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The Overman

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Waking up, to a world with no meaning.

We live in the great nothingness.

Ideas have consequences.

Super heroes have developed as the ultimate expression of transcending the boundaries of society.  We love the idea of being free to fly above the masses while having the ability to make the world a better place. Our culture reflects our belief that we can choose our own reality. The temporal realm is kept at a surface level of understanding and it’s our interpretations of that reality that is nurtured.  We are led to create a world where our feelings and experiences are key. Whether we lock ourselves in a repetitive cycle like Momento or Inception, take our blue pill, or our soma, we are encouraged to escape the truth.  We are attracted to the ideas of individual freedom and non-conformity, but without a transcendental source of truth we become fragmented into an existential darkness and an ultimate state of apathy.  Our world has erased all absolutes and therefore we choose to dwell in individual bubbles of distraction, finding short-lived temporal comfort in our fragmented state of purposelessness.  This has created an overall society of individual perspectives that are so apathetically detached, the only possible eventuality is a tyrannical police state.  Of course, as in A Brave New World, our sense of purpose will be so far removed we will likely embrace the tyranny as if we could be bothered to engage long enough to even notice.

 This cycle will result in the snake eating his tail scenario.  Ironically our longing for individual freedom leads to its own demise.  In our quest to break free from the bonds of society, we get lost in trying to secure our own imaginative state of autonomy. Then we willingly relinquish our freedom for dependency.  Like Batman, feeding the Joker’s psychosis,  we create our own monsters. We sow the seeds of our own destruction. We willingly blur the lines of truth to justify our emotional reality.  We feed the hatred, play both sides, so in the end we are not even sure which side was which. This false confidence we look for within ourselves, trusting our own constructs, has a cyclical nature, but also leads to a linear progression in the pschycosphere.

From romanticism, to transcendentalism, existentialism, and finally the ultimate nihilism we have today, authors like Faust, Emerson, and Nietzsche, have been systematically deconstructing our reality for centuries. They have all contributed to the ideal image of the “overman” or “ubermensch” that became our “Superman” that we now hold dear. Sadly though, instead of a the moral and just hero we associate with Superman, we are really being prepared for the coming anti-Christ. Hitler used the idea of the overman to justify killing millions of Jews, we use it to justify post modernism.

We have gone from reason to non-reason. The French Revolution, communism, Nazi Germany, and the war on terror, all show us how idealism fails to translate to reality in an ever increasingly relativistic society. The most deadly century in history is our result.

It’s no wonder that Carl Jung’s solution of escaping reality to find the god within ourselves is the epitome our culture’s inability to live in and comprehend the real world. We are ill-equipped to deal the potential threats and convoluted entanglement of consequences that will come from our detached reality, whether we are warding off real and imaginary crime villains, or trying to deal with our own everyday hum drum problems and commitments.

Why is “science” demonizing science?

Happy Earth Day Ya’ll! It’s no coincidence that Earth Day is on Lenin’s birthday, or maybe it is. Certainly promoters of Earth Day will say that the connection is just silly. Right wing conspiracy making lunacy from logic. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s purpose is completely aligned with communism.

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Let’s not forget the obvious intentions of the UN toward global equality and it’s connections to use environmental policy as one way to shape that goal. But lets take a closer look at the techniques used to promote their policies. Take this quote for example from UNESCO, the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural division,

“…taking the techniques of persuasion and information and true propaganda that we have learnt to apply nationally in war, and deliberately bending them to the international tasks of peace, if necessary utilizing them — as Lenin envisaged – to ‘overcome the resistance of millions‘ to desirable change.

The past several years have brought about an intensity in the campaign to employ soviet type propaganda tactics to marginalize and demonize anyone who dares to question to current mainstream narrative of so-called “science”. A platform has been created for political ideas that has been lumped together with the overall idea of empirical scientific advancement in order to solidify it as unconditional truth. This platform includes a broad scope of evolutionary ideas and origins, climate change caused by human behavior, the safety of vaccines, GMO’s, and other environmental issues.

These political issues share a common global perspective in the larger agenda for population control, redistribution of the wealth, and the elimination of societal institutions like religion and the family structure, that are blamed for national allegiance and the prevention of globalism.

