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Manliness is not an end in itself, but a means to control, own and dominate space. This is why manliness always appears in liminal spaces, such as the Wild West. When space is already controlled and owned as in a zoo, manliness becomes futile. 

Life in the west increasingly resembles a zoo, and western man increasingly resembles a zoo animal. Through his imperialism, innovation, and industry, western man has conquered nature and brought civilization to every frontier. 
But whenever nature is conquered, risk is eliminated, and whenever risk is eliminated, the need for manliness subsides. 

Western man has ultimately conquered and domesticated himself. His barbarian virtues have faded, and he has become soft.

Break the pattern today or the loop will repeat tomorrow.

2 Trillion lost. The hardest hit stocks were tech-based. As progress of all kinds speeds up, social, ecological, economic, and political volatility will increase with it. This is the needs of the tech system exceeding it's ability to provide for itself. And it will completely subjugate the human spirit in its effort to not fully collapse. The Beast was never your friend.

London’s solution suffers from another flaw that is of particular importance because it is shared by all libertarian solutions to the technology problem that have ever come to my attention. The problem is supposed to be solved by propounding and popularizing a certain libertarian philosophy. This approach is unlikely to achieve anything. Our liberty is not deteriorating as a result of any antilibertarian philosophy. Most people in this country profess to believe in freedom. Our liberty is deteriorating as a result of the way people do their jobs and behave in relation to technology on a day-to-day basis. The system has come to be set up in such a way that it is usually comfortable to do that which strengthens the organization. Previous Page Next Page

CHANNEL NOTE: The show is called Pantheon, for those wondering. Great show, the ending made me sick.

An important point: London does not even consider the question of human engineering in infancy (let alone genetic engineering before conception). A two-year-old obviously would not be able to apply London’s philosophy of “awareness”; yet it will be possible in the future to engineer a young child so that he will grow up to have the type of personality that is desired by whoever has charge of him. What is the meaning of freedom for a person whose entire personality has been planned and created by someone else? Previous Page Next Page

"If you heard about a country - lets just say Poland - under the Soviet occupation of 1971. And you were told that in Soviet occupied Poland, there was no privacy whatsoever. There was not one place you could go where you were not surveilled by your government... Even in your own bedroom people were listening to you. Even when you got into your car, your sanctuary, a machine began to lecture you - hector you - like a neurotic girlfriend about wearing your seatbelt - "slow down..!"

"And if you didn't? The vehicle would take control away from you, exert autonomy, and strip you of yours and just act in the way it decided best. you would have no privacy, and you would have no autonomy. 

"if you heard about a place like that you would say "well thats the definition of totalitarian", but you would be describing America right now. Before AI."

- Tucker Carlson

By virtue of their very power, the devices for augmenting or modifying the human mind and personality will have to be governed by extensive rules and regulations. As the human mind comes to be more and more an artifact created by means of such devices, these rules and regulations will come to be rules and regulations governing the structure of the human mind. Previous Page Next Page

Similarly, the use of mind-augmenting devices, though nominally voluntary, will become in practice compulsory. When these devices have reached a high development and have come into wide use, a person refusing to use them would be putting himself in the position of a dumb animal in a world of supermen. He would simply be unable to function in a society structured around the assumption that most people have vastly augmented mental abilities. Previous Page Next Page

Also, the use of such mind-augmentation devices will not remain voluntary. All our modern conveniences were originally introduced as optional benefits which one could take or leave as one chose. However, as a result of the introduction of these benefits, society changed its structure in such a way that the use of modern conveniences is now compulsory: for it would be physically impossible to live in modern society without extensively using devices provided by technology. Previous Page Next Page

This is one reason why devices for improving one’s mental or psychological capabilities (e.g., biofeedback training, memory pills, linking of human minds with computers) are dangerous to freedom even though their use is voluntary. For example, it will not be physically possible for everyone to have his own fullscale computer in his basement to which he can link his brain. The best computer facilities will be reserved for those whom society judges most worthy: government officials, scientists, etc. Thus the already powerful will be made more powerful. Previous Page Next Page

CHANNEL NOTE: Please bro it's for the public there's no cloud bro we're gonna break the monopoly bro

CHANNEL NOTE: This is clip from a WIP personal AI surveillance app called Panopticore. It tracks and logs data on up to 5 objects, and stores that data on your phone. Even if the Leftist Revolution fantasy occurred, and advanced technology was redistributed to the masses in the way this app's creator intended, mankind would still live in a miserable state of constant observation and spiritual oppression. Capitalism is not the (core) problem. Technology is.

Even if London’s scheme of freedom through “awareness” were feasible, it could, or at least would, be carried out only by an elite of intellectuals, businessmen, etc. Can you imagine the members of uneducated minority groups, or, for that matter, the average middle-class person, having the will and the ability to learn enough to compete in a world of psychological manipulation? It will be a case of the smart and the powerful getting more powerful while the stupid and the weak get (relatively) stupider and weaker; for it is the smart and the powerful who will have the readiest access to behavioral technology and the greatest ability to use it effectively. Previous Page Next Page

This Wired article has revealed over a thousand pages of FBI, and DHS documents aimed at tracking and prosecuting anyone who criticizes, records, or even posts memes about AI, data centers, and technological progress as "Anti-Tech Extremists". If you'd like to know who you just got unceremoniously grouped in with, admin is happy to announce the release of a list of the best Anti-Tech resources on Telegram we're aware of. They've been harassed, shadowbanned, and removed many times, yet here they are all the same. WILDERNESS FRONT EOTFW ANTI-TECH APOSTLES TEDS CABIN ANTI TECH REVOLT LUDDITE CLUB

NATURE CANNOT BE SAVED THROUGH REFORMS OF THE SYSTEM We at Anti-Tech Apostles want to make it clear that the destruction of the natural world is a direct consequence of the technological-system, and that it does not matter what government or administration is in charge. Our problem has nothing to do with the misuse of technology. Technology is something that must be destroyed. We believe that it is misleading to assume that technology only becomes harmful if "used incorrectly". To better understand why it is misleading, we use the term "Technological Autonomy". Technology creates its own autonomous system, an artificial environment that expands according to its own logic through self-propagating systems at the cost of nature. In this system, humans are increasingly dependent on machines rather than in control of them. Part 1/2.