Posted by Pierre in Emotion
To understand what I am saying, keep in mind the truth of self-organization of processes without self-awareness, for instance swarming. This happens at all levels of organization in the universe. The realization that self-organization exists, allows us to observe civilization as a dynamic force now far more powerful than our own human animal dynamic.
I live in the hope that members of an elite think tank could find a way to find a simple way to honestly and sincerely point out these kinds of problems to all of humanity, instead of trying to control them. The main problem is the systemic opportunistic leverage of several mild human weaknesses for instance what I see as a relatively mild intrinsic duplicity in the human ape, and the resultant hotbed of civilization-as-machine mindlessly and apocalyptically consuming the biosphere, including human life. Yes, humanity is NOT responsible for the destruction of the earth. It is the self-organizing universe-as-machine nearly completely naively doing it.
The key to me is the kind of language civilization directs us to speak, which deterministically shapes our mental and material action. I think a central symptom of our “societal” mythology as human, is the idea of free will as it subjects us to esoteric authority whose free will is supposedly better informed, or in keeping with historical mythological tradition, closer to godly will because of the illusion that some are intrinstically better than others. Human will and godly will are birds of a feather. We cannot properly view the deterministic mechanics of the process if a non-existent element like God’s Will and Free Will are emotionally interjected and iconized.
The kind of language humanity speak is utterly wrong for self-preservation. Instead of domesticating our inherent weaknesses appropriate for life of survival in prehistoric nature, ideas like pseudo-godly independent agency opportunistically stir them up, because of the heightened competitive dialectic and material dynamics of our slavish participation in organizational processes.
Conclusion
The realization is that the idea of free will is not only wrong and not necessary, but fatal.
The full dynamic of the universe is a transfer of energy/information, regardless of whether there are loops of incomplete information stirring up the process: 1) genetics (sexual selection) 2) memetics (reality selection). The idea of free will is a cover-up in a process systemically bent, by way of the institution of incomplete feedback loops of ideas as in (2), on evolving humanity out of existence.
Posted by Pierre in Emotion
I know many men are like angry hurricanes in their families. I have no less compassion for them than I have for those suffering under their anger. Of course women experience similar anger, but since I am a man, I can identify more readily with the male experience.
It is perfectly normal to be very, very angry. When men or women are angry, the mindless mechanical response from those who are less angry, is to claim that “the angry ones” have not “processed their problems” yet, or that they are “immature.” The emphatic judgment is that you cannot speak to the angry ones in a calm and rational way. They are tolerated like bad (naughty) children. The tragedy is that the condition of having processed one’s “problems” and “being on the ‘right’ track” is the condition of adaptation to the fatal surroundings of entering the singularity. It is equivalent to mental imprisonment, or final surrender to the machine like the German nation and the Jews surrendering to Hitler’s Holocaust. This is subconsciously what the anger is about. It is the vague feeling that something is very seriously wrong, and it is also wrong in the minds of those closest to you, as they go with the flow like dead bodies in a flood. When psychologists tell you you only have to change, and align to civilized norms, and everything will be fine, they are, at this late stage, (so very close to human extinction), still validating their slavish participation in the atrocity by opportunistically targeting human emotion as the problem. They and those who follow their popular psychology directives are tragically wrong. The problem is the mechanical dynamic to which human minds are dismally subject. Many of our dads were angry without knowing why. It was because a significant part of them could never fit in with what it subconsciously and consciously experienced as society’s insanity. Many of us are still angry for the same reason, only now, so close to the singularity, the atrocity of civilized mentality is a billion times worse than thirty years ago, and the mechanisms for seducing human minds are commensurately more sophisticated.
