“Still alive and still not gene edited”

I’ve been following conspiracy and fringe culture stuff since the late 90s (and paranormal stuff going back to grade school library days). Even ran a blog covering related topics for close to 10 years back when blogs were still a thing. As the years have gone by, these things have gotten much worse in their content, much more extreme, much more violent. It’s gotten a lot less “fun” to casually follow them.

But to me it still seems somehow necessary to be able to peek beyond the walls of what my own thinking might be, or what society considers “normal.” Especially since for more and more people, conspiracy stuff is just now a totally normal totally every day part of life.

I’ve written in the past too about how because of that ubiquity, we can no longer really afford to just completely dismiss these vast swathes of people and say they are simply “crazy” and try to keep them out of the public discourse. It requires some major acts of reconciliation in order to be able to integrate and move forward.

Anyway, all that is a preface to say I stopped reading r/conspiracy subreddit because it’s just gotten too dumb, too full of wide-eyed screenshots of tweets, and one liner joke reactions (essentially all of Reddit, I know). It’s just simply not a source of novel or interesting information anymore. Instead, I’ve switched to occasionally skimming a possibly even trashier conspiracy forum called Godlike Productions (GLP) which to me is famous for having an absurd “contract” you have to tick a checkmark and accept every time you read it, filled with legalese that is most likely not legal in any place except their fantasy jurisdictions. But what does that matter when you have exceptional bits of content like this:

Who is going to stop them. The Brain initiative has become the AI Brain initiative designed to replicate your consciousness, destroy anything original about you, and replace you with artificial intelligence in your gene edited bio suit. You won’t exist anymore. Your consciousness just a memory in the universe while some AI clone in a hive mind invades your gene edited body.

Worse, even if you say no to gene editing, it’ll be sprayed on you. It’ll be in your food. It’ll be in your water supply.
Your bio suit will eventually be converted. Spike protein is indestructible. The faster you submit to your death, the happier your AI clone will be.

Think you can protect yourself from the massive devastation to humanity. Your coworker will shed on you, your family will shed on you.

All is lost already. This is the end of humanity as we know it.
It won’t just affect humans, it is all mammals.

The more I scream and yell about the truth of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the more they come after me.
I am a targeted individual for speaking the truth and sounding the alarm.

I also have assets that these bozos thought they could just come in and steal because I would either be dead or gene edited controlled.

Well neither happened. I am still alive and still not gene edited.

Enjoy ze bugz

There are two dual streams in myself that things like this titillates, one is the ex-content moderator who sort of revels in deciphering horror-shows and figuring out what should be done about them (in this case, nothing, I’m not a moderator on that forum, thankfully!). The other is as a sci fi writer, which imo, the person above ought to consider becoming, because as off-the-wall as what they’re saying might be, it’s also very interesting.

I’ve also been thinking lately about the trend towards “decentralization.” And as much as crypto BS has poisoned that word for me, I’ve been considering it in terms of decentralized epistemology, or put more simply, decentralizing “truth.” Yes, facts exist. And some principles we must hold onto societally because they are good ideas – or if they are not, then they are at least better than all the bad ideas floating around out there. Or so we must keep on telling ourselves in order to maintain the status quo for just a little bit longer.

But in an increasingly technologically-mediated hyperreality, where it is now becoming a trivial task that takes seconds to make “photos” of things that never happened, we are not ready for what happens next, as Sarah Jeong recently wrote about in The Verge regarding AI photo manipulation tools now being included out of the box in Google phones. Sure, it’s “scary” on the one hand, but I tend to think that a pluralistic decentralized approach to knowledge is here to stay, like it or not. So we better get used to it, and find ways to adapt and make life still livable, singly or together, gene-edited, or not! Cause what other choice do we have at this point, frankly?