4) Hypocrisy
[Honor
your father and your mother.]
{Honor your father and mother that
your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.}
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Respect is earned
not given. In commandment four, god is ordained absolute parent. We are biologically bred to obey, love, and
find favor with our parents. These
individuals are our genetic blueprint.
Inherently any compliment or insult to either is inferred to us. Any detected flaw in either can cultivate
cancerous insecurity or vulnerability in an individual. Such weakness is often reflected in the self
through overcompensation. To cancel or
disparage the bond between our parents is tantamount to a message that we
should not exist.
We hunger for
validation through our dynamic with our parents. Honor your father and mother or god will take away what you have. God
grants us life as we came from the joining of spermatozoa and egg, but god’s allowance is intended to convey a
life and variables beyond humanity.
This creates an
endless debt. All human life came from
the endless regress of god. We are born
in hock without consent and never leave.
We are purported to have freewill, yet have not the freedom to be
pre-informed of our arrangement, the option of refusal, terms of service, or
the liberty of suicide under the legalities of the bible. This is the ultimate anachronistic trap of
hypocrisy by the Meme.
The Meme creates
culpability before, during, and after our existence that negates even the love
of our parents. Parental love, absent adoption,
typically is selfish as adoration of the gene’s associated with one’s ego. Even adoptive love can be a surrogate form of
appeasing the biological gene-transition yearning through memes. Ideals of the ego of the parent will be
conferred. Adoption is often a second
choice after intercourse or artificial insemination has failed. This is not always the case, but is common. If most parents were truly non-selfish or the
minimal of selfishness, parents would first adopt one of the many people
sitting in human dog pounds rather than add another resource consumer to an
overfilled horde. Most often we do not;
it is not our animal nature. We are
animals.
One can see this in
the basic love of one’s child. Would one
trade their child for any other? What
does one exchange in sentiment in such a hypothetical? Humans do not care in a commensurate measure
for other human’s offspring. Poor
children rotting in slums, ghettos, foster bins, or provincial estates are
washed with apathy, a well-wish, or disdain in a distant context. We compartmentalize our humanity to emphasize
our genes and default to the Meme to suppress our interconnection. If not, human orphans would be scooped up and
raised prior to procreated-progeny as a logical species survival mechanism.
An anti-Meme society
would make adoption easier. Whether it
is human or canine, the act of recognizing the needs of genetically unlinked
others over personal desires is anti-Meme.
This will be discussed further in Empathy under Commandment Six.
Loving one’s
offspring is beautiful and good, yet the act of parenting takes on a parallel
to martyrdom under the Meme. Children
become creations of god and thus not
an indulgence of the parent’s genetic programing, but substituted for a duty to
be raised under the commandments and ritual of the god-meme to become future
carriers of the Meme. The Meme clouds
parents from seeing the animal luxury of offspring. The selfishness of genetic transference is
masked in dogmatic duties to bring up civilized, obedient, and orderly replicas
adherent to the Meme.
Children are viewed
as paramount to self or even partners.
Abandoning one’s personal existential internal journey for the primary
priority of gene transference is saintly in the Meme. Children reach maturity to repeat the cycle
through minimal existential expansion beyond the realm of parents. When this occurs we create a factory of
recycling regress prioritizing replication rather than progress. Change risks the Meme.
A god who demands blind faith and
obedience behind the wizard-of-Oz pulpit of a preacher wants to beguile and
ingrain children behind their most basic instinctual love of their genetic predecessors. Parents are the most easily understood symbol
of authority to captain a child’s dais.
The fourth commandment does not offer a rationale for earned authority,
the Meme demands authority.
Weak parents often
emulate the Meme in using phrases like, “Because I said so!” or “I had to so
you have to.” Children are not trusted
with explanations prior to being ordered initially because their physical
development cannot compute and does not wish to compute such a burden of
decision. The Meme wants parents to
shelter children and hide portions of society and reality which threaten the
Meme as long as possible.
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Sexuality is at the
forefront of this repression. The Meme’s
utmost maxim is to hide the biological truths of genetic replication inside
suppressive folklore of religious dogma.
This controls sex. It provided
order to pregnancies in a pre-prophylactic humanity. The inventions of condoms and birth control
pills allowed humanity to achieve the wanted order without the dogma and
spurred women’s liberation.
This is why
contraception is outlawed by Meme overlords like the Catholic Church, even in a
marriage. Contraception represents a
replacement for the current Meme. If
Christians, Jews, and Muslims were allowed dominion over their sexual lives the
Meme risks the humans abandoning other commandments of control. Interfaith coitus risks inquiry, “What faith
will we raise this child? Maybe faith is
ambiguous or arbitrary, maybe unnecessary?”
The Meme needs sex controlled to keep chains of tithes intact. Commandments might be viewed as
commensurately fraudulent and unnecessary.
This will be discussed further under Commandments Six and Nine.
As children grow
into adolescence and cognitive development accelerates past the absolutism of authoritarianism,
the Meme combats potential rejection with parental authority and ritual. Questioning adolescents are ostracized as
brains begin to notice the first taste of doubting the Meme, despite ignorance
to what the Meme is or even that the Meme exists. The uncertainties of adolescence are ripe for
rebellion and clinging to conformity.
