(Reducing humans to mechanisms—the path to enslavement)
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Introduction
In 2024, some developers attempted to launch a startup called Orbital, which proposed a total ban on cash and a mandatory digital payment system. They marketed it as “convenient and efficient”, but it was essentially an attempt to eliminate financial anonymity.
The question arises: why does technology increasingly focus on control rather than freedom?
The answer is simple: the dominance of materialistic thinking, which has shaped the modern world.
Materialism and Mechanistic Thinking
Materialism sees humans as machines, controlled by mechanical laws. But if humans are just biological robots, what happens to free will, emotions, morality? Are they just illusions, too?
Here’s how this mindset works:
✅ If humans are just biological systems, then they can be programmed.
✅ If labor is just an algorithm, it can be optimized.
✅ If emotions are just neural signals, they are merely chemical processes, not something meaningful.
This is how humans become simple mechanisms. But does this perspective bring freedom? No. It inevitably leads to control.
How Materialism Leads to Total Control
A cashless society sounds convenient, but when humans are reduced to mechanisms, a system naturally emerges to regulate them.
Let’s examine how materialism justifies control:
🔹 Consciousness is just biology → so, people’s thoughts and movements can be manipulated.
🔹 Morality is a social construct → meaning efficiency matters, not ethics.
🔹 Free will is an illusion → so complex behaviors must be controlled.
In this mindset, a person is not a moral being, but a system to be optimized.
🔹 Cash was abolished not because it was inefficient, but because it was uncontrollable.
🔹 The real goal of a centralized digital economy is not efficiency, but surveillance.
The Difference Between Inventors and Controllers
Creating technology is not the same as controlling people. There is a fundamental difference between those who invent new things and those who just control the existing system.
🔹 Real inventors create technologies that liberate people from hard labor.
🔹 Controllers create systems that track and manage populations.
Examples of liberating technologies:
✅ Nikola Tesla tried to give people free energy.
✅ Einstein explored the nature of the universe.
✅ Steve Jobs aimed for practical and user-friendly tech, rather than control.
Now imagine the 19th century—when people worked in brutal conditions, carrying coal, digging tunnels, breaking stone by hand.
Did industrialists free people from that suffering?
No. Instead, they built a system where workers were trapped in factories, under strict rules.
The same thing is happening now with digital systems.
🔹 New digital tools should be making people freer, but instead, they are becoming tools of surveillance.
Escaping This Mindset
As long as society follows pure materialism, control will always grow. If humans are seen as mere resources, then the logical conclusion is that they must be optimized and managed.
But humans are not machines.
Consciousness is not just chemistry.
And freedom is not a glitch in evolution.
🔹 Technology should liberate people, not turn them into algorithms.
The real digital future is about new possibilities, not control.
🔹 Orbital is a warning—if society continues down the materialistic path, it will inevitably create a digital prison.
Final Thought
🔹 Humans are not robots.
🔹 A world built on control will collapse into digital feudalism.
💬 What do you think? Should anything be added or changed?