Smart Freedom, Not More Rope

Hey, the world is changing. It will not be the same. Mixing Terrence McKenna, teachings from Kundalini yoga, wilderness awareness experiences, economics, Mormonism, and the recent conference I attended presented by the California International Bankers Association, 2012 is going to be a big year. If we are lucky, citizens are going to own the insurance markets, car manufactures, and every other "over-leveraged" capitalist industry. And the pandemic is global, with the pathogen being the IMF and World Bank.

If we are lucky, we are not going to be "communists" in the sense that the Catholic Church today was once as oppressive as today's Taliban, which they were during the dark ages. One of our biggest objectives should be in avoiding the post-soviet privatization, where billionaires were politically created by merging mafia with government. But if everyone owns stock that they can freely buy and sell, those citoyens are then responsible for the actions of their businesses in their communities.

The capitalists have sold the world enough rope to hang them many times over. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is not to use that rope.



This post written in Berkeley, CA (go figure). Regardless of how crazy you think Berkeley is, is it not an expression of freedom? So maybe Berkeley should be studied as a model.

The Plight of Microbes

Nano Technology has come a long way. UCLA and Hebrew Univeristy have developed a motor that is powered by two living beings. It is so much better when they call them motors rather than living microbes that will serve their entire lives as slaves to a nano machine. Don't worry, its okay: their lives have no meaning. We know this beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I think the worst they are going to do to humans is to devolve us to a happy servile class, while the primate kings and queens will be allowed to breed a leadership class. Note that when they try to make sure we have at least an ethical level of happiness, they do have another stated goal:

Researchers hope the findings will help employers better understand what they can do to create more productive workers.

Proponents of Directed Panspermia include famed DNA-explorers Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel.

So is it possible, and I am going out on a limb here, that as our planet is being destroyed, we are trying to develop spore-like nanotechnologies that can be encoded with evolved DNA instructions that can be shot out of a space cannon mounted on a gravity-less space station, on the prayer that they land sometime somewhere on fertile soils? Terrence McKenna argued that this is the case for mushrooms that have an odd, other-worldly chemical structure and life form that allowed them to travel through time and space before landing on this planet. Are mushrooms the fruit of the tree of knowledge that we are forbidden from eating?

Maybe panspermia is the underlying motivation for secret societies and masonic or mormon rituals -- that have the signs and tokens to identify themselves as fellow travelers to each other in the group. It is not for this life but the life in the future in intergalactic population as we master the universe? For example, if we, you or me are shot out of a cannon like Hunter S. Thompson (but in gravityless space), and land on a planet called Beetlejuice and start the cycle of life, are those rituals burned into our DNA - the secret code capable of unfolding into life? Will we have to go through all the stages of evolution at the next planet to get to homosapien, as discussed in Your Inner Fish? And will the practice of those rituals allow us to identify and communicate with one another? Is this why the rituals are usually accompanied with a blood oath, because they can't accept a sub-optimal outcome such as prisoner's dilemma? Will we have the faith of a mustard seed to become a mustard seed on this intergalactic journey? Maybe religious practice is how you fight off the curse of prisoner's dilemma or even a way of meditating on the intergalactic journey that could take a millennium. Who knows?

Am I out of my mind? I really can't tell.