Joe Allen

Their thinking is either influenced or almost entirely comprised of algorithmic outputs.

For now, it is the phone, the smartphone, which is the primary connection,

But we know from the projects pushed by Elon Musk, with Neuralink, Peter Thiel, with BlackRock Neurotech, and now Sam Altman with his new brain chip company, The Merge, that in the not too distant future, these tech oligarchs envision a world in which human beings are not simply fused to their phones as screen monkeys,

but will be quite literally fused to the machine through either brain implants, or in the case of the merge, the idea is to have some kind of non-invasive connection, perhaps ultrasound or other mechanisms, to read, and maybe one day, like Elon Musk dreams of, to write onto the brain.

All this sounds like science fiction, and for now, it's about one-quarter science.

real in about three quarters science fiction.

But that number has shifted quite dramatically over the last few years.

And as we saw with the rapid cultural, social, and I would say psychological changes of the pandemic, it wouldn't be surprising if what we see in the next few years, maybe five to 10 years,

completely overshadows the dramatic, sort of traumatic,

impact of the constant propaganda that came about in 2020 that was pushed down all of our throats, the shutdowns, the fear-mongering, the necessity of certain practices, the masks, the social distancing, the isolation, the necessity of certain chemicals or genetic concoctions such as the mRNA shots pushed by Pfizer and Moderna.

You saw

in the course of maybe six months, about half of American society completely reorient their sense of reality.

And around that, they reoriented their culture, their beliefs, even up to the point that it became a kind of quasi-religious movement in which those practices

determined who was and who was not acceptable, who was and who was not sacred, who was profane and who was acceptable.

In the case of the mRNA shots,

in a very deep sense.

If you had not taken the sacrament, you were not fit for the church, that church being the entirety of secular society.

You couldn't walk through the doors of certain institutions without proof that you yourself had submitted to the sacrament.

Seeing that, knowing that, remembering that, I don't think that it's completely insane to believe that

The kinds of changes that are being pushed from the top, beginning with the frontier companies, Google, OpenAI, XAI, Anthropic,