I say it's worse than that. Our lives are dominated by gods without hearts or souls or compassion or a conscience. An unthinking god might accidentally kill you or help you, but a god without a conscience most assuredly will kill or harm you since that's what anything without a conscience does for kicks. Just look at Trump and Hegseth.
The good thing about AI is that we can pull the plug on it. Literally. And we can prevent the billionaires from ever plugging the damn things in to begin with. We've got the power and we can shut down the data centers. Many communities are doing just that. Repeat often as necessary until we're free of the AI threat and the billionaires are all locked up for our safety.
Thank you Caitlin. Even though our vote means little to none when it comes to this corrupt Zionist driven government, but we can still register our contempt by refusing to vote for any more of Israel's Red and Blue cabal that stands as those responsible. They took an oath to protect the Constitution and serve as "Public Servants", instead they have sold us out to Israel and the Corporate Elite (The Epstein Class). At least stop rewarding them with our vote of confidence for a "Job Well Done"....and stop giving them what little money we have.
I reject the mindless use of we (as in we made them, we did this and that) instead of a basic class analysis that views the world as it is, a world of haves and have nots. The haves have created the laws, institutions, and mechanisms we are born into and did NOT create. We will never change things until we understand that WE are the have nots who can take control and create a just world by eliminating the division between the haves and have nots.
CJ>"Our lives are dominated by gods without brains. And we made the gods."
Wow! This sentence is worthy of being framed and hung on a wall!
CJ>>"We are being driven to extinction by the headless horsemen of the apocalypse. And we built those headless horsemen, bolt by bolt, with our own hands."
So very true Caitlin! Couldn't agree with you more! (BTW, this article is turning out to be one of my favorites of yours - especially because besides giving us a dose of reality, it ALSO motivates and encourages us to DO SOMETHING about the situation the world is currently in.)
'Gods without brains' perfect description! That captures religious nature of our worship to blind economic system. Points to actual historical evolution of our state as well. Hints of it always bubble up: this or that being referred to as '"Iconic"! On your knees suckers & pray hard for that EV car etc. China must be our enemy constant BS. I always read you Madame Caitlyn this is by far your best post! Gaza needs constant publicity of course, but its crushing into dust is dispiriting to all but toughest & most resilient! Not all battles lost yet!!
We have lived that life of collaboration and balance with the planet before and some communities still do so but doing it on the scale of 11 billion people is the new challenge. It might be that we don't get there in this particular iteration of human civilization. Even so, I think we hold great promise and our greatest enemies are not other flesh and blood humans but certainly our own ideas.
“We do have the power to unseat the plutocratic institutions which rule our nations and put the people in the throne of power. All we need is the will to do so — which is why so much propaganda indoctrination has gone into undermining our will to do so.”
💯🎯
The system is corrupt to the core though. Haven’t we seen enough evidence that we can send in an outsider to fight against the machine and what happens every time…they end up corrupted and join the swamp creatures.
Powerful, mostly US based interests in fossil fuels (yes, they are fossils, mostly plants), animal agriculture (including small farms and 'grass-fed'), pharma, finance, AI, drugs, gambling, gaming, tech, media, entertainment and arms; like I’ve been saying- stop buying into them.
Caitlin, I thoroughly enjoy all that you write! Thank you for your dedication to this planet and all its decent people.
On another note, I want to let you know that my book that has emerged over the past six years is now available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Centered-Leadership-Unitary-Leader-Revolutionary/dp/B0GY1XQSK9. Its purpose is to initiate a new lineage of leadership that draws upon the wisdom of the Divine Feminine--Sophia--to step totally away from the masculine-coded leadership models that have created all that you write about. After reading the Amazon description, the back cover, and especially the Foreword and TOC, if it resonates with you, it would be my honor to send you a copy.
There's a great piece in Pearls and Irritations this morning, about an old Sci-Fi movie from 1956 which tells a tale of a highly advanced civilisation that developed technoglogy that eventualy led to their own extinction. The. author offers it as a cautionary tale:
Another gem I discovered this weekend is a movie titled 'Earths Greatest Enemy' by Abbie Martin. The movie brings militarism, war, the climate crisis and ecosystems collapse and capitalism together as parts of an integrated, growing and acclerating system.
We started to go wrong when the religion of science replaced real religions and we allowed the belief that this world is purely mechanical and material and nothing else matters, i.e. there is no soul. Indeed some scientists would say there is no consciousness which is ridiculous.
We started to wrong long before the healthy skepticism of science, when the shared commons was replaced, by force, by private property, creating a world divided between the haves and have-nots.
Science had healthy scepticism when they walked hand in hand with religions. Most of our greatest scientists had a moral religious ethos.
Then science decided to kill off God and set itself up against the worst of religion and, in the doing, through the shadow effect became the worst of a new and far more dangerous religion.
Science as a system of enquiry sold its soul to Governments and corporations long ago. There are no doubt ethical scientists in the singular but science as a system is without ethics. Why can we say that? Actions mostly but science only knows what it can measure and ethics cannot be measured. Ergo, for science, ethics do not exist.
Money talks and power decrees and the insanity of it all is that the scientists believe, most of them, that if something cannot be measured it does not exist. That is because SCIENCE CAN ONLY KNOW WHAT IT CAN MEASURE, which indicates how flawed and often useless the system is.
"Our lives are dominated by gods without brains."
I say it's worse than that. Our lives are dominated by gods without hearts or souls or compassion or a conscience. An unthinking god might accidentally kill you or help you, but a god without a conscience most assuredly will kill or harm you since that's what anything without a conscience does for kicks. Just look at Trump and Hegseth.