Today marks yet another clichéd demonstration called “The March For Science”.  People are outraged that in this day and age, some have the audacity to question so-called proven science. Things like global warming, whoops, I mean climate change, and evolution are the issues. The rhetoric is that a few ignorant, unscientific, illiterate, rogues are challenging of the scientific method used to prove empirical data. They are accused of intellectual destruction and leading masses of poor children back to the abuses of the medieval dark ages.

I was always under the impression that “science”  meant asking questions? More specifically,

sci·ence ˈ sīəns/

noun
  1. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

So, since when is questioning the status quo unscientific? Neil Degrasse Tyson is a spokesperson along with Bill Nye the Science Guy, (not actually a scientist), for the “March For Science”. They have put forth a vitriolic campaign, likening the decline of the American way of life to the questioning of “established” science. Videos are being widely circulated online working to marginalize anyone who drifts from the global agenda.

How established is the science we are talking about? More importantly, how trustworthy are the scientists who are establishing these facts?

Should we not consider the possibility of corruption of facts for a bigger agenda? Why is big brother telling us the way to scientific progress is asking questions on one hand, but we dare not question on the other? It seems more like statist propaganda to me. Lets not forget 1984’s, “2+2=5”. What is truth? What the state says it is.

So what about the truth of established mainstream science? We are always hearing that these facts have been proven by the empirical method and we might as well believe in unicorns if we try to call this into question.

Methods used to formulate this data is suspect though. In these articles by MIT graduate and meteorologist Charlie Clough, we see that sometimes neglecting to disclose the full data leads to corruption through omission. http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charles-clough/climate-change-theorists-consistently-deceive-glaring-omission

http://barbwire.com/2015/12/02/7-reasons-to-oppose-any-agreement-from-the-paris-climate-summit/

If we take a deeper look we can see the bigger agenda. It really has nothing to do with “science”. In fact, using science as an omnipotent entity is a logical fallacy. “Science says” and other similar terminology are used to manipulate us into thinking there is some sort of determinate quality that is encompassed in the authoritative term, “science”.  The truth is science is an array of fluid and changing data. What may have been controversial before is mainstream today. While the scientific method is indeed a reliable source for empiricism, there is a great deal of personal interpretation involved when it comes to the issues being debated. Climate data is limited to just over 100 years of recorded history. It’s preposterous to attempt to take such a fragmented period of data and make factual claims about what will happen in the future, and how much can be attributed to humans. In the same regard, evolution is not observable.

There is also reason to believe that political agendas and fraudulent behavior carry a heavy influence over published data. https://jaysanalysis.com/2015/08/14/the-age-of-transition-and-scientism-fraud/ . And that individual agendas are also in play, https://jaysanalysis.com/2014/06/10/philosophy-phoenix-arises-to-annihilate-degrasse-tyson/ .

Of course there is also the more blatant agenda that doesn’t even attempt to hide its intentions, like the article below mentions from earlier this year that global warming was created as a motive to change the global economy. https://thenationalsentinel.com/2017/02/03/un-official-actually-admits-that-global-warming-is-a-scam-designed-to-change-worlds-economic-model/un declares purpose for climate change redistribution of wealth

Tyson and others are claiming that science is what made America great, and that having a president and vice president that challenge the status quo, is leading our country into a state of regression. Personally, I believe this is a contradiction. Science is all about challenging the status quo to discover new frontiers. So I guess it’s time we get it straight, (for our democracy and all) and pledge allegiance to the phantom named “science”, that contrary to its definition, demands that it’s predetermined truth must be left to the experts, and everyone else needs to blindly follow in line. Best to leave the science to the scientists son.

The Price of Liberty

How do we place a value on life?  I recently saw a video of a little girl in China that was run over and left bleeding in the street.  People were walking around her like a piece of trash and then she was run over a second time before someone pulled her broken body out of the street.  It’s hard to imagine living in a society where that is possible.  We never think that we could be numb to someone else’s suffering, that we have some sense of humanity that protects us from cruelty.  The truth is history has us shown differently.  We can be influenced by society and fear of consequence and general persuasion can lead us to condition ourselves to become accustomed to all kinds of atrocity.  In Nazi Germany, by the time anyone felt the problem was serious enough to speak up, the consequences were so severe they kept any protests quiet.  Within the past century our own country has stood by and watched racial hatred as if it were normal behavior.   During the Civil War we had a country split in half over whether or not people should have the freedom to own slaves.  Many things that we now see as absolutely horrific have been viewed as normal or even majority view at some point in time.