The social pressure
to normalize with peers imposes the Meme’s hunger for order to squelch
rebellion. We want to believe inside
that we are special, yet we want to be included and feel we are no different
from anybody else. The Meme preys on
this. The Meme garners power from the
solidarity of social cliques and supportive social standards of success as the
Meme hijacks the biological urge for copulation with attaching a voluminous
menu of requirements associated with the Meme’s continuation with sexuality and
attracting mates.
Outward appearance
is preferable to inward depth. If one
does not peer inward, one will not unmask the Meme. Superficial linkages to fads intentionally
shift in an ephemeral notion of fashion in clothing, music, hairstyles, etc.to
formulate a fleeting definition of popular culture that hovers around sex,
youth, and the illusion of uniqueness.
The
anti-Meme sees the inefficiency of physical attraction while understanding
animal nature. This creates confliction.
The Meme can lean on the visual and pheromones to access inspection to form
relations. For the anti-Meme the surface
seems disconnected from the inner. The
anti-Meme wants to stimulate the erogenous zones just as much, but the
anti-Meme teenager begins to digest something that usually formulates in other’s
twenties: random organ-insertion non-intimate sex actually often increases
loneliness. The Meme kids might not
catch on until their mid-thirties, if that.
The
anti-Meme may begin to disconnect and disregard body image. Anything that focuses on body image wades
into egoism. This creates massive
confliction, “Should I care about this?
What somebody thinks about my ass, this acne, or my arms?” Such waters
feel like snake oils. The anti-Meme is
often befuddled by the Meme’s teenage minefield. The Meme kid is lost too, but the anti-Meme
is just way more aware of the quagmire we are all actually sloshing.
The
anti-Meme contemplates how could another want us to care about their thoughts,
them, or know who they are to participate in what real life is outside the Meme? This would be effrontery. This keeps a lot of the anti-Meme adolescents
in solitary pools of angst. When the
anti-Meme looks at what we really are the act of approach is so intimate, the
surface almost becomes impossible to navigate.
The anti-Meme teenager has burrowed.
For the anti-Meme, how does anyone therein approach anyone else? The Meme says sincerity, emotional nudity,
and expression are obscene. The Meme
roots in this formative sexual kiln to distance empathy and seeing how similar
we are to cascade into our adulthood. The
Meme teaches us to put on poker faces to survive.
The
anti-Meme is right there naked, always naked usually finding a surrogate social
group through some manner of mutually identified segregation from the Meme such
as music, science, comic books, sports, art, drugs, sexuality etc. The anti-Meme sees that everyone wants
interaction, but not this kind of intimacy.
Claiming friendship, knowledge, partnership of any kind bears overtness
that feels almost criminal when confronting the Meme. The anti-Meme learns the lashes of rejection,
the spurned attempts in the wake of the Meme follower’s confusion of how that
intimacy offered is not dependency; it is not weakness, but strength. The anti-Meme cares less about what the other
thinks, because most likely the other is ego-focused. Not always, but often. Attachment becomes a higher wager.
The
anti-Meme has that teenage courage that is always on that border of loneliness,
afraid, but less so than the Meme kids.
The Meme kids are coated more so in the fear of not fitting. Value in the Meme is summation of activities
or social standing rather than the divinity of the universe powering the
whole. The anti-Meme youth cannot
verbalize this. Words get chalky in the
mouth clunky and obtuse flopping out in art: dance, music, poetry, notebooks,
graffiti, hairstyles, ink.
The
anti-Meme kid has a hint of what the universe is, smells the water. Sometimes it hits too hard and the hormones
go to depression, drugs, addiction, suicide, isolated melancholy, a war within
a war. The anti-Meme is bashing a
forehead against the wall of the Meme saying, “This can’t be it. This can’t be all there is. This plastic superficial shit, I don’t know
what the answer is, but it sure as hell is not this commercial, this book, or
this pop homogony.”
The
internal battle begins with the self, this awakening to shed the ego. The anti-Meme risks the indulgence of
solipsism. If one can swim out past that
buoy that is where the real ocean of the universe begins. Adolescence is the first big wave phrased most
prominently in the question, “How the hell does love work?”
This
is the human conundrum, how does anyone operate on a surface level to actually
manifest internal love where we are commensurately wanted? Loving the other approaches need. The anti-Meme avoids need. The Meme penalizes need. Love is the ultimate paradox of self-interest
and need. Meme or anti-Meme there is no
getting around it. The anti-Meme is more
likely to see this.
Swallowing
the bravery to truly love another human being while knowing the option for them
to basically destroy you is always right there is about the most courageous act
a human can engage. The courage to say,
“I like you. Do you like me?” is diving
into a black hole sun hoping there is something bright inside the event horizon
knowing there is no going back.
Once
the other knows you are vulnerable, you are out there in that pasture alone as
the exposed animal challenging every survival instinct that beckons you to hide
to stay firm that instead of being left there alone shaking blood in bone the
other might venture out into windswept grass and watch the stars with you. Maybe for a minute, an hour, a season, an
eon, who knows how long we get, but the time is irrelevant to the act of bravery
and the intimacy spawned. This might be
genetically motivated for Darwinian perpetuation or it might be or also be
tapping into the interconnected universe.
