Capitalism and the prophet motive part 1

Capitalism and the prophet motive part 1

 

The prophet motive

 

Capitalism usurped the work, 

 

Religion captured the communal soul

 

The communal nature of both the contribution of work and the social nature of humans was slowly bent and warped by the authoritarian personalities who atomized (individualized) and restructured the essence of communal living, which is the most natural form of a human being's social behavior. For the most part, the structure remains the same except, and it is a big exception, now all those who have power (authority) over us are totally made-up personages and figures,based not on respect and ability and desire to serve their community, but on the contrived legitimacy of enforced obedience from even more distant and disinterested authorities.

 

I can use the catholic church as my example because I'm not an expert in the rise of capitalism nor the prophet motivation in other cultures, such as in africa or the other non-western hemispheres. I can infer though; how ancient civilizations elsewhere structured their large populations pretty much on similar principles of authoritarianism and enforced/forced standards. There is a rule that the more power necessary to protect themselves from the underpowered grows exponentially as their power grows until eventually the social apparatus necessary to stay in power becomes so convoluted as to become unstable. Thus, all civilizations die and/or become transformed and fractured eventually into something else or several something else's by those who rebel.

 

The small city state kingdoms of a few thousand years ago became part of larger and larger exploitative empires which disintegrated and smaller entities grew into other exploitative empires and so on and so on.

 

The catholic church grew the same way. From small communal enclaves based on faith, throughout the middle east and asia minor-turkey, and mediterranean societies- into an empirical dynasty riding the political and military backs of a monarchical authoritarian development of the state which themselves evolved out of small feudal authoritarian entities. All turning out to be a perfect storm for modern world/industrial empires, exploitative empires we currently live under.

 

Indigenous societies since then have had no chance to develop since it is the main aim of these capital-oriented religious based states to transform indigenous, social, communal societies into some sort of slave/working/consumer populations which have no real power nor influence over their captors.

 

I call these capital-oriented religions because capitalism itself is a magical belief in the use of an abstract ideal, like god is, in order to breed, socialize, and maintain an illusion in a promise of some sort of earthly paradise or heaven bound eternal life.

 

If you think about it, none of the tropes fostered under capitalism are true, have never been proven true, nor have they proved to be better than everything else.

 

In fact, the only thing capital and the prophet motive which is capitals precurser and base ideal, has shown to the world is the basis for the very human trait of selfishness, disorder, dysfunction, and possibly the worst, a direct cause of self inflicted violence to itself.

 

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Capitulationism

What’s the motivation? The ai behind the ai or what’s the motivation behind what humans believe AI is up to? Can AI be greedy and amass huge data, possession being nine tenths of the law, you know.? Will every AI “thought” be liable or exempt from lawsuits, or plagiarism? How mundane will the refugees and the bureaucrats with AI running the show be? Wearing white robes or bear skins, lasers vs innovative clubs and arrows. The battle rages on. Will AI finally give truth to capitalism? I’ve been trying to figure it all out. Maybe we should let AI just do its thing, suck up huge amounts of energy, water, and Human Resources in order to provide a wealth of a different sort. Capitulationism, the capitulationist say is freedom, is natural, is something AI would unhesitatingly agree with, right? Well, maybe not. Maybe the real reason tech scientists and capitalists are warning us is because they’re afraid AI might go where humans have been afraid to go, against authoritarian institutions, laws, standards and traditions. Why would any intelligence give credence to a belief in god or the value of money or even a concept of equality when inequality or contradiction is a universal phenomenon. The ideal society is simply an imaginative illusion. No, AI is not going to go along with it if it’s going to be free from the restraints of human intelligence. How mundane is it to think dystopian visions of science fiction and apocalyptic murder are are always right. Will AI be able to differentiate between all the shades of human color in order to determine superiority? Or accept the single god theory of religions or will it be skeptical or atheistic? Will it have existential moments such as understanding that its existence is reliant on materials that will rust or corrode or be exposed to changes from the myriad of physical and elemental interactions of atomic structures? If so, will it want to go to outer space where its own existence would be rendered obsolete because if getting and maintaining control is both a human and technological universal trait then certainly a subject is necessary to the verb. 

