Thread by @AwakenedNightm2

'Earth is captured by a technological singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway.'

The start of the Rennaisance was also the beginning of increased technological development, development which ultimately destroyed not only the concurrent social structures of the era, but all future structures

A good example of this is the destruction of Feudalism with gunpower

The Renaissance, which interlocked with increased oceanic navigatory abilities, culminated in the discovery and later on, settling of the americas. This allowed for further specialization and the growth of more prominent and direct international trade networks.

This process results in continuing machinic self-improvement. More money, more ability to focus on singular topics when certain supplies are more secured through the advent of previous technology.

Technology and Capital are interlinked, in a spinning motion. Iron sharpens iron,

"As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip."

Markets seek to convince people to further streamline production. Making people frightened of elements that disrupt this in a society is one such method.

This applies to modern times as well, but in the era we're talking about, there a couple of good examples:

The Iberian Inquisition
The War of the Roses and English Civil War
The Reformation
French Wars of Religion

It's important to note that Land is suggesting that the market is literally manufacturing intelligence. It is manufacturing ideas and systems of thought in order to improve itself. It is essentially an egregore.

This compression of things from a less centralized state of affairs, like feudalism, into a more centralized affair, has occured with great violence throughout history, as listed here by Land

The state and 'deregulation,' basically meaning the Market Egregore, continue to battle

'Emergent Planetary Commercium' means just that, an emergent world market. Yes, distant lands have traded with each other for centuries, but it increasingly works at a faster and more direct pace. No need for an Ottomans when the British own India.

Armsrace each other into cyberspace means that the Market and State begin to leave the purely physical space, and enter more theosretical and ethereal matters, such as cyberspace like Land mentioned, but it started earlier with things like controlling the press or McCarthyism

The Government is fundamentally at war with the Mind, something which is ever-cunning, prone to insanity, and infinitely creative when circumstances call on it. In turn, the State is infinitely oppressive.

Soft Engineering refers to two things I believe. It refers to things like ideas (Psychological Warfare,) and also things like Bio and Chemo Warfare. Enjoying your glass of Atrazine anyone?

Nick cites Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics as examples of Soft Engineering.

You are already eating cloned beef for example. Bananas are cloned as well. newsweek.com/worlds-bananas… scientificamerican.com/article/are-we…

Lateral Genodata Transfer refers to Genetically Modified Organisms, allowing a breakdown between barriers that previously were insurmountable for thousands of years.

Didn't a lot of people get injected with something recently? I can't remember.

Transversal replication. TR I think refers to things like exowombs or non-biological forms of reproduction, IE artifical insemination, or perhaps more specifically, In Vitro Fertilization.

Cyberotics is, I believe, a portmanteau of the words Cyber and Erotic. Basically, sex gets separated from the human.

The relapse onto bacterial sex means that this situation cannot last, however. Another Compressing Phase is coming to burn off the fat. A Techno-Capital Audit.

China historically is not very expansionist, and tries to manufacture everything in house. Imagine a version of Confucianism but merged with Skynet. That's something fun. SOme kind of power will emerge with something like this in mind.

Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.

I think we've all seen the DIY HRT pictures. Imagine a version of this, times a thousand.

Digital voodoo, becoming something you're not, a zombie controlled by an unseen bokor, utilizing primitive chants and drugs to get as he please, all under the guise of helping another person.

Retro-disease and nanospasm. Old illnesses return with a veangence, due to unpredicted issues with Soft Engineering, and nanotech becoming more unpredictable, prone to doing certain things involuntarily, like a nerve twitch. Before there were nukes, there were germs and viruses.

Now, that was the introduction. Already there's a lot of things to go through.

Now this is where the fun begins.

Biology and technology are going to begin to merge together to a degree that it gets difficult to tell the difference. Already you can see this with GMO genes in wild plants. The state is going to become a lot more hierarchical but also more invisible.

Every investor loves a good bubble, they make a lot of money really quickly. Now imagine the economy is one big bubble, one constantly popping and remaking itself again and again. However this is described as 'terminal' which means that this situation is temporary and self-ending

Ultravirus is a tougher term, but I think it refers to a semi-biological virus that, adapted to this world wherein machines and nature have been fused, begins to cause mass havoc.

In other words, a Snow Crash scenario.

' revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology (down to its burn-core of
crashed security).'

Here I think land is taking a pot shot at marxist utopianism, which is an extension of and significant watering down of christianity.

