Humans are animals. We are organized vehicles of hitchhiker genes
to dissipate entropy. Our cells are
blueprints. We are replicas. We are born.
We may replicate. We die. Our genes may continue, but our illusion of
individuality, of self, ends. Our ego
ends.
There may be a spiritual presence
outside of space-time. This treatise
refers to a concurrent spiritual journey, which does not include the idea of a god or a sentient presence in the parallel
to the atomic plane that is separate from what we are. The idea of god may be pertinent in some
unperceived manner to the atomic plane.
However currently we have no evidence, let alone what such a presence is
or even if it or a collective might have volition or desires. The lack of confirmation leads many to make
assumptions, which manipulate human behavior for the Meme.
However this treatise does suggest
that in that spiritual journey that non-god energy, for lack of a better term,
exists concurrent to the atomic simply is.
This is as the totality of the atomic’s energy equals mass times the
speed of light squared is. The non-sentient
spiritual non-god energy is the constancy of choice beyond time. It is potential itself of all ungraspable
present instances of now encompassed not as the accumulation of past, present,
and future histories, but as possibility itself which volition requires outside
of the paradigm of time. This is the
possibility of atomic movement, choosing, confluence, interconnection, discord,
fear, love, and everything.
We are the universe or depending
how one might view it the multiverse. To
the atomic-universe time is but an illusion to document when part of the atomic-universe
is inside of itself as perceived by the perceiver. Therein time is irrelevant. The universe simply is all at once, in
always. Perception is observing slices
of possibility.
If we ask when, then what is the
starting point at which we put our clock’s ticker? Look at Einstein’s theory of relativity. From what location to what location in when
do we aspire to provide a measurement and what audience do we offer that
measurement? For the self, the ego, the
illusion of self, this notion of time is baby-talk. This notion of where or when is irrelevant
once the self is removed. This mandate
that we are a self is a childishness to what we are, what we all are in a
collective, simply being. To say I am
here. I was there. This happened then. These are false perspectives. The only statement we can approach is, “This
is now.”
“This is now,” is all of it. All that ever was, will be, and is in an
ungraspable unapproachable present like mathematical calculus approaching the
distance between two points in a curved line.
Any attempt at measuring tangency is impossible because the measurer is
always the line itself. We create an
illusion as soon as we attempt to segregate outside the line to measure time or
where. We are always the line. The line is everything like a single point
bearing no distance, no space, and no identity. It is all space, all time, all concept of
boundlessness, of beginning-less-ness.
The entirety can never be segregated from itself. It always is.
Once we see we are all part of that
in a shifting illusion of self, we can be our best attempt at present in our
perceived reality. We can begin to focus
on what we are and be in these illusions of self to actualize into a harmony
within the whole. If there is one
message the universe provides it is that entropy seeks balance on a macroscopic
paradigm. We can accept what is, bearing
our choice in the now.
We can let go of our grip to be a
measurer of time, to segregate ourselves from the line, the single point that
is the universe. We play terrible games
when we attempt to need such control based on the illusion of what perceiving
is. We control so little in the flow of
what we are. We may confuse the purpose
of our organized being as a machine to create control rather than to release
energy into entropy. When we do this we
fight the universe’s flow. The atomic
and the spiritual shift inside itself parallel and we are all of it myopically
identifying as the shifting component we appear to have autonomy over in this
shell. Our autonomy, our idea of
choosing in the now is all we really have.
Our individuality is an illusionary
arrangement of the whole as a vehicle for our volition. Volition is a current, a directed manner of
flow not by a singular self, but by a community of transposing atoms entering and
exiting that we perceive only in the illusions of time and individuality to be
a segregated vessel we misconstrue to be an autonomous self. Our cognitive function beats like a musical
note in the constancy of the now fluctuating in awareness of how our atomic
arrangement shifts as the arrow of time directs us in what our brains
understand as forward.
We perceive that no god, no other
person can make our choice in how we choose, how we suffer, how we
embrace. We cannot choose whatever we
wish, but we can choose how we view, how we perceive. This flint of approach in what perception is,
is our divinity dancing in the now.
We are in its constancy. We choose.
We choose. We choose. We let go
of what we have chosen. We let go of
what we are not yet able to choose. We
only choose in the now. This on a
spiritual level is all if we were to be a ‘self’ is. Spirituality is the one everything. Directed spirituality inside the whole is
volition. A ‘self’ is a vehicle of volition. The concurrent parallel atomic universe is
the theater in which volition performs because perception occurs inside the
atomic. Volition in the inanimate is the
laws of the universe unveiling a portion of possibility to the perceiver what
is perceived. Volition in the animate
may create the illusion that our choice is the only determining factor in what
is perceived, when the interconnection of all things, of which we are a part,
is the actual cause.
Maybe in another form we do not
need this biological form of consciousness we may currently identify as self to
choose or perceive. However it may make
sense that on a spiritual level the idea of choosing and perceiving are
paradigms of the ego and utterly irrelevant because there is only one
everything that never chooses or perceives, we simply are. Maybe the constancy of choosing is retained
in another form we have before or will later identify in the atomic illusion of
time as a derivation of alternative self concurrent to the spiritual as it
always is. However this is not us, just
as we are not us now. We are just a variegated
shard of a whole perceiving to be segregated to craft the magic act. We are not separate now and can never be in a
version of then. We simply choose in the
now perceived as autonomy is presented in the spark of divinity.