Humans
participate in relationships monogamous, polygamous, polyandrous, open, or all
sorts inserting the words love and feelings like kindergarten finger paint, but
true love, true my-ego-is-gone no-recovery without having an unrecoverable-lifetime
chunk-of-you-altered love, that bravery, that choice, that is the god damn
universe right there shining like why we are here at all.
Faith that the other
actually wants what we have to offer is the real crocodile pitfall lake. The anti-Meme asks us not care what anyone
thinks, to be intrepid, but love cannot exist without that human need to connect;
we can postpone, deny, but never escape that paradox. Without that vulnerability we become machines
of metallic logic and sterilized solipsism. We all need people.
The anti-Meme asks us
to be as vulnerable as possible, to feel power in nudity. We all stand behind doors. We offer words like keys of consciousness,
not to open the other, but to express how we are open. Love is not about the other granting
access. Love is choosing to exit our
doors and sit aside the other as part of a common meadow in the universe and
trying to simply be in a moment.
We give our bodies and
an intimacy through sex and certain forms of words. That is the most meaningful offering a being
has; that does not always mean commitment, it may be nothing more than the
beauty of that intimacy. Love is voltage,
sufficient if not queer to empower the intimate wires we plug into the universe
through the self. We ask what the hell
is life, god, love, the universe; the basics.
We are all
afraid. The game is right there pointed
out when we see the universe in ourselves and in the other like reflective
lenses. We spill. The fiddling meaningless lonely sex talk of
eyeball-only intercourse can be, but the intimacy puts us right god damn there,
often unplanned. The constant universe
appears to come like a continent-sized meteor out of nowhere in bar lights and
moon shadow. That intimacy is ghastly,
because we are to trust in ourselves and the other that we know where to go
next.
It is always the next
that is horrifying, the potential cage of following blueprint sentences of this
is how to be when the art gets sniffed like a cocaine line gone to a synapse
impossible to jump any longer. The
canyon for that dopamine receptor doesn’t quite stretch from the biological to
the spiritual. It’s the energy each
party is willing to put in after life beats one down out of obligation rather
than desire.
Complacency can become
insulation from death. It’s insurance
that as long as the procedures are followed the routine creates
distraction. Life will keep rowing
itself. We hide from death in this
way. To do so is to love in the Meme and
pretend this biological cannot just end in an instant. We take the now for granted. The mind can get lost in the haze of not
choosing anymore. The choice gets baked
in with the expectation. Love becomes
institutionalized. The fear of stagnate
prisons keeps loneliness more comfortable than intimacy.
Love is cold
cross-barred in concrete perdition of predetermination. Volition sits outside the space in the brain
given up to this; this horrible declaration of what life is in the eyes of that
other person that maybe they will not inspire like they once did or maybe the
magic they or you felt dies like clipped fairy wings. Our ego begins to eat us alive with
responsibilities and blame in the costume of duty.
Maybe that happens and
the lava hardening from the volcano is not worth the heat. We seek other flames, calderas to dive into
drinking and spitting, drinking and spitting until our mouth is so callused and
blistered that we do not even taste love anymore. We eat around what looks like love like it is
toxic and mold-covered. All we have is
charcoal blackness burst with a cell-torched tongue. Who can speak or love with that? The ego consumes us as if our past is the
present.
Love is the gravity of
another’s slightly odd spinning galaxy.
Two waves of the universes collide full of conversations, magnetic
silences, and artistic exponents obliterating the shell of the ego. No one can go looking for that; it just
startles the hell out of you; damn near scares you to death, whether you are
ready or not, and most likely you’re not.
Who is? It asks you to reevaluate
and change. Either you jump in or you
try to beat it the hell away. That’s
love; that’s the universe.
Love
is the full circle of the anti-Meme. The
anti-Meme sheds the ego, accepts the universe as it is (accepts the other as he
or she is), but the true power is to admit the vulnerability of need. The anti-Meme full evolution understands the
need for the collective for we are the collective. The output of humility when acknowledging
this need is love. The expression is
love of the other: a partner, our community, our planet, the universe.
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There is only living
now and an empty alternative of death.
Our genes can travel on beyond our organic shell. Our ideas can mix into various memes and
traverse through writing, speech, video, music etc. The atoms in our body will exchange in life
and depart as our body decays post death.
However to self-aggrandize our existence as an irreplaceable cog, solemn
and revered beyond that of an ant in the hill is arrogance beyond measure. This is the foulest solipsism of the
Meme. Even Einstein did not qualify for
such indispensability.
The grand conceit
mirrors that of the god the Meme teaches us to emulate. We may live humble and loving lives of giving
benefiting others, but we are all replaceable.
The Meme comforts us with this notion of uniqueness, but by our nature
we are a copy, of a copy, of a copy etc.
We are merely rearranged rungs on a ladder match after match. The bravery to still find morality, passion
for life, and accomplishment under non-Meme paradigms is the grand gift of the
anti-Meme to understand what volition is.
None of the Meme’s
components are generally anchored to an immutable notion of substance, as to do
so would require specificity. The Meme
favors vagueness over specificity. The
distortion can leave a trail of mystery as to why someone is or is not popular
other than a synthetic chain of then he wore this or people seem to like her or
the most simple he or she is hot (i.e. she has large eyes, child-bearing hips,
petite stomach, large breasts, symmetrical face or he is tall, straight jaw
line, with large upper body strength and frame to indicate a thick and
elongated penis.)
