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The values we have lived by no longer tangibly exist:
truth, understanding, dreams, the human spirit.
An anxiety of absence or the media of fake presence?
We seek the substitutes for what has already disappeared.
It’s no longer the jagged pill we are forced to swallow,
but the smooth pill we are willing to pop.
Were it not for appearances, the world would be a perfect crime.
The image has taken the place of the real and robbed it of its role.
The crime of life is its incompleteness –
a living incompleteness that eats away at us.
A consensus reality meltdown –
the normalization of delusion.
People losing their direction.
The spirit going astray.
The bombardment of the artificial,
A heist against human cognition.
The shift away from authenticity
Into the manufactured landscapes
of an artificial narrative.
History invents what it believes to be authentic.
We’ve been conditioned not to question our disbelief.
Bodies of authority turned into
Puppets of propaganda
To produce the appearance of reality.
The perfect crime is the perfect cover up.
We are witnessing the meltdown
Of our perceptual realities.
The globalizing ‘thought monster’
Of a consensus narrative.
We are being protected
By the illusion of relative truths.
If everyone believes in a lie, it doesn’t stop it from being a lie,
or make it into a truth.
The meltdown has begun.
The meltdown has begun.
A consensus reality meltdown –
the normalization of delusion.
People losing their direction.
The spirit going astray.
The bombardment of the artificial,
A heist against human cognition.
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2. |
A Failure of Perception
04:42
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Modern life has been creeping
Into a form of abstraction –
An inability to distinguish reality
From a simulation of reality.
The radical illusion we are slipping into
Is our failure of perception.
The management of illusion is now
The greatest industry of modern society –
The paradox is the gameplay.
We have a perception distortion -
Mass society adhering to a collective delusion.
A flight away from reality.
The hyperreal is contagious,
Like a respiratory virus.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
Life is mediated more through social media
Than through human bonds.
The reprogramming of human life.
An increasing failure of perception,
Bringing in a new order of chaos.
A technological order is attempting to assert itself
Against a rising fragmentation of life.
False information, pseudo-truths –
The lack of the social mind to make critical distinction.
Organization dominates in the world of the machine,
Civil war is looming as a secular trend.
A rootlessness of uncertainty is
Mixed with desperate tech-salvation.
The human psyche is being ‘de-branded’
So that it can be ‘re-branded.’
Memory is subject to constant rewriting –
A global mind change through reprogramming of the collective.
If you want to belong,
You have to agree to the program.
A global halt has been applied –
The ‘new program’ is dutifully supplied.
We have a perception distortion -
Mass society adhering to a collective delusion.
A flight away from reality.
The hyperreal is contagious,
Like a respiratory virus.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
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3. |
Prophesizing Media
02:00
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Dystopian memes.
The media has begun to prophesize.
To prophesize is to meme.
The Road, The Hunger Games, or Mad Max –
Suppression and repression are the ever-present themes.
The Walking Dead; The Last Ship; Z Nation;
iZombie; Black Summer; Daybreak;
Dead Set; Kingdom; Reality Z –
The ‘apocalypse-pathogen-virus-zombie-endgame’ meme
Has embedded itself within the human psyche.
Q-Zones, Concentration Camps – The real pandemic
Is coming through the contagion of meme viruses.
Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Signs of the symptoms of the ‘totalitarian psychosis.’
We are living through a period of
Immense psycho-stimulation.
The impacts we receive will shape our perceptions.
The prophesizing media is rich in predictive programming.
New flows are fragmenting the collective psychic rhythm.
This mutation must be recognized to understand
Our conscious relation with the world.
Can we resist the mutation?
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4. |
Hyper-Reality
03:12
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hyperreal
globalized
conditioning
socialized
programming
mentalized
identify
commercialized
massify
fractalized
modify
compartmentalized
divided
governized
suicided
penalized
oppressed
finalized
robotic
mechanized
obedience
immobilized
disallowed
vaporized
excluded
shut your eyes
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5. |
Entering the Void
05:23
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Welcome to the post-2020 reset:
A post-pandemic world is upon us
Viral-digital epidemics in every nook and niche.
The social body splintering to a new rhythm
Of the modern power-machine.
Post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, attention deficit disorders –
All an undirected rage against the modern power-machine.
The world that is perceived ‘out there’ is a projection
Of the inputs we receive.
Human perception is from internal stimulation.
Life as we know it is a simulation –
A Game of signs that so few can play well.
Our illusion is only a copy of a greater truth –
A shadow of the original Pure Form.
Reality is fluid and flexible –
Mutating to the manipulation of the few.