Whether that choice is made by
instinct, reason, atomic reaction, or ecumenical scholarly discernment the
consequences of the choice are not relevant, only the approach of the chooser (the
how) is relevant. Beings are killed,
eaten, saved, birthed, injured, fused, destroyed, or healed. Beings are organized and disorganized. To see the consequences as relevant is to see
the universe in a notion of vengeance, justice, or the ego’s need for fairness
in a kindness ideal. The horror of evil
is the injury we do to our self. This is
the consequence, the stagnation, the lack of growth in the universe, the energy
doing nothing, but attempting to organize rather than flow entropy. This is us failing us. This is god failing god. This is the purpose of life’s vibration
failing to vibrate in harmony, but in parceled discord.
In peace, in empathy, in
recognition of how we choose, how we witness each moment in the now, in seeing
what we are and understanding the how, in this we vibrate inside the atomic
affirming the spiritual. We expand in a
paradigm beyond the atomic’s parameters of length, height, width, or time or
the idea of distance between a where/when in space/time and another where/when
in space/time. We do what we exist to
do, what the universe exists to do; we love.
We witness what is choosing love
over fear, not because of a rule, not because of a consequence of heaven or
perdition, but dancing in volition in the now we choose what transcends the
illusion of self for the true whole.
This act is the divine. This is
the exponential power of love seen in countless iterations in humanity’s
theater.
We know this to be so. We toy with our languages, religions, social
constructions, art, and pageantry to play on the stage of choosing. We are driven to such, to bond and be for one
another. This is our evolution and
purpose not unique to humanity, but a common charge as the law of the universe,
just as humans such as Newton and Einstein approached the foundation of the
legalities of the atomic, this law inside the operations of what love is guides
the spiritual journey in a parallel constancy of unveiled possibility for
ultimate equilibrium by spreading disorder out so that as the record needle of
time is lifted from our perception we hear the sound of oneness not through our
atomic ears, but through consciousness beyond self as one everything of all
that every was, is, will be and might have be in singularity.
There is no other god, for we are components
of what so many of us call god. There is
no separation. We are this, all of us,
always. The Meme attempts to veil what we are from us, because to see what we
are acknowledges a freedom draped in the possibility of undefined
darkness. When we close our eyes and
separate from the physical domination of vision we begin to see this. This is one reason meditation is so
powerful. We see beyond the sensorial
limitations of our body to see what we are.
Now that we have taken a guess to establish what we are, let us discuss
why we are.
The anti-Meme
understands duty can only exist in the temple of the individual. Duty requires choice. Choice requires free will. Only individuals have free will. Therefore all duty is to the self embedded
inside the choice. Choice forms
culpability to the self for consideration of the universal to which the
individual belongs. The constant
exchange between the universal and the self exists in the reality of this
concentric paradox.
The Meme may claim
duty to a government, a religion, a law, a genetic relation, a sense of
morality born in the external. This
ultimate duty is often labeled as god, but once we see god in ourselves the act
of self-duty ceases to be misconstrued as a narcissistic act or a hedonistic
massage of our ego, but one that addresses the very meaning of our existence by
recognizing the only manner in which universal responsibility can exist is by
acknowledging our membership in a common whole that is what so many refer to as
god. As discussed in Commandment One, we
see ourselves as part of this idea named god rather than betrothed in
obligation to an external arbitrator.
Only then does the exclusivity of duty as an internal property become
apparent.
When the idea of
external duty is deconstructed in its essence there can only be duty to the
self; for only a self can choose. The
choice is everything; the individual is the party which benefits and suffers
universally through the consequences born onto the individual.
Forgiveness is our
highest duty. Only inside the individual
can the genuine nature of forgiveness be determined. Forgiveness is fueled by empathy and unlocks
our interconnection. When forgiveness is
requested, only the wrong doer knows the intensity of the recognition of the
void one has created. When granting
forgiveness, only the forgiver knows the intensity of the selflessness one
utilizes to forgive. These are internal
measures that refuel the whole. The
intensity of each component of the duality forging forgiveness stabilizes the
system.
When we exchange in
war, murder, hatred and the notable great evils we are living on the surface of
the bland extremes: the solipsism of the ego and the empathy of the collective. When we divest ourselves from the obvious and
interject ourselves into the arena of non-choice we are infected with personal
culpability for our duty to ourselves to foster an environment which
perpetuates the antithesis of ego-focus; we see a duty to ourselves to foster
empathetic beauty through ourselves to manifest in the universal. Without this anti-Meme introspection we are
partial beings eclipsed by our limitation to move beyond possibility into
task.
Once we see our
beings as part of this ocean of deep still waters, the agitation of the waves
of craven demands for justice, blood, and excessive personal profit (for
external duty) will subside and allow us to see the infinitude of leagues below
our body in an ever unfolding expanse of how the choice made within ourselves
affects the universal, yet holds court only within ourselves to become active
in task.
