Info

Posts from the all other stuff Category

Choose another category?

Here is a system of illusions—engraved into culture, commerce, and consciousness—that keeps humanity asleep at the wheel:

I. Personal Myths (Lies of the Self)

  1. “I am what I own.”
    Identity is mistaken for inventory. Consumerism replaces soul-searching with shopping.
  2. “I have time.”
    The great procrastination spell. Mortality is outsourced to the future self.
  3. “Success equals happiness.”
    Achievement becomes anesthesia. The ladder climbs into a void.
  4. “My thoughts are me.”
    People confuse the voice in their head with the one behind their eyes.
  5. “Healing is linear.”
    Trauma does not move in straight lines—it loops, spirals, erupts, returns.

II. Cultural Myths (Lies of the Tribe)

  1. “History is objective.”
    History is a story told by winners, edited by power, and consumed as truth.
  2. “The news tells me what matters.”
    Media manufactures urgency, not insight. Attention is farmed, not informed.
  3. “Democracy is real.”
    Most people vote once every few years. Billionaires vote every day—with money.
  4. “Education makes you smart.”
    School teaches obedience, not wisdom. It rewards memory, not vision.
  5. “Work gives life meaning.”
    Labor under capitalism is not sacred. It’s sacrifice disguised as purpose.

III. Technological Myths (Lies of the Machine)

  1. “More data = more truth.”
    Data without discernment is noise. The map is not the territory.
  2. “AI will save us.”
    Tools have no ethics. Only their masters do.
  3. “Algorithms are neutral.”
    They are trained on bias, optimized for profit, and designed to manipulate.

IV. Metaphysical Myths (Lies of the Cosmos)

  1. “I am separate.”
    You are not a skin-encapsulated ego. You are a temporary expression of eternity.
  2. “There is one truth.”
    Truth is a prism, not a point. What you see depends on how you look.
  3. “Death is the end.”
    Every myth system worth its salt treats death not as an end—but as initiation.
  4. “The world is fixed.”
    Reality is plastic. Beliefs bend light.

V. Capitalist Myths (Lies of the Market)

  1. “Brands are my friends.”
    No corporation loves you. They love your dopamine loops.
  2. “Money is real.”
    Money is collective fiction—numbers backed by belief and enforced by violence.
  3. “This is as good as it gets.”
    That’s the lullaby of the system: a whisper that says “don’t dream too big.”

Which of these lies have shaped your core identity without your permission?

Because profit lives in your self-loathing. If you ever felt enough, you’d stop buying.
Based on Vogue Business: “Future Beauty Standards Are Extreme—How Should Marketing Respond?”

You were never meant to feel beautiful. Just almost.

Almost confident. Almost worthy. Almost enough.
Enough to chase—but never enough to arrive.

That’s not a flaw in the system.
That is the system.

And now, it’s automated.

THE NEW GOD IS THE FEED

As Vogue Business reports, beauty’s future is extreme—driven by AI, injectables, gene-editing, and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. But this isn’t evolution. It’s aesthetic escalation. Your face is no longer personal—it’s programmatic.

TikTok and Instagram don’t mirror your taste. They install it.
Every swipe is a biometric confession. Every filter is a blueprint for your next insecurity.

The algorithm isn’t reflecting your desires.
It’s writing them.

Your “ideal self” isn’t who you dream of being—it’s who the feed can monetize.

FLAW IS THE FUEL

The beauty economy doesn’t run on confidence.
It runs on calibrated self-hate.

Not devastation—just dissatisfaction.
A subtle ache. A glitch in the mirror.

That’s the zone where profit lives.
Because if you ever felt enough, you’d stop scrolling, stop purchasing, stop complying.

Instead, you’re served a feed of almosts:

  • Almost natural.
  • Almost achievable.
  • Almost real.

Every ad says the same thing:
You’re one product away from permission to exist.

SKIN AS STATUS, FACE AS FILTER

We’ve entered the era of face capitalism.

Vogue notes how skin quality is becoming the new class divide. Not what you wear—what you’re made of.
You are now your texture, tone, symmetry, inflammation score. There’s no fashion to change. Just flesh to optimize.

And optimization is infinite.

DNA-personalized skincare. AI dermatology. Injectable “tweakments” that promise improvement without identity.
Even your rebellion—your bare face, your stretch marks—has been made into a monetizable aesthetic.

This isn’t self-care.
It’s cosmetic compliance.

BEAUTY ISN’T PERSONAL—IT’S POLITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Vogue surveys over 600 consumers and uncovers a split:
Some dream of more natural, inclusive beauty.
Others sense the trap—ideals are not widening. They’re mutating.

Not just unachievable—unhuman.

Beauty is no longer a preference.
It’s a passport.

Don’t fit the aesthetic protocol?
Fewer likes. No virality. No matches.
No visibility.

The algorithm doesn’t hate you.
It just can’t process your kind of face.

DESIRE HAS BEEN OUTSOURCED

You used to know what you liked.
Now you wait for the algorithm to tell you.

You don’t want to look beautiful.
You want to look machine-readable.

This is the real horror:
The homogenization of attraction.
The standardization of seduction.
The death of human taste.

