From Whence, Whither To?

 

Here, on the precipice of the Brave New World, we have reached a nexus in history as seems to happen every 500 years.  The Age of Exploration and the Renaissance was the last moment of choice, and the outcome of our current age will steer history for centuries to come.

There are three contexts which are in flux, as they always are at these nexus points - culture, reason and politics.  Within the context of culture, we find religion, art and education.  Under the topic of reason, we find science, health and philosophy.  The topic of politics encompasses law, social order and economics.

That culture is in turmoil is indisputable by even the most bovine character.  Religion of all flavors has been in decline for the last century.  Art has devolved from ascendant aesthetics to taping bananas to the wall.  Education, particularly in the West, is completely wrecked by any classical standard.

At the last nexus point, the Catholic Church dominated the West, and by extension of the Age of Exploration, much of the world.  In AD 1000, the Church declared dominion over the entire Earth in trust for the return of Christ.  This moment set up the following nexus, where the European powers were subservient to Rome, though in the 1500s, Martin Luther and Johannes Gutenberg were already planting the seeds that would flower in our current nexus. We now see the Church as a faded and corrupt relic of a day long past.  This is only one example, but the ability of religion to dominate and control culture is withering fast.

Art is quite nearly dead, and has been in the throes for a century.  For centuries, art was the elevation of raw materials to sublime beauty.  Canvas, pigment and stone were manipulated to draw out form, balance and harmony to transcend the materials used.  In the last nexus, art exploded in an orgy of creativity and new techniques that reformed the degraded culture in the Great Rebirth.  In our current nexus, we see herds of mindless sycophants applauding piles of garbage, a pair of glasses and regurgitated milk.  Even our newest art form - film/video/photography - has rotted and putrefied in less than a century, to the point it no longer elecates and educates, but dictates and castigates.  Art has crossed the line from the sublime to the propagandistic.  It has become a celebration of the ugly, the profane and the sacrelege. 

When it comes to education, it is nearly impossible to find an example of it anywhere in our nexus.  The very concept of teaching the tools of critical thinking is derided, and people with degrees in "education" are lauded while simultaneously being self-contradictory - how can one be "educated" in education?  Rote recital of doctrine has replaced logical inquiry at every level and in every college  The humanities are little more than ideological clap-trap, and the sciences have devolved to grant chasing.  One no longer learns to question assumptions, but to regurgitate them as Truth and never question them.  This is not education.  Reasoning with letters and numbers is derided as antiquated foolishness, while universities literally offer doctorates in foolishness.

As the culmination of culture, reason is a fundamental quality of civilazation.  That science, health and philosophy are the results of applying art, religion and education to the great questions of existence.  Science is supposed to seek fects in repeatable patterns that are free of bias and assumption.  This leads to greater health and logetivity, providing us with more time to pursue truth, and this, in turn, leads to philosophy, where facts are intrepreted for meaning within the randomness of the Universe.  Sciene, though, has been perverted into providing plausibility to stupidity, which undermines our health, and robs us of the search for meaning by corrupting facts and diverting our time to circular pursuits.

Take for example the scourge of our nexus point - the COVID pandemic.  The most profound assumption of this whole event is that viruses make us sick.  Rather than constantly examining the facts underlying the pandemic, science has been co-opted to uphold the dictates of organizations with agendas, the most crass of which is profit.  This undermines our health, not because we are getting sick from a virus, but because the reactions we are told to have are based on an incorrect assumption.  This culminates in a philosophy of humanity versus nature, rather than us against our selves, and so our search for truth is completely derailed by a simple, inccorect assumption.  How much different would our world be right this moment if we assumed that illness was not caused by the virus, but rather our body's response to its presence was making us sick?

At the apex of the foregoing sits politics.  How we conceive of and institute the legal, ordinal and economic structures of our civilization are completely dependent on our cultural and rational underpinnings.  What we call moral and acceptable is a function of our art, education and science.  Though all of these things may be categorized and typed, they are ultimately and completely dependent on each other to craft moral law, order and exchange.  Art determined harmony.  Harmony crafts fairness.  Fairness informs the law.  The law establishes order.  Order allows for exchange.  Exchange buys us health.  Health delivers philosophy.  Undermine any of these, and our world is thrown out of balance.  Undermine all of them and we arrive at a nexus point of choice.

