The totality of coming together as a culture only happens very sporadically and with outside forces driving differential elements together like the fuzing of atoms. From the fuzing of atoms come a great release of energy or another form of matter entirely. What is happening in the American culture today is a form of this fusion, and it isn’t a physical/social reaction that comes without pain. People, societies, tribes and cultures do not want to get together. They function with independent leaders and very nepotistical driven higher management.
Today, however, the revelations driven by technology, particularly in the communications sector, are revealing too much of the great secrecy needed for nepotistical functional groups to succeed over other slightly less successful groups. Homogeneity is the only eventual course left open. The old ‘hang together or hang separately’ phrase comes home to roost in a definitive way. However, the coming together of such diversity does not appear to those experiencing its inner workings as coming together at all. By knowing more we come together more. By knowing about one another we accommodate one another more. We just don’t seem to immediately accept that. By understanding more we can deny less of what we all know, even though we fight this tendency. There is a whole flat earth belief system newly arisen to fight this coming homogeneity.
There is renewed interest in dictatorships to deny the fact that we will one day be one world, one culture and one huge society. It is only a matter of time and the necessary joining of forces the universe will eventually require of us in order for us to be either destroyed by it or become its master. You are one with your neighbor, but you don’t accept that yet. You are one with the blacks, whites, yellows and every other race, even though down deep you don’t want to be. I am not writing this article about acceptance. I am writing it about the vision to see what is coming next and it is going to be something, indeed. Astrology has it completely and utterly backwards. We are not controlled by the movement of the planets or stars. We control those things although our influence upon them remains slight as of yet…as our eventuality grows, and grows and grows. Neither Trump, nor Putin, nor the Clintons of this world truly matter in this grand movement into the future.
Only we matter. You matter.
It’s quiet here…plenty of room for substance, so to speak. Though I haven’t anything substantive to add, I may have one or two thoughts to collect or recollect, as the case may be…
First, I have to ask. Jim…when the silence envelopes you, does your mind refuse to be quiet and listen? Is it even within anyone’s best interest to become the ego-less observer? I often wonder…because for my VN brother whom I shared my life with for nearly two years, was convinced that not only were thoughts “things”, they were also capable (whether collected or dismissed) of causing a change to one’s affect. He likened it to the tinnitus he suffered after being knocked unconscious, with the right half of his body buried to his gig-line in the A Shua mud by the force of the cannon blast, just over his head. None of his brothers saw him go down. It would take 45 years to discover the reason he was 99% deaf in the left ear. That cannon woulde fired 25 more times before they’d find him below the muzzle. That wasn’t what he wanted to tell me about, though. He wanted to say that the 24/7/365 tinnitus he suffered was all that kept his mind from the “things” that wanted to invade his mind. The “demons”, as he’d call them. Because, he’d understood no matter what they were…they were evil, period! They were after his “substance” and as far as he was concerned he’d lost too much already and…” by God ” he’d say, ” when it comes to even one iota more of the substance of my thoughts…well…since I can’t seem to win with the passage of time, then…all I can do is refuse to lose! If our ego is the means to what “matters” in our own conscious world, then you are correct. Ultimately, you, me, and every sentient being, matters. When substance is a gift borne by another before being passed to you…happiness becomes the pinnacle, of every nepotistic ideal.
If I’m going to have to accept my ego-maniacal nature, I might as well enjoy smiling a bit for doing so! – ddh
Brilliant analysis, as usual, and a lot of fun to read and take apart on my end.
Thanks Dennis, I much appreciate the motivation your work gives my work.
Semper fi,
Jim
Why are all the devices looking for intelligent life pointed away from the earth?
Saturday morning humor.
They are not all pointed away from earth…
but for some reason they didn’t notice you…or me.
I wonder what that portends?
Semper fi,
Jim
Maybe Pop, The TRUTH is Out There?
