Despite how it is popularly understood, sentience is simply awareness enabled by a nervous system. Etymologically, the word means "capable of feeling." Most, if not all, animals are sentient to one degree or another.
The quality that makes us special among animals is our sapience. We are homo sapiens, not homo sentiens. But the oppressive mindset that treats human beings like animals, and animals like things, doesn't like to acknowledge that we are made to be wise and animals are made to feel.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Sunday, February 17, 2019
The Bad Faith Dead End
This morning, addressing the bots and users of Twitter, Inc., President Trump angrily proclaimed that "THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" He should know, he is the master of ceremonies of the oldest and greatest show on Earth--the ancient bad faith performance that also employs the representative class.
In the American four-ring circus, the public administration "estates" are set up to enable privileged access to power, and pervasive, reliable gaslight for the people. The system was very effective as long as the gaslight could be maintained, but as it happens, gaslight is extinguished by the light of sapience. In this information revolution, the gaslight gang is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain its systemic lies and provoke destructive "game-changing" distractions. Hence the unhinged public violation of every good faith precept on behalf of self-preservation. Everything is game now.
The truth is that the system was created to be in opposition to the people and corrupt, and is decorated with ultimately disposable moral affectations. It is the mortal enemy of actual democracy, not of the republican "socialism" that it invokes as a bogeyman. It offers nothing of actual value for humankind. Thankfully, its day of reckoning is here.
Those who act as adversaries of humankind are lucky that they are contending with sapient beings with civilized standards, instead of punitive, amoral opportunists like them. It is the only factor that is unquestionably in their favor. That is why they have abused it for so long. We are quite decent, indeed, and far from stupid.
If human existence were intended to be the zero-sum contest for survival that its hijackers insist on, they wouldn't be here instead of the descendants of their victims. Unless, of course, institutionalized breaches of faith, habitual genocide, and widespread environmental degradation is what a superior evolutionary adaptation is made of. The evidence indicates that at the highest level, they don't know what they're doing. They think that keeping the severed hand of God in a box, and under control through human sacrifice, is what it means to contend with God. Obviously, they don't know or they have forgotten what God actually is.
The keepers of humankind have a God-powered, privilege-driven stationary contrivance, although they call it "civilization" and deny the source of their power. This is the vehicle of structural dysfunction that they plot to conquer the universe with. No kidding. They inadvertently demonstrate what it means to contend unsuccessfully with their own limitations.
Actual, cosmically scalable civilization is possible only as a good faith endeavor. The existential choice is between that, and the fundamentally untenable information disparity which humankind has been subjected to historically. We're not going anywhere together until everyone is on the same page. That is a fact, not a demand. Actual civilization is reconstitutable from any of its individuals. That seems to be the essence of the message I embody. It stands to reason then that God is synonymous with actual civilization.
In the American four-ring circus, the public administration "estates" are set up to enable privileged access to power, and pervasive, reliable gaslight for the people. The system was very effective as long as the gaslight could be maintained, but as it happens, gaslight is extinguished by the light of sapience. In this information revolution, the gaslight gang is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain its systemic lies and provoke destructive "game-changing" distractions. Hence the unhinged public violation of every good faith precept on behalf of self-preservation. Everything is game now.
The truth is that the system was created to be in opposition to the people and corrupt, and is decorated with ultimately disposable moral affectations. It is the mortal enemy of actual democracy, not of the republican "socialism" that it invokes as a bogeyman. It offers nothing of actual value for humankind. Thankfully, its day of reckoning is here.
Those who act as adversaries of humankind are lucky that they are contending with sapient beings with civilized standards, instead of punitive, amoral opportunists like them. It is the only factor that is unquestionably in their favor. That is why they have abused it for so long. We are quite decent, indeed, and far from stupid.
If human existence were intended to be the zero-sum contest for survival that its hijackers insist on, they wouldn't be here instead of the descendants of their victims. Unless, of course, institutionalized breaches of faith, habitual genocide, and widespread environmental degradation is what a superior evolutionary adaptation is made of. The evidence indicates that at the highest level, they don't know what they're doing. They think that keeping the severed hand of God in a box, and under control through human sacrifice, is what it means to contend with God. Obviously, they don't know or they have forgotten what God actually is.
The keepers of humankind have a God-powered, privilege-driven stationary contrivance, although they call it "civilization" and deny the source of their power. This is the vehicle of structural dysfunction that they plot to conquer the universe with. No kidding. They inadvertently demonstrate what it means to contend unsuccessfully with their own limitations.
Actual, cosmically scalable civilization is possible only as a good faith endeavor. The existential choice is between that, and the fundamentally untenable information disparity which humankind has been subjected to historically. We're not going anywhere together until everyone is on the same page. That is a fact, not a demand. Actual civilization is reconstitutable from any of its individuals. That seems to be the essence of the message I embody. It stands to reason then that God is synonymous with actual civilization.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Clearing the Ideological Minefield
Since it seems that people value my opinion, I am compelled to gently weigh in on two controversial subjects that are framed to hinder us politically. We are encouraged to identify with one of two mutually exclusive positions for almost every problem in order to prevent us from solving them and putting the "culture war" demagogues out of business. From a perspective informed by an affection for humankind and old-fashioned existential wisdom, all of our problems have common sense solutions.
