The Three Tenets of Existential Terrorism

Words are not things or actions. They are vibrations of the air molecules or squiggles on a page. Mistaking words for reality is the mistake that puts politicians in office and sells all of the products, religions, and systems of government on the planet. Saying "Tree" is no more a tree than saying "I love you" means that someone loves you. To perceive reality as it is, one must accept that words are a vehicle for the transference of our perception of reality, not reality itself.
God is dead. I killed him (it, them, her, et al) on November 5th, 1991. Justifiable Homicide. The idea that the universe is run by some cosmic supra-hero concept of ourselves is absurd and unproven. The idea that the creator of the universe put us here in these bodies to satisfy some moral experiment is offensive. The God question; "What are we doing here?", may or may not be valid. At this time, we are here because the physical laws of the universe are not completely against our existence. Our short time of consciousness would be far better served ensuring our survival rather than posturing before some misanthropic cosmic deity.
The only government, the only rule of law, is economics. However our societies are structured, whatever religion or ethnicity, we have all decided that those with relatively more assets have better lives than those with less relative wealth. All measured value is economic value in this system.

Monday, March 9, 2009

The failure of imagination


All of the promotion, politics and pervasive persuasion that permeates this society exploits the most important distinction of the Human species: Imagination. Our ability to think of things that re not has been the driving force behind our ability to alter the material world to meet our needs. Our inclination to confuse imagination with reality is at the heart of our ability to be persuaded by pleasant images, pontificated or viewed. It does not matter if a message is true or not, if we can imagine that it is, it becomes our reality. A false reality, fervently believed, becomes a collective or individual reality and is confined to that context. The physical reality, is indifferent to our imagination. With so many false interpretations of reality guiding our actions, one can hardly be surprised the ludicrous machinations of individuals and collectives. The failure of Human imagination is our inability to distinguish imagination from reality.
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