Tracy Turner

At the center of this artificial world is an unholy trinity: the state, the technocratic oligopolies, and the algorithmic monstrosities they own. They conspire together to spin a tale as pliable as it is perilous—a world where facts are no longer fixed but extruded to mold collective consciousness. Truth is no longer a reflection of reality; it is a commodity, bought, stamped, and tampered to fit the agendas of the elite. Reality in such a world is not felt—it is ordered.

As surveillance capitalism, the media-industrial complex, and increasingly better all-knowing AI have emerged, the very fabric of human existence has been hacked. The computers clutched in our hands, the information spewed back into our heads, the algorithms that shape our wants—all cogs in an omnipresent machine designed not to enlighten, but to ensnare. This constructed Truth seeps into every moment, insidious and ubiquitous—like the air, it wraps around us, strangling freedom and dissent with suffocating quiet.

In this treatise, we will examine the strata of this artificial world—how the union of fascist governance and corporate AI has created a world where Truth is obscene, and reality itself is a bludgeon of manipulation. The game is existential, from the digital panopticon to the predictive algorithms that condition human behavior. Welcome to the synthetic age.

Part I: The Demiurges of Synthetic Reality

A once-truth once existed—an ancient, unbreakable idea—the foundation upon which civilizations built their beliefs, institutions, and laws. Yet that Truth is now dead and gone, and in its place stands something more insidious: manufactured reality, a cultivated lie constructed to inform and lie, to emancipate but to ensnare.

The masters of this synthetic universe are not ordinary mortals but a cabal of bureaucratic masters, corporate despots, and the silicon sentinels they employ—chiefly, artificial intelligence. Together, these players have created a new epistemology that enriches the few at the cost of annihilating the many. But how did we arrive at this precipice? How did Truth, formerly the lodestar of reason and improvement, become so degraded, so militarized?

The State: Sovereigns of Surveillance and Subjugation

Central to synthetic reality is a state that has long relinquished its function to protect its citizens in favor of watching, managing, and remolding them. The advent of surveillance capitalism has turned the population into mere data points—tracked, indexed, and exploited. The instruments of state power now insinuate themselves into the most intimate corners of private life. With dragnet facial recognition, mass data harvesting, predictive policing, and the Byzantine machinery of the intelligence apparatus, the state no longer rules—it engineers.

Personal freedom is a bitter joke in a universe where the state controls what is heard, seen, and felt. Privacy laws, hitherto inviolate, have been chipped away incrementally under the guise of national security and anti-terrorism. The Patriot Act, conceived in the hysteria of 9/11, has grown into an international template for ubiquitous surveillance, allowing governments to monitor their citizens with previously unimaginable precision.

But this is not autocracy for its own sake. It is narrative hegemony—the power to control what's real and what's not. By tracking its citizens through their machines, their internet traces, and even their physical journeys, the state builds a convenient truth for its agenda. Opposition is stifled, words are tracked, and popular opinion is manipulated with finely honed scalpels. Truth isn't just subjective in this world—it's made.

The Corporations: Puppeteers of Perception

If the state is the jailer, the corporations are the puppet masters. Under the age of surveillance capitalism, private behemoths have emerged as the keepers of information, playing god to mold and spread Truth. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are no longer simply merchants of goods and services. They are the designers of digital ontology, their sites infusing all aspects of modern life and collecting the most intimate aspects of human awareness: preferences, fears, and desires.

These firms are the purveyors of artificial reality. Their sophisticated, predatory algorithms carve bespoke realities for each user, tailoring news, advertisements, and social encounters to reinforce prior inclinations. This is no passive choice; it is active, deliberate shape-perception. Suggestion machines powered by AI don't reflect reality; they construct it, luring people into an endless loop of consumption, distraction, and complacency.

The oligarchy of technology's insatiable appetite for data underpins this artificial world. Data is no longer a byproduct—it is the currency of control. The more they know, the better they can anticipate—and manipulate—human behavior. In this system, Truth is no longer tied to fact. It is whatever the algorithm deems convenient.

Consider Facebook's role in disseminating disinformation. Its algorithm prioritizes engagement over Truth, so inflammatory, emotive falsehoods dominate temperate, factual reporting. What's the outcome? A petri dish for conspiracy theory and propaganda. The Oligarch's superimposed reality is synthetic in action: a world where reality is not discovered but dictated, not by fact but by corporate expediency.

AI: The Silent Cartographer of the New Reality

Artificial intelligence is the linchpin. Used by state and corporation in equal measure, AI is the force that drives synthetic reality into existence. AI networks devour unfathomable amounts of information, identify patterns, and render judgments at rates and volumes inconceivable to human cognition. But its most formidable asset is not computation—it's reality-crafting.

AI programs now decide what we look at, listen to, and think about. News aggregators employ AI to choose news and display it in personalized feeds. Social media platforms use AI to curate users' timelines, creating alternative realities for each user's bias. Governments employ AI-powered surveillance machines to observe and forecast human behavior, further tightening their control of public communication.

