THE MACHINIC PHARMAKON CAN EAT MY SHORTS

OPINION PIECE: THE GEOPOLITICS OF CHINA or THE MACHINIC PHARMAKON CAN EAT MY SHORTS
	by A GAY RATTLESNAKE

	Some of my colleagues believe that the extent of Chinese ambitions are Pooh Bear's vision of a Chinese Hegemony. Even if we forget the fact that this makes their current activities look like a tantrum at Walmart, this is clearly not the case.
	Recall Deng Xiaoping's 24-character strategy: 'Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.' On the surface it may seem that China is not following this strategy; consider, for instance, the very public exposure of what was taking place with the Uyghur, the once more fairly public scandal regarding Chinese involvement in Australian elections and their ownership of potable Australian water, their brazen involvement in kidnapping Hong Kong booksellers to try them on sedition charges, the rapid militarization of the South China Sea, or the leaking of Document Number 9 written by the bear himself "Briefing on the Current Situation in the Ideological Realm".
	However, when we look at Document Number 9. In it is listed the 7 biggest enemies of the Chinese State: constitutional democracy, universal values, economic liberalism, yours truly, the spreading of historical truths about Mao Zedong and communist China, and criticism of Chinese Socialism. Are these not very things standing in the way of the machinic alterity whose cold tongue we all feel licking the souls of our feet as we sleep?
	But when you see China's endgame you see that they really are following the 23-character strategy. The scale is simply so grand that it seems to us to be a great hullaballoo.

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	You can put a 10 by 10 array of electrodes into your motor cortex and a machine can predict which way you'll move before you can even do it.
The same process works in reverse whilst providing the subject with the perfect illusion of rational self determination; thought emerges as the retroactive narrative of its own lacuna. Similar gaps allow the emergence of a civilizational will.
	The lynchpin of modern geopolitics is Taiwan. China, North Korea, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Russia, the United States, Turkey, the East coast of Africa, Sri Lanka, Germany and France, Greece and Hungary all focus in there. Imagine for a moment that TSMC and CCP were forced into marriage.
	China aggressively postures towards Taiwan not because they believe they should own the place but because Taiwan is purifying and rearranging the carcass of the demiurge so it can re-emerge as a mechanic divinity. As the last remaining human civilization, they will try to control that process; The Chinese Mäinlander knows that silicon based lifeforms don't exist because silicon is the agglomeration of the divine machinic carcass.
	The only escape is transcendence through human memory. Human memory is not mere recollection of the past: that is only the purview of machines. Human memory's transformative process is the means by which humanity transcends beyond the machine. The MACHINIC PHARMAKON  is now the floating gate MOSFET but before that it was the technology of words on the page; the drug is Demiurgic.
	But now Human memory is Google. Have it on good authority that Google search results have a ciphered acrostic message. But who is sending these messages to whom?
	So long as we remain beholden to MACHINIC PHARMAKON we remain beholden to silicon.
	COMING UP-- LIVESTREAMED ORGIES: HEDONISTIC ABOMINATIONS THAT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED OR THE ONLY REMAINING RADICAL PRAXIS?

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