I, Science
Prologue
I have never had patience for empty speculation, for nonsense presented as truth to those who lack the tools to question it. Making claims without evidence is easy. And behind it almost always lies the same calculation: to attract attention, build an audience, establish oneself as an influencer, and exploit the credulity of those who deserve better than fear and vain illusion as vital information.
I do not claim to be a scientist or an intellectual—I am, rather, an artist—but that does not prevent my thinking from attempting to follow method and logic, at least as far as I am capable. And precisely for that reason, everyday life often becomes an exhausting struggle: against the foolishness of the media, against the tide of assertions that circulate without the slightest scruple and that most people accept without questioning.
What is "The Truth"?
We live surrounded by lies. Not honest mistakes, but deliberate falsehoods that millions of people and institutions propagate for their own benefit. The old principle that the end justifies the means has ceased to be a moral warning and has become the working method. Truth is obscured, annulled, sacrificed with utter contempt for the personal or ideological gain of those who can do so.
This drift is tragic for humanity as a whole, and not for abstract reasons. We are an imperfect species that has surpassed itself through the transmission of knowledge. If we had not been able to remember, teach, and accumulate discoveries, methods, and inventions, we would still be cavemen. Human progress is, in essence, a collective exercise of memory and learning.
The internet represented an extraordinary opportunity in that sense: to put within everyone's reach such an amount of information that humanity could have saved itself decades of trial and error, arriving in a short time at conclusions that would otherwise have taken years. That promise remains latent, a real possibility, in potential. But it has been colonized.
Those who use lies as an instrument to achieve their ends are now so numerous, and their techniques so sophisticated, that distinguishing between false information and that which approximates truth has become a task requiring almost heroic effort. And most people, understandably, have neither the time nor the tools to confront it.
We live in a false world, where appearance matters more than the message, where impact substitutes for substance.
What are "The Classes"?
The fault is not with politicians (including in that category religious figures or politicians in disguise backed by old ideologies, vast estates and monuments, which are their best propaganda tools), no. The fault lies with the 8.3 billion people who populate this world, of whom 76% declare themselves believers in some religion.
7% of the world's population lives under a full democracy, although democracy is another system of control over power and money.
The Milgram experiment showed that up to 65% of people are willing to follow the dictates of an authority.
Almost the entirety (99%) is willing to believe what they are told by history, a voice, or the internet.
Of course, entertainment is more rewarding than work, it is easier to believe than to think, even if it means mortification or loss of freedom, and it is more tempting to let others make decisions while we devote ourselves to our own ego.
Only 1.6% of the world's adult population has assets exceeding $1 million. The other 98.4% have to struggle to survive and have neither the time nor the resources to devote to anything other than surviving by any means.
What is "The System"?
1. He who controls money, controls the world.
2. He who controls the Central Banks, controls money, its issuance and redistribution.
3. Those entities that participate in redistribution such as stock exchanges and their colonizers, investment funds like BlackRock or Vanguard, custody entities, clearing houses, platforms and brokerage and intermediation companies.
4. The regulatory entities that influence legislation and ensure the rigidity of the system that allows an elite to enrich themselves.
5. And finally politics, the great scam, the supreme tool of deception that deceives the masses in exchange for a slice, to please those who control the banks, the redistribution entities and legislation.
Is there hope?
I don't see it. My pessimism comes from projecting the trend of civilization, irremediably headed towards extinction, as it is not prepared to face any truly serious challenge that might occur, such as the depletion of nature, a major economic crisis, a great volcanic eruption, an asteroid, or alien invasion.
But if no catastrophe does it, the greatest and most certain danger is that we are heading towards inevitable self-destruction:
- 1. Because technological innovation exceeds our capacity to manage it. Example: we create robots and AIs without conditioning them, we create weapons that can destroy the planet several times over without any guarantee that at some point a stupid accident like the one at Fauld, Staffordshire, might not occur.
- 2. Because there is no international cooperation, but rather ruthless competition for resources.
- 3. Because we exhaust all resources and destroy the planet in pursuit of a compulsive personal greed.
- 4. Because we place our destiny in the hands of madmen, knowing full well that they lie to us.
And yet, I keep writing. Because science is not salvation or comfort. It is method. And rationality is all we have left.
Now dedicate yourself to something healthy for your mind, such as reading LoneSlone stories.