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Skinned Alive The Trafficking of Humanity - "Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment." ~ Neal Stephenson Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek ArtStation - Cyborg Child, Ho Ruiqing In Neal Stephenson’s book Fall, of Dodge in Hell, a multibillionaire named Dodge dies, his brain is “scanned and its data structure uploaded into the cloud.” Years later, with new technology, his brain is “turned back on.” The book is described on his  website  as “a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. [It] raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future.” Welcome to the future, now. While the older folks argue over COVID data and whether or not Joe Rogan is controlled opposition, our children are living in a new world of technology that moves further and further away from us. As the real world is perceived to be ever...

Another article from Saint Jimmy.  Thank you! Britain’s Versailles moment The  image  of Marie Antoinette dressing up and playing shepherdess in the grounds of her Hameau de la Reine folly at Versailles while Paris burned in the distance may owe more to the mythology of the subsequent revolution, but it speaks to  an aristocratic elite  which had severed all ties to the realities of life for the people they ruled over.  It  wasn’t the first time  that a schism had opened up between the rulers and the ruled, and it  wouldn’t be the last .  As often happens, while history did not repeat, it very definitely rhymed.  There was the same frivolous, partying among a cavalier elite even as the people’s bellies rumbled with hunger.  There was also the same outwardly bombastic but privately weak male ruler, hen pecked by the stronger and more intellectually gifted foreign wife.  And at the end, there was the same inability to do mor...