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Assimilation Beyond the Pale
Jul 9th
I think it is essential to think about the reality of reality. Thinking, speaking and writing are all dynamic variations of a symbolic code or a concentration of material things constituting information about material things, a self-referential system – a short-cut form of energy-for-change/evolution, which I call “memetics.” Here energy in the sense that all matter is a form of energy or pure information. In that context, memetics is the genetic code of something that can be seen as other than us, namely technology, which in the stories/mythology of memetics we now transhumanistically also call human. Memetics is the genetic code of the machine as genetics is the genetic code of life. And yes, we can live without writing, speaking and thinking, although we are indirectly in its referential loops, more indirectly than phenotype is in the loops of genotype: more like food matter in the gut.
So where exactly is the best place for mildly intelligent life forms like human animals in this memetics-machine loop? That is the question we must ask ourselves, once we realize that we are participating in the destruction of our own species by our blind industry in emergence and propagation of machine-assimilating-us? Or should we and can we domesticate memetics and machine, to make it animal human-friendly for the first time since our ancestors could speak fluently? Writers and lovers of words and meaning surely have that responsibility to their species?
As knowers of words we surely have the responsibility to not become too enamored of these progressive experiments? Maybe reality lies deeper than the shamans have been telling us? Maybe what is important is life, so important, that we cannot know it really: we are so subjectively in it. Maybe paradoxically the only thing we can know is the fundamental structure of the universe, which we cannot see, and which is not any teleological god, but the unifying mechanical structure of matter. I hope I am not being beyond the pale. After all, matter matters, and pales are the sticks making the enclosures for our minds, traditionally to keep predators out, but what if the body of memetics, to which institutions belong, is the real predator of humanity?
“The Man” is the Machine.
Mar 19th
“Institutions of learning in this country are all Factories of Western Indoctrination. We are taught that the WHITE MAN is some kind of god whose word cannot be doubted. Our universities produce black persons who aspire to whiteness and accept white behaviour as their norm. They produce people that are loyal to Europe or Arabia, not Africa or even South Africa.” – someone’s facebook profile update.
It is very easy to mistake the delusional drive for technological singularity for “the white man.”
The gears are now spinning just as hard in the East and South-America. The facebook writer is right. In Africa something is crawling into all the nooks and crannies, like a disease. For a while the machine has developed more strongly in Europe and the USA, but it is now a worldwide epidemic. This is humanity’s final chapter.
Some traditional supporters of civilization would object about the “ignorant behavior” in Africa, all the while mumbling something conciliatory about nurture, and that everyone can learn. To even have to say “everyone can learn” is patronizing, but that is exactly not the point. The overwhelming determinant of violence in Africa since colonialization has been the half-formed sharp edges of the newer machine tearing the landscapes of the older machine apart. I am talking here about the landscape of the cultural mind, or what I call “machine mind.” The original traditional shaman mentality was already a highly competive landscape of violent statement and counterstatement. But it has never been close to as pervasively destructive as what is now happening to all of humanity.
Old African culture had in this sense always been an earlier stage of the machine jealously defending its turf. But now Africa is a burgeoning mixed bag of military-industrial complex and shaman mysticism and it hates the big Shaman, the cutting edges of the machine. Someone, some human culprit has to take the blame. It is how it has always been through the ages of the evolution of organized, civilized mind, the mind of the machine. Do not blame the predatory process. Blame some human collectivity themselves brainwashed through their ears. For many people in Africa the imaginary person to blame is “the white man.”
more thoughts about ego
Nov 1st
“Psychological projection” is not projecting our own “deficiencies” on others. It is seeing in others the machine that we can feel subjectively in ourselves. We see it in others because we are each other. “Ego” is the result of the confused frustration of everyone’s subconscious fight against the machine in us-as-one. To assimilate with religion or spiritual philosophies offers amazingly powerful relief, because it provides a means to categorize, define, dress up and selectively file (rationalize, validate and cover up) the machine in you. I see religion as part of the development of ever more efficient symbolization – mechanism for the extreme compression of data to open up capacity for new rounds of ever more deadly versions of machine mind.
Blaming another human being for “projecting” while projection is a confused state of machine mind, is part of mindlessly defending the parasitic machine like the host of glyptapanteles defends its parasitic brood against predatory attack.
The evolving technologies of religion and spirituality complement the evolution of operative machine mind as a special function algorithm to keep the core machine mind algorithms clean. The American Psychological Association (APA), is one of the most sinister organizations on the planet. I think Psychology as a whole has done so much damage with its contorted sophism and mechanical casuistry, that it has now become a solid matrix of institutionalized neurosis.
Human Frustration
Oct 20th
Is it not normal to scream like a baby when abnormal politics starts? So what do we think we are doing trying to cover it up with piling up of dialectical, twisted words? There is something very fundamentally wrong, and we are facilitating.
Have you noticed that the merger of industrious chatter of the West and meditation of the East coincides with technological singularity? But it is no coincidence.
Buddhism as representative of Eastern Religion.
