A darker view of “civilized” humanity is difficult to imagine. My principle problem with this view is that “waking up” to our relatively benign modern wage-slavery gives no direction to actions leading to true freedom from exploitation. Abolish ideologies? Install a non-ideological ideology? Abolish religions? Recognize that human life is meaningless? Philosopphy? Logical, moral, or spiritual (or if all intertwined–paradox-free?)? End statism? Install anarchism? Abolish debt? Produce with no thought of reward? Destroy the mechanical slaves that enslave us? Return to hunter-gathering? My secondary problem is that no clear criteria emerge to differentiate the slaves from the slavers. It’s a commonplace that slavers are in bondage to their slaves as much as their slaves are to them. Could it be that we are all irrevocably enslaved to the fact of our mere existence?
[...] On a more general topic, you might want to watch this 16-minute YouTube video by Stefan Molyneux that will coax you further to “take the red pill” and escape the “matrix.” One blogger calls it “the most dangerous video on the internet.” At the conclusion of this polemic against statism, ideology, and religious establishments, Molyneux tells us that it is reason and courage that will set us free. You can find it embedded in my blog, Tom’s News and Views.” [...]
The world as a colored coded patchwork of human livestock farms? That’s a thought. Molyneux throws out a radical and conspiracy based explanation and analogy of age old exploitation apparently to awaken unknowing slaves from their own “Stolkholm Syndrome”….Eat the red pill? Exploitation seems to be the basic entropic quality moving forward from as far as history serves us. As fact, it is neither good or bad. It is motion. As the earth’s own innate motion in space trumps Man’s own exploitive follies, a new age bekons the exploitators to design “smart farms” or more balanced systems to mitigate damage to the host planet’s nourishing resources that the “cows” depend on. Amidst all of this, who would reject the notion of the preservation or even expansion of human freedom? Maybe one could start with Prince Philip in his disguise as a hero to nature, ie. the World Wildlife Federation.
December 4, 2008 at 1:57 pm |
I’ve read Stefan’s wok before. He’s very good. My dad would have loved this.
December 5, 2008 at 10:13 pm |
A darker view of “civilized” humanity is difficult to imagine. My principle problem with this view is that “waking up” to our relatively benign modern wage-slavery gives no direction to actions leading to true freedom from exploitation. Abolish ideologies? Install a non-ideological ideology? Abolish religions? Recognize that human life is meaningless? Philosopphy? Logical, moral, or spiritual (or if all intertwined–paradox-free?)? End statism? Install anarchism? Abolish debt? Produce with no thought of reward? Destroy the mechanical slaves that enslave us? Return to hunter-gathering? My secondary problem is that no clear criteria emerge to differentiate the slaves from the slavers. It’s a commonplace that slavers are in bondage to their slaves as much as their slaves are to them. Could it be that we are all irrevocably enslaved to the fact of our mere existence?
December 6, 2008 at 7:55 pm |
[...] On a more general topic, you might want to watch this 16-minute YouTube video by Stefan Molyneux that will coax you further to “take the red pill” and escape the “matrix.” One blogger calls it “the most dangerous video on the internet.” At the conclusion of this polemic against statism, ideology, and religious establishments, Molyneux tells us that it is reason and courage that will set us free. You can find it embedded in my blog, Tom’s News and Views.” [...]
December 24, 2008 at 12:35 pm |
The world as a colored coded patchwork of human livestock farms? That’s a thought. Molyneux throws out a radical and conspiracy based explanation and analogy of age old exploitation apparently to awaken unknowing slaves from their own “Stolkholm Syndrome”….Eat the red pill? Exploitation seems to be the basic entropic quality moving forward from as far as history serves us. As fact, it is neither good or bad. It is motion. As the earth’s own innate motion in space trumps Man’s own exploitive follies, a new age bekons the exploitators to design “smart farms” or more balanced systems to mitigate damage to the host planet’s nourishing resources that the “cows” depend on. Amidst all of this, who would reject the notion of the preservation or even expansion of human freedom? Maybe one could start with Prince Philip in his disguise as a hero to nature, ie. the World Wildlife Federation.
January 28, 2009 at 6:40 am |
It is simply good to think of these things…thanks for giving me more to work with as I struggle to find reality and a political direction.
Without the 9/11 deception these thoughts would have never existed in my head, so there goes humanity, predictable but continually evolving.
Kindest regards John