We are losing our sense of the Real –
The attraction of the void is irresistible.
A crisis has come upon us as if from nowhere.
An existential moment for humanity.
It renders us disenfranchised, fragmented, and in disarray.
A growing resentment against corrupt authority.
Politics is a sham – systems rigged from the inside out.
Systems that constrain, control, and keep us in obeyance.
No visibility for the realms of Truth.
The world is a façade for the monopoly of power
That moves between the spaces that confine us.
The hands that guide the puppets of our times
Are the hands that lie hidden to our view.
Everyone supports it by not unsupporting it.
The music artists who rage against society
All promoted by the same system that gets them rich.
The system seeks to incorporate all alternatives.
We live our lives through the medium of an agreed reality.
Living within a world of programmed fiction.
We live within a sea of stories –
A ‘hijacking of reality’ for our times.
Our illusion is only a copy of a greater truth –
A shadow of the original Pure Form.
Reality is fluid and flexible –
Mutating to the manipulation of the few.
We are losing our sense of the Real –
The attraction of the void is irresistible.
The question of human responsibility is to
Resist the forces of dehumanization.
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6. |
Splintering the Mind
04:22
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This is a tale of contagious sentient life.
Humanity has been placed into a grand experiment –
And we are the test cases.
The System has produced a state of arrested movement –
Global life has stopped in mid-posture.
A Great Reset button has been pressed into play.
Consciousness is just as contagious
As any biological virus –
Human thought knows no bounds.
The world is experiencing a psychological disturbance.
The deliberate creation of mythological events.
Human actions are based on imagination –
To control human imagination is to shape our destiny.
Symbols are more powerful than the human intellect.
Symbols hold power over the unconscious mind.
Beliefs and mythologies being planted into
Mass human consciousness –
The reprogramming of human life.
We are within an unprecedented global experiment –
This is the ‘re-setting’ of consensus reality.
Consciousness is just as contagious
As any biological virus –
Human thought has no bounds.
The world is experiencing a psychological disturbance.
The deliberate creation of mythological events.
This is a tale of contagious sentient life.
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What we fear most is death and dying.
It’s been humanity’s curse since birth.
With increased efficiency, we debate
Death more than life.
A dominion over our domain of personal sovereignty.
The New Reign of Biopower.
The biological life of individuals is the ‘political subject’
That belongs to the State.
A pervasive, fluid, administration of power –
The control societies of a post-sovereign era.
The citizens transformed into docile bodies –
Biological life in the governance of biopower.
They claim jurisdiction over the individual body.
They decide how to administer life or death.
They put individual bodies under surveillance.
They punish our bodies by incarceration.
The management of human existence is
Undergoing profound redefinition.
A radical intrusion into our private lives.
The jurisdiction to enter a person’s house without permission.
The forced removal of fake ‘health risks’ into quarantine.
The corruption of medical knowledge to support the State.
Private military actors as authorized officers.
No one to be held accountable – no voice to call out.
Localized lockdowns - Track-and-trace surveillance.
The loss of right to protest - Drone inspections.
These are the ‘new normal’ regimes of biopower
The technological, the political, the medical, the legal, the financial –
All congealing to create the global ‘Great Reset’ tower of Babel.
Biopower, biopolitics, biocapitalism, biosecurity –
All combining to create a totalized and singular form of power.
The rendering of human life as ‘docile bodies’ that have
No resistance against State intervention.
There is almost no refuge from the reach of biopower.
All life falls under the jurisdiction of State control.
They claim jurisdiction over the individual body.
They decide how to administer life or death.
They put individual bodies under surveillance.
They punish our bodies by incarceration.
The management of human existence is
Undergoing profound redefinition.
A radical intrusion into our private lives.
Data collection for commercial gains –
Our lives now rendered as information.
Predictions about peoples’ futures sold to the highest bidder –
Our futures to be profited for corporate gains.
Bio-Capitalism & surveillance capitalism –
A parasite that feeds on every human experience.
Human living taken as raw material –
Our lives shaped and modified to favour the outcomes
That are most desirable for commercial gains.
Biocapitalism – the accelerating expansion of datasets, data tracing and tracking.
Big-Tech, Big-Pharma, Bio-power: a new force of reckoning.
Localized lockdowns - Track-and-trace surveillance.
The loss of right to protest - Drone inspections.
These are the ‘new normal’ regimes of biopower
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Biosecurity
06:04
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They want to get into our bodies & under our skin.
Control and dominion, outside and within.
