What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them. Seventy years after Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 depicted a fictional world in which books are burned in order to suppress dissenting ideas, while televised entertainment is used to anesthetize the populace and render them easily pacified, distracted and controlled, we find ourselves navigating an eerily similar reality.
Tag: technocracy
PROGRAMMABLE CITIZENS: THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND SYNTHETIC ASCENDANCE
The brave new world is rushing at us faster than ever. Technocrats are impelled by an ideology of science-fueled “progress” to attempt to exert more comprehensive and precise control over all phenomena and environments.
INSIGHTS ON THE TECHNOCRATIC ASCENDANCE, AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR HUMANITY
A few overarching themes can explain and connect a lot of the core aims of technocrats. Technocrats are driven by a quest to comprehensively apply science in order to engineer progress.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Scientism demands comprehensive data in order to further its fundamental premise of furthering “progress.”