During the height of the European Dark Ages, a millenarian fever took hold. Against the backdrop of economic and social upheaval, a proliferation of strange cults and creeds appeared. Many were preoccupied with the End Times. How vindicated they must have felt when the Black Death struck.
Is this West now spiraling towards a similar catastrophe? A hint of feudalism is everywhere, from the apps that increasingly resemble vassalage to the alchemical working cryptocurrencies are doing on finance.
To say nothing of the cults and creeds. The curious saga of the Zizians, vegan Siths to some, a death cult to others, is just the tip of the spear. From Rationalists to effective altruists, NRx, the O9A, and onto Extropians and accelerationists, the twenty-first century has witnessed no shortage of millenarianism in these United States.
But where is this headed? Do powerful tech lords envision a return to the Medieval world? Will AI be the new Black Death? Or is there something more terrible at play --a civilization based on behavior and body modification that ends in a posthuman future?
Strange days indeed.
Greetings VISUP! I've been following your blog for a while, and I must say that the history of humanity is quite interesting. I don't know how much you know about this news. Approximately four years ago (2021), a serial killer named Andrés Mendoza Celis, known as "the Cannibal of Atizapán," was arrested in Mexico. He murdered several women in Atizapán de Zaragoza, Estado de Mexico.
ReplyDeleteThis "person" (if you can call him that) committed crimes from 1994 to 2021, the year of his arrest. Apparently, during the broadcast on TV Azteca, at one point, videos were shown in which the killer is seen performing a ritualistic process with the remains of one of the victims.
When I heard this, I couldn't help but remember the rituals of the Matamoros Cult and Adolfo Constanzo's group. It should be remembered that not all members of the sect have been captured.
If you want to know more about this, here are the following links:
Andrés Mendoza (serial killer):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Mendoza_(serial_killer)
L̶o̶s̶t̶M̶e̶d̶i̶a̶D̶u̶d̶o̶s̶a̶_̶I̶I̶I̶.̶a̶v̶i̶ ft. @theapocalipsis (In Spanish/minutes 5:03-5:39).
First comment.
ReplyDeleteIt's me again. I forgot the link I was telling you about; it's in Spanish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmsBZJDodI