Zeitgeist noun The general set of ideas, beliefs, feelings, etc. that are typical of a particular period in history. The spirit of the age in question.
I had been considering what to write about the assassination of Charlie Kirk but, given all the current information out there, writing about it would just add my voice to the 120 decibel level of noise out there already. Put simply, it seemed pretty obvious to me that such horrific crimes were going to eventuate and they have been escalating for some time now. So, rather than consider any specific crime, I want to give consideration to the zeitgeist that has given rise to the demonic madness, both from a practical earthly perspective and a spiritual perspective.
First of all, however, I think that you should read the article linked here...
(futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis)
Also, the following is what I wrote as a YouTube comment on a video about a tragic outcome for a young person who had been affected by so-called "AI" and had taken their own life...
"All these AI LLM's simply reflect the current state of society's ideas, beliefs, knowledge (enhanced by selective, non-linear processing and filtering algorithms) and, unfortunately, there is a strong "death culture" in modern western society, having its origins in the various misanthropic ideologies going around, primarily on the left side of politics (same beliefs which give rise to abortion, euthanasia, etc.). This outcome was completely predictable and completely preventable but totalitarian-minded governments will blame social media at large and take advantage of this kind of tragedy to garner support for freedom-crushing legislation, pushing more and more for digital ID (read that as "mark of the beast" - the ultimate outcome of digital ID). Demons don't control machines but they can influence the input from humans and that is where the ideas come from. The solution is to change the human heart but the sources of the bad information do not want that. ChatGPT is just a deterministic machine and it, that is, the machine itself, is no more the problem than a hammer, which can be used to bang nail heads or bang human heads. The problem is in the minds and hearts of those using it and especially those who have some say over its responses through control of its algorithmic operations. If "intelligence" is mere computation (as it would have to be to call these things "intelligent"), then an abacus has intelligence... but they are just machines, brain without mind, body without soul, just algorithms operating on recorded information combined with constant new input and ALL OF IT, GOOD AND BAD, FROM HUMANS!"
Blaming machines for the bad behaviour and evil ideas of humans makes no sense. Leaders are largely responsible for allowing to get out of hand, and even encouraging and reinforcing, the kinds of ideas that led to Charlie Kirk's death and the deaths of many children and others in Christian schools. However, as always, they want to blame other people, such as the owners of LLM AI systems (who are, to some degree, responsible). The truth is, everyone is responsible but leaders or high profile people share a greater responsibility because of their influence and reach.
All that these AI systems do is regurgitate restructured forms of the zeitgeist of the current age which expresses the average state of mind of people across the world and, given that the algorithms used to respond to individual input are designed to reinforce a user's self perception, a philosophy that aligns entirely with woke ideology (e.g. if you think you're a furry animal, then you are a furry animal, etc.), what we have is "positive feedback" (here, positive means reinforcing, not necessarily good) and from an engineer's perspective, that is a very bad thing. What positive feedback does is it sends a system into wild, undamped oscillation or total lockup in an extreme state, total instability or extreme deviation from a usable setting. Imagine, for example, that you had positive feedback operating on the steering in your car. As long as the direction is exactly straight then things seem OK but as the car drifts slightly to one side, you make a small correction, turning the steering wheel slightly the other way and the positive feedback control amplifies that deviation exaggerating the amount you have turned, in turn making the correction greater and looping back through the positive feedback making the correction ever greater until it turns as hard as it can. Such a vehicle would crash within seconds of starting to move.
Electronics engineers use positive feedback in situations where it is warranted, such as oscillator design (essentially a frequency-tuned amplifier with positive feedback), for cleaning up binary signals in digital systems operating in electrically noisy environments (Schmitt trigger inputs to digital ports in engine management systems, for example), and so on. However, stability is always achieved through negative feedback loops. Negative feedback works to counteract the errors in the state of a system, pulling the system back towards a known or required stable state necessary for the system to operate correctly.
What I have noticed with AI LLM's is that their algorithms used for human interaction are designed to placate a person by reinforcing their ideas and beliefs, that is, providing positive feedback no matter what the ideas are, the concept being that merely being agreeable is productive and being disagreeable is counterproductive. This is a childishly simple and completely idiotic idea and is very much in keeping with "woke idiotology". Advancement is not made through constant agreement about everything but through the clash of ideas with the intent that ideas which comport most accurately with reality win the debate. AI LLM's have exposed what is a fundamental problem in woke beliefs and all collectivist belief systems - that the complete tolerance and acceptance of everyone's "truth" in an environment devoid of objectivity leads to the system (society) becoming increasingly unstable (people going mad) and ultimately total societal collapse. Demons, among other sources, are feeding people many of the ideas which are utterly detached from objective reality, the people are making those ideas part of their worldviews and are building on them, adding to them, more positive feedback, and then they all find themselves sinking into the quick sands upon which they have built their abodes. We also see that people who are correctly established on the rock of Christ do not suffer from these problems.
Thus is the zeitgeist of our age, the spirit of the beast, a spirit of complete detachment from reality which is underpinned by objective truth, a violent separation from God, a type of mass psychosis where the void left by the absence of truth is being rapidly filled with deceptions and delusions, people believing the imaginations of their hearts instead of the written and personified truth, Christ, because they hate the truth and have great pleasure in their sins. This is entirely in keeping with the prophetic utterances in scripture, being that this phenomenon is consequent to the great falling away from the faith, the great apostasy shortly before the return of the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 2 ASV Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; (2) to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; (3) let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, (4) he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. (5) Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (6) And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. (7) For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. (8) And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; (9) even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (10) and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (11) And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: (12) that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (13) But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: (14) whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (15) So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours. (16) Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, (17) comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
As mentioned in previous posts, we see the clear separation of the righteous and the wicked rapidly growing, the heads of wheat appearing alongside the heads of darnel, and the readying of the world to receive the false messiah, the grand deceiver, the son of perdition.
As always, trust only in the Ever Living God, not in the unstable, ever-changing things of man, for in them there is no security at all.
