Dearest Reader:
It’s not like the funnelling of human consciousness is a new thing. In one form or another, its been going on for centuries.
Yet something has changed. In the old days (well, at least my old days), you could turn off many of the systems that sought to manipulate your thinking. Lock the door, unplug the phone and television, and submerge yourself in a world of your own making. It wasn’t always comfortable, particularly if solitude brought you into contact with your own (and your ancestry’s) accumulated trauma, but at least you knew where you ended and the outer world began. Little did we know how good we had it.
Now, its approaching sheer madness. Those misguidingly termed ‘smart phones’ (smart, for who?) and other forms of mindfucking technology have filled those quiet spaces with content that is simultaneously addictive and meaningless. And it has become quite expert at funnelling consciousness in whatever direction it chooses. Not merely product purchases—but political perspectives as well. We now live in a world that knows no political centre. You are either this or you are that. There is no bridge between. We are divided and conquered and dangerously bewildered.
When I heard that a young man attempted to assassinate Trump, I had to wonder if he was funnelled. Were his efforts entirely self-motivated? Or did somebody get to know him just enough to then know how to manipulate him technologically? A few suggestive links here and there to test him, and then a much stronger surge of emails, texts, and posts in his feed that led him to unknowingly plan a heinous act against the former President. If various techno-terrorists know someone’s psyche well enough, there isn’t anything they can’t orchestrate with an impressionable individual. In the old days, they probably had to go through various in-person stages to radicalize them, but is that still necessary? Or have we reached a place where it can all be done from behind the scenes? I believe that we have.
When you go to a restaurant on a Saturday night, you can see many young couples sitting together at tables, looking at their phones. In the old days, they’d be flirting with each other. Now they’re making love to their phones. It is little wonder that so many humans are feeling lost and hopeless. We are being funneled and dehumanized, on an enormity of different levels, by a small number of control-driven sociopaths. They know precisely what they are doing. And we are at risk of getting so far away from our humanness that we can’t find our way back.
Let’s not let that happen. Let’s consciously turn off the funnel.
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Much like how Israel is attempting to portray their actions in a way that denies the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Thank you Jeff, for your ever insightful and deeply thought provoking commentary.