Digital Dehumanization

 

Man’s love affair with technology has accelerated in the last couple decades. There has always been a fascination with that which appears to make daily life more navigable and more ‘convenient’. Slowly but surely humans are being transformed into that which they are addicted to, however. We are loosing our humanity. Our soul is being overridden, short-circuited, deleted.

Whenever we sit in front of a glowing screen we are the subject of hypnosis. We are subconsciously becoming reliant upon that which is the gateway technology into another world of being and perceiving: ‘a virtual world’.

The price to be paid for the ever more high-tech and ‘unrepairable’ digitalized props of the modern age, is far too high. Technology cannot simply be dismissed as something ‘one can’t do without’. Food, water, clothes, shelter and medicine belong in that category, but not convenience technologies that distract us from our humanity.

We humans are not machines. We have sensitive physical bodies, astoundingly brilliant brains and exquisite powers of perception and spirituality. The role of the machine is to support this condition, not to override it. To accentuate a creative ‘human scale’ sense of proportion and responsiveness in daily life.

Today’s multifarious tech toys have been weaponized. They were born out of military research and development. They were conceived and designed as intentional weapons and surveillance tools, combined into one.

They come with no health warning, aside from some precautionary small print, less obvious than that associated with plastic toys. Children are urged to enter into long-term relationships with these toxic electromagnetic play things, and with the virtual worlds they draw their users into – like moths to a flame. They are military accessories, sweetened and domesticated into tools of ‘friendly’ torture. Silent weapons seductively distorting the divine human condition.

Now we are beginning to see the dire result of having adopted such a blind degree of faith in the fake one-eyed god called ‘progress’, with its Faustian promise of taking us ever closer to the promised land of technological perfection: The transmutation of warm, spontaneous, creative human beings into sterile, soulless cyborgs.

So guard your precious, responsive souls with your very life. Never let them be technologically enslaved. Give them the true breathing space they need to make themselves known to you.

Adapted from an article by Julian Rose at WakingTimes.com on December 13, 2021