Gaslit
Living with Portals of Artificial Intelligence & Augmented Reality
There’s some advantage I’ve had over the years messing up life with such resounding frequency and success. To add to that fact I have willingly engaged with every kind of false “guru” either knowingly or unknowingly and experienced some profound skull-fuckery.
I’ve read around most political / economic / cultural theories and explored them through the various stages of history. This is an amazing adventure. Politics is nowhere near as boring as you think it is. It’s purposefully made boring in the mainstream to ensure that you never think about actually exploring the subject.
I have engaged quite deeply in Science from the orthodox to the esoteric - exploring the functions and claims of “crystallized” water to Quantum Field Theory. What I found, at the bottom of it, is that we really don’t know what is going on. I mean, we really don’t. I’m not being hyperbolic. We just have some theories that are useful.
I have looked at Evolution & Climate change. The arguments for them and the evidence against. Changing my mind several times. It’s not as clear cut as you think. Greenhouse theory is not applicable to the world as a whole, though you’ve been told that since childhood. (It’s got to do with thermodynamics and convection currents) The climate models are close to bogus. Your teachers were just singing from a hymn sheet. Beautiful songs of climate catastrophe. Now, we’re on the verge of collapsing the world economy on the basis of very shaky ideas. Remember, closing 5 coal plants in Australia = Good. Opening 1000+ coal plants in China (where Australia sends their coal) = Good also. That’s the Paris Climate deal in a nutshell.
I’ve studied various Programming Languages, Patterns and Artificial Intelligence to get to the heart of the technological age. It’s simpler than you think. Things are made complex due to various standards and ruthless competition between corporations / national entities. It’s like how electrical plugs are different between many countries and you need adapters to make things work. With computing, this problem is on steroids and the simplest things, like drawing a box on a screen, has hundreds if not thousands of different adapters. It’s the complexity which keeps the top dogs on top. You are not stupid for not understanding it.
I have hacked at guitars, harmonicas and strange instruments to find that to listen to music properly, first you have to start making it, even if badly.
I have taken some truly weird spiritual journeys, trying to awaken the third eye and various chakras. I have explored entheogenic plants and medicines and been in places that no words can ever describe. Contrary to popular belief, these states of consciousness are something truly profound and not just gimmicks. The only problem is that you have to do it to believe it and 99.999% of the population hasn’t. So, I’m not going to convince you.
I haven’t been particularly skilled at anything, nor have I achieved any great success, to my dismay. Often I wonder at all the opportunities I have lost by chasing all these various field instead of focusing on one thing. I have been mired in self doubt because vast portions of the public, my friends and relatives included, just can’t relate.
Which brings us on the subject of Gaslighting and what it means to be Gaslit. It’s a fairly new word and I hadn’t heard or really understood it until very recently. Perhaps in the last 3 years I have noticed a decisive increase in its application and uses.
The term “gaslighting” actually comes from a 1938 play, “Gas Light” (which was turned into a more widely known movie in 1944, “Gaslight”), where a husband manipulates his wife to make her think she’s actually losing her sense of reality so he can commit her to a mental institution and steal her inheritance.
2020 - Gaslight to Flamethrower
A friend recently told me,
“I just don’t know what to believe anymore”
I feel him.
I took the last few months completely off the news and social media. I didn’t even read headlines, only to open up again the day of the US election. I waited till the day ended.
What has transpired since is truly phenomenal. I watched the world (for it is not just the US) being completely gaslit.
The media and powers that be, have over played their hand.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and The Lunatic, Jack Dorsey of Twitter have over played their hands. Leaving their activities totally exposed. Sunder Pichai of Google has been a little more cautious but still highly active. And as for the Lame Stream Media, well, they’ve gone bonkers, and even some of my most gormless acquaintances are now questioning what is going on.
It’s like we’re watching a master game of chess, the Queen, two Bishops and the Rooks have been sacrificed in one last dying attempt to cease a lonesome King. What will transpire we don’t know but the stakes are high, both players are at the top of their game. They’re mapping their moves 10 steps ahead, we the audience can barely see the next one.
In order for this tactic to work, a strange psychological game is being played on the worlds populace and it works only because modern technology.
People have good instincts but their instincts are being used against them. It’s modern day warfare and the powers have adapted. 2012 was the old days of muskets and bayonets transitioning into trench warfare. 2016 was tanks and fighter-jets. 2020 is Skynet coordinating ground based guerrilla tactics.
People think it is a problem of social media and smart phones. And in some ways it is, but that’s not exactly what’s going on. Those are endpoints in a long chain.
