Consciousness and Mental Causation - Q&A 06/12/24
The purpose of this blog is not just to publish self-contained essays, articles, and book chapters. It's also for answering questions.
In our various fora, questions are often asked, usually good ones. In addition, penetrating but sometimes partially erroneous or misleading comments are made about the CTMU and the reality it comprehensively describes.
Unfortunately, some of our fora are hosted on platforms whose owners, operators, and clandestine overseers censor and throttle their participants, including me. To throttle a user is to employ any of several tactics designed to limit “reach”. These tactics include various ostensibly accidental glitches and delays, the sneaky adjustment of metadata (including view count and number of followers), and non-notification of followers when a new post is added. This is done in order to control and disguise the true shape of the information landscape for social engineering purposes.
Like their Big Banking / Big Finance sugar daddies, the overly wealthy but infantile and egomaniacal poindexters of Big Tech do not want you to understand the true nature of reality. The reason is very simple: once you know the true nature of reality, you can no longer be controlled with fake narratives designed to fool you about reality in such a way that the poindexters and their money-monopolizing sugar daddies continue to come out on top. They want you in a state of perpetual confusion about reality so that you remain defenseless against their calculated falsehoods, deceptive facades, theatrical disguises, and lies of omission. This alone ensures that they can shape reality to their personal and collective advantage.
One might think that I’m not very special at all. I have relatively little money by First World standards, and a very limited media presence due to “cancel culture”. But I’m not one who should ever be censored or throttled, as this amounts to censoring and throttling Absolute Truth, i.e., the kind of truth that applies to every part of reality by logical necessity. Insofar as we require an accurate picture of reality in order to properly relate to it and thus to survive and prosper, this is an act of contempt and hostility toward mankind.
While it is evil to censor and throttle the public “for its own good” when in fact there is nothing verifiably good about it, censoring and throttling a constructive world-class intellect is an especially evil thing to do. Unfortunately, this has long characterized my relationship with the small-minded, bit-brained moneybags of Big Tech Inc.
To argue for Big-Tech hegemony with any degree of logical coherence would be all but impossible. The billionaire Mammonites responsible for the situation clearly value money over truth and the public interest, lacking not only qualifications for final authority but even a viable business model under the rules of free trade. Given the deceptive light in which they originally presented themselves and their companies, they cannot justify their monopolistic control of the social media market, let alone their unholy power over public expression in an allegedly democratic society.
According to their original hype, promulgated en route to their their multibillion-dollar IPOs, the proprietors of Big Tech presented themselves as brilliant innovators and shining exemplars of merit whose technology was an unqualified boon to the public, promising to lift mankind to new heights of free and open expression, unimpeded communication, and mutual understanding. But once the money was in their fists, their initial promises went the way of the dodo. To this day, none of them has offered anything resembling a moral or socially rational justification for their throttling and censorship. They have simply recast themselves as frail and geeky Nietzschean ubernerds who, while floating high above us in bubbles of money and privilege, secretly collude, conspire, and manipulate the world to the short-term economic and political advantage of themselves and their leading investors.
Emulating the nefarious international megabanksters fastened like giant barnacles to the ships of state and commerce, the malevolent sociopaths of Big Tech ultimately have only this to say on their own behalf:
“We have more money, power, and influence than you do, and there’s nothing you can do about it (heh heh)!”