Is Social Media Man’s New Religion? Living in the Era of Invisible 21st Century Technology

Despite Jonathan Haidt’s (social psychologist) research on how cultures vary greatly in the way they size up what moral conduct is and how society should regulate behavior, the battle between the sexes has raged throughout history and proof can be found in the Old Testament:

“She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” (Ezekiel 23:20 NIV)

As far as I’m concerned, the above-referenced quote is nothing more than one man’s unanalyzed unconscious fear of “smallness” and inadequacy regarding the sexual power housed underneath his religious robes! These fears have gone on to create some of the grandest delusions the world has ever seen, entire wars and genocides carried out because of them.

The same religious text that gave us the above “pearl of wisdom” gave man the following guidance:

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off shall be admitted to the assembly of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 23:1 NRSV)

This makes sense since women were considered second class citizens and, completely lacking in testicles and a penis, they were excluded from roles of power: “I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent.” (Timothy 2:11)

As for women who found themselves pregnant, it was decided that if she gives birth to a son she is considered “unclean” for a lesser duration of time than if she gives birth to a daughter: “In case a woman conceives seed and does bear a male, she must be unclean seven days; as in the days of impurity when she is menstruating, she will be unclean . . . Now if she should bear a female, she must then be unclean fourteen days, as during her menstruation . . . “ (Leviticus 12:1–5)

A person’s status was dependent on his upbringing, being born out of wedlock forbids you and your descendants from entering churches: “A bitched shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.” (Deuteronomy 23:2)

Oddly, Jesus was born a “bitched soul” yet he rose to such a level of power as to be seated at the right hand of God himself.

Let’s not forget to mention torture and cruelty descriptions: “You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your asses will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, but you will have no savior. Your sons and daughters given to another people and your eyes looking on and yearning for them always — but your hands will be without power. Jehovah will strike you with a malignant boil upon both knees and both legs, from which you will not be able to be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.” (Deuteronomy 28:30–32,35)

And of course, there were rules on how women must cover themselves and dress to pray: “…but every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered shames her head, for it is one and the same as if she were a [woman] with a shaved head. For if a woman does not cover herself, let her also be shorn; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.” (1 Corinthians 11:5–6)

There were laws governing war crimes and genocide: “And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with a man by laying with a male. And preserve alive for yourselves all the little ones among the women who have not known the act of laying with a male.”(Numbers 31:17–18)

I have not included the biblical references discussing bizarre ways to kill your children, how and when to sell your daughter into slavery, and how and when to stone them to death.

Religion was the ancient’s form of “social control” and through its high-profile representatives, a form of ancient “social media” that directly influenced populations. Religious men attempted to promote themselves through distinguished rituals in feigning a possessed form of power from God. As a social “media” platform, we can read between the lines of various religious texts and discover the presence, to a wide degree, envy, greed, and narcissism! And finally, thanks to the work of Sigmund Freud, don’t you know, “God” has been posthumously diagnosed as suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

In a paper by Taylor and Strutton entitled “Does Facebook usage lead to conspicuous consumption? The role of envy, narcissism, and self-promotion” (2016) stated:

“While humans have formed social ties since the beginning of time, online social networks are fundamentally different in several ways. First, an online social network can be significantly larger; a typical offline social network has approximately 125 connections compared to a median of 300 ‘friends’ for teen-age users of Facebook, the largest social networking site. Second, social media users have fewer cues by which to form impressions of others in their networks, so they must use the limited heuristics that are available, resulting in skewed perceptions. Third, and perhaps most importantly, profiles are carefully managed by users to highlight positive attributes and present a more idealized self” (Taylor & Strutton, 2016).

Are Authorities Now Using Wireless Technology as a Form of Social Control through Biological Implants that Deliver Stimulus through Clandestine Radio Wave (Wi-Fi) Technology as a Form of Technologically-Facilitated Violence?

My approach to addressing the phenomenon of electronically targeted individuals utilized various social media platforms; WordPress, Medium, Twitter, Facebook, and Quora. I have also provided over these platforms examples in abnormal psychology, sexual deviance, and personality disorders drawn from the books of various psychoanalysts with references to some of the latest research journal publications. I am proposing that this phenomenon may actually belong to a primitive group of people the likes of which stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Last year, during one week, one of my blogs received 466 visitors. During the course of that year (2020) my blog received over 13K visitors. I am going to assume this means that people are interested in answers belonging to questions found in the field of abnormal psychology and psychoanalysis.

