The Internet and The Age of The Living Dead
THE HALL OF MIRRORS BEING CREATED BY LIMBIC COLONIALISM
- By Professor Gilbert Morris
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
What I’m discovering teaching students is the internet relationship narrative is turning everyone into the same person.
Henry Kissinger, believe it or not, argued that the internet is forging a “mono-culture” of no culture.
He is right: in the history of humankind, the most resilient force has been status-making. Lena Horne or Diana Ross, Sidney Poitier or Denzel…all of them had to study, learn manners, learn how to write, learn how to give interviews, know world history. Lena Horne never missed a performance date for 50 years: yet an 17 year old girl not old enough to have accomplishments has 25,000 followers. (Social media was designed to trap females aged 13 to 27 as the most attractive demographic of humans).
Lena Horne and Diana Ross never had the attention of 25,000 people. And worse, the 17 year deludes herself that those 25,000 are her fans. (My followers, she addresses them). Until the next 90 days when 1 million new 17 years olds enter the space and her followers fall to 10,000 and she ends up in my office depressed and resentful, hooked on dopamine driven approval.
Everyone simply now acts like a celebratory…extending what Andy Warhol called their “15 minutes of fame”…but it’s mere cotton candy. 70% of responses you get from social media are BOTS meant to keep you online to boost advertising revenues and this hall of mirrors delusion will persist and nothing now rests on accomplishment competence or accountability!
The ideas and attitudes you think you own, are what’s shown to you on social media, representing less than 1% of actual life and 99% of that is fake…generating a perceptual cul-d-sac!
This is the dawn of “radical narrative coherence”. It’s all based on stereotypes and treats humans by formula; so everyone from the cynical to the clueless finds a register in social media that deludes them into their own genius!
Worse, everyone thinks it’s their own idea…even though all of them use the same phrases and words and all suffer the same routines of failure.
What is happening is a hive mind geared towards one standard of attractiveness used towards getting money.
That’s the game!
Decency, personality, integrity, reliability…none of that matters. Because the internet narrative have people claiming the lack of these things as “authenticity” (keeping it 100).
Like all the internet boosts - the love yourself cult, the prize cult, the I’m my best friend cult:
It’s all bogus!
Humans are social: learns how to relate to people is how one discovers preferences and routines of the self which we confuse with a fixed self that can be the subject of its own affection; which is total galloping nonsense!
Most people now have no use for a brain. Even the “soft life” nut cases think they are living well and they themselves are merely enslaved to a fantasy.
By this dopamine lust, the young people of the immediate future will be illiterate, reinforced in their ignorance, obsessed with whatever “facts” are promoted by social media, reasoning by bias alone, lonely, lacking social skills, unable to analysis distinctions, comparisons and contrasting, causes and correlations or corollaries, lacking a grasp of bounded rationalities and spasmodically emotional…with a mass death of brain function…so an pandemic of neuroatrophy: the opposite of brain development and growth through neuro-plasticity.
We’ll have in 3-5 years two generations of internet-brain nonsense parroting zombies!
Aldous Huxley predicted this in his work “Brave New World” and The Bahamas with its chronic habit of copycatting and following fashion then talking as if its original we are witnessing an exploration of these plastic personalities using the exact terms most frequent on the internet in another - but final and permenant - rinsing out of the last remnants of our grand parent’s values!