These calculations
of human-worth expand little, but set the standard bar of mental exploration in
adulthood low in terms of expected priority change. We are taught to be materialistic, want sex,
and to expect approval or rejection based on the preponderance of our
adolescent experience. If in adolescence
we are preoccupied with these calculations rather than the Meme. The Meme can rest in the backdrop soaking in
more years under our parent’s often oblivious tutelage.
By the time we leave
our parent’s home the rituals will be hardwired. If we reject those rituals, many of us are
taught by our social structure in school what to think, not how to think. This breeds a slew of adults who have little
interest in changing norms or the Meme.
Apathy-inducing tools like alcohol, sport, fashion, and child-rearing
obsession breed the political complacency to assure the Meme’s norms.
In adulthood
obtaining wealth may become a symbolic quest for the purpose of life. The Meme purposes several false purposes:
getting into heaven, living as long as possible and obsessing over youth,
procreation, prestige, and finding a way to acquire resources to sustain
biological requirements and avoid boredom.
These are false
purposes, because life does not need a purpose.
The very limitation of a purpose is subjective as if there is a grand
answer beyond the possibility volition provides in an available moment of an
ungraspable present. The Meme preys on
our inquisitive and insecure nature by imposing god who has a purpose for us,
which is unspoken and meant to be seen through revelations imprinted into our
reality whether we be a trust-fund Ivy-Leaguer, paycheck-to-paycheck roofer,
AIDS fetus, or Mogadishu pirate.
Some adolescents
when confronting the Meme will rage in rebellion. The sophomoric reaction may be to enact
anarchy against the god-representatives mother and father through sex,
violence, and all manner of obstinacy.
This may continue far into adulthood and lead one into sabotaging one’s
education, mental development and devote a large measure of energy to assault a
false external-enemy. Some refer to the
root of the Meme as the machine or the man or the government or some dominant
centrality of authority.
However the true
root of the Meme is and will always be our ego.
Within each individual is the choice to abide by the Meme. Therefore the developing adolescent can
shortcut a large detour of human development by remaining calm, observing and
then conducting an internal discourse.
Writing, contemplation, music, yoga, dance, visual arts are formats to
dive internal. By doing so one can
confront the Meme on the only interface one has access: volition.
One can then offer
insight for others to do the same if one chooses, but it will always be under
the volition of the other to explore him or herself. This is the nature of macro level change and
all revolutions and viral debilitations of a mental strain.
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On a macro level of
human interaction in governments comprised of individuals, the U.S. government
and Brittan’s preoccupation with acting like the world’s parent is directly
linked to the fear sprouting from religiosity inside the Meme piggybacking off
the fourth commandment. Invasions of
Iraq, Afghanistan, the actions related to the civil war in Syria, Vietnam,
countless operations in South and Central America during the drug war, rebel
uprising and dictator overthrows in Africa, and British colonial rule in
Nigeria and India, etc. are each, to some extent, examples of this portion of
the Meme.
Brittan and the
United States are paramount in their exploitation of other countries under the
Meme due to the imposition of the English language on the rest of the globe due
to military dominance, despite the linguistic dissimilarity to so many other
tongues which contain overlapping similarities which English excludes. One need only look at the various
translations of the English word pineapple.
The same is true from the use of the customary measurement system versus
metric.
This extreme form of
sensorial manipulation shows the immutability of the cultures and their empiric
central ideologies to create global systematic disparity by forcing other
people to become more like the English-speakers so that the
non-English-speakers could be demoted and stay demoted as quasi-pagans, godless
antichrists compared to the fundamental order to the Meme.
The United States’
credence to such a Meme is directly related to being a former British colony and
the U.S. oedipal-usurping of its father-figure.
English order goes back into the Protestantism the British Isle whetted
to the grind stone of wars with alternative religious derivations whether it be
Ireland, France, Scotland, or Spain through Catholicism or Islam through the
Crusades. America’s declaration of
independence against its parent was only possible after assuring the assistance
of French-Canadian Catholics and numbing the internal tumult of Baptists and
other Protestants to find a common enemy in Brittan via protest to taxation
without representation and being controlled.
The separation of church and state was nothing more than to quell
inter-squabble between Christians of which vein of Christianity to draw blood
in a neophyte America before eradicating the indigenous people.
These pressures
forced alliances to usurp the Meme. Thomas
Jefferson’s deist tendencies brought forth the separation of church and state
in the Bill of Rights. Jefferson
attempted to truncate slavery by ending its expansion by ending importation in
1808 and letting the vice phase out. Slave
owners bred humans and went from 400,000 in the 1770’s, to one million in 1800,
and despite the import ban to four million by 1860. However he was politically rebuked in his
hypocrisy (i.e. Sally Hennings and owning over 600 slaves). The Civil War was set into an inevitable maelstrom
based on the economics rather than morality of slavery.
America’s slip
towards fundamentalism is lubricated with forgetfulness of the danger of
applying specificity to religion inside the Meme when piloting a super-power
and uttering such mandatory salutations as god bless America. The danger was recognized by Thomas Jefferson,
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in
exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any
particular set of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?” Jefferson also said, “Our civil rights have
no dependence on our religious opinions, more than our opinions in physics or
geometry.” One sees the fear of
Christian sects of each other in the U.S. foundation of a land forged in
limiting suffrage to white-males who were ever so tempted to use the
Meme-specificity of Jesus.
