Surviving America 034: The Gulag is Digital

[00:00:00] Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived.

[00:03:38] You have got to be kidding me. There is something that happens, folks, when I pull out the poems. It's like the universe is telling me, dude, shut up, don't read. Constantly, this situation. You know what I mean? Constantly. I don't know what it is. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to... I think we're going to take it from the top. How about we do that?

[00:04:07] Here I thought Mikey and Instagram was... I thought Mikey and Instagram was giving me a compliment on the book. He was just basically saying, dude, we can't hear a word you're saying. Let's get into it again. Let's start it over. Whatever. I can always modify the audio over there at... Spreaker. So nobody will even know. I don't know. It's such a great intro to the show, though. But I can fix it.

[00:04:35] The magic of editing. You know what? I can't find it. It is what it is. Let's get the show going as is. Firewolf Forge says five by five in chat. I'm not sure if you're talking about my workout or what. But he requests a back from the top. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. You're right. You're right. Push on through. It's a Wednesday. We're reading Luddite from Darker Trails.

[00:05:02] To set the stage for the Gulag is digital. And the digital Gulag had me trapped there for a second, right? Technology is not the enemy. Many would beg to differ. I believe it is instead the test. To leverage its capabilities before it lulls us to sleep. Are we lulled to sleep yet, you think? It's infancy is all we know. Awaking giant. Our minds cry out for balance. We are creatures of the dirt, not the diode.

[00:05:32] Those elements that sustain us. Within the palm of a fiber optic hand, opportunity awaits. Look too deep and you could be snared by copper digits with charged lithium nails. Grab a hold of the rocks and weeds. Even the stinging nettle will be a welcome sensation.

[00:05:54] Anything to tear you away from the monochromatic screen. Find your balance in the creeks and the streams and those elements that sustain us. Darker Trails, ladies and gentlemen. This is a fun one. This was a fun one. This was fun because it was not, it was my first time ever playing around with book illustration. You know what I mean? Probably have no idea what the hell that's supposed to be. You really got to look at this one to kind of see what it is.

[00:06:23] And read the book and read the story that goes along with it. But it was a fun, it was a fun endeavor, man. It was fun to take on. This is a monster from my childhood right here. This guy. It's the Raven Head Man. The Raven Head Man was real. Oh my goodness. The Raven Head Man from 24 Chestnut Street, Markasook, Pennsylvania, who lived atop a big brick building that sat behind the train tracks.

[00:06:51] And at night we'd swim in the pool, in the little three foot pool in our row home in Markasook, Pennsylvania. And we'd swim in that pool at night and my sister would talk about the Raven Head Man who lives up on the... Oh, so cool. Such a good time. Such a good time, man. You know? Technology articulates everything and that really is...

[00:07:16] There's, you know, the articulation of everything through AI now and through... Well, technology in general. Right? Graphics and all that kind of stuff. It takes sort of the mystery out of it. Like I'll never know what the Raven Head Man really looked like or looks like. Because it was completely fabricated by my sister, but it was awesome. It could have been fabricated by my older cousin. I don't know exactly where it started.

[00:07:45] But we'll never know. That's my interpretation. She has her interpretation. And that kind of is, you know, it's almost sort of like the constellations. The constellations are magic like that. You look up, you see Orion. Everybody shows their kids Orion, I imagine, right? You show your kids Orion and you tell them about the hunter and the bow and the belt. And, you know, they see something and they kind of see it and you see something. You see it. But, you know, not everything in the world must be perfectly explained, you know?

[00:08:18] Look, gargoyles are sweet. I used to work for a guy who had gargoyles all over his house. Little ones. Little kind of cutesy ones. Not like cutesy, just kind of ugly, but little and fat. And they were on like a regular house, like a nice house, but a regular house. It was cool. They were cool. They were like built into his cement or whatever the hell his bricks kind of bricks his house was made out of. Cool. Thanks, everybody, for hanging on. I appreciate it.

[00:08:47] I started the show with a muted mic. That's always good. Amateur hour. It's only like my thousand to three thousandth podcast or something like that. It's not like I have much experience at broadcasting or podcasting or whatever the hell this is. But we're doing the the Gulag is digital today. The Gulag is digital. We're going to do we're going to read an article from Michael Snyder's The Economic Collapse Blog dot com talking about brain implants,

[00:09:19] talking about AR goggles and how they're going to change the world and change your brain and probably destroy your brain. From if you look at it from my perspective, you know. AR is an amazing technology. I've said this for years. You know, virtual reality is a lot of fun. A lot of fun. I could show you an example of some of the fun that I have on virtual reality today if you'd like. Augmented reality is that but sometimes even kind of cooler.