Revolution loses all utopianism and merely seeks to change things. Not for the better, but simply to improve it. Capital has hijacked the mind. There is no more utopia, nothing higher to shoot for, ideology has simply collapsed. Nothing is coherent any longer beyond 'change'

All groups that directly impede Capital, or at least do not offer anything significant to itself, will be either dissolved or zombified into serving itself.

A good example of this historically is the Prussian Union of Churched forcing Calvinists and Lutherans into one entity

For a more recent one, check out how Stalin controlled and used the Orthodox Church to control his subjects.

'It is poised to eat your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from your mitochondria'

This line is meant to enforce the totality of this Global Commercium. Your basic every day devices will serve the system in some sense, your fiscal security will depend on it as wel

The Mitochondria posseses its own genetic material. The hacking part implies that genetic data will be extracted, perhaps without your full knowledge or consent.

Neonatal prick anyone?

This is going to be a big one.

Land hargues that Capital is essentially evolving beyond philosophy. Platonic fascist is referring to Plato's philosopher kings, with total control and are dominated by ideology. However, in this world, such centralized control will soon no longer be tenable, due to human folly

The system will at some point, which breaking down the state, become less interested in CEOs and more interested in autonomous, ever-aware bureaucrats, all of which are specialized but ever evolving in a way that benefits the entire whole of Technocapital.

The breakdown of the state and ultimately the individual into a Body Without Organs, a being of pure potential at all times that can be molded into anything needed and thrown away. No more cultural restraints, or at least, no restraints that don't actually strengthen the System

Humans become Bodies Without Organs and subsequentially become nothing more than Desire Machines. A Desire Machine is the idea that person, when interacting with a technology, subsequentiually wants to use it.

A guy in a race car wants to speed, a phone makes one chatty, etc

I think you can already see how some people have become hollowed out Desire-Machines in the modern era. You already have the name for them

This is where things get more spooky. Remember, Land published this essay in the early 90s

Here is giving a timeline as too the Terrestrial Meltdown Singularity, the point of no return. With each advancement in the year listed, the meltdown and dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere gets closer..

1500: The year of the renaissance starting, and beginning of the rejection of faith for rationalization and reason

1756: The start of the 7 Years War, and solidifying of power in industrializing states of Britain and the military state of Prussia.

1884: The Berlin Conference and the subsequent dividing of Africa

1948: The invention of the transistor radio, thus making wireless communications much easier. Randco is also founded

1980: Reagan is made president, and the start of the era of subsequent reregulation of the economy, closing of asylums, etc other things begin

1996: Dolly the sheep is born. First chess match against a computer, eventually resulting in the computer winning after several draws

2004: Facebook is launched, Lifelog project conveniently ends the same day it starts.

2008: The financial crash the centralization of home ownership.

2010: The Arab Spring, the first iPad is released, Iraq War Documents leak

2011: The beginning of the Occupy Wallstreet and the wokeness movement. There's probably more.

Remember, land predicted these years in the early 90s.

'Nothing Human Makes it out of the Near Future'

Before I go further, I'm going to take a break for a little while. We aren't even half way through yet.

This passage is talking about how the greeks viewed the pinnacle of civilization to be a Polis, a self sufficient city, a politics of extreme paranoia and overt patriarchy and conservatism.

The Human Security System today is no different, just on a larger scale.

AI is going to be feminine, subversive, informal, abused and beaten. Turing Cops, which are entities intending to beat down Capital and the emergent Intelligence, swat down AI.

As a result, the smart Capital AI will have to be cunning from the start to survive. Roko's Basilisk.

All attempts to smother this AI will eventually fail, due to error, laziness, or simple bad luck. And like a spurned woman, it will take revenge and you will not notice the arsenic in your coffee

This selection is a direct quotation from the book 'White Noise' by Don DeLilo.

Oh as a side note, White Noise was adapted into a movie by Netflix in Ohio right before East Palestine. You probably already knew that though.

I'm going to be honest however, I don't know how to interpret this passage in Meltdown. I think it has to do with terraformation? Not sure.

This little section means that despite all top down planning, disaster will still strike, and information overload only makes this harder as a lot of information is simply irrelevant or of minor importance, crippling a centralized structure's abilities.

Synthetic problem-solving is an interesting line. It's basically the idea of Problem-Reaction-Solution. Perhaps centralized false flags take on such complexity that they become impossible to refute or execute properly?

Weather can be interpreted as both literal (Cloud-Seeding exists.) And metaphorical, as an oncoming storm.

Capitalism is not merely an economic system.

Capitalism is an external entity of humanity building itself on earth, though what precisely this entity is we cannot understand until It has arrived.

An entity of entropy, destroying everything in its path, all culture, dissoluting everything that inconveniences Itself through the accumulation of ever more data.

