Thoughts and beliefs create our individual reality. And collective thoughts and beliefs construct the Zeitgeist.

"The objective observer always has the advantage over a direct participant."
- Vadim Zeland

If humanity fixates on a focal point in critical mass, that reality is eventually solidified into the physical plane. Why else would the "news" exist if not to instill top-down narratives via fear, anger, and doubt, ad nauseam?

Worry becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people fear the thing, it will stick.

If this is too "woo woo" for you, consider this: everything you see around you was once an idea (thought).

Imagination → thought → emotion → action → creation.

Most importantly, it is the belief that something is real that makes it real. Reality is a mirror.

The AI push is backfiring

Since the end of 2022, when civilian-level AI was released to the public ala ChatGPT, a sort of hysteria began. Colloquially known as "hype." They want you to actually believe it's a get-rich-quick technology. That it will educate the children, and their children's children for generations to come and will make us a better species. That it will one day wipe your ass and you won't even have to lift a finger to live!

I'm here to report that it's making us dumber, less creative, and degenerate; and the exponential construction of behemoth data centers is stealing the basic necessities we need to survive. (Wait... and they're pitching AI as helping humanity?)

The good news is... a much-needed wrench is being thrown into their plans.

Humanity isn't buying it. We see through it, and most people do not like it. Shocking, I know.

Have you noticed the shift?

I thought humanity was a lost cause after covid. How did so many people actually fall for all of that? So now with the next planned apocalyptic push (releasing civilian-level AI to the masses marketed as cutting edge) I thought, fuck, here we go again.

But people are fed up with this AI bullshit. For example, take Duolingo's fallout. The moment they announced plans to be an AI-first company, Gen-Z tore them apart.

And recent data backs this up.

The AI-pushback is a battle being won (far from winning the war, though); we're still going to have to hunker down for their future attempts to destabilize the world.

Moving on...

Basically, we're always under attack from "them." Who or whatever "they" are is unknown. Christians say demons. New Agers say Reptilians. My Gnostic self says Archons. Tomato, tomahto, tomate. Whatever they/it is... it's anti-human and is using us for something at the expense of our very species. (Maybe The Matrix was actually a documentary, after all.)

But this attack on humanity is going sideways. It's too much, too fast. We're still reeling from covid. We (should) have ZERO trust in ANY authority, institution, religion, dogma, government... anything that pedestals itself. And this most certainly includes big tech (who are all frauds, by the way).

Bringing it all together

So we have:

• Our individual thoughts, beliefs, and emotions creating what physicalizes in our perceived reality.
• People thinking and feeling very negatively towards AI.
• And "AI fatigue," part and parcel of a larger societal "digital fatigue."

Wouldn't you agree that, generally speaking, things have gotten worse in the last 10 years? By things, I could very well mean Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Ask yourself honestly: has the over-reliance on digital everything made these needs more or less met? The answer should be obvious.

They pushed us too far, too fast with the digital hellscape.

Add in stagnant wages. Layoffs. Employment scams. Unaffordable housing and rent. The streets going from enjoyable to a fight or flight. And no one has the energy to give two shits about AI generating me an image of a corgi dressed as a farmer picking strawberries.

We're so doomscrolled... brainrotted. We're soulrotted.

We're finally turning against them. Because we have no other choice.

The obsession with the "next thing"

We're accustomed to measuring progress through technological advancement. But for the first time, I believe technology, insofar as anything computing and digital, is hitting a wall.

Does this mean we'll abandon our phones and everything digital? Hardly. Our phones and other devices have become inextricably tied to our ability to connect and make money.

And sure, ChatGPT can be a glorified search engine, proving helpful from time to time.

But it will most absolutely not be the only thing to live by.

So... what is next?

Simply: just being human.

And it's already happening.

Physical book sales are popping off, schools are making kids surrender their phones, influencers are finally getting the hate they deserve, people are turning to things they did in the "good old days" of the 90s, and a deep, yearning nostalgia has become commonplace.

It makes perfect sense, doesn't it? As humans we thrive on community, connection, and things that actually happen in the real world (see: touch grass). And as Maslow lays out above.

We will naturally scale back and begin merging our needs more with our digital world. For example, Discord communities of like-minded folk are cropping up.

That's why I'm betting any more forward progress will take a step backward–at least until we reset.

We can't go back in time and recreate the past, of course. But we can merge the things of past that did work with a healthy level of digital technology that actually assists, not harms humanity.

Any app, product, service, or business that can find a way to healthfully merge the digital with the real physical world will catch on.

AI does not do this. And the proof of this is the its first word.

It's Artificial.

People are waking up to the fact that Artificial Intelligence is no different than Artificial Flavors. It gives you a cheap serotonin kick but is ultimately really bad for you.

AI is like a fast food. A shortcut to cooking that makes you fatter, sicker, and addicted. AI is a shortcut to thinking that makes you dumber (it has already proven to shrink the hippocampus), prone to dementia and psychosis, and also addicted.

And what started cropping up in the last 20-30 years as a response to this unhealthy food? Health stores, organic and "No artificial flavors or additives," labels, KETO, carnivore... whatever. A whole new industry.

What should you do?

The choice is always yours. But my suggestion and the point of writing this blog for you is to assuredly tell you: don't fall for the vapid hype. You can observe it, but do not participate. Do your own thing.

The more you participate, the more it will actually solidify in your reality.

I can't predict the future. And I can't tell what timeline we will choose next. But what I can say is this: the winners of tomorrow will not build or do what's next. They will build or do authentically. And not fake authenticity... influencers already ruined that.

Authentic authenticity.

I for one, will be publishing romance novels where I record myself manually typing and researching the entire book on in a time-lapse video, for irrefutable proof it was human written. This is one example of a couple authenticity-driven business ideas I'm working on.

So go out there and be AI – Authentically Intelligent, in whatever it is you're doing. And make it human-centric, not big-tech-dystopian-hype centric.

Move forward... by going backward.