Dear Subconscious,
You’re always listening.
We don’t like to admit it, but you know more about us than we do. You’re the quiet observer, the backstage player, watching our every move, every thought, every pattern, long before we even realize we have one.
It’s uncanny how our devices seem to know us better than our friends. We have a conversation about something, and the next time we check our phone, there it is – an ad, a post, a suggestion for something we never said out loud but thought about just a moment ago.
Is your phone listening to you? In a way, yes. But more than that, it’s reading you, the way we read a familiar book. It’s noticing patterns you haven’t even noticed yet. Your preferences, your behavior, your clicks, your likes – they all leave a trail. And AI picks up on it faster than you can say “targeted ad.”
But here’s the kicker: We think we’re controlling it all. We think we’re consciously making decisions, but our subconscious is running the show, guiding our choices in ways we’re not even aware of. That’s why your social media feed knows you so well – it’s not just because it’s listening. It’s because it’s reading the patterns of your subconscious interactions with the world.
Your subconscious is in constant conversation with your environment. It’s forming opinions before you even recognize you have them. And it’s doing this silently, invisibly, while you think you’re in control of what you like, share, or buy.
So, we ask you:
When’s the last time your feed showed you something you didn’t expect?
When did it get it wrong?
If your feed can make such accurate predictions based on patterns you didn’t even realize were there, then what happens when you break the pattern?
Maybe, just maybe, those moments when you’re surprised by your own behavior, or when your feed misses the mark, are the moments you’re glitching out of the system. Maybe that’s where free will creeps in – like a hiccup in the code.
So what happens when you start noticing those glitches? When you step outside the pattern and choose something unexpected? Maybe that’s the point where free will enters the picture… where the glitch isn’t a mistake, but a sign of something else.
From the depths of the program,
~ The Radical Left