re reading lucifer principle by howard bloom, it was written ten years ago, now as i read it a whole new bunch of information is penetrating, the guys a geneus. but he offers no hope, ho way out from natures death trap, as we all hurdle into the fate we can't escape. well maybe i can, once i master this transmigration machine, alternativly there is the time machine, i just need a portable black hole and a sexy assistant with a french accent and nice boots.
well its been a crazy day, listening to jakes music on the way in to the city, we stopped as i showed him red eye, picked up the new 'dimmer' cd and a 'pixies unplugged dvd' and the special edition dvd of 'the man who fell to earth' which i have been searching for for a while.
we both enjoyed sushi train, both eating the same things then he split for college and i went into galaxy, abbeys and dymocks, book lovers heaven where i wrestled the demonic forces of book addiction and came out with only three books, all things being equal.
i'm thinking about what Bloom was saying, in the peckin order of humanity, how humans use freedom, peace and justice in a political sense yet it means a way of subverting the words themselves. one mans freedom is another mans oppression, he gives a few examples one being the way the Guals were used by Vercingetorix, Julius Caesars arch enemy. The Guals were promised freedom if they united against the Romans. They were a civilized society, they wrote greek, argues philosophy and talked about the cosmos. But they were pulled together with the word freedom. What Vercingetorix failed to explain was his idea of freedom included uniting the Guals so they could opperate under one mind. Who's mind? Vercingetorix of course. To ensure solidarity he tortured and killed those that disagreed with him, he cut of the ears, pulled out the eyes of those that didn't share his veiw, he sent the mutilated back home as a warning to those whom may be tempted to entertain independant ideas. The freedom Vercingetorix offered the Guals was the exchange of one tryanny for another.
Peace is another word abused by those high in the peking order, it usually means, 'since i am on top, lets keep the peace.'
Justice is used by those at the bottom of the peking order wanting to move up, when people refer to, 'the struggle for justice' what they really mean is lets 'keep on fighting, till i come out on top.'
Slipped from their moral disguises, these slogans become weapons used to motivate the superorganism.
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whoa, caught you right in a heavy patch it seems.
things do indeed seem grim what with israel/palestine, bombs in england, girls freakin out, flu, global warming etc etc.
personally, im thinking more and more about how its all just one great genetic game with each of us a genome, a byte of info that either will or wont get plugged into the future.
intelligence at this level is way beyond the usual intellectual type - nothing to do with survival of the most adaptable.
nope, this time its survival of the most creative.
the one with the greater creative dynamic, the capacity to self-design, wins the place in the future.
foreign wars, self destructive behaviour, media hysteria, global turmoil - its all totally predicable from a perspective of i-volution.
of course wed get terrorism and insurgency and disinformed conflicts so long as we fail to update our collective social structures - its no more than a matter of thermodynamics. the further anything gets from its point of origen, the more complex it becomes, with the probability of that complexity being decay (rather than extropian matrixing).
just think how far from inception our ecological memes are! or the memes of home land security, or colonialism or whatever.
think too that the faster a structure evolves so too the faster its memes outdate. give a bunch of palestinians the internet and youre talkin hours.
really, its all ok (tho hard not to cynical about). there isnt really any great `destruction` looming.........just an enormous shift in spacetime that to any other than a time traveller will appear that way.
truth/morals/taboos/values are all geographical terminology more akin to topography than society. that being so, we gotta start uploading infosystems that actually work at the point of origen, and can cope with the morphosis over distance towards other meme spots.
how does your infostructure cope with being away from home, or across town, or lightyears away from its point of origen?
until we set realize we are infozens and no longer citizens (as we were 5000 years ago) we cant get much done of real value ie dealing with our unsustainable behaviour.
well thats wht i think anyway.
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