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THE CYBERNETIC TECHNOCULTURE RESEARCH LABORATORY |
Welcome to the Cybernetic Technoculture Research LabThe CTRL is the name given to an initiative I only officialy launched in early 2022, though it has its origins in much earlier efforts and ideas. At its most basic, the CTRL is a place for people to create [See our work over at Schizopunk Media for more] and exercise their ideas; their freedom of speech, and their freedom of thought- openly and without judgement or consequences (sorry, but no, freedom of speech does in fact mean freedom from consequences- you're not free to murder specifically because you're not free from the consequences of doing so). Just as, if not more, importantly though: the CTRL is a place for people to freely discuss and research or otherwise analyze a wide range of topics and subjects, with an eye toward the dissemination of dissident ideas and building the spaces and other means to do so. As of writing, we are currently working on building up some spaces of our own that will be linked to once we get them done, which we hope to be soon. Ideally, our longtime goal is to be able to organize with enough like-minded people and develop enough of a rapport and build enough capital that we can safely insulate ourselves from the overeaching malice of the cyberpunk dsytopia we increasingly find our societies descending into. Even more ideally, but far less likely- we succeed in slaying, or at least begin the true fight against, that great leviathan threatening to consume all we hold dear all in the name of greed and self-loathing and a lust for power and a thirst for annihilation. Who knows though, it's worth a shot. I think most importantly though, the CTRL is just a place for cool, chill people who are sick and tired of clown world to just shoot the shit, chill, maybe do some shitposting, play some vidya, watch some animu, goof off, build cool and/or stupid things: just enjoy ourselves. Way too much of the net has gotten bogged down from taking itself too seriously. I understand why, things are pretty dire, it's only natural to get serious when it feels like we're on the brink of civil war, or the explosive conclusion to the World War trilogy. It's hard even to not get a little blackpilled about it all, but I remember fondly the days of 2014-2016. The Great Meme War, The Cult of Kek, even GamergateTM, while all were tackling or otherwise tapping into something serious; there was a mirthful energy there that has been lost over the years as the gravity of our situation has been made ever clearer. But I remember something else from those days and it's that THEY hated that energy. They hated that we mocked and joked and laughed at them, that we didn't take ourselves, or them- anywhere near as seriously as they wanted us to. Just look at them, they want people to care so much, to get miserable over things they can't control- wars on the other side of the planet that have nothing to do with them, policies enacted in countries and by governments they're not constituents of, natural disasters- acts of god in far away lands. It's all so tiresome. Don't fall for their misery trap just because you (justifiably) hate them. This isn't to say to not care about anything, especially not those terrible things going on not just around the world but all the awful shit they're enacting right in your backyard. It's to say to take it a little easy every once in a while, pan back from all the happenings and e-shit flinging and remember that THEY want you miserable and pissed off and scared and lonely. That sometimes, the best way to revolt against the modern world is to just enjoy your life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Parzival [2024-05-07]
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