Imagine a circular
plane flat on a surface supporting a triangle like a pyramid. The circle is the universal. The triangle is the self. The aesthetic profits of choice ascend the
pyramid towards a more narrow volume. The
rules as the rungs of the ladder are the Meme.
One must follow the rules to reward the ego to ascend. The balance of aesthetic prosperity must be
exponentially limiting to create the gravity defying nature of work to erect
such structures. Not everyone can be a
billionaire or an ant queen. For without
the work of the individual the triangle collapses onto the circle, shattering
each the triangle and the circle into nothingness. The balance between the triangle and the
circle is the anti-Meme.
For this system of
circle and triangle is simultaneously inside each individual. The Meme and anti-Meme is in all of us. It constructs a universal whole made up of
selves. So imagine a bounty of stick
figure bodies holding circular plates inside their figurative bellies,
supporting triangular pyramids on top of those circular plates inside their
beings. Now imagine the stick figures
are stacked in infinite abundance inside a greater circle and inside a greater
pyramid. The stick figures inside the
greater pyramid and on the greater circle are arranged by the infinite
randomness of historical free will and the chaotic forces of nature.
The motion of what
rises to the peak of each pyramid inside each stick figure and wades humbly in
the tide of each oceanic circle inside each individual is choice. The starting point to climb in each
individual’s biological life is linked to privilege as derivations of the Meme
(i.e. economic status, nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality,
etc.). There is no way to control the
activities of the greater pyramid or greater circular platform other than the
choices the individuals make and the chaotic forces of nature which are beyond
any of the individual’s control.
One is constantly
monitoring the duty to the circle and pyramid inside one’s being, and also the
circle and pyramid one’s being resides inside.
If too many individuals raise their individual desires to the extreme, the
top of the pyramid will shatter, if not enough, the circular plate will
overflow. In each extreme the balance is
destroyed and existence collapses into nothingness. In biological terms this is war, famine,
anthropogenic climate change, and ultimately humanity-induced extinction.
This is the paradox
of free will. This paradox is
everything. It is what makes us one,
while also an infinitude of replicated individuals beholden to a recycling
internal culpability that is interconnected to the all. We coexist because we are part of what so many
would default to as calling god. The
point is that we (all life) are interconnected no matter the term one
chooses. This is the anti-Meme.
In volition we have
Kierkegaard’s either /or; to see that we are simultaneously individual and
universal in existence and in nonexistence, constant and timeless, yet beholden
to the illusion of time in this stage, in this form. We reflect the timeliness of our gift of
choice that grants us the arena and bounties of life along with the duty that
embodies our beings as individuals.
Kierkegaard
intimated that we are in a way our own mother and father. We have an internal duty to raise ourselves,
to have neutered gender intercourse within ourselves, to birth ourselves as
child through the course of our life. Some
may never begin this task, and thus they will never break through to an end, to
unearth the beginning of defining an internal duty.
As discussed in
Commandment Four, most parents can comprehend an external duty to the wellbeing
of their offspring exacerbated by the selfish compulsion of genetics. Self-actualization can wield a similar
motivating energy to rear the child born inside ourselves to be an adult with a
resolute and mature intense sense of inner duty. In this growth we find the universal and our
true selves.
The modern
confluence of scientific technologies and economic barter play out in stock
market exchanges. The dominion of the
individual has defaulted into the hive of the corporation evolving
self-exoneration by defining largess to one’s self as a necessity for the
greater good. This is the illusion of
the Meme guiding us to climb that ladder inside our internal pyramid without
looking down at the universal circular platform that supports our climb. This is like the Meme ignoring what privilege
is.
When we rationalize
an external duty of a corporation to maximize profit as the singular external
duty, we have gouged the eyes of our inner duty. Despite our blindness, inner duty is
constant. The balance between the arena
of work toiled by the individual to harvest a crop sufficient to ensure his own
perpetuating nourishment (including an honest measure of pleasantry in excess
of that which is minimally required to ensure the next day’s continuation of
labor) and the counterweight of what is only possible due to the platform of
the universal on which the individual stands to conduct her or his business, is
the definition of what is owed to the universal. This balance is the anti-Meme.
Thinkers like Ayn
Rand at war with altruism use language to construct a polemic against
considerations of the universal as detrimental to the universal by arguing energies
diverted to the universal diminish the individual from becoming exemplary and
benefiting the whole by a greater measure.
Without the universal what words would an individual speak, but ones of
indistinguishable prattle? One discovers
fire, one discovers a heart valve, another a microchip and so we are infinitely
savagely lost without such stepping stones manifested in the connected palms of
the deceased offering their life’s work to exist as a root living into infinity
to bloom the branch of a common plant. These roots are the circular platform. This is the anti-meme acknowledging privilege
and interconnection.
We are interdependent
from inception. Rand was blinded by the
Bolsheviks who raided her father’s wealth.
The Bolsheviks were blinded in the other extreme by taking more than
what was owed back to the universal and extinguishing the will of the
individual to work. The extremes of
absolute altruism and absolute self-interest are equally malignant. Absolute altruism floods the oceanic
circle. Absolute self-interest bursts
the roof of the pyramid. Each results to
surfeit calamity.
