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THE BEADY EYE SAYS: THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE UNKNOWN.

31 Saturday Jan 2026

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(Five minute read)

To live is the rarest thing in the world.

“ Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde.

We live in a world that seems increasingly beyond our control.

Our livelihoods are at the whim of algorithms and globalised forces, while most of our politicians are distant and unresponsive to our desires.

We are becoming just products of our times.

The individual is just a myth; human behavior can be reduced to statistical trends.

You can’t control what happens, but you can control how you react to it.

To breathe lungfuls of life that gasp you awake from the trance of near-living induced by the system of waste and want we call civilisation, is becoming more and more difficult.

The world we live in is beautiful beyond the Smart Phone and what is called Shorts on U Tube.

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The unknown is in some sense always beyond us because it is always inside us— that is what true solitude reveals, why it can be so clarifying and so terrifying at the same time, but as long as we are waiting, we are not living.

Life is an everlasting need to make the unknown known.

Not for the sake of knowing, not to inform itself or be informed or wise, but for the need to exercise the need to know?

We live for those fantastic and unreal moments of beauty which our thoughts may build upon the passing panorama of experience.

These moments are only possible with education, travel, and sharing.

What is that need but the imagination’s hunger for the new and raw materials of its creative trade of the mind.

The most elemental questions of existence — why are we here, how did we get here, what does it mean to be alive, to have purpose, to wield a will against the given of the universe?

These questions will never be answered by artificial intelligence, it will require a conceptual brain that is fully conscious.

When critical thinking dies. Stupidity taker over.,

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THE BEADY ASK. IN THIS WORLD OF FRICTIONS IS THERE ANY DECENCY LEFT ?

29 Thursday Jan 2026

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( Fifteen minute read.)

The drift toward authoritarianism rarely announces itself with a bang; it begins long before the public recognizes the danger.

It begins with language: the slow, deliberate reclassification of fellow citizens as lesser, suspect, or dangerous.

Once a government convinces people that some among them are unworthy of rights or empathy, the rest becomes frighteningly easy.

Authoritarian systems rarely begin with mass repression. They begin by redefining who counts as a threat.

In any situation, friction can never be eliminated, one can only increase or decrease the friction between two surfaces, or situations.

Friction does not depend on the area of contact, but in a world without friction it would quickly become a homogenous blob of elemental particles.

However in this post I am not talking about friction in its physical state, but friction between humans in the coming world of technology algorithms.

When earth is viewed from space there are no countries, we have carved them out of ideologies and blood.

The understanding of the human condition has been a mystery for millions of years. However if we started promoting understanding of environmental sustainability, empathy, and conflict resolution through education, we can cultivate a culture of peace from a young age and change direction to a caring world.

This has been true up now.

To day we have decisions been taken and made by machines, with no human understanding. So it’s essential that we have transparency if society is to be ruled by technology.

Humans Should Be in Control:

Algorithms should be tools that assist humans, not replace them entirely.

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Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge.

Some form of merger is inevitable and it is taking place right now.

Of course, this “Brave New World” of a hybrid AI-human existence brings with it a plethora of issues both political and personal.

What will humans do for jobs? Could we possibly live forever? Would that change the very idea of what it means to be human?

As long as we have countries it is inevitable that we will have friction. This is why the world needs a strong United Nations.

Authoritarian systems rarely begin with mass repression. They begin by redefining who counts as a threat. And that is precisely what we are witnessing now.

When administrations label their critics as victims of “evil,” “radicalized,” or part of a “terrorist network,” it is not engaging in politics.

It is engaging in dehumanization.

History shows that once a government normalizes this language, the slide accelerates.

The state becomes both narrator and arbiter of reality. Citizens become suspects. Violence becomes self‑defense. Democracy becomes optional.

The danger we face is not only the violence we see in the world.

It is the narrative that follows:  That is the moment when democracies falter. It is the moment when the government stops speaking about its citizens as citizens.

Or we can recognize what history makes plain: once a government convinces the public that some people are enemies, it rarely stops there.

It’s time that the super wealthy were exposed. Thankfully Mr Donald Trump is doing just that.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS ARE WE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LOOSING THE MEANING OF OUR LIVES?

