June musings, 2016

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

To want to be a "voice of reason" during a deranged, imperial generation is to tacitly agree to play the role of social "scape-goat" instead. In short, during an insane age, it is dangerous to be sane; during an era of fools, it is suicide to be wise.

I'm not saying successful communication of "reason" from an individual to the masses is strictly impossible, only that, under an imperialistic regime, a "shoot the messenger" and "blame the victim" mentality makes resistance against independent reasoning much steeper than it would (or should) be otherwise. The more imperial the society, the more dangerous is free thought within it.

I think it is because communication of "reason" from the individual to the masses is NOT always impossible that it makes the times when it IS all the more shameful for the "martyr / savior" complex suffering individual. Under peaceful, democratic conditions (in a so-called "free and open society"), we would have neither police nor soldiers to "protect" us, and politicians could be philosopher-kings; however, under an empire, the opposite of these conditions becomes the case instead, and then it seems like anyone willing to "stick your neck out and trust, and it'll get chopped away" (as Jello Biafra once put it in "A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch" off the Dead Kennedy's album "Frankenchrist").

The American flag was flown at half mast today because there were American victims. The American flag is NOT flown at half mast when the victims are NOT Americans, because then, the victims are usually victims OF America, rather than being "American victims" (even though, some of the time, they are one and the same). I'm not necessarily saying every terrorist attack is actually a state-sponsored "inside job" because they solely benefit the national security / military industrial lobbying apparatus, I'm just saying "happy flag-day" and offering an ironic morsel of "food for thought." Peace.

I find, as I grow older, it is actually more difficult to ignore and avoid the tempting offers by smaller groups to assist the individual in more efficiently influencing and guiding sociological and technological human progress and the unfolding of our mutually shared history. "Help us help you," they say, "so that you can help us become better too." Doing what is "right" is rarely also "easy" in a world where telling the truth risks getting one killed by the madding crowd. Beware impossible promises, even when they are being made with the "best" intentions. Peace.

How awful this world is, and yet, how wonderful it would be without any people in it.

Personally, I hate being a person. Our kind are cursed by a deity we ourselves imagine into existence. And this is inescapable while alive.

I failed to persevere above humanity's resistance against my attempts at trying to teach them something that would benefit only themselves. They could not understand that I didn't have any intended personal gain from doing so, and so they have chastised and exiled me. And that is the story of my life. So, how did you get to be trapped on face-book?

the worst mind-trick and that to which individual consciousness remains most easily susceptible is to think of oneself as "normal," and of everyone else as being "lesser than" by comparison. In reality, there is no such thing as an exactly "average" human being, or anyone who is the most exemplary of "normalcy," because we are each genetically unique individuals and, even though society stifles our free-will and shunts us into a factory that replaces our natural right to universal liberty with a bipolar illusion of choices along a down-ward spiraling trend, we are each still genetically unique so long as we are the product of nature. Wishing to be less unique results in styles of fashion and these climax in "western business attire" - the uniform of the temple-slaves in modern ziggurats. Society feeds off making its citizens afraid of losing its presence, but it provides humanity with no tangible good nor service in reality.

Although "the mind" as an omnipresent field of energy is universally ubiquitous (so we predict), the way this "mental energy" works when localized around a genetically unique individual living being is (at least partially) a by-product of this genetic uniqueness. Thus, no two individualized "minds" work exactly alike one another. Not only does one living being know and experience things another has not, but each one processes the way they interpret meaning for these events uniquely as well, and so, even if they did know the same things, or have the same (or similar) experiences, they would still not necessarily arrive at the same moral conclusions about these as each other. Each living being is (more or less so) unique. Each person is unique. Each individual's mind is, therefore, more or less unique as well. No two minds think exactly alike.

People pay such homage to "great thinkers" among their kind who are driven to babble insanity by an alien voice in their heads. "God" is a lie, and all those who believe it are in delusion. Yet without this belief, one is shunned from society.

Idealism: "The internet will revolutionize communications!"

Realism: communications efficacy reaches all-time low.

you ever just feel like you're buried under a dog-pile of the worst people on the planet, and that people are the worst thing on the planet, and that this planet is basically just the ass-hole of the entire universe? Of course you have. Are you allowed and encouraged to mention it, to get it out, to deal with it? Of course you are not. Too busy surviving by compromising with a worse reality on making fake money out of nothing.

we spend the first half of our lives wishing things would change and the second half wishing they would change back. Realism is just the term for the "tipping point" between these inevitable phases.