The technology involved means that each person gets a highly curated version of reality, also known as the filter bubble. I had understood this fact intellectually several years back but it was only this year that it hit home. I had created 5 YouTube channels for different content purposes. One day, I didn’t realize that I set my phone’s default on one of the new channels. I started using YouTube and I got terribly confused.
It’s not just that the YouTube algorithm changed suggestions and videos it offered me. It was that reality itself altered. I couldn’t find anything I wanted, moreover, I couldn’t remember how to find it. It’s like I had changed as a person and it took me a couple of days to work out why. The default had been changed!
I would type in the name or subject of something I wanted to watch and the search results were so manipulated that I couldn’t watch what I wanted without a massive struggle, even when I tried.
Then as an experiment I changed my viewing habits for a few weeks. YouTube transformed itself in front of my eyes. It would change from inciting me (to the core) with anger, to soothing my soul. My emotional stability could be controlled.
The hive mind was adapting itself and changing the nature of reality.
As of recent months now, I have noticed a new tactic. Let’s call them Portals of Artificial Intelligence & Augmented Reality (PAIAR), because “platforms” is possibly the most banal, euphemistic word for them. I catch trains on ‘platforms’. Platforms don’t change reality, this isn’t Harry Potter. Or is it?
These PAIAR’s have started Gaslighting the populations of the world with new levels of aggressiveness.
It’s done by generating various kinds of cognitive dissonance. What the PAIAR feeds you doesn’t match reality but then huge numbers of “experts” and “leaders” on the Mainstream Media, tell you that it does. A week later the narrative changes completely.
The old stories are now fake news. You don’t remember what you saw, as those posts are “hate speech” and no longer available.
You watch a TV show, it mixes historical fact with ideological weaponry. They put really good looking women and bearded men between bed-sheets frequently, to keep your eyes peeled.
A few weeks later, you have no idea which part was true. The nonsense and reality thoroughly mixed. History Changed.
Things are blended together and so is your sense of reality.
Then, one day somebody is fired for a “problematic” comment, the very next day, another is lauded and given a raise for the same comment because they are speaking “their truth”. Some people are fed information about the first person and for others it is omitted. Vice versa too. Each person gets a mixed message.
It goes on and on, each one of many billions getting something different, until cross communication gets near impossible. I have trouble speaking anything coherent with my closest friends and even with my wife. We are all accessing differing realities.
This decoherence leads to disorientation, which leads to anger. And it this anger that is harvested for political and financial gain.
You can see it now with the way the ‘Virus’ was used. Currently, I need to wear a mask outside, while alone in the park, but inside a restaurant with strangers it is not required. My friends in another country have to do the opposite. In some countries it appears that the virus only comes out at night but during the day things are fine. It’s also ok to rub shoulders and party if you are of one political persuasion but not of the other. It’s definitely NOT OK to meet friends or family but to riot with a thousand activists over a statue erected a 100 years ago, that’s a duty.
Apparently it’s a “Pan”-demic. Meaning, it’s everywhere and widespread, but the only sick people I have ever seen is in the news. No one I know personally has had anything worse than mild flu-like symptoms. Same with almost everyone I have spoken to. We have all heard of someone, somewhere, who got into trouble, but not personally. Isn’t that strange? My kids have got worse pandemics in school with the Rota-virus and Hand, Foot & Mouth.
Then we had the world leading Virologists saying, “Masks are not effective” on video, only to later recant when politically expedient. We have seen the videos. Don’t believe your eye’s for the next 12 second’s of video. Fauci & Co are definitely more qualified than me.
I suggest getting Gucci masks, they are more effective.
I don’t know what’s right or wrong. I make no claim and follow rules. But today to question this position is considered dangerous.
I don’t even want to discuss the US Election. This is gas lighting on another level. Isn’t it amazing we found a vaccine just the day after! Amazing work. I suggest you go on Pfizer site and read the short announcement. I’m not feeding you Breitbart here.
“Analysis evaluated 94 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in trial participants”… out of 43,538 participants.
If that doesn’t astonish you. I don’t know what can. In fact I had a discussion with a Biology PhD about this yesterday. I drew a blank. I had another friend message me and say,
“If it means the end of lockdowns, I don’t care, I’ll take it”
Trillions of $$$ have changed hands. Governments are clamoring for supply. The CEO of Pfizer sold his shares the same day of the announcement. Can you imagine Steve Jobs selling his shares the day he announced the iPhone?
So people slowly start loosing it, there is no mental institution for 100’s of millions of people. So they will end up on the streets.
You may guess where things could go from there.
And that’s,
The Vikid Truth