So during the last week, I hadn't posted anything due to a vacation in a fairly remote area, though I visited a few sites from time to time. I was staying at an old associate's cabin---who works for the now likely---soon-to-be-defunct National Forest Service. Our relationship's what the British call the old school tie whereby men who went to the same schools, played for the same teams, and came from the old neighborhood keep together long after they've gone out to make their ways in the world.
I came across an artifact in the cabin which brought back some childhood memories. It looked something like this:
When we're children, we tend to relate to humanoid animals, in fact I still feel a certain affinity with raccoons to this day. It's also fairly normal that children have imaginary friends when they are alone, and boys have action-figures and girls grow up with dolls and they have a symbiotic feeling with these objects. However, when people do these sorts of things when they are well past puberty, it seems a bit abnormal. However, as a recent article by Vigilant Citizen pointed out, these times are far from normal.
Thus it happens that Elon Musk---who in normal times would be locked up as a menace to society instead of given responsible positions in Government---has put into place a shared dream of the Red Pills and the Transhumanists. Grown-ups now can have imaginary friends too, courtesy of Artificial Intelligence.
Musk announced that a 'male' version of this feature is upcoming (presumably for women, though I have my doubts). In the linked article, VC also displayed some humanoid/animal figures being used to sell the message. As we mentioned above, this is normal for small children; in fact, anthropologists believe that human-animal identification is one of the ways that tribal totems came into being. This is really further evidence that, despite our technological achievements, we really are as a society sinking back into Barbarism. VC noted that "Faced with this widespread hatred of AI art, a propaganda campaign emerged on Reddit using the slogan 'AI art is art.' These dystopian words (reminiscent of the equally Orwellian motto 'trans women are women') seek to rid AI art of its stigma and to normalize it." The blurring of gender roles and acceptance of the very primitive Rainbow Agenda is likewise a throwback to a darker age. It's quite chilling how both AI and the normalization of homosexuality have been adopted by a passive and apathetic American public.
Although it's almost exclusively adults behaving in this manner, there is some pushback and concern about AI's influence on children and teenagers. Given that our Government is now squarely in the hands of Scientistic Techno-Fascists, we can expect little, if any, solutions at the political level. Younger people and children are already being groomed to accept synthetic AI relationships as normal, just as they were with the Rainbow Agenda and many other societal problems. We have American parents who---through a combination of apathetic neglect and horrible example---have set the stage for the dehumanization of younger generations.
Generations of parents who outsourced their own thinking, abandoned their own children to Mass-Media and the Academic Mafia, and submitted passively to any 'new normal' the social engineers sought to impose certainly haven't prepared younger people for anything like the skills necessary to function in a free and open society. Actually, all that children and teens are doing is imitating their elders: they're just using more advanced technology to do what our generation does with social media, talk-radio, and television.
VC notes that "following online discussions about AI relationships is a fascinating yet dreadful experience. While this technology is brand new, many have already adopted AI as a replacement for human relationships." Are we surprised? We were being warned about the increasing alienation of people from their communities and a growing preoccupation with self since the mid-20th Century. Nobody paid attention, and now the Day of Reckoning is fast approaching.
"The global elite" VC concludes, "has big plans for AI. They want it to merge with numerous aspects of humanity, whether it be art, work, relationships, or even sexuality. While there is resistance to AI, barriers are being torn down by targeting human weaknesses. Think about it: Millions of people are feeding AI their deepest fears and insecurities on a daily basis. AI is literally built to learn and process this data, which then can be used to exploit humans."
This is true: but we can add to this that the process of doing so has been expanded enormously thanks to the New Right allowing Elon Musk and his DOGE scumbags unlimited access to datamine US Government databases and authority to smash any oversight on how this data was used or exploited. Granted, Americans should have opposed the collection of such information in the first place: Edward Snowden and Julian Assange warned us about the extent of it, and many warned of the dangers of the Bush Administration shredding Privacy Laws. Nobody cared though; and now Big Tech can move into the Accelerationist Phase of the Great Reset. Before the usual knee-jerk MAGA apologists come out with their denials, remember that Authoritarianism has been both the stated goal and the underlying philosophy of the New Right for some time.
Technology itself is only a tool which can be used for good or evil. Some nations have restricted AI's use to fields like medicine and engineering; but others---like ours---are using it as a means of expanding Social Control. Sadly, our Culture is already well-primed to surrender its freedom in exchange for Hedonism and Instant Gratification.