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The planetary
colonization by the Spanish, Dutch, French, British and Americans through
offshoots like stolen Hawaii, pilfered Alaska, and territories like Guam, the
Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico correlate with the fourth commandment as
parenting. America’s insecurity has led
to military bases scatter-plotted over the planet. Such forms of imperialism are pro-Meme.
One can look
throughout history to the Macedonian Empire 300 B.C., Roman Empire 70 to 150,
Umayyad Caliphate in 650-750’s, the Abbasid Caliphate 750’s-1250’s, the Mongols
in the 1200’s, Yuan Dynasty 1300’s, the Quing Dynasty 1700’s to 1800’s,
Russians from the 1700’s to the early 1900’s, etc. The dominant power in a region expands
virally until implosion under their girth typically from internal revolution.
The
dominant countries of the Meme, currently the United States and Western Europe,
adorn the empiric presumption that if we
do not take on the enemy, if we do not do it, no one will. The arrogance of this assertion is due to the
Meme’s commitment to order. The Meme
uses terms like national interest to rationalize the creation of regional and
global hegemony.
The
United Nations represents a consensus as a non-authoritarian forum for
discourse to release the individual global powers from the responsibility of
singularly enforcing compliance with order.
However the fear for noncompliance with treaties and the non-authority
of the United Nations is most threatening to global powers and therefore
countries like the United States are the most likely candidates to take action
without consensus approval and the most likely to block action with consensus. See the U.S. invasion of Iraq after
9/11/01. The U.S. since 1972 leads the
U.N. Security Council in enacting vetoes.
(The five permanent U.N. members can veto: China, France, Russia, the
U.S. and the U.K.) They are also the most likely to brashly spy on allies.
The
citizens of empires are encouraged to demonstrate a threshold of contempt for
the value of global consensus. Like the
exploitation of the majority by an empowered minority, it is in the best
interest of those on top to do what one wishes to maintain control and power,
rather than to value macro-level consensus, satisfaction, empirical-based
decision-making, or peace. See the U.S.
in modern Israel.
Levels
of war, turmoil, and civil unrest in foreign nations ensure the perpetuation of
the global hegemony. Militaries are the
easiest tools to set such domination.
This is why chaos can be isolated in places were the “pagans” live. This dehumanizes the resulting suffering by
differentiating biological humanity by derivations of the Meme.
To
the modern Meme everywhere outside the United States or Western Europe
represents the Poor. This determines who
can be bombed based on the discretion of a blameless altruism inferred into the
principles self-adorned to the apex of the Meme. This is enthroned from a history of burying
the bodies of massacred and exploited indigenous populations physically, but
not spiritually to achieve the dominant Meme status. Ghosts of the Iroquois Nation and the Kingdom
of the Congo will always haunt the United States like a foundation of blood in
every stock price on Wall Street. The
Meme runs from this like Poe’s Tell Tale Heart.
Our humanity suffers from this hypocrisy. The anti-Meme acknowledges the rift in our
oneness in attempts of unification by seeing the plain picture, the Meme does
not. The Meme fights empathy and
interconnection.
Muslim
countries market the tyranny of enemy humans in Western cultures. This is the inverse image of the Western
iteration of the Meme imposing its domination.
This galvanizes the power of spiritually-based hierarches and is the
number one opponent to having strong secular democracies in countries where
this mirror-image of the Western Christian-meme has dominated global economics
since the invention of the combustion engine began to use the Middle East as a
plantation.
This
two-sided domination of the Meme is not the result of grand design of cognizant
illuminati. It is the natural result of
the volition of tiers of humans following the Meme. It is not like the political, religious and
business top-percentile leaders have uncovered the id-animal meme and are
secretly plotting to exploit the remainder of humanity. They are in preponderance as ignorant, if not
more so, than the rest of the populace.
They are acting out what the Meme
protecting itself motivates them to do, which is to sustain the order the Meme
craves as it serves their individual egos.
This requires the exploitation of the masses. This creates priests and sinners to cooperate
in a mutual system of circulating energy.
Exxon-Mobil’s CEO, the U.S President sit on one side of the table facing
a rabbi, an Imam, and the Supreme Leader of Iran. The two groups are symbiotic. A revolving current of power flows through the
oceans of our small globe’s masses in such ways to flow order.
Each side of the table needs the
other to maintain power whether this is consciously comprehended or not. The Meme understands and subverts volition
that would jeopardize each of their spheres of influence. The Meme filters itself downward to the
greater population through ritualism, legalities, faith, and convenient
explanations for systematic disparities to maintain order which is essential to
humanity. We are taught to see each
other through the system rather than as common animals.
Therefore at every turn if one sees
every human on the planet as a carrier of the Meme and comprehends the fears it
generates as shields in the superego to protect the ego from the id, then in
this regard we can, like an opposing coach, see our opponents move before he or
she makes it.
We know how the Meme will react to:
war, sex, gender, lawlessness, anarchy, chemical weapons of mass death, oil and
its shortages, environmental protection in a capitalist global market,
profiteering, greed, banking, religion, piousness, abortion, incest, murder,
rape, theft, and the uncontrollable demand to know why. Understanding the Meme’s logic would help any
human navigate being a complex life form.
