Horse, 3WD and all: I believe in conspiracy theories. I'm sure they exist because I've seen the paranoir X-Files and I've heard Art Bell's Dreamland. And the theories are true, even if they don't exist in any literal sense. There is a Dynamic truth behind these paranoid dreams. Even the reports of alien abduction are real, even if there is no such thing as a flying saucer. The mere fact that thousands report it is itself the fascinating thing. "He had come to think of dreams as Dynamic perceptions of reality. .. The static patterns of the dreams were false but the underlying values that produced the patterns were true. In static reality there is no octopus coming to squeeze us to death, no giant that is going to devour us and digest us and turn us into a part of its own body so that it can grow stronger and stronger while we are dissolved and lost into nothingness. But in Dynamic reality?" "Later he saw there was: this Giant. People look upon the social patterns of the Giant in the same way cows and horses look upon a farmer; different from themselves, incomprehensible, but benevolent and appealing. Yet the social pattern of the city devours their lives for its own purposes just as surely as farmers devour the flesh of farm animals." Wow. "The city devours their lives". The Big Apple eats people. Run for your lives! This ain't no monster movie. There is no Lex Luther plotting world domination. But Hitler was real enough. Rupert Murdoch is a real guy, but also the model for the bad guy in a James Bond movie, which was true enough in its own way. Its a difficult thing to be accurate about because the "metaphysics of substance makes it difficult to see the Giant." The "secret cabal of capitalists" is a kind of natural fiction, it Dynamically represents something real, like a myth or a dream. Specifically it represent the force and purpose of the Giant. Its devouring nature isn't limited to those OTHER social patterns like Victorian or Communist patterns. Even in the modern free world, in the "most Dynamic place on Earth", even New York City is "the brain center of that corporate network, surrounded by other networks:" ...etc. If I understand 3WD's stance toward the Giant, he's saying that resistence is futile. You will be assimilated. He's giving voice to the wishes and purpose of the Giant. And of course it can work in no other way. People have to believe that they are acting in the right way and in their own interests. The Giant's consumption of your life involves no actual grinding of the teeth, but rather it occurs as a kind of acquiescence to or identification with the Giant's values by actual individuals. Some folks more than others, but no one is immune. Take Chomsky's MANUFACTURING CONSENT for example. His critics insist that he is a conspiracy nut, but no one who's actually read it could come to that conclusion. Noam says flatly that it is NOT a conspiracy in the media. Instead, he says that the very nature and structure of media produces a certain bias. That built in bias effects the news we get. I think even more interestingly, that same bias selects the kind of person who will be successful within the media. The guy on your local news station is NOT given instructions to do trite, overly-sensational crap. But if he does anything else, he's not going to get very far in the biz. ETC. And every "biz" works that way, each with its own particular purpose. Even guys like Rupert only serve a thing much more powerful than themselves. Here's the kicker. Everyone is a part of this beast (666) to some extent, except for the occaisional savior or saint. And that's not a problem UNTIL these social patterns come into conflict with intellectual quality. Then acquiescense is immoral. To favor a lower level value over a higher level of quality is - well - its the closest thing to evil within the MOQ. In static reality, there is no actual devil who will buy your soul with fame and riches. But in Dynamic reality? DMB MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
