“The unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people ¯ it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other.
God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”
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Shawn Parker - Co-Founder of Napster and Former Facebook President
“I feel tremendous guilt (regarding his work on Facebook). The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth, and it’s not an American problem.
This is a global problem.
It is eroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other. We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded with short-term signals—hearts, likes, thumbs-up—and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth, and instead what it really is a fake, brittle popularity that’s short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty than before you did it.
It forces you into this vicious cycle where what’s the next thing I need to do now because I need it back. Think about that compounded by two billion people...If you feed the beast, that beast will destroy you.”
Chamath Palihapitiya - Former Facebook Executive
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12
Technocracy:
1. a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
2. a system of government in which this theory is applied.
3. any application of this theory.
The etymology of the word Devil originates from the ecclesiastical Greek diabolos, which in general use means “accuser, slanderer”.
Also, literally “to throw across” or one who throws across, divides, and destroys.
When we hear the repentant voice of Chamath Palihapitiya regarding his involvement in the development of exploiting human vulnerabilities in social media feedback loops, or the unrepentant sentiments of Shawn Parker blithely questioning the impact of this technology on children, I wonder what the endgame is for humanity as technology continues its insidious creep into the takeover of our lives and what spiritual forces are behind it.
Well I think I do understand and I’m not sure you want to hear it, but here it is.
Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems wrote a piece in Wired Magazine back in 2000 called, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us”.
In this article he discusses the idea of transhumanism where people like Ray Kurzweil (futurist, inventor and Director of Engineering at Google) and other technocrats envision a future where man will merge with technology to reach immortality (apart from God of course).
To re-affirm their belief that they intend to reach god-like status, Kurzweil, a secular Jew who also wrote the book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, when asked if he believed in God, answered “Not Yet”.
Instead of being taught to think critically about the uses of technology and where it’s taking humanity, society at large has given itself over to it, or as Joy puts it:
...“we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions.”
While this was quote was attributed to Joy 20 years ago, in case you haven’t noticed, technology has taken over our lives and we have drifted into a position of dependence.
We’re there.
In Joy’s Wired article he mentions Kurzweil’s book that quotes a passage from the Unabomber Manifesto.
In it Ted Kaczynski envisions a future that due to increased efficiency and superior decision making of artificial intelligence, technologies will fall into the hands of a tiny elite, and that these efficiencies will render most of humanity redundant:
“Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite are ruthless, they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity.
If they are humane, they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite.”
Take special note of that last sentence,
“they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite.”
Mr. Joy is very careful not to condone Mr. Kaczynski’s methods but at the same time, think’s he has a point.
“Kaczynski’s actions were murderous and, in my view, criminally insane.
He is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does not dismiss his argument; as difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I saw some merit in the reasoning in this single passage.
I felt compelled to confront it.”
If you’re familiar with the modern Eugenics movement or the Georgia Guidestones you’re aware and understand the connection.
If not, take time to do some research on these topics. The Infowars documentary End Game is a good place to start.
“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”
-Matthew 24:12
“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.”
2 Thessalonians 2:7
In The End of The World - A Talk by Fr Seraphim Rose, Fr Seraphim gives a history lesson regarding the falling away of the Church, the mystery of iniquity and the lawlessness that would come to define western civilization.
At the same time, I was listening to this lecture, I began reading the biography “Father Seraphim Rose - His Life and Works”. In the story, leading up to his conversion, the author describes a turning point where while he was struggling to find life’s meaning in the absurdity of the modern world, he discovered the writings of Rene’ Guénon:
“In essence, Guénon convinced him that the upholding of ancient tradition was valid, and not just a sign of being unenlightened, as the modernists would claim. Whereas the modern mentality viewed all things in terms of historical progress, Guénon viewed them in terms of historical disintegration.
According to the spirit of the times, the newer a thing is, the better it is; according to Guénon, it is apt to be better if it is older.
Guénon indicated that modern Western society is based on a rejection of the traditional spirit of ancient cultures. He said that it is only through a return to the traditional, orthodox forms of the major world religions, either Eastern or Western, that man can even begin to come once more into contact with truth.
As it is, without a traditional worldview to bring all into a coherent whole, modern life becomes fragmented, disordered, confused, and the modern world heads toward catastrophe.”
Father Seraphim demonstrates in his lecture how a series of historical events viewed in its entirety, gave rise to modernity and post-modernity and the talk reminded me of a BBC show from the 1970’s called Connections hosted by James Burke.
In each episode Burke demonstrates how something like the invention of the internal combustion engine cannot be viewed in isolation but only through an historical series of other inventions and events that gave rise to what we now understand as the automobile.
