“Don’t fool around with the masks of reality until you can handle the reality of masks.” - Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger 3: My Life After Death)
“Don’t fool around with the masks of reality until you can handle the reality of masks.” - Robert Anton Wilson (Cosmic Trigger 3: My Life After Death)
As the
corona virus crisis unfolds, an army of conspiracy theorists has emerged, producing a dizzying amount of colourful viral narratives. The mainstream media is responding aggressively, with an onslaught of critical coverage about how "the alternative media and crazy conspiracy theorists are putting all our health in danger". Yet on closer examination, the mainstream's responds is as primitive and manipulative as the narratives of conspiracy theorist they critique.
While they might appear like enemies engaged in a war over the sovereignty of interpretation of reality, in actuality the mainstream media and conspiracy theorists have a complex, interdependent relationship. Regardless of who's "truth" is "righter", both are in effect collaboratively poisoning an already highly in-transparent media and communications environment, contributing to a global narrative breakdown.
Currently billions of peoples are assaulted with overwhelming amounts of "information", "truths" and "opinions", presented by experts, politicians, oligarchs and conspiracy theorists. In such an environment, where all signals are lost in an ocean of noise, shared narratives (right/wrong, etc.) quickly collapse and large-scale developments can happen silently, unnoticed by most.
A global narrative collapse is especially dangerous in a time where there is no shortage of actual"conspiracy facts", mostly ignored in the public discourse. For examples: How the USA and EU are pumping uncounted trillions into the world economy (mostly reaching super elites, cementing totalitarian control structures) - or the accelerating global oil crash (oil is in 85% of stuff we consume) - or the bifurcation of global infrastructure (china/russia are launching their own internet and digital currencies) - or the ongoing collapse of capitalism and rebirth as the "fourth industrial rei...volution" - or the radical expansion of computational surveillance and policing (Dictators with A.I's don't care if you "have nothing to hide", they care about power) and the creation of global DNA databases.
In the shadow of the the corona virus dominating the global media cycle for month, such projects ("conspiracy facts") are accelerating and reaching maturity. Its effect will be felt for decades to come (unlike this virus). Yet instead of informing the public about such urgent matters, who does the global mainstream media choose to constantly ridicule and critique? A wide range of incoherent conspiracy theorists - mixing up everything from biowarfare, killer beams, space aliens and Jesus Christ into one crazy story.
What is at play here are political attack tactics, known at least since Machiavelli: "Gaslighting", "Fog of war" and "Flooding the zone": Providing experts, idiots, crazies and disinfo agents a megaphone, so they can pump out wast amounts of confusing and contradictory information, frequently attacking the integrity of those making counter-claims, and occasionally injecting conspiracy theories. Within such a media environment, all serious discussion about "conspiracy facts" will be inevitably confused with far-out garbage - to be disagreed by any half way thinking person. We now have a global media environment in which very large-scale developments ("conspiracy facts") can happen silently, unnoticed by most.
But hey, back to the program: Switch off your brain immediately and just PANIC! So that nobody dears to even ask critical question when conspiratorial scenarios like the post-democratic police state emerges in full force. Now smile, go wash your hands and enjoy the breakdown of the global narrative and rise of the global grid.
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The Global Grid is a digital representation of 85% human beings of planet earth - their vital signs, communications, infrastructure and energy flows over time. The Girds foundation is Identity, a universally unique identifier for all things and life-forms. Identity bifurcates into a myriad of applications: centralized digital currency & taxation, computational economics & social credit systems - surveillance, policing & access control - public health, life-sciences, social engineering, etc.
"The Girds foundation is Identity", keep that in mind when you follow the news. All Biometrics are good (sensor-fusion), but DNA is best. Hence when you see the roll-out of medical testing across a few billion people, consider the possibility that the tests could include a covert DNA sampling itself, building up a very large database. What the Chinese call "the internet of life".
"The Quantization of Reality is a Totalitarian Fallacy. Let Go or Be Dragged."
- Samim
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery."
- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 1
Pro Tip: Make it a mental habit, to remove the nation-state as primary power centre, when trying to make sense of geo-politics. All the relevant actors fully globalized decades ago, the rest is by and large just fun and games for the confused masses.
"Winners" and "losers" of wars are frequently confused. The perceived loser might have actually won the war, just not on the battlefield but during what Prussian military theoretician Karl von Clausewitz called “The postwar”. In actually, in war there are only losers.
"Forcing ideas through a small aperture can give them any shape, like pasta."
- Ted Nelson (1990)
“In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.” - Robert Anton Wilson
"That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge"
- Zhuang Zhou
“Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.” - A.N.Whitehead
“It isn’t what we don’t know that gets us into trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” - Will Rogers
“Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” - William James
“Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.” - Norman Ford
"If you can't find truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?"
- Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師) (1200 – 1253)
"What you practice, you become." - Liu Hung Chieh
"Big moves are not as well polished as small moves; small moves are not as well polished as stillness!" - Kuo Lin Ying
(1895–1984)
"The T'ai Chi Boxing Chronicle" - Book by Kuo Lien-Ying
Ubuntu: "I am because we are."
“If you wish to meet yourself, observe your thoughts and reactions under unusual circumstances.” ~ Idries Shah
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” - George Washington Carver
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." - Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
Cultivating an appreciation for the deeply paradoxical nature of reality is healthy: In the west, paradoxes are still seen as side-effects or bugs, in an otherwise perfectly computable universe (even we know the universe is uncomputable, because any computation to emulate it won’t halt until the universe ends). Yet the list of paradoxes keeps growing. Chasing the white rabbit in infinity, is a recipe for madness.
Related: Post on this blog 2y ago & More Paradoxes - #Science #Philosophy #Mindful #Ideas