[00:09:46] You know, it's even kind of it's like taking taking the video game world and plopping it right in your living room. And there's something really cool about it. But Meta's augmented reality glasses are I really think they're going to destroy your brain. And I'll explain why later in the show. But I mean, it all plays back to this crazy balance that we have to undertake now as human beings, which is what I talked about in that poem Luddite.

[00:10:16] It's that's your battle. It's my but it's not what would people like you and me have to understand people in our 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, whatever, have to understand is this is not the kids battle. I see this all the time. People are always talking about the kids are always on the phones and screens and the them. And they do that while like their phone is in their hand.

[00:10:41] The technology is so alluring and so dastardly that you don't even realize you're addicted to it. Right. You don't dare look at your screen time. You don't dare make a commitment to yourself and say, you know what, I'm going to cut my screen time down by 50 percent. But I will tell you this from experience. Well, you don't need to see my phone for me to convey the point.

[00:11:04] If you put your phone in an inconvenient place after work or when whenever whenever it doesn't need to be at arm's length, I particularly like when everybody's home, I'm good. Everybody's home or everybody's in a place that's safe. That's when I'm like, yeah. And I put the phone somewhere and just forget it exists. And it's really not that tough. You know what I mean? I think it's tough for people who have nothing. You know, we.

[00:11:34] The creative. The creative endeavor. Is the the penultimate sort of like. Destruction of the overwhelming gulag digital gulag, right? The hands and fingers sort of creative endeavor. The mental undertaking really is the antithesis of the technological drone that we get stuck in. It is. It's a world for bored people.

[00:12:04] That's what it is. It's a world for bored people. It's a world for hurting people. It's a world for people who need a distraction, who need to burn time, who need to be distracted, who maybe have a hard thing that they have to do and don't want to undertake it. So give me 10 more minutes on this Instagram feed and I'll just and I'll do it. I know I live in the same world as you. I never want to come off as a guy that's like, I got it all figured out. Listen to me. I'm a subject matter expert. OK. I know don't like it.

[00:12:34] Never a big fan of that kind of talk. Do what I say because I know everything and you don't know shit. All right. I'm never a big fan of it. I go through it. I go through the same stuff. You know what I mean? I'm right there. So. But what I find is that. I'm a guy with like multitudes of hobbies. You know what I mean? Multitudes of I'm never bored. There is never bored. I have to.

[00:13:02] I have to like take a deep breath and find the will to be bored or to sit still. And I think that's a you know, that's a thing in and of itself. Right. Fire Wolf. Fire Wolf says, you know, commander, you don't have to come after me publicly. It is what it is. So. We all struggle with this.

[00:13:30] I think that's I think you can use it. You can use your social media use. You can use your cell phone use. You can use your screen time as a very real indicator to yourself of what the hell is going on in your life. You know what I mean? It's pretty simple. If you see someone who's going through shit nowadays, they're in that phone. You know what I mean? They're in that phone and the kids are in that phone all the time because.

[00:14:00] Do you not remember middle school, high school like. I start sweating just thinking about it, and I had a blast most of the time, but I, you know, the level of anxiety in the. Oh, my goodness. It's a war going to school if you went to like public school and stuff. I'm not even talking about just I'm not even talking about bullying. Right. I'm just talking about the sheer like. Look good. I got the. How's the hair and everything?

[00:14:30] I go. OK, but backpack with the backpack. Do I got a stain? Do I got this? I'm going to get a walk into the class and sit down and there's people, you know, like. Glowering at you. Your friends are there. The girl you like is looking. You got to stop and give a presentation. And. It's it's insane, you know, and on top of all of that, you've got these people at home that you have to please. You're like, oh, I got to do good here. Also, I got to get good grades. And then, you know, if I don't get good grades and what the hell, what am I going to wind up doing with my life?

[00:15:00] And then you have that looming over your head, too. Right. You have that thing like, what am I going to be when I grow up? I don't want to be a loser. It's a crazy time. Then you get you're getting massive injections of testosterone and, you know, crazy stuff that's happening to you through puberty and all that. Yeah, it's so what I see when I look at people who are like.

[00:15:25] I just see somebody who's like they're going through it and I go through the same thing. You know what I mean? When you're going through it, you're like, I need I need me like a good distraction. The problem is we've passed the point of. Is the cell phone addictive or is it a habit forming, you know, addiction and habit? What's your take on addiction and the habit?

[00:15:53] Right. You could definitely say I'm addicted to biting my fingernails, but that's just a habit. But I love to buy with my nervous energy. You know what I mean? So what is it? Is the phone an addiction or is it based on my experience? I could leave the phone right here on the window sill. And there's no like, what's it called? There's no repercussions. There's no withdrawals. You know what I mean?

