Sounds like you’re trying your hardest to convince yourself that it’s worth selling your soul for whatever they’re offering. If that’s the case then they’ve already won and it’s only a matter of time before your freedoms are stripped away and you willfully become a virtual slave for fear of missing out on whatever prosperity is being promised.
What are you even talking about? If anybody is denying the existence of a challenge, it’s you through your insistence that there is no future worth living without the unrelenting integration and consumption of technology.
Don’t get me wrong, I rely on these technologies as much as the next. In fact, as a software engineer, it’s my livelihood and I’m going to support any means to keep it aligned with my own values.
But I also recognize that I am a small fish in a vast ocean and that my most reliable weapon against tyranny is my own free will. If push comes to shove then I can and will simply refuse to follow society into the techno-feudalist hellscape we’re moving towards.
You call it being left behind; I call it liberation.
Sounds like you’re trying your hardest to convince yourself that it’s worth selling your soul for whatever they’re offering. If that’s the case then they’ve already won and it’s only a matter of time before your freedoms are stripped away and you willfully become a virtual slave for fear of missing out on whatever prosperity is being promised.
These are the challenges we face, it doesn’t serve anything to pretend they don’t exist.
What are you even talking about? If anybody is denying the existence of a challenge, it’s you through your insistence that there is no future worth living without the unrelenting integration and consumption of technology.
Don’t get me wrong, I rely on these technologies as much as the next. In fact, as a software engineer, it’s my livelihood and I’m going to support any means to keep it aligned with my own values.
But I also recognize that I am a small fish in a vast ocean and that my most reliable weapon against tyranny is my own free will. If push comes to shove then I can and will simply refuse to follow society into the techno-feudalist hellscape we’re moving towards.
You call it being left behind; I call it liberation.
I’m insisting on that at all. If that’s what you read, that’s perhaps your own fear talking.