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    I was replaying Metal Gear Solid 2 this week and was reminded about the Brave New World-like qualities of the world as predicted by the Patriots AI. MGS2 was released in 2001 and sort of prophesized the rise of social media or “junk data”.

    15 years later this societal nightmare has become real. Feminism is just one of many festering misinterpretations of the facts. Facebook / Twitter is what the Patriots tried to prevent from happening.

    In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander… All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution.

    The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you. Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing.

    “Be nice to other people.”

    “But beat out the competition!”

    “You’re special.”

    “Believe in yourself and you will succeed.”

    But it’s obvious from the start that only a few can succeed. You exercise your right to “freedom” and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever “truth” suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in “truth.” And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

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    The elites put hints at their plans in the media. The media is controlled by them there are no coincidences.

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