All shades of totalitarianism

In the movie Mirrors, Ben passes through the symbolic structure of reality and arrives at the traumatic Real and/or Thing (das Ding). He remains, therefore, on the other side of reality, from where he can see that, in fact, reality is only a reflection that 'reflects' from something that we are not allowed to reach.

As we look at footage and photographs of the Gaza Strip today, we can compare it to the scene shown to Nebuchadnezzar by Morpheus (Matrix), as what is Real, while everything else is a simulacrum of reality, a digital decor or, ultimately, a virtual illusion.

We are moving towards what would Fukuyama called, not without reason, 'our posthuman future.' Since we belong to an age in which science focuses all its potential on the development of artificial intelligence, it is logical that the power of capitalism is par excellence in the sign of posthumanity.

In this regard, when the famous 'sustainable development' is discussed at world summits and forums that bring together all the leaders of Western countries, then we should say that: AI and the 40 percent of jobs it will initially take over are part of the sustainable development project, especially since nothing is, economically speaking, more profitable than the robotization of work.

Let's look at China and the level of cybernetics it has reached, of robotics that has been incorporated into everyday life. And yet, the population of China, although under the control of rigid communism, that is, a totalitarian system, remains deeply fascinated by these achievements; they consider it the progress of their country, failing to see in it a new slavery, or even the replacement of man by machine.

Essentially, we see modernity as a kind of achievement in the field of technology that is totalitarian. With the projects of a company like Neuralink, biopolitics will consummate its control, because - the body will be a technological apparatus.

So: control no longer comes as machinery that works repressively as an instrument from the outside (Morpheus, right, tries to Buddhistically 'awaken' Neo, to point out to him the illusory nature of reality that is a simulacrum, etc.), but it is now - encoded within, becoming a part of us, after all, what is brain implantation and interaction via a megacomputer that allows us to communicate only with thoughts without using the power of speech, if not that.

After all, that was the ultimate goal of communism and fascism, as he himself would say in a speech at a session of one of the Congresses: Stalin to say that the Party must literally be able to have insight into the thoughts of the people. When we compare something like that with today's digitalization versus democracy, we really wonder how much democracy is possible at all? Without bio-readers, this post-ideological time convinces us, megacities would not be able to function. Let's add: without the police from the movie Minority report, will we be able to feel safe?

Public opinion is nothing but what is formed by the mass media, in Western countries they manipulate the truth by bombarding us with a constant flow of information, unlike totalitarian systems where there is only one, extremely controlled, Party-released information that can never and under no circumstances be questioned. All the more so, one could say that the extreme of totalitarianism is contact with the Real, conversely, liberal democracy manipulates by keeping us in the zone of the symbolic structure of reality, which is governed, as the regulator of social relations, by the big Other.

The reality of robotics

We can read the end of politics in the following lines: “In the report of the Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it is alleged that dozens of companies, including technology and military giants, are complicit in a “genocidal campaign” due to lucrative ties to Israel.” The fight against terrorism, Hamas, is in fact pure anti-Semitism, as we can read.

Let us quote here a thought that best illustrates the contemporary world - Totalitarianism and modernity are not connected just by chance, but immanently. (Anthony Giddens) That is why it is complete nonsense whenever, taken aback by the global state of affairs, we find ourselves in disbelief, asking how something like this is possible in the 21st century, because, as things stand, modernity is precisely totalitarianism elaborated to the fullest.

On May 2025, XNUMX, International Labor Day, we could, therefore, see a terrifying, almost science fiction-like video of an 'enraged' humanoid robot attacking workers in a Chinese factory, in an attempt to break free from its restraints. Since we have reached this point, why not seriously consider introducing - robot rights? Especially since some experts are raising questions about the safety and ethics of humanoid robotics, which may represent a real threat in the near future, especially since with the hyperproduction of robotics, their price will drop significantly.

Chinese companies like Unitree, Xpeng, and Agibot are investing billions in developing advanced humanoid robots to work in factories, service industries, and other sectors. Some automakers like Leapmotor are already creating robotics teams focused on industrial applications, where robots can replace humans to improve work efficiency. According to some estimates, the Chinese humanoid robot market segment is expected to reach a value of around 11,35 billion euros by 2030.

So, with this reality of robotics, it is certain that politics is being abolished, that international law is being completely rendered meaningless in wars that are staged to the last detail, like this genocidal campaign being carried out in detail in the Gaza Strip, that tomorrow's conflicts will be led by technological devices, because that is already largely the case today, and we have so many videos of soldiers being killed in the trenches by invisible drones.

So, it is meant to say that there is absolutely nothing fascinating in this accelerated development of technology, quite the opposite, just as modernity is, in fact, only an advancement of totalitarianism, so technology is first and foremost and always already dehumanizingly 'oriented.'

One could say to some extent that the metaphysical question of today is - is reality what robots realize, while we remain prisoners of the reality of the virtual, and all the more so that we cannot penetrate to the core of the Real, break free from the symbolic structure and rule of the big Other?

U Borgesova tell Mirror and mask, the poet succeeded in his undertaking, the eulogy, so the King will say the following things in the analysis, which, today, chatbogGPT can certainly achieve: “I accept your work. This is another victory. You have given every word its original meaning and every noun the decorative adjective that the first poets gave it. In the entire eulogy, there is not a single image that the classics did not use. War is the beautiful weaving of men and the water of the sword is blood. The sea has its God and the clouds foretell the future. You skillfully handled rhyme, alliteration, assonance, length, the arts of street rhetoric, and wise changes of meter. If the entire literature of Ireland were lost - omen absit - it could be restored without any loss by means of your classic ode. Thirty scribes will copy it twice”.

Is this, then, a terrifying scenario of an artificial perfection that will function without the slightest possibility of error or bug? Is this, finally, a virtual Real that will simply shut us out?