"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible"
- from Alice through the looking glass
.. I didn't succeed until I stopped striving ..
.. by then I couldn't even hold success back if I tried ..
.. we mourn the demise of the monoculture, of neoliberalism as a viable political economy, of "the press" when we should really be celebrating.. because what all of these disparate fields have in common is the assumption that there is one right way to understand things & that the other ways are wrong, & that theirs is the former ..
.. today, we're realizing more
& more that this may not actually be the case; that it's superficial
to the point of inaccuracy to see things this way ..
..
a 'hermeneutics of suspicion' is a way of reading, or interpreting
reality, that assumes someone(s) has something to gain by con vincing
others that things are a certain way .. this hermeneutics, or Way of
reading & interpretation, then looks at things & decides that
they are not as they had been con vinced they are, but rather otherwise
..
..
in other words, applying a 'hermeneutics of suspicion' is simply a way of saying
that one is reading between the lines, not taking things at face value,
is hip to the con ..
.. there is one important point that's worth emphasizing here, & it is that if there's more than one right answer, for sure there's more than one wrong answer ..
.. our double chaLLenge then is not to find the one right answer, because then we fall into the trap of assuming that there is only one .. rather, it is to find the answer that is most applicable to the con text in which we find ourselves operating, & to avoid being swayed either into the view that everyone else is wrong, or that there isn't a more appropriate Way to the one we've happened upon ..
.. if we succeed at both of these, we have little to fear from con artists who would sway us to their Way, generally at our own expense ..
Logistics is the foundation of Civilization - gotta count that shit
What is the nature of the reality of the past in so far as it concerns our present existence as, I assume you who are reading this are, human beings - [or web scraping computer systems (Hello Google)]: FF ONE! day -> 5-16(2024) f= -11... then another one too, for good measure; it is now 5-17-2024.
Ehr,
scratch that - I wouldn't go down that path if I was me, and I am, so I
won't go down there on the probabilistic side of things.
Instead
let's have physicality remain stable, so you know, things that happened
stay happened and we don't get the rug pulled out from underneath us. I
will assume you are in a building.
How did that building get
there? Someone built it, right? Who, and with what? How long did it
take? What is the building made of? Metal, wood, brick, clay? How did it
get there, now, where the house is? Who carried it? How much weight had
to be moved how far? Where did the energy come from to move the mass in
bulk and then to arrange it so that, you know, the building was an
"actual" building that did the expected building things.
Do you
have heating / cooling? Electricity, running water, gas? Where does the
electricity, water, etc. come from? How does it get to the building you
are in? What laws had to be intelligibly recognized by someone,
somewhere, sometime in order to become physical mechanisms of sufficient
complexity to be able operate in the form they are RIGHT NOW in the
room in which you are sitting?
We live IN the productions of the past. *[REDACTED([XXX-ORG-XXX])]
Think
of the trajectories that the objects around you have taken in the
journey to within, say 15 ft. | 5 m., of where you currently are. Try to
imagine what they might each look like from different points of view.
Try zooming out, looking down at a globe. And this only provides a high
structural overview of the very "real" system in which we find
ourselves. The complexity, and distance, of these journeys from wherever
to wherever again and then here are pretty ridiculous - it's the supply
chain thing that was demonstrably shown in out-of-whack state during
the pandemic. And along the whole chain there are people and money
involved.
These things we take for granted are, when it boils
down, in very large measure the work, and to some degree suffering, of
other people. Other people worked very hard, for very long, for the
things we have now - and they may have rather been doing other things.
But, what would have to be given up in order that the hours of our labor
could be as short as possible and leisure maximized? ... do people even
want leisure maximized? and what is leisure?
Can we determine a
measure, a cost benefit analysis acceptable to the majority of human
beings, where we can all just chill at a steady state? I don't expect
people to want to just lay about in one place, even if they don't want
to go very far. So let's start with the basics: how many people do you
need to feed and how many people would you like to feed? I don't even
know the answer to that question as far as it concerns my own physical
sustenance, alone. Is that a bit wild? At least someone has measured it
for the "average" individual, even if we have not taken good notes on
ourselves, ourselves. I haven't really dug, but you can find a lot of
this type of information in old (new?) military manuals.
In some
sense we here do have a very real numerical calculus of survival in the
sense: I must eat at least X slices of bread, Y ...<- etc. in order
to operate at base line. What is that baseline, and what is required to
generate that baseline directly from the land or similarly relatively
omnipresent sources? For constructing a foundational life support
system, somewhere, else, there is no reason to not take advantage of the
productions of existing supply lines, but those supply lines themselves
may have only a limited lifespan or even cause the opposite of life
support.
Because of our current location in time, durable
consumer goods can be had with relative ease, but development of
progressively newer versions of "same" thing could, can, and maybe
should stagnate due to environmental stresses they cause. In any event,
maybe some people could get together to build something that's not too
BIG that would allow them to eat for "free" indefinitely. So, i.e.,
never a concern about what to eat, or drink, in the water management
equivalent which underlies the food supply. Might not be a fancy diet
from a Michellin star restaurant, but I'm just looking for a way to make
it so we don't have to do too much that we DON'T WANT to do, not find a
way for everyone to do everything that they ---DO WANT to do. Personally,
I'd rather avoid the DON'Ts than have the DOs.
##, but the gist is that the "real" existent past is somehow tied up with "personal" memory##
.. in psychology, 'transference' refers to when someone transfers
feelings or associations they had with someone in their past to someone
in their present world .. what we seek to outline here however is both a
more general & a more precise understanding ..
..
just as energy is transferred in the physical realm, indeed reality as
such would not be possible otherwise, it can also be transferred in the
more subtle energetic spheres .. an angry person can, without a
seemingly direct physical medium of transfer, cause others to become
agitated, & vice versa ..
..
it is this kind of subtle energetic transference which is behind such
phenomena as extrasensory perception (ESP) and telepathy, but also less
supposedly fantastical experiences as empathy; without it, the latter
would not be possible ..
..
but if a phenomenon which underlies empathy, a relatively common &
arguably an essential experience in modern life, also is the mechanism
which is responsible for telepathy & ESP, then both of these are
just as possible .. indeed, in oder to 'activate' these abilities, one
simply has to come to terms with this fact ..
.. given the positions outlined thus far, the ever increasing global population, & the corollary thesis that the resultant heat & entropy of a closed system inexorably increases with time in an ever-escalating feedback loop,
[
.. additional notes on how said feedback loop will ultimately result in
"societal collapse" (.. a term which it is all too easy to bandy about,
but the outcomes of which it is arguably impossible to overstate, &
which will make every insurrection or protest hitherto seem like dry
runs at best .. ) predicted by many experts in our very lifetime, are
redacted to avoid any liability for mass hysteria & global panic,
which, arguably, are inevitable in any case .. ]
.. the real magick is following a trajectory into a new magickal universe;
seeing all of reality in a fresh & vibrant way ..
