Your essays resonate with me in a way that I rarely encounter.
Whether the implied hopefulness of electric energy systems that might be established (again?) after the paradigm shift or the absolute dread of what providence has in store for us before that.
Back in my day it was called the Tower of Babel and I suspect this project will end similarly. Vox Day's own prediction is that the internet will be carved into nations separate from each other which is underway with the banning of TikTok, Google, Pokemon Go (turns out it was Pokemon Glow surveillance tech which is why China banned it) in some nations vs others.
A black swan solar flare event the rush things along, maybe? Or maybe a phase shift in Earth's electromagnetic field that renders the world wide web less potent?
"The Tower of Babel is described in Genesis 11:1-9. After the Flood, God commanded humanity to "increase in number and fill the earth" (Genesis 9:1). Humanity decided to do the exact opposite, “Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth’” (Genesis 11:4). Humanity decided to build a great city and all congregate there. They decided to build a gigantic tower as a symbol of their power, to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:4). This tower is remembered as the Tower of Babel.
In response, God confused the languages of humanity so that they could no longer communicate with each other (Genesis 11:7). The result was that people congregated with other people who spoke the same language, and then went together and settled in other parts of the world (Genesis 11:8-9). God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel to enforce His command for humanity to spread throughout the entire world."
"....so that we may make a name for ourselves..." that motivation right there, spoken by an imaginary entity called "humanity" is a total crock isn't it? who calls themselves "humanity" and then proposes to speak for everyone? in truth, such a statement can only come from some sad, lost soul who grew up feeling ignored by their parent(s) and so came to regard self as "nameless" creating the need "to make a name".
the Bible reveals itself, again and again, to be absolute nonsense destructive to all sound-thinking human individuals. here, we have "God" as parent, and "humanity" as child to establish and reinforce the concept of authority based upon the delusion "superior-inferior being". the parent is "wise, knowledgeable and good" and the child is "foolish, ignorant and evil". the gathering of human individuals in cities is "bad" and the spreading out of them over the earth is "good". creation of a common language is "bad" and multiple languages are "good". in the Bible, God always knows best. but of course, the Bible is just a book written by a finite number of real individuals in accordance with their personal values and personal preferences. what else could it be?
not that there aren't sensible things in the Bible. there are, but the sensible things are there to exploit our hope and longing for a loving parent "somewhere out there", perhaps "up in the sky", who loves us and so gifted us with his/her living presence in the form of (insert preferred religious savior here) so that we swallow the poisonous lies presented alongside truth. we put worms on a hook to catch fish, peanut butter in a mouse trap.
we have, most of us anyway, suffered in our childhoods, and then continuously thereafter as well at the hands of our similarly poisoned and suffering fellow human beings. and so we feel a void in our heart, a kind of vague yet gnawing pain alluding to a sense of disconnection from our own being as part of the natural world. this pain is the source of all religiosity, all cults, all nation-states, to create a way to find relief in the form of "redemption" or "unconditional love/inclusion" granted by an imagined wise, knowledgeable and loving parent. for countless numbers of us, the Bible fills the bill, yet proffers no lasting relief. human beings suffer evermore, with ever-greater grandiosity and hubris as time goes by. clinging like scared children to the robes of our gods, myths and sacred delusions, we shirk the task at hand.
"who calls themselves "humanity" and then proposes to speak for everyone? "
You may have noticed that the globalist crowd like Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates speak like that. The very ones being discussed as building the new electronic tower over the entire earth. Your contention with the Biblical story proves the Biblical story. Yes, only maniacs who bring ruin onto humanity talk like that. That was the point, to not do such things, I'm glad you agree.
well said. it is not lost on me that many parables and suchlike contained in the bible are dead-on consistent with reality, in that human denial of reality within an individual constitutes a rebellion (of sorts) against truth(s) encountered whilst existing. this, then, results in self-destructive behavior due to personal preferences holding court in the mind over that which is real. this "rebellion" is then metaphorically consistent with the biblical "fall from grace" where Lucifer is "cast out of heaven" by god for thinking he knows what's what better than god does.
the reality is that one is not "cast out" by some imagined "angered being", rather, one chooses (in most cases, unconsciously, via deep-seated emotional prompting) to diverge from what can be, for many of us, a difficult/painful/humbling task-- to face up to the facts & comprehend what is actually happening and why. subsequent inevitable collisions with reality are then, of course, forthcoming. within the "spooky mind" (religiosity), these collisions are seen as the "wrath of god", or "punishment for sin", for "having been under the influence of the devil".
the difference is subtle, yet has a profound effect upon self-value and self-image. while learning to ride a bike, one makes mistakes. from these mistakes, one learns, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, not to repeat them. if one sticks with it, mastery eventually happens. within the reality-oriented mind, whenever one falls, one generally dusts oneself off, picks up the bike and tries again. within the spooky-mind (religiosity), one must first berate oneself for falling down. one has "broken the rules", "sinned against the bicycle gods" who have delivered "justice" by their wrath upon our skinned knees. we are "fallen", the bike is down, we now pray for "mercy" and "forgiveness" lest we be denied "salvation" and "redemption".
so who is "god" then? mercy, forgiveness, salvation, redemption-- do not these always come? of course, they do. these come the second we choose to pick up the bike and try again.
Ad astra per aspera and man makes himself to fit the environment. The machine triumphed long ago and by Nietzsche replaced Divinity. Logic machines and logic men logically work to create a logical machine future. Technocracy seen clearly as machine totalitarianism by the 1930's.
Your essays resonate with me in a way that I rarely encounter.
Whether the implied hopefulness of electric energy systems that might be established (again?) after the paradigm shift or the absolute dread of what providence has in store for us before that.
Thank you for sharing your insights.
Extraordinary, extraordinarily frightening and, finally, terribly sad.