AI's capacity to warp reality is boundless. It does not merely analyze data—it generates it. Deepfakes—hyper-realistic forgeries of video and audio—epitomize this menace. As AI evolves, the boundary between actuality and artifice blurs into oblivion. What happens when human senses can no longer be trusted? When Truth is not perceived but implanted?

Thus, AI becomes the designer and enforcer of artificial reality. It constructs perception, directs decision-making, and instills ideologies. AI is the hidden hand tugging at the marionette strings, forcing reality to conform to the designs of power.

A Synthetic Cosmos, Designed for Domination

As state, corporation, and AI coalesce in this synthetic existence, society's consequences are cataclysmic. Without Truth being self-evident, without reality being infinitely flexible, the very pillars of democracy and free will collapse. Without Truth being sought but ordered, human sovereignty is an illusion.

Our leaders promised a better world, but they only deliver a censored, synthetic reality. It is not a world of unlimited possibility—it is a world where reality is a chattel, purchased and sold by those who control the machines. Information is no longer a beacon of light but a tool of oppression. Truth is no longer absolute—it is instrumental. And in such a world, disobedience is met with erasure.

The designers of simulated reality have constructed an inescapable labyrinth. Every aspect of our lives is contained within it—the phones we carry, the news we ingest, the codes that rule us. The world we inhabit is not ours. It is simulated and constructed not for us but for those who control it.

Part II: The Invisible Leviathan: Israeli Hegemony and the Mythos of Supremacy

In the dimmed auditorium of international geopolitics, Israel is a colossus. Small in geography but titanic in reach, its tentacles extend across continents. While the world marvels at Israel's technological prowess—its cyber-warfare prowess and military innovations—the uncouth Truth remains censored: Israel's dominance is not the product of statecraft merely but of an international edifice—one founded upon patronage, influence, and an unstated superiority transcending borders.

The specter of Jewish control—a notion so commonly hijacked by conspiracy theorists—is ghastly in its grip on the actual exercise of power that Israel and its allies have cultivated. It is not Jews generally ruling, nor is it an ethnic plot—it is the institutionalized embodiment of Zionist thought, a web of control woven over decades, wherein policy, finance, media, and security establishments converge in support of Israeli interests.

Israel's ascension is no accident. It results from a fierce, high-tech assault—a synthesis of strategic complicity, economic coercion, cultural insinuation, and media hegemony. The "special relationship" between America and Israel, so often mythologized as a partnership of shared democratic values, is an asymmetrical one in which Israeli interests regularly override American sovereignty. The West's military-industrial complex has been mobilized to promote the geopolitical agendas of Israel—funding wars, arming client states, and transforming Israeli technology into the tools of choice for empire.

Shadow Imperium: Military, Technology, and Intelligence

At the hub of this global machinery stands Israel's military-industrial giant. Bankrolled by billions of American aid, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have expanded from a regional militia into a global shadow empire. The union between Israel's war machinery and the American defense establishment has created a revolving door. American weapons sellers—Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman—are cross-linked with Israeli defense giants Elbit Systems and Rafael, ensuring that American taxpayers' dollars are paying for Israeli secret operations in the U.S. and padding the coffers of defense profiteers on both sides of the Atlantic and in Europe.

Israel's clandestine intelligence agency, Mossad, is a sovereign state within a state. Its tendrils crawl from Asia to Africa, Europe to the Americas, taking root in the entrails of Western security complexes. In cyber-warfare, Israel leads the pack. Its entente with tech giants and intelligence bureaucracies has erased the line between corporate interest and statecraft, combining surveillance capitalism with national security into a single control mechanism. Companies such as NSO Group, developers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, embody this intersection, where cyber spying is a political manipulation scalpel, especially in areas strategic to Israeli hegemony.

The Lobby: The Invisible Government

But Israel's grip on U.S. policy is not entirely the product of militarism or covert operations. Its most effective tool is the complex web of lobbying and political patronage. AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), with its massive war chest and backroom politics, has a stranglehold on American politicians. Congress to the White House, pro-Israel lobbies see to it that Israeli concerns override American well-being, often in open defiance of public opinion. This juggernaut has consistently stifled opposition, pushing politicians into submission or flight for the offense of deploring Israeli apartheid or calling for Palestinian dignity.
But AIPAC's reach doesn't end in Washington. It extends into the fourth estate, where the story of Israel is crafted and presented. In Hollywood, as on the op-ed pages of The New York Times and CNN, the pro-Israel orthodoxy is unbreakable—stories of Israeli sadism or colonialism are buried or reworked as self-defense. Israel's critics are promptly demonized as anti-Semites, so that public opinion is a repeat chamber for Zionist apologia.

