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.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Change: The intellectual disconnect





















The above is a recent Harris poll, part of which details Industry Reputation Ratings.  The government fare only slightly better than tobacco companies.  Yet, incumbents will capture over 90% of their offices.  The disconnect is that while people recognize that government is bad, they are unable to make the correlation between bad government and the fact that the voters hired the bad government and despite the government continuing to perform badly, the voters keep hiring them.  It does not cognitively register in the voters mind that in order to change government they have to change the people who are running government.  We have all kinds of these disconnects:  We are overweight and continue to eat poorly, we believe in god without any evidence of a god, we gamble with a very low probability of any return, we yearn to right the wrongs of society and do nothing to affect change.   Without the substantial physical pain of imminent negative reinforcement, we trudge along with the status quo  and pretend that change will occur via the ether.  
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