The unquiet mind at work as usual. One has to wonder if we as the human race will survive our ego. There is much to be concurred before we will accept becoming one homogeneous race. It would take a world wide threat to ever bring that about INO. It would have to continue for a long time to make it a lasting event as well I am afraid.
Yes my insomnia is alive and well LOL.
2:34 a.m. Peter. No, you don’t have PTSD!
Thanks for thinking of me and writing the comment on into the night.
I do think the human race will survive, I just don’t know what it’s going
to resemble as it goes through its ever more increasing changes.
Thanks for the neat and thoughtful comment.
Semper fi,
Jim
I have never understood why human beings can not except other human beings as equals no matter what the differences.
Nepotism is every where and to succeed it takes great strength in knowing that nothing is just black or white and hugh gray area of “unfair” exists. I think for gifted people that is one of the hardest things to accept.
You are not an egomaniac or megalomaniac, but you are a person who thinks very deeply, cares about humanity and certainly not afraid to write about your thoughts. You are a man with purpose.
Thank you Nancy. Sociobiology was the social science that leaped into the fray
during the eighties. A man named E.O. Wilson wrote the book and the discipline
arose from that seminal work. According to sociology genetics controls all human behavior
and all human behavior is determined by a foundational basal need for humans to propagate and
produce spawn. Everything else is sublimated to relative unimportance. And then it is all lied
about. The foundation of all human behavior is deception. You can see why the social science at first
embraced his work (it explained so much, like twins separated at birth, differential male and female selection process,
nepotism, polygamy and monogamy and so much more) but then the whole kitten caboodle was tossed out along with E.O.
There was no way the amount of lack of rational accountability was going to go out with that bath water. You are
watching sociobiology enforced upon an unwilling and powerless public by a megalomaniac of the first order.
In anthropology there is no good or bad in the social order. There is only what is and what was and what’s likely to come.
Thanks for saying I’m something nicer than what I write about. I might have a purpose but God has not yet shared that with me.
Maybe he will under a tent in the sun outside of Salinas, Kansas on the 4th of July!
Love you,
Jim
Greetings Jim:
I have thoroughly enjoyed your real time description of VN. My own USMC journey took me to TBS, 1969, and on to Vietnam in 1970.
I wish that we — US, would learn its lesson rather than try to create new one.
At any rate, ran into an older (my age) Vietnam Veteran that was still bitter about the war and any thing Vietnamese. I politely told him to get over it. 97% of the population in VN have no recollection of the American War.
Keep ’em coming.
Semper Fi!
Randy
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Thanks for your comment and for what you wrote in it. I wish it was easier to just ‘get over it,’ but it really
doesn’t work that way for so many of us. Thanks for caring enough to listen and talk to the guy…
Semper fi,
Jim
Humanity is one, as we were created, but before the return of J.C. to implement the world of peace for the ages, I foresee a horrendous war of Civilizations until Islam is destroyed or our Civilization is conquered. This coming bloodbath will devastate Europe and destabilize our own. I think that at some point we may have to suspend the Constitution.
Please go to Amazon and write a review of Thirty Days Has September, as it means a whole lot to have
a significant number to be noticed at all…
I don’t see Islam as a world problem at all. I tend to look at the totality of humanity as an anthropologist.
To tell you the absolute truth, outside of what people believe because of he media. It will take, if the statistics continue
their growth rates, about a thousand years for deaths due to religious differences to equal those by cancer.
Thanks for you comment and your deep thinking. I may disagree with some of what you say but I like that you are saying it.
Semper fi
Jim
Learning, sharing, allowing another opinion makes this life bearable. Being included in one thing can open up an entire new world. You’ve opened all this up to more than you might think. Thank you.
The stuff is processed and then comes out. It all seems so self-evident to me but then I guess that might
be the truest definition of an egomaniac. I can’t have the megalomaniac title because that one is currently being occupied.
Appreciate the compliment.
Your friend,
Jim