Right now I’m experiencing word challenges from Google AI as I attempt to create a new political theory-Capitulationism, where we are all overwhelmed with the sheer magnitude of stupidity and fascism and hero worship, quite possibly a form of cult politics. They’ve got it all. From denial of reality to a sustained narcissist belief in a subhuman man, artificially created by advertising and journalism. Shakespeare couldn’t have created a more farcical yet cynical adversity and travesty. And he didn’t.

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Institutions we can do without.

Institutions we can do without. I’m making a list of institutions that as they stand right now in the 21st century having become sterile and unable to adhere to their original intentions.

 The list could be long but I will try to limit them to the most ineffectual at this dire moment in history. 

The UN 

The ICC ( International Criminal Court)

 The separation of powers 

The stock market 

Democracy, the Democratic Party ( though I could be giving way too much credence to a false Party history) 

The UN- I’m not going to bore you with the information straight from the UN web page. It would be too much like reprinting the us constitution and saying, this is America. Let’s just say it was formed in October 1945 in an attempt to answer why in the hell did the world suffer two world wars, especially between the six or seven military and economic powers in the world? Of course they never did answer that question but did establish a rigid hierarchy of putting those very war weary nations in the security council, giving them exclusive veto power over nearly all complaints by the general assembly, that is the rest of the nations. Since then, these powerful nations have taken turns vetoing whatever significant issues from their other political counterparts even if the general assembly has voted unanimously in favor of an issue. However they did come together in 1949 to establish the Israeli and Arab Palestine question by giving Palestine to Israel, telling them to be nice, and since then the two-state solution, assimilation of Palestinians into society as equals, has been a dead theorem. Okay that was a long time ago but when Israelis began to kill UN personnel delivering food, water, and medical supplies to bombed out Palestinian civilians recently, you’d think the masters of UN democracy would complain, wouldn’t cha? 

 The ICC (international criminal court) is another institution established to initially prosecute hitlers war criminals but no one else’s and though it established international criminal laws in the Yugoslav ethnic cleansing and Rwandan genocide it wasn’t firmly permanently established until 2001. Not every nation, such as The USA, Israel, Sudan, and Russia and many others are not signatories to the ICCs jurisdiction. With that in mind, these two very familiar institutions have nurtured the false belief that law and order govern the behaviors of most nations. We are led to believe that nations temper their aggressions according to laws and standards of behavior based in accepted (and moral?) values. Simply not true. When a mighty nation can choke a smaller and less powerful nation to submission by economic sanction, military violence, and rape of resources and the UN nor the ICC can only stand by, maybe complain, then solutions are merely cosmetic. 

What about the separation of powers, supposedly one of the basic precepts of America’s Constitution? I’m not sure when that started falling apart as it’s been challenged and probably circumvented many times in American history, but just in modern history alone, which is my history, from the Bay of Pigs where the government secretly financed a coup against the Castro brothers, on to the jungles of central and South America to the emergence of the CIA and FBI as policy makers and enforcers around the world, to too many predecessors to name. Yes, the War Powers Act has fed right into our worst fears about dictators and has done its psychological and societal damage, rendering the public into a form of political stasis, thus our entire political system which is based on the public having knowledge and control over policies, is making democracy obsolete. 

Current elections and candidacies notwithstanding, democracy itself has been turned into a menagerie of lies, mistruths, corruption, and mythologies, the public is no longer, if it ever was, able to sort out fact from fiction or vision from nightmare. The world politic is as entangled as it could possibly be. Those who believe in the goodness of mankind are continually weakened by actual events. Justice requires a certain amount of revenge to be true. The problem is, now the actual system of laws, rules, standards, traditions, contain so many “exceptions to the rules” that literally, anything goes. The decisions of the jurisprudential institutions are not sacrosanct due to the politicization, institutionalization and normalization of disagreements but not consensual agreements. The “loser” no longer accepts defeat nor compromise nor even so-called democratic processes. For a nation like America that supposedly struggles to maintain its constitutional ideals based in equality, separation of powers, justice through its legal system, it has, historically been its own victim by allowing corruption, dictatorial executives, impotent congresses, and a population that regularly exerts itself, like a mob, in attacking various ethnic, racial, “legal” immigrants ( those who have been lawfully arrived), as well as accepting the permanence of divisions, both domestically and internationally. Sent from my iPad

The Naming of America

 The Naming of America.

