Thread by @elleprovocateur

Infinite Spiders, playwright, @johnsteppling

"If you go to, say, Amazon and under books type in #Philosophy, or Philosophy/Truth…you will get a litany of books with the phrase “post #truth” in the title. It is, apparently, a #posttruth world now."

john-steppling.com/2020/12/infini…

"This is related to what I experience as absent in daily life. Post truth is post experience in some sense. As Cory Morningstar put it in our podcast (#25); 'we are being reprogrammed'."

[#SocialEngineerring - a prerequisite for transition to #4IR]

"Of course the more profound elements of the #reprogramming are to be found in the #digital revolution. There is no way to overemphasize the impact of the internet & its various platforms....

Societies of the west are increasingly demoralized...."

"But it’s important to note that there is anger & indignation as well, only the #protests against the lockdowns, for example, are simply #erased by mass #media. One would think people are giddy with joy at the prospect of corporate & #billionaire ownership of the #planet."

"#Community has been destroyed. And I, and countless others, have written a good deal about this. There can be little debate about the fact that screen life has made people less able to reason & has made, especially among the young, for a deeply #alienated & #lonely populace."

"And it has created a world of #algorithmic prediction, which while far less effective than advertised, has still #conditioned people to #see and #experience the world in certain ways. And those ways are ever more narrow."

"The disrupted landscape that Kuntsler outlines, the industrial parks and hermetically enclosed malls have migrated to, at least partly, the #psychological realm. The #psyche is being strip mined and denuded as once the landscape was."

"And most Americans suffer some form of this loss of curiosity, generalized autistic states for experience, and increasingly a literal and a #psychological #imprisonment. The algorithmic mind is the psychological equivalent of an industrial park. Or of a suburban mall."

Here we reach the reality of saturation. The battle in the #unconscious [] between word (poetics, narrative) and image is now one taking place between image and fragmented gibberish. Displacement is interrupted, all #dream work becomes unbalanced in a sense."

"We are dreaming cinema. #Nature becomes images of nature. And there is precious little narrative accompaniment. This is one of the key sources of our contemporary #malaise. The #enclosing of the #world, literally, is happening as the #psyche is being partly #erased, literally."

"The psyche which now lacks the discourse of the Other. The acute experience of loneliness in the midst of crowds is, during this [] experiment, a loneliness while being alone, a new register of alone however. For that is one of the paradoxes in play — an aloneness w/o solitude."

"And this connects to the manufacturing of the audience. & of the observer...
And there is, in an almost comical way, a very Lacanian aspect to the mask wearing aspect. And if the ruling class gets their wish, the vaccination protocols will resemble the new papers of transport."

"But the mask carries with it a huge amount of #symbolic baggage. It is both a muzzle and a form of chastity belt. It is keeping intimacy at bay. And this fits in well with the entire #sex #negative dimension of the pandemic #experiment."

"But on another level altogether, the disenchantment that one experiences today is also about another register of desire. A longing for a contemplative beauty that I associate w/ the infinite. & I think this explains something of the sudden uptick in the interest of Other Minds."

"The desire to start over is pressing, is urgent almost. The impulse is to #escape — from bad relationships or marriages, from bad jobs, from destructive groups or business partners. One must escape, it is a near ubiquitous symbol and metaphor today."

"The period of late #capitalism saw the increasing monopolization, the incessant insider trading on Wall Street, and in general a sort of three card monte version of itself. But the Reset is, as Molly Klein pointed out, a closing of the markets."

"... the controlled demolition of market #capitalism... the idea is about enclosure. But its no longer viable to move people *to* the #prison, so better to just build a #prison around the people. This is the new cyber #panopticon — it is perhaps the primary goal for #AI."

"Our #consciousness is not an algorithm — our brain not a #machine. And while those two things can help shape the contemporary populace, they do not totally eradicate the #human. The unbalancing of dreamwork has also created spaces of awakened dissatisfaction."