The
following is a treatise to analyze the underpinnings of sociological consensus
rooted in the evolution of human consciousness to better understand the rules
the empowered use and will use to perpetuate dominance to uncover what we are. The treatise utilizes the biblical Decalogue
and the meme at its root as a popular dominant playbook to decipher the
structures of social decision making cascading across humanity for one human’s
best attempt at a metaphysical interpretation of why we do what we do. (A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that
spreads from person to person within a culture.) Each old testament commandment is stated in
truncated veiled catechetical format followed by a more specific scriptural
account. These traditional legalities
will be juxtaposed with a single word capturing the essence of what the original
commandment pertains.
This
treatise is one flawed human’s small offering to decipher at least part of what
the universe might be by interconnecting the Ten Commandments, which is used as
an apex example of a well-known system of social and cultural constructs
implemented by humans to shield humans from the reality that humans are no
different than animals and see behind the veil of what we are. We are no different than anything in the
universe, living, inanimate, particle or energy. We are all interconnected and in this we are
not special because we are the same, merely an arrangement that for purposes of
this treatise is stated as we are no different than animals.
Other
cultural examples of fundamentalist texts or legal superstructures exist which serve
similar function as the Bible’s Ten Commandments, namely the Qur’an, the
Bhagavad Gita, or the Buddha’s Noble Truths; however for the purposes of this
treatise the Ten Commandments will be used as the primary example with others
mixed where the limited knowledge of the author allows flirtation. Some of the basic premise in ways goes back to
Democritus 400 B.C. an Ionian with atomism and Aristarchus 300 B.C. Other parts are an extension of science unmasking
god in questions posed in the early 1600’s by Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes to
Newton to Rousseau to Paine and Hume moving into the 1700’s to Kierkegaard to Darwin
in the 1800’s to Freud to Jung to Einstein in the 1900’s to Dawkins, Barthes, Derrida, and
Hawking etc. in the modern era. None of
this is new merely a common continuing journey.
The
words are Socratic to prosper criticism and discussion, not dogma or absolutism,
merely suggestions to prompt open discourse about human behavior and
existential purposes layered in our behavior.
There is hope by seeing our similarity to, rather than elevated
superiority over our animal nature that we can be closer to what our bond with
the universe might be.
In
the end these are just one man’s thoughts standing on shoulders of books and
voices, not saying this is right, but what the limited perspective of
individuality in a blip of a life has shown to this individual. I think as humans we all take a stab at trying
to figure out what this all is; what are we doing here; existential crayon
basics laughing that maybe 42 makes as much sense as anything. That process shifts with age, this is where I
am at now; so please do not take it too seriously. If it leads you somewhere or prompts
discussion or change, great; that is about it.
No one knows. Hard data is
presented where I have found it in the books of smarter humans than me who
seemed to go through a formal citation process; do your own research and most
of all continue to think for yourself and laugh.
Humans
choose the Meme in order to install a social hierarchy so that humans can live
in consistent coordinated coexistent societies (rather than as singular
vagabonds killing, stealing, and deceiving each other when convenient) for the
long-term benefit of the species. The Meme
on the most rudimentary level is born from a complex-being’s fear of death
inside the self.
The
treatise intends to point out the myriad of human decision making trees that
serve to protect this “Humans-are-not-Animals” meme (the Meme), identify the
detriments and benefits to society created by the Meme, and consider the
potential ramifications on the mental evolution of humans if this meme was
reduced to lower thresholds by exploring religious, economic, political, and
psychological aspects.
This
piece is intended to extract the pith of psychological manipulation in each
numerated Commandment in the long-standing addendum to people influenced by the
bible as an extension of the Pentateuch and reexamine the benefits and
detriments of the content, phrasing, and consequences upon our planet. The single-worded headers are intended to
convey a neo-Decalogue of internal commandments generating not out of what one
is commanded by an external authority, but by what one understands inherently
by being a complex life-form and therefore abides and carries out rationally,
logically, and willingly under a comprehensive autonomous station of
volition. A better understanding of
these core psychological concepts and how each relates to wielding our volition
represents a path to usurp human-hunger for the Humans-are-not-Animals meme.
