Part 2
We are currently remaking God in the form of AI. Call it what you will, but the writing is on the wall. AI will be a super-intelligence. It will replace all human creation. Human musicians, artists, actors, politicians, scientists, teachers; and eventually when robots are perfected, plumbers, garbage collectors, electricians, and builders. Pretty much every human trade, talent and skill will be mastered by AI1. It will happen slowly, but it will happen.
Likewise, conversations about UBI (universal basic income) and soft implementations have already begun2. The UK has rolled out the digital wallet3. RFIDs are being placed in products across the globe. Smart cities have been planned and are being built in more than six different countries of the world4.
Alone everything mentioned herein seems separate and innocuous. But it is not. Nothing can be separate in a human system. Everything humans do, think, say, invent, has an impact on the rest of humanity.
Thus, the self-prescribed, doctor-driven, socially-celebrated, chemical fixation is merely the first step in anesthetizing the herd, particularly in the US. It has been a slow infiltration of the human mind to normalize all forms of medication for the sole purpose of diluting our focus, our attention, and our innate power.
The second step has been the redirection of that focus, attention, and power. Through the use of social media’s rampant saturation of seemingly unsolvable and contentious issues like: race, politics, gender, immigration, and religion, people have been thoroughly duped into believing these trifles deserve our full attention (easy to do when the nation is stoned).
The third step, slip in the savior—AI. The best case scenario, touted by believers, is that AI will usher in a time of utopia. Humans will no longer be slaves to the perpetual system of dronedom. But then exactly what purpose will we have if we have nothing to do and our physical needs are met? Further, what purpose would we serve to a super being that really doesn’t need to keep us around, particularly if we are no more than a drain without a benefit?
The beauty, or the horror, of the current trajectory, while conspiratorial sounding, is 100% self-perpetuated. It is a system designed by no one in particular, yet it exists because of the nature of people. No one has to invent a game plan for human dissolution, no one has to help it along, no one has to pay bad actors to push an agenda–it is exactly who we are and what we have always historically done5.
Human societies, like all systems in the third dimension of which we experience life, are subject to decline. Human social entropy6 is a natural progression of disorder which increases over time leading to a degradation and an overall decrease in social organization. To think this is not a normal factor of human life, and that we have not seen numerous examples throughout human history would be nothing short of denialism.
Furthermore, let it be understood that the current human trajectory is by no means meant to assume the extinction of human life, but rather an absolute altering of what humans and human life will change to become.
Wherever this trajectory takes us, we are participants. We are not victims of it. We are faced with choices everyday to be or do something that makes a positive difference for ourselves, and by extension, for those around us. The time, brainpower, energy we waste pursuing the artificial pleasure gleaned from drug use, or the illusory trifles of social malaise, or outright misanthropy spurred by our lack of tolerance, and inability to handle discomfort and healthy debate, is a travesty for sure, but it is absolutely a choice.
The brain is an amazing tool, but it is just that–a tool. Every single human on this planet is capable of greatness, but it takes incredible spirit (attention, determination, will, and compassion) to override and tame this extraordinary instrument. It takes investment, temperance, and work, and a sort of third-person view of our own thoughts and actions on a regular basis.
Sound exhausting?
That is exactly where the learned helplessness that plagues the West comes from.
Continued in part 3
- AI job displacement estimates 50-60% of jobs automated or transformed by 2040. www.forbes.com www.builtin.com ↩︎
- Global UBI discussions and trials according to www.weforum.org
weall.org ↩︎ - The UK’s digital wallet is rolling out in 2026, integrated with GOV.UK services like digital driving licenses. https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/21/making-the-governments-first-digital-wallet-a-reality/ ↩︎
- Smart cities are proliferating (e.g., in India, UAE, Mexico, Bhutan, USA, China).https://www.constructionbriefing.com/news/10-new-cities-under-construction-around-the-world/8036078.article?zephr_sso_ott=UWNMpQ ↩︎
- Factors that precede the fall of empires: economic decline, unsustainable expansion, internal instability (social/political), environmental factors, and new to the list lack or misuse of technology. ↩︎
- This is not the entropy meant in relation to thermodynamics, but rather the idea that humankind is a fractal of the system of which it belongs, i.e. all physical objects of mass eventually move from one state to another (order to disorder being a somewhat incorrect term). ↩︎
K. Banks 
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