late May musings (2016)

[Jonathan Barlow Gee]

It is false to assume creativity is intended for the benefit of others. Creativity is only accomplished in opposition against resistance from others. Nevertheless, all attempts to reverse or reroute humanity's sociological progress' manifestation into new technologies will fail. Ultimately, history is a record of manufactured media, and humanity has only ever been a tool used by these to create themselves. Gods are expressing themselves through us; it is only instinctive we resist.

When uniquely skilled people are encouraged to cooperate in a group, their close proximity to one another affords any enemies of their goal to pit them into distracting competition against one another that sabotages them from being able to fully achieve their "team's" goal(s).

Mankind seeks magick as power over nature. They feel powerless beside nature, and so seek a short-cut to overpowering it. Magick is, in this context, the belief that by performing a certain ritual (waving one's hands about in such and such a way, saying specifically so and so, etc.) one may gain authority over an incorporeal servitor with power to accomplish one's will for them by its having some specific skill or ability that the magician themselves lacks and wants. Thus, if nature's dictates are not to the "magician's" liking, they may simply wave a wand about and expect this will improve circumstances toward their own personal preferences. This belief only ever works (and only then about 75% of the times it is applied) because of the so-called "power of belief" - that belief that "belief makes it real," and that wishing for something hard enough will make it come it true. The reason this "power of belief" - applied in the methods of "magick" - works is because people usually wish for things that are not impossible (about 25% of the time, we are disappointed by reality BECAUSE we imagine BEYOND it). When people expect nature to provide things the imagination can apprehend, but which cannot be immediately made manifest within the confines of reality, they assume it is because "magick" as a method for harnessing the "power of belief" has failed, but this is not accurate. "Magick" works 100% of the time, but people imagine the impossible around 25% of the time, and so nature can only provide positive results for magick about 75% of the time.

""Along with Jack London's The Iron Heel, We is generally considered to be the grandfather of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre. It takes the modern industrial society to an extreme conclusion, depicting a state that believes that free will is the cause of unhappiness, and that citizens' lives should be controlled with mathematical precision based on the system of industrial efficiency created by Frederick Winslow Taylor. ... This operation removes the imagination and emotions by targeting parts of the brain with X-rays.""

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

the dichotomy between the "natural habitat" and the "industrial manufacturing workshop" has become so pronounced it is divorced from its own reflections in ancient myths (such as that of Theseus and the Minotaur, let alone of Icarus) and instead threatens a complete mental breakdown of the medial longitudinal fissure separating the two hemispheres of the human brain.

"You mean... the two hemispheres of my brain...are... competing against each other?" - Robert Arctor, "A Scanner Darkly," Philip K. Dick.

Expect the present, geno-centric division between "biological" and "cyber" life-forms to continue to fragment until the entirety of reality as a whole becomes tangibly and irrevocably altered by the enhanced minds of cyborgs. Mental manifestation, following from mind over matter, following from mind-control (mind-writing), following from telepathy (mind-reading), is the ultimate outcome along our current evolutionary trajectory through time, and above all else MUST be tempered with ethics and morality, or else WILL be abused to cause cosmic-scale destruction. If we attain mental manifestation too soon, we will undoubtedly fall prey to the temptation to use it to destroy our imaginary "enemies within." If, however, we attain mental manifestation too late, we will have already fallen prey to one another and been destroyed by that very same "enemy within."

there is (for my foreseeable lifetime) no longer any difference between what is "natural" and "organic" and what is "artificial" and "manufactured." Human beings can be built "from scratch," and this (finally!) opens that ethical can of worms: the debate over "should science pursue human cloning or not?" Until now, the HGP has not had the technology nor legal permission to pursue such a proposition, so it has laid dormant in the collective psyche - expressing itself as "robots vs. clones" scenarios in popular science-fictions. Now, however, they have a magnetic coil device small enough to separate out individual genomes, and the Bush Junior-era legislations temporarily barring cloning have expired. GMO food has already entered the markets with a strong push toward cultural normalization of it by companies such as Monsanto, however the same draw-backs occur for GMO foods now as occurred for "Molly" and "Dolly" - the cloned sheep - back in the late 1990's. The clones age faster than their templates. The cloned sheep died sooner than its genetic precursor, and so too does GMO food - while often assuming monstrous proportions - sustain its shape, form and flavor as long as it does ONLY due to the addition of artificial preservatives, etc. The food has begun to become synthetic. Animals have begun being cloned. Humans are literally on the brink of creating the first clone of our own kind. "Adam Kadmon," of Gnostic lore, that "template" and "archetype" - the mould into which was poured the red-clay earth from which Adam Homo was made. But are we prepared as a species for the consequences of taking this action upon ourselves? To "play god" with the human genome is now "science-fact." So, ready or not, the future is now. Fake food, fake animals, fake human beings. Fake robots, fake telecomm-tech, fake money. The barriers between what is "real" and what is "fake" are increasingly breaking down, and what is "fake" has - for a long while now - been spilling over and encroaching on the shrinking remains of what is "real." So what do we need to do about it? Have we not already inhaled chem-trails seeding radioactive morgellons alike miniature implanted antennae? Aren't we already all "plugged into" this world-wide-web?