An attempt to colonize the terrain within our most sacred space –
Inside of the human biological body.
A new form of control over life –
A systemic form of regulation
Holding human life hostage.
In the new regime
Liberty is granted for ‘immunity jurisdiction.’
Those who cannot verify their biology
Are persona non grata.
Bio-data is the Administration of Control.
Welcome to the biometric data-machine.
Bio-Control Protocols – the new care system.
A biocapitalist consortium of healthcare businesses
And digital health corporations.
We have entered the age of the erosion
Of biological boundaries.
The human body is now a ‘site of weakness’ –
With frontiers that cannot be closed.
Biosecurity – the biology of control –
A newfound power to restructure social life.
No rights of testimony or protest.
A ‘mute life’ upon the individual.
In the new regime
Liberty is granted for ‘immunity jurisdiction.’
Those who cannot verify their biology
Are persona non grata.
Bio-data is the Administration of Control.
Welcome to the biometric data-machine.
A full spectrum dominance over human life –
Watch out world, we’re right behind you…
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Psycho-Power
04:14
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Industrial life
Digital life
Cellular life
Conscious life.
Are we shifting into a psycho-civilized society?
The power of well-being or the control of the human being –
Who shall decide?
Is this the Age of Impotence?
Humans are biohazards, machines are not –
Is this the Age of Impotence?
Is it possible to live authentically when power regimes
Of authority deny us our individual sovereignty?
Industrial life
Digital life
Cellular life
Conscious life.
Are we shifting into a psycho-civilized society?
We have entered the phase of auto-exploitation
Where people have allowed themselves
To be exploited by themselves.
The subtlety of psycho-power.
The gain of influence over the intra-space
Of the human psyche.
Industrial life
Digital life
Cellular life
Conscious life.
Are we shifting into a psycho-civilized society?
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10. |
Unfreedom Narratives
04:00
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Self-isolation
Quarantine
Social distancing
Test regimes
Obedience to authority
Automaton conformity
Mass formation
Crowd psychology
False solidarity
Free-floating anxiety
Lack of social bonds
Free-floating frustration
Fear-aggression
High depression
A re-programming of life
A re-organization of ritual
A fear of infection
An anxiety of contagion
Unfreedom
Insecurity
External power
No accountability
Behaviour modification
Social management
Soul production
We have condemned ourselves
To perpetual vigilance.
To accuse in order to be absolved.
To exclude in order to avoid exclusion.
The modern state of exception –
Welcome to the New Illusion
A re-programming of life
A re-organization of ritual
A fear of infection
An anxiety of contagion
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New Landscapes
01:40
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Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.
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12. |
Weak Bodies
05:33
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The nature of modern culture
Is to play upon the condition
Of our biological weakness.
The struggle has now been established
Between the organic body
And the intervention of technology.
The human physical body is a site of risk.
They tell us we are increasingly
Vulnerable to the potency of infection.
They are selling us a Trojan Horse
With the enemy within its underbelly –
The birth of a transhumanist future.
Next comes the Metaverse –
What could be worse as we begin to lose grip
Upon the reality of our biological form?
The loss of the body.
The dementia of the body.
The automation of the body.
The future of humanity, they say, cannot be built
Upon a foundation of the weak body.
The transhumanist vision
Becomes the Robosapien of today.
The hubris of humanity gone badly astray.
The social body is no longer tied
To the individual body.
The increasing automation of the world
For which we are not ready.
The twenty-first century will be dominated by the algorithm –
The ‘neuro-totalitarian fabric’ of what is to come.
A new dance of life to hold us steady.
We are surrounded by an invisible coded environment
We barely understand - concealed electronic complexity.
The human body will soon disperse into a digital point of place.
The end of our current evolutionary race.
Our human fears of automation
A reflection of our own automation –
We are unaware of the binds that hold us back.
A consensus reality of increasing limitation
Aims for the final measurement of life.
The loss of the body.
The dementia of the body.
The automation of the body.
The future of humanity, they say, cannot be built
Upon a foundation of the weak body.
The transhumanist vision
Becomes the Robosapien of today.
The hubris of humanity gone badly astray.
It is our very incompleteness that gives us room to grow –
evolution is not finished with us yet.
Why the rush to trade the vehicle now?
It would be a tragedy to disappear behind
Our transhuman substitutes
Waving our biological humanity goodbye.
We would do well to remember that whilst technological tools
Can help us realize our dreams, they can also entrap us in theirs.
The foreground of human civilization is increasingly being run
And ruled from the background.
It is time now to acknowledge our inherent human qualities –
The beauty of the human being: being human…human becoming.