The
commandments will be shown for why they are connected to the central
Humans-are-not-Animals meme. The
treatise will show how the Meme is so successful as it attempts to keep humans
out of chaos and disobey the laws of the atomic universe by reducing
entropy. This treatise attempts to show
that it is this violation of natural entropy that explains why the Meme cannot ultimately
be sustained. We are ordered machines
designed to manufacture entropy.
Repressing this natural dissipation of ordered energy goes against the
nature of the universe. Heat must be
free to release. Beings must be free to
choose.
This
violation of natural entropy may lead to humans accelerating human extinction
if the Meme is not recognized for what it is if humans do not elect an
alternative dominant meme based on empathy that universally acknowledges the
fallacy of the first meme that can serve as a substitute to communicate human
interconnection absent fundamentalism placing faith in volition and how we
choose rather than the Meme or an idea of a theist’s god. If we can begin to
understand what choice is, the role choice plays in the atomic and in the
journey/universe beyond the atomic we can then see what we are.
The
treatise is an extension of many pieces I have read or been exposed. Foundationally I encourage one to read
Sigmund Freud’s The Future of an Illusion as a starting point for much
of the framework of the psychological discussion included into the context of
religion’s role in the psychology of humans.
This treatise hopes to continue large elements of the discussion held in
that brief but powerful text.
The
treatise often presents humans in roles manipulating and being
manipulated. This manipulation is most
often subconscious through vast historical infrastructures of self-identity and
social standing imprinted by humanity upon ourselves. There is no monster, only ideas which we
either choose to believe or not.
The
treatise delves into the most dangerous ideas man has ever conjured, the ideas
which hold society from chaos and mobilize the masses. We are inherently cognizant on a
species-level that humans must organize in a hierarchy. We cannot all be ant queens. We will all die.
Discussing
these realities is perilous. We are a
living super-organism carrying out both physical and internal (spiritual) journeys. We need exploitation in a sufficient measure
so that we are not every man or woman scavenging alone in a wasteland or living
day to day under a carnivore/herbivore arrangement of kill or be killed. We see this in herds of buffalo and prides of
lions creating order within and between each other. So in we must understand this interplay
within our species to not look first to jealousy, hated, anger, greed, or
maniacal individuals, but between the nature of order and chaos in what entropy
and choice are.
We
must look inward to what and who we are as a collective and as individuals
wielding volition knowing that it is in each of our individual best interests
to participate in a system of balance for mutual survival and love if we can
muster. This is where we uncover the
genesis and value of the Meme.
How
do we as a cooperative society convince the bottom rungs to participate in a
system designed to exploit the Poor if the complexities of the human mind
recognize what is actually taking place?
The most common answers have been religion, patriotism, racism, and
fundamentalism. (The capitalized word
Poor will be used in this treatise as a term to indicate the lowest classes of
society in terms of financial wealth and social-power.)
Many
may cry foul. The ideas are like a
shockwave piercing the shell of superego burrowing into ego and rattling who we
are, why we do what we do, who is to “blame”, and scratching the mane of our
animal-like id craving genetic replication.
We begin to question our addiction to the ego. True growth is a continual shedding of the
ego to recognize what we have always been.
If unveiled, if absent the disguised contortion, then chaos may
ensue. We may become enraged in
rebellion at how we are tricksters and tricked balancing only in volition.
We
see glimpses in Arab Springs, Katrina rooftops , Darfur pickup-trucks, Kandahar
caves, Occupy Wall Street encampments, Mogadishu Saturdays, Filipino typhoons, Boko
Haram incinerated towns, Birmingham fire hoses, a box cutter on United 93, Michael
Brown’s death, Juarez murders, Boris Nemtsov gunned down outside the Kremlin, Kenneth
Lay, Abu Ghraib, Bangladesh sewerage treatment, Singapore billionaires, Mission
Accomplished aircraft carrier banners, Tahrir Square 2011 & 2013, the
Catholic church’s deposit for an island off the coast of Grenada, Israel
debating extracting Nepalese earthquake surrogate mothers to gay Jews, L.A.
Riots, Monsanto seed patents, Tiananmen tanks, and nightly newscast screen
crawls.
