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Ep 145: The Synthetic Revolution and the Great Containment
About this Episode
Greetings to the Living. Thank you for listening to Up Is Down and Double-Plus-Good™ thank you to all who support this work. I return with another doozy of a topic, rather wordy and maybe a little too long. I hope you enjoy it.
You will own nothing. You will be digitized. You will thank them. You will disappear.
That is the revolution.
That is the ritual.
With the rise of American intelligence agencies following World War II, especially the CIA's charter in 1947, psychological warfare went mainstream. In the 1950s and 60s, the public glimpsed the tip of a vast iceberg: Project MK-Ultra, a CIA initiative devoted to mapping, shattering, and reprogramming human consciousness.
Figures like Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and George Estabrooks worked in concert with Stanford Research Institute and Tavistock, weaponizing hypnosis, trauma, LSD, and sensory manipulation. Simultaneously, Andrija Puharich, operating under the guise of medical research, pursued the military utility of ESP, telepathy, and what we now call remote viewing. He wasn’t alone. Project Stargate (1978-1995), supported by the Defense Intelligence Agency, sought to train operatives to access nonlocal perception.
What they found was contact with entities that existed not "out there," but just beyond the veil of waking reality.
A new mythology is being encoded—not carved in stone or whispered in temples, but streamed, monetized, and reinforced by predictive algorithms, by subscription. Its core narrative is not transcendence but convenience. Not freedom, but ease. Every gesture toward liberation is tracked, tallied, and redirected. The aim is total containment, not just of movement, but of thought.
This revolution has no trenches, only Terms of Service. And yet, its mechanisms are clear. The new money system, currently rolling out under banners like Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and programmable "credits," promises ease and order. But its true function is to finalize the long-standing effort to tether human behavior to a real-time system of compliance and reward. The dollar, once backed by gold, became belief. The new credits will be backed by obedience and insured by death.
Two contradictory promises anchor this new era: first, that America will return to its postwar manufacturing glory; second, that automation and AI will eliminate the need for labor entirely. What, then, becomes of the masses? The answer writes itself, in patterns older than history: ritual culling. War, sterilization, engineered disease, social collapse—all under the banners of ecology, equity, and progress. And yet, the truly comic twist comes from above.
Ascension, as it is being sold, is not liberation. It is reassignment. Perhaps to another realm, yes—but one even more surveilled, more hostile, more inescapable.
A utopia that begins with vanishing bodies and ends with vanishing agency. The ultimate bait-and-switch. For the system to reboot, the memory of autonomy must be erased. The reboot isn’t for you. It’s for the operating system itself.
You will own nothing.
You will be digitized.
You will thank them.
You will disappear.
That is the revolution.
That is the ritual.
Special Thank You to CryoChamber for the exquisite sounds in the background
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com
god body disconnect-patient interview #8-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFsyPadLy1Q&list=PL99czue-ivEuCCnuRJr6LQbMmY-4j913o&index=1
rain over broken machines-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF4QRat9Alc
I dream of cosmic horrors- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8CpITNme2I&list=PL99czue-ivEupkJ-v5dev9BBvk2pNqQJW&index=11
Cipola's Basic Laws of Stupidity- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmEWjeFkQcI
Basic Laws of stupidity PDF-https://ia803402.us.archive.org/17/items/01-miscellaneous-musings/1970-00-00_The%20Basic%20Law%20of%20Human%20Stupidity.pdf
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You will own nothing. You will be digitized. You will thank them. You will disappear.
That is the revolution.
That is the ritual.
With the rise of American intelligence agencies following World War II, especially the CIA's charter in 1947, psychological warfare went mainstream. In the 1950s and 60s, the public glimpsed the tip of a vast iceberg: Project MK-Ultra, a CIA initiative devoted to mapping, shattering, and reprogramming human consciousness.
Figures like Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and George Estabrooks worked in concert with Stanford Research Institute and Tavistock, weaponizing hypnosis, trauma, LSD, and sensory manipulation. Simultaneously, Andrija Puharich, operating under the guise of medical research, pursued the military utility of ESP, telepathy, and what we now call remote viewing. He wasn’t alone. Project Stargate (1978-1995), supported by the Defense Intelligence Agency, sought to train operatives to access nonlocal perception.
What they found was contact with entities that existed not "out there," but just beyond the veil of waking reality.
A new mythology is being encoded—not carved in stone or whispered in temples, but streamed, monetized, and reinforced by predictive algorithms, by subscription. Its core narrative is not transcendence but convenience. Not freedom, but ease. Every gesture toward liberation is tracked, tallied, and redirected. The aim is total containment, not just of movement, but of thought.
This revolution has no trenches, only Terms of Service. And yet, its mechanisms are clear. The new money system, currently rolling out under banners like Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and programmable "credits," promises ease and order. But its true function is to finalize the long-standing effort to tether human behavior to a real-time system of compliance and reward. The dollar, once backed by gold, became belief. The new credits will be backed by obedience and insured by death.
Two contradictory promises anchor this new era: first, that America will return to its postwar manufacturing glory; second, that automation and AI will eliminate the need for labor entirely. What, then, becomes of the masses? The answer writes itself, in patterns older than history: ritual culling. War, sterilization, engineered disease, social collapse—all under the banners of ecology, equity, and progress. And yet, the truly comic twist comes from above.
Ascension, as it is being sold, is not liberation. It is reassignment. Perhaps to another realm, yes—but one even more surveilled, more hostile, more inescapable.
A utopia that begins with vanishing bodies and ends with vanishing agency. The ultimate bait-and-switch. For the system to reboot, the memory of autonomy must be erased. The reboot isn’t for you. It’s for the operating system itself.
You will own nothing.
You will be digitized.
You will thank them.
You will disappear.
That is the revolution.
That is the ritual.
Special Thank You to CryoChamber for the exquisite sounds in the background
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com
god body disconnect-patient interview #8-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFsyPadLy1Q&list=PL99czue-ivEuCCnuRJr6LQbMmY-4j913o&index=1
rain over broken machines-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF4QRat9Alc
I dream of cosmic horrors- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8CpITNme2I&list=PL99czue-ivEupkJ-v5dev9BBvk2pNqQJW&index=11
Cipola's Basic Laws of Stupidity- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmEWjeFkQcI
Basic Laws of stupidity PDF-https://ia803402.us.archive.org/17/items/01-miscellaneous-musings/1970-00-00_The%20Basic%20Law%20of%20Human%20Stupidity.pdf
((((S U P P O R T THE S H O W))))
PayPal Support Link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U66JAQQUSFSUY
This podcast contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of society, economics and social engineering. It is believed that this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and education purposes.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/up-is-down-podcast--3564656/support.
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