At the last nexus 500 years ago, we chose the secular nation-state over genetic sovereigns; we chose capitalism and a vibrant middle class over command economies and rigid class systems; we chose free and open inquiry into the nature of the Universe over superstition and magic.  In other words, our species entered its puberty.  It is interesting that a debate now rages over puberty-arrestng drugs and gender fluidity, as a kind of metaphor for our civilization at large.

In our current nexus, we are faced with the ultimate choice - turn back to childhood, or proceed into adulthood.  Do we cling to Santa Claus and the Eater Bunny?  Or do we open our eyes to reality and responsibility?  In AD 1000, our species chose to turn back to childhood, and it was another 500 years before we finally accepted the inevitable.  Once again, we face reversing course and cowering in our myths and legends, or boldly and maturely stepping into our next stage of development.

We don't wake up one day and find that we are adults.  It is a process of develoment in which certain values and realities become inevitable.  In the same way, our species has been making a series of choices over the past century or so that have been leading us to a moment of critical choice.  It is not whether we wear a mask or a certain individual becomes president of a country tha tultimately matters.  It is rather that what we choose now will accelerate or inhibit our journey towards the inevitable.

That we will be forced eventually to mature as a species is inevitable.  When we will accept that reality and the responsibility that goes with it

We all know individuals who were responsible and mature at a young age, and others we generally refer to as "late bloomers".  This is the nature of our current nexus.  It is as simple, yet as complex as that.  Watching an individual mature at the gross scale seems fairly straight forward, but observing the process on the cellular level is mind-numbingly complex.  In either case, the process happens and only our understanding and appreciation of the process differes.

Like all adolescents, there are powerful forces pulling us in different directions.  Part of our species wants to remain in the familiar and carefree world of magic and fantasy, while the inexorable force of Nature herself is dragging us into the realm of adult responsibility and mature wisdom.  We are each a cell in the body politic, a neuron in the collective mind.  Consciously or not, we each are pushing or pulling, advancing or regressing

At some point, though, we must realize as a species that remaining forever children will be hazardous to our health.

This is the true Great Reset.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Global Domination

Ever play King of the Hill?

Indonesians never play that game.  If they did, I suppose they would call it Raja Gunung or Raja Bukit.  I'm kind of partial to Raja Gunung myself.  Has more of a ring to it.

At any rate, I bring this up because that is the game taking place on an international scale right now.  You see, once upon a time, a bunch of greedy inbred idiots got together and figured they'd take over the world.  Seemed easy enough.  Most of the world was pretty ignorant, thanks to religion.  And the sagacious dullards, who called themselves by various ridiculous names like Illuminati, had a good network in days when networks were not part of everyday life.

They nearly succeeded in creating their little New World Odor.  They spent centuries manipulating this and obfuscating that and it got them within spittin' distance of the prize.

But a funny thing happened on the way to global domination.  It's called human nature.  It's like this...when any group of ambitious humans get together to pull of a major coup, everything goes fine until the prize is in sight.  At that point, the key players start sniping at each other trying to be the last man standing.

So, if you're wondering what the status of the New World Odor is, just play a good game of Raja Gunung.

We;ve all watched enough gansta movies and caper movies to know that when the Big Prize is within reach, the players all start knocking each other off so that one of them can walk off with all the marbles.  First it was the Greeks, then the Romans, then the Portuguese, then the Spanish, then the Dutch, then the English, then Germans, then Russians, then Germans again, then Americans.  Now the Chinese want in on the game, and they are siding with the Russians...at least as long as it takes for the marbles to roll to their side of the table.

They form cabals and consortia, conspiracies and juntas, coups and cartels.  They've tried affiliations, blocs, camarillas, circles, cliques, clubs, coadunations, coalitions, confederacies, consolidations, coteries, factions, federations,guilds, mafias, mergers,partnerships,pools, rings, syndicates, trusts, and unions.  The fact of the matter is that the closer they get to global domination, the more folks pile on to steal the whole ball of wax.