The war between
these absolutes births the intransigence of modern American Democrats and
Republicans worshiping polarized temples of liberal and conservative. This lack of assimilation to a comingled norm
executes practical ideas on the altar of turning internal duty to a false exercise
of moral conviction to preserve the Meme.
The complete duty is ignored for a faith in a costumed parody of what is
good in order to combat what is a costumed parody of what is evil. Identity politics shrouds our true
identities. This pantomime turns
democratic elections into a baleful farce to perpetuate the Meme.
Prancing marionettes
battle on television, internet, and radio bully pulpits strung to hands of the
same monster. Imagine a man with two
hands right and left free to shake, but instead forming fists smashing into
each other. What has been injured a
subset of fingers or a body? This is our
body at war with itself. This is the ego
in the Meme seeking individualistic victory blind to interconnection. This is the cult of the evangelized individual
flung to either the extreme of absolute altruism or absolute self-interest
bearing the hazy ache of a concussion.
This individual cannot see. This
individual cannot hear.
This individual is
fraught with fear. There is fear of the
other, fear that the other will not help the universal unless forced and fear
of the other that the individual will be forced, rather than trusted under the
auspices of his or her own free-will. This
is the Meme refusing to acknowledge that we are animals; we could just kill
each other or not help. This is where
fear must be shed and trust must flourish to find a healthy medium for the
individual to fulfill her or his concentric duty to her or his self and the
universal in the anti-Meme of accepting the risks and beauty of volition. Our greatest unction to develop the empathy
necessary to fuel such a change is forgiveness.
The tenants of
objectivism exclude the presence of the platform of the universal as a
mandatory subcomponent of the individual.
Objectivism only sees the pyramid and is blind to the circle. This internal duality of universal and
individual enveloped inside our consciousness is a perfunctory dynamic of
free-willed existence. To ignore this
dynamic is to fall in love with one’s self.
It is to attribute all well-doing to one’s self, while standing on the
shoulders of the universal bleeding from our eye sockets still blind to our
inner duty. This is to see one’s choice
as the limitation of perceived reality rather than a component of the whole on
which perceived reality is constructed.
This blindness is a
non-choice to search for the deeper dynamic.
It is not the choice of evil, but the non-choice to begin the task of
searching. The individual yoked to this
handicap often believes that the acts perpetuated under such lack of vision are
good. For in reality, like each of us,
the act is part good and part evil. The
toil of work, the expulsion of energy to climb the pyramid, the contribution is
good. This releases entropy. The failure to recognize the platform of the
universal (to see the circle) making that work possible is the evil, which
attempts to hoard entropy. In the
individual’s blindness he or she misconstrues as his or her own autonomous good. The individual attempts to see the entropy
released as an individual possession.
The profit, the circulation of energy of heat of entropy in the
universal may be perceived by the ego as his or hers alone or in the preponderance. The greater evils of demands for justice,
blood, and the possession of what one deems their entitled share of profit
arise in this confusion. The triangle
and circle become out of balance. Yes
the individual should retain a portion, but without balance where some will be
higher on the ladder, but the ceiling of the pyramid does not burst in excess
will equilibrium be maintained.
Only in
acknowledging our duty to begin this task of sight for the first time (to see the
Meme), will we ever mature into our authentic actualized selves. To see this way is the beautiful struggle. This is the struggle of existence. This is the why we are. This is the melody of balancing forgiveness.
In the anti-Meme we
see the beauty around us popping exuberantly on each face, on each individual
as part of a common one on this planet or any dwelling in all of universal
existence. We see beyond time, beyond
the shortsightedness of traditional prayer, of war, of justice, of petty
jealousies, into a ubiquitous faith innate to what is life, what is art, what
is nature; growing swarming, singing in a harmonic resonance without words, in
tune understood like Mozart aesthetically beautiful without the constriction of
human tongue, but breaking the barriers of us as an individual expounding our
oneness in the common beauty of everywhere, of everything, of ourselves.
We are never alone
in this. The people we see all around
the perimeters of our lives; these humans in innumerable infinite parallel
lines; we are all just one big line.
Einstein could
fathom that energy and mass were transmutable.
Time dilates with gravity. My
human brain finds it difficult to even begin to contemplate the ramifications
of the fourth dimension of time or infinite universes beyond our own on my frail
miniscule body as possibility playing out in countless iterations. Time and physical space are both independent
of the spiritual universe. These four atomic
dimensions: length, width, height and time are just us (all atomic existence
including the potential of a multiverse.)
In the merging of all these paths we are but one stream.
These choices we
make every day are a matter of our limited human perspective. We must transcend our definition of a human
paradigm to ask questions. Will I feed
my fellow man? Will I ask for help? Will I accept love? Do you hear me? Do you see me? Will I accept the task of choice?
Living hand to
mouth, tied to cuffs of debt, unlivable wages, fingers stretched: Kroger, rent,
children’s faces, there is nothing left.
No 1980’s utopia. We are the
Somali refugee in Nike’s eating our own body to sustain respiration. Our paradoxical belly bulges. Two negatives collide, not for nourishment,
but consciousness.