[00:16:22] I don't have any kind of withdrawals from a phone. I don't know if other people have that kind of thing. But when I think of addiction, I think of withdrawals. I think of, you know what I mean? Serious consequences when you stop a thing. You know, for me, put the phone down. I even see it with my oldest son now. My oldest son, he's walking around the house bored, which is phenomenal. I try to do very little about it. He walks around the house bored. He's dribbling an indoor basketball.

[00:16:51] And just, you know, just he's reached the point where the technology is bored. It's boredom. There's nothing in it anymore for him really, for the most part. You know, his friends get on. He plays a little bit. It gets off. Um, so you see it, you see kind of like how it dissolves away. But the question is, of course, is it addiction or is it habit? Phoenix survival is in the chat. Phoenix. I got to thank you. And I want to give a shout out. Hang on.

[00:17:22] I want to thank the Phoenix. I don't know if you sent it to me or if I got it in my feed, you might have sent it to me. But the reason I watched the video was purely because of you. Uh, let me get in my feed real quick. Instagram, Instagram, Instagram. I want to say, and nobody cares about what I'm about to say except for Phoenix, probably. Like, this is so dumb. It's it's to the average person.

[00:17:51] It's very cool to me. Actually, I think it's probably one of the coolest things I follow. Following. What? I just followed him yesterday. Okay. I don't know. I can't find it now. The Phoenix. I saw that she was following an incredible lady. I think it's called verse and sip on Instagram.

[00:18:20] And what this lady does is something that I think is absolutely incredible. Dude, what the hell is going on? I watched like three of her videos today already. All she does is write handwritten letters and seal them with wax. I can't. I can't believe that stupid ass thing. The other thing is these things aren't functional like they used to be anymore. You know what I mean?

[00:18:48] Look, it my Instagram feed right now is a ton of things I'm not subscribed to. Do you know what I mean? This happens to me on all kinds of social networks. EDC patches don't care. It's just a bunch of crap. What is this? Tom and Lauren health. What is that? I only have like a hunt.

[00:19:16] I only follow like a hundred almost under 200 people. And one of them is this lady. But I want to thank the Phoenix because the Phoenix, I saw your little like on her thing. I don't know if you sent me the video. You may have sent me the video. Let's double check that real quick. We're in the gulag. We might as well be in the gulag because we're in the gulag. No, because I was surprised you didn't send it to me. Holy shit. I sent her a message last night. Verse and sip.

[00:19:45] I want to see if we could get her on the podcast. Verse and sip, man. Verse and sip. This is what I mean. If you are wrapped up in the digital gulag already and you're feeling like, I don't know what to do with my time. You got to slow. I was telling you, you got to slow down. But verse and sip. I happened upon it. I saw the lady with the wax seal thing, which I love. And then I started thinking to myself. Let me let me watch.

[00:20:15] And then I saw the look here in the corner. I saw the Phoenix was following her already. And I said, all right, well, I'm definitely watching. Look. It's the stupidest thing. To 99% of the world. Like the idea of sitting down and handwriting a letter and wax sealing it and sending it to someone's probably like, dude, shut up. Just shut up. But I don't know. I love it. I think it's amazing. I have wax seals up there.

[00:20:45] I don't know if you can see them. You can't see them. You might be able to see the wax itself. But I have wax seals up. I have wax in the seals. I even have a special seal for my wife that no one else gets. Because this is life, baby. It's happening in the flesh and blood world.

[00:21:03] And I really do think that one of the best things that can happen to a person nowadays in the world of like AI generated everything, particularly like how many emails you think you're going to get written in the in the coming future that are actually written by a person.

[00:21:48] You know what I mean? It's amazing.

[00:22:17] It's amazing. I've there's no doubt I've done this and there's no one who can deny it. You know what I mean? Because there's not a machine or a cheat or a hack on the planet that can do this for me. Verse and sip. Jay Fergie, thank you so much for freaking liking that because I would have probably never watched the full thing if you didn't have your like up there on it or your follow up there on it. And and now I'm hooked.

[00:22:46] I almost joined her letter club last night. I almost was like, I wouldn't mind being a part of that. Yeah, she'll write letters and send them off. They got poems in them and a bag of tape. T. Dude. Like, I don't know. You have to understand, I come from a place. I dodged all the masculine things growing up as a kid and went to reading poetry and charming girls. You know what I mean? That was like my that was my thing.

[00:23:15] It was that was what I was into and into music, into being a musician and that kind of stuff. And all those to get this. I don't know. It's just those things. You know what I mean? Those those. I don't know what to call them. Artisanal. I don't know what it is. You know what I mean? But they they're just the things that I like. And the other thing. If I could give you anything. If I could give you anything. You know what I mean? To traverse this world with. Is.