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Humans
who survive the womb continue rudimentary survival under the plutocracy of
international banks, energy harvesters, pharmaceutical distributors, land
owners, and security enforcers. Children
are washed into compliance. Caesarian
section is preferable to vaginal birth, formula to breast milk, and a baby
Einstein video to a face. Submitting to
the morphed authority figure of the Meme varies depending on what country one
is blessed or burdened to be born into, let alone what house within that
country.
School brings Zyprexa and Risperdal
to focus. The lunch time cafeteria
brings soy bean and corn subsidies, devastated permaculture, and mono-crops
with Monsanto-pesticide bee disappearances and lawsuits over genetic-seed
patents inside the ammonia-rinsed hamburger patty. ADM, Cargill, Dole, and Tyson grow. Coca Cola, Pepsi, Heinz-Kraft, and Nestle
serve.
Traditional classrooms have students
politely and orderly raising hands in lined rows with a lecture format. Modern classrooms often split in pods. The loudest speaker is valued over the best
idea. Ideas are often trampled in sound.
In class, “No Child Left Behind”
and “Race to the Top” prioritize teaching to the test and memorization. This voids critical thinking and
innovation. Mono-students are bred. This is intentional inside the Meme. This controls teachers and students to binge-absorb
for testing and rinse into forget without objection. The anti-Meme is learning how to think:
open-ended discussion, experimentation, and exploration, the way children learn
before the programming begins. Look at
Germany or Finland, then America.
Americans are particularly
incapable of acknowledging our tiered capabilities. Intelligence quotients due to genetic
capability are a dominant factor in educational aptitude. The most important person beyond the self in
educating a human is not the teacher, but the parent(s).
A small array of teachers rotates
by the hour and by semester as a child progresses in school. Learning begins in the womb. Socialization, environmental detours, which
correlate with a young student’s sleeping, eating, and sequestration patterns
for thought for both homework and observation of the value of education in
daily life vary by what a child is privileged or subjected to label as family.
The Meme ignores these realties
because the answer is ownership of volition.
The Meme prefers to blame the education system first rather than
genetics or home environment, which trump the often marginal differences
between schools. If the school can be
seen as the determining factor, education can be marketed as a free market good
and giant tuition bills can be extracted for private schools and all
universities. Property taxes can in
effect price public schools. Religions
also benefit from the degradation of the public school system. The Meme encourages charter schools to divert
public funds to make schools more like corporations. This creates an educational system mirroring
and distancing the wealth disparity the Meme craves. Although school choice that opens residency
borders is anti-Meme.
The economics are fraudulent. With America’s economy a properly funded
educational system would be the envy of the planet, but the Meme knows higher
education and freedom risks uprising, dissent, and noncompliance with political
mandates. The Meme makes education,
particularly higher education cost more than it needs to; look at the 1950’s
tuition and today. Meme universities
have shifted into layers of non-educator administrators guiding policy and
curriculum to act like big businesses focused on marketing and revenue rather
than education of the population. Given
the increase in productive value of a worker; why should tuition have grown at
such an exponential rate if not for the Meme?
With the internet and web-based knowledge distribution dynamic
egalitarian educational disbursement designed by the best educators on the
planet should be more available to all.
The Meme markets against this.
If schools are seen as more crucial
than parents, then parents can take a more passive role to education. If product brand names are more important
than content then the population can take a more passive role in questioning
the Meme. This creates politically
docile citizens comfortable assuming the government, social system, and
education are capable and performing due care of the education of their
progeny. The system is
self-perpetuating. A parent will often
be less cognizant of what their child lacks in information if they were
commensurately under-educated. The Meme
can recycle with less opposition.
Instead of pumping funds into
administrative evaluation of standardized knowledge, the more relevant issues
of poverty such as child care, tutoring, access to healthcare, the tools a
parent can use to continue life-long learning such as integrated web-based
educational infrastructure, nutritional assistance, and community violence
should be viewed as the core of the knowledge gap in Poor communities. This is entirely anti-Meme.
Rather than designing schools to
adjust for the limits of the many, we acquiesce to the futility of the
few. Rather than empower teachers to
adapt schools and classrooms for limitations, the American education system
often attempts to force round pegs through square holes. This is directly correlated with the Meme. The Meme does not value teachers because a
free-to-teach educator represents chaos.
The Meme seeks layers of administrative chains to frustrate and rein-in
what the educator can say and do when in the front of future Meme-carrying
students. The Meme wants teachers to
wear straight-jackets.
The Meme wishes to encourage a
level of interchangeability amongst the masses.
The perception of potential achievement, the lottery-win ideal, is
essential to perpetuating the myths of faith, hope, and eternal salvation. If a human is told he has a seventy-five IQ
and his best hope is minimum wage for the next fifty years, a revolt might
erupt right there. It often does in an
indirect byproduct of the human seeing little value in the false pursuit of
additional ill-fit education the school attempts to provide.
Under god each soul is special and a unique creation, but each soul
better solve his or her problems without help, because god will help or punish. The
anti-Meme acknowledges the mental runts of the litter and seeks to help based
on the systematic needs within the collective and punish based on the volition
of individuals producing systematic injuries to the collective. The anti-Meme permits humans to be fallible
and accepts the stark realities of both stupidity and low intelligence
quotients while attempting to apply common empathy. (Stupidity being someone of sufficient
intelligence to comprehend the ramifications of one’s actions choosing to
create or incur negative consequences.)
