Friday, August 28, 2015

Conclusion: The Meme What and Why We Are


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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