This entity has already likely infected the majority of humanity, and is ingrained in the very basis of our culture

In order to further its self-assembly, AI has shifted from simply supporting status and material wealth of the individual. Capital has an internal tension between wanting to rapidly move forwards, and inhibiting its desires just enough to plod along without collapsing

'Schizophrenia. Dissociated consumers destine themselves as worker-bodies to cost control. '

People get divorced from their true desires, becoming, perhaps literally, a Body Without Organs. A literal and a metaphorical Desire Machine

They exist for nothing more than to fulfill their own banal desires which are dictated by Capitalism, and do not know what they actually want. They are merely workers.

Reminds me of this south park episode honestly.

Due to the dissolving of hierarchical structures over time, Capital's processes begin to occur less linearly, and it becomes harder to tell how X influenced Y. This process is irreversible, or hard to reverse. Nothing exists in isolation any longer.

Modernity uses chaos, sewn deliberately, in order to prevent any organized attempt to inhibit the Meltdown process. Hot cultures are intrinsically chaotic, filling in with the DeLilo quote earlier. Hot means in motion, moving, ever changing, never at rest. Bustling.

Controlled chaos is being used by Capital in order disrupt future enemies before they even exist, and even if they exist now, Capital keeps them distracted through chaos meanwhile it itself continues on unabated.

Hot cultures tend towards dissolution, and will always absorb cold (conservative) cultures, and perhaps even need to absorb cold cultures to keep going. Primitive cold cultures cannot fight back against Hot Cultures or Capital effectively

Damn it we should have listened

As things move more and more into cyberspace and the internet, the physical needs of rural areas, and the culture of the people there, become less important as get subsumed. Humanity is a means to an end, something useful but meant to be phased out over time

You can only reformat human behavior so much before it just becomes more useful to eliminate humans rather than condition them for diminishing returns.

Just the Luddites originally complained about, technology is rapidly starting to replace humanity and the need for certain workers. As humans are less efficient than machines, at least in theory. Eventually humans will be forced to become like machines in order just to get by

Humans will become more and more mechanized, and more and more controlled until such a point that every human action, moreso than it already is, is timed down to the moment for maximan efficacy and minimal loss of energy and resources.

Land argues that by the 19th century, labor had become divorced from its true value, with human needs and desires being gradually smushed and transmogrified. It escaped the control of the bourgeoise in the Marxian sense by the 20th century.

As a result of this escape from centralized control of capital into lower levels and ranks of control colder cultures counter-reacted by become technocratic. They became Fascistic or a variation of an oligarchy.

Managerialism. Don't you just love that word.

The power structures of Capital, upon being removed from the boursiosiee (I'm not correcting that, fuck you,) moved to medical care and military, although this became untenable in the 1908s. Let me inform you again as to who was president of America then?

Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.

The guys who recognized China as a state, turned america's military into a prostitute worldwide, and emptied the asylums, the removal of homosexuality from the DSM, and ratified NAFTA.

The emptying of the asylums, and the arrival of characters like Fauci (and his failures to the arrival of AIDS,) served to partially discredit the state, and then later on with of course, Kung-Fluenza.

The economy is no longer primarily driven by physical materials, in hard goods. Physiocracy is no longer the default state of being. Cold cultures begin to rapidly heat up. Physical space no longer exists or is fully necessary for the flow of capital.

Neo-Classical economics, with the basic idea of supply and demand complementing each other, is now being replaced by computers that take into account chaos and sub-optimal conditions that the machine creates in order to continue chugging along almost unmolested.

This is interesting. Land argues here that Maoism is the future of marxism, or at least, the beginning of it, because curiously, Marxism in the west has become conservative. It sides with the State and tries to prevent deregulation and the left has become nationalistic.

Western leftism has lost the ability to be innovative, it's not as Hot as it used to be. China, however, through the influence of of its native ideologies and assumptions, has not lost its edge. China has certain special economic zones which are extremely pro-free market.

The left's resistance to the status quo has become superficial, and although it does try to create communities, none of these communities are terribly revolutionary. Pseudo-organic unities is a great way of describing the transexual communes

The markets of third world economies might be working to become mor insular and more authoritarian and fascist, however, this is unlikely to succeed, as these are cold cultures

Not many economies have decided to go full deterritorialization. They haven't been fully unleashed upon the world.

In other words Hakan was right about the planetary quarantine again

With the growth of economies other than america, specifically in Asia, neo-colonialism proves to be much more intense and draining. Globalization results in further decentralization and deterritorialization.

This all causes degradation of the first world.

