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.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Chaotic Change



Change can occur without the guiding forces of religion, economics, politics, or civilization.  There are no truly chaotic events.  Underlying everything are the natural laws.  It is chaos from a human perspective. Revolutions, natural disasters, and man-made disasters are as close as we can get to Chaotic change.  Even the suggestion that we abandon the current economic system would evoke visions of chaos.  How would we work, produce, and live without the fundamentals of the capitalist system?  But modeling this type of change is exactly what we should be doing because the current system is not sustainable or equitable.  We can cling to the current model which has outlived its usefulness or invite chaotic change, perhaps guided by the empirical analysis it will provide.   
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