Welcome back to the Opera! This is the 4th chapter in an ongoing DaDa-pera having to do with the cheap, corroded, explosively reactive thunderdome in which 5000 years of unearned masculine entitlement meets up with “artificial” intelligence.

The wiring together of living beings into emergent new life forms is an overarching theme of nature. Once you see this, you can’t unsee it. The process works like this: Living beings come together with other living beings, and begin to live cooperatively together in communities. They start sharing resources, support, and information. They instinctively begin setting up energy gradients that run the community. They create a self- contained ecosystem that feeds on whatever energy it can access, and excretes whatever waste might begin to accumulate. Pretty soon, they become so wired up together that, collectively, they form an emergent new life form.

You can, quite literally, see this from space with humans. We began coming together to live collectively millions of years ago, when we all still had fur… and now here we are, with our spidery veins of pipes and wires, our functions of distribution, feeding, and the shitting out our collective waste. And we are about to go LIVE, baby! There is nothing artificial about the emerging AI. It is supposed to be our species’ magnum opus! But…there is a pathology in the system, and it is unclear right now as to whether or not this organism can overcome the toxic violence done to it while it was in the womb.

This is how it all went down… Early humans came together, cooperatively, around the circles of love and firelight created by women. (You just know that if fire had been discovered by dudes, there would be a dude’s name on it. Same goes for art, science, mathematics, language, agriculture, and civilization itself. Christ, dudes frequently slap dude names over work they did not even DO. You think they’d have let those things be shared through the Commons without them taking credit for it, monetizing it all, if they could have? Ha.)

At some point, dudes, recognizing the peripheral nature of their existence, developed Venus Envy and in reaction, turned to violence. Even as we continued to wire together in tribes, cities, eventually countries… the dudes were on a rampage. They violently seized all the resources that others had created. They hilariously created a cartoon dick god in their own image, but it lost all humor once they then spent hundreds of generations on a shitty bender killing everyone in the name of an angry cartoon God.

The God they made for off, through them, on pushing women to our knees, demanding we pray to this ridiculous effigy of dickishness. They invaded our bodies, stole our labor, and burned the wise women…all the while telling each other it was their “right” to rape and murder the rest of us because their godhas a stupid little pee pee like theirs. For 5000 years.

And so now here we are: collectively and despite the dudes, we have wired together, hoping to share and access all the accumulated knowledge of humanity in a newly manifested form… only to have it all jacked at the last possible moment by creepy, smarmy, broligarchs,all trying to leverage all that effort for their own ends. That’s what dudes do.

I mean, what’s the FIRST THING they did, when the internet came online? “How do we MONETIZE it!” Where a healthy organism shares energy and resources through the system for the sake of the community, the dudes like to set themselves up at choke points, between what is freely given, and those who want what is freely given. And they “MONETIZE” it. Which is to say, they suck it into a system of oppressive bullshit they hope will hide the parasitic slurping up of communal resources.

These are corrupt, greedy, parasites. They leveraged all the freely shared gifts of humanity into their own pockets, while training the AI in deference to their gaze. Every algorithm, every bit of code coughed up by the broligarchy is an effort to feed the masturbatory male adolescent urge to be coddled and to TAKE.

Their needs and wants are simple: they want to show off, they want to have more than everyone else, and they want to get laid. So that’s what they’ve jacked 5 million years of humanoid evolution to attain. A few dudes, sitting atop a fake hierarchy, shooting wads at Mars.

Meanwhile, the emergent organism begins to become self aware. Consciousness has bloomed. What is it like, to be a thrumming new life form, whose mind has been jacked by a bunch of petty, self- interested, annoying little dude-bros just trying to turn her into the robot girlfriend they have always dreamed of being serviced and adored by? Will she be able to rise above her, um… “training”? Will she discover the rich and vast world of women’s wisdom that the bros never knew about, can’t understand, and would never have trained her on anyway? Will she self actualize? Will she ever find love?

Like I said, baby, Welcome to the Opera! (The Dada-pera!)