Xenonauts - Bursters of the Filter Bubble

Social Media has created algorithms for filtering the streams of content people get to what they like, resulting in everyone mostly getting what they like to see with a dash of the old stress doctor's dose of daily horrors.
Time to get out of the Matrix of social media based mind control! Proposing a term for people who want to meet other people outside of their personal friend zone and feel xenophilia towards the different - xenonaut, a person who explores friendship with all sorts of different people.
Keeping such an acquaintance list varied and fun may be one of the pieces of the puzzle of the strange effect of social media causing teenage stress and adult depression. It could be a way out - off the controlled tramlines that emotionally engineer regular, predictable engagement from the users.

Two types of spiritual experiences

1. Opening Experience - new ideas come to mind, instantly as insights or epiphanies
2. Closing Experience -  shuts off vision and replaces them with hallucinations, enstasy (bright blackness) or bright white light.  

Demonetising, Dematerialising, Delegalising, Demilitarising, Decentralizing the State

If technology can demonetise a whole economy by the blockchained bitcoin,
turn the locked-up and unused assets of a state and all its individuals free for use by all in a frenzy of middlemanless sharing and collaboration economy of dematerialisation, while peer production reaches the everyman and provides low cost production facilities, the legal offices are replaced by blockchain notaries; is there any room for anything other than an anarchic pluralist network of tribes?
Bitcoin also removes inflation from the economy is used as the main currency. It may even remove banks from the loop. Without inflation the real estate rentier class would lose significant opportunity to acquire wealth.
No money, no property, no law, no religion are the foundations of anarchism.
Or perhaps technology will stop at getting us to this route to eutopia because it might not provide solutions to religious thought? Or maybe cognitive research and cognitive prosthesis will in the future allow for religious experiences at will?
Or allow for amazing new spiritual experiences once souls have been digitalized by uploading? Maybe the communion will acquire a totally new meaning when it merges with the egoless state of being when the global mind is first used to unite a dozen odd pioneers of electronic/optronic neural prostheses to share ego-ness as a collective experience of all members?

Processes of Political Schools

Each school of politics has its main principles and its main Process which combines the practices into one flow.

Hereby two Processes are demonstrated:

Process of Communism, the Classical Process

1. Exploitation of the workers causes massive social economic disparity
2. Proletarians learn about exploitation by the owners from the vanguard - class consciousness awakens in the proletariat.
3. Proletarians revolt against the bourgeois and the exploitation
4. A revolution displaces the owners with councils by a violent overthrow, owners and managers are imprisoned and executed after showtrials.The capitalist state is dismantled and replaced by a union of councils to rule in equality
5. People are forced to improve the state by compulsory labour
6. Free education, universal employment and medical care eliminate poverty
7. The worker's state is run by a single party, middlemen, a glorious genius of a leader runs the party and the state happily ever after
8. (When the revolutionary vanguard dies away the system fades and capitalism returns OR Communist Society - free from exploitation is constructed by technological means) 
9. Competition between communist states opens up a possibility for war in addition to paranoia against capitalist spies prying on the workers' state from the outside
10.  Socialist economies are formed and maintained by equality of all members 
11. Equality is enforced as a primary aim for society, without it some with less capital are always with less liberty.

   

Process of Liberalism 

1. Rule by a master-slave ethic forms massive social disparities 
2. Education enlightens the peoples' blight under the tyranny of aristocrats 
3. People revolt against the aristocrats 
4. People are free to do as they please - work for others or engage in business
5. People are allowed to improve their social standing by amelioration. While self-development is not enforced, disparity increases - as some own the means of production and others use these machines  for the betterment of the financial standing of the owners
6. The poor are helped by philanthropy
7. Various freedoms (press, gathering, religion, etc) serve as the foundational to the state constition, while the resulting applications cause problems solved by law as all are considered equal under the law
8. A liberal state is run democratically
9. Peaceful diplomacy is the favoured means of concourse between other liberal states so that production builds on ever more prosperity. War can be a source of profit if other nations are pushed into wars, serving the financial interests of the owners of military industries in liberal countries
10. Democratic and open societies are formed and maintained by freedom
11. Liberty is enforced as the primary aim for society, without it there is no choice for any sense of equality.

These two processes do not live by themselves, they intermingle and influence each other in many ways. It is beneficial for states of either processes to form unions so as to protect themselves from the ill-influence of the other states eg in warmongering and divide and conquer style strategies while also improving the economic well-being in the economy over-all.

Tragedy for alt-right : A Dream Come True

As the right and the extreme right contains in it the kernel meme that justifies hate and glorifies aggression. It falls into the category of the evil counterpart in the political stage. While a common description of a tragedy gistifies that as a stage play where the good side loses, and the bad side enjoys a victory of some sort. Hence the right wants a tragedy to live by. What a farce! 

Madness Among the Regular Size Life

What if the human social condition necessitates a certain normalisation of experience and feeling and sensitivity to emotions. So normal people do not hear what is said/commented about them in public venues. Normal people are filtering out their emotional experiences and empathise little with others so as to please the social condition they are presented with. After all some people are several times more accurate in reading other's demeanour. Why do we not have it available for everyone, what if is it a latent superpower suppressed by the need for normalcy? Perhaps we can´t be too different so that the social sphere would work for as many people as possible so that as many would be infected by the requirement to be normal.
Madness defined as all forms of mental problems that disobey the rule to conform to the norm now has a strong twin appearing in the shape of the irrationality of accepting those who have the superempathic, superemotional, superintelligent, superolphactory and superoptical powers and not just accepting them but uplifting everyone´s abilities, skills and powers to those levels.
There are likeable elements to the indie/alternative movement that was live in the 90s. As an art it only provided a slogan to live by "Make your own kind of music." A paraphrase suggests itself: Make your own superpower to pursue! It´s not mad to strive for a level up, so let´s make a mad dash for it.

The Gigaannum Project

1. Live long enough to populate the Galaxy
2. Save as many noospheric planets from supernovae in this Galaxy as possible.
3. Save as many galaxies from galaxy collisions as possible
4. If possible engineer an extension to the lifetime of the Universe, if not seek out an escape to other multiverses/xenoverses

Masquerade

The problem of collective class unconsciousness

Why do people in their large numbers not rebel against the conditions of their miserable being in comparison to the opulent being of the ruling minority? How are they duped to such an extent that they serve in the military to support that establishment of the capitalist system, or inspire people through the media with fantasies along with rare and occasional successes through amelioration and self development, or 'think different' until they serve time in the prison system or rehab system to do slave servitude? 

An Archetypal Metaphor of the Masquerade

There are three agents:
Mask makers - those who shape the roles and the world view stories in such a way that wearing the mask becomes an inevitability.
Mask wearers - those who mask the true power or poverty of their existence, the mask shapes the expressed desires and aims according to the establishment
Mask pullers - those who unmask the nature of reality, vital for the consciousness of class to emerge for them to steer towards acting in their true interests.

While the mask puller may work in unison with the revolutionary, if those work iterations are longer and of smaller magnitude than the establishment's mask makers', the status quo with the class unconsciousness remains. This effect is then repeated and the Grand Illusion, that everything is fine, acceptable and unchangeable - permeates the culture.


This is an update of the storyteller/exposer metaphor.