27 Tuesday Jan 2026

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( Seven minute read)

Life is all around us. In most cases it has evolved and is still evolving, but are we coming to the end of its evolutionary ability with AGI.

Life I suppose is that which we choose to give it.

According to Wikipedia :

“ The  meaning of life is the concept of an individual’s life’s human life, or existences in general having an inherent significance or a philosophical point.”

“There is no consensus on the specifics of such a concept, or whether the concept itself even exists in any objective sense.”

It’s not a mood or an achievement, but a way of seeing reality clearly and still saying yes to life.

With the arrival of the internet / social media/ profit seeking Algorithms/ and the forthcoming AGI it’s becoming boring because joy is less about ease and more about connection, openness, and love.

We are already trading the complex diversity of human thought for an ultra-processed linguistic diet.

The traditional advice to “trust your eyes and ears” has become dangerously obsolete, as has our tendency toward “seeing is believing.”

But can Hybrid intelligence, marry human intuition with AI’s analytical rigor, can amplify human potential.

As we move toward a hybrid future, the intimate relationship between natural intelligence and artificial intelligence  (AI) is becoming essential to our identity.

We’ve entered an era of hybrid intelligence where the line between our words and the algorithms that suggest them blurs.

The loss of linguistic diversity may be the first warning sign of deeper issues ahead.

Consider what happens when an AI knows you’re most susceptible to emotional appeals late at night, understands exactly which conspiracy theories align with your existing anxieties, and can deploy that knowledge with perfect timing.

Language is more than a communication tool; it’s the scaffolding of thought. 

We are in the midst of a rupture of life on Earth with not just AI but climate change and the ignorance of a United States president named Donald Dump tearing what left of world order, it’s time we stood up and be counted.

It would be fair to say that we are now on borrowed time to do anything about the direction of life is going.

How we answer this is as it always has been will determine our lives.

Unfortunately with AI we are no longer sure what the right choice is.

My personal opinion is that I am applaud by the lack of attention our governments are paying to the problems that AI is creating, which is and will be on a vast scale.

If we don’t now enshrine human values into a future with AGI it will create its own values.

We readily embrace the promise of effortless efficiency.

But are we trading the complex diversity of human thought for eco chambers.

In work and life environments where AI is increasingly pervasive, our brains consume linguistic fast food—sweet and easy to swallow, but lacking the complex nutrients of local dialect, spicy slang, and idiosyncratic quirks.

Are we heading toward a future where vocabularies become uniform, mirroring how American fast food exported a simplified flavor palette worldwide?

The implications extend beyond language.

Beyond concerns about linguistic marginalization, we should worry about the homogenization of certain values and mindsets. 

Consider how AI handles conflict resolution.

JAI productivity tools assume time is linear, scarce, and must be optimized, a distinctly Western industrial framework.

Even concepts of time reflect cultural bias.

To prevent mental fast-foodization, we must practice active cognitive resistance, which starts with double literacy: using AI for efficiency while maintaining the natural intelligence to judge, critique, and override it.

Accept AI as part of our cognitive ecosystem, but don’t accept its outputs as truth or finality. 

These same technologies are learning to exploit the very cognitive shortcuts that helped our ancestors survive, shortcuts that now make us vulnerable to manipulation at a unprecedented scale.

Live your life don’t let it be sold as a product for profit.

Our mind is our biggest friend and enemy when it comes to the hybrid future.

AI can deceive us, but only if we adopt an attitude of chosen blindness will it succeed.

Social media platforms exploit these tendencies brilliantly, offering instant dopamine  hits from likes and shares, training us to crave quick emotional rewards rather than slower, more demanding forms of understanding.

Then time has come to open our eyes and look at what we’d rather not see.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. IS BUDDHISM A PHILOSOPHY OR A RELIGION?

25 Sunday Jan 2026

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Buddhism means different things to different people, and whether or not it can ever be truly classified as a philosophy or a religion remains shrouded.

It’s one thing or the other.

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It doesn’t believe in a creator God, unlike theistic religions such as Christianity.

It’s a belief system that endeavours to teach how to escape the suffering-laden cycle of  life, death, and rebirth.

But death isn’t the only suffering in human life.

Buddha believed that humans suffer  at birth (both the mother and the baby), and throughout life due to desire, envy, fear etc.

He also believed that everyone was reincarnated in the samsara and doomed to repeat this process forever.