The anti-Meme recognizes volition,
individual strengths and weaknesses, but recognizes an eye-for-an-eye does not
work. The anti-Meme seeks to address
systematic interrelationships given disparate opportunities in reality, not the
idealism or rhetorical infantilism of the Meme’s false order.
The Meme attempts to treat adults
as children and adolescents as infants.
The Meme teaches non-college graduates are failures. This sabotages trade schools, associates
degrees, and non-four-year college post high school matriculation. This shames the realms of the mechanic, cook,
nurse, bus driver, etc. into being less human.
These foundational humans are treated as filler in society and are not
afforded the respect of a sir or mam. (The
very words sir and mam are pro-Meme. The
idea that an office, title, or position awards respect rather than innate life
or humanity being sufficient to install mutual respect is pro-Meme. The anti-Meme sees the common divinity in all
beings by the similarity one sees from peering through the window of the self
to see the universe.)
Proletariat roles are dehumanized
into faceless losers of the communicated common goal of the Meme, which is not
productive value, but the perception of achievement. Ultimately the order of humans striving for a
college degree can serve as both debt-noose and profit-hammer. Humans drowning at poverty and living wage
lines struggle to breath. The Meme says,
“Kick harder, swim up, you’re not trying enough. Let me raise the water line; that will motivate
you.” The Meme says if you make it you
will take my spot and I am less likely to survive. The anti-Meme says, “Add some soil to the foundation. Let me make it easier for you to stand and
reach your neck to the air.” The
anti-Meme says “If you make it we are all more likely to survive because we
need and benefit from each other.”
One can see this in the Meme’s
fight against minimum wage thresholds to raise the bottom. The Meme wants the lowest wage to be
perceived as motivation to exit employment positions designed to resemble a pit
of flailing stacked bodies in Dante’s Inferno. The anti-Meme sees the interconnectedness of
Labor in society. We cannot all be
managers or owners. We need all pieces
of the puzzle. Dehumanizing the lowest
rung of Labor, making people work three minimum wage jobs to try to get by and
chastising them as lazy is the Meme whipping control. The anti-Meme is a living wage, sick pay, and
maternity leave.
The Meme wants to alienate and
demoralize students particularly in the Poor and working class from feeling
like there is even a chance or if they have a chance it is like a lottery win
rather than equal opportunity the sign on the door might market. By valuing Gardner’s multiple forms of
intelligence and supporting the ideas of a living wage and universal healthcare
the anti-Meme transcends the Meme concept that a human is valued based on what
they are financially paid in exchange for what they offer to the
collective.
The Meme is egoic; the Meme focuses
on what the self is compensated. The
anti-Meme focuses on what we give to the collective and recognizes the
intrinsic gifts we receive by our selflessness.
There is chaos in the trust that when we respect the Poor through living
wages and financial compensation shared by firm owners the herd will also
follow and not penalize that firm in the market. This trust is face to face with greed with
how we design our educational systems and our compensation scales.
Public schooling represents
solidarity in the collective. An
individual without progeny in the public schooling system benefits from a
better educated community. An individual
who is economically self-sufficient benefits from assistance to the Poor
through Medicaid and Social Security through lower crime and a healthier more
empathetic population. The Meme wants us
to myopically dwell in individualism, to worship the ego, to say, “That’s not
my problem. I resent these taxes.” The anti-Meme recognizes that we are all
interconnected and seeks to fund and design public education accordingly.
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Modern
children are taught to be monitored by parents with cell phones and GPS devices
as if child abduction is rampant. The
Meme thrives on this obsessive fear where a potential threat can exploit a
mythical reality. The true threat is not
kidnapping, but disobedience. Trusting
an adolescent’s volition is anti-Meme.
Law and order is required. This
necessitates the monitoring of the fourth commandment. This makes adult humans
more pliable to the surveillance state by governments.
Sports teach kids
about authority watching. The spectrum
of attention from authority figures including parents, coaches, and the crowd
directs everything a five year-old will need to process stepping on a soccer
field. Children learning football,
baseball, or gymnastics etc. span from the extrovert extreme of impressing to
the introvert extreme of disappointing authority figures.
Sports train
younglings that reactions to that spectrum are not only relevant, but
paramount. The ability to pass or kick a
ball is secondary to the observable reactions from authority figures when one
does so proficiently or not. Rule
consciousness, dependency, submission and dominance are learned.
Athletes
may make the sign of the cross after scoring.
If one equates one’s athletic ability and success to god’s will, then what is god conveying to invalids? What do we make of the five-foot-three
try-outs who never make the team?
Pro Meme sports encourage
parents to pay for photographs of their kids’ preseason and post season with
commemorative frames and trophies. The
focus is on how it looks, as if the play time was not worth remembering without
the dignity of a conformity photograph.
This is a helicopter-parent not letting go and allowing the time was
worthy to just be internal. The value is
in the external to the Meme.
Sports or
fraternity-related hazing rituals of replicated experiences of torture,
embarrassment and ignominy equate to subjugation to the central authority. Teammates and brotherhoods demonstrate
replicated submission.
