There are now reports of Ozempic blinding people - chemical 'biohacking' to replace "technologies of the self" (Tasawwuf) was always going to wreak havoc on a fundamentally delicate system. It is one thing, of course, to change your diet, it's another to introduce hormonally altering drugs into said system.

China has success because it possesses bureaucracies staffed with lifelong cadres (important) that articulate policy and link industries together (overseen by superagencies and pushed on by inter-agency competition), but even this wasn't enough, they realised they had to create their own technology if they didn't want to become a mere processing factory. This is the situation we are in now.

Intense replications of art, perfect, readable, an instant present of the human impulse set out without any work or endeavour, now raises discussions on the nature of the phenomenon. But scientism cannot answer the call or tell us what art is, nor will it tell us its purpose or benefit - the philosopher is the only one who remains outside of this paradigm and cannot fundamentally be replaced by any AI

Hasan Spiker:

"The internet is the ultimate rejection of essences; so much of it is the concretisation, in a new, 'external' world, of the perspectival relativisation of all things. It is the concretisation of self-determination, in a constructed level of being. Things can be created there; 'essences' can be 'designed', they can be made actual by simply combining into a whole whichever aspects of the imagination we wish to reify or even personify.

But the internet is not a concretisation of the imagination in the way that a work of great art is a concretisation of the imagination, by which one might rest from weary life...Rather, the internet is the concretisation of the imagination that has come to be used as a replacement for a real world, and for a real human subject living therein...

The internet is a world brought into being to serve as the willing manifestation of posmodernity's dream, replacing an extramental world which, stubbornly insisting that it indeed has a real nature, so obstinately and tenaciously resisted that dream"

The Unravelling of Intelligibility: Elements of Modernity Volume 1

Who are some great profiles I should be following?

Trumpist futurism or a hyper-technological 'despotate' - one can only imagine what a supercomputer will do to accelerate the neutral states arms of control

"According to Dallas (Abdulqadir Sufi), the being of the contemporary world—that is, Ge-Stell/En-Framing—must be understood in terms of the cybernetic totalism within which information has become the currency of the economic mega-machine of finance capitalism"

The question of technology is in need of refinement and depends on philosophical purity

If rednote is indicative of anything it's that anonymity is the domain of the enlightened few - millions moving to make themselves quantifiable in a foreign nations database, all to attain the rush of entertainment and fulfilment of new trends

There's a huge amount of discussion going on concerning inflation and the decline in living standards, yet no concentration on the role fiat plays in this - people imagine only changes in social structure, not the fundamental system itself that allows it to exist

To understand the first chapters of RoQ you need to read/study Descartes