The good thing about AI is that we can pull the plug on it. Literally. And we can prevent the billionaires from ever plugging the damn things in to begin with. We've got the power and we can shut down the data centers. Many communities are doing just that. Repeat often as necessary until we're free of the AI threat and the billionaires are all locked up for our safety.
Thank you Caitlin. Even though our vote means little to none when it comes to this corrupt Zionist driven government, but we can still register our contempt by refusing to vote for any more of Israel's Red and Blue cabal that stands as those responsible. They took an oath to protect the Constitution and serve as "Public Servants", instead they have sold us out to Israel and the Corporate Elite (The Epstein Class). At least stop rewarding them with our vote of confidence for a "Job Well Done"....and stop giving them what little money we have.
I reject the mindless use of we (as in we made them, we did this and that) instead of a basic class analysis that views the world as it is, a world of haves and have nots. The haves have created the laws, institutions, and mechanisms we are born into and did NOT create. We will never change things until we understand that WE are the have nots who can take control and create a just world by eliminating the division between the haves and have nots.
GM stealing driver's data ... for profit!
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/technology/gm-to-pay--12-75-million-after-illegally-selling-drivers--da
As you give away your agency, so goes your soul.
CJ>"Our lives are dominated by gods without brains. And we made the gods."
Wow! This sentence is worthy of being framed and hung on a wall!
CJ>>"We are being driven to extinction by the headless horsemen of the apocalypse. And we built those headless horsemen, bolt by bolt, with our own hands."
So very true Caitlin! Couldn't agree with you more! (BTW, this article is turning out to be one of my favorites of yours - especially because besides giving us a dose of reality, it ALSO motivates and encourages us to DO SOMETHING about the situation the world is currently in.)
Thank you! ❤️🙏
'Gods without brains' perfect description! That captures religious nature of our worship to blind economic system. Points to actual historical evolution of our state as well. Hints of it always bubble up: this or that being referred to as '"Iconic"! On your knees suckers & pray hard for that EV car etc. China must be our enemy constant BS. I always read you Madame Caitlyn this is by far your best post! Gaza needs constant publicity of course, but its crushing into dust is dispiriting to all but toughest & most resilient! Not all battles lost yet!!
💯
We have lived that life of collaboration and balance with the planet before and some communities still do so but doing it on the scale of 11 billion people is the new challenge. It might be that we don't get there in this particular iteration of human civilization. Even so, I think we hold great promise and our greatest enemies are not other flesh and blood humans but certainly our own ideas.
“We do have the power to unseat the plutocratic institutions which rule our nations and put the people in the throne of power. All we need is the will to do so — which is why so much propaganda indoctrination has gone into undermining our will to do so.”
💯🎯
The system is corrupt to the core though. Haven’t we seen enough evidence that we can send in an outsider to fight against the machine and what happens every time…they end up corrupted and join the swamp creatures.
The only way forward is complete rebuild.
There is no draining the swamp.
Haven’t your eyes been witness to this fact?
Powerful, mostly US based interests in fossil fuels (yes, they are fossils, mostly plants), animal agriculture (including small farms and 'grass-fed'), pharma, finance, AI, drugs, gambling, gaming, tech, media, entertainment and arms; like I’ve been saying- stop buying into them.
Caitlin, I thoroughly enjoy all that you write! Thank you for your dedication to this planet and all its decent people.
On another note, I want to let you know that my book that has emerged over the past six years is now available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Centered-Leadership-Unitary-Leader-Revolutionary/dp/B0GY1XQSK9. Its purpose is to initiate a new lineage of leadership that draws upon the wisdom of the Divine Feminine--Sophia--to step totally away from the masculine-coded leadership models that have created all that you write about. After reading the Amazon description, the back cover, and especially the Foreword and TOC, if it resonates with you, it would be my honor to send you a copy.
There's a great piece in Pearls and Irritations this morning, about an old Sci-Fi movie from 1956 which tells a tale of a highly advanced civilisation that developed technoglogy that eventualy led to their own extinction. The. author offers it as a cautionary tale:
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/is-earth-on-its-way-to-becoming-the-forbidden-planet/
Another gem I discovered this weekend is a movie titled 'Earths Greatest Enemy' by Abbie Martin. The movie brings militarism, war, the climate crisis and ecosystems collapse and capitalism together as parts of an integrated, growing and acclerating system.
I found it on Vimeo for a few dollars.
We started to go wrong when the religion of science replaced real religions and we allowed the belief that this world is purely mechanical and material and nothing else matters, i.e. there is no soul. Indeed some scientists would say there is no consciousness which is ridiculous.
We started to wrong long before the healthy skepticism of science, when the shared commons was replaced, by force, by private property, creating a world divided between the haves and have-nots.
Science had healthy scepticism when they walked hand in hand with religions. Most of our greatest scientists had a moral religious ethos.
Then science decided to kill off God and set itself up against the worst of religion and, in the doing, through the shadow effect became the worst of a new and far more dangerous religion.
Science as a system of enquiry sold its soul to Governments and corporations long ago. There are no doubt ethical scientists in the singular but science as a system is without ethics. Why can we say that? Actions mostly but science only knows what it can measure and ethics cannot be measured. Ergo, for science, ethics do not exist.
Money talks and power decrees and the insanity of it all is that the scientists believe, most of them, that if something cannot be measured it does not exist. That is because SCIENCE CAN ONLY KNOW WHAT IT CAN MEASURE, which indicates how flawed and often useless the system is.
Private property existed in stone-age times.
Nonsense propaganda
What is? Make a case. Blanket statements do not cut it.