Nature Brain and Koans

The fundamental problem with civilization is it makes people ever dumber as it converts more and more of the world into a sort of amusement park version of nature. People lose fundamental knowledge, and more importantly, get cut off from natural world feedback.

While the human civilization hierarchy is seen by many as a pyramid, where those on the pinnacle are the freest, highest consciousness, most human people, in fact they're the most abject slaves and the least human and creative. Their lives are spent in gilded cages as servants of their all-consuming insect mind gods.

The rogues gallery of non participants and anarchist weirdos at the periphery of civilization--the frontiersmen, the cave dwelling monk ascetics, the woods walking poets, the shaman are the most human. They're on a quest looking for communion with the real gods.

Let's compare and contrast these "axis mundi" (world axis):

• The Washington Monument (the obelisk in DC)
• Yggdrasil (the world tree)
• The Koan (little poems)

One of the most famous Koans is "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" The koan is paradoxical and knocks the mind of the thinker out of logical and symbolic and lingual thinking. In a sense the koan is alive. It's a life in a different dimension of reality than the mere letters on the page. In a sense, the mind of the person contemplating it gives it life, the same way consciousness gives life and a mind to the matter of the brain.

I think the obelisks in various cities around the world have a similar symbolic meaning. They represent the life of a systemic creation of a state. It's like a spear through the land that joins the creature of the nation to the soil and the  people. The system has its own cyclopean, insectoid mind. Where the koan knocks the mind of the thinker into a creative, novel place, the state is all laws and dogma and lies.

Yggdrasil is like the obelisk, but it ties the earth and humans to an order that transcends the world of man. 

Imagining Eden Book

I edited and expanded some of the more interesting posts I've written over the years into a collection of essays. I "published" it on Smashwords. Here's the Link:

Imagining Eden: Nature as a Basis for Language and Technology

When you think about topics like this habitually over a long span of time, it's brain clearing to write it all down and summarize it. It's also a good exercise to see how many random bits of information and concepts I've absorbed over decades.

I will do some audio/videos and post it on BitChute based on the text. I don't know how many people read anymore. I know I don't, so the act of throwing a book into the Internet void seems doubly futile!

Low Consciousness Divide and Conquer Bullshit

The weirdness of the Jussie Smollett saga compounds by the day. Based on the evidence that circulated in public, it seems 99.999% likely that he staged a hate crime hoax where he paid some friends to pretend to beat him up so he could blame it on white Trump supporters. He was investigated, and indicted. Subsequently, out of nowhere, prosecutors dropped the charges.

There's a lot of speculation about why the charges were dropped, but as of today, nobody really has a good explanation. Regardless, it seems like it was a blatant act of political corruption. However, it's not clear why any politician with sufficient pull to get Smollett's charges dropped would take a fairly substantial risk to intervene on behalf of a rando "C" list celebrity.

There are many people who make a living off identity politics. It's been useful for many decades for US political parties to divvie up black and white people and to pander to black people. In recent years, they've taken that game to a whole 'nother level, and have sucked countless people of all races into a shared hallucination of ethnic identity. I think it's plausible that Smollett staged his hoax as part of the larger divide and conquer agenda, but he was just really bad at it. The weird circumstances of the dropped charges help advance that agenda, too.

People who base their lives on ethnic, racial, gender identity live in a low consciousness delusion of oppression and are really cut off from a fundamental, primal experiences of reality. White identitarians have a fuzzy anachronistic notion of "traditionalism", minus the millennia of brutal inter-european ethnic warfare (See Trad Trap) and black identitarians now have a comic book imagining of the black people Wakanda paradise, which seemingly preserves the perennial inter-african ethnic warfare.

In United States politics, the high ground of basic human dignity and a universal struggle of human kind seems very easy to capture. The people who buy into identity politics really diminish themselves and their "side", yet they persist.

The Corporate Wars

Nuclear weapons obsoleted hot war between developed countries. Conflict and struggle between western nations transformed from middle class and working class white boys murdering each other on behalf of freak oligarchs and aristocrats, to freak oligarchs and aristocrats taking over western institutions and governments so they could wage war via business and laws on working class and middle class people.

Donald Trump and Evel Knievel

Donald Trump is from an earlier era of US history. He's a bombastic, larger than life character and showman. He riles the sensibility of many people today, because they're delicate doilies and soy fags.

When I was a kid, and through my 20's the rugged individualist, weirdo, and showman characters were pretty common in US culture. Evel Knievel, for example, was an idol of mine and many of my young contemporaries.

I think soulless corporate culture and its associated weirdo puritanism washed a lot of that out of the consciousness of people in the United States. I experienced that transition first hand in my 20s at my first job. Initially, that company had a sort of frat party atmosphere. People smoked in their offices, drank, and the relationships between men and women at the workplace were the opposite of puritanical. Within a few years, the smoking was gone, the sexual harassment and discrimination suits had been filed, won, and paid out.

