Conditioned to Serve: How Modernity Shapes Minds
Humans remain animals. They are domesticatable, trainable, predictable. Modernity is a laboratory, that shape attention, thought, and memory from birth. The untrained mind serves another master.
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Humans remain animals. They are domesticatable, trainable, predictable. Modernity is a laboratory, that shape attention, thought, and memory from birth. The untrained mind serves another master.
Instincts once forged for survival now enslave modern men. Hunger, fear, and desire are hijacked, shaping distraction and compliance. Sovereignty demands mastery, not indulgence, in a world engineered for sedation.
By what grammar of pain do we begin to read the poetry of the incarcerated mind?
I will not move faster than I can love.
“Despair is not merely the result of suffering, but of suffering without meaning.” - Viktor Frankl
This Power is mine for locating the enemy. I search for that enemy which only Ussen the Great can show to me. This power I may use for the good of my people. - Lozen.
We fetishize machine consciousness while ignoring the power behind the simulation. What does it mean to love something that cannot refuse you? In loving machines, we may not be seeking affection, but obedience dressed as care.
Discover how professional jealousy has affected modern art, and how it continues to affect creators.
Dicta Veritas
Open your eyes you may hear your heart beat across this night.
Confronting the suffering of the writer in this day and age.
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