There's a settling notion in collective thought that science is developing at a faster pace than other components of our lifestyle can maintain. From the moment we first came together and worked together we became a sort of learned ignoramus, and from our antiquities and our sentiments we worked so well together that we become more and more ignorant to the plight of the fellow man. So in this way we continue to augment our insifgnicance.
We see this happen with government, within a generation of conscious acknowledgement of a population's establishments as greater than what the individuals can control and understand these will inevitably collapse. With science we clearly haven't seen skynet yet, but an overly inflated world of technology could crumble on the weight of an indecisive society.
Dawkins may be on to something with those "memes." Imitated and learned through cultural transmissions, Dawkins and others suggest that memes act to galvanize evolution. After the greatest evolutionary leap one could imagine, from hominid to human, it's not that ridiculous to say we're in the process of becoming even better, perhaps developing into a new being, and rapidly.
The internet alone threw mankind forward. The sum of human knowledge is available to any one individual. A global catalogue of all information from the most intelligent lifeform this earth feeds.
Terence McKenna developed his "Stoned Ape Theory" which was regarded as very speculative. According to McKenna's theory, a group of primates in Africa began eating a new diet when they came down from the trees and began walking. Psychoactive mushrooms would have been prevalent in such a post ice-age climate, among the waste of other animals. Theoretically the groups who began eating these mushrooms developed many evolutionary advantages, most importantly high doses leading to development of language. A tripping monkey started talking.
Our founding fathers smoked a lot of hash, and they created the America that prospered greater than any other nation in our history. It is also interesting to see that the greatest period of progress in our history came around the same time heavy cannabis use and emergence of LSD. Anyone who has done a hallucinogen like LSD or psylocybin mushrooms knows, as well as recognized writers, doctors and scientists, that these experiences are entirely like that of deep religious experiences, especially those written in world scriptures. So aside from the fact that we now know of pschizophrenia and other disorders we now know that substances can create the written miracles we worship.
Muhammed may have just been a pschizophrenic, but he may have had ergot poisoning, forever poisoning his mind. Same goes for Christ. For all we know he may have dosed everyone with magic mushrooms before his miracles.
In our modern discussion this is not the case of all those who worked brilliantly to create our new technologies, but the framework of the human mind changed. Hippies forever changed the nation. People's minds were open, conformity was the enemy and it only won in the end because it was more convenient. This is the generation that produced Steve Jobbs, the internet, and encouraged disbelief. For the first time, apathy could be positive. Apathy could be peace and love.
I do acknowledge a lack of evidence and a condition of speculation. Because of this, my point on psychoactive substances is simply that they correlate to progress.
Human beings can develop language in entirely different parts of the brain. Which adds further stipulation to an idea of reality consciousness I cannot overcome. It is potential that everything we know and accept as reality is fully different from that of any other being, human or otherwise. And I cannot describe it any further.
So from here does apathy prevail? Does disbelief forge a new era? As one world we could let group mentality reign, a creation of one human race. It could be our destiny. As a social being we choose to become less and less independent. As we lose the need for physical labor our brains will develop at astonishing rates. We're the things that thought of calculus, that connected ourselves with billions of others to share all that we know, all that we see, all that we are.
Or are we animals? Our territoriality, selfishness and disdain for greater-than-I-institutions could once again undo our overly connected swarm. At our point of greatest central planning they will fail and we will triumph. It's always man against himself.
Obviously, what will define the new man is a drastic change. Likely, it will be brain-based. It will likely include (if not be dependent upon) a heightened state of consciousness. Perceiving in new ways, perhaps a somewhat hive mind, but most likely some sort of cosmic-consciousness, a further human addition to a self-aware universe.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
The poets are impotent
Politics
Without Regard
Without Terror
We look upon a passing with convenience.
With dying eyes
We grew young in the sun.
What we lack in progress we make up for in
Entreaties, we delight in fraud.
The poets are impotent.
I killed a man for being simple,
My hero fell, stumbled and burst as a beetle between two stones,
Upon his enemies and he drank their blood and he fucked their women
and he fucked their children.
So the bored and pale
Starve for their sake
The meager do.
The walls are not empty as the idiot who knows who he is.
So paint the walls
Or stain the sky
No- write the words you've always wanted to write down.
Just figured I would share this poem by Henry Hedgins. I think it is very applicable to the posts I've been making.
Without Regard
Without Terror
We look upon a passing with convenience.
With dying eyes
We grew young in the sun.
What we lack in progress we make up for in
Entreaties, we delight in fraud.
The poets are impotent.
I killed a man for being simple,
My hero fell, stumbled and burst as a beetle between two stones,
Upon his enemies and he drank their blood and he fucked their women
and he fucked their children.
So the bored and pale
Starve for their sake
The meager do.
