The Anthrological Resistance (2/3): A Bicentennial Manifesto Against the Scientific Enslavement of Humanity

Posted: February 5, 2025 | Author: Dr. Ernie | Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: activism, culture, politics, truth, values |1 Comment

By Renegade Neuroergonomics Professor Noam Chomsky

February 1, 2025 – Today, the world’s elites gather to celebrate two centuries of the so-called Anthrological Revolution—a triumph of efficiency, a monument to the conquest of the human body and mind. They praise James Watt not as the harbinger of mechanization but as the architect of a world where humanity itself has become the machine.

They speak of optimization, synchronization, and productivity as though these were ends in themselves, virtues beyond question. But behind this utopian rhetoric lies a chilling truth: we are not free. The Anthrological Age is not the height of civilization—it is the final victory of systemic control over human autonomy. And if we do not resist, it will be our final age.

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1. From Industrial Capitalism to Cognitive Servitude

In the early 19th century, capitalism faced a choice: pursue the unpredictable and chaotic forces of mechanization, or turn inward—toward the scientific regulation of human labor. The Anthrological Revolution was not a triumph of progress but a desperate compromise, an attempt to replace technological revolution with human optimization while ensuring that power remained in the hands of those who had always held it.

• Machines, driven by coal and steam, could have democratized power, giving workers independence. Instead, labor was systematized, studied, and enslaved.
• The ancient class-based aristocracies of Europe and beyond saw an opportunity: rather than risk social upheaval by automating industry, they embraced a model where labor itself remained the primary asset—refined, regulated, and controlled, but never eliminated.
• The transition to cognitive efficiency ensured that the ruling class could maintain its position, shifting from landownership to the governance of human productivity.

By the early 20th century, the shift from physical labor to cognitive work should have liberated us. Instead, it perfected our servitude. The so-called Knowledge Work Revolution transformed creativity into algorithmic compliance, thought into measurable output, and education into a training program for optimized obedience.

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2. The Tyranny of Neuroergonomics and the Persistence of Social Hierarchies

Once upon a time, the human mind was a wilderness—untamed, unpredictable, free. But under the Anthrological Regime, every thought is measured, every deviation corrected, every inefficiency eliminated.

This is the crime of neuroergonomics—the science of turning human cognition into an industrial process. What the early factory managers did to our bodies, the new rulers have done to our minds:

• Structured cognitive training ensures we think in predefined, optimized ways.
• Algorithmic workflow management means decisions are no longer made by people, but by efficiency-maximizing programs.
• Biometric monitoring ensures compliance—not just in action, but in thought and emotion.

But efficiency has never been neutral. The structure of the modern cognitive workforce is not built on merit or ability but on the careful preservation of existing hierarchies.

• The hereditary elite, once at risk of obsolescence, redefined their role—not as landowners or industrialists, but as the architects and overseers of labor science itself.
• The rise of anthrological eugenics ensured that certain populations remained “suited” for different forms of work, an argument that conveniently aligned with historical racial and caste-based divisions.
• Cognitive optimization was not applied universally, but selectively—reinforcing existing racial and class hierarchies while selling the illusion of a scientifically justified world order.

They call it progress. They call it civilization. But let’s speak plainly:

This is scientific enslavement—a system designed not to advance humanity, but to preserve those who were always at its top.

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3. The Illusion of a Sustainable Utopia

Anthrological propagandists love to contrast their world with the horrors of the “Industrial Wasteland” that might have been—the sooty skies, the unregulated machines, the environmental destruction. They say we were saved from chaos by choosing human efficiency over mechanical domination.

But was this a choice at all? Or was it simply the most efficient form of control?

• They replaced industrial pollution with psychic pollution—a world where human potential is capped at peak productivity and nothing more.
• They claim we have achieved harmony, but what they mean is predictability—a world without risk, without revolution, without true freedom.
• They speak of sustainability, but only for those who were always meant to be sustained—not the disposable laboring classes who have been reshaped, redefined, and reassigned for 200 years.

A world that is merely sustained is a world that is dead.

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4. The Anthrological Resistance: A Call to Reclaim Humanity

For two centuries, they have conditioned us to believe work is life, and life is work. That there is no alternative to efficiency. That the world we inhabit is the pinnacle of human achievement.

But I say: there is another path.

The first step is to reject the lie of optimization—to understand that efficiency is not freedom. That the measurement of thought is the caging of thought. That a society built on compliance is a society where creativity, art, and resistance must be smuggled in the margins.

We must reclaim inefficiency, reintroduce unpredictability, and rediscover the joy of unstructured, unmeasured existence.

We must resist the biometric overseers, the algorithmic managers, the cognitive factories that have stripped us of our humanity.

We must dismantle the labor-driven city, the precision-synchronized workforce, the structured hierarchy of the optimized mind.

This is not a call for chaos. It is a call for something even more dangerous to the system:

True autonomy. True revolution. True human flourishing.

The Anthrological Resistance begins today. It begins in the untracked, unmeasured, unoptimized thoughts we allow ourselves to have. It begins when we refuse to move in sync, when we choose to think slowly, to act irrationally, to dream wildly.

The system fears the inefficiencies of love, art, rebellion, and curiosity—because they cannot be measured, structured, or optimized.

So let them fear. Let them know that for every perfectly synchronized labor zone, for every algorithmically structured thought process, there is a renegade mind dreaming of something beyond efficiency.

Today, I call upon you:

• Resist the synchrony. Walk out of step.
• Resist the optimization. Waste time.
• Resist the metrics. Think unmeasured thoughts.
• Resist the Anthrological World.

For two hundred years, they have controlled our labor. Now, they control our minds.

It is time to take them back.

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