The
self-initiated beguilement is the glue holding civility from splintering in a
shamble of raw fear. Nothing is really
stopping craven wanton greed, destruction, and anarchy. Nothing can stop death. Humanity has always been only held by
volition. This is the crux of the Meme
and the conflict between religion and science.
The power, importance, and role of volition is the key to unlocking
purpose in the universe linking the atomic with the spiritual in the flow of
energy between order and chaos.
Is
there a god? If there is, is this god a
safeguard? How do we define god? This is why humans are so passionate on the
subject of god and by consequence religion.
Controlling the concept of god is foundational to the Meme.
We
hunger for the comfort god represents against this inherent risk to being a
living organism. God represents order;
death represents chaos. Our cerebral
cortexes crave this electrical-power-surge protector as we plug into the
human-living system. Less complex animal
brains do not require such assurances operating on instinctual acceptance of physical
reality to maintain the ordered system of a body and when possible to replicate
an additional ordered system into being.
Less-complex animals are ready to eat or be eaten. Death is the omnipresence and a release or
transfer of order. Animals do not
costume the idea.
The
Meme informs us we are more complex and this vulnerability is inapplicable
because of god and our unique-being status.
These are buffers to the entropy we create and establish permanence to
the ordered machines we identify as self.
This self-assigned exclusivity is an offshoot of our suspicion that our
concurrent mental journey to our physical may represent a spiritual
interconnection which humanity struggles to define as we awaken through our
concept of time under Newton’s laws linking increased entropy to the direction
of time’s arrow we perceive.
Humans
bury this debate of our uniqueness from animal status deeply within our id
making taboos of cannibalism and improper burial. We invented religion to pile layers over this
risk in our superego so that we do not obsess in a deluge of fret over what is
possible at any moment as a rat happens upon a snake. The quest to be special shrouds us from the
idea that it was never about the human body or individuality. Shedding the Meme allows us to see that
humans are animals and also acknowledges atomic equivalency in the physical,
but may also be a path to seeing a spiritual commonality in all.
Culpability
is only to the self as a member of the interconnected whole all life (human,
animal, plant, microscopic, alien, etc.) belong. Post death the illusion of individuality and
specialness is lifted in the alleviation of biological consciousness. This is our ordered machine dissipating its energy
flowing entropy and dispersing into the whole we are always a component. Universal atomic and spiritual equivalence
are constants on separate planes independent of biological life or death. Death changes nothing but the perception of a
constant now in the form we inhabit in the now.
Our
need to remain what we identify as “self” post-mortem is a function of the
insecure ego. So it is our true charge to
understand the arbitrary and so often irrelevant mirages of our physical
journey to tune into the paradigm of the concurrent mental-spiritual journey
beyond time. The Meme and fundamentalism
represent divergent benefits and detriments in achieving this true awareness
entwined in most religious pursuits which can both unite and paralyze humanity.
In
tasting this power and peril, a portion of mankind manufactured the original
Ten Commandments and to a degree all religion and various superstitions as maps
to avoid chaos and safeguards to distance ourselves from these unsettling
innate cogs to life. To point out
superstition’s absurdities is to jeopardize that fragile skeleton and bank on
trust and love rather than deception and fear.
We
grow to notice things that are in many ways once seen unable to be unnoticed
moving forward. This may mirror Buddha’s
awakening through ending the Dukkha, Hindu reincarnation (sanskara) to
understand a zero karma balance, enlightenment, finding Jesus, Allah, self-realization
of a common infinite god like Yogananda or whatever hat a human may seek to
adorn, but underneath is a consciousness of what we are trying to achieve in full
nudity without the confines of the hat.
We
grow to see life as a choice and an acknowledgement of love or fear in
ourselves and others. We recognize the
constant malicious potential in our being and choose between empathy or
vengeance when encountering the maliciousness of others. Vengeance seeks order; empathy seeks entropy
through trust in unconstrained volition.
We conquer death as the Meme attempts to do, not through the Meme’s
false eternities preserving a manifestation of the ego, but by relishing the
volition to love in our gene-vehicles operable life awakening to the illusions
of self, justice, time, and separation we create to interpret both the atomic
physical and the parallel timeless physical-less nature of what we are.