You’ve been trained to crave conformity—and call it empowerment.

REBELLION IS A SYSTEM ERROR

Vogue is right to ask how marketing should respond.
But the better question is:
How do we burn the script?

Because self-love, as it’s sold now, is just a better brand of bondage.
Even your resistance—“authentic,” “natural,” “unfiltered”—has been co-opted.

Rebellion isn’t a new product.
It’s a refusal.

So here’s the resistance:

  • Keep the wrinkle.
  • Let the filter glitch.
  • Post the photo that doesn’t perform.
  • Love your face like it’s not a platform.

Because if you ever truly felt enough…
The entire economy of insecurity would collapse.

And they can’t afford that.

via

How our smallest choices fund the biggest systems — whether we mean to or not.

Most people don’t feel powerful.

The news is overwhelming. The system seems rigged.
So we turn to the familiar:
A coffee on the go. A deal online. Something fast, easy, on sale.

It feels harmless.
But here’s the truth: Every purchase is a vote.

Not a metaphor. A literal endorsement.

When you buy something, you’re saying:

“More of this, please.”

More of how it was made.
More of who made it.
More of what it leads to.

The Quiet Cost of Everyday Things

You don’t need to be evil to fund harm.
You just need to keep clicking without thinking.

No villain.
Just systems. And sleepwalkers.

“It’s Just One Thing”

Sure.
And you’re just one person.

But that’s exactly how this works:
Millions of “just one thing” decisions, repeated daily, on autopilot.

That’s how harm becomes normal.

The System Doesn’t Care What You Say

You say you care about the environment.
Or ethics. Or fairness.

But the system only tracks your behavior — not your beliefs.
The algorithm doesn’t care what you post. It cares what you click, watch, buy.

Your cart is louder than your values.
And what you fund, you fuel.

This Isn’t About Guilt. It’s About Power.

You don’t have to be perfect. No one is.
But you can be conscious.

Because every item you buy is a story — and when you pay for it, you’re signing your name to it.

So ask:

  • Would I still want this if I knew how it was made?
  • Do I believe in what this company stands for?
  • Is this helping build a world I’d want to live in?

One honest answer can shift everything.

Change Doesn’t Start with Protest. It Starts with Pause.

You don’t need to go off-grid.
You just need to stop sleepwalking.

Buy less, but buy real.
Support businesses that align with your values.
Ask why before what.

Small shifts in millions of people — that’s how systems crack.

The Bottom Line

You vote more with your wallet than with any ballot. In fact you vote with it daily and whether you realize it or not, you’re shaping the future.

So next time you buy something, ask:

“Is this a vote I’m proud of?”

via

—How Invisible Code Quietly Took the Throne from Free Will

You wake up.
You check your phone.
Before your body fully arrives in the day, the algorithm is already rearranging your mind.

It tells you what’s trending.
It shows you who’s desirable.
It decides what you should fear, want, envy, scroll past, or click into.

And you let it.
Every day.
Not because you believe in it—but because you forgot you didn’t have to.

The New Religion Has No Name—But It Has Rules

It doesn’t demand faith.
It rewards obedience.

  • Pray: through engagement.
  • Confess: through oversharing.
  • Worship: through attention.
  • Repent: when you’re shadowbanned.

There is no priest. No prophet.
Only feedback loops.

You don’t light candles.
You light up the screen—and hope the feed loves you back.

The algorithm doesn’t ask you to believe.
It just wants you to behave.

You Think You’re Free—But You’re Being Profiled

Your god knows you better than your mother.
It knows when you’re lonely.
It knows what ads make you hesitate.
It knows what kind of body you’ll stare at for 1.3 seconds longer than average.
And it remembers.

That’s not convenience.
That’s conditioning.

You don’t “choose” anymore.
You react.
To a curated hallucination optimized to make you feel like the chooser.

This Isn’t Just Technology. It’s Theology.

You refresh for answers like people once drew omens from bird patterns.
You trust the feed to show you what’s real.
You hope the algorithm will reward your effort, your creativity, your voice.

But the algorithm doesn’t love you.
It doesn’t see you.
It scores you.

You are not a person to it.
You are a pattern to be predicted.

Algorithmic Spirituality Is Already Here

You can see it in the rituals:

  • Posting at “magic” times
  • Cleansing your feed like a digital fast
  • Obsessing over metrics like they hold moral weight
  • Hoping virality will save you, validate you, crown you

We pretend we’re marketing.
But deep down, we’re begging the machine to see us.
To tell us we’re worthy.

This is not performance.
It’s prayer.

How to Reclaim the Sacred

You don’t need to smash your phone.
You need to remember you have authorship.

That looks like:

  • Choosing what you consume with intention.
  • Creating things that aren’t optimized, but true.
  • Resisting the pressure to post just to be seen.
  • Making work that confuses the algorithm—because it’s too human to predict.

Make things the feed can’t understand.
Make things that don’t care about reach.
Make things that sound like your soul—not your strategy.

Because the moment you stop shaping yourself for the algorithm
is the moment you become real again.

The algorithm is your god—
until you remember you don’t need one.

Page 27 of 3615
1 … 25 26 27 28 29 … 3,615