The world succumbs.
We are enveloped into the enfolding.
We join the retreating wave of biomass.
Another species no longer hoping.
No more convenient delusions to survive us.
No more development of our civilisation.
Science as ignorant as the day it was born.
Nothing to save us from ourselves.
No noble cause to die for.
No morality to alleviate our guilt.
Not even a home to return to at day-end.
Mother buried in the void beyond understanding.
Not even our children will survive us.
I am still here, facing certain death.
You are still here, I face you too.
Nothing to say beyond the wind of exhalation.
Surrounded by a deafening silence.
So much space and time to behave in.
Everything to do but nowhere to start.
So much love, but never enough.
Just the potential of 12 hrs of overcast sunlight every single day.
Showing posts with label the future. Show all posts
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2013-07-23
2011-03-24
The internet is the teleological object at the end of time
The internet is the teleological object at the end of time that casts a shadow back over history. The task of all humans throughout history has been to create this object. This object influences us across time and space and itself exists in a kind of singularity where all information is condensed to a single point and simultaneously sends information waves that we perceive and are inspired to manifest.
We have been preparing for the creation of this object since at least the beginning of agriculture, agriculture being necessary to create the conditions from which this object could emerge. We have been developing the information to comprise it and the technology to contain it for thousands of years and finally in the last few decades we have manifested it as a tangible reality. We have seen over the last century an acceleration in the condensation of information from paper to film to tape to digital technologies of exponentially increasing density. Having created the appropriate conditions, developed the necessary technology and spread access to the technology around the planet we are now in a mad rush to upload all information into an ever-smaller space. The goal seems to be to upload all information into a technology that is non-local and takes up no space.
There is also the possibility of uploading information into an organic technology that reproduces and decays. It has been suggested that the presence of certain anomalous life-forms on this planet is the technology itself. Unusual life-forms that also contain high densities of information, such as human beings and psilocybin mushrooms, have been striving, and working symbiotically, to manifest their true forms; pure information. There have been many experiential verifications of existing in environments of pure information in various dream states or in collaboration with specific plants or fungi such as the aforementioned psilocybin mushroom. In these states it is possible to achieve a high level of consciousness that reveals our ability to access, assess and manifest realities from a far wider range of information than we usually perceive.
Through the use of these plants and fungi of high information density or through a simple honest observation of contemporary 21st century culture, it is possible to notice the apparent extraterrestrial influence on human civilisation, especially the chaotic anomaly of pop culture and its increasing obsession with aesthetics of the artificial such as plastic surgery and electronic music. The strangest of these 21st century cultural forms are of course artificial environments created on the internet.
Imaginations limited by a physical time-bound four-dimensional paradigm may conceive of aliens from space influencing our behaviour towards the goal of creating this object. It has also been proposed that the internet is indeed the teleological object that has been influencing us towards its own creation. Why are we creating this object that is simultaneously encompassing more and refining and reducing itself on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory to some sort of singularity? Who are we creating this object for? Terence McKenna describes this process as the interiorisation of the human body and the exteriorisation of the human soul.
My idea of a more pertinent question as I look around at my fellow humans and our civilisation is, Why are we pretending nothing is happening? Why are we politely ignoring the fact that we are in the presence of the teleological object? We are all consciously observing the beginning of the end, but not the beginning of the end of everything, rather the beginning of the end of the beginning. The future beyond the completion of the internet being inconceivable. Or can we conceive of the perpetuity of the world wide web, the perpetuity of exponential growth, in a world where nothing is permanent?
Will the skills we have developed as employees and consumers be sufficient for survival in a world none of us can imagine, or even in a world closer to the non-physical, non-local, non-linear world of the internet than anything else we can see? It is likely that skills involving the ability to perceive and process as much information from our environment as possible and the ability to respond with responsibility and respect to our environment will be more valuable.
Will the increasing strangeness of our environment be sufficient impetus to instigate more sustainable behaviour or do we require some sort of cathartic catastrophe? I am sure the ocean can provide more tsunamis if we continue to pray for them with our denial.
We have been preparing for the creation of this object since at least the beginning of agriculture, agriculture being necessary to create the conditions from which this object could emerge. We have been developing the information to comprise it and the technology to contain it for thousands of years and finally in the last few decades we have manifested it as a tangible reality. We have seen over the last century an acceleration in the condensation of information from paper to film to tape to digital technologies of exponentially increasing density. Having created the appropriate conditions, developed the necessary technology and spread access to the technology around the planet we are now in a mad rush to upload all information into an ever-smaller space. The goal seems to be to upload all information into a technology that is non-local and takes up no space.