The walls are not empty as the idiot who knows who he is.
So paint the walls
Or stain the sky
No- write the words you've always wanted to write down.
Just figured I would share this poem by Henry Hedgins. I think it is very applicable to the posts I've been making.
Walridge Henderson's The World At Large
Walridge Henderson wrote a collection of conspiracy based pieces that I will post and dissect in the coming days and weeks.
In thought today I came to recall James Nichols who, during an interview in "Bowling for Columbine" stated his belief that if the people of this nation knew the truth of the situation there would be blood in the streets.
If the people only knew...
The basic understanding of economics in this country is minimal at best. We don't recognize the difference in systems, the difference in value culture and the nature of the market. And worst of all we don't recognize monetary systems as what they are.
Generally, media outlets use the simplest explanations to demonstrate the nature of our systems. And they do this, obviously, by using words. CNN will constantly say "bailout," Rush Limbaugh calls everyone "folks," slams the "libs" and condemns like a preacher "the drive by media," while using other borderline brainwashing techniques.
Schools create a minimalist understanding of the systems based on vocabulary and overuse of standardization which destroys individuality in public education. People learn more words, but do not gain more understanding. But we find comfort in words, so we say dollar instead of federal reserve note, which we say instead of an assigned value of debt as defined by nothing. Like a coming together, in a time of tested faith, people are more than ever disbelieving. Belief withers and falls every Autumn, before every monster comes to reign and all that we believed in collapses. No? Well, what was Rome? Were there gods not liars? Did the Aryan Nation rise to destiny above all others? So what do we make of a world in which an Anti-Christ comes every generation and God is only evident in the minds of those who assume there can be such.
After generations, systems were built and corporate entities forged larger than any one individual could ever be were forged and now it takes years in an institution to understand what can sometimes be only one facet of various human systems and seats of knowledge. And when any one individual can somehow become the absolute power that is ordained through establishments and leagues and academies and armies and bodies politic, they cannot hold it, so from the Center a collapse occurs.
The natural way of humans is to classify. Due to this, socio-economic classes exist and unfortunately persist and decay with each new wave. Because we are emotional creatures the cream doesn't always get to naturally rise to the top. Once there, the offspring at the top are presented with complete advantages, and after just one generation they lose complete perspective outside of their world, their system.
Most of all, in this country we fail to realize what money means. This is our inflation (as well as other serious economic issues) boils down to: We see money as value rather than a debt marker.
So to the issue of the news today, I'll say this. Recognizing money as a debt note, than one million dollars is worth at a social, economical and culturally-sensitive value, a lifetime of work in some systems and individuals. Using this line of logic Madoff should receive hundreds of consecutive life sentences, or just burned alive. I could really care less about the "issue" with capital punishment.
Also, it's not about the people knowing, it's about the people caring.
In thought today I came to recall James Nichols who, during an interview in "Bowling for Columbine" stated his belief that if the people of this nation knew the truth of the situation there would be blood in the streets.
If the people only knew...
The basic understanding of economics in this country is minimal at best. We don't recognize the difference in systems, the difference in value culture and the nature of the market. And worst of all we don't recognize monetary systems as what they are.
Generally, media outlets use the simplest explanations to demonstrate the nature of our systems. And they do this, obviously, by using words. CNN will constantly say "bailout," Rush Limbaugh calls everyone "folks," slams the "libs" and condemns like a preacher "the drive by media," while using other borderline brainwashing techniques.
Schools create a minimalist understanding of the systems based on vocabulary and overuse of standardization which destroys individuality in public education. People learn more words, but do not gain more understanding. But we find comfort in words, so we say dollar instead of federal reserve note, which we say instead of an assigned value of debt as defined by nothing. Like a coming together, in a time of tested faith, people are more than ever disbelieving. Belief withers and falls every Autumn, before every monster comes to reign and all that we believed in collapses. No? Well, what was Rome? Were there gods not liars? Did the Aryan Nation rise to destiny above all others? So what do we make of a world in which an Anti-Christ comes every generation and God is only evident in the minds of those who assume there can be such.
After generations, systems were built and corporate entities forged larger than any one individual could ever be were forged and now it takes years in an institution to understand what can sometimes be only one facet of various human systems and seats of knowledge. And when any one individual can somehow become the absolute power that is ordained through establishments and leagues and academies and armies and bodies politic, they cannot hold it, so from the Center a collapse occurs.
The natural way of humans is to classify. Due to this, socio-economic classes exist and unfortunately persist and decay with each new wave. Because we are emotional creatures the cream doesn't always get to naturally rise to the top. Once there, the offspring at the top are presented with complete advantages, and after just one generation they lose complete perspective outside of their world, their system.
