Apple Vision Pro highlights the dangers posed by blended reality goggles to literally re-wire your brain. Synthetic environments distort distance, disassociate your body in space and time, distort real objects, and create new ones. Your reality is manufactured by you and specific only to you, forfeiting shared reality by those around you.
Be very careful when you read this manifesto by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape. It is full of logical inconsistencies, contradictions, and wishful thinking. Nevertheless, Andreessen provides a window into his philosophy and worldview. He issues a call to ditch your "zombie ideas" and "Become our allies in the pursuit of technology, abundance, and life." This is what early Technocrats said in the 1930s, who were also living in a simulacrum, detached from reality.
Simulacrum is slaughtered in the English language, likely because it most succinctly describes what is happening to mankind. Large swaths of humans have already completely fallen into it; more will follow. As they detach themselves from reality, they lose all perceptive about what is real and what is not real.
When forced to watch their own lips as they utter the words that crushed America, now the Biden Admin blithely claims, "We didn't force anyone to do anything," "We didn't demand anyone be fired," "...didn't force anyone to be vaccinated", "...didn't force businesses to shut down," etc. We are ruled by psychotic, sociopathic liars who believe their own lies. They are thoroughly divorced from reality, living in a simulacrum devoid of reality.
Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni — Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno Try to look ahead and see if you can see what’s been coming for decades. Try to climb higher and see the beautiful things that Heaven bears, where we came forth, and once more see the stars and raise a banner of resistance to […]
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Prof. Alexander Dugin is an author, lecturer and former advisor to Vladimir Putin. He was gracious enough to speak with me in this in-depth philosophical discussion that covers a wide range of topics, including: The origins of modern liberalism in the Enlightenment era, the problems of atomistic individualism, the anti-metaphysical stance of Anglo-saxon and Scottish empiricists, how this philosophy was mirrored in the Calvinist reformers, and the desacralization of Nature in the West.