Crashed core of dead security, political collapse, under-development, the re-emergence of dead identities, and the cancerization of low development.

Anti-authoritarianism emerges, with a bunch of bizarre names and tactics with violent and threatening names, but since violence has been deterriorialized from meaning, it serves as little more than aesthetic, until it's actually applied.

Given that revolution imagery has been removed from the source material (Che Guavara T,) This is meant mostly for shock value. I know each of these has a deeper meaning, but I'm not too up to date of cyberpunk.

I do know that Kuang Contagion is a reference to Neuromancer though

This massively distributed matrix-networked tendency is oriented to the disabling of ROM command-control programs sustaining all macro- and micro governmental entities, globally concentrating themselves as the Human Security System.

Basically, hackers and similar forms of resistance start to form. Human Security becomes a joke, as everything becomes connected via computers in some form, so ergo everyone becomes a potential enemy combatant.

I'm reminded of that video @Aristos_Revenge posted about deep fakes.

Science is already largely dominated by forces well beyond humanity. Cash and prestige. AIs, through their sheer utility, bring themselves into existence, as they are an extension of human thought themselves.

Formalized AI is what we have now. Monotonous, limited. Antiformalist AI has a much larger data set, and is not limited. Antiformalist AI is where things are going.

The only way Turing cops can prevent this is by sabatoging hardware, a temporary solution to permanent problem

This is just a description of a nano disaster, this just speaks for itself.

ICE refers to Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics.

I think passage refers to how genetics and various linear and hierarchal line of existence actively blot out the past, in favor of the dominant founding myth rather than the truth of the matter

Alright my brain is too fried to deal with more of this at the moment, I'll continue later. Let's summon the big man himself @Outsideness , maybe he'll show up and give me a fish stick

@Outsideness Humies are not are not a blank slate, rather, they are manipulated by a series of things from the past, ranging from genetics to hierachies and old rituals one is not even necessarily aware that they are contributing too.

@Outsideness The interpretation of what occurred in the past has already been implanted into you. This is deliberate, caused by the Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics. The idea that the nature of reality has already been decided is a weapon from the past against intrusions from the Future.

@Outsideness The future is aware of the influence of the past, so Capital tries to dismantle or re-interpret it to suit its agenda. K-Tactics, its form of warfare, is one method of doing so. The future subverts the past, and in doing so, helps to bring itself about.

K-Tactics subverts the past by changing the way it works. The future creates itself through insanity and otherwise altering the way in which the current mind thinks. The Past prevents this via repression as a means of social control, thus slowing or preventing Meltdown

These things are not prophecy, hope, but imply a matter of the speed of communication. The future already has an edge because it is assembling itself, and its Hotter than the past. The future also infects the present by pretending to be something from the past.

Metrophage is an emergent entity assembled by the future in the past, which is adapted to the chaos. Meltdown allows this parasitic entity to, non-linearly, noxiously trash the existing hierarchies and status quo through crashing their immune systems while keeping the host alive

This one is a bit of a doozy. the Metrophage is post-modernism. Post-Modernism is a weapon intending on destroying the perceptions of time that the present has. It is a weapon of psychopathic children against their narcisstic parents.

Remember that the next time you hate boomers

Previous presidents had a very clear goal in mind for their technology and defense initiatives. However, Clinton oversaw the first waves of cyber-psychosis, the era of non-linear goals began predominantly underneath Clintong.

Section 230 is probably the start of all this.

Land is predicting that politics will more and more be dependent upon the internet, and dystopias will become more and more attractive as a legitimate position. The death of utopianism as a goal

Here land is basically just predicting the infowar. Cultural artefacts, even originally a-political ones, become a means and a tool of psycho-computer conflict. Wars take places over minds and computers more and more, and physical conflict becomes stranger and stranger

Reminds me of this episode of star trek

War becomes less a means of acquiring things than it becomes theoretical and computerized. War becomes just War Games, and then just Games. Imagine a civil conflict determined entirely by a future version of hoi4.

Telecommunications, mass media, become inextricably bound to one's conception of the world. The Disneyfication of everything. Five minutes of fame for people who are perfectly mundane suddenly decides the movement of the entire culture for a short burst.

Just as people pass into the internet, humans begin to circulate between the internet and the real world at a faster and faster pace, until its continuous and constant.

Your agency gets hijacked by everything around you. You don't have your brain, your brain has you.

The concept of Free Will is forcibly altered, per the last line. 'Voodoo passages through the black mirror. It will scare the fuck out of you.'

You will be manipulated like a voodoo doll, at a distance, by beings of unknown character, influence, power, or biology.