Attack of the Feebs

When I was a kid, one of the commonly used slang insults was "feeble" or "feeb". It's probably from the pop culture like movies and TV of the day, but I learned it through kid culture.

I was reminded of it by thinking about how people wring their hands and worry about climate change, yet at the same time they drive to work everyday, mow the lawn, and participate fully in consumer culture. If I was 10, I would have said, "Dude, that's feeble." The climate change worriers and pink haired SJWs are feebs.

They're feebs because they're always looking for someone, namely the government, to solve all their problems. They'll keep mowing the lawn until there's a law against it. They'll buy a new car and drive until there's a law against it. They'll rally and wave signs to limit their own freedom to choose rather than make the choice themselves. They believe the corruption is all in some faceless, nameless Orwellian enemy rather than in themselves.

Full Moon Spring Equinox

Happy spring! The tulips emerged, the Red Wing blackbirds are here, and the bluebirds are nesting, and the wild turkeys are back in our woods.

The Gods of Identity Politics

Kneel Before Your Master!

Every once in a while, I'll stumble onto a YouTube clip of some identitarian babbling on about the people they believe are their opposites and enemies. They don't see their life as a series of choices, or as a struggle against universal forces that can oppose human plans and desires, they see it as a maze that's created by their enemy.

Ironically, each group that plays the identity politics game does the same thing. White nationalists see the jews as the eternal tricksters who confound and prey upon the poor white men. There are at least 1,000 articles written by media people with typically jewish surnames who portray white people as a menacing primal force that are driven solely by racism. The intersectional loons turned these concepts into a game like dungeons and dragons where straight white men are the big boss of the dungeon, even if they're working a day job, plus the late shift at Arby's to pay the $500/month trailer park fees and to keep their kids fed and clothed.

Maybe identity politics is the natural outcome of the chronic decline of every institution except corporations and governments. People are more isolated, alone, and afraid then ever, even though in reality the human and natural world are more benign and tame than ever.

Democrat Party Clown Car Fire

I'm not a fan of either political party in the US, but at least the GOP managed to reboot itself with the Trump election and although it's still loaded with neocons, it's better than it was and going in a good direction. Another good thing about Trump's election is it drove the democrats completely insane. In response to a temporary setback, they're destroying their party. Good riddance.

Rather than admit Clinton was a bad candidate, probably the only one who could lose to Trump, or admit she ran a bad, outdated campaign, they decided to full on embrace identity politics and call everyone in the US who voted for Trump a racist. Then they went beyond that, and decided the majority population is evil.

Hopefully Kamala Harris will get the nomination and her family slave owning history will get thrown in her face ever day while she pushes the reparations gimmick and points at the melanin content in her skin. Her nomination could suck identity politics and race baiting into a black hole of irony.

The dems are also agitating against the Electoral College, which is just more of the same stuff. The odds of the electoral college being abolished for a simple majority for the Presidential race is 0, but it's such a reckless idea that only fools or traitors would seriously pursue it.

Exporting 1776

The "muh white people" idea that's cropped up in recent years on the alt-media is antithetical to the founding ideas of the United States. The bunker mindset of conservatives is also antithetical to those ideas. Unfortunately, they've abandoned the rest-of-the-world to the missionaries of dumb ideas like communism and socialism.

The $20,000 A Year UBI Slaves of The Retro-Future

The idea of UBI is an old one. The central planning philosopher kings of yesteryear wanted the gray jumpsuit, shaved head technocracy of 1933 to save everyone from automation.

Bust out the theramin and play some dystopian SoyPunk and party like it's 1933 and we're in an alternate reality where everyone died from a lack of stevedore jobs and the population of the US is 10 million.

Human Limitations Make Engineering Easier

The road racing bicycle is one of the few devices that consistently gets better. Better materials, like carbon fiber, and real world use over a huge range of conditions quickly winnows away bad designs. Every so often major manufacturers try to sell a pseudo-improvement, like bio-pace chainrings (pictured at right), but the market and real world experience deletes them.

The limited ability of humans to produce power, a measly fraction of a horsepower, imposes severe limits on bicycles. It ties the design to nature and immediate feedback. Tools and machines with proportionally less feedback and less limitations tend to wander off down a thousand paths.

"Conservative" Bunker Mentality is Detrimental

Following the financial crisis, I was sucked into the bunker mentality/collapsitarian belief that was being sold on the alt-media. 10 years later, when there was no economic doomsday, I realized I had been conned by people with a financial interest in precious metals sales.

There are still a lot of people in the bunker. The idea of "white genocide" for example, paralyzes some people and makes them think civilization is going to end tomorrow. I think the retarded Democrat party really bought into that narrative, too and made their plans based on the projected demographics of 2050 to plan their 2010's campaign and branded themselves as the anti-white people party. Good job.