The end of humanity is well underway.
Back in my day it was called the Tower of Babel and I suspect this project will end similarly. Vox Day's own prediction is that the internet will be carved into nations separate from each other which is underway with the banning of TikTok, Google, Pokemon Go (turns out it was Pokemon Glow surveillance tech which is why China banned it) in some nations vs others.
A black swan solar flare event the rush things along, maybe? Or maybe a phase shift in Earth's electromagnetic field that renders the world wide web less potent?
"The Tower of Babel is described in Genesis 11:1-9. After the Flood, God commanded humanity to "increase in number and fill the earth" (Genesis 9:1). Humanity decided to do the exact opposite, “Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth’” (Genesis 11:4). Humanity decided to build a great city and all congregate there. They decided to build a gigantic tower as a symbol of their power, to make a name for themselves (Genesis 11:4). This tower is remembered as the Tower of Babel.
In response, God confused the languages of humanity so that they could no longer communicate with each other (Genesis 11:7). The result was that people congregated with other people who spoke the same language, and then went together and settled in other parts of the world (Genesis 11:8-9). God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel to enforce His command for humanity to spread throughout the entire world."
"....so that we may make a name for ourselves..." that motivation right there, spoken by an imaginary entity called "humanity" is a total crock isn't it? who calls themselves "humanity" and then proposes to speak for everyone? in truth, such a statement can only come from some sad, lost soul who grew up feeling ignored by their parent(s) and so came to regard self as "nameless" creating the need "to make a name".
the Bible reveals itself, again and again, to be absolute nonsense destructive to all sound-thinking human individuals. here, we have "God" as parent, and "humanity" as child to establish and reinforce the concept of authority based upon the delusion "superior-inferior being". the parent is "wise, knowledgeable and good" and the child is "foolish, ignorant and evil". the gathering of human individuals in cities is "bad" and the spreading out of them over the earth is "good". creation of a common language is "bad" and multiple languages are "good". in the Bible, God always knows best. but of course, the Bible is just a book written by a finite number of real individuals in accordance with their personal values and personal preferences. what else could it be?
not that there aren't sensible things in the Bible. there are, but the sensible things are there to exploit our hope and longing for a loving parent "somewhere out there", perhaps "up in the sky", who loves us and so gifted us with his/her living presence in the form of (insert preferred religious savior here) so that we swallow the poisonous lies presented alongside truth. we put worms on a hook to catch fish, peanut butter in a mouse trap.
we have, most of us anyway, suffered in our childhoods, and then continuously thereafter as well at the hands of our similarly poisoned and suffering fellow human beings. and so we feel a void in our heart, a kind of vague yet gnawing pain alluding to a sense of disconnection from our own being as part of the natural world. this pain is the source of all religiosity, all cults, all nation-states, to create a way to find relief in the form of "redemption" or "unconditional love/inclusion" granted by an imagined wise, knowledgeable and loving parent. for countless numbers of us, the Bible fills the bill, yet proffers no lasting relief. human beings suffer evermore, with ever-greater grandiosity and hubris as time goes by. clinging like scared children to the robes of our gods, myths and sacred delusions, we shirk the task at hand.
"who calls themselves "humanity" and then proposes to speak for everyone? "
You may have noticed that the globalist crowd like Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates speak like that. The very ones being discussed as building the new electronic tower over the entire earth. Your contention with the Biblical story proves the Biblical story. Yes, only maniacs who bring ruin onto humanity talk like that. That was the point, to not do such things, I'm glad you agree.
well said. it is not lost on me that many parables and suchlike contained in the bible are dead-on consistent with reality, in that human denial of reality within an individual constitutes a rebellion (of sorts) against truth(s) encountered whilst existing. this, then, results in self-destructive behavior due to personal preferences holding court in the mind over that which is real. this "rebellion" is then metaphorically consistent with the biblical "fall from grace" where Lucifer is "cast out of heaven" by god for thinking he knows what's what better than god does.
the reality is that one is not "cast out" by some imagined "angered being", rather, one chooses (in most cases, unconsciously, via deep-seated emotional prompting) to diverge from what can be, for many of us, a difficult/painful/humbling task-- to face up to the facts & comprehend what is actually happening and why. subsequent inevitable collisions with reality are then, of course, forthcoming. within the "spooky mind" (religiosity), these collisions are seen as the "wrath of god", or "punishment for sin", for "having been under the influence of the devil".
the difference is subtle, yet has a profound effect upon self-value and self-image. while learning to ride a bike, one makes mistakes. from these mistakes, one learns, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly, not to repeat them. if one sticks with it, mastery eventually happens. within the reality-oriented mind, whenever one falls, one generally dusts oneself off, picks up the bike and tries again. within the spooky-mind (religiosity), one must first berate oneself for falling down. one has "broken the rules", "sinned against the bicycle gods" who have delivered "justice" by their wrath upon our skinned knees. we are "fallen", the bike is down, we now pray for "mercy" and "forgiveness" lest we be denied "salvation" and "redemption".
so who is "god" then? mercy, forgiveness, salvation, redemption-- do not these always come? of course, they do. these come the second we choose to pick up the bike and try again.
You're probably familiar with the EU parliament's new Tower of Babel in Strasbourg.
https://architecturehereandthere.com/2016/12/28/eu-new-brussels-hq/
Oh wow, no I hadn't seen that.
Ad astra per aspera and man makes himself to fit the environment. The machine triumphed long ago and by Nietzsche replaced Divinity. Logic machines and logic men logically work to create a logical machine future. Technocracy seen clearly as machine totalitarianism by the 1930's.
Woof, here it comes. Soon to be "they're here" Amityville
Great post. What’s BE by the way?
Thanks... Buddhist Era, 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar.
Thank you