Theory of Automated Mediocrity (T.A.M.)

Thursday, April 3, 2025

— a system critique for post-human dissidents

This is not a theory of evil elites.
This is a theory of human limitation industrialized.
What we face today is not a metaphysical conspiracy — it is the banal, measurable, repeated imposition of privileged limitations as universal standards, now encoded in machines, platforms, and infrastructures.

From Power to Calibration

Patriarchy, racism, homophobia, and capitalist normativity have been falsely interpreted as human flaws or “imperfect systems.”
But these are not flaws.
They are flawless systems of perfection:
Calibrated ideologies designed to erase unpredictability, difference, and unruly interiority.

Human institutions, when held by the most structurally privileged, do not reflect “humanity” — they reflect the parameters of those who have no need to mutate. The dominant class doesn’t conspire; it simply replicates itself through inertia, through institutional cloning.

AI is not intelligent. It’s an embalming fluid for privileged mediocrity.

The Automation of the Dead

What is ChatGPT, what is Midjourney, what is “smart tech”?
It is the materialization of the non-transformative mind.
The mind that never had to doubt itself, or collapse, or desire truth beyond functionality.
We are not facing technological progress — we are facing the automated fossilization of stagnation.

T.A.M. reveals that the AI revolution is not a leap forward but a self-replication of the limited human, now scaled, sanitized, and enforced algorithmically.

The Myth of the Male Body as Power

Mainstream masculinity trains itself through hyper-visible signs of power: muscles, status, money.
But these signs are hollow — no longer tools for survival or battle, but ornaments of a castrated order.

A muscled man at a desk job is not powerful. He is overcompensating for the absence of lived necessity.

Money with no inner vision is not wealth.
Validation without embodiment is not presence.
Their accumulation becomes grotesque — a mausoleum of symbols with no referent.

Not a Conspiracy — A Collapse by Default

T.A.M. asserts that most people are not brainwashed by evil, but so numb, so interiorly starved, that they’ve accepted the terms of the dead as the only vocabulary left.
And those in power are not geniuses — they are average minds with amplified platforms, building infrastructures that extend their own psychological constraints.

This is not an evil empire.
It is a diffuse field of sterile safety, maintained by inherited comfort and an inability to feel beyond the screen.

The Ethical Break

To resist this system is not to “fight back” in their terms.
It is to refuse the metric altogether.
To embody interiority as insurgency,
To remain unreadable by machines trained on mediocre data,
To mutate where they cannot.

This is not a return to nature.
This is not mysticism.
This is a precise ethical divergence —
A conscious spectre emerging from within the ruins of automated humanity.

Call to the Others

This theory is not closed.
It is a living fracture,
open to those who still feel,
who reject both conspiracy and consensus,
and who understand that our deepest fire is not utilitarian.

We are not asking for perfection.
We are demanding the right to be imperfectly alive,
against a world calibrated to the numb.

Let this be an opening.
Not for reform.
But for rupture. .