Holding Patterns

What I've described is a societal "holding pattern." A blockage in free movement. Similar to somatic awareness techniques, the way out is through subtle movement in the direction of freedom against resistance.

Never mobilize a symptomatic area - stabilize it. Never mobilize in the direction of pain or discomfort - mobilize in the opposite direction against resistance.

Are you getting this at all?

Conspiracy Theorists and Disaster Syndromes

These are just self-protection mechanisms. Have I said this already? People who are afraid of technology or the use of technology have as shallow an understanding of the way things work as those who fear nature, or the natural world.

Both live in a strange miasma of illusion - they live in shallow surface-appearances. They're simpler even than the water-spider...who at least can see through his reflection into the water, to catch a juicy tadpole or fish.

It's just another channel to try to harness the Drive. Life. But, like all dams, it fails eventually. The waters are too powerful, or too great. The dam bursts, and the water flows again, which is the Way of Nature.

McDonalds, Pizza Hut, fast food, slow minds - the Force pushes through this structure, and the people get fatter. But eventually the dam bursts. Diabetes, heart disease, cancers - and the water level returns to normal, it flows again. But another channel is built...another aqueduct, another dam. Over and over.

Separation is one of the keys to dam-building. Separate the food from its source. Separate the people from nature. Separate the wealthy from the poor. Separation is a key.

The Will to Power

Yes, I said it, Nietzsche was right!

The drive to control is an outgrowth of the will to power - the fundamental backbone of life - the drive to expand, to grow, consume. It is the Will to LIVE. Without it, the life withers away, or commits suicide (intentionally or not).

Why has nothing changed in the course of human history? Mostly because no one will admit that the above is true. Like alcoholism, first you have to admit you have a problem. Only then can you work on it.

When human animals admit that the drive to live outweighs everything else, drives everything, and that part of life is to kill/consume other life, then we can begin to be truly "human" - to see through the veil of words and organizations...to make decisions based on thought (which is human), that is, to drive, instead of to be decided by this drive, to be driven.

Then it becomes no mystery as to why the things that seem like they should be so good, can turn so bad - all the social paradigms we've created - society, religion, government, science...

Until this happens, the human animal will continue to be a herd animal. Trained to be obsessed with surfaces, while those whose drive and luck is more forceful pull the strings.

PS - If you don't know anything about Nietzsche or his thought, don't break bad on it. He was not a misogynist, Nazi, Communist, etc. Don't believe the propaganda your scaredy-cat advisers have fed you...they don't know anything about it either.

Go read Beyond Good and Evil. Then read The Antichrist. Then The Gay Science. Then Daybreak. Then read Beyond Good and Evil again. Then read The Will to Power. Try to get the Walter Kauffman translations - he has good footnotes that help to understand what's going on.

Morality, or The Evolution of Humanity

This is one of the biggest scams going. Of all that has been accomplished, or that has occurred in the course of human events, what has changed?

Are we more "civilized" than before? Not really.

Is there more "freedom" than there was in the days of Ancient Greece, or Bushman/Aboriginal living? I'd say no.

Do we experience greater luxury in life than any before us in history? Only if you count convenience and luxury as synonyms (which they are not). And even then, we experience only slightly greater "convenience" than those who came before us.

For all that the great leaders of the world ever did (in the West, they might be - Alexander, Plato/Socrates, Jesus, etc.; in the East perhaps - Lao Tzu, Confucius, Buddha, Gandhi, etc.) the distinctions of rich and poor remain.

The animal seeks still to express its power, in whatever form available to it. The crafty outwits the smart. The reflexive out-acts the learned.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a disguised urge to rule.
- HL Menken

"Americans are focused on making a lot of money. And to make a lot of money, you have to be hyper." - Cesar Millan, "The Dog Whisperer"

The Arbitrary Human/Animal Distinction...

Ever hear of the Nuremberg Trials? Well, after WWII, all the Nazi "war criminals" (another scam, but more on that later) were taken to international court and convicted of their various crimes.

Among the guilty were the experimenters at prison camps, who performed brutal experiments on the camp prisoners.

Part of the outcome of the trials were the tenets of the Nuremberg Code - laying a foundation for the ethical treatment of HUMANS in experiments.

Wait. Only humans? Well, humans aren't animals, so yes, only humans! Do whatever you want to a monkey!

It's about time we edited those, and other experimentation guidelines to include all animals, that we might realize our "humanity..."

Here's a sample of the Nuremberg Code, with ANIMAL where it should be:

1. Voluntary consent of the human (ANIMAL) subject is absolutely essential
2. The experiment must yield generalizable knowledge that could not be obtained in any other way and is not random and unnecessary in nature
3. Animal experimentation should precede human (ANIMAL) experimentation - REDUNDANT Where is your "humanity" if you would do something to an animal that you wouldn't do to a "human" animal?
4. All unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury should be avoided
5. No experiment should be conducted if there is reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur
6. The degree of risk to subjects should never exceed the humanitarian (ANIMALITARIAN) importance of the problem
7. Risks to the subjects should be minimized through proper preparations
8. Experiments should only be conducted by scientifically qualified investigators (SELF-REFERENCING = LIE. Since only science can determine who would be a "scientifically qualified investigator" this clause should be struck, or altered to recognize that "scientifically qualified" needs to be vetted by the animal population at large, and not by a select, special-interest, community.)