From Wikipedia:
“…the entire gestalt of the modern world is the result of a web of interconnected events, each one consisting of a person or group acting for reasons of their own motivations (e.g., profit, curiosity, religion) with no concept of the final, modern result to which the actions of either them or their contemporaries would lead”
In the same way, Fr Seraphim explains that what we see today as modern civilization is a result of a series of historical events that began after the Great Schism of 1054 or as he puts it
“When Rome fell away from the Church… and the West chose to go its own way.”
Father Seraphim goes to say:
“Once this movement of apostasy began, it went step-by-step very logically to produce the world which you see today.”
And goes on to say that the deviation and deception of the Roman Church including the papacy, worldly ideas of church government, selling indulgences, and the like produced
“the pagan renaissance and the departure of the Roman Church from its true Christian Practices of the earlier Church.”
This is what led to the Protestant Reformation and the reactionary age of Enlightenment in the 18th century which “threw out religion altogether and tried to base life upon human reason and common sense which is basically what civilization is trying to live on today.”
Fr Seraphim goes on to say
“if you look around at our 20th century civilization, the word lawlessness or anarchy are the chief characteristics that identifies it”
and we now have a spirit of the age that is characterized by lawlessness.
Fr Seraphim uses the following example:
“You can’t keep creating Campbell’s Soup cans (referring to Andy Warhol’s pop art of the sixties and seventies), and call it art. Something else has to happen...there’s nowhere else for it (art, culture, civilization) to go, something else has to happen.
An explosion… a new principal has to enter like Christianity came in Roman times and totally transformed art. If this doesn’t happen, the whole civilization winds down and that’s the end of it.”
At this point, Fr Seraphim says that The Mystery of Lawlessness makes itself known to civilization.
How do we know this?
The following example he gives seems to refer black outs and brown outs that occurred in New York City in the late 1970’s:
“Conventional behavior goes on as long as something extraordinary doesn’t happen, however when some crisis happens like the lights go out (or now certain segments of society don’t get what they want).
People break windows, loot, take anything they can get for themselves, kill people and whatever they can get away with...something is going on and something has changed.
All this is what St. Paul called The Mystery of Lawlessness and it’s a mystery because it’s something that’s not revealed in this world.”
He goes on to say:
“On the other hand, The Mystery of Righteousness is the story of how Christ came from Heaven to save us.
The Mystery of Lawlessness is the opposite and is some kind of mystery coming up from hell that breaks into this world and changes this world.
The Mystery of Lawlessness is anarchy which prepares the way for the man of lawlessness which is Antichrist.”
In the early 2000’s Pat Buchanan wrote a book called the “The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization”.
In it Mr. Buchanan introduces the reader to the Frankfurt School; a radical group of primarily Jewish intellectuals that formed at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt Germany during the Weimar Republic of Germany in part as a response to the failure of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to spread globally, which was the anticipation of many Marxists at the time.
Since these intellectuals were sympathetic to the aims of global communism, they determined that the reason for this failure was due to Christianity’s strong grasp on Western civilization or as Mr. Buchanan puts it:
“the seed of the revolution fell on rock-hard Christian soil and died.”
In order to achieve the aim of global revolution and global communism, western civilization and it’s Christian underpinnings would need to be undermined through incremental infiltration and subversion, or a
“Long March Through the Institutions – the arts, cinema, theater, schools, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, magazines and the new electronic medium at the time, radio.
One by one, each had to be captured and converted and politicized into an agency of revolution.”
Once the culture was changed, the west would “fall into their laps like ripened fruit”.
The Frankfurt School has since splintered off into hundreds of other groups, some known some unknown to the wider population but all with generally the same aim, the destruction of western civilization.
Proof?
Look no further than the entertainment and music industries, the news media, the public-school systems, the seminaries, even some of our Churches.
Better yet, turn on the evening news and watch BLM and Antifa burn cities, loot and riot while the majority of the news media defends it. People are still subscribing to the absurd notion that there are political solutions to our profound spiritual problems.
As such, civilization will continue on its path of nihilism, absurdity, destruction and lawlessness until I suspect it will eventually completely unravel and collapse.
(New World) Order Out of Chaos
So, what’s the motive for tearing humanity apart prior to making us all obsolete?
Divide and conquer.
In the process of tearing down the old to bring in the new, the psychopathic technocrats seem to enjoy turning the world into a giant toxic feedback loop through their social media platforms and news media outlets to keep people bickering and fighting with each and while the majority of us remain distracted and the collapse of civilization continues and the people behind it remain in the shadows.
On a spiritual level it may have something to do with Satan’s hatred of humanity and to prevent us from knowing the truth:
That we are created in the Image of God and that we need to turn back to Him in repentance.
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