"Guerrilla Ontology is the basic technique of all my books. Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'" - Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers (1980)
Contemporary Art: Collection of Reality Tunnel Management Techniques
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“The secrecy involved in the development of the electromagnetic mind-altering technology reflects the tremendous power that is inherent in it. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this technology can control the minds of men – all men.” - Nexus Magazine (1998)
Or as described by Timothy Leary in 1977:
“Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. Those who control signals control humanity.” - Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising (1983)
#Comment: Many of the (philosophical) musings of the contemporary "high priests of reality" (physicists, mathematicians etc.), such as "the Anthropic Principle" (see this intro video by Sabine Hossenfelder: "Is the Anthropic Principle scientific?") would make for truly great absurd comedy - if only such people would learn to not take themselves and everything else so very serious (great minds with even greater egos) and laugh far more often: Hairless monkeys which just recently developed language, convinced that they can "understand and predict everything", by compressing the totality of unfolded (infinite) existence into their tiny (finite) brains - pure paradoxical grand comedy! The "theory of everything" fairy-tales of religious traditions at least focus on practical things like rituals, aesthetics, art, ethics and culture (sensing that life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.) - which is overall lacking in today's science cult-ure.
Comic by Gahan Wilson, who recently died.
Change Management Practices
#Comment: The same old highly non-diverse ("inbred") group of techno-capital fundamentalists celebrating them-self once again - while the US forth reich roman empire collapses in real-time. A truly fantastic #Technology #Politics #Comedy show!
"The phrase 'may you live in interesting times' is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue 'may you come to the attention of those in authority' and finish with 'may the gods give you everything you ask for.' I have no idea about its authenticity." - Terry Pratchett - #China #Philosophy #Comedy #Politics #Magic
New research from Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research: "Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state": https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193993/ayahuasca-compound-changes-brainwaves-vivid-wakingdream/
"A total of 13 participants were given an intravenous infusion of DMT. DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain’s electrical activity."
#Comment: The comedy show which is psychedelic science continues. Ever since Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris fell in love with Friston and they are seriously trying to explain subjective experience of highly isolated agent brains with probabilistic (machine learning) models, things are rapidly becoming full Monty Python. Their approaches rely so heavily on myriads of highly arbitrary reductionist choices, it would make any renaissance alchemists giggle. Even DARPA is taking a much more interesting approach at this point and people like Dr. Michael Persinger must be laughing from their graves. I suppose let them dive down the fractal of knowledge in search of some illusive "final hard truth". If mathematicians and neuroscientists would only accept that the thing-in-itself is infinite (not a bug, but its essence) - and that there is everything in infinity (incl. nothing) - their entire house of cards would collapse. The only thing left to-do at that point, is to live a simple, humble and compassionate life.
You Can Now Buy Pretend Food for Your $2,900 Sony Robot Dog:
https://us.aibo.com/feature/food.html
The real comedy is that most people don't understand the "joke"...
Late Stage Capitalism in a photo
Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/veneto-council-climate-change-floods-trnd-intl-scli/index.html #ClimateChange #Comedy
TED Nelson at the TED2 conference, 1990. Starting a TEDtalk with a big "fuck you!" to TED and MIT's Negroponte is grand style.
"I don't want artificial intelligence, i want people coming back to what was their heritage of intelligence" - Ted Nelson
The "Circular Economy", as interpreted by late capitalists in practice. #Comedy