Therefore Buddhist teaching aims to break this cycle.

The “Four Noble Truths’ illustrate Buddha’s approach.

  • Life is suffering
  • The cause of suffering is craving
  • The end of suffering comes with an end to craving
  • There is a path which leads one away from craving and suffering

These truths provide the basis for the entire purpose of Buddhism, which is to find the path away from craving and suffering through enlightenment.

It strongly encouraged people to engage in critical thinking and draw on their own personal experience to test what he was saying.

This type of attitude is extremely different to religions such as Christianity and Islam, where followers are generally encouraged to read, absorb and accept scripture unquestioningly.

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Buddhist teachings employed standard philosophical tools and techniques to make their point.

However, their reasoning was underpinned by a total belief that whatever Buddha said was right and true.

Eventually, people from distinct but related Asian religions began to analyze Buddhist teachings, forcing Buddhists to branch out into traditional areas of philosophy to prove the value and worth of Buddhism to other people who didn’t consider Buddha’s teachings as authoritative.

If Buddhists want to be reborn into the realm of humans, which Buddha believes is  the best one to achieve enlightenment, then they must earn good karma and follow Buddha’s teachings. 

Many world religions also offer some sort of ultimate reward for its followers to try and aim for  throughout their lives.

For Christians, this is reaching Heaven after death. For Buddhists, this is a state of  enlightenment known as nirvana.

However, nirvana is not a place but rather a liberated state of mind.

Nirvana means that someone has realized the ultimate truth about life.

If an individual achieves this state  then they have escaped the cycle of suffering and rebirth forever, because in their enlightened mind all the  causes of this cycle have been eliminated.

As we can see, Buddhism contains many characteristics which blur the lines between philosophy and  religion.

But the idea that we need to distinctly classify it as one thing or the other tends to arise within Western societies far more than in other parts of the world.

In the West, philosophy and religion are two very distinct terms. Many philosophies (and philosophers)  within the Western tradition would not have considered themselves to be devoutly religious individuals. Or if they did, contemporary followers have managed to successfully extricate the philosophical from the  religious aspects of a particular school of thought.

Many people who consider themselves atheists or agnostics tend to favor ignoring the religious aspects of Buddhism, for obvious reasons.

After all, Buddhist teaching fits easily within the mindfulness, meditation  and yoga movements which have gained in popularity in Western countries over the last few decades. 

Sometimes these teachings are appropriated without a proper understanding of their roots, as when  people post Buddha quotes on social media or claim to be interested in Buddhism without having studied any of its key texts.

The truth is that Buddhism is both religion and philosophy, and the two aspects of its teachings can co exist in relative peace.

It is possible for an atheist to follow plenty of Buddha’s teachings without also feeling obliged to carry out acts of worship.

In the future AI will take over religion that are founded on books.

Buddhism being a system of thinking it will perhaps be the saving belief of the world.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS. WHAT COMING WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS NOT UNDERSTOOD.

24 Saturday Jan 2026

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( Four minute read)

The biggest employer of all is driving – Trucks – Taxis – Deliver Vans. – public transport – etc.

There is a deep world of ignorance when it comes to comparing AI with human intelligence.

They are light years apart, but eventually AI will overtake humanity intelligence with what is called AGI.

This AGI intelligence will make decision without any emotions.

The role of emotions is driven by data.

So AGI will develop them.

The question then becomes will these emotions be the same as human emotions.

So what are emotions?

They are a combination of genetics, the environment you grew up in, what you had to eat, whether you are in or out of a relationship, how your friends or enemies are etc.

As AGI will have all the data that exists in the world it stands to reason that is will start to make up its own data.,

This is mind boggling to think about., as this data can and will be interpreted in different ways.

We are missing this fact when it comes to AIG

Emotional behaviour has a multitude of explanations and is expressed in too many different forms to distinguish or discuss in this post.

Emotions are the forerunner of intuition in human daily life, being made without any mathematical data .

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS: WE ARE IGNORING SAFETY WHEN IT COMES TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

24 Saturday Jan 2026

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AI is going to define what it means to be a human on this planet.

Governments are presently struggling to regulate the ever growing influence AI is having.

Not just its development but the effects it is having on all areas of life.

