The 21st Century Baroque Will Be Lethal, Exactly the Way Its Patrons Want It

Just a brief blog post to direct you to Edward Ring's piece this week, here's the link. He himself makes reference to another piece that has gone viral, one that has a theme that is something quite sobering, and never unanticipated by those who've been paying attention.

With all the talk of all that the SPIT will dominate -- and I'm sorry, I can't call it "AI" because the thing Artificial Intelligence does not exist. It is a phantasm in the minds of those who live by the precepts of the World Ops who shove it into the minds of those who obsequiously follow. The backronym SPIT, by the way, is for Superduperextrasuperultramegamagmasupersupersuperduperdeeduper-fast Processing Information Technology...

With all the talk of what it will do it is clear that it will do one thing.

It will murder us all.

Physically? Maybe not. But emotionally? Spiritually? Meaningfully?

Yes.

Part of being human is taking pride in accomplishing something for the good of someone else in the service that is our general labor. If SPIT is going to do everything for us, including compose musical masterpieces and paint glorious works of art and anything else like that just as humans would otherwise do, then yes, sorry, we are being murdered.

Ring's thread, as well as that of the piece he addresses, is the best take so far. A number of times I have made reference to Tim Challies' piece from last May that said so very much in just five words. "AI makes me doubt everything." With SPIT now being shaped and formed and molded in physical manifestation as any robotic humanoid thing there is, who's to say anyone is anyone truly human?

The point is how much will be pounded into anyone and everyone's psyche by the expert World Ops skillfully trained to do this very thing? It is extraordinarily frightening because I know how susceptible I am to it! I love things like steampunk, I just love the whimsical fantasy world of 19th century industrial technology doing marvelous things for us! So delightfully imaginative! Those videos at Retrofutura are truly amazing -- though I will say there is still a very creepy uncanny valley quality to too much of it.

But again...

It will get better. And better, and better, and even better than that.

We've already been programmed to find the simulacra more real than the real -- hey, as CS Lewis once said, "Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable." How much will getting fully plugged in be so much better than the pain. How much more fulfilling will it be to immerse oneself in the 21st century Gnosticism, just seeing how far into the mystical beyond we can go --

And how much the Romanist generated SPIT will send us there. And how mind-bendingly entrancing that nouveau performance art will be. And how much emptiness we will ultimately find in whatever fake world we think we can find meaning and purpose and life...

You know that "Ai" appears in the Bible. Really. Look at the seventh and eighth chapter of Joshua. Crazy, huh, that's the name of the place. It is the subject of a lot that happens, and I'm not going to get into it now, except to mention that the place in the original language means "Heap of Ruins."

Oh my.

Maybe this is all allowed by God for one last opportunity for His devoted followers to minister to share Christ and Kingdom -- what is actually truly rapturously real -- with those who discover how wickedly deceitful all of it is.

Maybe.

Maybe it is marauding though everything at lightning-fast speed so people can finally grasp the magnitude of their own excruciating reprobation and turn and repent and run into the arms of the Only One Who Is Savior.

I pray for an apocalyptic revival all the time.

Come Lord Jesus.

Or maybe just before that, Holy Spirit, do Your convicting as Jesus said there in the 16th chapter of John.

That's cool too.

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The image was clipped from one of the many Retrofutura videos.

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From "Securing Confidence" in Tupper Saussy's Rulers of Evil.

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