My most popular post in 4 years is about to get relevant again.

I know people who very sincerely believe that in 2020 California voted overwhelmingly for Trump but the results were falsified. I’m as sad for them as for those poor souls who are convinced that police kills many black men in America, so that post was an attempt to help.

As a result of participating in a conference from 4 to 6 am, I found out that I can still read aloud very well at that time of the night but my speaking skills deteriorate massively and also that I start fidgeting in annoying ways.

To speak at 4 am, I have to get up at 3 to do my hair and makeup and listen to some news. So it’s actually quite early.

At the kids’ gym the other day, I saw a mother drag away a little girl in diapers – DIAPERS – while screeching, “No tablet! No tablet if you don’t leave immediately!”

This woman melded a toddler to a machine and is actively teaching her that communing with the machine is more important than physical activity. And hey, at least she took the kid to the gym first. Most didn’t bother.

It isn’t an evil techie elite that is making people do this. It’s apathy, laziness and entitled pouting.

And there’s a lot of this kind of stuff.

Before I speak about the book, I have to warn everybody that it has a 3-page preface by Steve Bannon. If that’s too traumatic, then don’t read. For the alternatively situated, I have to mention that Allen despises Elon Musk (although not for the same reason that the Left does) and has no interest in Trump (also for different reasons than the Left). If that traumatizes you, also don’t read.

Now that the sensitive snowflakes are gone, I can tell everybody else that Dark Æon is a messy, ranting, raving, extremely erudite and highly entertaining gem of a book. People in Amazon reviews complain that it’s hard to understand and, yes, AI is not an easy subject. Allen does everything possible to help the reading go down easier but you still need to have a developed human intellect to understand artificial intelligence.

The main idea is that our techie elites are driven by a two-pronged fear. They are terrified of death because they have an overinflated sense of their own importance. And they are also convinced that the AI will soon become so powerful that it will end humanity in its present form. Nobody really knows what the AI will ultimately become but the fear is already here, especially among the creators and investors of the AI. As a result, they have become convinced that the only way to address these two fears is to strive for a technologically augmented humanity. At least, for the humans who matter. Those who don’t matter (like me and you) can be used as a pool of experimental subjects. If some don’t agree, they can be shut into basic-incomed but otherwise rejected enclaves of useless people. Or humans 1.0.

This plan will ultimately fail because God is great (Allen is very religious) but it will do a lot of damage in the meantime. Allen outlines a detailed plan of what each of us can do to preserve our own normal human subjectivity and says that everybody is personally responsible for maintaining the lines of cultural transmission.

I’ll say more later but let’s sit with this part for the moment.

Three years after launching her Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong held an intimate session at the 2012 World Economic Forum. It was one of her three appearances at WEF events in New York, Jordan, and Davos. Her stated mission was to call all faiths to embrace the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This is big a problem if—hypothetically—liberal elites would have their own country flooded with dissonant immigrants, then require digital IDs and digital currency to track and control the chaotic results. Following the Golden Rule, they’ll wind up doing that to your country, too, for your own good.

Allen, Joe. Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity

This is exactly what we fear will be done to us in Ukraine.

I’m reading the program of my conference, and the word “posthuman” appears twice un 3 pages of sparse text. I don’t need to hear these talks (yet again) to know that “posthuman” in them means “yippee amazing.”

I hope everybody has gotten over the “it’s only happening on college campuses, so who cares” hangup from 10 years ago and takes notice of what it is we are being habituated to.

With zero self-awareness, “empathy” and “inclusion” became the rallying cry for a ruthless global network and its exalted “equality” caste. Like a poisonous algae bloom taking over a pond, this new rainbow ethnos excludes and attacks anyone who challenges their “diversity” dogmas. It is One World Altruism that unleashes furious minorities when needed.

Joe Allen, Dark Æon

We all know that “inclusion” and “diversity” stand for exclusion and monotony. But this is a particularly enjoyable way of expressing our disgust with this system.

Finally, I have somebody to vote for.

By the way, has Trump selected a running mate yet? I have a feeling it will be somebody even more pathetic than Kamala, as impossible as that sounds.

“You read half of this thick book in one day?!?” N exclaimed. “You are an incredibly fast reader.”

“Not really,” I said. “This is a dense text, and I’ve only been doing 30 pages an hour. But I read for over 8 hours today.”

Another evening brings another quote from Dark Æon. This one is long to give you a chance to appreciate the sheer sumptuousness of this book:

Our planet’s luxury class is overrun by mutant millionaires with an obnoxious superiority complex. They begin incorporating machinery into their bodies. They turn cyborg chic into high fashion, and persecute anyone who points out the emperor has no brainwaves. They create digital zombies of their personalities which replicate and spread across the internet like animate NFTs. Once tech corporations roll out AGI prototypes that are sufficiently convincing, they declare the Singularity is at hand. They act as though their computers have godlike power, and expect the rest of us to play along. They send out SpaceX Starships and phallic Blue Origin rockets in an effort to seed the solar system with their pseudo-gnosis. Meanwhile, we legacy humans have either lost our jobs to automation or have AI bots micromanaging our work. Our movements are tracked by mass surveillance devices. For anyone whose gametes aren’t swallowed up by the sexbot eugenic filter, their children are taught a “Universal Story” by chatbot tutors. These one-on-one instructors will also monitor the new generation’s brain development, personal tastes, and behavioral patterns. The resulting digital twins are used for both AI training and elaborate social engineering programs.

Joe Allen, Dark Æon

I’m luxuriating in this book, already sad for the moment when it will end.