Is this the world you want?

You don't have to spend very long scrolling social media or watching mainstream news before your thoughts become hijacked and your feelings start to elevate towards fear, anger and often frustration.

In this "mode" you not only become reactive, but also controllable, as if under a spell.

Unfortunately we aren't supplied with all of the information in order to make a proper decision about anything. The subject matter is presented to push you towards a particular course of action, and it's often not what you imagine it to be.

Sure, there are "products" or services that you can subscribe to, which will point out the narrative and its purpose, but you would spend hours just decyphering everything, and no-one has that sort of time on their hands.

The story could easily be fashioned, a narrative and nothing more. If on social media, unlike the news media, at least you can check comments (if they're enabled) to see how your reaction is similar (or otherwise) to others.

More so now, there are many more people questioning narratives and often your comment has already been posted, or something similar. Depending on the subject matter, many people seem to be locked in a "mob like" mentality, they are pretty much just serving the narrative and are fully invested in it, without really realising it. It's unfortunate and can be quite uncomfortable to see, but there it is. Often we might find ourselves pulled in and have to step back, for our sanity if nothing else.

When you believe the narrative, you no longer have true sovereignty, you have pretty much become an NPC (non-player character), a zombie, a consumer detached from actual reality.

We are powerful yet often powerless within the space we occupy.

I often think of how powerful yet utterly meaningless a lot of technology actually is. Apart from aspects of it that do help you, such as a machine for a specific task, many things are quite unnecessary and rob us of any tactile or indeed creative experiences.

With the adoption of "Smart" technology, sold to effectively be more "controllable", just not by the user. Essentially, everything is now monitored and accessible, including the owner.

I've spoken previously about the "blueprint". I don't think there are many such examples as Smart tech that it is so visibly obvious. It's like trusting someone with the keys to your house (or your life for that matter). Every device capable of sending and receiving telemetry back and forth, as well as to each other.

It's an exceptional business model, leading to all sorts of opportunities to make further profit from the user. The fact that big tech is now "in bed" with the governments of the world, can lead us only to one certainty. That the hardware that we purchase, we do not actually own. You see, the hardware needs software. Updateable code, that can be changed to suit the whims of whoever controls it.

To a degree, most material objects capture you. You value them until they are replaced or out of date, or vogue. Yet all things technical, you, the purchaser and consumer, can be steered into accepting change as easily as anything.

A few decades ago you likely had a calculator, or perhaps an early PC, for word processing or spreadsheets. Likely it ran Microsoft Windows, from all its updates since version 3.1 through to its present 11. Connecting to the Internet brought many changes, like the ability to message others and send files to each other. Little did we know what was just around the corner.

Originally optional, you are now told that you will have AI. You are also restricted to using digital licenses instead of physical licenses or media. Therefore, at any time, the plug can be pulled and you will be left with essentially nothing to show for your purchase. An example is Sony's PS3 digital games which were deleted, leaving all user purchases null and void.

In Windows now, your "digital assistant" is sending screen captures every few seconds. All keystrokes are recorded and essentially available to the highest bidder. There is zero privacy on a Windows computer any more.

Add to the monitoring of your activity "offline", so to speak, your activity online is also subject to scrutiny and control. Every like or comment used to classify and park you in their huge database. Any aversions are fed information, more narratives custom made for your mind, your thoughts and processes, led through their maze of control.

Think of 1984, where you cannot switch off the screen. It studies and reports on you 24/7, even while you sleep. The signal is still there even though the lights are out, it seems.

The next step of connecting us to the AI hive mind should really be perceived as a step too far, into oblivion.

Although they've captured the majority of people, with the daily circus, the political clowns, making everyone angrier by the day, or at the very least annoyed and fearful, subconsciously. Unrest opens the door to more control, it's a sign that you are playing into their game, even when you think you aren't.

Let's stop thinking for now about how messed up things are right now. After all, a little time out can be a good thing. It's important, at least from my perspective, to see that we all brought this about, we are all responsible. By choosing to ignore the signs, the writing on the wall, the obvious hoodwinking that's occurred, we can all simply Stop. Not necessarily collectively, but individually.

Anything collective, any organised dissent, will essentially be smashed to pieces.

The world you deserve, no longer exists in reality. It's been moth-balled, papered over. This fear is the reality they want you to believe. It's what your parents and their parents had to contend with. Essentially the same narratives, the same false history, heroes portrayed as villains, and vice versa.

There are very few "real" people left. At least online, everything is ego and fakery. Whilst offline, although the slave labour trap is still very much in control of most people's lives, there does exist real people, once you cut through the nonsense. I do believe that disengaging is the first step towards change. It's kind of like my early attempts at writing about "Unlearning". Like performing an interrupt on the programmed mind. The learned behaviours and the normalised daily ritual.

Escaping the fear, quietening the "worried" part of your mind is almost a childlike feeling. An innocense returns within and the space that was previously occupied and perhaps overloaded with bad feeling, is now available, like a blank sheet, a new landscape to explore. Your reset, which is kind of what it is, hasn't made you care less, in fact quite the opposite, it brings everything into possibility.

I think that the world will naturally respond to this change, little by little. Perhaps it will happen in some cultures first, whilst others continue to suffer their adopted course, it may be a subtle change for each person, as they experience it.