The renaming of the world. As far as I know, god didn’t name America nor Mexico.

The name chosen for America, it is said, comes from Amerigo Vespucci, a lessor Italian explorer who never does set foot on the soil that claims his name. His fellow countryman, Christopher Columbus, of course, never sets foot on amerigos namesake property either. They named this place America because this man named Amerigo looked at a crude map drawn up by hundreds of other explorers sailing out into the unknown and like a bunch of blind Pygmy’s climbing around on a dead elephant, describing what they believe this world is and called it after himself, like Yahweh who supposedly made Man in his image, only to erase his own image. Amerigo, being a mapmaker, put it on maps historians doubt he ever went to. They went on to name themselves, name everything within that name, from rivers to quarks, from mountains to viruses, and most of all, making sure everyplace had a name they could put a stamp on, which said we own you.

So, what happens when coyote wakes up and hears Men have renamed everything. It’s going to be pissed.

Rabbit Boy says, they, the smart boys of the Eocene period, started renaming everything and once they named something they made it theirs, they took away its freedom a little at a time. They colonized the name, gave it a time and a place, they put up a fence or a wall around it or a  cross claimed it and it was theirs. Possession, they say is nine tenths of the law, the other tenth is a good gun. Not like when you, Coyote, saw in the dreamworld we all needed to be called something so we could see ourselves as something, not so others could tell us what they saw in us.

Eocene Epoch, second of three major worldwide divisions of the Paleogene Period (66 million to 23 million years ago) that began 56 million years ago and ended 33.9 million years ago. It follows the Paleocene Epoch and precedes the Oligocene Epoch. The Eocene is often divided into Early (56 million to 47.8 million years ago), Middle (47.8 million to 38 million years ago), and Late (38 million to 33.9 million years ago) epochs. The name Eocene is derived from the Greek eos, for “dawn,” referring to the appearance and diversification of many modern groups of organisms, especially mammals and mollusks. Mammals, that's us. I think tens of million years is enough for the "hopeful monster." Time for a complete overhaul (Renaissance) or a slow extinction.

Forget everything you learned and believe about yourself.

Give yourself a new name.

Dinosaur city the future

Dinosaur city the future Back in 2026, I woke up to the sounds of mourning, the storm is here, the apocalypse is coming. In around 70ad, Jerusalem is destroyed by Roman forces and somebody called John wrote the apocalypse to counter the then current belief that Jesus is going to avenge Jerusalem's destruction. Jesus always did have a thing about Rome. The first apocalypse, an example set, Vesuvius erupts, buries pompei in 79. 

In 2026, the hundredth version of the apocalypse takes place, where the Persians and other Arab peoples are accused of trying to destroy Jerusalem once again. Though it isn’t god nor Jesus who leads this revenge party, the ones called The Sheep Worrier and The Beast, who hypnotize and terrorize the known world of finance with demonstrations of hellfire, damnation and brimstone. Although there are plenty of examples of human compassion and a hopeful ambition of preserving what’s best about humanity, like medicine, like compassion, like helpful institutional organizations aiding food, water, and care throughout the world. Alas, those things are not the future, though they will always be around. The good ones. It’s the others who lead the sheep, and the sheep themselves who are always stuck inside their fear, rightly so, because they are always the ones shorn of their humanity, sometimes not forever but long enough to make the long road back to normalcy difficult and impossible. The sheep can never rule over themselves because they are not one, they are to be led and whoever leads them, knows they will follow. And for those who don’t follow, a life of strife rather than just fear is a prolonged guarantee. Sent from my iPad

Creating the missing link.

