Filling up "The Void"

The verbal and symbolic mode of consciousness, the human "mind", essentially falls into a "divide by 0" kind of scenario when trying to address the big questions of life, like why are "we" (that is the human minds) here, or what happens to the mind when the body dies? It's analogous to a divide by zero because it's undefinable in verbal and symbolic terms. (video of mechanical calculator divide by zero)

Those big questions are fundamental to human life, but are unanswerable. That doesn't stop anyone from trying though, obviously. That animates much of human behavior. Religions like Christianity try to fill up that void with an assertion from a corporation, like the catholic church, and then physically penalized people who didn't go along with their assertion. For example, the catholics in france slaughtered the Cathars because of their divergent views about particular aspects of the official story book of Christianity.

That sort of corporate definition of "truth" is really an interesting and unfortunate component of "western" people who often claim the label of "free".

Cult like religions follow a similar approach, but it's usually a minority, often a small minority of the population who adhere to the assertions of perhaps an individual. Mormonism was like that, Zionism today is like that: the zionists are basically a death cult like Aum Shinrikyo. There's an unfortunate tendency for Mormons to go off the rails into extreme cult-like behavior.

In 1666 there was a jewish cult leader named Sabbatai Zevi who captured something like 50% of the european jews with his antinomian teaching. It's pretty likely that cult never really went away and is still quite prominent. Today, the zionists brainwash children that everyone else in the world wants to kill them, so they have license to kill everyone else first. One of their prime cult leaders is the prime minister of Israel who likens their country to ancient Sparta--which is some weird LARPer fantasy. The cult leaders in these scenarios is in the weirdest position with respect to this divide by zero problem. They are necessarily aware their ideas are nonsense they feed to their insane followers, but find some satisfaction in duping people maybe even to their early demise to give them ersatz "meaning".

Anyway, for a thinking person, it's unlikely these cult formulas would provide a satisfactory answer to the "Big Questions". They're more like a distraction, or an "activity", rather than something that would fill up that void. Like the catholic religion in medieval times, the "believer" has "faith" in some crackpot's particular assertions.

Several philosophers, and philosophical schools put this void, or divide by zero problem at the center of their endeavors and then don't really try to fill it up at all. This, to me, seems like the wisest approach. Yes, your life is meaningless. Pick up a fossil sometime and think about an ancient trilobite swimming around in Devonian era tropical seas 300 million years ago. The "mind" can freak out at its insignificance (which is why there are those death cults and corporate religions). Many people equate this divide by zero scenario with "fear of death". I think that's the wrong interpretation.

When you couple that divide by zero scenario with the need for recognition, which for some people is all-consuming then leads to the fabrication of elaborate fantasies and lashing out. The Zionist jews are the best example of this right now.

To me, the most sane approach to this divide by zero problem is to retire from the madness of crowds and organizations and to go live a free, minimalist, and interesting as possible life. There are numerous examples of people who decided to do that. Dick Proenneke is a good recent example.

"Left Wing Terror" as a Pretext for More Authoritarian Bullshit from the Awful Shit Government

 Now that Trump is president, there's "left wing terror". In earlier years there was a supposed threat of "right wing terror". It will probably just be a pretext for pushing more authoritarian crap, and cash grabs from dirtbag companies... plus online ID, and all sorts of other shit these trash people want.

Total Corruption: US government "investing" in companies

 Imagine you were a government scumbag who knew that the US government was going to "invest" in some company... You go buy some shares, tell friends and family, then ring the register if you want. That's how congress people end up with multi-million dollar net-worth after a handful of years of professional lying.

Things are getting pretty bad in the US when this kind of behavior is so common. It's hard to imagine how bad it will get before average Joe and Jane or Shanequia and Darnell realize how bad it is. I wonder if people will even notice.

I don't understand how it's even legal for the US government to just buy some shares in rando companies, like Intel, or some Lithium Miner, or US Steel. What the fuck? I'd have to be delusional to imagine my clown, POS congress rando lawyer puppet fuckwad will even say anything negative about it. I think the US died in like 2001 and is now a total joke.

Charlie Kirk Assassination

A few years ago I read about historian Peter Turchin's theory about "elite overproduction" and how that predicts political and economic turmoil. In a nutshell, he came up with ways to quantify elite overproduction, like the per capita law school students, or elite university students. When that metric spikes, there's major trouble ahead.

I don't really know anything about Charlie Kirk. I tuned out of the "mainstream" alt-media during the first Trump election. It's a pretty obviously controlled group, and the so called individuals like Kirk, were really some type of minion, typically of some Zionist puppet master and pushed typical propaganda.

He was killed by somebody and some convenient divide and conquer propaganda artifacts were left at the scene as "evidence" like the 9/11 hijacker passports were found in the world trade center rubble. It seems like some force wants the dopey "left" and "right" in the US to escalate conflict, but I doubt it will work. People don't really care that much, well, the people who do are all too old to really get all that fired up about it.

Maybe it will serve as some kind of pretext for another round of bullshit, like 9/11 helped ruin air travel.  

Nepalese are Slaughtering their Government

Every government in the world is a collection of all the worst people in the jurisdiction. Corruption is commonplace. It's heartening to see the people in Nepal trashing their government and government officials. Hopefully they'll do something sensible in the aftermath, but they probably won't. 

Three Eras of Tech

We're in the third era or phase of the tech industry.

Phase one was the CPU phase. That was in the 70s and 80s maybe into the early 90s. A couple of companies packaged up CPUs and microcontrollers so it was cheap and easy to put them everywhere. One great example of that is electronic fuel injection: those systems replaced a clunky mechanical control system for a car engine with a computer, sensors, and a electro-mechanical devices. It improved fuel economy and reduced tail-pipe emissions, plus it made cars more reliable. That was a huge improvement. The same sort of thing happened in hundreds of other applications. The real return on investment in the CPU phase was large.

Phase two was the networking era which was in the 90s til today. In that era we got the internet, and data centers, and wireless networks, etc... In that era the newer tech replaced and cannibalized older methods of moving information around. The internet replaced newspapers, radio, TV for example. The real return on investment is much lower than phase one, and the "real world", quality of life improvements are murkier. Social media for example, is probably a net negative.

Phase three is the datacenter AI era. I think the tech industry believes "AI" models are like CPUs in Phase one, it's a universal tool. However, unlike a CPU that consumes a few watts of power to operate, some AI model might take kilowatts to operate to do something that's kind of useless. The tech industry wants to proliferate the AI models, but there's not enough resources to do it.

Unfortunately, as each phase of the tech industry unfolded there's been a corresponding move by governments and similar institutions toward an autocratic model in the western world. A corporation or new technology doesn't really have to provide a real benefit to customers or anyone, it just enacts a plan. The government will put taxpayers and ratepayers on the hook to shift and build resources for the tech industry.

There will be a huge real loss in quality of life, purchasing power of the dollar, autonomy, etc... to build a bunch of shitty datacenters to do nonsense badly. 

Feds going to Invest in Intel?

 Wut? Why?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/tech/intel-trump-us-government-investment

Weird.