Arc Raiders and Human Cooperation

Niles Heckman

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Gaming can of course be an addiction. Like all things in life, balance is important and we ourselves are not above playing the occasional computer game as we all need a little escape here and there. In spirts and not letting it take over our life of course. 

Amongst other more creative things, one of our rituals we do for fun with our daughter is watch anime or game together. And recently we did an extremely rare acquisition and bought a new but used off Craigslist graphics card. By the way, we highly recommend the book "Chip War" on the subject of microchips and the massive importance of two companies on the planet, one of which is called ASML (Advanced Semiconductor Materials) which does extreme ultraviolet photolithography, creating the world's only machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced microchips, and the other is called TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and is the company that manufactures the majority of the world's microchips using ASML hardware in Taiwan and is why that is such a crucial small country in the Earth realm currently. Right around the time of this new GPU acquisition a new game had recently been released which caught our eye and was an excuse to try out the new hardware. 

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Be King To People But Ruthless To Systems

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“Be kind to people, but ruthless to systems” is one of those deceptively gentle aphorisms that, on closer inspection, turns out to be a hand grenade wrapped in a thank-you note.

What it insists upon, quite rightly, is a moral distinction that our age finds unbearably difficult to maintain. People are fallible, frightened, often doing the best they can with the intellectual furniture available to them. Systems, by contrast, are not frightened, not confused, and not deserving of sympathy. Systems are designed. They embody incentives, hierarchies, exclusions, and often cruelties, all carefully engineered and then defended with a priesthood of jargon.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

The Epstein Files Tell Us Extreme Wealth Rots The Soul

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The Epstein files tell us, if one has the stomach to read them and the spine to accept their implications, that the ultra-rich inhabit not merely a different tax bracket, which consists of paying little to no taxes when they are the only ones who should pay most to all the taxes, but a different moral jurisdiction.

Jeffrey Epstein was not powerful because he was mysterious; he was mysterious because he was protected. The so-called “files”  consisting of emails, images, video, flight logs, depositions, settlement records, and sealed testimonies pried open only after years of legal trench warfare - reveal a pattern that is by now impossible to deny: wealth, when concentrated to obscene levels, functions as a solvent. It dissolves law, accountability, and shame.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

American Empire on Overload

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Cultures do not collapse because they are evil they collapse because they are exhausted by their own metaphors. And the de-evolving radically regressive wanna be-fascism mixed with idiocracy American hating Trump regime - whether one speaks of the leader whose been a lifelong criminal, the cult, or the psychic weather that produced it, is best understood as the right-wing American Empire in a state of neurological overload.

Empire is a kind of hallucination. It’s a story a society tells itself about permanence, inevitability, and divine exemption from the laws of nature and real history. America’s story of building an empire through slaughtering indigenous people's, has in many ways since been expanded in many bad ways without limit. Novelty channeled into material accumulation. But real novelty belongs to mind and meaning, not to strip malls and derivatives.

Oligarchic criminals are not the cause. They are the symptom. They are what happens when the operating system of an empire caters only to the top of the socio economic hierarchy. 

What we are witnessing is cultural feedback failure. The corpotized institutions no longer metabolize reality. Light spirituality, higher thoughts, the arts, the sciences are all ignored and or degraded, myth replaces reason, and power becomes performative - pure spectacle. This is classic late-empire behavior. Rome did it. Spain did it. Britain did it. They all mistook domination for destiny.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

Casting Spells and Chanting Over Thoughts and Prayers

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The fabulous comedian David Cross, whose comedy decades ago first raised our eyebrow to lowest common denominator political American stupidity, has a great bit where he says “I would like to officially change and substitute 'casting spells and chanting' in place of 'thoughts and prayers'. Hilarious and even more American!

This is not only wonderful and delightful because it draws attention to the fact that language itself is micro magic. When a likely fake Christian politician stands at a podium after a 2nd Amendment related tragedy and utters that eye roll worthy, tired, and empty phrase, “thoughts and prayers,” instead of passing very popular common sense policies to help reduce gun violence, what they are actually doing is a kind of spiritual bypassing substituted for spell-casting, though a spell so worn down, so emptied of intention, that it has become little more than background noise. The words drift out, ritualistically, to soothe and placate, but not to transform a culture into something better.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

Doomy Headlines and Titles are Miscalculations Of Destiny

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Doomy titles, those grim little prophecies scattered across the scrollable wasteland of social media such as “It’s over” “The end is near” “We’re cooked” "This country is done".

These are not messages; they are emotional tripwires, engineered in the same factories of attention where clickbait is synthesized like a psychic plastic.

