[MD] Objectivism Triumphant

[X Acto]

Hey John,

All things end, all changes. To do better, to live better, to effect change
is its own virtue. If any pursuit is divine.

but I think you know that.

The stoics recomended to make the distinction between what we have the power
to affect and what we do not and focus on what we can affect.

Dynamic quality allways looks like hell
but the most beautiful jem arises like the 
lotus from the muck.

but you knew that too

it is said a freind, can sing the song of your heart

when you forget the words

Ho



----- Original Message ----
From: John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 10:36:38 PM
Subject: [MD] Objectivism Triumphant

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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