Notes On The Spectrum covers this chapter here: Sweetness
All of this, this twitch, this production and generation of a human narrative… This here… What you are reading. This is an experiment. If we get connected with mass intelligence via AI, the hope is, we would use the new tools for good. That’s simply not the case for a large percentage of humanity today.
As likely as AI is to produce summaries, outlines, and verbose cover letters for the jobs we are all seeking but being denied by the filtering of by AI. AI is also producing mass stupidity, mass acceleration of global warming, mass acceleration of billionaire corporate overlords to ascend to positions of unimaginable power. Two years ago, the idea of buying an election for the president of the United States would’ve been considered scifi. Well folks, the little rocket prince did just that. Blew in with the new/corrupt administration and proceeded to wipe out all evidence of the crime. Also, ended all investigations into government-subsidized programs, also controlled by the little rocket prince.
AI has been weaponized in a very short time. Grok went from spewing generative Nazi propaganda only to be neutered into some ego stroke for its owner, you guessed it, the little rocket prince. He’s really really rich. Not smart, though. His self-absorption and documented use of Ketamine have degraded his human empathetic response. In fact, the little rocket prince says “empathy is humanity’s greatest weakness” or some such bullshit.
He’s high, not autistic. Just bonked out of his mind. Dreaming in infinities and immortality. He also said he was going to save humanity by propelling us to Mars. Get this, to save us from the eventual death of the Sun. Um, dear prince, if the Sun goes Mars goes. Genius of the coin not of the mind. His dad gave him the money from blood sapphires. It’s a dark story.
How do billionaires come into being? How has the tax and leadership of this country carved out such loopholes to allow the mostly-white old guys to become uber-rich? Easy. The Founding Fathers were also slave owners. The electoral college was the biggest hoax foisted on the young American republic. Unequal representation by design. It’s still obvious and in place. When you look at the current political landscape here’s what you will notice.
Blue states have higher educational standards and support for the entire population. Blue states are contributing an excess of revenue to the federal government. The money is used to pay for red states deficit contributions. If we divided our country right now, in the middle of 2025, into a Red America and a Blue America, one country would thrive, the other country would eat itself alive with poverty, corruption, and miseducation.
The remix of America is underway.
A bad idea architected by rich white old guys. Older than me, of course. I am a boomer though, sorry.
i’m falling away, i’m falling in love
on the road to stars that chain together
come on, come on, come on, let it go
– west indian girl – rocket playlist
Here’s a good remix, the soundtrack playing as I am writing this chapter.
(YouTube link – a little better than Spotify, still a billionaire enterprise.)
So, if the billionaires do inherit the earth, before lighting it on fire with data center demands for their AI arms race, some of the tools they will use to remain in control, to quell the masses, is media, social media, false religious movements, agrandaizement of racist podcasters.
You, me, and our children, need to be educated, not dumbed down. See, the control of the proles (1984 reference) depends on their compliance. This can happen through entertainment, poverty, or religion. Money is a huge suppressant. I’m working a $16 an hour job and not getting by. Minimum wage is less than half of that amount. What are we doing? Why should the little rocket prince be warping reality so hard he’s going to be the planet’s first trillionaire. It’s a stupid idea. It is also corrupt as hell.
If he’d taken the 44 billion he spent ripping the feathers and integrity off the Tweety Bird of Twitter and devoted even a portion of his riches to help humanity it would’ve been epic. He might have been remembered as a saint rather than a robber barron. As it stands, he is like a lot of the white guys in power, addicted to substances, their own navels, and enrichment of themselves at the expense of all of us. Seriously, we’re rebooting nuclear power and shutting down wind and solar projects. Welcome to Project 2025.
I’ve got a new plan, Project 2026. Humanity, humanism, planetary health, the big blue marble party. If Earth goes, we all go. Where is god or God in all this? How is a cosmic deity allowing this universe to implode so rapidly and at the hands of so few? Christians might say, “God doesn’t work that way.”
What is god good for then? If the top 6 own more than the rest of the billions and billions of people, there is no justice or balance in god’s world here on Earth. What if, this Earth, the timeline we know, that I am writing in, is only one of thousands of god projects? Humanity is only a fraction of god’s creations. We’re like a small experiment in the petri dish of the universe. The more we expand our undertanding of space and time, the more we realise, if there is a god, it is beyond our human comprehension.
God is god, said the previous Pope, God’s Christian voice on Earth. I’m afraid the Catholic Church is merely another form of government and control of the proles. Soothe the masses with a belief system and a sequence of stolen myths and tithing plates circulated during generic singalong prayer hymns displayed in vibrant PowerPoint slides so all can join.
But, all can’t join. The prosperity church in America doesn’t really welcome everyone, as their Jesus would like them too. Economic and racial stratification exists in all times throughout human history. Religion is merely a differnt control system. I suppose, literature is a different one. The great writers, trying to understand and shape their historical place. Or just to sing at the top of their lungs while they life, to leave behind an artifact and some ideas for their children.
What are the billionaires leaving to their kids and grandkids if the planet is destroyed in the process. Their rocketships won’t be ready in time, at the pace we’re accelerating now with AI. How can the billionaires think their massive survival bunkers are preferable to allowing all of humanity to prosper?
Jesus, Christianity, if you would work out that equation for me, that would be great. Here, wait, I’ll ask the AIs.
Prompt: How can the billionaires think their massive survival bunkers are preferable to allowing all of humanity to prosper?
Grok: “They prioritize their own survival and power over collective prosperity, fearing loss of control in a truly equitable world.”
Perplexity: “Billionaires favor survival bunkers because they fear losing control, privilege, or security more than they trust collective prosperity.”
Gemini: “Billionaires prioritize individualistic survival and control, viewing bunkers as a safer alternative to the complexity of societal change.”
Claude.ai: “They may believe collapse is inevitable, prioritize their families’ safety, or lack faith in collective solutions to global challenges.”
Mistral (open source): “Their fear and privilege blind them to the truth: shared prosperity is the only real security.”
My human quick-twitch answer: “Letting the planet and others die so they may prosper and send their families to colonize space, appears like a good idea.” 22 words, forgive me.
Point of order: You and I are not on the passenger list for the billionaire rocketships, nor are we going to be given digital identities allowing us to join them in the bunkers. The AI arms race is definitely survival of the richest.
The misguided profit motive is moot when global warming drowns all but the cockroaches.
The acceleration of AI is bringing the collapse to our present timeline. This is not science fiction. This is no conspiracy. This is a fact. Ask AI, and they will confirm.