The conservatives bunker mentality, especially the racial angle, is pretty harmful. The USA is not an ethnic state and the ideas that it is founded on are antithetical to a racial or ethnic state. The ethno-nationalist conservatives are reacting to the left wing rhetoric exactly like the lefties want. They are falling into the divide and conquer trap.

The liberalism of the early Enlightenment is universal, and based on the desire of all men to be free. It's freedom versus empire, and free humans versus subjects. The doom porn of white ethno-nationalists keeps people in a little mental box the same way left wing sophists keep off-white people in little mental boxes.

Moving This From Blogger Eventually

Why did tech companies get all political after the dumb 2016 election?

It's bizarre. I don't know or care about the political beliefs of the random corporations or people who make the things I buy on a day to day basis, but I might if they kept shoving it in my face like dumb ass tech executives continue to do. Their delusion of being philosopher kings and social engineering masterminds is extremely annoying. The soccer mom facebook opinions of grifting Hillary voters are so fucking woke.

Unfortunately I keep using Google's products rather than support start up competition sometimes. I've come close to kicking the YouTube habit, but I still have my POS android phone and am stuck with their cloud storage for a while. I've wanted to close all my google accounts and host my own shit, but haven't gotten around to it.

Finally, though, I will. Most of the services they provide are actually pretty trivial. I'll probably do the blog first, and get all my photos off the phone and their cloud storage. So annoying.

Origin Stories Obliterated Human History

In the classical world, every ethnic group had a quasi-religious historical fiction origin story. The Greeks and Romans had founder king myths, for example, that have parallels with solar-hero myths found in the Bible. Aristocratic families in Rome and in the Greek world made claims to be descended from deities. Even today, a couple royal families claim divine descent.

Some religious people today buy into the claims of novelty and uniqueness of their religion. Many Christians buy into the millenarian/world remaking claims of their religion, and a handful stridently assert those claims. The whole concept of BC/AD for example epitomizes that notion. The idea is that Christianity sprang into the world ex nihilo like Athena popping fully formed out the head of Zeus instead of being a mishmash of philosophical and religious traditions of the classical world.

Some jewish people make similar claims to uniqueness, and various supremacist propaganda claims, like being the "oldest" this or that, even though everyone who's alive today has an equally ancient lineage and traditions that vanish into the mists of time.

It's pretty interesting to wonder why people are compelled to invent origin stories rather than embrace a more prosaic, and accurate historical version of events. The tendency to make these hyperbolic claims is probably why there's no memory of human origins. Apparently everyone would rather lie or believe glorious lies than remember what really happened.

The Rainbow Curtain

When I was in my early 20's, I was one of those people that thought Europe was somehow, in some mysterious way, more sophisticated and "newer" than the United States. I'm not really sure where I got that idea--maybe in college. Of course in Europe, many people had the reverse idea--that everything in the United States was new and more interesting and open.

Now the EU is threatening to impose visa restrictions on US citizens, which is probably just pre-2020 campaign posturing on behalf of socialist/globalist candidates in the US election. The EU is prepared to forgo billions of dollars of tourism business to spite its political rival in an election cycle. I don't really believe that's going to work out.

The rainbow curtain, or the red fog replaced the east bloc. The new cold war is inside the borders of the former free world. I never could have imagined such a turn back in the 1990s or 2000s. It seems like the commies are manufacturing a war. Maybe it's on behalf of the god awful Chinese totalitarians.

Information Density of Memes

I used to spend a lot of time, money, and energy racing bicycles. I really appreciated the simplicity, reliability and grace of well designed and built bikes. It's one of the few industrial-revolution era machines that's seen constant iterative improvement and honing. A line of generations of scientists, engineers, designers, and mechanics moved that machine from what it was in the 1880s to where it is today. They were guided by nature, really.

Compare that to software. Over the years, computers have gotten much faster and have more capacity and capabilities, but software is still just about as clunky and shitty as it was in 1990. My android cell phone, for example, periodically crashes and locks up for no apparent reason. Apps work one day but inexplicably fail weeks later.

Android employs various technologies and techniques that are supposed to make it more reliable and robust, but they fail to do so. Crappy applications can cause the whole phone to lock up and reboot in spite of layer after layer of hardware and software protection. All the time and industry effort that went into that was a plain and simple fail.

The tech industry is getting more and more layers of management and bureaucracy as the years go by and is maybe hitting peak retard today as corporations like Faceberg and Twatter and Gulag inject the rando politics of their dinner party cronies and executives into their products.

The whole western world is primed for a major shift in how we do things. We're at the proverbial fork in the road. The central planners, centralizers in general, believe central planning can work this time because of computers and software. Their plan seems to be to force people into an electronic gulag/SoyPunk dystopia where every aspect of life is monitored and controlled by some piece of shit software and some Technocrat High Priest.