A school principal
witnessing the violation of other school rules by athletes or frat-boys hazing may
tolerate the act. Implicit encouragement
of such behavior overlaps the common authoritarian meme. “Look
at how the baseball team shaved his head and made him wear it to class for the
week! (Oh isn’t that against school
rules?) Technically it is, but the Dean likes it!” This is all under the authority of the fourth
commandment, obey.
(In an aside to the
third commandment, if theists really believed in prayer, theist-schools would
compete with each other through prayer.
Two teams could each pray to god
for a cure, a result, or a sentiment to pass.
This is sacrilege to the second commandment. The hypocrisy inside the fourth commandment
that god is always monitoring prompts
the prayer. If one is to expect no
measurable response then one is left wanting to validate the purpose of prayer
beyond fueling the Meme. In this
instance we can see why the Meme is anti-prayer being used as a sport. One is taught to pray and leave to god’s discretion. If one demands or never asks one is left
fruitless. If something happens that
correlates with the prayer it is a blessing, if not that is also a mysterious
disguised blessing.)
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Modern college
students are taught about inescapable debt to faceless banks. Unlike home or vehicle debt, student-loans
are linked with a special un-severable manacle.
This debt funnels young people to serve the Meme. Volition must submit to Sallie-Mae’s monthly
extraction. Brain contents become owned
by another. Whether such knowledge was
useful, productive, or valuable, the tithe must be paid.
Passing a test and
getting a degree and a transcript from a marketed billboard with words like
Harvard-as the pinnacle. In the Meme,
even if Harvard taught you the same as the University of Kentucky, the
knowledge is less valuable than the perception of knowledge. We are taught to become vessels of the
external rather than the internal. The
Meme does not want us diving internal.
Fashion, certification, and resumes trump knowledge, capability, and the
chaos of critical thinking.
Once one is hooked
into paying the student loan payments, the credit cards, rent and eventually a
mortgage one is numbed to protest.
Activism is subdued. This serves
the Meme whether it is under the parental fourth-commandment of a dictator or
the illusion of democracy behind a one-party plutocracy.
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Television needs
little elaboration as to the easy indoctrination, commercialization, obedience,
comfort, order, and systematic control the screen can provide for the
Meme. Television keeps humans calm, occupied
and far less likely to revolt against authority and more likely to go to war
for authority depending on the current dominate discretion of the Meme. Television can help the Meme entwine
institutional messages in a steady global stream.
Television soaks the
ego in the illusion of intimacy, of companionship without having to extend the
vulnerability to form a true relationship.
Smart phones do the same thing. One
can feel like one knows a character in a sitcom or a movie and by extension the
actress or actor playing the role. A
numbing can occur like a societal opiate to address the loneliness of piling on
the layers to the ego the advertisements the television hocks. We distance and risk solipsism as time in
front of the tube is a theater in our head.
We can get trapped and addicted. The
stream of posts on Facebook although people we may actually know in reality
create similar illusions of human contact.
Our zest for
Hollywood becomes a pursuit of real connections through pseudo connections
belonging to “stars.” Celebrities do not
even feel like celebrities. They are
just humans looking at the crowd saying, “This other guy he’s famous. She’s famous.
Me I am just me.” I imagine for
most the constantly being noticed makes one either overdose into the ego of the
Meme or blatantly aware of the anti-Meme.
Most of these people are artists to begin with which is why so many
actors are anti-Meme or at least their public image conferred is
anti-Meme. There is no way to know for
sure at the distance of a screen, but you can see where some people put their
money. Look at Brad Pitt and Angelina
Jolie: activism, adoption, humanitarianism. Look at Oprah.
At its base
television for a human walking into an empty house or room is like press-button
human contact. The smart phone is a
constantly accessible pocket version. A
world of voices appears. This is our
parents cuddling us, embracing us; this is love in a way to distance loneliness
of the lack of human contact with a surrogate machine to foster an
illusion. Inside this illusion we are
drawn to do what the screen tells us because like our parents we want to please
on some level that which satiates this fear that we are alone.
Television and media
like Facebook or the radio give us this form of love and interconnection. We feel community and avoid the beautiful darkness
of being the anti-Meme alone in the universe.
Our ego better functions in a modern depersonalized society where we may
go entire days without a real face to face conversation, beyond a ‘how is it
going,’ noticing eye contact, lips, skin, being touched, being held, being
noticed for our inner being, where we are truly seen. We become digital iterations of friends
posting a filtered ad-campaign of what we like, who we are, or our querulous
rants as the topoi of society swarm. If
we are not careful to stir the digitized epoxy with real human contact the
coagulating resin of anesthetized opinions will turn ambrosia into alabaster
yogurt curdling into a minefield of spores.
We will have lost base with a poetry of faith found only in the act of
truly seeing another being.
We all want to be seen, accepted,
embraced for the divine amazing beings we are.
This is the anti-Meme to understand and trust empathy for this craving
for love through interconnection. We all
bear this hunger and call for it through our developed social structures and
communication network. The realms of
technology, politics, and spirituality are entwined in this common need and can
be used as a way of separating us to repress this calling or embrace our
communal purpose. The anti-Meme does not
see national borders, religion, race, sexuality, or gender as barriers of
not-in-my-back-yard type allowances for apathy.
In the anti-Meme Syria’s problem is France’s and the U.S.’s and Somalia’s
problem on a human level. Understanding
this mutuality is the inviolable apotheosis of humanity.
To Commandment Five: Death
To Commandment Five: Death
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