The culture has learned something very old and very potent: fear is the most efficient solvent of attention. Long before corporate news and controlled algorithms, sub-optimal priests and kings understood that if they can convince people the sky is falling, they can rearrange the ground beneath their feet.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

Our New Production Side Venture - Artificially Resurrected

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OFFICIAL SITE: https://www.artificiallyresurrected.org/
FILM / VIDEO:   https://www.youtube.com/@ArtificiallyResurrected/videos
IMAGE / PHOTO:  https://www.instagram.com/artificiallyresurrected/
AUDIO / PODCAST: https://artificiallyresurrected.substack.com/podcast

Since the toothpaste is not going back in the tube with gen AI, meaning generative artificial intelligence, we've started a new production venture. It's called Artificially Resurrected and can be found primarily at artificiallyresurrected.org or .net or .com will also get you there so please navigate there and to our Substack and channel and give it a look over and sub if you will. 

AI is inherently a set of unbelievably sobering and eye opening tools, and while it should be heavily regulated, duha, one of the many concerns with it, let alone in regards to potential future machine self-aware superintelligence, is primarily who controls it and who benefits from it. So we're trying to do our small part to use these tools in a more conscious way to create content that would be essentially 30 second to 3 minute long on camera single mostly single shot pieces of resurrecting evolved minds from the past to speak on the imbalances and injustices of the present. And we promise, with just the first three videos that we've created so far of Martin Luther King Jr, Neville Goddard, and Carl Jung, they are on camera looking quite photoreal.

This insight is a good one to watch on the YouTube channel, because here's the initial launch video, or obviously as audio only for the podcast, which gives more insights on ART RES:

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

Why Those In Theocratic Fascist Cults All Say The Same Things

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One of the many great things about "No Kings" is the variety of messaging we saw. Which means a variety of thoughts. For the progress side of America this is both good and bad because messaging can be scattered. As historically, there will always be the "free Tibet" Berkeley hippies there with those fighting for civil rights, affordable healthcare, and upholding the constitution. For the regress side of America, they're messaging is often more homogenized because there is less variety of thought. This unfortunately means its messaging can be parroted and echoed quicker. 

When we look at the phenomenon of theocratic fascist cults, whether they arise in the deserts of the ancient world or the digital jungles of the modern mind—we are observing the triumph of ideology over experience. These people, who we've said it before and we'll never stop saying it, in their latest incarnation, are in a fascist MAGA cult, nested in a regressive red cult, nested in a faux Abrahamic supremacist religious cult. So these thrice cult fervent disciples speak in unison because the narrow structure they inhabit demands it. Language, that great frontier of the individual spirit, within these tight canyons is commandeered, reduced, and weaponized into a tool of control. The spontaneous bloom of personal insight is replaced by the same dozen tired selfish asshole tropes, "You Marxist", "You Communist", "We're a Republic, not a democracy", "You wanna raise my taxes", etc... SNORE!!!

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

American Reactionaries

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The other day, on some of our content, we had a troll attempt to sling mud. They abided by the same exact pattern we see with every troll, who were triggered because what we were saying threatened one of their underlying fictional operating systems. Not to mention one of their multiple nested cults which they are in. We encourage you to listen to our previous insight titled "Regressive Reactionaries" because that is the pattern. Which is that we have never seen an American imperial advocate, meaning regressive, otherwise called a heavy "right winger" leave a proactive, or insightful, or considerate comment. Instead, the comments are always, always, always reactionary. 

The term reactionary is very precise, and when applied to those who claim to call themselves conservatives helps us overstand what is really happening beneath their false slogans and their terrible policy which hurts the average person, including themselves. A reactionary is not simply someone who holds traditional values. A reactionary is someone who defines themselves by opposition to change, someone whose entire political energy comes from the desire to reverse history, to roll back the clock, to resist the forward momentum of culture.

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos

On Avoiding Complacency

Niles Heckman

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Complacency is a comfortable little narcotic of the mediocre mind. It’s the warm blanket people pull over themselves when they’ve decided that the status quo, however absurd, will do just fine. Complacency is not merely laziness; it’s moral sedation. It’s the smug conviction that because things are tolerable for someone, they must therefore be tolerable in general. A comfortable mental prison cell of negative certainty — well-upholstered, climate-controlled, and locked from the inside.

Evolution, whether biological, psychological, or social, doesn’t favor comfort. It favors adaptability, curiosity, and the capacity to update one’s reality tunnel when the data changes. But complacency is the refusal to update. 

These insight sub-episodes are mirrored on our primary YouTube channel which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@NilesHeckman/videos