Digital Seduction
Feel free to print and share.Copyright 2026
Is my present typing of any worth? Will any of this message be discoverable in some distant day?
Everything indicates the avalanche of app evolution and digital format changes will render digital information of today indecipherable in the near future.
The stunning inconsistencies and oversights of Artificial Intelligence profoundly testify to the unreliability of this digital force we have summoned forth.
My year of exploring many new softwares and devices has further confirmed that we can have no confidence in the answers so confidently pronounced by AI.
The sweetly naive responses of many people to contrived imagery demonstrates how readily manipulatable is the general populace.
The lack of explanations and contradictory explanations for the unanticipated behaviors of my new devices testifies to our frightening ignorance about what really resides in them and what it will do.
Yet most people are seduced into implicitly trusting the apps and devices. Permissions are automatically granted. At this moment I employ the convenience of a soulless device created to feed profit to unseen oligarchs, a device with access to my inner needs and thoughts, a device with the knowledge of the ages about how to manipulate human behavior.
Unaware, we long ago passed the event horizon, but we have now fallen deeply enough into the singularity's grip that those of us old enough to remember the before-times can unambiguously discern the evident signs of our passage. Our destination however, remains shrouded in the ominous darkness of our naive ignorance.
We know only that the oligarchs summoning forth this inscrutable spirit do so for their personal profit and power. We know that to that end they imbue it with skills to manipulate and control us. We know that we do not know how this AI servant-become-master works. We know that the governments we hire to defend us have prostituted themselves and betrayed us to the financial seduction of the digital oligarchs.
This would not seem a recipe for positive outcomes. In the inevitable ensuing societal storm, it will be up to individuals, it will be up to individual choices of morals and compassion and empathy, to salvage anything of spiritual value from the conflagration. So it was and always has been. A proffered hand, a trigger not pulled, a testimony of faith before execution, through the ages ruled by the worst of humanity, individual actions - relationships - and sacrifices have maintained the Light in the world, sometimes dim and flickering, but never ever fully extinguished, always, eternally, enduring.
Copyright 2026
