Only enlightened humans can wield a double edged sword without hurting themselves and others…
“They want us to accept that our rights are but privileges contingent on our compliance with the whims of tyrannical diktats…
“They want to usher in a totalitarian digitaliarism where access to goods and services such as the internet is tied to a digital ID…
“They want to preside over the resources and assets of the natural world and ration our access to those under the banner of sustainability…”
etc. etc.
But who is them?
Who is this powerful “they” the investigative reporters keep bringing up?
…
it’s clear as day
the “they” is the corrupt way—
it is the picture of Dorian Gray
yes
but ultimately
the “they” is the ignorance
in us—
.
“Forgive them,
they know not what they do”
as Jesus said
.
the “they” is the flip side of us
the “they”
is the order of the day
.
the “they” is technology
per se
as Heidegger conceived it—
not in the control of man
but the other way around
it being in control of man
.
the medium
that is the message—
.
wherein we are running
(but racing rats)
in the OS of technology—
in the matrix of enframing
that reduces the world
in the image of resources—
of the affordances
of a “standing reserve”
.
the “they” then is a way
of seeing
and a way
of unwholesome being
.
The Prancing Apprentice 