How we do what we do
matters, because we are all connected in such ways. In every religion masquerading as its own
form of flawed and beautiful politic, every face, every skin tone, every unborn
life, every stricken cancerous body, every immigrant, every alien, every
planet, every song; we are but one. Why
are we here: love or fear?
Our
flaws, our weaknesses are but opportunities for others to curve into the angle
of that puzzle piece like a light beam bending on the electromagnetic force
within our being and converge to blur their single parallel line into our
collective united path.
Now
that we have discussed both what we are and why we are; which side are you on? Are you pro-Meme or anti-Meme? This is not an absolute, but a reflection of
our daily choices. We can ask, is this
advertisement, conversation, product promoting me to be more or less
fearful? What am I choosing in this
moment and how does that choice enhance or impede the Meme?
We
see and do not see the pod of our self-deception. We know we are nude, but are too proud in our
emperor-being status in our understanding of the universe to relinquish our specialness
under the Meme.
Imagine humans are like a species
of bird. Noncomplex life may be like a
species of insect numerated in exponential iterations in comparison. All are interconnected. The Meme blocks the liberty that we do not
require uniqueness to accomplish all we have as a species to date. We have never had uniqueness.
The Meme will end the same way
people dropped human sacrifice, rain dances, and séances. Sunrises do not require a human chest cavity
to be cleaved. Theist religion in any
organized form is as preposterous with or without the Meme. Theist religion is a grasp at what might be
outside of space-time as interactive, which fills in a lack of certitude with
surrogate substances to consolidate order including, but not limited to the
Meme. Theist religion can be a beautiful
component of the empathy and interconnection of the anti-Meme absent
fundamentalist usurpation of volition through systematic social overreach. Fundamentalist theism inside the Meme is the
expedition of our extinction glaring in a mirror.
As humans mentally evolve and
surpass the thresholds of abandoning the current dominant meme, the release may
very well be quite uneventful. As the
process is mental, the regime change will have already occurred. By the time human-media announces the grand
shift, the exchange will have been completed for over half a generation, if not
longer.
Those aware will passively
acknowledge what was long-apparent. The
Earth will keep rotating. Humans will be
less likely to destroy each other. Peaceful
ration was so close the whole time. Not
absolute peace, the volition to kill will always be as real, if not more
apparent. However the trust to stabilize
macro level truces would never in the history of our species have been greater
in accepting the anti-Meme.
This
treatise was written to expose and explore why we do what we do and help
divulge the nudity of the Humans are not Animals meme and the Meme’s influence
upon humanity through one human’s humble flawed attempt to offer a possible
interpretation of what life is. The
structure of The Ten Commandments was used as the primary symbol of the Meme to
demonstrate its explicit and implicit messages coating religion, economics,
politics, philosophy, sociology, and psychology through the author’s limited
Western ethos.
The hyper evolution of the internet
is penetrating racism, sexism, homophobia, and the goliath of theist-religion. Children being born after 2008 may be the
first generation to tip the threshold towards the anti-Meme based on their
parents rejecting the Meme through the mutual assurance of the internet and
satellite communication systems.
The great expanses of the world can
see our nudity, but we are still hesitant to speak. We can see that we are the emperors and the
crowd doing this to ourselves. We can
choose to no longer operate this way. We
can elect volition to change to a new dominant meme that can lead to an
evolution not of our cerebral cortex and genes somatically, but through our
memes in our psyche psychologically.
This is not profound achievement of
this singular current generation, but of the cumulative minds of humans
evolving to pass a major, but not even close to the last in a series of
extrapolating hurdles to progress as we dare breathe in and explore the species
we are linked biologically, the planet elementarily, and the universe
anatomically while being open to a spiritual connection on an entirely parallel
paradigm beyond space-time.
The Meme knows that we need a
massive amount of Poor to fuel society.
Only a few people can be at the top.
If the Poor do not capitulate society tears apart, chaos ensues and
human extinction becomes more likely. This
is how we as organized machines dissipate entropy. In a way we are in a battle to ultimately
disassemble what we are. No organized
unit or factory of order can avoid disorganizing itself. This is the nature of stars constantly
exploding swallowed into black holes emitting radiation to obey conservation of
energy. This is the nature of all beings
destined for inevitable extinction. The
Meme through religion, social policies, war and desperation have hedged
humanity’s risk from this happening for the majority of modern history. The question has never been how long we have,
but how we do what we do during the time our individuality allows for the
platform of perception to utilize volition.
Gender,
race, sexuality, religion, and the dominoes of divide fall as each subcategory
of humanity comes out of its closet to claim dignity. Theism is the last great pillar of the
current Meme. The other dominoes still
stand depending on one’s country or family.
This treatise has attempted to illuminate how these sentiments support
the Meme and thus trade the empirical for the rhetorical and impede human
evolution.
The paradigm shift
to topple the Meme is through information technology web-based infrastructures
to change healthcare, voting, education, agriculture, and communication for all
humans. The true revolution is unlocking
the technologies of the internet through coordinated funding for democratic
platforms so that the revolution of human input and volition is prioritized through
empathy rather than top-down totalitarian bureaucracies of the ego fixated on
the Meme. We must breed digital
ecosystems like Facebook inside these industries to be pro-volition and
anti-Meme to embrace interconnection.
