Our Societies Resemble Malware

The actual socio-political situations of our societies – and their foundations – are intrinsically vulnerable to the manipulation of data and narrative for purposes that serve the dominant imperatives of these systems, most of which enact functions (at the group-level of human behavior) that largely resemble malware.

If our present societies were operating systems and we were able to directly perceive and understand their actual purposes and functions, no one would be willing to participate in them at all.

They are clearly almost entirely malignant.

The ‘purposes’ of these systems are not peace, ‘progress’, ‘survival’, the development of human intelligence, education or understanding. They are fundamentally inclined to conducting psychological, economic and physical wars within human populations (and the remaining ecologies of Earth) – for the purposes of amassing abstract commodities (by devastating ecologies) and the power to enslave or incorporate human populations.

These systems are not human, though they are, in part, the result of lethal pathologies that appear to infect our species (mostly) at the orders of relation where we form large groups. This problem is specifically related to the long-term evolution of human cognition and the development of both written languages and mechanical technologies – and though these matters lie at the periphery of the topics I am exploring here, they encompass and influence all of human thought, concern, and experience. It is for this reason that I include a brief note about them here.

What is the origin of this problem? Though I have spent three decades studying it closely, and have a variety of useful models and theories, a friend recently suggested that an array of probably noncorporeal intelligences might be interacting with our species at the group level – and feeding off of either some form of energy or attention. He further suggested that it might be possible to contact them. I find this perspective intriguing, and somewhat in line with my own research and experience.

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