Castle Rock is also the name for a film-studio that looks exactly like the Oval Office❗️
Notice the Studio lights in the window behind Bidet. He was signing executive orders on blank paper without ink in his pen
please, humanity wake up, don’t be the most stupid race in the universe!
YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE
See: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/movies/oval-offices-by-way-of-hollywood.html
Where are the executive orders of Joe Biden? Hmm…
I should add that these are tidbits of information I got from several “conspiratory” Telegram channels. These are the interesting posts that I’ve checked by googling for alternative corroboration from other sources.
Something weird is definitely going on. QAnon, despite all of the apparent disappointment it has experienced, still seems to be the most logical explanation. If QAnon really was a psyop, or a hoax, what kind of narrative would you use to explain all of the tidbits above? Is there any narrative that can explain it all (away)?
and for a chess move, that sums it up pretty clear, what is happening :“Castling gets your king out of the center of the board where all the action is taking place! This makes it more challenging for your opponent to checkmate your king! […]Castling is a great way to protect your king and bring a rook toward the center of the board!”
yeah, what the fuck ist going on with you, @Radivis ?
this forum seems not longer to be a transhumanistic meeting place.
his condition is called: pre-deprogrammed. i know, because i suffer from the same symptoms. but help is under way. it is really difficult for people like us to give up permanent questioning and critical thinking. we have to learn to trust what governments, big tech and mainstream media say, even if it looks absurd below the surface. we need to realize that it all makes sense when we stop analysing, learn to forget the headlines of yesterday and just focus on the catchphrases of today. we have to apply the image of humanity that it is always the people in power who have our best interests at heart. and we need to admit that it is childish and even often dangerous to believe in conspiracy theories. because there are no such things as conspiracies. we have to grow up, learn to trust, stop thinking, start believing, let go of the past and focus on today. we need to be satisfied with all the information mainstreammedia gives us and avoid dangerous alternative platforms which only indoctrinate people and incite violence. please be patient. this is a long process of healing.
“The question is how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump,” Couric said.
Robinson said last week on MSNBC “there are millions of Americans, almost all White, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed,” calling them members of a “Trumpist cult.”
“Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie,” Randall Lane wrote.
We are really sick, because we see inconsistencies here:
although there are none!
and we laugh about things like this:
but i am confindent that after our successful deprogramming we will have nothing left to laugh!
The answer what is going on with me is the following: I’ve long outgrown the initial naive phase of transhumanism since I realized that the full fruition of transhumanism depends on political, economical, and societal conditions that are not yet present in this world.
With few exceptions, genuine technological and economic progress is not pursued to a really satisfying degree. Elon Musk is one of the best exceptions. China also seems to be a kind of an exception by pushing technocracy hard, but at the cost of freedom, which eventually threatens further progress in many important domains.
The world doesn’t really seem to embrace transhumanism. Don’t believe me? How would a world look like that embraced transhumanism fully, let’s say in 2000?
… I could go on with this list, but the contrast between my vision and the real status quo should tell aspiring transhumanists that a lot of things didn’t go right between 2001 and 2021.
So, what’s the problem?
Of course we can have differing opinions about how severe the problems from lobbysim, corruption, and outright conspiracies are, but it’s obvious that transhumanism is not very welcomed in the global political landscape.
But why? Is it just that humans are too stupid to grasp the advantages of transhumanism, or are they rather kept in stupidity so that they “don’t rock the boat”? I believe that humans are clueless by nature, but that they will find the right path, and that includes transhumanism, if they receive a sufficiently broad, deep, critical, and liberal education. Why is that not happening? Is it not possible? Nonsense! How much have our education systems improved since the Industrial Revolution? Marginally, if at all. The advent of mass media made the appeal to promote contemporary expedient policies through propaganda almost too strong to resist. A solid (trans)humanist education would have been a necessary counterweight to attempts to “streamline” the population, but those approaches have been marginalized again and again.
The largest problem at the moment is that humanism hasn’t yet seen its complete victory. To strive towards transhumanism, first humanism needs to become the globally effective standard. Unfortunately, we are not there yet, but we are slowly approaching that point, extremely slowly. At least since the Dark Age religions and ideologies have been used to control people. It took many heretics, secret societies, conspiracies, reformations, rebellions, revolts, and revolutions to bring us as far as we’ve come by now. All the while dark forces - sometimes in plain sight like the Catholic Church or the East India Company, sometimes more hidden like the central banks, or the CIA (and who controls all of these forces anyway?), tried to halt or reverse the liberation of humanity.
There is a deeper reason behind this: Since the Neolithic Revolution humanity has organized itself in a hierarchic fashion with small elites in power and vast majorities controlled through ideologies, the threat of force, and deception. This was the only way to quickly organize increasing sizes of societies. Large societies have a clear military advantage against small competitors, so the evolutionary dynamic favored such societies that employed such tactics to keep their members in line. The historian Yuval Harari may be the person who explains these dynamics the best.