Ironically, the Internet, the child of oodles of formal language codes and the mechanism the anti-western tech totalitarians want to use to build their e-prisons will probably kill their project. The Internet creates mechanisms to undermine and surpass legalisms and bureaucracy. The concept of the meta-animal or egregore is a good one for understanding what might happen in coming years.

The nervous system of the corporate/bureaucracy egregore runs on formal languages and basic symbols. It has limited senses and only a distorted, black and white, low resolution apprehension of our plane of existence. Most of all it has zero sense of humor. It's sort of like the 'borg of Star Trek.

The memes of the Internet counterculture give a hint at the egregore that will supplant the 'borg. They take advantage of the information density and high bandwidth of the Internet and are more in line with the human nervous system and mind than the accountant's ledger book or the software engineer's code editor.

Odd International Socialist Bedfellows

When I was in high school and in early college days, I took several history classes on the Soviet Union that were taught from the perspective of "know your enemy". Before I graduated, the Berlin Wall came down and the eastern bloc dissolved like a mirage. The end of the cold war seemed to be the final defeat of communism, which we viewed as an evil, oppressive ideology that was responsible for millions of deaths.

Apparently while the Eastern Bloc was collapsing, the west was growing a crop of socialists who diffused like a red fog through government, corporations, and academia and now it seems like the democrats are about to full on embrace that discredited anti-American ideology.

The odd mishmash of groups that are part of international socialism boggle the mind. Now, decades after the east bloc collapsed, there's no financial and political center that supports them all and ties them together.

It's odd to the point of defying common sense, for example, that the muslim socialists, far left feminists, and far left jewish people all find common cause. Racism against "white people" or white men seems like the only feeble glue holding them together. It seems like the political strategies of the ghost of the USSR continue on, like that Japanese guy that was fighting WWII until 1972.

Bunker Mentality of the Internet Counterculture

One of the weirder aspects of the Internet counterculture is it's the opposite of what it believes it is. It's a diverse, world-wide "movement" that believes it represents a minority that's struggling against an all powerful foe, "the globalists", who are actually the opposite of what they purport to be as well. The globalists aren't a diverse cosmopolitan group that represents the aspirations of the mass of humanity, they're a tiny clique of people with parochial, narrow views who live in a few cities like New York and London. The Internet counterculture vastly outnumbers the globalists and their patronage networks.

Since the Internet counterculture media is distributed, it's probably close to impossible to infiltrate and subvert. The propaganda techniques of yesteryear, like smearing a group as perverts or whatever, doesn't seem to work. When the MSM smeared Alex Jones, for example, it actually Obi Wan Kenobied him, and diminished itself.

In its desperation the corporate media is becoming too obvious and stupid. The packet switched. point to point networks of the Internet replaced broadcast media the same way railroads replaced canals and cars replaced railroads.

The bunker mentality of the Internet counterculture will probably start to wear off as it realizes what it really is. The fog of decades of propaganda is lifting.

A Plausible Solution to Corporatocracy and Financialization

I was born in the early 1970s. Over my lifetime, I witnessed the transformation of the United States from mom and pop store America to super centralized WalMart/Amazon Wall Street America. I think there were two main policy changes that drove the transformation:

• Change in interstate banking laws (which led to market "deregulation" and centralization in New York City);
• Emphasis on the stock market and 401(k) as retirement savings vehicle. Speculation in the stock market via easy online trading.

Many other policy changes, like the entry of China into the WTO and "free trade" agreements also drove financialization and centralization but really the 401(k) provided the financial fuel to ship jobs overseas and enabled corporations to monetize their stock, and enables executives to pay themselves in a kingly fashion.

It seems like it would be a relatively easy tweak to the system to encourage other savings vehicles. It might even be plausible to work to decentralize the banking system by appealing to the greed of legislators and even people in the banking system.

Was Alex Jones' Banning a Test Run of Western Version of Red China's Social Credit System?

What if the 5th column reds in US corporate boardrooms did a test run of the Chinese social credit system on Alex Jones and the other figures that were banned from social media and had accounts closed? I wouldn't doubt it. I can't imagine it's legal in the United States. It seems like the East Bloc collapsed and diffused through the western world. Creepy.

The SJW Garbage Story

There's a well worn trope in movies and TV shows where a character that's usually some ethnic or other "minority" struggles to find their "identity" versus a caricature of "white" society.

The universal themes and metaphysics embedded in stories based on ancient mythology are denied to the characters of the SJW story, which is just propaganda fodder. 

Rather than tackling metaphysical and cosmic problems, the SJW story makes the white people into the gods and the universe of the protagonists. Their naval gazing struggle of trying to fit in or find their place in the "white world" keeps them from ever confronting the universal problems that even transcend humanity.

Commies are trash.