[00:23:44] You have to. You have to play the game by your rules. You understand? Man. This is the most important thing in life. If you want to live a happy life. I mean, if you really want to live a happy life where you are like. My life is just doing the stuff I want to do. Like most of the time. Except for maybe some degree of responsibility that we all have and cannot avoid anyway. Right? There's always going to be some of that.

[00:24:13] But I know there are people and I know the people personally who traverse a world that is. Well, Thoreau said it best. It's it's a life of quiet desperation. That's what it is. You don't want to find yourself trapped in Thoreau's. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. He said the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. But now, you know, you look back and you can see it's everyone.

[00:24:40] The mass of men, the mass of women, the mass of children live, lead lives of quiet desperation. Don't fall into that hole, man. And the biggest way to get out of that hole is you have to live life by your rules. And it doesn't mean like I'm not fucking paying the mortgage because these are my rules. You know what I mean? You can't do that.

[00:25:02] But what I'm saying is when you like something and when you really enjoy doing that thing, whatever it is, so long as it's not destroying the people in your life. Right. You've got to you've got to just go all in on it. I just Mike pointed at my nose. You've got to go all in on it. You know what I mean? There are so many things in my life like I do a prepper show, run a prepper network.

[00:25:33] Right. And there are so many things in my life that would make a bunch of the people who probably like listen or whatever or like PBN or maybe don't listen to me, but like other hosts on PBN. Just like so disappointed. Just utter disappointment in the commander for the things that he wastes his time on. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

[00:25:59] Those like like another person's disappointment in you is is I can't even tell you how pointless it is to even think about it. It's absolutely pointless to consider. You know what I mean? What is up, Joray? Unless it's Joray. You never want Joray to be disappointed in you, especially not in what you're eating. Yeah, it just is what it is. Right.

[00:26:26] It's about 40 little miniature toy aliens and spacemen over here on this table. So it is the most dorkiest and embarrassing thing in the world to be painting Warhammer figurines and playing Warhammer with your your, you know, neighbor. But I love it. You know what I mean? And for so many years, thanks to coming up the way I came up, like I mentioned earlier, I just whatever.

[00:26:56] Live life by your rules, people. There are things that you like. You know what I mean? Don't bury them and start golfing because your dad said you should golf. You know what I mean? Because the longer you do it, the longer you get in the habit of doing the things that you love and the more consistent you are with doing the things that you love and all that kind of stuff.

[00:27:19] Like you will see all the baritone men who have told you what it is you're supposed to do and how you're supposed to do it. They will all shriveling and and like crack and just disappear and blow into the dust and become shells of themselves. You know what I mean? I've watched it in real life. I mean, I've listened when you're a guy like me. Everybody's got something to say. You know what I mean?

[00:27:49] There's always people who have something to say about what you're doing or or what they do in a passive aggressive way saying that what you're doing is not the right thing or you should do this or do you know what I mean? And you get to the point where you spend time, you know, two decades with a person and you watch them just right. It's like become I don't know what it is. It's it's they begin to lead the life of quiet desperation.

[00:28:20] So follow your heart, PPN family, and it will lead you away from this digital gulag because this world is created for. For the life of quiet desperation. Like that's what it's been created for. There is nothing better than social media for a man living the life of quiet desperation. Right. It's like, oh, my God, I hate my job. I hate my home. I hate. You know what I mean?

[00:28:50] My commute. I hate it all. So I'm going to go get into an absolute war on Twitter and tell someone what an idiot they are and and how Donald Trump is either great or terrible. And that's going to be my afternoon, baby. Death helps. You know, death is death. Death really helps. Death helps in all facets of life.

[00:29:15] If you can consistently be reminded that you're going to die, it really helps you with your. It really helps you with your. Dependency on the digital gulag. Really, it'll help because I always have the deathbed mentality, you know, have the deathbed mentality. It always help think to yourself when I'm in my bed, pissing on myself in my last hours.

[00:29:43] Will I look back and say, I'm sure glad I did what that guy told me to do instead of what I wanted to do. I'm sure glad I let my pride get in the way instead of taking care of the people that I really love. You know what I mean? In the ways that that they wanted to be taken care, whatever the deathbed mentality. It helps. So today is day. What is it? What is it? We're going to talk.

[00:30:12] Jorate, give me a second. Today is day one, two, three. No, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11 of Ration or Ruin. Day 11 Ration or Ruin. Jorate asks me what I've had for breakfast. Now, remember, we're not eating like we're normally eating. Because we're on this Ration or Ruin survival challenge for the month of May. Okay. And it's been fun.

[00:30:41] I mean, it's it's a huge eye opener. You know what I mean? It really is. Ration or Ruin. I haven't been 100% like faithful to the challenge. I've done some eating here and there when I shouldn't have. And largely because the one thing I didn't expect from Ration or Ruin is for my family to be so like in protest of it. Which is something to consider in and of itself.