When
we see into the workings of the Humans-are-not-Animals meme, we see how the
Meme often influences us to choose fear and views love as human weakness to
assuage our hunger for genetic survival and its psychological mirror of the ego
in the traditional concept of soul acting like an eternal ego-purse. We segregate, classify, and partition life
into subcategories until we distance ourselves far enough from the initial love
or fear decision that we are blind to why humanity operates the way it
does.
The
Meme’s greatest benefit to human-evolution is that the Meme freed the
human-mind from expending the preponderance of our conscious and subconscious
thought on eat or be eaten and hour to hour survival as well as temporarily
explaining scientific phenomenon. This
unlocked the computing-power of our collective cerebral cortexes. The Meme communicates the illusion of an
enforceable social contract. This is the
catalyst of our complex-brains domination of other Earth-species through mental
evolution. We trade eat or be eaten in
physical sense of chomping human ribs for hoarding planetary resources on a
macro socioeconomic level that risks accelerating human extinction.
We
must reevaluate our present needs, like a dinosaur into a bird, and shed the
excess hindrances to provide a fresh allotment of freedoms to set our minds
further along the spectrum-grindstone of the universe. We are to do what all life is called, evolve as
an ordered machine that produces entropy or suffer extinction. That evolution must transcend the physical. Physical extinction is inevitable to all
biological life in the multiverse within the mathematical laws of each universe. The common charge is an evolution of empathy
which recognizes one’s interconnection to the totality of all existence beyond
time, species, planet, universe as the interconnected all. Empathy is the ultimate iteration of
entropy.
To
continue this evolution we can imagine that life can be deposited in one of two
baskets on a scale to add weight to the imbalance. Currently the Meme has the
preponderance. Thus the Meme
dominates. This treatise will act as a
guide on how the author sees events, points of view, reactions in the arenas of
human life to either be pro-Meme or anti-Meme.
This
treatise urges humans to develop awareness to group stimuli and human behavior
according to pro-Meme or anti-Meme. One
may find the world of human behavior suddenly more thoroughly explained or
chalked full of one man’s written bullshit.
That’s up to you. Thoughts,
bizarre logics, paradoxical behavior and reactions may appear connected through
a formerly-hidden variable to complex-human life’s equation, which was
previously unspecified, but is now glaring in how simple, yet pervasive the
Humans-are-not-Animals meme is. That is
what it helps me see into a place beyond syllogism. Once the Meme is seen then what we are can be
seen. It is like peeling layers to
witness and be in what we always are.
Conversely
once one sees the folly electing the Meme’s perpetuation, one may inform others
to see the Emperor’s nudity and openly speak in a mature discourse on the
alternative replacement evolving meme. One
may see that it is not a naked overlord in the parade, but the entire crowd
naked looking not at invisible fabric, but at a nonexistent figurehead. We are the emperor. We are the crowd. There are only us and our thoughts in a
single blinking consciousness standing on the pinhead illusion of time.
We
are all suffering. We are all
divine. We are all capable of grand
evils. We all cycle through loneliness,
uncertainty, faith, love, wrongdoing, and a grand journey. We are all hiding bruises and treasures. We all seek to be accepted and understood to
bridge a separation that does not exist.
Solipsism is true sadness perched in the kiln of loneliness. We are all balancing love and fear. We are one.
The
ten internal commandments are a suggestion to frame the groundwork for a
replacement evolving meme and offered as reflective touchstones for individuals
to contemplate inherent morality and an individual notion of what many might
call god. The number is irrelevant as
the count of fingers on human hands was when stones were etched. This treatise is about why we do what we do
and what we are as a means of expanding consciousness. The human concept of god is a giant part of
that discussion. The posts of the
commandments are not meant to be an encompassing, complete, or restricted list,
merely hubs for thought to grow.
(For the purposes of
this treatise the term god will refer
to a theist interactive iteration, which is interactive with space-time. The non-italicized god will refer to a
non-interactive variation that could also just be ‘us’. The capitalized Commandment and number will
refer to the section of the treatise.
Non-capitalized commandment and number will refer to the commandment
itself in the Decalogue.)
Let
us continue.
Love,
Fear, Faith, Hypocrisy, Death, Empathy, Avarice, Knowledge, Energy, Prejudice
Each
original Commandment is stated under the following two formats:
[Traditional
Catechetical Catholic Formula]
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