There is also the possibility of uploading information into an organic technology that reproduces and decays. It has been suggested that the presence of certain anomalous life-forms on this planet is the technology itself. Unusual life-forms that also contain high densities of information, such as human beings and psilocybin mushrooms, have been striving, and working symbiotically, to manifest their true forms; pure information. There have been many experiential verifications of existing in environments of pure information in various dream states or in collaboration with specific plants or fungi such as the aforementioned psilocybin mushroom. In these states it is possible to achieve a high level of consciousness that reveals our ability to access, assess and manifest realities from a far wider range of information than we usually perceive.
Through the use of these plants and fungi of high information density or through a simple honest observation of contemporary 21st century culture, it is possible to notice the apparent extraterrestrial influence on human civilisation, especially the chaotic anomaly of pop culture and its increasing obsession with aesthetics of the artificial such as plastic surgery and electronic music. The strangest of these 21st century cultural forms are of course artificial environments created on the internet.
Imaginations limited by a physical time-bound four-dimensional paradigm may conceive of aliens from space influencing our behaviour towards the goal of creating this object. It has also been proposed that the internet is indeed the teleological object that has been influencing us towards its own creation. Why are we creating this object that is simultaneously encompassing more and refining and reducing itself on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory to some sort of singularity? Who are we creating this object for? Terence McKenna describes this process as the interiorisation of the human body and the exteriorisation of the human soul.
My idea of a more pertinent question as I look around at my fellow humans and our civilisation is, Why are we pretending nothing is happening? Why are we politely ignoring the fact that we are in the presence of the teleological object? We are all consciously observing the beginning of the end, but not the beginning of the end of everything, rather the beginning of the end of the beginning. The future beyond the completion of the internet being inconceivable. Or can we conceive of the perpetuity of the world wide web, the perpetuity of exponential growth, in a world where nothing is permanent?
Will the skills we have developed as employees and consumers be sufficient for survival in a world none of us can imagine, or even in a world closer to the non-physical, non-local, non-linear world of the internet than anything else we can see? It is likely that skills involving the ability to perceive and process as much information from our environment as possible and the ability to respond with responsibility and respect to our environment will be more valuable.
Will the increasing strangeness of our environment be sufficient impetus to instigate more sustainable behaviour or do we require some sort of cathartic catastrophe? I am sure the ocean can provide more tsunamis if we continue to pray for them with our denial.
2010-02-26
The end is nigh again
It seems the end is nigh again and some people are curious and some people are convinced and some people are scared. My brother is building a bomb shelter and I am sure I will be welcome there.
However, unlike the terror of the Y2K disaster I don't think the world is going to end this time. On the contrary, I don't think the world exists. You may not believe me, and this is a good thing. Do not believe me. I do not know anything. But hear me out. We have built so many artificial structures in which to house our insecurities and accumulations and so-called civilisation that the world in which we live can indeed be considered non-existent. This may mean you are actually asleep, it may simply mean you need to find a way of reassessing from a different perspective what you consider to be "real".
Personally, I am not building a bomb shelter to protect my CD and DVD collection; or even to protect my body. I'll be fine. I might die, of course, but I will be fine regardless of what happens. Of course if I die I certainly won't mind, but I am under the impression, mistaken or otherwise, that any change will be for the better. The bigger the change, the better the results. I am prepared for any eventuality. This is my symbolic bomb shelter. I don't need a physical hole to cower in because I have created of myself and my life a state in which I don't rely on anything tenuous like the economy or electicity. I feel like I will find a way of eating, sheltering and connecting with people in any type of situation. And if not I'll just die. No big deal. Being able to move, both physically around the world and amongst different people and cultures makes me feel like any post-apocalypse, post-economy, post-government, post-driving around world will actually be more exciting and challenging than the one I am living in at the moment, which I don't mind at all. The current world isn't bad. But it could only get better if all these structures that limit our behaviour crumble due to unsustainable practices like building high towers and exploiting the third world (who may actually be just as intelligent as us despite their lack of education).
In my utter arrogance and intellectual independence I have compiled a list of ten suggestions for preparing yourself for the impending eschaton:
1. Share food.
2. Do not engage with conflict.
3. Love and respect all forms of life equally.
4. Do not watch television or follow "the news".
5. Engage with your environment.
6. Be entirely selfish, with every action serving to benefit your whole self.
7. Listen to your body. Give it the food it needs, rather than what you think you are addicted to.
8. Drink water; listen and express yourself frequently.
9. Love yourself and by extension everything that surrounds you to a distance of infinity in every direction.
10. Do not do anything you do not want to do, regardless of who suggests it.
If you follow these suggestions, commandments we could say, you will or will not be prepared when that date inevitably comes around and something or nothing inevitably happens.
Love Chris
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