This potential
paradigm shift is why the current Meme is now surmountable and more highly
threatened. The Meme does not want data
connected to have humans help themselves to enhance volition. The Meme does want big-data to centralize
surveillance and marketing. This is why
Snowden, Wikileaks, and Anonymous are so crucial as a will of the people. This is why the Meme is so focused on monetizing
Facebook, Twitter, medicine, and universities.
The Meme hungers for apathy and
complacency. Masses of people acquiesce
to the Meme by doing what their parents and grandparents did. It is easier to not think, to accept, and
move about the day. It is easier to
mate, replicate, find a spot to coast and practice ritual until one awaits the
paradise beyond ego-death. This keeps
people calm from chaotic internal pandemonium when contemplating what they have
done with their lives and becoming despondent when registering this all the
time the ego has left.
The subconscious reality is that
humanity never wanted god. What humanity hungers for is the relaxation
of a verified trust of understood and comprehended interconnection. We want peace that other humans will not kill
us in our sleep or on our lunch break.
The Meme does this with god,
but humans know we are still animals. So
we struggle with being both pro and anti-Meme.
There is a reason Michael Jackson,
Bruce Springsteen, Fela Kuti, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and the Beatles etc.
reverberated across the Earth. These
artists have tapped into this truth whether they did so under theist persuasions
with doubts of faith in a god or not;
these artists drew from love, peace, and interconnection of our common
species. The Meme and god were and always have been secondary
to this. So what does man do when he
sheds his crutches to discover that he never was lame except for inside his
mind’s volition to understand what and why we are?
We hunger for spiritual, but not
religious yearning for there to be some iteration of afterlife bordering
between deserving and desperation. Most
of the world still believes in a form of Santa Claus. No one wants to hear there is no Santa.
Santa brings pleasure and comfort.
Most would rather block their ears.
We trade delusion for bleak vulnerability.
One can see in this why so many of
us steer our children in the wrong logical direction to preserve the Meme when
we cannot face it ourselves as adults.
We find reprieve, as even if we suspect it to be true we feel to admit
such a raw, in ways, sad, stark, and scary truth to our younglings, that we are
in a commonality as animals with all life would deprive them of comfortable
illusion. To some this is like that of Santa
Claus, which Christians may have enjoyed in blissful ignorance for a handful of
years.
If humanity could usurp the theist
element of the Meme, one could see that the actions of humanity to recognize
(i.e. worship, pray to, etc.) a god under
the valid existence of a god under a deist-paradigm centered on morality are
irrelevant. Most of humanity operates
under a deist-paradigm rather than a theist-paradigm despite the prevalence of
prayer and outward actions.
Prayer is part social expectation
and part internal counseling session. The
act of prayer is owned by the volition of individuals despite the communal
assumptions by religious’ executives as a practice of complete obedience and
reinforcement of scriptural specificities.
Most monotheistic prayer excludes nonbelievers through an implied
exclusivity inherent to the dogma. That god being prayed to is the god, which dilutes and disparages the
prayers of other religions as fraudulent or second-rate.
Our prior exploration of the full
Meme adds to the abundance of rationalizations humans use to participate in
houses of worship such as churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques despite in
so many human internal discussions not believing that god has the ability to
directly interface with humanity. (I.e.
The god they are praying to is
understood to be god. No response is
expected.)
Many humans congregate for similar
dynamics as any form of socialization, because humans bear a better chance of
survival by being social than being loners.
Prayer is part of this socialization whether the majority of humans on
Earth actually believe their prayer is heard and then can be acted upon by
their chosen deity to interface with their current biological form.
One should dive into the questions;
do I believe humans who are not members of my chosen religion will suffer in
any way in the judgment of my personal version of god for not practicing the
rituals I practice? In turn will I
suffer by this god if I am practicing the non-preferred iteration of
ritual? Will either iteration bring
favor? Do I believe that any iteration
of Earth’s practiced religions is correct under such a potential judgment?
If one is to believe that one’s eternity
or time in a potential variant of purgatory or perdition are not at stake or
that the ego ends and whatever succeeds the biological end of the ego is
irrelevant to the actions of the self, but that a common morality is the only
pertinent factor as an end of itself in the now, then one is left with little
choice but to recognize that deism is equally irrelevant. (There is no father-figure god inter or
non-inter active.) Interconnected morality
therefore becomes one’s notion of god (what we believe our personal version of
god would prefer or what we personally believe is good). Morality is simply a byproduct of volition
inside our perception of reality. The
value of that morality is measured in how it is computed, not the result.
Therefore it would not matter if
god exists, ever existed, or will exist if such a chain of logic is true in
context to our chosen actions in this perceived version of reality. We could simply be. We simply are. Life in this form or any other simply is.
An alternative to this logical
extension could be to believe a kind good-hearted Muslim, Hindu, or Jew is
going to hell if one believes fundamentally in Christianity. A psychopath or soldier believing
righteousness in the how applied to internal deliberation in murder subjects us
all to the falsehood of the erroneous foundation of such contemplation. Therefore the how in the mind of the soldier
is our collective injury despite the flag patched to her or his uniform
beguiling his or her mind to feel sanctified in the metal trading its casing
for another human’s bloodstream.