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Not the body but the soul becomes the subject
Of techno-social domination
I cannot see you – are you visible?
Are you touchable? Can we resist?
I feel a mutation coming along.
Shall we mutate together?
I think I’m struggling against my own lobotomy.
Ooh, that sounds nice. Can I try?
Neuro-Techno Totalitarianism
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14. |
A Cult of the Irrational
06:55
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There is no truth; no absolute state of affairs - no “thing-in-itself.” This is Nihilism. This is the irrational.
Dismantling, re-arranging, rootless, discontinuous –
Waiting for a new revelation to be given.
The reality worldview we once had is demolished.
Feelings of meaningless – of insignificance.
Can the human soul be redeemed?
What is truth?
The truths of our age are only relative truths.
They are the ‘truths’ propagated to the masses
Through the mainstream media.
The current age has no assembly of knowledge or authority of truth.
Everything is relative. Everything is in flux.
The concept of Truth is poked and prodded,
Defined, redefined, and reinterpreted.
Truth can no longer stand alone.
Truth is what lies inside you & me.
We can be our own truths.
Everything that was once scorned as unholy, forbidden, contemptible –
All these flowers now bloom on the most enchanting paths of truth.
Where is the goal – the significance?
It is inside the you & me.
The world is in an existential crisis.
You are your own world.
A landscape of jargon, jingles, and memes.
We are within an Age of Absurdity.
In a world where the absurd and irrational reigns
Meaning, significance, and purpose all lose out.
It is a time when things fall apart because
There is no longer any centre to hold them together.
I’m trying to navigate the landscape of the absurd.
There is neither up nor down, right nor wrong, true nor false, because there is no longer any common centre.
We are coming face-to-face with our own incoherency.
What are the Questions?
Fewer people are asking the ultimate questions. Even fewer are seeking the answers.
In a fast-food world of temporary satisfactions without stability there is a lack of authenticity. The authentic and genuine gets replaced by the reproduction and the artificial.
The concept of Truth is poked and prodded,
Defined, redefined, and reinterpreted.
Truth can no longer stand alone.
Truth is what lies inside you & me.
We can be our own truths.
Everything that was once scorned as unholy, forbidden, contemptible –
All these flowers now bloom on the most enchanting paths of truth.
Without this grounding of the genuine and authentic,
an inner disquiet creeps in –
A time for gurus, magicians, and phony prophets.
People retreat from the malaise of restlessness.
Technique and precision become the new tools.
A nihilist transformation of the earth by machines.
Standardization, automation, and dehumanization.
The reduction of the individual to the automaton.
A collective fuelled and ruled by data.
Authenticity is being replaced by replication.
You will always be real for me. Within my body, you are Real.
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Rise of the Heretics
06:09
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A transcendent perception is arising
From within the consensus reality.
This is the mark of heretical consciousness.
Heretical thinking perceives the possibilities
Beyond the present state.
The true heretic plays the game
By knowing it’s a game.
Only from within the maelstrom of life itself
Will any answers be found.
The passionate centre of life is
Where the whirlwind blows strongest.
Authentic human power functions through
The beating of the human heart.
The more a person has, the less that they BE.
To Have or To Be – This is the heretical question.
The evolution of humanity depends upon a radical
Change of the human heart.
Any authentic future for the human race can only be based
On the very nature of our beingness.
To Have or To Be – This is the heretical question.
We need to be fully present where we are.
Our happiness comes from giving and sharing –
Not greed and exploitation.
Love and respect for life in all its manifestations.
To live in a state where illusions have no power over us.
Compassion and understanding – not sentimentalized emotions.
Discipline and respect – using our imagination to create
A vision of the real possibilities within.
Not to deceive others – not allowing oneself to be deceived by others.
To develop a sense and meaning of true freedom –
not random or constrained but a real possibility.
To allow our imperfections.
To accept that happiness is an ongoing journey.
Living as fully as one can is a part of that journey.
To Have or To Be – This is the heretical question.
The evolution of humanity depends upon a radical
Change of the human heart.
Any authentic future for the human race can only be based
On the very nature of our beingness.
We live in a world of magic. Magic never died.
It is time to break the spell.
To break the spell from fear-based programming
From mass-consensus reality narratives.
Our future now depends upon a radical
Change of the human heart.
To Have or To Be – This is the heretical question.
Time to live the fully human being…
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Kingsley L. Dennis has written and published over 20 books. He always dreamed of doing music but his muses wouldn't let him....until recently. He lives & breathes...
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