What if the Mayans really could see the future and planned the calendar accordingly?
I was big in to Terrence McKenna and that whole Timewave 0 theory. I even downloaded the program and installed it on my laptop and ran it a few times. I remember when it was New Year's Eve 2011 and 2012 came in to being. Nope, still here. Don't feel any different...
But then...
It didn't take long for the future to arrive. Weird shit started happening. Anomalies. Unexplainable stuff. And bit by bit, new discoveries in science were being made and old dreams such as quantum computers and nuclear fusion came in to being. The first teleportation of atoms. The first invisibility cloak. Bam bam bam, hit after hit until it just couldn't be ignored anymore, the future wasn't just arriving, by 2014 it had fully arrived. The peak of the industrial revolution. Everything that man had worked towards he had achieved. Or could see that it would be fully realisable in the coming years (quantum computers + nuclear fusion).
2014 was, in many ways [CURRENT YEAR]. I know that it's stated as being 2015, and it is as well in many ways. It was some kind of pinnacle of science, civilisation, futurology, and all mixed in with an understanding and connection to history, to each other and ourselves as a species - humanity.
2014/2015 was where the rubber met the road and the shit well and truly hit the fan. Then it got weirder from there.
Sure, the whole smartphone thing and attention span complications it brought about are true. Ditto the internet becoming more ubiquitous. Plus after 2015 most people browsing the internet were doing so on a handheld device. So the old Web 1.0 got thrown out the window and every man and his dog started designing for Web 2.0 with the requisite touchscreen API and paradigm. Not good if you are a boomer or a Gen X'er and you like to actually look at things on a big screen and you know actually type things out on a keyboard. You can't do that on a handheld device, so the internet was dumbed down to meet these new low standards.
Fast forward to today, you can't do business unless you run whatsapp. People refuse to deal with you now. I'll phone up and ask about stock, particular stuff, general stuff, and I get fucked off by some shirty bitch - have you ever thought of looking on the website? But it's worse than that, because now they don't even say that any more, it's like 'oh you have a question about stock? give me your whatsapp'. And that is fucking that. If you tell them you don't use whatsapp then they say they can't help. Yes, actually fuck you off and say sorry, you will have to come in to the store. One example of the madness this whole web 2.0 thing has brought about.
Has anyone noticed just how fucking broken the internet has become not just the last year, but the last six months. There is a captcha for just about every single fucking website I visit these days. It's tiresome to navigate. Sites like youtube bully you in to signing in, cookies on every page you have to approve, you're not given an option where you can opt out.
Forums are dying. They won't exist in 10 years time. Every forum that you could ever rule34 in to existence has been made. Knitting, bikes, sex, farming, music, guitars, tools, photography. What's more, there are people on those forums that have been on them since their inception, probably some time post 2000, as that was when most people got the internet and everyone rushed in the wild west spirit of the time to be the first to have those particular niche forums. There are people out there with fucking nearly 100,000 fucking posts. And those people now rule those forums by seniority even though they are not mods or admins. And they all have their little clique.
Nobody who was in to bikes or music or swords or knitting or fish to that great extent turned around in the last year and said, oh I think I'll join a forum. No, they already did it. And it either worked out or it didn't. Probably it didn't because most people are cunts. And they make sure most other people don't fit in by bullying them off or shunning them. Many such cases.
So now you have a whole world of people that are in to this shit: music, guitars, bikes, swords, fish... that have nowhere to go, because you can't start up a new forum because no one will fucking visit it. The forums that deal with all these subjects have fuck all to do with their intended purpose anymore and have become defacto social media for boomers and gen x'ers. They chat shit about this or that and anyone wanting to talk about the subject matter at hand had better lick arse to the seniors to be accepted or get bullied or shunned off. And the mods and the admins and the owners allow this because now big dollar advertising is involved, and that is their sacred holy cash cow. Users can go fuck themselves. You are a consumer now or you aren't accepted in.
There are websites that deal in astronomy equipment, let's say, and you just got ripped off for a few hundred bucks on a telescope, not only did you get ripped off, when you phoned up to get some satisfaction, you were called names, verbally abused and threatened. Yeah, fucking threatened. Good luck with being allowed to even claim that happened on a site that takes the dollar from those very same people. It's cancer and it's everywhere. Not just telescope forums, music forums, everywhere. It's over bar the crying.
So people are very disenchanted and disenfranchised now. You probably have a hobby, you probably want to learn more about it, or maybe just talk with like-minded people, but you can't, because it's a big fucking club and you aren't in it. It's demoralising. I know many people feel the same way through conversations I've had via PMs on these sites. It's over.
For some interesting reading look up and google why forums are dying and the stats involved.
Plus, as has been mentioned, we are now well and truly in an orwellian/brave new world scenario of censorship and wrongthink. The plan of the elites was to 'master the internet' and they have mastered it. They only allow this very website to exist because they are using it for data mining. We've been funneled. Sure there's a few full time feds reading in real time with real eyeballs, but most is being fed in to the databases and pattern matched and machine learned or wtf it is they do. They get to check opinions, even those of a very contained subset of wrongthinkers like us. We aren't rebels, we are goldfish being observed who don't even realise they are being observed.
