Modern technology, though great in many ways, is corrupt. The zero-accountability Big Tech industry is devoted to creating and embedding the use of tools of abuse into everyday life. These tools pretend to exist “for your convenience/enjoyment/safety” but the objective is to monitor and manipulate you like a lab rat.

These tools of abuse find their way into people’s lives because of:

  • Their ease of use / overwhelming availability (it’s easy to use them without thinking)
  • Their layers of complexity (it’s easy to use them without having a clue what they’re doing)
  • Brute force marketing / lying
  • Peer pressure (“everyone’s using it” / “my kid won’t have any friends otherwise”)
  • Most people’s inability to truly conceptualise their enemy (more on that later… watch out for the word “invisible”)

With the proliferation of “apps” to meet our every need, the phone screen has become our all-knowing guide. “Click here”, “Update this”, “Download that”, the phone screen says, and the user—giving no thought beyond mere cause and effect— says “Okay.” Ad nauseam.

“Tech makes make my life easier”, they say. “I’m so much more productive!”, they claim. And yet, with every tap and swipe, the apparently liberated user becomes increasingly entangled, tethered to countless devices they do not understand and addicted to apps designed by their enemies. In actual fact, the user is stuck—they just don’t know it yet. Or perhaps they do know it, if they’ve given any serious contemplation to the source of the utter dread which overtakes them the moment their phone doesn’t work exactly as they expect. Or to the routine defeat which greets them at the end of yet another wasted day that they can never get back—stolen from them.

Your reliance is increasing, and understanding waning. Plot the graph and extrapolate.

All this, and we haven’t even yet touched on the system of mass surveillance operated by a select few who use silent tools to comb through every aspect of the user’s life with a level of aggression that puts to shame all the combined efforts of every disgruntled ex who has ever existed.

This is a one-sided mess.

To state my position in one sentence:

People everywhere are being subdued by their tech.

Tools of abuse? Yes. Keep reading.