People are genuinely attracted to the systems that control them- like small fish swimming to the light of an anglerfish- that is how the tech enthusiast races forward, to become an early-adopter of the new light.
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We are hopelessly ill-equipped to combat the silicon valley oligarchs- as our government is run by people who type with two fingers. By the time the "digital natives" enter the halls of power, it will be far too late to do anything about the trillion dollar networks of control.
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We are the domesticated animals of machine titans whose powers grow steadily- the great hope of the tech enthusiast is that these machines disguise their skinner's boxes in a "satisfying level progression" as found in RPGs.
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Truly- people will learn to love their slavery the more that it is portrayed to them, in augmented reality, as a series of "quests" & "missions"- when the mythical domain is rendered comprehensible to the machines as a system of curated reward structures, man will be finished.
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Nietzsche was wrong about the Last Man as a beckoning forth of the New Man- as it will be the mythos of the New Man that the Last Man shall enact as "play" under the ruleset of the Machine Titans. He will believe that he has "forged his own path" through his "character creation."
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If you want a vision of the future, I have already seen it- a man dressed up as Naruto under the fluorescence of a cubicle- the "hero's journey" - the maintenance of the system dressing up its maintenance in the garbage of individual self-fashioning.
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You will earn a crypto-currency called Experience- a crisis, overtime, will be rendered to you as a "double xp weekday." A holographic super-hero will break into your lunch hour to declare an emergency quest- & your heart will pound as you embark upon it.
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Gamers provide the information to enable the perfection of this technology. They'll embrace it so swiftly that they'll consider it voluntary. They'll malign naysayers with visions of the horrible UI of earlier incarnations of labor. They'll love Progress & celebrate new patches.
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Work Shall Set You Free? Who want's Freedom when you can have Fun?pic.twitter.com/ne3b1hduqd
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Legendary thread, baudrillard trumps Nietzsche in this regard as the last man will larp as overman in virtuality while the "real" controlled by globo-clown machine world will be more or less intact, your corporatized faux acts of heroism will equate to XP points in the system
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