Most recently a journal article entitled “The Relationship Between the Dark Triad, and the Moral Judgement Level, and the Students’ Disciplinary Choices” shed light on the prevalence of Dark Triad traits among those with business degrees. That is to say, people who have occupations that require a business degree are more likely to suffer from Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. This can be supported by the Department of Justice’s high statistics on white-collar crime and grand theft. In addition, this may be a factor that plays into the phenomenon of electronically targeted individuals suffering electronic assaults and torture. Since businesses create new products and manufacture new technologies all the time, and these new products and new technologies must be purchased by consumers there exists a business interest with regard to consumer consumption and marketing of these new products and new technologies. Wireless technologies that attack and torture human beings appeal to certain personality types like those with antisocial personality disorder or in people who suffer the Dark Triad personality traits. Questions arise as to “Who has the purchasing power to buy into these new advancing tools?” as well as “How are new consumes being targeted with regard to future sales in advertising, marketing, and healthcare?” These questions bring up other interesting questions. Questions like, “Is electronic targeting utilizing biological implants the result of local state and policing municipalities of social control?” “Or is this form of targeting the result of a post 9/11 democracy and its war on terrorism?” “Or is it the result of a democracy promoting its own form of National Socialism (free healthcare) that’s harvesting within its borders free human test fodder for experimentation?”

The paper that analyzed the effects of social media on its users said:

“Facebook users have demonstrated higher levels of envy and lower life satisfaction. They also frequently perceive others as being happier and having better lives. Furthermore, Facebook interaction may increase communication overload and reduce self-esteem. Building on these findings, this study proposes that Facebook users persistently compare themselves to other users. These comparisons, in turn, create both positive feelings (i.e. narcissism) and negative feelings (i.e. envy). This amalgam of feelings may ultimately elevate users’ desires to promote themselves through conspicuous online consumption of positional goods (Taylor & Strutton, 2016).”

For those of you who may not understand the term conspicuous consumption, it is the spending of money on the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display the economic power of the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer. To the conspicuous consumer, such as public display of discretionary economic power is a means of either attaining or maintaining a given social status. The sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption,” and was a pioneer of the institutional economics movement. Veblen’s theory also produced the term invidious consumption, the ostentatious consumption of goods to provoke the envy of the people, and conspicuous compassion, the deliberate use of charitable donations of money to enhance the social prestige of the donor with a display of superior socio-economic status.

With regard to the United States government, they carry out their own form of conspicuous consumption although it is usually in the form of military acquisitions in the area of the latest fighter jets and military tanks and equipment designed to display the nation’s strength and power.

Are these newly created electronically targeted individuals suffering electronic assaults and torture part of the modern day’s version of the envies that are inspired as a result of one person’s individual envy of another’s online “conspicuous consumption” or is this a new “security tool” being utilized in the 21st century of advancing invisible technology revolving around clandestine means of social control? What’s interesting about “invisible history” is it contains countless examples of unethical, inhumane, experiments that have been carried out on groups within its population, sometimes in secret and sometimes not so secret, even before Hitler decided to exterminate the Jews and perform bizarre, painful, unethical, inhumane medical tests on them.

Reference Source:

Krick, A., Tresp, S., Vatter, M., Ludwig, A., Wihlenda, M., & Rettenberger, M. (2016). The Relationships Between the Dark Triad, the Moral Judgment Level, and the Students’ Disciplinary Choice. Journal of Individual Differences, 37(1), 24–30.

Taylor, D., & Strutton, D. (2016). Does Facebook usage lead to conspicuous consumption? The role of envy, narcissism, and self-promotion. Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, 10(3), 231–248.

Perper, Joshua A. & Cina, Stephen J. (2010) When Doctors Kill: Who, Why and How. New York. Copernicus Books (2010).

Feldmann, T., & Johnson, P. (1992). The Selfobject Function of Weapons: A Self Psychology Examination. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 20(4), 561–576.