Technology promised to save humanity. We were promised a digital utopia of abundance and connection. Instead, we got resource extraction, surveillance, and a new feudalism dressed in the language of salvation.
Silicon Valley is betting half a trillion dollars that you suffer from "Automation Bias", a glitch in human cognition where we automatically assign higher truth-value to machines than to our own senses. They are betting you'll trust the SCREEN over your senses, the NARRATIVE over the physics, and the PROMISE over the evidence.
This episode serves as the complete overview of The Silicon Mirage series, deconstructing the physics, economics, psychology, and theology of the greatest con of the 21st century.