[MD] Objectivism Triumphant

[Ian Glendinning]

Yep, I'll see you in the restaurant at the end of the universe JC.

It's that memetic SOM feedback loop that is killing us indeed. Adding
more logical and technical (SOMist intellectual) solutions to logical
and technical problems.

When you have an intellectual problem, kill the intellect, switch it
right off (being careful not to break the switch) and go hitchhiking
(or tripping, or beachcoming maybe).

Ian

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:36 AM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spoiler alert!
>
> Now for those of you who like to be surprised, I suggest you turn the page.
> Go watch a good nature program on tv, or something.
>
> My tribe, the intellectually-oriented, over-analyzers, we like to know
> everything thats' happening, has happened and is going to happen, and so we
> discuss it now and then.  If you read past this point, don't get mad at me.
> I'm just enjoying the show in my own way.
>
> With a big tub of popcorn, a cold drink and a sweet girl.
>
> Now lotsa what I call experts, have a message of doom and gloom if we keep
> going the way we've been going.
>
>  Even with my own eyes I can see what's plain in front of me.  We can't keep
> going the way we've been going.  We can't keep going down this road of
> scientific domination of nature.    Nature don't like it and Nature has ways
> of tripping up ego that surpasses the wisest.
>
> So we'll just have to face it, in the great battle of SOM vs. MoQ, the MoQ
> has to win, or civilization is doomed.
>
> Meanwhile, in the outworkings of communicating ideas, and educating the
> children, and programming the populace, SOM is kickin' ass and only shows
> the propensity to increase domination over future generations.  The pattern
> is like a bad feedback on an outta- tune guitar with a virtually infinite
> power supply.  Yeaoowch.  Nothing can stop its increase before it drives
> humanity insane.  Every technological solution creates unforeseen (well, at
> least unregarded by those who make decisions) consequences which require
> more technological solutions... and it just keeps getting more and more
> complicated, while unforseen consequences increase with complication and
> ...
>
> you get the drift.  Many astute critics have made the point better than me.
>
> But what I have put together, through the bits and pieces of my life,
> (Shout-out to xacto)  is that this pattern of SOM, is also called
> "Objectivism" and by implication, it could also be called "Egoism" - since
> those three ideas formulate one central reliance upon the ontologically
> assumed fundament of self/other.
>
> Or at least that's one way of saying it, and probably not the best.  But ...
>
>
> you get my drift.
>
> And objectivism is fed by the objectification of reality.  The
> objectification of reality is an ongoing process that increases all the
> time.  Electronically amplified, exponentially increasing as more of the
> poor third-worlders get their satellite hookup and broadband, and mostly
> download images.
>
> And receive the programmed idea, that reality is eternally some object out
> there, and you are a viewer in here, and never, never shall the twain meet.
>
>
> No wonder Bo believes that SOM is all there is to the intellectual level.
> Since it's mostly that way now, and definitely the way we are headed, and we
> are accelerating towards Objectivism's complete dominance of the vast
> majority of humanity, why not just admit that's all there is and be done
> with debate and unhappiness?
>
> Go with the flow.
>
> Go watch tv and zone out.
>
> Because that's where it's all headed.  Who cares that we're accelerating
> toward a cataclysm?
>
> Sit back and watch the show.  That's my motto.
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