[00:31:09] We may talk about that in detail on the Ration or Ruin report on Friday. But suffice it to say, kind of interesting really. But today, Jorate will probably be a four egg breakfast. Yeah, it'll probably be a four egg breakfast for me. I am a cultivator in the Ration or Ruin challenge. So that means I get to I don't have to just eat survival food. My compatriots over there at the Patriot Power Hour. Great show last night, by the way.

[00:31:37] Um, they're stuck eating Mountain House food Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week. Somehow I wound up with like two packs of Mountain House for the week. I got like, I got like a thousand calories for the week, which I don't think is going to be much of a problem. Um, I've been living now for these last 11 days in a caloric deficit, undeniably like a caloric deficit.

[00:32:07] And it's clear my body's adapted. I never stopped working out. I did brutal day of workouts yesterday. And I don't feel bad. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't feel bad. I don't feel that different. I looked at my body looks different, but I don't feel that different. What I have learned, though, and I don't know if I've learned it. It's just been more of a verification.

[00:32:34] But Firewall Forge is also taking part in the chat. Well, many of the Prepper Broadcasting Network listeners, you guys out there are taking part in the challenge. Some of you have just modified it or, uh, oh, Jorate. You know I had coffee, dude. There is no way. There is no. Look, I wouldn't do this normally. Maybe I should do it more often. I mean, it is my business. It is how I pay the bills. But, uh, yeah. Yeah. We had a little bit of the old, how do we get this to work?

[00:33:03] God in heaven, the light. We had a little bit of the old pandemic. Oh, the closer the better. I guess it's not mirrored, but that's our six bean espresso blend. Disaster coffee dot com. Disaster coffee dot com. Disaster coffee dot com. That's my six bean espresso blend. That is by far the most popular coffee that we offer at disaster coffee dot com. It tastes better when you drink it in a stitch cup.

[00:33:31] You see me with a lot of stitch stuff on because I have a little half pug, half French bulldog that lives amongst pit bulls exclusively. And she's an absolute menace. She is six to six. You know what I mean? She's an absolute menace. She's awesome. But yeah, that was part of the that was part of the compromise for sure. Like we're not giving up coffee. We're not giving up coffee. We're not giving up supplements. We're not giving up workouts.

[00:33:59] And as long as we can handle all that, I'll be in the challenge. You know what I mean? I'll be in the challenge. But you know, the other thing that I really struggle giving up with ration of ruin is life. Life meals. You know what I mean? Like like, oh, it's an opportunity to sit down at a restaurant and eat with the family like. Hmm. These moments are too precious. You know, you got to understand what's precious and valuable in your life. You got to understand.

[00:34:27] Again, it's back to the deathbed mentality. You know what I mean? It's back to understanding the clock is ticking, baby. The clock is ticking. You're going to run out of time. We all run out of time. But not only is the clock ticking, the very age that you are has value and holds value. You know, I'm sitting in a restaurant with my sons looking at them. And in my head, I'm going. Carter's 13, Jacob's nine. How many more of these meals do you get with your 13 year old and your nine year old?

[00:34:57] And maybe it's not that big a deal to people that next year they'll be 14 and 10. Who cares? What's the difference? Oh, there's a there's fucking huge difference. You know what I mean? There's a huge difference in my opinion. Anyhow. In terms of survival food, guys, and we'll talk about today's sponsor. Pack Fresh USA. It's really this simple. The bag says rice. And there's a date on it.

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[00:37:01] We're going to eat MREs next week. I can promise you that I'm going to come to the same conclusion again and again and again, and that is DIY food storage is key. That's it. Staples put them up. If you don't know how to use them, you better learn to use them or better get somebody in your life that knows how to use them. Diorite says, Diorate says supplements. Yeah, you know, supplements.

[00:37:33] No, there's just things that I don't want to give up through this challenge when I'm on a caloric deficit. Like. Multi vitamin. I want to make sure my body has what it needs. Omega three, which I supplement with every day anyway. Right. Creatine, which I've been supplementing with for. Actually, I owe you guys. I owe the members a commander creatine, don't I? Yeah, definitely.

[00:37:59] These things that I just supplement with on a regular basis because I think it's good. I think it's essential. I think they fill gaps in your diet that are important. And yeah. So those I didn't want to give those up, in other words. And and Ben, the breaker of the banksters was in the same and future Dan, he was in the same sort of headspace with all that. I'll like I'll be at the beach in June. You know what I mean? I don't want to.