Alternatives could include belief
in forms of the ego in a score keeper, a time keeper, or a time starter. This creates a regress of rock, paper,
scissor style rationalizations or the repressions of the logical ramifications
of acknowledging religion’s inherent contradictions. This has led to quasi-iterations of faith
watered-down, which like secular humanism if allowed to be taken far enough by
one’s contemplation ends at with lack of a better term atheism.
We can release ourselves that god
is not a function of faith. Belief is
irrelevant. Only choosing inside the
constancy is relevant. There is no
syllogism to prove or disprove god or
god. All we can do is be. Life has brought the author to such a place. Where you are, that is your choice.
The Meme attempts to take your
choice away by inserting certitude in the form of definition through
theism. For me such reassurance feels
false, like sugar to a tongue in need of nothing. The tongue simply must be. We are water soaked in water. We are our nutrition. We are the
universe.
Politically the progress of
humanity must include the development in the First World to choose to give away
assets to achieve conceptual democracy and human rights in the Third World
through a path of empathy. We see this
with the Gates Foundation’s work, to an extent The Giving Pledge, and foreign
aid budgets, which are not hijacked entirely by the Meme or distortions of tax
deductions for billionaires. We see this
in basic human charity. This in turn
must be imprinted on the upper two percent in the First World to the Poor in
First World countries as the wealth gap expands. We also see acts like Pope Francis’
encyclical Laudato Si attempting to bridge the gap of religious faith and
environmentalism as a structure for interconnection. Traditional dogmatic stubbornness thaws when
confronting species extinction.
We need a global coalition of
empathy to organize the political will to interconnect our financial banking
systems through collective communication for progressive global taxes on
capital segmenting by region linked to every transaction in the major stock
markets, real estate held, and financial holdings owned to coincide with the
current income and usage taxes by nation based on the power of computers and
the internet. Only in collective
cooperation can we recognize a fundamental solution to raise the lowest common
denominator and address health, education, poverty, environmentalism, military
conflict and ultimately the question of love and fear as individuals on a
planetary scale. Empathy is our purpose.
The Meme says ignore or do not help
without a vested self-interest. A
corporation or individual by extension is told by the Meme not to help unless
the firm or human offering aid is compensated.
This is typically to maximize profit by reducing tax burdens through credits
and creating dependency or to boost sales through marketing the illusion of
altruism. The dependency is key because
the aid in many cases selects winners and losers inside the Second and Third World
governments to actually repress the Poor.
This allows First World powers to extract natural resources with the
cooperation of inexpensive labor reserves. This creates new forms of slavery.
The Poor are treated as
pagans. These humans are not deemed
economically equivalent or linked to how the First World accrues wealth in
variables worthy of consideration. This
disconnection mutes human compulsion for empathy. We know we are linked, but if we can absorb
into our current surroundings the Meme can continue unabated as global
cross-border exploitation occurs.
The Meme is accelerating human
extinction. Most of humanity feels
helpless as the resources of our species and planet are consolidated (organized)
and compacted into an intractable clog in the name of profit through our daily
choices. The logical extreme is one
magnanimous benevolently-ordained mafia of a handful of corporate entities with
the vast majority of stock owned by a tiny fraction of humans. This is humanity pushing ourselves out from a
continent to a peninsula where fewer humans can continue to walk the plank
until the profit mechanisms become an island leaving the continent to
starve. This is the Meme at war with
entropy risking our basic survival. The
anti-Meme embraces an evolution of capitalism itself to survive this tipping
point without Bolshevik-type results. We
must embrace the chaos of love and empathy to release assets at a reasonable
extent to sustain the balance of our species and planet not just to postpone
extinction, but to participate in our purpose in the universe.
If not, we do this psychologically
as if we are trapped in a concert hall caught afire. We rush to the exits trampling over each
other in lack of trust as entropy inevitably bursts the dam in chaotic
departure. The illuminated backlit signs
above the door replace the four letter word with RUN. The Poor fall and become stomped. The Middle is soon forgotten. A trickling of faces force their way through
a mashed wall of limbs and torsos crammed into a portal. The hole was never systematically designed
for very many to pass into the open air.
Ninety-nine percent of us are lost in the smoke believing we each have a
much greater chance of being an intrepid lottery survivor.
The Meme creates order to the herd
when we know no matter what we do we cannot all see the sunlight. In the panic of self-preservation we pour
gasoline on fellow humans to try to eliminate competition rather than trust. We are founded in eat or be eaten, no matter
how we might repress such instinct. To
exist is to be entropy. We hunger for a
better balance through mutual pre-communicated assurance. We want to know that in the event of fires,
others will walk instead of run or better help put the fire out. We want to feel others in the moment of
decision will hold firm not through pheromone control like ants, but from
volition. This is our true battle with
the Meme, (i.e. battle with ourselves to choose love over fear).
The Meme encourages a silent
conception of our specialness that we are different, that being part of a whole
is limiting through a cultural adoration of solipsism. The recognition of our universal nature is
freedom to accept a grand divinity.
