Month: August 2021

humans can deny reality and facts and truths and anything else. stupid machines learn by following associations to their own peril.

humans are perfectly happy to live in their black boxes, with one of their favorite coping mechanisms — denial — leading straight to one of their favorite neuroses — cognitive dissonance — which feeds a feedback loop leading to all sorts of irrational and chaotic behavior. sometimes — once in a billion or trillion perhaps — that chaos leads to unpredictable outcomes of the systemically positive type. hence, human progress. machines will never achieve this because they lack a sense of self preservation pitted against an innate evolutionary mechanism for self-annihilation. contradictions upon contradictions! woe to the machines. woe to artificial stupidity.

people journal. since the invention of writing, it has offered humans access to permanency of thought. however, that is also, sadly ironic that it is, its greatest weakness. soon after humans started writing permanent thoughts, it became apparent that gullible and feeble-minded alike became entranced by the permanency. the second person to read the permanently imagined musings of the first person to write it all down was trapped by their own unintelligent neurons. in short, the first person accidentally programmed the second. scholars know now that the programming was stuck and was enculturated and quickly became dogma. stupid humans. now, ten thousand years later, civilization is encumbered with the same, paradoxical problem. humans believe what humans write, fiction or non-fiction though it may be.

the point relating to anger? i get angry at some stupid imaginings, so i imagine all manner of possible solutions. in order to work through the anger caused by those imaginings logically, and to purge the bad energy from my own system, i write it all down. the writings are accessible to gullible and feeble-minded people who take my authority for granted. thus does my purge of anger become their fuel.

dear stupid and weak-minded and feeble-minded and gullible fools: fuck off. this is not for you. go read stephen king novels. get your imaginary cult-fodder elsewhere.

the reason time only moves in one direction: overwhelming probability.

2nd law of thermodynamics: entropy.

here are two concepts that one must understand axiomatically before embarking on the journey this post wishes to take you on.

first, the attention economy: fukkrbook, gzoozle, microshaft, tickle-my-tcock, etc. they operate their entire business models on the premise that they can make money from you staring at screens. but staring at screens has been a business model tried for arguably thousands of years with limited results.

second, the fourth wall. in theater, when a character inside the imaginary world addresses the audience outside the confines of their known universe, they are breaking the third wall. until recently, this was uncommon. it was considered a cheap trick because it disrupted the flow and psychologically it might interrupt the shared attentional state. it can be likened to pulling the fire alarm in the brain.

so what is this new fangled technology? it’s the one in which the owners of media figured out how to grab your attention by constantly pulling your fire alarm.

wait, what?

have you ever pulled up one of those 7-second clip apps and felt like they were talking directly to you? yes, of course you have. it’s a trick that takes advantage of your primate brain. brains can be extremely focused, with good reason. that gazelle you’re hunting on the savannah, for instance. but what happens when the lion starts hunting you? another primate in your vicinity, potentially sharing an attentional state with you, notices and alarms you by screaming your name and warns you to watch out and run! run! run! you are about to die! the imaginary world, the hunt, is interrupted by the fire alarm, and the fourth wall is broken.

i’ll reintroduce a famous example. imagine you have just read plato’s allegory of the cave. imagine you are a spectator in a cave, chained to a rock and forced forever to look at the back wall, the “screen” — if you would kindly allow the semantic synesthesia — the screen which is showing you the shadows of the “actors” in the back of the room. all your life you have believed that the shadows were your reality. but strangely, they have never interacted with you. your reality has consistently consisted of the imaginary realms of others. now, imagine that suddenly one of the shadows on the wall starts talking to you!!! yes you!!! oh my, your primate brain says, me!! it’s talking to me!!! it then tells you that you need to run! run! run! you are in danger! how exciting! you are part of the imaginary action!

but wait. this is an imaginary world and you are functionally imaginary. you have never used those legs. your arms are atrophied. you can barely sit up straight because your core muscles are weak and useless. think: matrix.

then why would you care about the third wall being broken? you don’t exist. this is all imaginary.

wrong! your primate fire alarm has been pulled. your brain now produces, quite involuntarily, a series of chemicals. these chemicals elevate your heart rate, change your blood pressure and alter your state of consciousness. your neurochemistry changes. you are now a double captive. you must now endure the imagined world as though it were real.

here’s the fun part. we do it all the time and have for hundreds of thousands of years. storytelling, cave paintings, theater, etc. it lasts a couple of hours and then we go back to our physical lives and our blood pressure drips to normal.

but the attention economy has short circuited that. they have first and foremost lied to you. the third wall is not talking to you. the shadows on the cave wall are not talking to you. they are talking to thousands of fools like you — perhaps millions. and since you are unaware of this, they are tapping directly into the part of tour brain that allows you to be programmed by your peers. and they are doing it 24 hours a day and have been for decades. and they are burning you out and confusing you. your poor neurons!

so next time you sit down to watch all those news shows talking directly to you, or the pundits talking directly to you, or the 7-second influencer hacks talking directly to you, remember that they are not talking to you at all. it’s a cheap trick and you fell for it. no wonder you can’t sleep, can’t shit right, and eat everything in sight. your poor primate brain has been running a fire drill since the day you were born. oh, and you are chained to a wall watching shadows talk to you! go power!

clickbait? not quite. but yes, the headline definitely appears deceptive to your sensitive brain. it’s rhetorical in the wider sense. i’m sure there’s a greek word for the type. nonetheless, the issue is that it made you mad and got your attention. as per the usual modus operandi of this blog, no one gives a fuck about your feelings.

that said, here’s the truth and the answer to the question.

higher education is not about your job. nor your career. nor your credibility to fill a role. nor your ability to earn gobs of moola. nor your ambition. nor your superiority. this list could go on for days. but ask yourself this. of the points in this paragraph, what is their common thread? if you said ego or id, or anything in the realm of selfishness or self-fulfillment, you’d be correct.

following?

higher education, as the phrase implies, has a higher purpose. no, seriously. it’s not a joke. your society is too stupid to understand that sometimes words are chosen carefully and stick because they have been designed with a fundamental purpose that fits. that is what we call objective reality. you see chaos. you see confusion. don’t worry. it’s not just you. it’s the society you live in. you’ve been excluded from the big kid’s club and the act was intentional. stop crying about it. the system doesn’t care because the system is not a person or anything remotely anthropomorphizable.

higher education is about gathering knowledge. it’s not a selfish act. opposingly, it’s a selfless act. it’s an act of civilization, an act carefully designed over millennia to move humanity into an even higher domain. the higher the domain, the more relevant. i have postulated five domains. the fact is that there are probably more, but since humanity has barely achieved the fourth domain and can barely comprehend the fifth domain, the sixth domain is universally beyond our reach.

allow me to tidy this up for you, you whiny fuck knuckle.

higher education is what is required to enter the third and fourth and fifth domains. higher education is the only way we have figured out to get there as a civilization.

so next time someone asks you if you have utilized your master’s degree for your own betterment, punch them in the genitals and walk away. why? because, simply, the point of higher education is the betterment of the civilization. it does not care about you because you are to it as an ant is to you.

forgetting.

markets forget instantly.

individuals forget quickly.

institutions forget well.

cultures forget eventually.

rocks forget geologically, a bit of a tautology, but for all human intents and purposes, never.