[00:38:27] I was sick last last vacation. I'm not too interested in being sick again from literally putting myself in caloric deficit stress to suffer through that. So. That's that. OK, that's that. Let's do. Let's talk about this crazy ass article. What are we at? Thirty eight minutes. Yeah. I don't know if I have a hard stop today or anything like that. Let's just yak.

[00:38:56] Let's just yap it up together. Have fun. We got a great Instagram audience. We got a great YouTube crew over there. Nobody ever says anything on X. I don't know what the hell the deal is with X. They watch. They don't say anything. If you're on X, say something. Hey, how you doing? Hey, thanks for the show. Anything. Say something. So over the economic collapse blog dot com. We have a really cool article. Actually, let me share it with you. I got this technology. I might as well put it up here. Stop staring at my big face.

[00:39:29] Share screen. And right away we get an ad implantable brain computer interfaces are here. The gulag is digital and they are a giant step toward the dystopian digital prison society. The elite have planned for you. So you see why these two concepts work so well together. Right. I want to talk to you about this synchron.

[00:39:55] This synchron is interesting in the name is interesting because I wrote a couple. I don't know. Tens of thousands of words, not books on. The. The separation of human and cyborg in society and what that will look like. You know what I mean? And it's pretty cool. And it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. But the the organization in there was called synthesis.

[00:40:22] So it's kind of interesting to see this organization come out and be called synchron. Raised my eyebrows a little bit. Imagine controlling an iPhone or a MacBook with nothing but thoughts. It may sound far fetched, but Apple's latest partnership suggests it could be closer than we think. The tech giant has teamed up with neurotechnology firm Synchron, developing a brain implant that allows users to operate digital devices by thinking. No typing, tapping or swiping required.

[00:40:55] Interestingly, it's being reported that Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are both involved with Synchron. Of course, Bezos wants it. You know, Bezos wants you to think your ass into an Amazon purchase. Like forget about looking, swiping and anything just like re up the toilet paper and boom. There it is. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is partnering with Synchron, a privately held New York City based company backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Bill Gates always has our best intentions, though.

[00:41:22] You know, you can be you can be rest assured that the King Lizard himself. Yeah. You know, it's one of those things. He's always looking out for us. Right. Well, thank you, Jory, for watching on X. Jay Ferg, the Phoenix in chat and over on Instagram says so over a I and lazy shit. That's so well put because that is what it is, isn't it? My kids are so sick of a I. They don't like anything.

[00:41:52] A.I. even if it looks like it's a I. They're like, I don't know. You know, it has no value to them whatsoever. I don't know if your kids are that way or not, or if all kids are that way or not. But my kids are little a I detectors. You want to devalue something is one of the reasons I stopped doing the A.I. thumbnails, to be honest with you. My son, who sometimes sits behind me during the day, I'll be working in Canva. You know what I mean? Putting something together.

[00:42:16] He'll turn his little nine year old head and see the Canva thing and he goes, A.I. and turns his head back. Hey, sometimes they know. The brain computer interface or BCI industry is projected to grow significantly over the coming decades. Perhaps the best known player in the space is Elon Musk's Neuralink, which as of January has successfully implanted its devices in three people already.

[00:42:46] The Avengers. The Avengers. The Avengers. The Avengers. So here's where Synchron differentiates itself from Neuralink. And actually in Darker Trails, in Darker Trails, this is kind of cool. This was really fun to write. But in Darker Trails, I have a story called Neuralink. Don't worry, I won't read it to you. But it's at the end of the book. Where is it?

[00:43:14] It's around that Luddite section. No, maybe not. I don't know where it is, but it's in the book and it's it's a conversation between a dad and a son. Page 80. And it's all about the kid and the and the dad having their conversation. And they're basically saying he's basically saying like, yo, dad, like I got to get Neuralink. I have to get it. Everybody's got it. It's how you get into college. It's how you start relationships.

[00:43:43] It's this is, you know, this is the how you do things now. And the dad's like, yeah, you might not want to do it. I don't know. It doesn't sound good to me. You know what I mean? And it's a fun story. It was fun to write. You know, it was very personal. It was very like my kids. That book came out, I think, two or three years ago now. So it was very like looking at my little boys and saying like, oh, this could be a conversation we have one day. What's up, Barique Outdoor Gear?

[00:44:10] Thanks for joining Rob Gann, Nitro Poel and a bunch of others over there on Instagram. Thanks for popping in. I appreciate you guys. Let's get back to the story, shall we? Unlike Neuralink's N1 implant, Synchron's stent-like device called the Stentrode. The Stentrode sounds like something you fight in a video game, right?

[00:44:36] Sounds like a boss or like a maybe not a boss, but it's like one of those mid-range, mid-tier enemies that you have to take out in a video game. Oh, no, it's a swarm of Stentrode. It's implanted on the top of the brain, not inside of it, which allows users to avoid an invasive open brain implant procedure like Neuralink.

