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voltaire told us that “if god did not exist that it would be necessary to invent Him”

we killed God during the renaissance. Enlightenment. Eve biting forbidden fruit. kicked out of eden. no more paradise. we used to think the Holy Spirit created the earth (4.5 billion years) faith drove us forward. now Obviously it’s just molecular evolution and quantum entanglement. organisms have been around for 3.5 billion years or something. homo sapiens 300,000 years.5,000 years ago for the first recorded piece of history’s memory was written. Basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, from ape to God, then from God to ape. The future is being designed for the unquestioned indulgence of idiots. Those bored intellectually spoiled brats, spoiled by curiosity and rich only in heart. Soi-Disant artists and humbly drifting fin-de-sicle nomads. The ones too shy to call themselves a flaneur. He rejects the compliments the first time so he can hear them a second time. The Mutineer, the Rebel, the Libertine, the Dilettante, tre-Debonair, que Charmant, not too erudite, anti-anti-Aristocrat, gentle Miscreant, errant Knave, Virtuoso, Virtual Realist, Insurgent, Insubordinate, Pariah, Miserablist, Jacobin, Iconoclastic Raconteurs & Naysayers, Autodidactic Troubadour, congenial Reprobate, Chthonian, une belle noiseuse, Infrarealist, Enfant terrible, a societal Misnomer.

We killed The ability to believe in God when it became deranked as the dominant mode. Now God 2 takes it’s place, aka Capital. Allowing us to express ourselves freely but only through subservience. Now God is return as the markets convulse and breathe in breathe out. you can invent god. maybe not agi. something ai agents can already simulate really well but what your designing isn’t intelligence but a way for people to perceive and engage with an intelligent agent. who can send information through the ends of one word hopping to the next in a hyperlinkage of symbols, a signfinying chain that brings data from the past and soon into the future. the field of knowledge and perception. the virtual horizon. one needs the intuit to predict the future’s patterns. arithmetic is related to patterns and geometry is to the the expansion of space.

The distance keeps the sublime intact and holds off actual contact in anticipation of Christ

not believeing in God is how we maintain our faith.

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Ada Lovelace

Lou Andreas Salome

St Teresa of Avila

Laurencia fuente ovejuna

Iphigenia

Undine spragg

Becky sharp

Odette

Tiqqun theory of young girl

Passion of Joan of arc

Fat girl

Antigone zizek

Marriage of Maria Braun Fassbinder

claudia weil

Celine and julie

Sofia Coppola

Mary Shelly

Sadie plant

Kristeva

zupancic

Jacquline rose

Copjec

Spy in the house of love

A woman of no importance

Red shoes

Heddagabler

Good person of setzuan

MOther courage

all about my mother

Yessenia nadie te oye

Mauriel sparks

Sadie plant

George sand

We *live* in the future.

No bullshit this is the fabled future of the movies from the past (aka the 70s-90s). Drowned in post modern art and longing for normalcy but never being able to give an example of normalcy. Everyone is well informed on class politics, psychoanalysis, art history, musicality, photography, fashion, philosophy etc etc. Everyone on letterboxd talks as if they went to film school while cataloging their watched films on a platform meant to flaunt one’s prowess aka “connecting with others”. This is a world running on 100x the normal amount of optimization than it ever needed. Also, backtrack, these devices are used heavily in different parts of America, again it's going to take longer for these novel items like self driving cars, decentralized currency, or LLMs to catch on compared to how quickly Airplanes caught on. This all has to do with the intelligibility of the populace meant to use these devices. The quintessential problem with AGI isn't even that it can't do enough but that the average user using it doesn't actually know what to ask it or how to properly utilize it beyond the indiscriminate therapy sessions or google search or thesaurus or uncanny dream state visualizer. (If you check letterboxd's “popular this week” you can see what we're collectively dreaming of (what Walter Benjamin calls the optical unconscious)). ChatGPT is making strides but to the rest of the world it won't mean a thing. But soon, the world to which its significance holds weight, will grow larger, while the rest of the working class population mysteriously diminishes. Think about it- if billions were soon to die from the extensive AI usage and the tons of carbon emissions pumped into the stratosphere, would they give you a heads up? For what good would the heads up do? Where would you go? And it only serves to make them potentially lose money because then, if we were told the world was absolutely ending it would finally give people the gall to revolt. Previous revolutions in the world seemed so successful because they existed before globalization. In a time where genuinely the world, that they engaged with, was significantly smaller. Now every struggle is a global struggle. It must be, lest it succumb to the world economic forum which IS the main antagonism and is as faceless, abstract, indomitable and yet as subtle as the captivating gaze of the screen.

They're harvesting the shock value generated from literally, actually, genuinely bringing us closer to global-turbo-nuked-apocatastasis.

If you feel shocked by the current headlines then that means they’re using you, only way to be un-exploitable is to either show indifference to what they're doing or the world around you, or to avoid hearing about it all together. 

Their goal, (they being elon and friends) since they're soon going to leave the planet as it smolders and hell freezes over, is to make us so vehemently against them that they can leave the planet without any opposition. while, all we’re left with is the subsequent thought of “Wait, what’s going to happen to me?”