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.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Connections




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I was thinking of James Burke's Connections when the Carnival Triumph cruise ship lost power in the Gulf of Mexico.  I didn't take very long for things to get uncomfortable for the passengers and had it not been for the possibility of rescue, it would have disastrous.  Without rescue the thousands of people on board would have faced certain death within weeks.  Without the engines to produce electricity to run the infrastructure, the weight of maintaining so many humans in so little space would have collapsed this micro-ecosystem, as far as humans are concerned.  It would not take long, in the case of the world's human ecosystem, to collapse in an infrastructure crisis.  We are dependent on out technology to support the 7 billion plus people on the planet.  I am not suggesting that any such crisis is imminent, it just came to mind.  
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