Revolution as a Product

From Che posters on T-shirts to Richard Branson using the same symbols, to Russell Brand touting Marxist Revolution - the revolution has been productised, merchandised. What for?
There most be more to it than just a brand with a recognisable sign and my guess is that we could be heading for a failed revolution as business megaproject - for the prison complex. There are some alarmists from economists to sociologists who herald or perhaps foresee the doom.  Everyone who is going to participate will be imprisoned in the modern gulags of the surveillance dystopias - formerly named the Free World.

Revolution (C)

Poverty of the Spirit in PC Games

First I thought of titling this piece poverty of the mind ...
I was thinking of the various connections of the pc games as soon-to-be the main propaganda channels for the Establishment - if they are not that already, and how each different genre matches an evil in the Establishment. Kids are being prepared for the spectacle that life really is. Not only do these games curiously lack  future vision and are therefore impoverishments for the mind, they do reflect an amped up version of the current reality and they also program their customers for certain industries. These future customers are formed, weaned and herded like the cattle.

1. 4X Strategies and FPS / Military Recruitment , Military Industrial Complex
2. Crime games / Prison Industrial Complex, The current US per capita rate is worse than the darkest days of the Soviet Gulags. Kids are being prepared for the spectacle that is life.
3. Space Sim / ??? -  these games lack any insight on the possibility for empathy based technologies that may well appear in the future, so wars are a still a major theme, just shooting and maneuvering in space seems very lame in an age where even cars are going driverless and the powerful militaries are building autonomous killing robots.
4. RPGs / mostly centered on wars and fighting, whether with magic or sword

There is so much fighting and wars and looting in games that in other words calculates to a complete loss of the chance for the perfectible nature of the human existence. 

Forbidden Wisdom

A book whose study is forbidden
Once dedicated to a beast;
To be read once and then destroyed
Or you shall have no peace.

--from the Cicada 3301 

first puzzle/ recruitment for the highly intelligent individuals so that they would be tested and profiled and then...?

Well, when I was around 20 I spoke to a man who spoke of a book where every page would lead to a new level of understanding and power but would require that you destroyed the previous page to get to understand the next one.  I never saw the book. But when I saw this poem it suddenly clicked.
Around the time I was reading and interpreting the Halliwell manuscript  -  a combination of two masonic texts that contains the 15 articles and 15 points. They also refer to seven sciences important for the education of a mason.

A few readings of the poem:
You can only study the book if you do not dedicate the study to the beast (perhaps the beast of egoism in you) otherwise you lose your peace. It gives such power, perhaps.

If you dedicate the book study to the beast you cannot study.

What is destroyed the book or the beast. Does the book help to destroy the beast?

Continued forbidden study robs you of your peace.

Continued study starts a war or a lack of peace of mind? War with the beast? Torments by the beast?

Also the last two lines form the logical statement : A AND B OR !C
ABC Formula
000 false
001 false
010 false
011 false
100 false
101 false
110 true
111 true
What can you read once and then not anymore? A puzzle has this nature. Once it is broken you have the solution. You cannot look at the puzzle again the same way until you forget the solution! When you solve the puzzle and the solution is presented  - then you have peace.

What if the beast rather than egoism, is the savage without education? Peace is then for the educated.

Result was something else: the beast was Horus the book, The Book of Law by Aleister Crowley... The book was somewhat forbidden in the then christian world...

Stupidity Property Laws

Where DRM appliances are sold to people, and they buy it up, that are based on intellectual property laws! I thought of the property based on stupidity. How the media and entertainment industries - the arms of the military driven propaganda mechanism, are now set to create stupid media and very low value games.

1. Create some stupidity property
2. Find others to stupefy with your product
3. Sell the stupid products to the stupid customers
4. Use the proceeds to treat you to other stupid makers' stupid products 
5. Repeat until in stupor 

Films and Stress Induced Cognitive Deficit(SICD)

They Live and The Matrix are films that highlight two things an epiphany and a revelation of the true nature of being. Both echo the many spiritual traditions. Every religion benefits from the wisdom of its philosophers after all.
At the same time the nature of the actual being and what appears as the being have a difference very similar to the capitalist / Marxist divide. On one hand people are free to pursue prosperity and wealth while on the other hand the workers who actually are working to produce the things get a very small amount from the actual sale of the produce as their wage. Exploitation is the flip-side of every cent of profit. People do not pursue private enterprise because they can't put together a starting capital nor have an option to take out a loan for starting a business. So most people are kept in their condition of minimum wage so that they would work for a wage and produce a profit for those who are in an ownership of an enterprise.  What keeps them in this socially conditioned social behaviour is stress. A very cunning illness that makes people lack the necessary intelligence to ameliorate themselves out of their own condition of misery. Furthermore it keeps people in their familiar routines and behaviours enforced by a list of constant threats and fears and stress maintenance. It is an epiphany when you understand that a large part of your product is removed from you, as if by a mystery with your express permission and agreement, that most people are never in a position to reverse the terms or offer the same pattern onto others to liberate themselves from the necessary conditioned behaviours and drudgeries of work sustained by ongoing cognitive blindness while stress perpetuates the work.

... Tomorrowland comes in and kind of reverses the idea of revelation - it has been a fantastic world but then someone brought in the hoodwinks for all, made them forget it and consequently they think that the world is awful and worse: about to end.

There are many films of this type which portray sudden insight into the nature of a system.


It would be interesting to have a film where SICD is discovered and the enlightened programmers are given a magic touch by their newly awakened consciousness, just by shedding off all stressors and growing the doors of their perception. This may look a lot like Limitless

Every human who has ever been on the Third Level of Consciousness seeks to regain it or maintain it with serenity and buffering themselves from the noisy, quarrelsome rabble. Many humans who have experienced the Fourth Level of Consciousness would like to bring others to light on the nature of society and social being and to find others. There is no technology required for it. One just needs dedication and this very insight: without stress human soul blossoms in a display of joyous growth of executive functions; with it one remains dumbed down and blind to it to boot.

War as Divine

In pantheism war is one of the archetypes - an inescapable pattern of life, a paradigm of mass behaviour forged into place with tradition. Yet it somewhat reappears more subdued and veiled in monotheism in the Wrath of God, his anger at the wrongdoings of man for example. Wars have not been eliminated from history with the salvation brought by faith in God or baptism. It is very difficult to match the core religious idea of progress in morality and virtues with the reality of wars as historical means of solving a conflict. War is not divine. Vedic culture has been a good example where the interpretation ethical living according to canon was changing and the concept of Ahimsa - nonviolence was brought to the point of the highest ideal. Yet this canon is not free of wars - The Bhagavadgita begins with it.

Science advances

Computing

1. Quantified Self
2. Quantum Computing
3. Quantum Internet
4. Graphene Chips (Silicon chips, Vacuum tubes, Mechanical computers )
5. Databases
6. Social Media (Big Data wonder?)
7. Optical Chips(Requires lasers and graphene chips)
8. Open Source Software 
9. Blockchain
10. Collaborative science (requires Social Media)
11. Computer GRID(requires internet)
12. VR
13. AR
14. Life logging

Economics

1. Cryptocurrency
2. Peer production

Transport

1. Hyperloop wonder 
2. Drones

Health

1. Stem cells
2. Bioprinting
3. All viruses diagnostics kit
4. Bioengineering (Venter's Human Genome project)
5. Personalised Medicine (requires Genetics and Databases)