Digital mRNA

Our technological masters are blinded by arrogance.

Today’s technocrats, assisted by billionaire tech bros, want to implement a digital surveillance grid that will eradicate any notion of anonymity or privacy forever.

Every major country, including the United States, is working on this with enthusiastic support from governments and their many agents.

The sales pitch is primarily platitudes about protecting people from harm, especially children.

What they seek is the end of the internet as it currently is, which means it will look a lot more like licensed corporate TV than the current free for all. From here their goal is to extend their surveillance operation into every aspect of our lives, from the energy we consume to the food we are permitted to eat.

This will probably cause a lot of damage, but it will ultimately fail.

Tech bro arrogance meets managerial control freakery

We are witnessing a partnership between the technocratic elite, with a limited understanding of technology, and silicone valley titans, who are blinded by the promise of technology.

Each group believes draconian surveillance systems combined with fancy data analysis will solve many societal problems and usher in a new era with them at the helm.

To the technocrats it promises full-spectrum control of all our choices. The food we eat, the material we consume, the ability to travel.

They are salivating at the thought of the ultimate control, the issuing of government-controlled digital currencies they can deactivate on a whim. No steak for the memelords, and no road trips for those without the right carbon profile.

They have been discussing these things for many years with a degree of enthusiasm bordering on mania.

The technologists see a chance to keep in with the powerful, to join the club. If they can be the trusted partner of the visionaries currently wrecking our world they will cash in and perhaps be spared from the concentration camps.

The technologists have powerful tools that promise amazing things. Machine learning, predictive programming, behavioural modelling.

Spotting patterns within trillions of data points is appealing to society’s tinkerers, all the better to predict problematic behaviours and to spot trends. Combined with nudge units and related horrors of social engineering this promises to be the holy grail for a technocratic managerialist regime absolutely convinced it can steer society in enlightened directions, just like they imagine they did during Covid.

It is all very futuristic, and it has clearly impressed our technology gurus as well as those who love control.

But along with the outsized data stores will come outsized cockups they cannot properly plan for.

Climate modelling has promised immense benefits and accuracy for decades and we have yet to see a single successful prediction. Indeed, some of the most famous climate predictions are almost comically wrong but nonetheless trigger endless rounds of funding, chatter, conferences and hubris. Such is the lure of anything that can be adapted to enforce top-down social control.

There have been many attempts to harness technology to predict the stock market, another obvious target. None of them worked either. It doesn’t seem to matter. No one is checking the track record. It is sold on its promise and that works because of who is buying. Or, rather, the type of person who embraces these schemes.

Digital surveillance, digital currencies, digital voting, digital IDs. Everything we do tracked and stored. Such absolute total control would make our superiors into gods as they exploit these powerful tools to direct us towards better versions of ourselves.

There is a delusion at play here. Those closest to this seem lost in their fantasies. They are blind.

The wonders of mRNA

A related phenomenon is happening within biotechnology.

mRNA as a delivery mechanism for vaccines and other concoctions is here. It is hailed as the major medical breakthrough of our times.

It was famously introduced to billions in the form of Covid vaccines from Pfizer. For a time they managed to sell it as a viable alternative to traditional vaccinations.

Yet many have pointed out the use of mRNA looks like a disastrous idea. Very little is understood about how it works. There are significant concerns with the technology, including a lack of longterm data, worries about autoimmune risks, and evidence to suggest its use may trigger myocarditis among other ailments.

Corners were cut during the Covid panic to rush this novel approach to market which seems now to be overlooked to further embed it within mainstream medicine despite the lack of safety data.

Enthusiasts for mRNA are clearly quite taken by its potential. But critics often point out the arrogance inherent in this, especially in their use to administer vaccines, itself an attempt to manipulate our immune systems.

The fact that very little is known about how it works is deemed irrelevant. Many factions are eager to usher in tomorrow’s technology on the promise of what it can do for them today. There is certainly talk of mRNA revolutionizing medicine and healthcare, even talk of mRNA vaccines for depression or obesity.

There are strong parallels with the adoption of new digital methods of control. We see the same constellation of academia, government and corporations coalescing around ideas none of us have voted for or want, all of it sold to us by a shameless media who will allow no criticism to surface.

The relevance of mRNA here is that even with potentially lethal substances no real caution is observed despite supposedly strict regulations as well as our own inherent sense of self preservation. Any negative effects on the masses are irrelevant. Only expert decisions are relevant. They are entranced by the awesomeness of their own vision.

Playing God

Going all in on untested technology is usually a bad idea. mRNA vaccines were little different from electric cars or seeding oceans and skies with whatever madcap scheme is in vogue. Plenty of science is available to suggest inevitable victory. Failures can be buried and critics dismissed as cranks or conspiracy theorists.

The culprit seems to be impatience as well as arrogance. Most things that last emerge naturally over time through trial and error. The end result can often look blindingly obvious despite taking a long time to become established.

Because we can often examine the final product and trace its progress through a seemingly natural path from conception to success many good ideas look predictable and manageable.

