State of Nature Teaching is Bullshit

Modernity is the result of a handful of people realizing they could create "religions" and ideologies that would advance their own agendas. (This idea is really the topic of this blog.) As this notion leaked out into the public at large over the centuries, religion creation was put at the service of the most crass activities: sports and selling corporate goods. (Apple cult and Tesla cult are two good examples)

Hobbes was one of the very early practitioners of religion creation. He was the second generation of thinkers who inherited this teaching and he applied it to building the corporate state. His bumper sticker assertion that life in "the state of nature" was nasty brutish and short is known to many. It's in the Genesis chapters of the Enlightenment's books on politics.

A similar thought was espoused by people who attempted an axiomatic argument for private property--as opposed to a long held common (really communally held) piece of land. "Nature" for them meant unworked or fallow, and unproductive (in the sense of not traded for shekels) land.

The state of nature thought experiment goes off the rails immediately. The basis for it is that without human labor or human planning, chaos ensues and opportunity is wasted. Implicit in the teaching is that nature without man doesn't really exist. When European settlers moved to the Ohio terrirtory, for example, and cut down every single tree they were putting this idea into practice. They didn't see the trees or wildlife as valuable in themselves and in their original circumstances. They saw them as an impediment to shekel shuffling.

No amount of labor or planning will put a flower on a cherry tree or stitch a blade of grass together. At best, humans are a caretaker of the natural world and as dependent on it and woven into its fabric as a squirrel or a deer. Similarly, human beings aren't blank slates to be shaped by corporate states into commodities. Each of us has our place and our own glory.

Beliefs as an Expression of Genetics and the Environment

The philosopher Schopenhauer considered animals and humans to be of a single kind, which makes sense to me and is my gut feeling on the subject. In fact, the sand-people religions' idea that animals are mere chattels and only exist for people is anathema and alien to me. Perhaps that concept makes sense for a nation of traders and accountants.

I observe on my own property that the native animals, that is the animals which are stitched into the fabric of the local environment, act in a way that at least partly benefits the whole place rather than just themselves. It probably couldn't be any other way. (See Earth is Self Regulating)

It makes sense that human beings would be the same, that is, an expression of their history with their environment as it is encoded in their genes and their beliefs and attitudes would be an expression of that as well. For any given area, it seems likely that all the plants and animals, including humans, co-evolved.

While the natural environment where I live seems timeless, in fact, it's "only" tens of thousands of years old, not millions. The last glaciation of the area had it buried in ice for thousands of years. The beech-maple forest has been around forever practically, but where I live, it was wiped out by glaciers then reborn in the Holocene with a different mix of animals.

Human civilization, which is essentially the same age, bundles together people from diverse environments and corresponding diverse core beliefs, even in the cultural nation states of middle ages Europe, the collection of people living in a particular "nation" were in fact a collection of different tribal stock from all over Eurasia. The dogma of the catholic religion painted all of them with the same brush for a few centuries, but perhaps they all have a different brain and different sense of what they should be doing.

The Amish are a great example of a group of people who decided that they didn't belong in the mass societies of the western world. They tried to create a way of life that harmonized with their feeling of the way things ought to be.

When civilization and the day to day things we do seems to make very little sense, or feels evil, it's probably because it's contrary to what your bones and guts want to do because you and your ancestors lost your ancient home and way of life.

Two Sunflower Patches

I'm in the early stages of converting areas of our property that were lawn into garden and orchards. I'm trying to get plants to do all the work over the next few years. Since sunflowers grow really well around here with minimal effort on my part, I'm planting a lot of them.

The way it's supposed to work is the sunflowers grow a large root system and send sugars and starches down into the soil to feed the bacteria and fungi in the dirt. When the sunflowers die in the fall, you cut the sunflower stalks down, and plant autumn crops like winter rye. After a few years of that, what was compacted soil with minimal organic matter is improved. Importantly, it improves in an exponential growth pattern, which makes sense because you're relying on the prior seasons' improvements to improve more. Ultimately what you're trying to do is replicate the soil fertility of an old forest by recreating the characteristics of primeval forest soil in soil that only grows produce. By contrast, tilling the soil and adding fertilizer every year degrades or keeps the soil condition the same season to season.

