Human 2.0, The Role of a Lifetime?

Arch-globalist Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote “Between Two Ages, America’s Role in the Technotronic Era.” The title might contain its only agreeable idea: we are between two ages. One is the frying pan; the other is the fire. Whatever we were previously calling “freedom,” “liberal democracy,” or “free market capitalism” led to the present moment. Before COVID-19 ever hit, there was plenty to protest with Monsanto, FDA collusion or vaccination, so this in-between moment does not warrant nostalgia.

A new order cannot be instated without first destroying the existing one. A mask comes off; another one takes its place. A virus is now being exploited to force that shift in ages. Propaganda, censorship and cyberwarfare back the transition, but our full awareness of this moment in history is the potential wrench tossed into those turning gears. 

There’s another way to regard epochal change: “only if one pits two views against each other can one weasel between them to arrive at the real world,” said the Yaqui shaman Juan Matus. Whereas Brzezinski’s vision assumes our inevitable enslavement as “Human 2.0,” don Juan points to the possibility of freedom. But what exactly does he mean? In part, that in not being locked into any one role-based identity, possibilities unfold and the basic principles underlying life come into view.  Those transitions may be unsettling, but they foster nimble minds and carry the potency of great lessons. The fact is we are none of the roles anyone has in store for us; our real identities transcend the masks we may be compelled to wear. That knowledge is power. 

“Human 2.0” is our assigned role in a new script. It’s about a technocratic utopia rising from the ruins of an age of liberties, both consecrated and abused. As in ancient dramas, the actors wear masks, meant to signal the new ideal, conformity, but its greatest scene would be to turn down the part altogether, and return the mask to the prop department.

David Arzouman