Using this logic we imagine it was only a matter of time before we got antibiotics, powered flight or air conditioning. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. We overlook the numerous failures along the way, the near misses as well as the catastrophic dead ends. The successes look more obvious than they really are.

Top-down approaches tend to make for brittle systems despite trying to mimic strong systems. It all seems so obvious to a certain kind of mind, like people tinkering with messenger RNA and recognizing its immense potential to adapt immune systems. The more mundane reality is we know less about immunity than we thought, much less than is needed to intentionally manipulate complex immune responses to achieve a predicted outcome. A great deal of the process is a mystery to medical researchers despite the confidence they claim.

This is true for most things, and especially so for society-wide phenomenon like voting patterns, shopping behaviours or dietary habits. Much of this is essentially unknowable and impossible to direct.

The drive to harness technology is usually just a short-term promise of control and glory. Almost none of what is imposed is ever better than the emergent alternative.

Our immune system is still better than any vaccine, despite the propaganda. Throw in modern medical treatments as well as nutritious food and exercise and we are difficult to kill. mRNA concoctions replicate none of this and introduce unknowns best avoided.

Money emerging from markets is strong and inevitably based on something most find valuable like gold or silver. Fiat currency is not, it is based on whim and convention backed up by force. Programmable central bank digital currencies are barely even monopoly money and yet every Western nation is pursuing some form of these, swept up in a kind of mania as they were during Covid.

Electric cars were artificially promoted by those convinced they were the answer to contrived worries about peak oil and yet they have flopped. They are a solution looking for a problem and cannot compete with vehicles running on petroleum which have been honed over a century to impressive efficiency.

This dynamic is replicated in many top-down systems imposed by experts blinded by their own brilliance. It is myopia even when backed up with power and money as with the premature push for electric vehicles.

The breathless rush towards a digital panopticon is likely to suffer the same fate as the other great schemes. Managerial elites are so enamoured with the lure of total control they are not aware they are creating top-down brittle systems and then imposing them on a chaotic world they insulate themselves from and look increasingly out of touch with.

Will they work? Digital IDs and government-issued digital currencies? Tracking everyone and everything? Operating a full surveillance grid on all citizens?

The West is not really the place for this, especially the Anglosphere. We dislike intrusion, although for many it will creep up on them slowly.

The schemes are likely to collapse since technology is always evolving and countermeasures will always be in development.

In Britain, the recent introduction of forced age verification on some sites prompted many to download virtual private networks. This caused outrage among the political class and the bureaucrats who struggle with simple technology concepts like VPNs. There is now talk of banning them, an impossibility.

Expect more of this clueless flailing as reality destroys their plans. The world doesn’t function as they wish, so they ignore it while trying to improve it, but that doesn’t work.

They are incapable of understanding top-down processes create brittle facsimiles of stronger emergent systems. That is why they are drawn to central control in the first place.

Rival gangs

I predict managerial elites will become dependent on these tools, as well as the power to impose them, and will eventually lose any capacity to sell their ideas or persuade. Their skills to strategize or manage in a sensible way will atrophy if they have the tools to simply enforce compliance.

This is already happening in Britain, with sweeping legislation unleashing every crackpot in government, media and the legal system. The Online Harms Bill is an Orwellian nightmare and enables very serious control over the population on a wide range of pretexts. Why bother persuading when you can just jail the astute?

This does not encourage the promotion of sophisticates able to govern sensibly, which we can already see. Some of the written judgments by Britain’s high court judges jailing people for posting memes are patently absurd, almost expressions of mental instability, and yet they seem oblivious. Just one example of the kind of deterioration triggered by the misuse of power.

The failures of the digital control grid will be visible and this will destroy the credibility of those claiming an elevated place in society. This in turn will accelerate their decline as they demonstrate their unsuitability to rule.

They will be unable to stop themselves abusing facial recognition, online IDs or social credit mechanisms. People will soon tire of the petty tyrants this will create. And the evidence will probably be everywhere and impossible to hide.

Waiting in the wings are others like them, watching them fail.

We as individuals may not be able to do much but counter-elites perhaps could. Any technology powerful enough to be used as a weapon against us can be turned on them.

Can the digital surveillance grid not be used to track them and their whereabouts? Can the digitization of money not wipe out their fortunes too? Can the centralized storage of personal information not be stolen and exploited?

Will this happen? Who knows.

But what we can predict is plenty of arrogance blinding them to reality. Their plans are crazy because they themselves are crazed. They have to be because their powerful position in society is precarious and always will be.

Life teaches us the more time you spend protecting your current advantages the more you insulate yourself from real-world events without adapting to meet their challenges. Staying indoors during a media-driven pandemic does nothing to train your immune system for actual pathogens. Digital lockdowns are no different.

Today’s Western elites, wedded to their increasingly bizarre ideas, are looking more and more like yesterday’s men. Their latest attempts to control us within a digital prison may be the last gasp of people losing power because they are losing understanding of normality.

I suspect none of it will work, and nor will it provide a stay of execution for our current rulers. Their time is coming to an end.

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