Bezosian Transcendence Expressed in Freudian Phallic Symbols
"Today's technocrats are reviving the archaic
god-kings' desire to achieve personal immortality."
by Joe Allen | September 6, 2021
Two days ago, MIT's Technology Review reported that Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner just founded a new immortality startup: Altos Labs in Silicon Valley.
Their mission is to reverse cellular aging through reprogramming—via epigenetic reconstitution and induced pluripotent stem cells—and perhaps the in vitro synthesis of various replacement organs. The tech tycoons are investing heavily in the prospect of living forever—or at the very least, a much closer approximation of eternity than any mortal has ever enjoyed.
So far Altos Labs has amassed $270 million to lure the best and brightest minds. One of the key recipients reportedly onboard is Juan Carlos Belmonte. The Salk Institute biologist's most recent claim to fame was successfully giving birth to human-macaque chimeras in glass containers. Aside from creating a near impossible tongue-twister—try it: "human-macaque chimeras, human-macaque chimeras, human-macaque chimeras"—Belmonte proved that it's possible to give birth to viable man/monkey hybrids.
Now, at the behest of Bezos and Milner—the Pharoah of Technocracy and the Prophet of Scientism—pulsating broods of mutant babies will be born in test tubes, only to be sacrificed and dissected so that the rich and powerful can cling to this mortal coil.
The Technology Review writer notes that Bezos's farewell letter to Amazon shareholders, posted last April, contains a curious hat-tip to the crowned Goblin King of New Atheism:
Here is a passage from Richard Dawkins' (extraordinary) book The Blind Watchmaker. It’s about a basic fact of biology."Staving off death is a thing you have to work at. Left to itself—and that is what it is when it dies—the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment. … [I]f living things didn't work actively to prevent it, they would eventually merge into their surroundings, and cease to exist as autonomous beings. That is what happens when they die."
In the letter, Bezos claims this quote is intended as a metaphor for human individuality struggling in the face of social homogeneity. That's pretty ironic coming from a guy who's done more to destroy quirky independent bookstores and mom-and-pop shops than Wal-Mart and Communism combined.
But the Technology Review writer paradoxically finds a hidden meaning. He simply takes Bezos's quotation at face value: confronted with the godless void he imagines at the end of the human assembly line, Bezos inadvertently reveals an abiding fear of oblivion.
Jeff Bezos, the Technocratic Pharaoh
The ancient Egyptians constructed pyramids as houses for immortal bodies. Having given up the ghost, pharoahs had their brains pulled out their nostrils and their internal organs crammed into clay pots. The remainder was embalmed and wrapped. Priests chanted magic spells over them for power and protection. These mummies were then stuffed into sarcophagi and placed inside secret chambers in slave-built pyramids, alongside fine food, splendid furniture, and the sacrificed bodies of servants.
These archaic god-kings fully expected to enjoy earthly splendor for all eternity. Today's technocratic god-kings exhibit similar ambitions.
For the past two and a half decades, Jeff Bezos has constructed a digital pyramid that spans the globe. At the base is the public—the homebound, periodically locked down, smartphone-addicted customers with which he is so obsessed. Their private conversations are monitored by his Alexa eavesdropping devices. Their neighborhoods are monitored by his Ring cameras on their doorways.
Their data is siphoned up into Amazon's proprietary artificial intelligence systems. Their heads are filled with livestreamed shows and movies. Their bellies filled with overpriced groceries from Whole Foods.
The next level above is comprised of Amazon's 1.3 million workers. Their every action is monitored for efficiency. Their workplace rhythms are dictated by relentless, overbearing robots. Every package and person is tracked by cameras and QR codes, converted into data, and streamlined by pervasive machine learning.
Above this are the ideological organs. One element is literature itself. Preferred books are recommended on the basis of ingenious algorithms. Forbidden titles are tossed down the memory hole.
Then there is the Washington Post, which Bezos owns, and Business Insider, in which he has a stake.
Vast portions of the public mind are carefully shaped on the basis of machine learning, editorial manipulation, and politically correct deletions.
Above this is Amazon Web Services—one of the largest cloud computing services in the world—whose clients include Disney and the CIA.
Above this is Blue Origin, the space exploration corporation that recently sent Bezos into orbit on the tip of a hilarious phallic rocketship.
And now at the pinnacle is Altos Labs, where chimeric fetuses and pluripotent stem cells are expected to yield the Elixer of Immortality.
Whether openly or implicitly, our tech oligarchs have embraced the goals and dogmas of transhumanism.
Please go to Singularity Weekly to read more.
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It isn't really just Jeff Bezos, there is an infrastructure behind him:
This is impressive. But wait! This contract was canceled by the Pentagon and in a "secret contract", the NSA picked up this $10 billion contract with Amazon just this past August, 2021.
How is this going to work out with Amazon controlling data from both Israel and the NSA? How can these plans be "secret" when we're reading about them here:
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