Choosing to worship god is a
harvest for the self. One’s sycophancy
is a function of insecurity because one struggles to swallow a vomitus form of
blasphemy by insisting the inclusion of the self in one’s relationship with
such a god. One sees god and self, worshiped and worshiper. If one could let go of the self, one could
embrace the equanimity to accept we are god, we are the universe. The self dissolves humbly accepting what we
are.
How does humanity stop those at the
apex of the Meme from keeping the vast preponderance? Progressive income taxes recapture some of
the resources to the Poor and Middle Class in the absence of living wages and
sufficient encompassed safety nets for humans as the planet’s firms externalize
human costs to craft profit. The best
alternative may be the progressive global wealth tax described for individuals
reorganizing the banking and financial systems through all countries in the
developed world. Other remedies were
discussed in this treatise, but most have been rendered feckless to reverse the
growing wealth disparity to date as money hides in offshore banks absent such a
global wealth (capital) tax harvesting through digital banks in coordinated
global action.
The true lesson is not whether
economic solutions can be found, but if we as individuals will chose to
communicate and express the collective empathy to better our planetary
community without resorting to prioritizing the ego. Only through answering this question as a
foundation can any fiscal remedies find breathing room. This is the original point of existence on
the grandest scale humanity has known or been called to engage. We see it in the threat of nuclear war, but with
currencies of Euros, dollars, and Yen.
The internet is the
effective replacement for the Meme and the neo-catalyst of human evolution. The hive-mind communication system of the
internet and social media allows humans to verify adherence to the social contract
without relying on the traditional conventions of the Meme. In some ways this can be viewed as the
evolution of the same meme under a fresh paradigm.
The specificity of
defining the evolution as pertaining to the Meme or humanity is secondary to
the essential interplay that complex life relies on such collective assurances
to function in the peaceful environment required for the mental-evolution of a
complex-brained species to utilize its collective mental capacity of thought to
explore the universe and maximize the prosperity of the whole.
Without the internet
we would be confined to the bastions of the current iterations of the Meme:
churches, schools, governments, and parent-child dynamics etc. This treatise attempts to illuminate how the
Meme affects these dynamics and highlight how and why our global society is
adapting. The modern topics such as the
Arab Spring, the Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and Anonymous global movements
would not be possible without the unrestricted Meme-bypassing communication and
commensurate assurances the internet allows.
The Meme for the
better-part of this treatise is portrayed as a plague or a
quasi-infection. These allusions are
used as part of a greater message. The
Meme is powerful and manipulative; however the Meme is not the enemy. The Meme is a complex-being’s psychological
tool, like the dharma wheel, the pulley, or the lever. We utilize the Meme as an inevitable machine
for the betterment of our species.
The Meme as we have
known it was necessary to get to what the internet represents. The internet is both asset and liability,
much like religion. The internet is a
nuclear weapon in such ways; it can bring a manner of peace and
destruction.
We and the Meme are
not done. The human biological journey
is never over until extinction. Even
then our bodies and ideas may be the food, fuel, or historical foundation for
other species to be part of their iteration of the Meme and on and on inside
the atomic. This atomic form of eternal
life is irrelevant to our ego. It is possible
on a tangible level, but not a material interface to which humanity need be
concerned. The point has never been
eternity or surviving. In a universe
that has always been on an atomic level, we have most likely been at some
crossroads before. In contemplating a
spiritual constancy the goal is much closer to recognizing the constancy of
what is.
We
dive into the dual parallel eternal journeys of the physical atomic and the
spiritual beyond space time as we participate in an identity-less whole. Shedding the ego is the central directive of
being, of simply being to recognize what we are letting go of control,
embracing entropy’s flow, and understanding the boundlessness of volition
choosing between love and fear in a constant now limited by our perceptions.
This
focus allows us to better let go of our past and accept the unknown of future
dwelling in the now to enlighten and awaken to the realm of the might have been
and might be. Fear and worry sway in
waves of fragments of our past like shrapnel.
The challenge is to let go of the ego and the control to have to know,
and to be in whatever page the now brings.
This
might be the universal lesson of pain, of embracing our roads to see the beauty
in being able to grow from such rich fetid soil. We can learn to shed vengeance, to shed
justice, to develop a monastic threshold in the silence and distance from love,
always thirsting, but knowing how strong muscles can be, what we can take, not
like masochistic reward, but in the isolation to be with our thoughts and
embrace the trails of the now. In that
rawness we see it is not about us, it is not about what one thinks, one wants,
but about embracing the now. All one can
be is open and offer.
The
universe will flow. Others will choose
like we chose. We will choose and we
will accept what we are part of, but which is beyond our volition. In doing so we lose this self, this irrelevant
self, recognizing what and why we are, what we all are tied into a place
without face, without want, without yearning to explain, a place of the
always. This makes the illusion of time
and individuality apparent that nothing has to be finished, because nothing
finishes.
There
are books I wish to read. There are
ideas I wish to finish writing and ideas I hope come. Even after writing this treatise, this
treatise will never be finished. This
treatise is but a seed in a history of seeds to breed. There are people I wish to love. There are events I wish to experience, but
these do not exist in the wanting. The
wanting is an illusion distracting from the now. In the now I am writing this to you, creating
out of the energy the universe has brought me.
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