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The Russian Doll
I have been re-assessing my opinions on various subjects, one of which is why democracy has never 'made the grade', and that connected with why the wheels are coming off societies pram i.e. consequences.
The pinnacle of human evolution is ........... a myth, a composite of human ideas manifested in to a physical world
It is an inverted Russian Doll, break open our doll and you find another bigger doll, the final doll is reality, i.e. where we came from.
Each facet of modern living is a shell (a straight-jacket) to conform to our artificial realities - science, sociology, religion, education, money, etc. etc.
Science/s.
They are presented as the 'truth', or 'fact', maybe, but a brick is a brick is a brick, i.e. it's not what it is, it is what it is used for.
One can use it to build a pit, a tunnel, a tower, a house or a prison, science has been used to build a shell that is an Achilles heel, it is dependent on ever increasing demands on the thing that sustains us, our environment.
Every scientific achievement reduces the size of the shell we live in, every technical quick-fix magnifies the size of the bang when the shell eventually breaks.
Our future is dependant on science saving us in order that there is a future, that belief is faith, not fact.
Science has dispelled some of the myths, but science still does not understand the full implications of removing an element/species i.e. the most powerful person on the planet is dependant on the earthworm, the earthworm is dependant on ....... etc. etc. ad-infinitum.
Science will not find the answers ('You can't solve a problem using the logic that created it' Albert Einstein), it's looking in the wrong direction, the 'big bang' is what comes next.
Religion/s.
They all started the same way, manipulators in the developing human era using an hypothesis as a means of explaining what they did not understand.
The thing they did not understand was the magnitude and complexity of nature, so no change there, we still do not understand it.
The brightest of them accepted that they only lived by natures bounty.
If they lived near a mountain they prayed to the mountain to give them water, food, etc. and accepted the fact that they only got that food if they was fast, or crafty enough, to get it.
Their god - the 'mountain' was a lot nearer the truth than our religions which make man supreme i.e. built in gods image etc.
We all live by the edicts of those religions whether we 'believe' or not, our laws are made to conform to them, our whole way of living is dependant on them.
This leads nicely to morals.
What are they?
Basically they are community rules, fine, rules are required in nature in order that communities can survive, note 'communities', where they go wrong is being applied to the whole planet.
When one breaks through the final doll, one finds ............ nature.
THAT is god, and yes, they got one thing right, we are made in gods 'image', nature is diversity, so are we, it's a random number generator, each member of a species is slightly different to any other member to ensure variety and survival by not getting locked in to a dead-end with only one option.
Today's society by virtue of religion, science, education etc. is trying to make us 'the same', removing our diversity removes our means of survival.
The ism's and ist's of sexism's, racist's and political correctness etc are all part of the process of making us 'the same', that is creating internal conflict in each of us which will add to the consequences when it happens.
Nature.
Is perceived as tranquillity, it's not, it's survival of the fittest, it works on a different timescale to us so it only looks tranquil, the reality is that it is kill or be killed.
Flora and fauna all have a set of 'morals' programmed in to them, plants have a set of rules that permits some plants to live in their 'community', others they kill or suppress. If one studies the evolution of forests one will find the current one is but one in a long line of other species, each in their day had supremacy, that strength became their weakness which allowed another species in.
Animals often mark their territory to conserve food supplies (so did we, they were defined by war-lords), a stranger was welcomed if needed and prepared to accept the supremacy of the leader, killed or driven off if not.
Nothing in nature accepts looking after the weak, everything has to survive the best way it can ....... or go under, survival of the species is pre-dominant, survival of the individual is irrelevant.
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"What becomes of the surplus of human life?
It is either,
1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or
2nd. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or
3rd. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or
4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable."
-- James Madison, 1791
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Nothing new there, nature has been doing that since time began.
The difference is ............
a) when man decided it was gods will that the meek should inherit the earth, that started a chain reaction which got out of control in the 18/19th century with the break-through of modern medicine and the advent of the energy era.
b) the magnitude ..... and the technical/biological resources that some countries have in 'claiming' others resources for their own benefit.
Why can't we change?
a) our brains are hard-wired in to a way of thinking by the time we are about 25.
Modern education has not improved the situation because various moves by government has taken kids from college straight in to teacher training then back in to schools as teachers, hence they have no connection with life out of school.
b) what government could go to the people and say:
1) no health care, your health is your problem.
2) no cars, start walking or use a bicycle.
3) no central heating, put extra clothes on and move instead of sitting in front of the TV.
4) no loans, if you can't pay for it, don't buy it.
5) no water supply to your tap, you can collect it from the community tap in a bucket.
6) no insurance/legal backup to cover your stupidity for not seeing the 'hole-in-the-road'.
7 - 99) (add your own)
c) perceptions are as diverse as nature.
d) everyone has blind-spots, but refusing to look is denial syndrome.
e) people (like animals) look for leaders, the chosen leaders are 'reactors' by nature, 'thinkers' compare all the available options before answering, meanwhile the people have followed the 'reactor' in to dead-end.
f) 'I went looking for the enemy ........ and found it was me' (anon)
g) - Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
h) Everything in Nature is of temporary nature. This includes abstract non
physical structures too, like systems and organizations for example. Without
exception, something becomes, grows and expends to its optimum peak, and
then declines towards point zero, reverting back into a state of pure energy,
from which it began its existence. You can apply this law to living things, a
rock, to an empire, or to a governing system .......... and the human race.
Democracy
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