Biodigital Convergence is fact not science fiction: Unveiling a Terrifying Dystopia
“You are about to enter another dimension.
A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.”
Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
It used to be that suggesting the government was trying to control our minds was considered conspiracy theory.
But these days, if you’re not even considering conspiracies as fact, you’re just not paying attention.
The government, it turns out, is way beyond contemplating how to manipulate our thoughts.
They’re mapping out a trans-humanist future inside a dystopian society with so much control that even Orwell would be gobsmacked.
Is this hyperbole?
Let’s examine an article entitled Exploring Biodigital Convergence, created by the Government of Canada think tank, Policy Horizons Canada.
We’ll start with their definition of what it is they’re exploring…
“Biodigital convergence is the interactive combination, sometimes to the point of merging, of digital and biological technologies and systems.”
It can be argued that it is incumbent upon the government to keep abreast of trends and burgeoning technologies, in an effort to understand the potential implications upon the population — particularly if those trends might threaten the constitutional and human rights of its citizens.
“Biodigital convergence is opening up striking new ways to…change human beings – our bodies, minds, and behaviours.”
Changing human beings might be considered one of those threats, and could be deemed a violation of Canadians’ Charter rights to life, liberty and security of the person and even freedom of conscience.
What freedoms would be left if our very minds were merged into the Internet of Things?
“By tapping into the nervous system and manipulating neurons, tech can be added to an organism to alter its function and purpose. New human bodies and new senses of identity could arise as the convergence continues.”
The manipulation and control of the minds and bodies of human beings is not science fiction, but rather a terrifying future already well underway, being infused into our lives with the lure of convenience and the seduction of comfort.
How many of us have forgone the use of a physical map in exchange for the ease of following a GPS?
How many have not only permitted but welcomed a listening device into our homes in order to turn on music, the TV, or just the lights?
And can any of us recite even 3 phone numbers of the closest people in our lives anymore?
“Biodigital convergence involves a rethinking of biology as providing both the raw materials and a mechanism for developing innovative processes to create new products, services, and ways of being.
Governments can expect to be called upon to help manage the risks and seize the opportunities that could arise.”
It is certainly within the purview of an agency whose purpose is to, “empower the Government of Canada with a future-oriented mindset and outlook to strengthen decision making,” to inform and prepare the government for technologies and trends on the horizon.
But is it not also the responsibility, the duty, of Policy Horizons Canada, a taxpayer-funded organization, to have the public good and the constitutional rights of citizens as the context of their work?
Is it not their job to consider not only the opportunities but any detriment to the public?
“As we continue to better understand and control the mechanisms that underlie biology, we could see a shift away from vitalism – the idea that living and nonliving organisms are fundamentally different because they are thought to be governed by different principles.”
Read that again.
Under what law, either natural or manmade, is it within the scope of government authority to control biology?
Or to question the precept that we, as human beings, are more than mechanistic organisms?
Even the Charter acknowledges that, Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God.
With seemingly no moral compass, and no mention of ethical guidelines or public discourse, Policy Horizons Canada proceeds to outline a future scenario of luxurious ease that goes beyond even the imagination of Star Trek — and all of it citing already existing technology as of 4 1/2 years ago when the article was written.
Here is just a sampling of the future they envisage…
“I wake up to the sunlight and salty coastal air of the Adriatic sea. I don’t live anywhere near the Mediterranean, but my AI, which is also my health advisor, has prescribed a specific air quality, scent, and solar intensity to manage my energy levels in the morning, and has programmed my bedroom to mimic this climate.
The fresh bed sheets grown in my building from regenerating fungi are better than I imagined; I feel rested and ready for the day. I need to check a few things before I get up. I send a brain message to open the app that controls my insulin levels and make sure my pancreas is optimally supported.”
As just a starting point for how problematic this scenario is, what are the implications of a technology that controls your insulin levels and allows you to send brain messages?
Who controls that tech?
Or that data?
Who sees this previously private information?
What if it’s hacked?
And who determines “optimal support” of health?
If we’ve learned nothing over the past few years, it’s that the government is not expert at managing our health.
“Everything looks all right, so I check my brain’s digital interface to read the dream data that was recorded and processed in real time last night. My therapy app analyzes the emotional responses I expressed while I slept.”
Terrified yet?
Have you had a wrong thought?
A bad dream that the government can analyze?
Big Brother was blind and deaf compared to the omnipotent power of a technology that can read your dream data and analyze your emotional response.
“I check my carbon offset measure to see how much credit I will receive for my home’s contribution to the government’s climate change mitigation program.”
And here we have it.
Forwarding the government’s agenda, not our rights, is the intention of this exploration into these frighteningly invasive technologies.
Anyone examining the government’s messaging and actions over the past several years will not be surprised by the idea of using mind control to popularize policy, but using fear-based psychological tactics to nudge a narrative is child’s play next to this.
“The buildings in my neighbourhood share a vertical farm, so I get carbon credits by eating miso made from soybeans produced on my roof and fermented by my fridge.”
Convenience and comfort are hollow rewards for giving up our way of living and humanity
itself.
But this is where we are headed.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.”
Rod Serling
It all begs the question, what exactly is the purpose of public policy?
Is it not to address societal needs?
Promote the common good?
Reflect societal values?
This does none of that.
The article continues...
"I shiver momentarily as I think about how intimately we’re all connected in this digital biosphere – then it passes.”
The singular human reaction in the whole dystopian description of this future society is summed up in a shiver.
A moment of natural biofeedback that is summarily dismissed.
Back to The Matrix where you can live with ease — as long as you don’t disagree with the government about what your family can eat, where you live, how you heat your home, where (or if) you travel, what you buy or what you think.
So-called vaccine passports, a phrase that should have sent chills down everyone’s spines, were just the first tiptoe towards digital totalitarianism.
When we put policies in place to facilitate the so-called “greater good,” we must ask
ourselves, whose definition of good?
What are we giving up?
Are we relinquishing responsibility for the ease of compliance?
Are we replacing real values with virtue signals?
In what direction can or will this take us?
“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout.”
Rod Serling
If we continue down this path, we will be selling our souls in order to satisfy our vanity and the lazy pleasures of comfort and convenience.
These are false values that cannot lead to human fulfillment.
They only serve to weaken us and create an addiction to ever-increasing comfort, convenience and, ultimately, dependency.
We must get out of the mindset of instant gratification and reclaim our human potential and magnificence.
Treated properly, our bodies and minds are capable of great things, but require regular use, appropriate stress, and proper self-care.
Building our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and financial pillars of strength is part of the solution.
Personal responsibility, self-governance, and non-compliance with anti-human policies must be our response.
We currently have the knowledge of how to take care of our well-being with exercise, mindfulness, and healthy foods grown in our backyards and balconies, or purchased from local farms.
We have the skills and talents to build things and to run small businesses, or to support others who do so in our neighbourhoods.
And most of us are old enough to pay with cash without having to turn the coins over to read the denomination.
If we do not use these capabilities, we will lose them.
We will lose our remembrance of how to survive and thrive with our natural environment, how to collaborate with our local communities, and how to experience our own empowerment.
“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man — that state is obsolete.”
Rod Serling
Technology will, of course, continue to expand at ever-increasing rates.
But what we do with it is, for now, up to us.
If we are willing to take this opportunity to strengthen our agency, we can indeed make the state, or at least parts of it, obsolete.
To paraphrase another sci-fi icon, let’s make it so.
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It certainly is scary. The notion that it has already started is even scarier.