An ideal where the independence movement spawns further independence movements and new states to form. One conclusion of such a movement of successive waves of secession, taken to its extreme limit, is that everyone is a state to his-her own. One should notice that the concept of the model of a social contract for a social group would vanish at the this point. The anarchist-surrealists may call this a mass monarchy - where everyone is a regent albeit without sovereigns. An additional side thought: may-be let such monarchs be equipped with a collective of DOAs and a swarm of artilects in a decentralized cloud which are interfacing the real (world) through robotics.
See this work in the erosion of the nation states that appeared in the first wave The Breakdown of the Colonial World, some nations have now been further split into smaller states without international acknowledgement or recognition, with the support of the former colonial power. This involution of power returns power to the old colonial countries, cements capitalism in its most deceptive and destructive form and continues to haunt the free world and its open enclaves.
Balkanisation or division of states and/or subdivision of the result into warring states that derive their support from former colonial powers that vie for power and engage in the use of force to complete their grand aim of existence: to indulge in their lust for power. It always comes with a human cost.
While the west has succumbed to corruption of its freedoms and ideals and a totalitarian age has dawned again, resurfacing through another form of erosion - an erosion of liberty, freedom from snooping and algorithm-based mind control. Is the pressure of such change creating a new desire for privacy, the tools for it and the drive in society to accomplish the sufficient protection of liberty soon enough? Before we lose them for good.
The blockchain economy is offering just such a toolset for liberating the individual from control by the selfish elites. But an interesting, if fiendish paradox arises. When snooping and algorithm-based programmed social media is a computer controlled system of control of humanity, why would we trust another code for liberating us. One potential answer to some may well suggest to be the tangential ideas of anarcho-primitivism.
Monday, 17 October 2016
Saturday, 8 October 2016
An Insight Always Incites an Insurrection
An insurrection here means the escape of the prevailing dogma, a teaching that restrains the human into a straight-jacket of legal, allowed and accepted behaviours. The escape maybe impossible but a step into the unknown territory [plot in French] is a necessity for any progress to occur. Such a step outside the norm of the labyrinth trail run is a constant challenge for the limit-busting and trend-breaking pioneers.
It is often a case that truly outside the box thinking and living requires a secrecy concealed by a code in communications. The need for that is mostly the real threat of distraction of those following the dogma without seeing the true inner ruleset until the destruction of the real into a desolate desert reaches completion and hence a new journey for the world is dawning.
Almost all insights bring with them a vast unhinge that reverberates through the grandest and the smallest minutiae of the fabric of history. Just like the results, that completely alter the shape of history, of steps taken off the beaten path, the outcome of an insight will reverberate through the reality as well as mould it to a new form.
It is often a case that truly outside the box thinking and living requires a secrecy concealed by a code in communications. The need for that is mostly the real threat of distraction of those following the dogma without seeing the true inner ruleset until the destruction of the real into a desolate desert reaches completion and hence a new journey for the world is dawning.
Almost all insights bring with them a vast unhinge that reverberates through the grandest and the smallest minutiae of the fabric of history. Just like the results, that completely alter the shape of history, of steps taken off the beaten path, the outcome of an insight will reverberate through the reality as well as mould it to a new form.
Saturday, 1 October 2016
The Invisible Beauty of Code
There is quite a paradox in software development. We see the program rarely do people read some of the source code for the programs they use. There is a major barrier for that: namely inability to read syntax and understand what the given code does. Sometimes the meaning in code is confusing to programmers themselves and it occurs to most programmers that after a while their own code becomes difficult to understand.
At the same time most programmers know and see very well written programs and good quality code. Yes, cleanliness is a factor but there are several others too. Yet people outside the discipline of software development haven't the foggiest of ideas as to whether the code is beautiful or not.
This is quite different in art. Most people can see beautiful art in its full glory, in its enticing and mesmerising power. Code is hidden.
There is something obvious that can be done to improve the situation even though at the moment it is rather utopian: teach every computer user to program and open up as much code for inspection as possible, rate code perhaps even.
A further step might be to create metrics for evaluating the aesthetics of code, however that may turn out to be an impossible task seeing that most programming languages evolve and take on new features and qualities that interact with each other in novel and unexpected ways, so that many evaluations would be immeasurable or unobjective.
At the same time most programmers know and see very well written programs and good quality code. Yes, cleanliness is a factor but there are several others too. Yet people outside the discipline of software development haven't the foggiest of ideas as to whether the code is beautiful or not.
This is quite different in art. Most people can see beautiful art in its full glory, in its enticing and mesmerising power. Code is hidden.
There is something obvious that can be done to improve the situation even though at the moment it is rather utopian: teach every computer user to program and open up as much code for inspection as possible, rate code perhaps even.
A further step might be to create metrics for evaluating the aesthetics of code, however that may turn out to be an impossible task seeing that most programming languages evolve and take on new features and qualities that interact with each other in novel and unexpected ways, so that many evaluations would be immeasurable or unobjective.
What does Learned Morality Mean?
Most religions have the concept in them that they have a divine source for morality: do not steal, lie, murder, covet, etc and perhaps also a few rules which are positive. However recent investigations have uncovered that morality in humans is neither inborn nor accessible through numinous experience, instead it is based on the experiences of human social interactions, empathy, trading blows, emotional development in short moral principles are a development by experience.
This brings a great turn to a Nietzschean teaching of the need to reevaluate and turn on its head the morality of the church. Suddenly there is no such need. On the other hand the common morality is shown to be under a false guardianship by the church. This needs to be corrected, light should be shined on this misrepresentation. The real reason why most all civilizations have morality is not because of divine illumination or teaching, it is the result of learning in every human.
This brings a great turn to a Nietzschean teaching of the need to reevaluate and turn on its head the morality of the church. Suddenly there is no such need. On the other hand the common morality is shown to be under a false guardianship by the church. This needs to be corrected, light should be shined on this misrepresentation. The real reason why most all civilizations have morality is not because of divine illumination or teaching, it is the result of learning in every human.
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