Formal Languages, Ideology, Money and Toys

If you're a computer dude or dudette the following is something you've seen a bazilion times:

int main(int argc, const char** argv) { return 0; }

If you're not, it's nothing major, just the computer language "C". A compiler can transform that line of formal language, aka code, into machine instructions, that is a string of numbers that will cause the logic circuits in the CPU to operate on other binary data. In this case, nothing is really done.

Some people believe our universe can be represented by formal languages. I don't. I think the universe (and our brains) are a different kind of thing--poetry based? Anyway formal languages can produce models--toy representations of aspects of the world.

Most of us actually live inside various toy representations. Our "economy" is a big toy. Bullshit ideologies of various types: communism, capitalism, etc... are toys. They're not real they're not complete. They're pretty low fidelity Fisher-Price versions of actuality.

What's Black and White and Purple All Over

Smallville Medical Center

A hospital bed can be like a boundary where one enters sick and leaves well, or babies are brought into the world, or where an injured person passes to the other side.

If the world is either red or blue at the extremes: summer solstice, winter solstice, then it's purple at the crossings, or white and black checked.

Luthors and Kents

Young Lex Luthor

Smallville uses the Superman story as its basis. Superman relies on seasonal myths that people have been sharing around campfires since ancient times.

In the Lex Luthor (Light Lucifer?) back story, the boy Lex has a mane of orange red hair until the meteor shower that brings Clark to Earth. (In a boat [spaceship] like baby Horus) The meteor shower also shears Lex of his hair and turns him into a baldy.

Hairless Lex

The red-orange hair is like the rays of the Sun, and the sheared hair is like the sun losing his strength. Lex loses his hair in a lush green field that's ready to be harvested.

Incongruously, Lex's father with the lion-like hair (Lionel Luthor) thinks he's hideous and deformed once he loses his hair. Who would care if their kid was bald? If it was such an issue, you'd correct it with a wig.

The corrupt, old, rich, in this case figuratively child-eating King is a feature of a slew of myths (and would correspond to the Donald Trump character currently played by Donald Trump).

Clark arrives in Smallville to Martha and John Kent just like Jesus to Mary and Joseph. Martha was unable to have children of her own, and the Kents adopt Clark. The Kents are people of the Earth (Mater, mother Earth) and the Sun. They are purely good, decent and wholesome.

As with Seth in The Contendings of Horus and Seth Lex is displaced from ruling the world by Clark-Horus's arrival, and even though he's best of friends with Clark initially, there's friction between them from the beginning, foretelling their future strife.

Clark's two love interests are Chloe (an epithet of Demeter) and Lana (Luna?). Chloe frequently wears Red (fire). Lana wears blue (water). (They more or less correspond to Ragnar's wives Aslaug and Lagertha) More on them on a future post.

Lex Luthor and Clark Kent (Smallville versions) and the Color Purple

Recently, globalist shills like Hillary Clinton have been wearing purple in public appearances. It makes me think of the Lex Luthor character in the TV series Smallville. He frequently wears purple, or is in purple rooms or purple lighting.

The Superman story relies on a large pile of ancient tropes and myths and the Smallville series hammers on them, too.  It's possible the red/blue colors of superman represents the fire/water esoteric allegorical scheme. (Check out David Mathisen's blog for more details)

In the Smallville series Lex is the son of the money/business obsessed, conniving, psychotic criminal Luthor family. They're the obvious counterpoint to the kind, decent, justice loving Kent family. (There's a not so subtle ethnic allusion being made, probably.) There is a subtle natural allusion that's being made, too, about the life giving, all giving sun and time.

The Sun gives all to everyone and everything. Time is a destroyer and a thief. The agents of time, and the worshippers of Saturn will always be thieves and conmen, or in their parlance doing what's necessary. The agents of the Sun will often be decent, just people who reflect that aspect of the natural world in themselves.

2016 US Presidential Elections Explained

Political Mafias as Patronage Systems

Political parties in the US are a lot like the patronage systems of the ancient world. (A more recent example is Tammany Hall) There's a core mafia that makes a living from the political organization: the politicians and apparatchiks in the media and in the government bureaucracy, and a private group of supporters--wealthy people and corporate people.

The Democrats were fronted and controlled by the Clinton's organization which tied into the larger network of Globalists and the financial mafia exemplified by people like Marc Rich. Those people link intelligence operations to finance and the political world.

Both Old Party Mafias Died

The "old GOP" of the Bushes lost control of the republican party and lost their connection to the people. It seems like they were really elbowed out by Trump and his coalition. The Clinton Democrats actually died too and lost their connection to the people--for the same reasons the old GOP died--but the Clintons retained control of the Democratic party apparatus with their stooges. Bernie Sanders got boxed out of the primaries and Clintons secured the nomination with the help of their now thoroughly discredited media stooges.

Both Parties Died From the Iraq/Afghanistan Wars and Bank Bailouts

The Clintons were more of the same. The old GOP Bushes and Romneys were more of the same. People were sick of this.

Mass Media Died

The Mass Media died for the same reason the parties died, plus the Internet started to destroy them in earnest over the past few years. At this moment there's no national media in the US. The Cable TV outlets like CNN or MSNBC are money losing ventures that become less important on a daily basis. YouTube is eclipsing them.

As noted in a previous post, "the powers that be" are trying to convert YouTube into another mass media/broadcast media outlet, but that will just kill it off.

Trump Doesn't Matter

Trump's an interesting guy. He or his people represent some new mafia. He might actually be an improvement over the neoliberal/cons of the past couple of decades, or might just be more of the same. In any case, the Internet's the tectonic plate that's moving things. We're at the beginning of a new cycle that's really driven by the Internet.

Trump's Advisor Steve Bannon cited Cromwell as a parallel historical situation. That makes sense. The Internet's basically killing the equivalent of the Medieval System. People didn't realize the Medieval System was a thing until their was an alternative.

Once people recognize this current system is arbitrary and politically motivated it's as good as dead. That's where we are today.

The AI Problem

If the brain is a computer, then once there are sufficiently capable CPU's it'll be possible to build a human brain analog.

What if the brain's not a computer? That is, what if it's not just spooling through formal language instructions and doing simple arithmetic operations on binary data? What about all the information--billions of years of evolution from simple elemental matter to consciousness--that's stored within human beings?

My guess is the brain doesn't operate on formal language, so you can't build a brain with a computer no matter how fast the computer can operate on binary data. Similarly, you can't "read out" the billions of years of evolution history.

Promotion and Your Brain

The things that are important to you an your family are equally as important as the things that show up in glossy magazines or are featured on media web pages or TV shows. An occupying propaganda army sits in your brain and tells you otherwise.

Subtract the "mass media" from modern western countries and you're left with what some people refer to as traditional society. Traditional societies were the result of hundreds, maybe thousands of years of interactions of people living in the same geographical location and their attempts to resolve the various paradoxes and difficulties of human life. (Were traditional societies paradise? I doubt it.)

The decline in print media, cable TV and the rise of the Internet and media streaming are starting to dilute the ability of the mass media to influence opinion or to promote its agenda to many people at once. Things that are important to individuals and groups that don't live in New York or DC emerge on the Internet and start to elbow the once "national" media and its parochial, particular obsessions back into its own regional coastal city footprint.

It seems like YouTube is starting to take first steps in returning to a centralized mass-market approach, though. It is probably, in part, a reaction to the desires of corporate advertisers, and probably also driven by a political agenda.