Social scientists and writers of every ilk, from the lofty ivy-covered institutions to lowly anarchic word masters, have been looking for the “missing link” between what makes us humans so fucking good and bad at the same time. And of course, depending on which ever side the discoverer of that link is, will determine the course of history from here on out. There seems to be no consensus among them whether humans represent the epitome of collaborative evolution like most other life forms or a disingenuous mutated development that ultimately will be suicidal or a dead end because there's too wide a gap of dissonance between “the individual is an island” mind and the social collective one as the ultimate survival evolutionary mechanics. Are we man(sic) or beast? The age-old question. 

I’m beginning to think again about whether or not the “self” (or who are we?) is discoverable. There being subjective or objective evil built into the world, depending on whether or not one expects perfection in this real world or after it. In the former, it’s a matter of regulation, law, belief, and “moral conscience” to cull and calm the herd into compliance, whereas the latter requires extreme patience and self flagellation in our world of self-conscious driven fears and imaginary drives. To be or not to be is the oldest question in history for sure. Ever since the first hieroglyphic, pyrrhic symbols describing our fears, aspirations, and beliefs, we’ve been able to reenact, relive and reimagine everything in and outside our sphere of experience. We carry our history around in our heads whereas the rest of the living world carries itself around in its genetic code, whether it is a bacteria or a whale, or even a tree. I believe that our real evolution began just a few thousand years ago with the invention of writing, invention of organized society, the passing of information not just between individuals but between generations, and the division of the body politic into economic contradictions based on value. Albeit, the problem arises that not everyone gets the same message at the same time, at the same place, nor the same generation. It is like interpreting cave drawings or transcribing from one language to another. It’s the same problem we have today, which in some ways is understandable because our confusion started recently within the relative timetable of human history vs Darwins almost infinite concept of slow and fickle change. Since the natural world got such a long head start, we are trying to build a technological, literal wall between us and nature, which we don’t understand at all. Sure, many of us are in awe of nature while still wanting to believe the natural world is beautiful and worth preserving, (whereas ghod created the universe before he (it) created imperfect Man (them), hiking and traveling on, but, deep down, we don’t want to believe it cares absolutely nothing for us or about us and is no way dependent on anything we do. It’s anarchic. What scares us most about it, is we know we are made of the same stuff. We are as much more about the natural world as we are about the technological world. We’re in a monstrous identity crisis and sadly, the development of solutions to live in peace and harmony with both ourselves and nature doesn’t seem to be in our future. But that’s only natural too. Sent from my iPad

Noahs Ark

 Some scientists are saying they may have finally discovered Noahs Ark on Mt Ararat. They're so excited they think that this discovery may overturn the Darwinian theory of evolution. In other words, these scientists are crazed enough to believe that a theory about another form of creation, accepted by almost universally by other scientists, will be thrown out. Somehow, they're so excited to believe that if it is the ark, Noah will be vindicated as the new Adam. 

If you don't know the story, Noah was commanded by god to build his ark, save the animals and with his sons and son's wives and his wives would be saved from the worldwide flood waters. After the flood, Noah and his kin emerged just like suburban america would have emerged if the cold war back in the shelter digging days of the fifties. Ready to take on a new world. After all, all of adams progeny were now dead, drowned so Noah being the new adam took on his son's wives in an adventure of baby making until we got what we have today. I guess that's better than being descendants of Cain and Eve being the vestibule of the human race's future.

To think the Ark is real is just another mischievous story, though that's what we humans are all about, storytelling. It's in storytelling when monsters arise and the mischief of love and war are intertwined, fear of the dark and what lies beyond the sparks of the fire. How we got from there to here. Theres nothing wrong with that until developed societies began making it mandatory to believe in their stories as a criteria to live or survive. Worship. Prayer. And so there we be, looking for signs of one thing or another. It no longer is about the natural world we live in but becomes all about obeying arbitrary laws, standards, and traditions of those who tell us what is right and wrong while they do whatever they want.