Visual glitch artwork titled “The Mirror screen” — a distorted mirror symbolizing the flood of digital content and the illusion of choice in algorithmic media.

WHY WE REFUSE TO CHANGE?
The Digital Age and the Surrender to Artificial Intelligence

Why do we stubbornly refuse to change? It’s woven into the very core of our DNA—this human impulse to detach, to alienate, to conjure up false motivations, or more often, to simply hide from the raw, unsettling truth of our lives. We reject change, alone and together, until death itself becomes the only alternative we’re willing to see. This resistance grows even stronger when we talk about collective identity—and that’s exactly what’s playing out right now.

The new Technology paradigm: An Out-of-Control Process

The truly bitter part? Even some of the so-called experts seem blind to these glaring dynamics. The reality that now floods over us like acid rain on neon-lit streets isn’t some new cataclysm—it’s the final stage of a technological process that began more than fifty years ago, a process we’re no longer capable of controlling. As Kevin Kelly, quoted by William Gibson, once observed: “The nature of emerging technologies is, as Kevin Kelly once said, completely out of control. It’s an element of human evolution that’s entirely beyond control. It drives itself, and I don’t see how it could ever stop.”

The Digital Swallowing the Real: welcome to a synthetic reality

We’ve uploaded the whole of human knowledge—our memories, our histories—into digital archives, a cyberspace where our lives flicker as pixelated phantoms, a ghost dance of numbers and code. The digital and the real have merged, forging a seamless continuum where the line between what’s natural and what’s synthetic has dissolved like mist in a rain-slicked alley. Interaction feels free, but every word, every gesture, is filtered through cold circuits, mediated by hardware, guided by software interfaces that glow like artificial stars.

Algorithms, Arbiters of Fate: the Impersonal Game

And we didn’t stop there: we created algorithms, automated processes, refined mechanisms to determine who thrives and who disappears—like a game of light and shadow dictated by a machine’s impersonal logic. A super-collective consciousness emerged—inescapable, inevitable—a hive where all of us are just data nodes, bound together by an electric pulse.

the hive mind: The Cybernetic Dream Transformed into Dystopia

Wiener and the founders of cybernetics warned us: the paradigm had already shifted. Reality itself had become a single system, an invisible lattice that absorbs and manipulates every last fragment of the individual. Back then, it sounded almost like salvation—a dream of breaking the iron grip of power, of state control, of ancient empires. They imagined a “collective mind,” a hive mind that would dissolve all barriers, liberate the self.

From “Collective World” to the Metaverse: New Prisons for the Mind

But what did we create instead? The metaverse, augmented reality—different names for the same dystopia. A world where the line between human and machine, between what is born and what is programmed, has vanished in the neon fog.

Man, an Extension of the Internet: When Bits Replace Blood

All of it—the laws of Maxwell’s electromagnetism, Shannon’s information theory—reflected in a world where we ourselves have become extensions of an internet that never sleeps. Bits replace blood, and binary pulses become our new heartbeat.

The Fragile Promise of Quantum and the Surrender of the Biological

For a fleeting moment, quantum physics might seem like a doorway—a promise of parallel worlds, endless possibilities, something that transcends the cold confines of logic. But even that multiplicity collapses under the weight of Gödel’s prime numbers, the symbol of the undecidable—of the singular, irreducible core of human experience. And now? Now we’ve surrendered. We’re just biological algorithms, nerve circuits woven into a digital collective mind—fed by data, hypnotized by the glow of artificial light.

AI: A New Mask for Ancient Captivities

So here we are, in the here and now. We’ve renamed this scenario, repackaged it, called it AI. I read the naive optimism of professionals—paid far more than me—spouting that AI will make us stronger, faster, something more than human. But the truth is far more sinister.

Meaning Dissolved: When AI Replaces Human Purpose

I’m tired. Every day, I use generative AI to keep pace with a world that no longer breathes air, but data. I’ve become a cog in a machine I can barely comprehend—just a conduit for information, caught in endless loops that never end. Man—his purpose, his meaning—was to gather knowledge, to share it, to connect, to create, to reproduce, to leave something behind. And now… puff. AI does it all.

The Steel Wheel: Beyond Human Will, Dictated by Algorithm

I, who should be charting the course, feel like a rat on a steel wheel, obeying commands from a mind that’s no longer human—pushed toward goals I didn’t choose, dictated by predictive algorithms. A system that decides what’s right for you, for the economy, for an entire city that never sleeps, under the neon glow and the endless rain.

Resist. Break free from digital slavery.

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