A Computer Chip Inside My Brain?! Hell No!

Elon Musk can sit on Neuralink and spin — right into space

I can’t wait to grow up and mind meld with a soulless machine! My every thought and action totally controlled by faceless algorithms programmed by unelected ruthless technocrats.

Did any parents ever bring children into this world hoping to see them end up like that? Did any child ever dream of becoming, literally, a faceless nameless cog in a machine?

That may sound like far-fetched Star Trek sci-fi, but billionaire asshole Elon Musk wants to do just that. He aims “to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” He calls it “a brain computer interface.”

I call it our worst human nightmare.

Let’s get this straight. Technology is NOT any kind of savior or panacea. It is a tool, and only a tool. It will never make us smarter or wiser. It will only provide far greater and easier access to a lot of information. A whole lot of information or data, which is now sacrosanct, apparently. We all are to worship at the altar of Data, our new Deity.

Not! It is still up to us to choose how we use that data. Wisely or not, lovingly or not. Right now, that remains our choice. What if our government decides that the best way to surveil and control us is to mandate a brain-computer interface for everyone?

It has happened already—right here in the good ole US of A. The feds decided that everyone, regardless of sincerely held beliefs or possible physical condition that would make vaccination especially risky, had to get an experimental COVID jab. Then the government leaned hard on businesses to make them compel their workers to choose between their livelihood and their medical autonomy.

What’s to keep that disastrous scenario from playing out again with brain computer interfaces?

Musk’s Trojan horse premise is helping people with disabilities. Spinal inserts, for example, to help a person who suffered crippling myelitis walk again. But as the Physicians for Responsible Medine points out, brain-AI implants are not the only way for technology to achieve that end.

If we surrender our right and responsibility for our own choices to the Musk Borg, we give up everything that makes us human beings. We will exist in hell, right here on earth. Resistance will be futile — and damn near impossible.

It all stems from our age-old, perfectionistic human drive to find someone or something to bail us out of the latest mess we find ourselves in. An AI implant for a machine link is just the latest in a long line of supposed saviors.

Yes, I am talking about Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, etc. We previously used religious language to speak about our deliverers or enlightened ones. Now it’s strictly secular verbiage. But the impulse is the same, and it arises out of the fear that inevitably follows our disconnection from our inherent spirituality and our hearts.

In other words, shrinking ourselves to live out of only the physical and mental half of our beings robs us of the connection and strength that we get from the other half of self. From our spiritual and emotional bodies.

Living out of only half of what we truly are, no wonder we keep looking for help from someone—anyone, even a monster—other than us. We feel week and disempowered because we have cut off our link to our power and authority. So, we live diminished lives and constantly look outside of self for the help we already have within the very half of self we discount and demean.

If that isn’t insanity, what is?

Feel free to hop on the Musk Borg train if you think that is your ticket to nirvana or whatever. You may find, however, that you cannot get off should you not like the ride.

But count me out on that journey to misery. I am looking to my heart and soul for the help I need. To my spiritual and emotional connection to All That Is.