5 seconds on that page tells you that the author does not understand
much ...
<quote>
nationalism led to World War I;
capitalism caused the world-wide Great Depression;1
fascism was to blame for World War II;
communism killed tens of millions with engineered famines and the
mass murder of supposed dissidents.
</quote>
What led to all of those things was radicalization and spiritual
degeneration caused by artificial scarcity induced by our monetary
system. "capitalism", "communism", "nationalism" are meaningless terms
... the only thing we "got" is "debtism" and debtism only knows one
outcome: poverty, anxiety, radicalization, low quality of consciousness,
chaos, violence, terrorism and war.
There are only two direction/forces ... its abundance, love, cooperation
vs. scarcity, fear and competition ... and our contemporary society is
again falling apart because we still allow our monetary system to make
us all insane, fearful, crazy and irrational. Billions of people run
around with an ever decreasing quality of consciousness and the alleged
leaders and establishment reflect these perfectly ... just like Hitler
was a reflection of this process of systemic scarcity primitivizing the
masses.
The author writes so much about 1000 things will ignoring the only
relevant thing: The two opposing forces that decide whether a society
evolves or degenerates ... scarcity vs. abundance. For ~5000 years now
our monetary system has held us back and caused cyclical collapses of
large parts of our society ... and today we are facing a total collapse
of our entire society combined with the total collapse of our biosphere
... and it's all about our monetary system ... and the author does not
mention it at all. That tells you that he/she is dealing with symptoms
and does not really understand the underlying process.
Am 29/01/2019 um 06:20 schrieb Linas Vepstas:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 2:30 AM justcamel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Ram Dass
Ram Dass was a clever man. Some more Slavs:
-- Kardashev scale
-- Stanisław Lem wrote a book on the singularity, which I eagerly
poured over, waiting for a great revelation. I think I finally found a
few thrilling sentences. Unfortunately, he spent most of the 250 pages
trying to explain what a robot was to peasants who had never seen
anything more mechanized than a plow and a butter churn.
I think both Kardashev and Lem talk about the universe waking up and
becoming self-conscious. I'm thinking both von Neumann and Feynman
also said as much, on those rare occasions when they talked about AGI.
Then there is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Omega Point ... which
is just the AGI singularity, explained differently.
Lord knows how many others have taken this and elaborated it to great
detail. Its popular.
One common simplified version is "all is one, we are all Gods(err,
"the same God"), God is inside of us, we are all just shards of God",
and of course "we are one great quantum superposition which is God".
The most wonderfully-wonderful exploration of the "we are all God"
(and what is terribly wrong with that idea) that I've read is
https://meaningness.com Caution - its maybe a thousand pages long so
if you dive in from the beginning, you'll get swamped.
Here is a page from the middle (a good place to start!), it is
absolutely fun to read: https://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown
-- Linas
--
cassette tapes - analog TV - film cameras - you
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