Modern Life is Rubbish

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ~ Howard Zinn.

Monday, July 16, 2012

The Myth of War

We condition the poor and the working class to go to war. We promise them honor, status, glory, and adventure. We promise boys they will become men. We hold these promises up against the dead-end jobs of small-town life, the financial dislocations, credit card debt, bad marriages, lack of health insurance, and dread of unemployment. The military is the call of the Sirens, the enticement that has for generations seduced young Americans working in fast food restaurants or behind the counters of Walmarts to fight and die for war profiteers and elites.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Density

An explanation of Density.
The idea of all being illusion should not be interpreted New Age style as stating that all is simply an artifact of one's subjectivity. One cannot learn to fly by saying that gravity is illusion. All may in the end be consciousness but one needs to distinguish between levels and degrees of consciousness. 
We could say that the scale of densities correspond to a matrioshka of illusions nested inside each other. This is so because perceptions proper to the next higher density would be somewhat speculative or exceptional in the lower one. Still, within each level exist rules and laws of nature which are objective and real within this level. We should not confuse limits of perception with misperception of the perceptible due to wishfulness, laziness or naivete.


Friday, July 13, 2012

Philosophy of Liberty



"You exist in Time. This is manifest in Future='Life', Present='Liberty', Past='The Product of your Life and Liberty'. To lose your Life is to lose your Future. To lose your Liberty is to lose your Present. And to lose the 'Product of your Life and Liberty' is to lose that portion of your Past that produced it..."

This explanation makes it so clear why liberty is the most important element in the 'present'. And also why oppressive governments are causing the natural progress of life and even time to come to a standstill or worse, revert back to an earlier cycle.