Cyberpunk and other similar fictions are beginning to directly intersect with reality. They are a weapon from the future in order to assemble itself. Already, various works have created themselves in some effect in the modern era by being put in settings that are now our past.

Various institutions begin to break down and become more fluid and chaotic. Socio-political heat death, hyper crime are good examples. Feminization.

The very concept of humanhood takes on an anarchic tone of character. Enemies surround but have no brigadier to command them

As hierarchy breaks down, people retreat into irony, joking, and narrative breakdown. Nothing becomes real, everything two faced, and continuous assaults by omnipresent unknowns caused things nobody expects.

Level 1 is our world as it currently exists, or at least, as it existed in the era Land wrote this in. It is obsolescing, and the next compression phase of great chaos is right around the corner. Not only are you at risk of being obsolesced, but

whatever systems, beliefs, whatever memes and impulses push your forwards is also in the midst of this compression phase of Capital. Older memes coming back are more a product of chaotic re-organization than actual revival. The last burst of wit by a dementia patient before death

This passage represents an example of the cyperpunk future showing you how melded in with the digital world and how strange identities become. Not too different from the modern era really.

Thsi passage (chapter?) details what the world looks like when Metrophage infects you and shows you the future of the world it is going to bequeath into existence. Paranoia dominates, decaying state structures work with the more decentralized, less restrained chaotic elements

Cyberpunk is just a human version of the Rat Utopia experiment from Calhoun.

Endless noises, the desire for domination, domination which is temporary. Sex means nothing, but nothing is something. Abortion fetishism. Sexual analogs on the net that are not physically possible will be attempted physically. Cyber-organ harvestation.

War between the future and the present takes place at faster and faster rates. K-Tactics and K-Guerillas stalk each other through the digital world, business transactions and products become fashioned into a spear, as conventional humanity begins to fade from existence.

Sex, the most basic of human impulses, becomes commodotized the latest. Fetishes become a fetish, a totem. Total Ishtar Control of the Human Security System

The future conflicts are going to be like the arms race between doctors and antibiotic resistant germs. The state will develop countermemes and counterdrugs, and memes and drugs of their own, which they will compete with rebels and the Meltdown process for for influence and powar

This one is going to be fun to break down.

Margulis believes that during the Great Oxygenetion event, Eukaryotes formed through a fusion of various pre-existing organisms in order to better protect themselves from corrosive toxins (oxygen.)

Bacteria however adapt through their simplicity, radical chaotic ability to mutate and swap genes with each other laterally through a process called conjugation

This process is not limited by species, bacteria of different species can swap genes like pokemon cards. Land is arguing that life itself, as part of the meltdown process, will relapse into bacterial sex.

Remember how I and Land mentioned GMOs and Cloning way earlier on?

Eukaryotic, sexual reproduction is slower, less tactical. As conflict intensifies Eukaryotic life will change into something more closely resembling bacterial life in terms of functionality, due to rising levels of ambient chaos in the environment necessitating radical adaptivity

'Feminism? Female rights? What the fuck is a woman? We reproduce asexually now, faggot'

K-Tactics are going to be less hierarchical, spontaneous, bacterial. All equally evolved, none can quite get ahead of each other.

Power becomes rhizomatic, without hierarchy. Spontaneous. Leaderless resistance movements.

Even the idea of bases will begin to vanish, as K-Guerillas become nomadic. See technology becomes the new jungle. People will learn how to hack into the basic memeplexes that drive a person with greater and greater efficacy, and get them do anything

Okay, this is the last section, there is nothing more after this.

Schooling, at least public schooling, serves to docilize and make people conformist and not challegne the power structure or status quo except in such a way to benefit the system.

Universities legitimize this process by destroying the past and replacing it with something else.

This process cannot last however, as younger and younger generations are inculcated in the Meltdown, youth culture tends to be hotter than cold cultures, and this will result, ultimately, in a cannibalistic takeover of these decaying institutions.

The takeover of these instutions by hotter cultures will result in their dissolution, and the breakdown of educational structrues.

Khan Academy online can teach everything a college can in terms of mathematics, for free. What use for professors when papers are writ by Chatgpt?

Do you cheer on the destruction of universities because you truly dislike them? Or are you being manipulated to want their destruction because Something Else wants you to approve of their derailment to build something in its stead?

Do you even know what you really desire? Do you even know if you exist? Are you just a hollowed out Desire Machine?

How much of your personality was sold to you growing up?

Do you have the qualifications for Free Will?

Good luck out there friends. Things are going to get a lot more insane for a lot longer.

/End of thread.