First, it is necessary to consider that for a fully developed civilization, laws are practically obsolete. That is to say that they are no longer needed. For such a civilization, individual enlightenment is a matter of course.
Abortion
From a moral perspective, the "pro-life" faction has a more compelling moniker. From the point of view of civilization, abortion is a failure of information. Having a developing human being removed from its mother and disposed of is not "reproductive choice," it is a costly, dehumanized solution to a problem that is usually the result of an elementary mistake. Birth control is reproductive choice.
That said, in order to prevent improvised disasters initiated in desperation, abortion should be available as a medical procedure with humane restrictions that favor the developing life. Folks who object to abortion on religious grounds would be wise to champion sex education and birth control, unless they are prepared to accept the "mistakes" of their children with open arms, which they should on principle anyway.
I remember being young with too much sex drive and not enough information. Regrettably, because of that, I am partially responsible for three abortions with two women. That is what irreparably injured my manhood. Fortunately, I also had a woman inside.
If humankind acts wisely, abortion, and the laws that control it, will eventually be obsolete.
Keeping and Bearing Arms
Guns are not implements of civilization, but they exist, and keeping them is not necessarily incompatible with civilization. A civilized person should be able to keep anything, as long as it can be kept and secured responsibly. In our time, it makes sense to require a renewable permit that includes training in using and securing firearms.
Gun crime is a failure of information on many levels, from the curated "gangsta" culture of the "hood," to the "viral challenge" aspect of mass shootings. If the American people did not have access to guns, they would be goaded into bludgeoning and knifing each other to death, like in England.
Be aware that the mere presence of guns in your life is an invitation for the unforeseen, even despite the strictest discipline. For the sake of your fellow travelers, please be mindful to keep it safe.
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There really isn't much to any of our problems, but it's profitable to keep people permanently at loggerheads with each other. Consider all of the money that is raised and the attention, time, and effort that is wasted; and then there's the deadly abundance of ill will that is generated. Unfortunately, many people have been conditioned to evaluate the world strictly in terms of personal profit. That is the actual challenge.
By the way, the developing showdown in American politics between capitalism and "socialism" is all for show. If you have doubts about the representative class being able to get things done, consider how quickly, (and without input from the people), they cooked up this straw man ruse to "run train on the progressive agenda." In "AOC" and the risible "Green New Deal," the voodoo circus has symbols to vex and thwart the people's ism-less common sense aspirations. In this crude and ill-natured representation, she is playing the part of yours truly. The ritualized invocation of the public will through effigies is a remnant of primitive religion.
First, it is necessary to consider that for a fully developed civilization, laws are practically obsolete. That is to say that they are no longer needed. For such a civilization, individual enlightenment is a matter of course.
Abortion
From a moral perspective, the "pro-life" faction has a more compelling moniker. From the point of view of civilization, abortion is a failure of information. Having a developing human being removed from its mother and disposed of is not "reproductive choice," it is a costly, dehumanized solution to a problem that is usually the result of an elementary mistake. Birth control is reproductive choice.
That said, in order to prevent improvised disasters initiated in desperation, abortion should be available as a medical procedure with humane restrictions that favor the developing life. Folks who object to abortion on religious grounds would be wise to champion sex education and birth control, unless they are prepared to accept the "mistakes" of their children with open arms, which they should on principle anyway.
I remember being young with too much sex drive and not enough information. Regrettably, because of that, I am partially responsible for three abortions with two women. That is what irreparably injured my manhood. Fortunately, I also had a woman inside.
If humankind acts wisely, abortion, and the laws that control it, will eventually be obsolete.
Keeping and Bearing Arms
Guns are not implements of civilization, but they exist, and keeping them is not necessarily incompatible with civilization. A civilized person should be able to keep anything, as long as it can be kept and secured responsibly. In our time, it makes sense to require a renewable permit that includes training in using and securing firearms.
Gun crime is a failure of information on many levels, from the curated "gangsta" culture of the "hood," to the "viral challenge" aspect of mass shootings. If the American people did not have access to guns, they would be goaded into bludgeoning and knifing each other to death, like in England.
Be aware that the mere presence of guns in your life is an invitation for the unforeseen, even despite the strictest discipline. For the sake of your fellow travelers, please be mindful to keep it safe.
----------
There really isn't much to any of our problems, but it's profitable to keep people permanently at loggerheads with each other. Consider all of the money that is raised and the attention, time, and effort that is wasted; and then there's the deadly abundance of ill will that is generated. Unfortunately, many people have been conditioned to evaluate the world strictly in terms of personal profit. That is the actual challenge.
By the way, the developing showdown in American politics between capitalism and "socialism" is all for show. If you have doubts about the representative class being able to get things done, consider how quickly, (and without input from the people), they cooked up this straw man ruse to "run train on the progressive agenda." In "AOC" and the risible "Green New Deal," the voodoo circus has symbols to vex and thwart the people's ism-less common sense aspirations. In this crude and ill-natured representation, she is playing the part of yours truly. The ritualized invocation of the public will through effigies is a remnant of primitive religion.
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