Information philosophy

Aleksej Sokolov
2 min readMar 7, 2024

What is a system?

A system is any organized system of power, in other words, a system is what has you. The system can be state, corporate, religious or mixed.

It’s a sad state of things.

Most of humanity is in a rather sad situation. The essence of this situation is that we are public to the system and third parties associated with the system, at the same time, the system remains absolutely anonymous to us. The system shows us only what it wants to show to us, usually these are elections and other democratic procedures, everything else is classified as “secret”, “confidential” and the disclosure of such data is usually punishable by law. The system takes very good care of protecting any data that can tell us anything about the operation of the system itself and its plans. On the other hand, ordinary people, without any fear, post any information about themselves on social networks that belong to the system. Moreover, the system often requires or even extorts personal and biometric data, the bright example is KYC.

For the system, your publicity is, first of all, a way to find out your loyalty to the system itself, as well as to the current political agenda. Secondly, this is an opportunity to have compromising evidence on you.

Another tool of oppression is censorship, if you conduct your social life within a system social network, in which case the system decides what you can say and what you cannot say. Social networks are perfect tool for censorship! There is no more effective means of censorship than social networks, where denunciation flourishes and every user can act as a censor.

Some people think that the system is the state, but it is not. The state is an organization with a monopoly on violence, violence is a very brutal power. Information is more primary than violence, information is a more subtle type of power, covering many more aspects than violence. Violence affects the body while information affects the mind. The Church has always had greater power over people than a gang of thugs who only know how to rob and kill. A state without a church is incomplete, so the state and church always act in tandem. The role of the church is to shape the reality around us, and I can say for sure that the church has not reduced, but increased its power.

--

--