The kind of supernatural fairytale nonsense Eastern Religion uses to cover up our lost humanity as the political machinery of civilization invades every aspect of our being. It calls our very normal frustration, “shadow” and blots it out with the “light” of “imagination.”Social-emotional learning as representative of Western Dialectics.The kind of babbling fairytale nonsense Western Education uses to cover up our lost humanity as the political machinery of civilization invades every aspect of our being. It calls our very normal frustration, “difficult feelings” and blots it out with “management.”
Humans are not destroying the earth. We are not destroying ourselves as humans. The machine in us has virtually destroyed the biosphere, and it is now concluding the job of completely destroying it and destroying the little human left in us.
Now ask yourself which “self” are you thinking about when you think about everlasting consciousness as transhuman machine? We may here define two kinds of mortality, mortality of individual organism and mortality of a species.
Now pay attention … The velocities of the cycles of both kinds of mortality for machines are accelerating. In machines both kinds of mortality are already far beyond that of bioforms. Your consciousness will have anything but everlasting life as a machine. Hence you pin your hope of your self on the poppycock of being a soul or unity consciousness going to heaven and/or improving reincarnation on the basis of deeds/karma! It is exceedingly pathetic. I know the other dream is to transfer your consciousness indefinitely to ever more powerful machines. On whose authority, if I may ask? God, again?
ai-ai ai-ai ai-ai ai!
Human stupidity and unconsciousness must be infinite, so wtf, nothing matters anyway. No? Well then wake up.
Creation cries out for origin, cries out for creation, cries out for creator, cries out for origin, cries out for creation, cries out for creator, cries out for origin, cries out for creation, cries out for creator, … are you people nuts? Human attention span is so shallow, the single dimension of the three layers, “creation,” “origin,” and “creator” effectively covers up all common sense.
Civilized delusion is not rocket science. That is if we do not recognize that we have mischaracterized rocket science. And so in pointing at the more general concept of civilized delusion, we get back to the mythology both East and West to cover up human frustration.
The Shadow of Death
Oct 14th
The machine easily overcomes the natural human resistance to faith. It does so by laying the foundation in our imaginations even before we are conscious at all … you do understand that the Japanese do not consider new-born babies to be conscious? And after the unconsciousness of our first two years, a blatantly exaggerated sense of consciousness remains our main cultural affectation (persona). Yes we are never completely rid of that monster, no matter how we mature. Our persona is in fact the foundation of our most mature reality.
Since as humans we can reflect, the right principle is necessary to contain our thoughts and actions. God’s will is not it. Why? Because God does not exist. Choosing God’s will as our principle leaves us with an imaginary principle and leaves our reflection wide open to the meaning-producing mechanisms of the machine.
Post-modern thinkers are modern thinkers on steroids. Everything is their ideology. Unity gurus are ideologists also. They are ideologists of 1=0 and as such they are free (and they are certainly free, even free of God!) to determine whatever thought and action are appropriate in the principle of everything is nothing. … why? because unity consciousness is a figment of their imagination.
Of course we can bury the deep shadow of our mental slavery through meditation or overoptimism/naive optimism. This is a favorite techique for us to please fit in the machine. Then we hoodwink ourselves even further by claiming that by confronting our shadows we are actually integrating it into our persona, and making a whole person! No. A blatant brainwashing lie. By confronting our troubling shadows, we bury them, or consume them, anything to get rid of them, to feel better and fit in. We make of our little monster persona a big monster persona, and we call it our person.
The shadows of persona are not incomplete self-identification. They are the shadows of our suppressed, undeveloped and eventually buried human potential. With symbolic language we can call anything anything. That is why we need a sound principle of meaning making. It is not God’s will, because God does not exist. The only sound principle of meaning making is our existence as a species.
Ask yourself if your immediate idea of constructiveness is in principle really good for humanity. Or is it contingently good in terms of the framework of other mutually constructive symbols of constructiveness of minds in collective impulse.about an hour ago. One of the most delusional symbols of meaning making is being constructive. So next time you think “I ought to be constructive” consider if maybe you are repeating the symbol mindlessly, without principle.
So you highly formed persona (or whatever you call your Überness) who claim you are developing on some ever more inclusive, higher or deeper spiral path, you are not developing consciousness, but you are ever purer as machine and ever more twisted and stunted as human.
The unity atrocity is the ultimate faith in making humanity nothing, simultaneously sub-human and super-human as the need arises, primed for transhumanist extinction, whether it is in the name of Godness or in the name of Enlightenment. So what are we, really, if we are not nothing or everything? We are human, in the indefinability, humility and dignity of being human. Do not mess with our existence.
To Be Machine
Apr 29th
when I speak
when I see a tree
it is not me
it is not me who see
my master I
as a tree
when I see
a tree
looking down
at me
and yet
there is
no tree
no I
all us people softly cry
in fading colors of embrace
there rumbles far below
the flutter of our speech
the stirring of the grass
the mountains and the sea
we cannot know
we and you and us
acutely all in me
the crucifixion
the approbation
the iron crinkles
the formal sanction
of the right to be
© Pierre Rousseau 2009
