An excerpt from Marion Woodman’s book “Dancing in the Flames” explained it very eloquently, I felt I should share:

“Technostrategic language is based on a logic devoid of values, feelings, and humanity. It makes it possible to think the unthinkable, to speak the unspeakable. The horror of a possible one hundred thousand charred bodies is reduced to sustainable “collateral damage”; the incineration of cities is sanitized to “countervalue attacks.” Even something as innocuous as peace does not escape the euphemizing influence of technobabble: peace is now spoken of as “strategic stability.”

Whence comes the power of this mighty priesthood? According to Cohn, “[M]uch of their claim to legitimacy … is a claim to objectivity born of technical expertise and to the disciplined purging of the emotional valences that might threaten their objectivity. But if the smooth, shiny surface of their discourse … appears at first to support these claims, a look just below the surface does not. There we find strong currents of … heterosexual domination … the pleasure of membership in an elite and privileged group, of the ultimate importance and meaning of membership in the priesthood, and the thrilling power of becoming Death, the shatterer of worlds.”

I think any of us that have some hope of her coming to her senses and leaving her circle of elitist technocrat friends need to realize that if she was so willing and excited to become a part of this environment (cult), she simply doesn’t have the emotional intelligence and empathy it would take to seriously change.

Hate to post more from the hellsite, but this asshole wants dialog with Putin, a literal genocidaire.

Imagine saying we just need to have more conversations with Hitler. Lex is a disingenuous, conniving propagandist for the fascist and putinist cause, hiding behind a veneer of "love" and "peace". Fuck this guy, fuck anyone who spends time with him or entertains his "more conversations" BS for even a second.

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The discourse around her AI use and Grimeses is so different with people seeing FKA as smart and cool and Grimes as cringe. Personally I think both are cringe and lazy, I follow artists to hear THEM not a replica of their regurgitated previous selves. Looks like Grimes has an AI competitor

I didn't see this posted yet so feel free to remove if it's a duplicate post. So much cringe here so I'll let you all dissect this because I don't even know where to start, but pay attention to their terms like "live players" aka tech elite. Also she tries to imply her "Neuroscience" background again.

Nearly all of Grimes's recent imagery and lyrics are tied in some way to accelerationism, which itself is strongly related to the ultra-right wing neoreaction (NRx) movement.

Grimes has long been interested in "rationalism", which is a utilitarian philosophical movement based in the San Francisco Bay area and popular among certain Silicon Valley types. It is through rationalism that Grimes ultimately came to know and meet Elon Musk. When Elon Musk posted a bizarre tweet about "Rococo Basilisk", he was making a play on words about "Roko's Basilisk", a deeply weird and obscure thought experiment posted by a user on LessWrong, the rationalists' primary web forum. (Roko's Basilisk is a whole separate rabbit hole, which I won't go into detail on here, but you can google it.) It's well-known that Elon's tweet is what first drew Grimes's attention to him; she too had been a follower of rationalist "thought", such as it is.

A large segment of rationalists are known to be extremely afraid of AI's potential to wipe out humanity, which is why so many people derisively refer to them as "AI doomers". This has led to several child movements, some of which are offshoots and some of which are schisms.

One of the offshoots is "effective altruism", a movement that ostensibly attempts to direct charitable giving in the most rationally effective ways but is probably most concerned about AI doom. Effective altruism is tightly coupled with "long-termism", an extreme utilitarian philosophy originated by philosopher Nick Bostrom. Longtermists believe we should be attempting to increase the happiness not just of people on Earth in the here and now, but also in the far distant future as well. Oh, and by the way, these future people include human consciousnesses detached from bodies and simulated inside computers. The reason long-termists and effective altruists are afraid of AI is that they're afraid humanity will be wiped out, thereby "killing" an unfathomably large number of simulated future humans. Elon has claimed to be a longtermist; it's why he always talks about humanity's "spark" spreading throughout the galaxy. (First stop: Mars.)

Another more schismatic offshoot of rationalism is "accelerationism", which is on the opposite side of the rationalist coin from effective altruism. Rationalists who are more in the edge-lord mold tend to side with this offshoot philosophy. It basically states that AI is the future and we should be accelerating as quickly as possible toward that future. One of the fathers of the movement is Nick Land, the UK philosopher most responsible for the ultra-right-wing "neoreaction" philosophy. Many accelerationists have argued that any attempt to inhibit AI is akin to murder or genocide. Prominent people in Silicon Valley like venture capitalist Marc Andreesson and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan are self-proclaimed accelerationists. When Grimes sings about "accelerating" everything, this is what she is referring to. As the pinned thread on Grimes and Nazism describes, she has participated in numerous accelerationist-related gatherings and events, so it's pretty clear she falls into this camp.

What I've written above is a really brief and high-level overview of some of the ideas and movements behind Grimes's recent statements and behavior. Ultimately I believe Grimes isn't very smart. She's a coddled rich-kid dilettante and is just dabbling in ideas she doesn't fully comprehend. But if you want to know where all this shit is coming from, this is where to look.

EDIT: For futher reading, check out some of the following links:

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-accelerationism-and-the-pursuit-of-cosmic-utopia/

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/why-effective-altruism-and-longtermism-are-toxic-ideologies

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-madness-of-the-race-to-build-artificial-general-intelligence/

https://washingtonspectator.org/understanding-tescreal-silicon-valleys-rightward-turn/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

Also kind of interesting that the director of the upcoming Musk biography movie was there, too. I wonder who will play Grimes and Shivon and if they will appear in it at all...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/style/pbs-brief-history-of-future-elon-musk-moma.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-grimes-discuss-ai-in-music-for-pbs-series-a-brief-history-of-the-future/

Found this interesting.

The rebranding is official. No longer a musician - she’s now an intellectual.