Tower of Tech

“Now there’s spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down”. BD]

Music below: Genesis 1980 … Follow the link to Strangelove.. Peter Sellers is comic genius.

Once again man’s hubris brings us to a monumental moment in history. The richest people on the planet are building doomsday bunkers at the same time they are taking orders for garden tools. The richest people on the planet are unleashing an untested technology on a naive and malleable population. The richest people on the planet are doing whatever they can to prevent full disclosure of the UAP/UFO issue. The New Tech Warriors sound like characters from Dr.Strangelove. One recently said nuclear weapons were “one of the most stabilizing forces in history”. He reasoned that we avoided all out wars with our enemies because of nuclear power. All I can see is Peter Sellers, in a wheelchair fighting his own arm, explaining to the President how to survive underground after nuclear war. The Russian ambassador remarks “that is an astonishingly good idea.”

These are the new Materialists. Artificial Intelligence or AI will provide the assistance and knowledge to raise our own humanity. They preach abundance, consumption and compassion. It will be a tool that will make one part of our society much more powerful than those who do not have the tool. Citizens will have equal access to quality health care. Housing will become more affordable due to new technologies. Energy will be cheap and Infrastructure will be restored. People will have more time for community and family. Empathy will become our primary motivator. MAYBE?! None of this accounts for morality. Who will use the tool for good and who will use the tool for nefarious purposes.

This historic advancement in technology is occurring at the same time as attacks continue against Muslims, Catholics and Jews. This is a bigger problem than Islamophobia. In 2024 CAIR reported 40 incidents of attacks against mosques in the USA. The Family Research Council reported over 400 cases against Christian faith centers of which 100 were directed at traditional Catholic diocese. In Canada 33 churches have burned to the ground since 2021. There were 94 cases of arson in Europe in 2024 against Catholic churches. Since 2015 over two million Catholics were forced to leave Syria and Iraq to avoid persecution or death. More than 50,000 Catholics have died in Nigeria in the last decade.

During the last 10 years there have been close to 250,000 deaths attributed to Islamists attacking peaceful Muslims. We have seen Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah attack the most Progressive Western country in the Middle East.Israel protects and promotes gay rights. The Islamic racists punish and oppose gay rights. We have seen the educated and privileged walk in support of those terrorists, racists and homophobes. Many of them have fallen into the rabbit hole of programmed propaganda. That will become more problematic with AI advancement.

We have witnessed the delusional dreams of an indisputable dictator. Putin takes Crimea and our government does nothing. Putin supports the brutal regime of Bashar Assad. ( I kid you not..It says on his Google page Doctor and former President of Syria). He must have made his mama so proud. My son, a butcher and a doctor. Putin invades Western Ukraine and the US government slow walks weapon systems to Ukraine. Four years later and one million men are dead.

There is a story in Genesis, yes, the first chapter of the Bible, that is foreboding. It is Chapter 11 and it is the Tower of Babel story. Genesis is a favorite on the Wake and Bake bus. In 1978, there were five of us who spent four months, with the late and great Jungian scholar Dr. Henry Berne, studying the story of Genesis. We were like Talmudic scholars who debated the meaning of every line in the story. There is importance in the placement of each story in Genesis. And Babel occurs as the first story after Noah and the flood. It is a cautionary tale!

After the flood, everyone spoke the “same language and the same words”. After all, they all were descended from Noah and had spread out over the earth becoming their own nations. There was one place that stood out and many men decided to settle there. Well, what else do you think men are going to do with their time. Not everyone wants to draw hallucinogenic figures on rock face. They decided to make bricks and build something. Well they learned how to build a really fucking big tower. They had no idea the tower was going to be that big. “If, as one people with one language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they propose to do will be out of their reach.” AI speaks one language. Maximize control.

So the tale ends with the Lord confounding the speech of men so one group could not understand the other. The people stopped building the tower and scattered across the face of the world. AI is our modern Tower. Are we ready for such a powerful tool in a world that attacks the innocent and threatens thousands of years of morality based in religion. Will our simple life of struggle, redemption and joyful ignorance be positively changed by this powerful new technology?

There is a great deal of caution that is offered in the original narrative. Rather than treat it as true or untrue event, like a rationalist might do, engage the other side of your brain. Babel is a metaphor, a collective memory of a shared history based on real experience. Imagine the power of the machine over so many aspects of your daily life. Your car, bank account and phone will be controlled by a machine. If you drive erratically the car will shut you down. If you deposit some cash the bank notifies the state. Your phone hears everything and records everything. That is the road away from the good. The Tower becomes more important than the people. We may well become modern day prisoners in AI’s cave.

Some people want rich friends who belong to beautiful golf clubs.

Give me the rich guy with the doomsday bunker!

Peace to Everyone….. Genesis 1980.