Algorithmocracy and The Lawn of Dissenters

There is no place for you in future society if you are non-white, gender non-conforming, disabled or have special needs. But most of all, if you are a thinking human. Sorry, but we are currently optimizing this whole thing we call society, and everything, including the thinking, will be done by AI. Besides, we cannot afford dissenters, thinkers and critics. We simply don’t have time for them, and they always seem to hurt our corporate profits. Don’t worry, the big, bright future awaits us all, where AI will do all our existing for us so that we don’t really have to exist. One less thing for you to do!

Last night I was walking by my local sports complex and noticed the most alarming sign of what is to come. At the edge of the pristine, chemically sprayed green lawn, there was a patch of weeds that the mowers hadn’t managed to get to. I saw the most incredible diversity of wildflowers, all crammed into a tiny spot in the corner of a stadium-sized lawn. In an area not bigger than a door mat, I saw all colours of the rainbow: poppies, dandelions, malva, all in full bloom. This is where true humans are retreating: at the unseen corner. While the vast majority of us are cut down to size by the technobroligarchs’ algorithmic mowers, sprayed down with Netflix neurotoxin and pro-genocide propaganda so that we keep quiet, all the thinkers and dissenters are allowed to bloom somewhere in a distant niche – for now. Because it is only a matter of time before the Zionist matrix gets to them, assimilates them, and gives them the usual ultimatum: you either become a cut-down weed that never reaches flowering height, disguising yourself within an endless green lawn that has drunk itself stupid on herbicides, or we take you out completely.

This system does not want us to ever blossom, because this would be a dangerous outcome for “society”. It wants us to stay low, stay quiet, and be like every other grass blade in the lawn. What humans did to biodiversity is what AI will do to neurodiversity and plurality: it will completely eliminate and illegitimize them. If you talk about climate crisis or genocide, you are a terrorist. The bots will quietly take you away, like a rogue dandelion that had the audacity to do what it has always done: bloom in the middle of the football court.

Dissent is like a dandelion seed: it doesn’t choose where it plants itself. The wind takes it where it is most needed, and where the ground is most fertile. Like a dandelion seed, successful dissent will use the chemicals and fertilizers provided by the system to grow strong, and rebel against the system. Any unkept lawn eventually becomes a lawn of dissenters. It becomes a functioning society where there is conversation, inclusion, and diversity.

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