Yet the oppressive structure of societies also motivates resistance against it, and that resistance is best expressed in the liberal humanist ideal of the free and sovereign person (and its extensions to the morphologically free trans/posthumanist entity). The interplay between the polar opposites of the rigid hierarchical society and the free individual created the basis for our technological ascendancy. Over time, the liberal forces grew stronger, because people became increasingly literate and educated, since in technologically advanced societies people need some decent education to become reasonably productive. You can’t fully decouple the free flow of information from the skills people need to be good at their jobs or to fulfill their other roles in a hierarchic society.
Large jumps in the degree of liberation of society happened when the flow of information was accelerated by certain key technologies:
We are still in the phase in which the liberalization stemming from access to the internet is playing out. Nearly ubiquitous access to social media makes it hard for centrally controlled propaganda instruments to down out dissenting voices and point out the mechanisms of control employed by the deeply established elites.
Now here’s a problem: If the people are getting increasingly educated and have access to ever more information, how can the elites hope to keep their control over the population, if religions and ideologies lose their power? The answer is: Through increasing levels of deception and disinformation. However, this only goes so far until people get that they are being lied to and accept living in a lie, because the alternative is ruthless extermination by those elites. It’s a dynamically shifting balance between propaganda and enlightenment. The more power is centralized, the better chances does propaganda have to succeed. The more power is brought back to the people, the more enlightenment can flourish.
Humanity had reached its highest level of liberation, maybe in 1968. From then on, consolidation of economic power through the ideology of neoliberal globalism unleashed a silent class warfare that ended in the relative victory of the elites, now apparent in the stark inequality with few billionaires controlling the majority of the resource of the planet. During this period progress in the domain of computation was exponential, but other domains have seen little progress, in particular medicine and space travel.
Why am I writing all of this? Because I want to pinpoint the reasons why transhumanist visions lack so far behind what could have been possible in this world, had politics and economics not interfered in the way they did. What I find disheartening about the transhumanist “community” is the level of political and economic naivety in a group of people with quite decent technological and scientific education. Technological progress does not happen in a vacuum! It depends quite crucially on certain necessary political and economic conditions. And those conditions are quite poor at the moment, which is why transhumanism is losing – at least for now!
However, overcoming political and economic naivety not only necessitates getting educated about political theory and economics, but also getting wise about how the world really operates. And since the world contained and still contains conspiracies, a rational analysis of conspiracies is necessary to avoid getting deceived and manipulated. In the current political climate this is deeply discouraged – however that’s nothing special. Figuring out the ways ins which elites control, manipulate, and deceive us has always been strongly discouraged by the elites. Any liberal minded person, in particular any humanist and transhumanist should stand above the defamatory judgments of a deluded society!
We still have a long way to go, but the liberation of humanity is happening. It could be even quicker than you think. We are living in revolutionary times: An Industrial Revolution and a French Revolution on a global scale rolled into one. I say that we stand at the beginning of the Cybernetic Revolution. Its end result will be the dawn of the age of Humanism. A good starting point for transhumanism to flourish. In pre-humanist societies transhumanism has almost no chance, because the societal conditions do not allow it to succeed!
But to even get that far, we need to understand which sides stand for the liberation of humanity, and which against it. In a time full of propaganda and disinformation this is a task that cannot be achieved without quite substantial investment into research.
So far, I’ve clustered different groups into pro liberation and anti liberation – of course all open to revision, if sufficient evidence is presented.
Pro liberation:
Against liberation:
Everyone else is stuck somewhere in between in a raging cybernetic cold deep war of epic proportions that is mostly fought out as (dis)information war. Some persons that are decried as dictators may play a crucial role on the side of the forces that are pro liberation, but they often appear quite ambivalent, so I’m not eager to classify Putin, for example, as “pro liberation” without having done deeper research, though I like his style very much.
While I may have been put immediately on a “to kill” list for even mentioning these groups in a negative light, the preferred modus operandi of the forces against liberation is to decry me as conspiracy theorist. That’s ok. I accept that label for myself. It’s more fun to live that way than as clueless believer in the functionality and benevolence of our public and private institutions. And if I still suddenly happen to disappear, you have reasons to count that as evidence that I was right – or at least as evidence that the groups I exposed were framed by others.
The Fractal Future Forum was never intended as “purely transhumanist” meeting place. It was intended as open forum to further the exchange between transhumanists and other groups – obviously under transhumanist control, but still. Transhumanism is always threatened by getting stuck in its own echo chamber. I wanted to act against that tendency to create bridges between transhumanism and the rest of the world.
Splendid analysis! Really great. Not much to add…except the list at the beginning which is an inspiration by itself and could be the topic of new thread. It might be fun to collect ideas how our transhumanist utopia would look like without all those obstacles we had. (free information without restrictions and deception, no patents, no copyright and the internet how it should be…flying cars for everybody 
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Aka:
Decades-old, boring, absurd, conspiracy theories with no base in reality.
You surely have watched and readen too much conspiracy stuff on YouTube and other sites.
or perhaps you won in lottery and became a rich playboy celebrating binges on your yacht in monaco - “being determines awareness” (karl marx) 
Why are they boring and absurd? Do you have interesting and plausible conspiracy theories to offer as alternatives?