[00:44:57] Once placed, the Stentrode works by using its electrodes to read brain signals and translate them into an on-screen navigation and icon selection. This is what Michael Snyder says. The way they get Synchron's device on top of the brain is by implanting it into the jugular vein and then navigating the device into the blood vessels near the brain's motor cortex.

[00:45:23] At the core of this breakthrough is technology known as BCI, the brain-computer interface. I thought they talked about the Synchron's device called the Stentrode is implanted by the jugular. No, that's not it. This is transformative. Yeah, this is it. We use the blood vessels as a natural highway into the brain, lacing them with electrodes that record activity. That platform becomes like Bluetooth for your brain.

[00:45:53] It's like Bluetooth for your brain, letting you control a device without needing a keyboard or mouse. It's like the goal is to create a dystopian digital prison society in which as many people as possible are connected to the internet for as long as possible. Even if you choose not to participate, you will not be able to escape it.

[00:46:21] Now you think, you know, that's pretty invasive. And sounds very dangerous. But now I want you guys to consider a technology that I will undoubtedly try. Undoubtedly will try. There's just no guesswork in it. I'll give it a whirl. The real revolution. Who said this? This is a quote from someone.

[00:46:51] We are being told that soon millions of people will be constantly gathering information. Everyone will be pointed at. I don't know if Michael Snyder wrote this or if this is a quote from somebody, but. This is legit. This is what I was talking about with the brain degeneration. The real revolution and the real threat lies in what comes next met as AI glasses, sunglasses, spectacles, whatever you want to call them. They look like something out of a sci fi flick. Actually, they look kind of dumb.

[00:47:21] We can look at them if you want. Very soon, millions or perhaps tens of millions of people will be walking around with them on. Let's talk about what they do. They comprise a camera microphone and AI interface and Internet access all embedded discreetly in eyewear. They are capable of recognizing faces, interpreting language, overlaying information in real time and collecting vast swaths of data as their owners simply walk down the street.

[00:47:44] They can whisper comprehensive summaries about the stranger across the subway, translate foreign speech in real time, suggest pickup lines. That would be fun. That would be fun. Record interactions without consent and overlay reviews of a restaurant before you've even looked at the menu. You know, the reason I missed out on the love of my life is because meta fed me the wrong AI generated pickup lines. All this is done without lifting a phone or typing a word.

[00:48:14] So. So. This is probably the most terrifying of them all to me because it's less invasive than like cut my skull open, less expensive than say cut my skull open and put a stentrode stentrode on top of it. Or I'm sorry, cut my jugular vein open, please. And then fire that baby up there. It's. Yeah. I don't know, man.

[00:48:44] You know what I'm saying? This one seems like, oh, they're just glasses. I just put the glasses on and oh, look, it tells me that's a coffee mug and that's a woman and that's a man. Well, hold on. Maybe not. It's calibrating and calculating. Right. So. What's really terrifying about it to me is. The thing your brain does that stuff already. You walk into a room, your brain's doing stuff you don't realize. What's that? The lighting, the bumble, the bumble. Is that a threat? Is that a thing? Is that a food? Is that a this? Can I walk into that?

[00:49:13] Can I trip over that? Right. Your brain does this stuff already. What happens to your mind if you wear these glasses every day and and all of a sudden your brain, just like your muscles. Goes. We don't really need to do that shit anymore. Like these glasses do it like he's got this thing on his face that does some of our work for us. What do you think is going to happen when you take the glasses off? What do you think is going to it's atrophy, baby?

[00:49:41] It's it's it's attrition. You know what I mean? It's always happening. It's always happening. This is why you run into men who are like superstar college athletes in their 20s. You run into them by the time they hit 32. They're fat, overweight, can't go up the steps. Right. It's atrophy. These things deteriorate with time. Your brain's the same thing, dude. It's the same situation. You stick these.

[00:50:10] I guarantee you. I mean, this is utterly the dumbing. This is the direct. The like physical embodiment of the dumbing down of the mind. To take your brain's duties and put them on autopilot so that the metaglasses can do them some of them for the brain. It's never going to be good. It can't be good. You know, it just can't be good.

[00:50:38] And like I said, the reason it's most terrifying, more terrifying than brain surgery and all that is because most people aren't going to do that crazy stuff. Most people aren't going to say, yeah, I'm going in to get the jugular cut. They're going to put the hairnet up in my brain with the electrodes on it. And then I'll be able to scroll Instagram without my hands. People aren't going to do that in mass.

