This is a sneak peek and drastically altered sample of the upcoming audio project "A Brief History of the Present, soon to be the Past, soon to be the Future."  Will humanity become a ghost in the machine by seeking god in the machine?  Will man manifest himself as a presence in the world once more?  Will the species and its civilizations continue to collapse unto their next viable nadirs?  Will tech companies continue to be unregulated monopolies sucking the humanity out of humanity?  Stay tuned and find out!  

Obligatories and Credits:  Aw damn, so many credits are due, largely in order of how they appear: First is music:  ALOHA by Feelin Fine and Stoop Party by Deadly Duel from Adobe Stock, and the rest of the music is from Brad Sucks' first album "I don't know what I'm doing."  Thanks for the free use of music, even though someone will probably copyright claim this video anyhow (they did, but said "no actions"), but credit to Brad for being the dude who was first or damn near first on the internet offering a better deal on music between artist and fan - major props, and thanks again for the instrumentals (songs in order of appearance, "Work Out Fine," "Fixing my Brain," "Dirtbag," "Sick as a Dog," and "Borderline").  

The rest of the audio: South Park, Anything Goes by Cole Porter, Beautiful Strangers by Kevin Morby; Excerpts from Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft; Mike Judge's Idiocracy; The Mysterious Universe Podcast episode "Decivilization;" Deus Ex Machina (A Series Retrospective); clips from Wrestlemania 23 - Battle of the Billionaires (TRUMP VS. McMAHON); much love, respect, and appreciation to huMan (a damn fine man) and Spetznas (the world's best prison counselor and premier male psychologist) for their respective commentary and series of questions on "The End of Loyalty" and "1984," and a few other clips; much love and appreciation to Gregory Grevalle of the Into the Absurd Podcast and Keegan Kjeldson of Destroyer of Light and The Nietzsche podcast (many cuts were used from various podcasts); Nietzsche's crucial work The Birth of Tragedy; clips from 1984 and Brave New World audio books (what's been seared in my mind for sure); miscellaneous clips from American Media (Firefly, The Matrix, more South Park, etc.); clips from what is arguably America's best working comedian at the moment, Tim Dillon (on the Joe Rogan podcast); clips from various talks by Jaron Lanier (tech pioneer) on "WHY YOU SHOULD QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA, NOW" (essentially a discourse on why tech companies are soulless parasites on humanity that are retarding the species); and last, is credit to Hamza, encouraging young men to be strong, to get rid of the social media/tech addictions and distractions, and encouraging said young men to brave this new world.  Don't take any shit from these swine.  

There might be more credits and connective tissue I've missed (DAVOS, Harrari, Shwab, news anchors and political hacks saying "build back better"), but all copyrights and credits once more belong to the artist or content maker, or more likely, the company that owns them, their image, and/or their work, including damn near everything that I've put out on YouTube.