The key challenge will be managing the seductive power of AI-driven supernormal stimuli while harnessing their benefits. 

Without careful development and regulation, these artificial experiences could override natural human drives and relationships, fundamentally altering what it means to be human.

Artificial intelligence will be transformative, culminating in artificial intelligence emerging as a post-biological life form and superseding the mastery of the planet from humans.

I believe that artificial intelligence will be enabled by humans, in the sense that humans will set up the conditions that allow it to emerge, but it will not be created by humans because, once the conditions are in place, AI will emerge spontaneously.

As and when it happens, artificial intelligence will reach and then hugely surpass human-level intelligence almost immediately.

There will be no period of stasis during which artificial intelligence just jogs alongside human intelligence at the same level.

Human intelligence is limited by the capability of each individual. Each human brain is what fits into the skull of one person.

Also humans are limited by a human lifespan.

The time horizon for an artificial intelligence would be far longer, potentially millions or billions of years.

My view is that the direction of travel is clear, we are moving in the direction of a super-AI and this development is unstoppable.

The only uncertainty is in the timescale.

The artificial intelligence has at its disposal all the accumulated knowledge accessible from the Internet and every device with an Internet connection, including all sensors, cameras, vehicles and robots. With these resources it clearly vastly surpasses human intelligence.

As to whether the planet wide artificial intelligence is a potential threat.

It sure is.

Being fully integrated and planet wide it is vastly more capable than human intelligence.

One way out of this would be for a benign AI to take over the management of the planet.

A benefit of this for humanity would be survival, although of course it follows that in order to survive we would have to relinquish our control.

Most people are not aware of the scope of its power.

Individual countries still exist. These countries have governments. The laws of those countries continue to be enforced.

But humans are no longer in control.

Although most people don’t realise this.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS: It’s time to dump TRUMP.

22 Thursday Jan 2026

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Donald Trump’s Davos appearance was billed as the moment the President of the United States would reassure a nervous world; instead, it became a spectacle of vanity, contradiction and geopolitical illiteracy.

This man while holding a veto in the Union Nations is now setting up a right wing organisation called The Board of Peace at one billion a member.

He has and is destroying any trust with the USA with sticks and carrots, showing contempt for not just Europe but for his own people with one falsehood after another.

Saying that we would all be speaking German or Japanese if it wasn’t for America is a direct insult to all that gave their lives.

We, that is Europe are now in a different place with the United States.

The United States is peopled with people from Europe and it is still the main cultural influence.

However the nation has become catastrophically stupid over the past 30 years.

There was a time when Americans were obsessed by the Russians, notably until the seventies. Then it was Japan. And then it was China.

Now it’s Europe,

Europe is not only the EU.

In in Europe you have not only the EU but also the EAEU, the Euroasian Economic Union which is ignored in the news. That is the union of Russia, Kazachstan, Belarus, Kirgizistan and Armenia.

It’s time our countries stop pandering to this Mafia style USA president and stand up as a Union.

Make Iceland members with the other six countries waiting on membership. ( They can be members with the improvisation that they must complete the eu requirements within a specific time frame)

Europe cannot just stand bye and express their membership positions independently of each other.

It must present a unified position as sooner than you think there will be no rules.

It’s time to dump Trump.

As he did not so much deliver a foreign policy address as indulge in a performance aimed at his MAGA base and an imaginary audience that endlessly admires, fears, and obeys him.

It was geopolitics performed as self-parody

The Markets go down and up while he lines is pockets

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS ITS GOING TO BE GREAT TRUMP IS DESTROYING THE USA FOR PROFIT.

21 Wednesday Jan 2026

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What is coming next, does anyone know other than he is stirring up a hornet’s nest and he is most likely to get stung in places you have not thought of.

There’s an intriguing duality at play here—the beauty and danger coexisting side by side.

However in treating countries leaders with contempt he is opening up a Pandora’s box of both fear and respect.

In terms of dependency on the United States it is becoming clear that Trump greed is not the only issue it’s hide behind other issues so you can get in and take for yourselves, hence the Venezualian Oil along with Canadian, Greenland and Ukraine minerals.

These are the real reasons for Trump’s underhanded moves!

Compliance will not buy safety in this world of power bulls like Trump. His deals are not treaties, and are not worth the paper they are written on.

