacy operators of capital  in the face of the sudden exlosion of pent up revolutionary potential that was the inevitable outcome of hyperconcentrating wealth and power at the cost of the lives, happiness and freedom of as many people as possible for the fewest number of people possible. 

First off; they changed the facebook feed. 

Remember back when all you saw on your feed was content posted by actual people you knew and were connected to, or groups/pages you yourself chose to follow? 

Doesnt work like that now, does it? 

No, that would lead to a highly efficient network of communication that might enable the development of distributed ledgers of fact and opinion beyond the reach of the centralized apparatus of idealogical and culture control and hygeine. 

People, if left to free associated, would begin to aggregate on the basis of shared interests and be empowered to take collective action. 

This flies in the face of technomercantile social control doctrine, whose first law states "Divide the people into as many atomized fragments as possible". 

So they invented machine learning algorithms and predictive models to keep up with the explosion of data and content suddenly being produced by everyone and running wild like fire. These "AI" models that they have "open sourced" are nothing but DARPA hand-me-downs just like the internet, and stuff they had probaby been using for many years. 

They inserted a manipulation layer into your feed so that you no longer could get just the content you signed up for, but instead could be fed the content they want you to see. In this way, they can prevent the spread of information and ideas detrimental to their agenda, while promoting the spread of those conducive to it. 

Ofcourse now they need to create content to feed you. They were probably churning out deepfakes as far back as the early 2010s. most likely made using the same stable-diffusion based techniques that are now available through Midjourney. 

But now, those means of production are also available to the masses. In theory, they could be used to counteract the engineering efforts of the technomecantile behemoth. 

In fact, one can see friction and conflict between competing actors with roughly equal capacity for content production, the "intra-capitalist" conflict Marx talked about that we can now call "inter-organizationl" conflict of seperate entities locked in opposition not simply to each other but to the subjects they desire to control. Think Russian troll farms or Chinese tiktok tactics. 

But they are not limited to state or organizationl actors. Which is what makes the internet such a tricky place to control. It is the ultimate example of Marx's prediction that Capitalism will given birth to the means of its own collapse. 

Thing with capitalism is, it keeps collapsing and just...getting right back up. Maye because it isnt neccesarily a consciously constructed human system so much as it is the end result of the natural tendencies of human behaviour individually and in the aggregate. 

Sure it can lead to the rise of malicous actors that can use their control of capital to pursue objectives antithetical to economic, educational, cultural, political, psychological, emotional and spiritial well being of the rest of humanity. 

But they are the outgrowth of natural processes that may ultimately, despite our deepest desires to achieve utopia on earth, be forever beyond our control. 

Perhaps, the propensity of Capitalism to function according to wave physics is the reason for its manifestation as a series of incrementally intense phases of growth and collapse, like the lobster that must face pain and hunger and the risk of death in order to shed its carapace and grow larger. 

Perhaps, it's uncanny ability to bring about the conditions of its recurring failure and regeneration are to the organism of collective human existence what Freud identified as the "death instinct" in. the individual human organism. It's simply a necessary component of any process that proceeds in discrete, iterative phases. 

And if light can be both a wave and a particle as it radiates through the universe, is it much of a stretch to imagine that the light of human consciousness propagates according to similar paradigms that appear to be contradictody and irreconcilable on the surface, and whose resolution seems ever beyond the grasp of that consciousness? 

The production, dissemination and promotion of social media content is likely to also obey the laws of consolidation and aggregation into centralized control structures as old media did. I dont know exactly what it will look like, but it seem inevitable they way they managed to turn the Punk movement into another corporate-sponsored pop-propaganda theatrical production run by  a unified agenda on the back end. 

But right now, we appear to be in the early stages of the unfolding dialectic of content production between the Establishment and the spontaneous resistance to its narratives that keeps popping up all over, making it hard to retain complete control over the factual record and the sphere of allowed discussion. 

So, this is a good time to learn Midjourney and start making content that challenges the gaslighting campaigns of the social engineers cranking out lies and dogsh**, before they manage to perfect their mechanisms of control over the wild west that the internet once was. 

Which, lets be honest, they already have to a large degree. Ultimately, the internet runs on physical infrastructure under their complete control. While they may be intrigued by its potential as a means of social control, they are no less frigthened by its potential as a means of resistence and challenge. 

The internet may have initially served as a disruptive force to the previous paradigms of mass social control, but lets not be quick to see it as a savior. 

These are the cycles of history. 

It is not so much a class struggle as an unending struggle between truth and falsehood, between sacrifice and selfishness, between love and hate, between compassion and opression, between freedom and tyranny, between God and the Devil. 

Different people can be on different sides of those lines at different times, and either can triumph or fail, seemingly arbitrarily. 

Is this struggle headed towards some ultimate resolution? Is there a final phase in this dialectical process? 

Will it simply ebb and flow eternally? 

Will it gradually stabilize into a harmonious configuration that can persist without requiring further refinement, that will be gleefully announced as "the end of history"?

Will it reach a crescendo of chaos and noise and arrive at a sudden, painful and catastrophic termination?

The last seems the most likely to me, at least in the long run. We may achieve stability for period of our history, in pockets of our physical reality where the conditions neccesary for such stability are present. But inevitably, entropy drags us back into dialectical processes, first of decay and then of regrowth. 

Eventually, it is more likely that this entropy, which only seems to ne increasing everywhere in the observable universe, will lead to a point of implosion the opposite of the Big Bang. It is not far fetched to think that phenomenon that have discrete moments of instantiation will likewise arrive at a moment of termination. 

Perhaps this is what "Armageddon" is supposed to be. 

Perhaps this is why, despite the solipsism of materialists of either the Capitalist or Communist variety, the unfolding of history led them back to the Holy Lands of Mecca, Medinah and Jerusalem. Whether it is because the one resource they coveted most, that their entire post-industrial way of life depended on happened to exist in greatest abundence within a stones throw of the earthly abode of the Almighty, or because of what we are seeing is the apparent fulfulillment of prophecy with regards to the gathering of the exiled Children of Israel out of their final exile was a precusor and condition precedant to the final battle between good and evil. 

But remember, The Prophet told us that even if it appears that there is only one day left until the Day of Judgement, Allah can expand that day to a thousand years and delay Qiyamah. 

This is actually somewhat precedented: in the 1200's CE, my own barbarian Mongolian ancestors poured out from the steppes beyond the Great Wall of China and burned Baghdad to the ground. At the time, people were convinced they were the predicted Gog and Mogog, and that Qiyammah was nigh. 

That was 800 years ago. 

So while it may seem, especially looking at the events unfolding in the Holy Land, that the end is nigh, do not be afraid. 

Maybe it is. Maybe it isnt. As long as you continue to be on the side of the good, as long as you continue to adhere to what is right in spite of everything, even as against yourself and those you love, you have nothing to fear either way. 

Perhaps this is why Hazrat Ali is reported to have said "Perpare for the Dunia as if you will live forever, and prepare for the hereafter as if you will die tomorrow".