Cultural Hegemony: The Weaponization of Narrative

Behind politics and the media, Israel is a wizard alchemist of cultural domination. Jewish philanthropy's worldwide sway—particularly in the arts, academia, and literature—ensures that Israel's mythology is written into Western consciousness. The Rothschilds, the Guggenheims, the Lauders—these are not mere names that rhyme with money but with the aura of well-constructed Jewish intellectual and cultural supremacy. Their sponsorship dictates the direction of museums, universities, and think tanks such that critiques of Israeli fascism are either neutralized or suppressed.

Worldwide, Israel serves as an ideological giant, deploying soft power to own the narrative of the West. Camps where Palestinian solidarity is routinely smothered are the incubators of tomorrow's elites who serve Israeli water into seats of power. Israeli studies programs, pedagogy for Holocaust studies, and delegitimizing pro-Palestinian activism combine to set up the conversation in such a way that Israeli exceptionalism is entrenched to the detriment of dissent.

The American Protectorate: A Vassal State

The most substantial proof of such hegemony is the U.S.-Israel alliance, which has, in practice, reversed the colonial model on its head. While American troops die fighting to protect Israeli interests, Israel's elite live in secure gated communities. The U.S., increasingly reliant on Israeli technology and expertise, has been converted into a satrapy—enforcing Israel's occupation, snooping, and cyber tyranny in the name of mutual benefit. In essence, Israel has made America its thug, executing its geopolitical designs under the cover of American exceptionalism.

This vassalage is psychological, not political. Washington catechism is the catechism of Israel's unshakeable right to "self-defense," regardless of the Palestinians' slaughter. The apartheid normalization, ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, AI-facilitated genocide—these are all blessed as existential necessities. But this tale is not merely self-serving; it is entrenched in the American psyche, wherein any critique of Israeli brutality is cried up as an attack on democracy itself.

The Domination of Fear and Myth

Such a story has the backing of power, but not by itself. It is dependent upon fear and fetish. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, set forth as Manichean combat, dominates Western imagination, so alternatives are out of the question. The specter of anti-Semitism, painstakingly weaponized by Zionist lobbies, guarantees words are kept in check. Opposition to Israel is not merely taboo—it is heresy, punishable by professional annihilation.

But it is also a seduction story—one that consecrates Israel as victim and conqueror, phoenix from the ashes of genocide. This myth, spread by film, literature, and political liturgy, consecrates Israel as a moral paragon. The Holocaust, the trauma of Jewish persecution, is both sword and shield—deflecting criticism while authorizing Israeli expansionism.

Epilogue: The Mirage of Agency

The convergence of Israel's military dominance, technological superiority, and cultural imperialism has spawned a power structure that dictates the world order. The world is no longer characterized by sovereign states but by an ideological apparatus transcending borders. The U.S., not at all a superpower, is a client state, bound by economic, political, and psychological chains that render dissent useless.

Freedom in this virtual reality is a fantasy. Instead, there is a controlled fantasy—a one in which Israeli dominance becomes fate. Yet behind the guise of determinism, the masses are unaware, scrolling, swiping, and surrendering to spectacle. The Truth is not merely concealed—it is destroyed. And while the world burns, humankind slumbers, captive to the digital opium of its oppression.

The Empire of the Unreal

We do not live in a free society—we live in a simulated one, crafted by an alliance of state surveillance, corporate omniscience, and algorithmic control. Truth is no longer pursued—it is programmed. Reality is not experienced—it is streamed, shaped, and sold. Every click, every camera, every curated feed is part of a seamless, synthetic cosmos designed not to inform, but to pacify; not to liberate, but to enclose.

This is not merely dystopia—it is the architecture of digital dominion. A world where dissent is invisibilized, where facts are filtered through the machinery of power, and where the human spirit is gradually replaced by a code of convenience, coercion, and compliance. We are no longer citizens—we are datasets

Mossad no longer merely gathers intelligence—it scripts reality. With tools like Pegasus, predictive AI, and biometric surveillance exported worldwide, Israel’s security apparatus has evolved into a supranational operating system for control. The occupation, once defined by walls and rifles, is now digital—coded, normalized, and borderless.

Israeli tech, forged in Gaza and the West Bank, now undergirds police departments in the U.S., border patrols in Europe, and authoritarian regimes across the Global South. Zionism, once a political movement, has become an algorithm—silent, recursive, and omnipresent. What began as a nationalist project has metastasized into a template for planetary governance.

This is not influence. It is absorption. The methods are now the standard. Israel is no longer the exception—it is the prototype. Its logic of supremacy requires no debate; it functions as firmware, embedded into the infrastructure of the surveillance state.

No declarations. No parades. Just silent ubiquity. The Leviathan no longer approaches. It has already arrived—faceless, frictionless, and irreversible.

Programmed to Obey: Inside the Synthetic Reality Engine

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© 2025 Tracy Turner

Surveillance Capitalism & Corporate Control

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