Humans
I get frustrated with humans pretty quickly now.
Its all connected somehow. Annoying dumbshit motherfuckers on video game boards rambling on about shit that just shows they don't know gameplay from their asshole from a hole in the ground is the same as stupid shitbags talking about how Barack Obama won't say the pledge of alliegance, or whatever retarded fucking talking point has been inserted into their brain this week by Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, the obvious common point among it all is that it all pisses me off, but believe it or not I am not pissed off by default. I am pissed off because so many of the basic assumptions that humans live by are obviously bullshit.
What this post needs is a bulleted list:
- The idea of cursing (fuckshitpissetc)
- Faction support overriding reality
- Appearance being more valued than substance
- Having to guess the right syntax on your resume/cover letter to get in the door
- Having to play dress up at work
- Religion
- Lawn mowing
- Lawns in general
- Nancy Pelosi taking impeachment "off the table"
- Coastal drilling
- Free speech areas
- Pundits
And when you write it all down, it becomes obvious: the connection is found in this meme of superficial fixation. Inability to see beyond the surface of things to grok their deep meaning and underlying truth.
It has branches:
- lack of trust, which is inherent in a system that has become as corrupted as ours has by superficial fixation.
- partisanship/factionalism/tribalism, because when you can't trust appearances you have to go with what you feel comfortable with
- roadblocks to change, the more the system becomes corrupted by superficial fixation and its tendrils, the more resistant the superficial fixation becomes to being rooted out.
- Willful ignorance, once people start believing in lies over truth, where do you draw the line and stop, and who has the moral authority to tell you to stop when everyone is doing it. As a result, people turn to religion and away from science
Well, isn't that refreshing. Now we have at least a rough sketch outline of what it is we're fighting. It's a hydra meme, thats for sure.
The question now is solutions. Is there enough of the original host body left over to salvage, can we save the system with innoculation on the back end and aggressive antibiotics on the front end? Or is the system already dead, do we have to wait for the corpse to burn and eat itself up, then go through all the dark age bullshit of letting all kinds of seeds sprout out of the rotting slurry of the corpse and see which ones have the strength, vitality, and/or cunning to survive and thrive in the new environment?
Can humans, as a race, survive the end of the current system, or will the nuclear, biological, and chemical problems we've created grow out of control once no one is able/willing to tend them and cut us down?
I believe this problem is an emergent one from a vector-cross of human baseline genetic programming and current 21st century technological culture. I am not saying science and technology are the "bad guys." I'm saying we're seeing the result of previously unidentified coupled variables engaged in dangerous feedback loops that are disrupting any attempts the system makes to find equilibrium.
And thats what we need. Not a revolution. We need Equilibrium.
(and no I don't mean Christian Bale should just run around shooting everyone, as fun as that might be to watch)
Its all connected somehow. Annoying dumbshit motherfuckers on video game boards rambling on about shit that just shows they don't know gameplay from their asshole from a hole in the ground is the same as stupid shitbags talking about how Barack Obama won't say the pledge of alliegance, or whatever retarded fucking talking point has been inserted into their brain this week by Rush Limbaugh.
I mean, the obvious common point among it all is that it all pisses me off, but believe it or not I am not pissed off by default. I am pissed off because so many of the basic assumptions that humans live by are obviously bullshit.
What this post needs is a bulleted list:
- The idea of cursing (fuckshitpissetc)
- Faction support overriding reality
- Appearance being more valued than substance
- Having to guess the right syntax on your resume/cover letter to get in the door
- Having to play dress up at work
- Religion
- Lawn mowing
- Lawns in general
- Nancy Pelosi taking impeachment "off the table"
- Coastal drilling
- Free speech areas
- Pundits
And when you write it all down, it becomes obvious: the connection is found in this meme of superficial fixation. Inability to see beyond the surface of things to grok their deep meaning and underlying truth.
It has branches:
- lack of trust, which is inherent in a system that has become as corrupted as ours has by superficial fixation.
- partisanship/factionalism/tribalism, because when you can't trust appearances you have to go with what you feel comfortable with
- roadblocks to change, the more the system becomes corrupted by superficial fixation and its tendrils, the more resistant the superficial fixation becomes to being rooted out.
- Willful ignorance, once people start believing in lies over truth, where do you draw the line and stop, and who has the moral authority to tell you to stop when everyone is doing it. As a result, people turn to religion and away from science
Well, isn't that refreshing. Now we have at least a rough sketch outline of what it is we're fighting. It's a hydra meme, thats for sure.
The question now is solutions. Is there enough of the original host body left over to salvage, can we save the system with innoculation on the back end and aggressive antibiotics on the front end? Or is the system already dead, do we have to wait for the corpse to burn and eat itself up, then go through all the dark age bullshit of letting all kinds of seeds sprout out of the rotting slurry of the corpse and see which ones have the strength, vitality, and/or cunning to survive and thrive in the new environment?
Can humans, as a race, survive the end of the current system, or will the nuclear, biological, and chemical problems we've created grow out of control once no one is able/willing to tend them and cut us down?
I believe this problem is an emergent one from a vector-cross of human baseline genetic programming and current 21st century technological culture. I am not saying science and technology are the "bad guys." I'm saying we're seeing the result of previously unidentified coupled variables engaged in dangerous feedback loops that are disrupting any attempts the system makes to find equilibrium.
And thats what we need. Not a revolution. We need Equilibrium.
(and no I don't mean Christian Bale should just run around shooting everyone, as fun as that might be to watch)