All of this is pertinent to why the last decade is a blur. Just as someone said earlier: because it was. Society fractured along political lines but it fractured along technological lines as well. Different people championed different forms of technology. I remember one girl I met and she was in bed just checking her phone, blatantly for new dates and fucks, with no fucks given. Yeah whatevs. Knock yourself out. A phone is of little interest to me. I can have a tonne of fun with an old laptop and run all kinds of programs on it and create all kinds of things. I can do even more interesting things again with a full size tower case with six hard disks in it.
We became alienated from each other by the very technology that catered to our very specific use-cases and needs, and wants and desires and dreams. And we got funneled there as well. Like inflation in the big bang - every point ever more quickly accelerating away from every other point. And that is why we are at an impasse now with humanity, probably best illustrated with the polarisation in politics. We've been farmed this way. We are all nigger cattle.
Technology was a wonderful dream, but by [CURRENT YEAR] I saw which way it was going. Bitches using smart phones for 'hook up' culture. Shop assistants refusing to serve you because fuck you do your own research on our website. New laws coming in to effect that all our search histories would be recorded by our ISPs and available to several hundred of different authorities such as fucking bin collection or waste disposal. Data rape and privacy rape became a thing. It just wasn't fun anymore. Worse than that, from [CURRENT YEAR] things just became increasingly more sinister with the PTB usurping ARE technology. Our superpower had been well and truly turned against us.
And the more alienated we got from each other the more alienated we became from ourselves as well. Our inner selves. As we felt this yearning chasm of emptiness swell up, some of us filled it with drink, some of us filled it with drugs, some of us filled it with porn, some of us filled it with shitposting. Choose your poison. But everyone feels dirty the morning after. And the more divided the self becomes, the more split the id becomes from the ego, the more the animal flails, reaching out for anything, something, not even looking for comfort anymore, just looking for sense or logic. But that has all but gone now as well.
We all have our own facade. We all have our own hopes and dreams. Very few people are fulfilled these days. We really have been corralled like the nigger cattle we are in to this situation. I'm not pointing any fingers, I'm only starting to wake up and realise what the fuck has been going on myself these last few (10 years). It's time to wean off technology. But guess what suckers? It is now illegal to not have a tracking device, sorry, mobile phone. Well it is in china and it will be here soon too in a couple of years.
Technology is just a tool and it can set us free or it can enslave us. Really we should be embracing automation and all the advantages that it brings, but we can't, we beg to still be allowed to work. Why is that? Money. What is money good for? Money is the conduit for the transfer of human energy, that is all. But even that has got corrupted.
Everybody wants the same things. We all like to eat nice food. We like to dress in warm and comfortable clothing. Perhaps extending out from there to a bit of fashion and looking good, more attractive to the opposite sex. We like to be able to travel, to go places, see people, see things. We like to dance, we like to listen to music. We certainly all like to have sex.
All those things have been stolen from us, repackaged, re-bottled and sold back to us at an extortianate price. Monopolies run the fashion industry, the food industry, the art industry, the music industry. Not talking about the (((you know who's))) for once. That's just a joke. This shit runs deeper than all of that. It's a game and many of us want to play, but we aren't allowed. And those that try to, we are crushed or we are bought out, whatever the case may be, even being embraced, extended and extinguished.
Some men like to build houses, some men like to build cathedrals. Some men like to build magnificent architecture and spaces for people to live in and be in. Where is that architecture? We are all reflections of our surroundings. Where are the beautiful places to be in?
None of this exists. What is there is pitiful and the best of it is not for you anyway, peasant.
And the saddest thing of all is that for many of us, there is no club we want to be in. There is no party we want to join. There is no fear of missing out. Nothing to miss out on. And we wither ever more, dying on the vine. We become almost totally disconnected by this point, not just from each other, not just from ourselves, but from objective reality itself, as much as any one person can experience objective reality.
I've noticed a couple of random references to Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, on the farms the last few days. And for once they weren't being pretentious gits as is the wont of most people when they throw around that, which is a load of pretentious shit a lot of the time. But it's got some good bits. And the references to Hyperreality were both apt and on point, enlightening even when used in the slightly different contexts in which they were. And this is the age. Facebook have changed their name to Metaverse to embrace that whole "virtual reality" kind of thing. Haven't they been involved in "virtual reality" all along? Many would argue they have.
Kiwi Farms is a very special place. And I'm not sure how many people really appreciate it for what it is at its best. Whatever that is, I'll let you decide.
It's good that there is a mix of people here. It's nice that a lot of us can get along. It's also good that others can disagree and point out when we are being faggots or narcs or bores or schizos or cunts. There's not many places left in the world where that kind of discourse can take place anymore, let alone in they decaying medium of forums.
Yeah, the last decade has been a super zoomed blur of insanity and craziness mixed in with static boredom. And no, it wasn't all the drink/drugs/porn that made it zoom by so fast. And yes it is a lot to do with getting older and time flying by faster. And no, you weren't the only one to notice it or experience it subjectively like that; maybe you were tapping in to some kind of objective reality after all.
