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Art, science and technology are the forces that shape our
experience and understanding of the world.
The new electronic age started with radio and the postmodern
age was in full force by the time TV came along. TV was invented before WWII
but was held back in favor of the amplification of radio, which was radar and
sonar. Since then the world has been mapped using our ears instead of the traditional Renaissance visual perspective bias. Radar has had a huge influence on
astronomy, which has now led to a complete remapping of the universe and its
explanation.
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The other invention of WWII was cybernetics. Cybernetics has
been greatly amplified today with the implementation of social media, which is
the mapping of the social ‘consciousness’ including the ‘collective
unconsciousness’. Radio and TV have been accelerated to become mobile ‘smart’
phones, called smart because they hurt.
The electronic law of reciprocity means smart phones are receivers as well as
transmitters. This is obvious in the case of Twitch, Twitter and Facebook where
people transmit their everyday lives. Gaming is the new work. Flash mobs, i.e.
antifa, are gaming applied to the streets. They are commanded and controlled
though smart phones. They are engaged in tribal warfare much like the denizens
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Fake news is a warfare propaganda tool of using two
different tracks of information simultaneously. In France there are signs at
railway crossings that say one train can hide another. This is what fake news
is. One transmission hides another. In fact instead of just pointing out fake
news it is important to look at what the fake news is hiding.Fake news will
reveal the real news by looking in the opposite direction, or askance, or
peripherally as with cubism. Trains today are obsolete just as is commuting to
the office or school. All work is now done remote. Smart phones are social
remote controls.
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WWII shifted the paradigm to cybernetics, which is the
science of command and control, based as it is on active tracking, or
self-regulating feedback loops. This is the science of targeting and snooping.
It is called 'information gathering', or 'data mining', whereby patterns are
discerned and used as predictors of future outcomes. These automatic
self-regulating systems are the servomechanisms that Marshall McLuhan warned us
about. This has led to the ostracizing and eliminating of that which is deviant
from the mean, through outright censorship, hate speech laws and now
self-censorship behavior such as wearing a mask in public. This corralling
towards the mean and pruning anything that steps out of the ‘mainstream’ is a
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Anyone who is popular on social media is
actually a social media servomechanism; that is, a function of the ‘algorithm'. When a different outcome is desired, the algorithm is then altered, dictating a
different behavior pattern. Much like Marshall McLuhan’s paddler in a canoe who becomes the servomechanism of the canoe. Content producers who upload content to Youtube or Twitch or
any other social media platform are actually unpaid workers of these
corporations. Thus we have a new feudal system of unpaid serfs who must respond
and respect the algorithm or become outcasts and ‘TOS’-ed out.
Terms of service
are actually bills of sale for technocratic slavery.
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As mentioned above physical transportation by trains, planes,
automobiles or ships is rendered obsolete through cybernetics. This is
illustrated by the seizing of the very vocabulary of transportation by
cybernetics. Thus social media websites are called ‘platforms’, communication
flows through ‘channels’, IP (internet protocol) distribution is called
‘tunneling’, information is delivered via ‘packets’, browsing is called
‘navigating’, etc. Any business based on physical transportation is in
difficulty today because of cybernetics, especially the business of transporting
human beings. Why move when our brains can travel faster than our bodies ever
will? Therefore we have reached the end of ‘travel’. The great industries
of human travel are fading away rapidly. The automobile industry and the
airline industry are facing headwinds they will not recover from. Displacement
and the transportation of goods will be the reserve of robots, all controlled
through cybernetics. Beau Ledoux Tardy ©2022
