I am not a science writer. When I write, I aim to expand your imagination.
Posted by: Chris Williamson in Social Commentary, Singularity Commentary, VideosI try my best to use words to convey the thoughts and feelings that swirl around inside of me but it’s difficult.
Like everyone, I analyze, observe, and ponder, but the resulting synthesis is often a bit fuzzy. I don’t think in the concrete and so my opinions are often not concrete and solid but rather open to interpretation. I don’t write in the abstract like poetry, although I could, I suppose.
What you are about to read are my actual thoughts and I hope you find my observations interesting. These thoughts are just interpretations and do not represent what I think is absolutely factual or anything like that. Think of me an artist who interprets what I see as I wish and not as a reporter reporting the facts as they are. Although my words may sound concrete they are as formless as the imagination itself.
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The video below shows how corporate and government entities hold the individual human in contempt. Before you think me an anarchist or communist, read on:
In a symbiotic relationship, the beliefs, labor, and wealth of individuals combine as the material of which corporations and governments are created. Money, a fictional unit of measure representing the wealth created by our labor, is their sustenance.
They exist partially in the natural world and partially only within the confines of our imaginations. Part human, part logic machine, governments and corporations are the bridge between us and future entities consisting purely of imagination. These future entities will exist completely within software.
Governments and Corporations are ‘embodied of bodies’. Although powerful they are still part human and (so far) cannot overtly control individual humans as, say, animals, but they do their best to subversively effect the feelings and actions of individuals. Let us hope this doesn’t happen in the future!
No commercial or advertisement is going to tell you to be content or happy. Being happy really doesn’t make you happy. We were born of competition and will evolve of competition.
Individuals in advanced societies, having completely internalized this utter contempt for themselves and others, worship the fictional entities that provide for their existence as though they are gods. Immortal and exponentially more powerful than any individual human, they very well might be just that. Or, at least, post- and/or super-human
This internalized contempt for being human is fueling the decline of our civilization and will power our ascent into the unknown.
As much wealth we are able to create you would think we could be completely content. Why are we not sitting around eating grapes in paradise? Participation in evolution seems to be an imperative function of happiness, not wealth and contentment.
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