Its been a bit since I've seriously blogged, so after an epiphany I decided to take up the keyboard and see where I might end up. I run by the online name of Batou Parker (yes, like the GITS character), and after watching what looks like everyday attempts of forced compliance and propaganda, I've decided to take a step towards the arena.... of dissent.
Daft Punk - Sea of Simulation [Extended, 1 hour loop]
(The soundtrack to this entry)
I was "anti-authoritarian" since the days when I was young(er), when being such meant that you pushed back against those who attempted to bully you. Now it seems an ill plague (bordering on an infohazard) has begun to affect the American psyche and too many are quick to bend the knee, consume whatever pap is pushed out by corporations, then tell individuals to conform, believe as your told to think, and just obey.
(Those who know... know what I mean)
Am I conspiratorialist? I'd argue no - I simply see a lot of questionable things going on in the infosphere (e.g. internet, corporate media, social media, etc.), and shake my head as the shallowness of it all. So many seem to follow mega-corporations pronouncements blindly, but if you question anything at all, you'll be considered apostate, and (in theory) suffer the consequences (a bunch of idiots from Twitter, I suppose).
Waste Pickers, by GabrielBStierStrom
I grin sardonically as I see more elements of the "dystopian cyberpunk" world come to pass. Even in my own small network of connection, there is more and more subservience to the bizarre cultists of the woke religion. Just like the religious fanatics of the 1900s, or 1980s, or even legendary French Reign of Terror, I expect this vein of strangeness will pass as a foot note, but I ramble.
Hoping that I can begin to build a sanguine narrative of the world I experience (virtual, online, and real), I will post and write here on the uplink, as the real world degenerates into its own hellish cyberpunk pastiche.
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