Lain
NEET
- Jul 19, 2021
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Do you think the current world is a type of dystopia sliding further into dystopia? It's been on my mind a lot these days, there's social isolation and disconnect from others, yet we're still always connected. Lain was a great example of this, she's connected to all her peers virtually, but she's disconnected IRL and doesn't seem the same. In each virtual space, she has a unique personality cultivated, something that seems a little... off. Can't we all relate to that? I try to have a coherent and consistent personality, the way I do that is limiting the virtual spaces I go to, but that becomes something of an echo chamber off my own ideas. Our reality has turned out a lot like Brave New World. Everyone is consuming, consuming, consuming, nearly devoid of thoughts, we've been conditioned by media to act in a specific way, for us NEETs, it's a different type of conditioning, but still conditioning nevertheless. Would I have been a NEET if I never browsed r9k? If I never browsed the internet? If I wasn't terminally connected to a screen?
Maybe I've been conditioned to believe free will is an illusion, although I can't help but feel as if it's all a sham. A mirage. People can condition others precisely because they will act in deterministic ways due to symbols, due to ideas, due to word patterns, how can propagandists convince the masses to go and die in a war against a people they've never met? But it's done. They're villainized and words such as 'regime' and 'axis of evil' and 'pedophiles' and 'gas chambers' and 'subhumans' and 'deviants' and 'thieves' and whatever terms you can come up with. They're driven into your skull until you're ready to march into the sands. Go look at WW2 propaganda, there is no just side, every side was fucked. But it worked, and the winner won, and they're right for that virtue and only for that.
I had this intense feeling while under the influence of ketamine the other day, something I tend to have while under potent psychedelics or dissociatives, that I'm a manifestation of something akin to the Godhead. All of my cells in their sum generate reality and all of my possible life choices are in relation to my physical and psychological state which come from that culmination. Think about it: if you're high testosterone, for example, you're able to seek more mates, you're able to be more thrill seeking. Or think about this, if you're naturally high in dopamine/serotonin/etc, your total possible life choices are opened up, but if you're in a low state of dysphoria and low T and so on caused by nonstop low level short term attention grabbing content, being sedentary, being weak your life choices are limited heavily, because your biology will not even generate the thoughts needed to do a different state of action, right?
Life is very strange though, in the feeling that there's a strong 'otherness' outside of my cells, despite the fact that my cells should be what generate reality for me, that can influence my total behavior patterns. A person could lower my basal dopamine levels, my serotonin levels, throw microplastics in my balls, and my life choices become limited as a result of that. With the fields of propaganda, neuromarketing and other fields advancing because of technology, I don't think it's looking so good for us. I'm rambling, I had another dystopian dream last night.
Maybe I've been conditioned to believe free will is an illusion, although I can't help but feel as if it's all a sham. A mirage. People can condition others precisely because they will act in deterministic ways due to symbols, due to ideas, due to word patterns, how can propagandists convince the masses to go and die in a war against a people they've never met? But it's done. They're villainized and words such as 'regime' and 'axis of evil' and 'pedophiles' and 'gas chambers' and 'subhumans' and 'deviants' and 'thieves' and whatever terms you can come up with. They're driven into your skull until you're ready to march into the sands. Go look at WW2 propaganda, there is no just side, every side was fucked. But it worked, and the winner won, and they're right for that virtue and only for that.
I had this intense feeling while under the influence of ketamine the other day, something I tend to have while under potent psychedelics or dissociatives, that I'm a manifestation of something akin to the Godhead. All of my cells in their sum generate reality and all of my possible life choices are in relation to my physical and psychological state which come from that culmination. Think about it: if you're high testosterone, for example, you're able to seek more mates, you're able to be more thrill seeking. Or think about this, if you're naturally high in dopamine/serotonin/etc, your total possible life choices are opened up, but if you're in a low state of dysphoria and low T and so on caused by nonstop low level short term attention grabbing content, being sedentary, being weak your life choices are limited heavily, because your biology will not even generate the thoughts needed to do a different state of action, right?
Life is very strange though, in the feeling that there's a strong 'otherness' outside of my cells, despite the fact that my cells should be what generate reality for me, that can influence my total behavior patterns. A person could lower my basal dopamine levels, my serotonin levels, throw microplastics in my balls, and my life choices become limited as a result of that. With the fields of propaganda, neuromarketing and other fields advancing because of technology, I don't think it's looking so good for us. I'm rambling, I had another dystopian dream last night.