Societies have always struggled with the emphasis of the importance of the individual versus the good of the whole.  We all can agree that a society needs structure and order to keep life from being complete chaos, but should it be as the cost of personal freedom?  The problem is the value of life will decline at either end of the spectrum.  If personal freedom prevails, then what is to stop a person from exploiting others for their own gain?  Child labor, slavery, domestic abuse, the way workers were treated during the industrial revolution are a few examples of how individual liberty can lead to declines in society.  However if the pendulum swings in the other direction we can end up with tyranny and oppression, genocide, fear and complacency, where people look aside when they see suffering.   Again if the pendulum swings to the side of personal freedom, the value of liberty can prevail against the value of human life and lead to rationalizing issues like mercy killing, euthenasia or abortion, after all, people are just exercising their personal freedom right?  Who are we to tell them they are wrong?  This is why it is sometimes difficult to see the difference between far right and far left, you usually end up in the same place.  Fascism and communism have many similarities.

So what are we left with?  Either extreme leads to relativism and a devaluing of life.  As important as freedom and democratic ideals are, they are really more of a result than something you can strive for.  Society often tries to model itself after other successful societies throughout history only to fall miserably off track.  Liberty itself can mean different things to different people, and can become a complete farce if imposed upon a society without the morality to uphold its value.  We associate democracy with ancient Greece, but as Plato said, “Democracy leads to despotism.”  His view was people’s freedom should be based on their voluntary submission to the elite representatives that composed their laws and represented their culture and ultimately defined their truth.  So a person could achieve personal freedom as long as they were able to redefine their definition of what that meant.

The liberty that we idealise today generally assumes morality is intrinsic within the individual, that given the right environment, personal conscience would prevail.  This is a logical assumption when we look back upon times in our history when personal freedom was paramount, but the conditions that led to liberty must be understood to see how it was achieved.  We take advantage of the morality we have been taught in that we don’t see how it colors our decisions and the consequences of our ideas.  Our American culture is fortunate to have a history and constitution that instills value for human life, and personal freedom in that our system of justice defers to a higher law.  The Beauty of this higher law is partly derived from the ten commandments.  In fact we have them printed on the doors of our Supreme court.  They are usually taken for granted, simplified or considered outdated.  However if we listen to the wisdom behind these ten simple laws we can unlock the key to a successful society.  The commandments have a chiastic structure that unifies the importance of all of them to a single element, the value of life.

For a society to be successful in longevity certain elements must be protected, labor and property, marriage and family, and truth.  There is a commonality in the third and ninth commandment,  Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain and Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.  Both protect truth.  If we start calling God what he is not, or using God’s name with a different meaning or intention it is the beginning of redefining truth.  This is important because if language is not protected and words begin to mean whatever we want them to mean, they become corruption and truth becomes relative.  Bearing false witness against your neighbor is an obvious example of this corruption.  The fourth and eighth also relate, Thou shall respect the sabbath and keep it holy and Thou shalt not steal.  On the sabbath not only were the Israelites supposed to rest, but their animals, their labourers and also their land.  Every component of a person’s property was to be respected and held in high regard.  Thou shall not steal is another example of how property and ownership was to be respected.  Another connection lies between the fifth and seventh commandment, Thou shalt honor thy father and mother and Thou shalt not commit adultery.  These both protected the family structure.  Family is what society is based on, they are the first small businesses as well.  They are the backbone of education and economy and when families fall apart, everything falls apart.  Finally respecting our elders leads to and ties in the ultimate commandment, Thou shalt not murder.  A respect and value for life is the cornerstone for all morality that a society should be based on.

However none of these can be possible without the second and tenth commandment,  Thou shall have no other gods before me and Thou shall not covet.  These cannot be judged or dictated by society and this is the foundation that makes liberty possible.  These are what brings forth freedom.   These are commandments of the heart.  We cannot measure them by actions and if they are not there or insincere the rest will fall apart.  Having no other gods before Him, means putting God first, ahead of yourself.  That means a lot more than most people think it means and it is that humility that allows a person to sacrifice their own gain to respect others.  Thou shall not covet means more than not wanting a house or a wife like your neighbor, or simple jealousy.  It means being content with what you are given.  Having a thankful heart for everything God sends your way.  That means every time we complain or grumble, or long for a situation to change, we are coveting.  These commandments are difficult and some would say downright impossible, and ultimately they can only come from God’s grace, but they can be the wisdom we look to when the pendulum swings.

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