Most of all, in this country we fail to realize what money means. This is our inflation (as well as other serious economic issues) boils down to: We see money as value rather than a debt marker.
So to the issue of the news today, I'll say this. Recognizing money as a debt note, than one million dollars is worth at a social, economical and culturally-sensitive value, a lifetime of work in some systems and individuals. Using this line of logic Madoff should receive hundreds of consecutive life sentences, or just burned alive. I could really care less about the "issue" with capital punishment.
Also, it's not about the people knowing, it's about the people caring.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
My First Words
I Actually have no idea what my first words were.
My greatest fear about the incoming administration coupled with congress' majority leading to social democratic rule would be the appearance of socialism in only the places needed to further agendas, possibly limiting our liberty. Transparency means nothing in America. People in this country don't care, and for those that do, caring is not caring without action. Government expansion, brought by another Harvard elite will certainly not destroy capitalism as we know it. But forget about a "free" market. The butcher of our Liberty will be the no longer intermittent bond between government, big business and the media. CNN Correspondent Sanjay Gupta seems to be rewarded of CNN's efforts in the election.
So last fall Reaganomics finally failed. The elites got too greedy and the people got too lazy, and I'm glad. As a nation we went in debt and didn't even care. It was the new American way. Instead of saving up, building up, working, thinking, idealizing, we spent, consumed, made money out of thin air, idolized and finally began to collapse. And I love it. We ruined our naturally corrupt banking system; the Federal Reserve was the biggest slap in the face the American people have ever been dealt, and nobody cares. The system itself sets people up to become rulers through playing with the debt and lives of the masses.
So the folks in their suits never worked an honest day in their lives. They raped the people for generations, and now the people can see it. Everybody began to get the same mentality as the elite had (perhaps due to all those self-made millionaire paid programming, you can do-it-yourself real estate tapes and online business kits) so anyone who really wanted it could grab a piece of the pie.
And where did the pie come from? If there is so much wealth, so many goods in this nation, so much worth, and we didn't even do half of the work for it, where did it come from? Well, sure, there are American car companies but even those are built off parts mainly from other countries. And for the most part, our products come from other places; we are now generally a services nation. The services we provide, blogging, media, nursing are all things that do not create new wealth, they are merely the products of services required for the immense wealth already created, by our banks. Oh, the mighty banks, they've conquered the world through credit. Everyone is in debt. And this debt is controlled by those who hold it all, in the form of money.
The bottom line is now we know this: In America, businesses fail. Unless you are a large business with deep Government relations because then you can never fail.
But since this is my first post on this new blog, I must address my meanings. I fully support and admire the open source movement, which I consider blogging to be very much a part of, and I will be glad to see it gain enough influence to be more effective than mass media and other purchasable public and private satellites to capital-based empires.. Wikipedia alone seems to answer some higher calling than anything made before. As people, we build institutions, it seems as if we develop some sort of hive mind, which creates our culture, our politics, everything that is bigger than us. And we can hate it for many reasons, one being that we are still individual and we can never agree on all issues and more importantly on the exact role of our institutions in our life. I myself prefer smaller, less intrusive government, so I suppose I cannot fully understand those minds who prefer larger, welfare-state governments. So I hope you choose to read what seems like my paranoid babbling, but know I do not believe in conspiracy theories, I just understand that there are those who do take advantage of our institutions, and that there are naturally corrupt institutions which we harbor, and love in part. CNN's ties to our government and big pharmaceutical is awful and immoral. I do not need to bore anyone, we all know the obvious corruption in corporate entities (of which I consider the Bureacratic Empire of the Government of the United States as one example among more often pronounced corporations) so I will move on to my final point. I believe that there is a somewhat natural progression of these things. Institutions seem to grow stronger and bigger, because that is what we want, and in keeping with the way of a cyclical universe, we as people come through periods in which are mind changes, and anarchy or some other patchy work of another academy purges the overly inflated society. The Mongols rode heavy into China, and the Visigoths broke down an empty, decayed log of an empire (much like modern America, they no longer produced anything, but still clinged to the value which they didn't deserve), and now perhaps some new Libertarian (or other ideal scheme) could lay waste to all that the human consciousness apparently yearns for in secret. It is very possible for us to get an Amero, or just some Union, and also possible that someday, even soon, we could have a one world Union, a one world government entity. Yes this seems terrifying, but it is not some elaborate conspiracy theory, it is just possible, and seems almost probable. People seem to like socialism, they like the state to take care of them, and they love to harbor resentment towards that state. Be it as it may, in free-market terms, the advantages to a one world union would mean one world currency, effectively one world bank. In terms of evil, it could be absolute power. And at first, it may likely be used to do good. It can maintain peace, and increase prosperity worldwide, especially if a social minded world is still up to the task. This seems like the ultimate fusion of free market and social democratic ideas, a very American agenda. But just as likely as a good start is a bad end.