Frankly, it's all a bit silly.

These dippy-doodles want to run the world, but they can't even control themselves.  History is replete with examples of these bucketheads knifing, garroting, poisoning, pillaging, raping, murdering, torturing, and tattling on each other in order to get one group out of the way so the next can take all the cookies.

Our main concern shouldn't be whether these buffoons can take over the world, but what they are willing to accept as collateral damage in their struggle to corner the market on power.  They've been at this game for centuries and there's no sign of letting up.  But, things are changing.

We the peons now have it in our power to see the patterns of the ruling bozos.  They haven't changed their habits since God was a toddler.  Thanks to the internet, we can all be privy to their fingerprints on history.  The big difference is that with this knowledge, we can do something about it.

Like any playground bully, we will eventually get angry enough that we will take their scrawny butts behind the gym and wollop the crap out of them.  That, too, is a pattern in history.  This time, though, let's put together a plan to keep them down once and for all.  We need to change our own habits and mind-sets, as well.

See, all through history, these numbnuts keep stealing all the candy.  Eventually, we peons get riled up and stomp their weenies into the dirt.  Then we all go back to sleep until the problem arises again.

How about this time we put in some stop-gaps?  Why don't we make sure we stay vigilant and prevent their kind from running the asylum again?  Let's string some trip-wires, install some booby-traps and mark the inbred bastards for generations to come.  Maybe we could stick 'em all on a little plot of desert and build a wall around 'em.  Hey...aren't they already doing that to themselves?  All we have to do is take away their toys and that should keep them corralled for a while.

By definition, the cabalistos are insane.  For centuries, they have tried the same thing again and again, getting the same results again and again...and yet they still try.

We, too, are insane.  We allow these fools to destroy our cultures, societies and civilizations again and again for their pitiful little games, and we don't seem to learn our lesson.  At the very least, we are too tolerant of their shenanigans.  It's high time we practiced some tough love.

We are at this moment standing on a massive cusp in history.  Never before has the technology and desire existed that would allow us to radically change our collective future.  On top of that, the self-appointed global domineers are embroiled in a war among themselves to be Raja Gunung.  We have all the pieces in place to not only radically change our future, but to ensure that the boneheads who keep robbing us of our birthrights are finally put down, to disturb humanity no more.

The key is education.  Think of education as a map to the future.  First, it makes clear that we have been running in circles for millennia with the same dolts behind the wheel.  Second, it shows us which roads have not been fully explored, or better yet, which roads have not yet been discovered.  Third, it warns us to carefully deliberate what direction we wish to take our civilization and what steps should be taken to get there.

Like  the current spate of Hollywood eye-poppers, it's time we reboot our civilization.  We need to stop the morons who have been holding us back and then clean up our nest.  Sure, it may take a century...even two.  But in the great scheme of things, it's a small price to pay.

Out technology has reached a point where the comfort, safety and liberty of every human being on Earth is at stake - not just now but for vast generations to come (if they come at all).  We owe it to our selves, our planet and our progeny to step back and take a breath.  What are we really achieving with the endless iPads and apps and time wasters?  Is our endless entertainment at the cost of civilization worth it?  Are we so lazy, selfish and greedy that we can't spare a little collective effort to discuss what we want from our future?

Very very soon, there will be announcements that will profoundly change our lives forever.  How we react to that new information will determine the direction of humanity for the next several thousand years.  Perhaps we should put down the games and burning fart videos just for a moment to prepare ourselves.  N'est-ce pas?

A sign of maturity is the ability to prioritize, to put aside frivolous things when more important matters are at hand.  If ever there was a time for humanity to prove its collective maturity, this is it.

The New World Oder is a dead issue, and those responsible are killing each other off post-haste.  We proles have been focused for a long time on trying to get a handle on all this mess.  What we need now is a global discussion on what will replace the fools' games.

We have the tools.  Do we have the will?