Madness is the new abnormal (yes, I'm aware of the contradictory terms). It sure does appear that way at times, to me anyway. It's the new trickle-down abstraction, like Chinese water torture, drip by drip, until you can't stand it any longer. Unless your mind is reinforced by reason this new abnormal may be absorbed rather than rolled away like water off of a duck. Mark that word "reason" as it will surely be redefined as the narrative changes in the collective minds of the new abnormal.

Have you ever wondered if the human race has lost its marbles? Multiple times per day is my answer. The madness goes deeper than a few individuals running naked in the street chasing imaginary butterflies, or even pretending to be the president. IMHO, this crazy is coming from the top down. It seems to be ubiquitous, it's everywhere. It's jumping from psyche to psyche much like overcrowded rats in a cage. It truly is a war on and for your mind. It's promulgated by the so called leaders of nations, or maybe more accurately, by the invisible hand that controls said leaders. How else can you explain the madness manifesting itself all across the globe in almost total lockstep? Could it be too much carbon dioxide in the air and too little oxygen? Nah, it's psychological manipulation.

The weapons of control in this battle for the mind are gaslighting, misinformation in the guise of truth, censorship, incessant propaganda, deprivation of goods and services, identity politics, portents of nuclear war, on and on like empire's rolling thunder. We've always been propagandized for as long as I can remember, but this is a level unseen until now. As I grew up in the 50s and 60s, schools, TV and movies were the prime movers of propaganda, guiding one into a life of "fitting in" with society like a good little worker drone. War movies for the boys and Barbie dolls for the girls. But today the level of indoctrination is over the top, by design, in my very humble opinion.

Why all the abnormality? They want you to feel like your going mad. They want you to feel like they are all powerful and there is no hope for the future. They want you to be compliant. They want you so desperate that you'll plead for the state to save you. And, this is becoming more apparent every day, if you don't comply, they want you, shall I say, nonexistent.

Don't buy what they're selling.

Have you heard of Web 3.0?

Web 3.0 (Web3) is the third generation of the evolution of web technologies. The web, also known as the World Wide Web, is the foundational layer for how the internet is used, providing website and application services.

Web 3.0 is still evolving and being defined, and as such, there isn't a canonical, universally accepted definition. What is clear, though, is that Web 3.0 will have a strong emphasis on decentralized applications and make extensive use of blockchain-based technologies. Web 3.0 will also make use of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to help empower more intelligent and adaptive applications.

Source: Web 3.0

Here are some of its basic tenets:

• Decentralised (i.e., no organisations will control your data);
• Permissionless (anyone may access the network);
• Uncensorable (content that’s been published cannot be altered or removed);
• Monetisable (creators can be paid for the value they create, without a middleman);
• Private (identity is encrypted and anonymity is optional).

Sounds groovy, no?

Let's add a little Metaverse into the Web 3.0 equation. In the Metaverse you can be whatever you want to be, you're only bound by your imagination. Imagine a world where your encouraged to stay at home because traveling will destroy the environment, or some such. Pretty boring, right? Not with the Metaverse! Strap on your virtual reality goggles and immerse yourself in the fake world that Zuck has built, just for you. Don't like those bulky uncomfortable goggles, there'll be a chip implanted in your brain to help with that. Cool, huh? Toggle your mind from one reality to another, what could go wrong?

Did you know you can buy virtual real estate in the Metaverse? Snoop Dogg has already bought in. Talk about gentrification! Contrary to what Klaus speculates you may own something in the future, but it won't be real.

The Metaverse plus Web 3.0 is too close for comfort to The Matrix to me. If it puts its sunglasses on like an Agent Smith and talks like an Agent Smith, then it is an Agent Smith. 1984/Brave New World is the handbook, Web 3.0 is the mainframe, you are the product to be manipulated. I can't wait [not], how about you?

That darn Zuck, how did he know that the world needed a Metaverse, he must be clairvoyant. What a great guy! Oh, wait!

Won't our planned future be grand! You can thank Klaus and his merry band of motherweffers for the fraudulent society of a future Potemkin civilization in a manipulated world.

What are the Kardashians wearing today? Elon Musk bought what? Jeff Bezos did what? Bill Gates, Bill Gates, Bill Gates!

The worship of billionaires has become our shittiest religion

Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something other than fully human.

One billion dollars is a huge amount of money. Indeed: One billion dollars is such a huge amount of money, that there has recently emerged a whole sub-genre of images specifically designed to help us get our heads around how huge it is. If you, for instance, had earned a million a year, every year since the Battle of Hastings (that’s 1066, for non-Brits), and not spent any of it, you still wouldn’t (interest notwithstanding) be a billionaire. If you earned an annual salary of $43,000, you might eventually become a billionaire (again, not accounting for expenses or accumulated interest) — if you waited over 23,000 years.

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One billion dollars is far, far more money than anyone could realistically spend, on their needs, within the span of a human lifetime. If you have one billion dollars, you are completely shielded from all ordinary human concerns: Never again will you know hunger, or lack shelter, or suffer from inadequate medical care. Of course, there may very well be lots of comfortable, middle-class people who will also be lucky enough to never know those wants again, but the difference is that the billionaire is isolated even from the possibility of experiencing those wants. They are like the Christian who has been saved from despair in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death, who is eliminating the possibility of despair at every moment. If you have in your possession one billion dollars, then almost literally anything you desire — anything anyone might possibly conceive of desiring — can be yours, just as soon as you happen to desire it. But with no real friction between desire and reality, how does wanting even function? Can someone who lives like this even be said to know desire, anymore, at all?

And just as nobody can spend a billion dollars in their lifetime, nobody can earn it either. People have taken to saying “every billionaire is a policy failure”, because that sort of money makes nakedly obvious the truth Marx tells us about all wealth accumulated under capitalism: that it’s part of a process that is only possible because the people who own the means of production are, effectively, stealing it from their employees, by paying them a wage worth less than the value said employees’ labor bequeaths unto things. If you find yourself in possession of one billion dollars, and keep it, then you are wilfully refusing to stand in solidarity with the whole of the rest of the human species.

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Every billionaire is thus more than a simple failure of policy. Every billionaire is evidence of a basic glitch in the fabric of the moral universe: their lives, and acts, ring out with the gospel that only what we call evil will be rewarded — that the selfish get to live as angels, and all good people will be damned. Challenging capitalism also means challenging its religion.

Jean Calvin abides.

Excuse me while I go puke.

I'll just drop this here without commentary for your leisurely perusal:

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

“May we live long and die out”

Phasing out the human species by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.

Whew!

*The small embedded video in the first segment is titled The Powers That Be by Roger Waters.