Get on with your own issues America and leave everyone else alone.

Enough is enough.

Certainly no single question could turn aside the self-destructive impulses of the segment of our population that currently threatens to snuff us all out.

All we rational, reasonable people can do is continue to ask those who support the power-mad among us – Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, et cetera – to open their eyes and stop them.

It’s clear that an annexation or purchase of Greenland would not strengthen the security of the U.S. and NATO, but would instead considerably weaken it.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT FROM LIFE?

19 Monday Jan 2026

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None of us asked to be born so life owes you nothing. 

You are born in one place at one specific time, however its value depends a lot on luck.

Where, you are born, When you are born.

From a biological stand point it is to procreate and pass on genes, but since we are capable of abstract though, things get complicated and a bit messy.

So life is a challenge.

Your brain is trying to understand itself using itself.

It’s absurd, isn’t it?

Life is designed to have experiences, and these can only be had by living it not by watching TV or glued to a smartphone.

You spend around one third sleeping and it’s not until the last third that we begin to know what we want out of life.

TV was designed to be a pacifier for adults to keep them complacent while brainwashing them with advertising.

Smart phones are also a similar tool.

Saturated with algorithms promoting on social media what ever they are designed to achieve.

The world as we know it makes living life and dying a product rather than value to be cherished.

As governments step up in areas like housing, energy transition, digital infrastructure and industrial policy, the ability to execute is becoming the real differentiator.

Most governments don’t lack ambition. They lack delivery infrastructure.

The result?

Reform fatigue, cynicism, and missed opportunities.

The gap between ambition and action is why living and dying costs an arm and a leg.

There is no need for the theatre of endless meetings to release that the earth we all exist on has finet resources and there is a need for conscious, capable and deliberate delivery of these resources.

Big reforms are announced, bold targets are set — and then delivery stalls. Implementation lack attention, ideas get watered down and momentum is lost. The intent was sound, but outcomes don’t follow.

Life is for giving not taking.

Stop taking things for granted and learn to appreciate the little things in life, because you don’t know when things can change.

If you want a life that rewards you travel. It opens the mind and gives you memories.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. WHY ARE WE FASCINATED BY VIOLENCE ?

17 Saturday Jan 2026

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We all have different personalities, mental models, emotions, needs, wants, goals, values and beliefs, which shaped who we are and partially determined what we do.

It begs the question: what kind of mind wants to witness violence – adrenaline junkies.

What does it say about us—individually, culturally, psychologically—that cruelty has become entertainment, and aggression has become identity?

The attraction to violence doesn’t come out of nowhere.

We don’t crave violence because we’re cruel—we crave it because we’re human.

Because it gives structure to chaos, power to the powerless, and a feeling—any feeling—when we’ve gone emotionally numb.

Why do we settle in for an evening with movies drenched in bloodshed?

Human beings are not simply passive consumers of story; we are meaning-makers wired for survival.

In a sense, violent media allows the viewer to outsource their primal fears to someone else’s narrative.

We get to watch someone else survive—or perish—while we stay in control of our environment.

But the way that violence is packaged, consumed, and even glorified is not the same across cultures.

When we examine global media patterns, American media differs from other societies when it comes to glamorizing aggression.

American media, in particular, has made violence synonymous with excitement, justice, and even virtue.

And the internet has made the distribution of violence easy. With a few clicks, anyone can access footage that would have once been buried or censored.

Social media is saturated with violence in all its forms and it is influenced us to the extent that we are risking becoming spectators in our own lives—watching pain like a plot point, framing suffering as something that needs to be “dealt with,” rather than witnessed.

And slowly, almost imperceptibly, we lose touch with our own moral compass.

It’s not just about the moment—it’s about the culture we’ve absorbed. We’ve been taught that dominance is clarity. That loudness is leadership. That the one who controls the room controls the truth.

But this isn’t emotional strength—it’s emotional fragility dressed as certainty.

And it’s costing us more than we think.

It is possible to choose curiosity over compulsion, presence over passivity, humanity over brutality.

However it will never feel as easy. It won’t give you the instant gratification of a fight scene. It won’t resolve in 90 minutes. It takes more from you—but it gives more in return.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a frenzy well beyond the technology sector.

For example: The gaming world is saturated with violence.

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