[00:51:01] What people will do in mass is put a pair of glasses on, put a pair of glasses on them that interprets everything around them and makes life easier. Tells them where they should go eat, where they shouldn't go eat, what they should and shouldn't do. Ooh, the gulag is digital. You know what I mean? I'm just telling you, it is what it is. It is what it is. Guard, guard yourself, PBN family. You know, seriously, guard your freedom. Guard your freedom at all costs because.

[00:51:31] Yeah, it's wild out there. It's wild out there. It's like I mentioned at the beginning of the show when the microphone was muted. No, but but really, that's that's what that poem I read at the beginning of the show is all about. It's all about that. It's all about this balance in technology and it's going to get better and better and more alluring. And you know what I mean?

[00:51:55] And you have to understand the deeper you sink into this stuff, the harder it becomes to get out of that digital gulag and the more control anyone can exact over you. You ever saw the movie her watch the movie her. You know what I mean? It's it's that's going to happen. Probably has happened already. You know. All these things. I was listening to someone. This is an important one, too. We talked about fitness.

[00:52:26] We talked about handcrafted letters. Right. And how these things are all of a sudden there's this value in the world outside of technology. Right. Like it used to be there were things that you could make on the Internet and they were unique, one of a kind. No one else has this thing. You know what I mean? And now anything that comes off the Internet is because because of A.I. and the copying and all that kind of stuff, it seems, you know.

[00:52:53] Like it was peak and then it felt one of the things I was listening to as a woman talking about massage and and the epidemic of. The lack of physical touch in our society. Undoubtedly due to exactly what we've been talking about this whole damn show. Right. Isolation, digital dependency, digital gulag and people being weird.

[00:53:24] And one of the things that was interesting about what she was saying was that it's another thing that can't be replicated. Right. Yeah. You can have like a. You can have a robot with skin ish material that has the ability to caress your skin with its skin ish material in a way that might feel kind of OK. But at the end of the day, your brain is going to be like, that's a robot.

[00:53:54] That's not a real person. That thing doesn't even have agency. Right. Because. The thing about physical touch is. It has to. There has to be that agency. The desire to write has to be there. It can't be. It's not the same if it's dictated. Right. So again, you put that in that column of things that are uniquely human.

[00:54:21] And that that column of things that are uniquely human is going to become more and more valuable. Trust me. Believe me. Lean into it. The key is to be able to straddle both worlds. I think that's how you have the most fun. Right. But you got to know when you're getting in too deep. You got to have help. You got to stay up to date. You got to read. You got to teach. You got to tell. You got to learn. You got to make sure that. Well, we'll see. That's part of the fun, too. You know, where's the commander gone?

[00:54:50] Oh, he disappeared. How why? What happened to him? Well, they made it. They made a Warhammer game that was too good. No.

[00:55:27] So. Just wrap your head around that now. Don't let it shock you. You probably had to talk them out of a bad decision. They're gonna be driving around in the car with a robot girl on the side in the passenger seat telling them everything they want to hear. You know what I mean? Um. But I think just like AI, you know, when AI came around into the creative world, into the writing world, into the, you know, images and that kind of stuff, like there's no soul there.

[00:55:56] And you you can feel it. Can't you? I know people can feel it. I know my kids can see it. I know people can feel it. You see an image and you almost know, like. Like. There's no soul in there. You read something that's a I generated. You can really tell you can really go on. You know what I mean? It's a masquerade at best. Sometimes it gets over, but. And maybe it'll get better. Maybe it'll become more and more unrecognizable. And maybe.

[00:56:27] Maybe the pinnacle for AI in the creative sense is to just be able to hide better all the time. But it's like I've always said, you know. If you're not born with these nerves. If you're not born into this world. Screaming. If you don't suffer what it is to be human. If you don't feel and touch and smell and and live and.

[00:56:56] Have the joys and experience the world and the natural world, the digital world, the combination of it all, the fights, the wins, the losses, the failures, everything that it is on a daily basis to be human. You can't just take what humans write about. You can't just build on it. And then all of a sudden you're human or all of a sudden you can do something even better than humans do.

[00:57:23] I mean you're going to be able to do a lot of things better than humans can do as AI. But the human experience is. It'll never be able to be replicated by something until until unless AI can manufacture some sort of thing that can go through the world the way that a human goes through it. And then generations have to pass of living out the full the full thing. Right. Like you have to live out the full thing.

[00:57:49] We are products of all kinds of generations of people who have lived and gone through childhood, gone through adulthood, gone through old age and died. Passed on the lessons there in. Boom, another and then another and then wars and then famines and everything. And it's the soul of the human folks. All right. I've droned on long enough. The Gulag is digital. I thank you guys so much for for joining me today.

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[00:58:45] I think we got changing earth audio drama later today and. The continuity meeting coming up Monday. More on that in the future. Enjoy your day, folks. Hey, enjoy being human while you still can.