It might be the case that the groups I mentioned are framed by certain organizations and the real culprits are other guys. That’s entirely possible, especially if secret services launch disinformation campaigns. But why would secret services frame Western elites, the people they are supposedly working for? That doesn’t seem like a plausible scenario.
Nah, as much as your comments irritate me, I prefer discussing with people like you to boring millionaires and their parties.
The U.S. military, N.S.A, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump keep working class Americans miserably impoverished. Elon Musk and Donald Trump treat their employees like replaceable machine parts more than people. Donald Trump has the cut-throat heart of a spoiled rich kid who hides his intellectual inferiority with inherited money. He is a cut-throat industry plant who was born into wealth and power. Elon Musk is another cut-throat industry plant born into wealth and power. These cut-throat men come from ruthless families that abuse and enslave the working class through wealth inequality while owning enough companies for profitable power. It’s not like they are minimum wage workers living in tents having to pay taxes while getting screwed over by a healthcare system rigged to benefit only upper class people who have economically abandoned the working class. Minimum wage Americans can’t afford rental homes, healthcare, higher education, decent internet, etc. because of increasing wealth inequality and decaying infrastructure in America rigged to only benefit upper class people who have economically abandoned the working class Americans many decades ago. Working class Americans don’t really have power in America anymore. Even the labor unions in America are being attacked by upper class people, so they can have exclusive power to keep working class Americans more poor than they were many decades ago. It’s called modern day slavery and feudalism.
These upper class people in America distract their slaves with Hollywood propaganda, junk food, alcohol, the internet, the democratic party, the republican party, war on terror propaganda, violence glorification, misogynistic religions that make trillions of dollars, the N.S.A. that allows upper class men exclusive power to spy on their slaves’ online activities while promoting American propaganda, weaponized drugs to keep Americans exploited with drugs that have negative side effects, broken education systems to indoctrinate working class Americans through dehumanization to keep them poor and dumb after they graduate from high school, war propaganda from mainstream media to indoctrinate the working class Americans to die to make cut-throat and upper class men rich with blood money from profitable wars (especially when they want oil from the middle eastern countries), etc. There are military puppets in America to keep cut-throat and very rich men powerfully wealthy while other people suffer from death, rape, torture, etc. from war.
Central banks do exist internationally to keep these male oligarchs filthily rich.
The Rothschild family, Rockefeller family, Koch family, some other families, and a small amount of people are generally very rich because of being ruthless, not because of them being nice. These upper class families and people are part of a male-dominated group. They treat women like second class citizens. Especially when they use misogynistic religions for profit and to subordinate women while psychologically weakening the working class through internalized misogyny.
The Chinese Communist Party is another male-dominated group controlled by cut-throat men who brainwash and spy on lower class people through the online surveillance, social credit system, censorship, banning of websites, attacking freedom of press, oligarchical wealth inequality, etc.
The U.K. has become an empire of digital totalitarianism that threatens internet freedom, online anonymity, and independent journalism. It is another empire controlled by cut-throat people who threaten human rights. Not just the city of London has been affected by this digital totalitarianism.
You musn’t trip! If you think it’s all such, or it’s all so, you’re tripping!
Media is just that. Someone made it, usually it’s their daily task. Usually, the product is entirely like you would expect it from them in their daily task.
The truth is hidden, even for those present in the relevant reality. They say hindsight is 20/20, but it still only offers you a view!
We live in series of dark tunnels, constantly loud with what’s where you’re walking. They build large structures, these are our thought palaces.
Everybody lies, nobody’s a liar, the truth, the truth, the truth.
When we construct our thought palaceses to be truth palaceses, then we can rest comfortably. We can recognize our favorite places to be. We can get the noise to become harmoneous musics. Like a battleship, we can operate our ammo rooms, and put the news segments into cannons, and fire away at the relevant area of effect.
Somehow, if you do this correctly, you can wake from being a human being, into being a rational being. Then you have a clear rectilinear field of thought, where everything can become a valid truth. In the truth, all things become clear, and all war can become peace, as all choices become Love. And then you move again, like a gecko that’s seen around for a second, you scurry to the next position.
That’s the battlefield of life, where every clarity fades, and all Love is just the squabbling of the birds. That’s the nature of the Chaos of origin. That’s why you need strength as well.
Re ZeUs, your last post reminded me of AI generated text like that from AI Dungeon. I mean, it’s kinda poetic in the way sometimes AI creates fascinating tidbits. Was that intentional? This could become a trend. 
“Everybody lies, nobody’s a liar, the truth, the truth, the truth.”
Here I noticed my mind trailed off the way that the AI sometimes ‘underruns on meaning’ and I figured it married nicely. Other than that it’d be coincidence.
I could’ve choicen “equidistant field” over “rectilinear”, but in the context it has a similar meaning.
I’m not sure if I made the point very clear. If you find a ‘one sided perspective’ or ‘total drain’/‘total fill’ endpoint, that could probably be considered tripping (clipping in a thought train). It’s very meaningful to scour your thoughts and find out where, even without having taken drugs, you have ‘trip ups’. It wasn’t too uncommon for me to find at the periferi of a thought, I’d have some murky assumptions.