{"id":308812,"date":"2025-12-01T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=308812"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:42:05","slug":"big-brother-its-getting-harder-and-harder-to-preserve-our-mental-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/big-brother-its-getting-harder-and-harder-to-preserve-our-mental-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother: It\u2019s Getting Harder and Harder to Preserve Our Mental Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_308813\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mind-control-ai.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308813\" class=\"wp-image-308813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mind-control-ai-1024x536.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mind-control-ai-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mind-control-ai-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mind-control-ai-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mind-control-ai.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-308813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mind control, social control, artificial intelligence &#8211; Adobe Stock<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>We\u2019re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations that can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us&#8211;1984 Redux.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>30 Nov 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0It\u2019s a full-time job protecting your mental lucidity in this dystopia.<\/p>\n<p>It was hard enough to form a clear perception of reality when all we had to deal with was the propaganda of plutocrat-owned media corporations and the indoctrination of our power-serving education systems. Now on top of those still-persisting obfuscations we\u2019ve got things like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/censorship-by-algorithm-does-far\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation<\/a>, imperial information ops <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2020\/06\/10\/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like Wikipedia<\/a>, and an exponentially growing field of AI perception management to work through.<\/p>\n<p>I remember watching Julian Assange <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cQRZvnGp1Gs&amp;t=693s\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">give a talk<\/a> way back in 2017 where he described a future in which artificial intelligence is able to harvest the data of individual internet users and then manipulate the information they see online in a custom-built perceptual prism designed to manipulate their thinking at a level far too subtle to be noticed. He compared it to the way a computer program can play chess with strategies looking 20 to 30 moves ahead at a level the human brain just can\u2019t keep up with, saying that we\u2019ll one day have artificial intelligence that can manipulate public perception with a similar degree of sophistication.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julian Assange speaks about AI controlled Facebook propaganda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQRZvnGp1Gs?start=693&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That future is a lot easier to imagine now than it was back in 2017. To be sure, the ruling class is not pouring <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/JAOUw\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trillions of dollars<\/a> into AI so that we can all have free Studio Ghibli-style illustrations of ourselves. There is an understanding that major returns on investment will come largely in the form of these new technologies being deliberately knit into every part of our civilization, driven by the official and unofficial power structures that we live under, and that this will happen in a way that benefits the rich and powerful.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations who can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us. All our medical and financial information. Whole psychological profiles based on what we view and say online. A far more thorough assessment of our personalities than we could ever create on our own.<\/p>\n<p>This information can then be used to determine what sort of advertisements for which products would be likely to work on us, or maybe even produce a custom-made ad on the spot just for us. It can be used to determine what type of power-serving news media or punditry is likely to appeal to our confirmation biases and then make sure it crosses our line of sight at some ideal moment in our day. It can be used to determine how likely we are to oppose the imperial machine in any way, from joining a peace march to starting a union to leading an armed revolution. It can be used to closely monitor our individual path toward political radicalization, and it can be used to feed us information intended to steer that dissident energy toward political movements that don\u2019t threaten the status quo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=caitoz&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1984915779754827802&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com.au%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fits-getting-harder-and-harder-to-preserve-our-mental-sovereignty%2F&amp;sessionId=9a55989226a06bc37a237d510f0521c5d87fe03a&amp;siteScreenName=caitoz&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1984915779754827802\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Our rulers see AI as an opportunity to recapture the degree of social control that was shaken by the arrival of widespread internet access\u200a\u2014\u200aa loss of information hegemony we\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/05\/09\/empire-managers-explain-why-this-new-protest-movement-scares-them\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oligarchs and empire managers<\/a> openly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/QudsNen\/status\/1984915779754827802\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaining about<\/a> with regard to how social media has spread public dissent on issues like Israel and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Whitney Webb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pvKnD3_Ia44\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has flagged<\/a> the fact that Google plutocrat Eric Schmidt co-authored a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Age-AI-Our-Human-Future\/dp\/1529375991\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book with war criminal Henry Kissinger<\/a> which envisions a future where the public becomes increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence to do our thinking and creative expression for us, allowing our consciousness to become further and further intertwined with these oligarch-owned technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kissinger\/Eric Schmidt book on AI basically states that the real promise of AI, from their perspective, is as a tool of perception manipulation\u200a\u2014\u200athat eventually people will not be able to interpret or perceive reality without the help of an AI via cognitive diminishment and learned helplessness,\u201d Webb <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_whitneywebb\/status\/1873744263604850816\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once we\u2019ve outsourced our cognitive sovereignty to AI, our minds have been captured by the owners of the machines.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whitney Webb &quot;Be AWARE!: They Will Use THIS For A Complete FINANCIAL LOCKDOWN&quot; 2025 Warning\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvKnD3_Ia44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a dark and creepy trail we are traveling down. As a collective we\u2019re going to have to find it within ourselves to start fighting back against this dystopia which is consuming more and more of what\u2019s decent in our world, and as individuals we\u2019re going to have to find ways to maintain our inner clarity despite the empire\u2019s increasingly aggressive efforts to make us vapid, stupid and confused.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for us there are still large aspects of our humanity which they cannot infiltrate or control, and we would do well to familiarize ourselves with that terrain. Inspiration. Creativity. Consciousness. Spiritual awakening. These are realms wherein the tech plutocrats and imperial social engineers cannot tread.<\/p>\n<p>Explore your own consciousness. Inquire deeply into the nature of self and the mind until clarity dawns on you. Heal your inner wounds. Remove from within yourself all the mental hooks of fear and hatred so that the propagandists can find no psychological purchase with which to manipulate you. Follow the faint whisperings of your muse, and learn to help your inspiration birth new creative expression into the world.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kinds of things we\u2019ll have to do to preserve ourselves as we move into this strange new world, on top of the usual business of staying informed and learning to see through the propaganda illusions. Luckily these things are all good for us anyway; the path toward protecting our humanity also just happens to be the path toward becoming a healthier human being and making the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>We are being called to awaken, and to transform. We are being beckoned not away from our humanity as the transhumanists imagine but deep into the heart of it, to a widespread blossoming of a bud that\u2019s been waiting within us this entire time. This age invites us to evolve into a truly conscious species.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. <em>Contact: <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2025\/11\/30\/its-getting-harder-and-harder-to-preserve-our-mental-sovereignty\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 Nov 2025\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0We\u2019re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations that can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us&#8211;1984 Redux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":308813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3078],"tags":[1235,1733,910,958,1706,1109,911],"class_list":["post-308812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-1235","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-big-brother","tag-control","tag-mind-control","tag-spying","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308815,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308812\/revisions\/308815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}