I can actually see that "it works" already. One sunflower patch is growing in something that's like forest floor soil--it's old decomposed mulch for flowerbeds. Those sunflowers are 2-3 times bigger than their brothers and sisters planted in the old lawn at the same time from the same batch of seeds.

There are some principles at work that you can read about or watch youtube videos about the don't really make it into your bones until you seem them first hand or do them yourself. When you're trying to replicate nature, you can't accomplish it through what amounts to central planning. More on that later.

Productivity of Natural System and Agriculture

In a recent post I observed that deer are super abundant where I live even though nobody takes care of them; in fact, they're suppressed. There are at least 75,000 deer in this county (Geauga, County) and there would be far more if they were just left alone.


There are, by contrast, only 14,000 or so cows. Cows require a lot of management and maintenance because they aren't native to this area. Deer are native, which means they work with all the other animals and plants that survive here. I don't really know what would happen with a herd of feral cattle around here.

There are about 0.3 cows per person in the USA. There are about 0.15 cows per person in Geauga County. There is probably 1 deer per person in the county. (Slightly fewer based on the official stats.) The cows are hardly noticeable, honestly. You have to go out of your way to find one.

It seems like a lot of the systems that are supposed to make life more convenient for people could actually be only about allocation of shekels to different groups and individuals and could make life harder for everyone and everything.

The Nature Egregore and The City Egregore

Cain and Abel

Agriculture is the basis of the City. In the Cain and Abel story Cain's the farmer and Abel's the shepherd, which is possibly a hint that the story is a celestial myth based on Orion and Aquarius. (Cain seems to draw in all the Orion constellation myths. Farmer/Hunter/Blacksmith/etc. Ganymede [Aquarius] is a shepherd) Cain is cursed to till the soil fruitlessly and live in cities peopled with degenerates. (See the Sunman/Moonman posts)

The Enlightenment religious cults claim spiritual descent from Enoch (Hermes), hence Cain. Their quest is to displace the punishing god and break the curse through technical proficiency. (The project of modernity)

Western civilization is the great Egregore of the City. It arises from the book-keeping mind of man. In seeking to escape their punishment, the sons of Cain created this new god that we all now serve, and are enslaved to.

The natural world is already a great Egregore. The civilization Egregore is a sort of stumbling, bumbling, oafish destroyer. Agriculture might be the thing that cuts us off from the nature Egregore, from living within and as a part of that consciousness.

Modernity: The Ideology Factory

Sometime in the 15th Century and early 16th Century, people in the West, especially Florence, Italy, then England figured out that Christianity was a hoax, and the church was a fraud. The specific insight was that religion could be a tool--indeed that it was only ever a tool. This is a very specific takeaway from the revelation that you've lived in a world of lies. Rather than liberate their fellows, they set out to con them more effectively than Rome had for 1000 years.

Modernity = fully conscious fabrication of religions and ideologies by con men: political con men and religious con men. Modernity is riot with ideologies and religions. The founding fathers of the United States, Marx, Joseph Smith all took the same approach. They believed a carefully crafted lie was necessary to guide those of lower consciousness (the conned) toward some arbitrary goal.

By creating a thousand different houses of lies with merely cosmetic differences, and by relying on the same old tired tactics of propaganda and education system control modernity has worn itself out. It's too easy to see.

Artificial Intelligence Propaganda

Faceberg

PR firms, the MSM, and public business figures like Musk, Billy Gates, and Faceberg all push the idea that automation and "artificial intelligence" are going to completely disenfranchise workers. They proffer the solution of "universal basic income", which is communism, of course.

AI hype is propaganda. Clearly those guys are part of the same club. Their club pushed the same idea in 1933. The "technocrats" magazine was offering the same fixes for the "sky is falling" robot apocolypse of 19 fucking 33. Billions more people are employed now than in 1933, of course.

1933 Robot Takeover

Our economy is totally idiotic. The financial system--which Gates, 'berg, Musk--are all beneficiaries of is entirely parasitic. The goals it sets are foolish and wasteful, but replacing the current shit system with communism is fucktarded. Universal Basic Income is basic slavery. It has no merits to debate.

The enlightenment hit its sell by date a long time ago. Crappy old Marxism/Communism is the only ideology tottering around in the public mind. Every ideology is a mind prison, and the commie one is particularly retarded. It doesn't even ~work~ in the most basic pragmatic ways.