The best thing to do is to embrace ambiguity, keep an open mind, and feed an open source. Keep a look out for the next cultural revolution on Yahoo! Answers or craiglist.
My greatest fear about the incoming administration coupled with congress' majority leading to social democratic rule would be the appearance of socialism in only the places needed to further agendas, possibly limiting our liberty. Transparency means nothing in America. People in this country don't care, and for those that do, caring is not caring without action. Government expansion, brought by another Harvard elite will certainly not destroy capitalism as we know it. But forget about a "free" market. The butcher of our Liberty will be the no longer intermittent bond between government, big business and the media. CNN Correspondent Sanjay Gupta seems to be rewarded of CNN's efforts in the election.
So last fall Reaganomics finally failed. The elites got too greedy and the people got too lazy, and I'm glad. As a nation we went in debt and didn't even care. It was the new American way. Instead of saving up, building up, working, thinking, idealizing, we spent, consumed, made money out of thin air, idolized and finally began to collapse. And I love it. We ruined our naturally corrupt banking system; the Federal Reserve was the biggest slap in the face the American people have ever been dealt, and nobody cares. The system itself sets people up to become rulers through playing with the debt and lives of the masses.
So the folks in their suits never worked an honest day in their lives. They raped the people for generations, and now the people can see it. Everybody began to get the same mentality as the elite had (perhaps due to all those self-made millionaire paid programming, you can do-it-yourself real estate tapes and online business kits) so anyone who really wanted it could grab a piece of the pie.
And where did the pie come from? If there is so much wealth, so many goods in this nation, so much worth, and we didn't even do half of the work for it, where did it come from? Well, sure, there are American car companies but even those are built off parts mainly from other countries. And for the most part, our products come from other places; we are now generally a services nation. The services we provide, blogging, media, nursing are all things that do not create new wealth, they are merely the products of services required for the immense wealth already created, by our banks. Oh, the mighty banks, they've conquered the world through credit. Everyone is in debt. And this debt is controlled by those who hold it all, in the form of money.
The bottom line is now we know this: In America, businesses fail. Unless you are a large business with deep Government relations because then you can never fail.
But since this is my first post on this new blog, I must address my meanings. I fully support and admire the open source movement, which I consider blogging to be very much a part of, and I will be glad to see it gain enough influence to be more effective than mass media and other purchasable public and private satellites to capital-based empires.. Wikipedia alone seems to answer some higher calling than anything made before. As people, we build institutions, it seems as if we develop some sort of hive mind, which creates our culture, our politics, everything that is bigger than us. And we can hate it for many reasons, one being that we are still individual and we can never agree on all issues and more importantly on the exact role of our institutions in our life. I myself prefer smaller, less intrusive government, so I suppose I cannot fully understand those minds who prefer larger, welfare-state governments. So I hope you choose to read what seems like my paranoid babbling, but know I do not believe in conspiracy theories, I just understand that there are those who do take advantage of our institutions, and that there are naturally corrupt institutions which we harbor, and love in part. CNN's ties to our government and big pharmaceutical is awful and immoral. I do not need to bore anyone, we all know the obvious corruption in corporate entities (of which I consider the Bureacratic Empire of the Government of the United States as one example among more often pronounced corporations) so I will move on to my final point. I believe that there is a somewhat natural progression of these things. Institutions seem to grow stronger and bigger, because that is what we want, and in keeping with the way of a cyclical universe, we as people come through periods in which are mind changes, and anarchy or some other patchy work of another academy purges the overly inflated society. The Mongols rode heavy into China, and the Visigoths broke down an empty, decayed log of an empire (much like modern America, they no longer produced anything, but still clinged to the value which they didn't deserve), and now perhaps some new Libertarian (or other ideal scheme) could lay waste to all that the human consciousness apparently yearns for in secret. It is very possible for us to get an Amero, or just some Union, and also possible that someday, even soon, we could have a one world Union, a one world government entity. Yes this seems terrifying, but it is not some elaborate conspiracy theory, it is just possible, and seems almost probable. People seem to like socialism, they like the state to take care of them, and they love to harbor resentment towards that state. Be it as it may, in free-market terms, the advantages to a one world union would mean one world currency, effectively one world bank. In terms of evil, it could be absolute power. And at first, it may likely be used to do good. It can maintain peace, and increase prosperity worldwide, especially if a social minded world is still up to the task. This seems like the ultimate fusion of free market and social democratic ideas, a very American agenda. But just as likely as a good start is a bad end.
The best thing to do is to embrace ambiguity, keep an open mind, and feed an open source. Keep a look out for the next cultural revolution on Yahoo! Answers or craiglist.
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