Women

 There is another angle I haven't taken on explaining all of this and I feel I might even be interested in attempting to explain it, since it is not about the dumbass brute that has held us back these long millennia.

It is about the amazing creature that has lit our world since day one.  The amazing creature that kept us going and afloat amidst all of the chaos, stupidity, misery, intentional ignorance,  brought on by their opposite gender.

It's not just me that been led through the thickets by the glowing love of the female gender and, in my case, one in particular.  It's been any man that has keep a shred of his dignity, honour, integrity, honesty, .... well, any of the noble human characteristics.

There is so much more to say here.  I hope I get around to it.

gender war

 As I scan our current existence, I have to say I'm damned glad that I stated the truth before any woman did so.

I've suggested for awhile that no woman could have resolved the problem because they cannot really understand it.  For instance, there is no way a woman could have suggested how or if a man can overcome the issue that locks him into his animalistic measure, as a rule.  In other words, a woman would be razzed far worse than I have been for the same words.

But, still, it seems like we are getting to the point where the armed camps of the two genders, for all of everyone's certainty that it is not armed gender camps, are about to seriously clash.

Bad idea, of course, but understandable. 

What's to be done beyond what I have been doing?  All I can do is hope that the word gets around that there's another way to look at it.

I am not a friggin' preacher.  I'd rather die than preach.  I am just a man that stumbled (through a lot of flipping hard effort) on what is wrong with humanity.

Anyways, the point is that if the contention came from women that men are useless sacks of shit (true) without being able to show an avenue for resolution, well, it would be bad.    All it does is confuse the situation further and make men more militant.

Anything that does not target resolution is always a mistake.  That is how we got to this insane point of sentient existence, instead of the emotionally stable, sane, rational, loving state that is so well represented by the best of womankind.

The confrontation is getting closer every day.  The slimeball men are playing games, as they have done for three millennia.  Women are, inadvertently and unerringly playing their game.  It makes sense.  Everyone has always played along ... until me.  I don't play games.  

As long as we can't see the truth of the matter, yes, the war games will continue.

Machines

 Machines

I had a thought the other day about machines that really hit the spot.  Humans are suiting themselves to machines, rather than the other way 'round.  That is for animals.  I sure hope we put the animal away for good soon.

Long thoughts

 I once wrote a poem about my long thoughts.  I hated it.

It needs to be in prose (aaarrrggghhh!).  I really have had some long thoughts.  Thoughts that first occurred to me in my teens, some fifty/sixty years ago.  I kept them to myself because no one else was willing to explore what it meant to be alive and human.  Oh, I tried but I got burned for trying.  I learned quickly and played the game to the extent necessary.  Enough to survive, not enough to lose my way.

So, they all rattled around in my head with the most prominent being the general category of, "what is wrong with this picture".  The most prominent of those being, "what is wrong with humanity."  There were just so many things wrong that it was hard to isolate the root cause.  Like it took about forty years.

Once that was done and seems to be becoming accepted or worthy of scrutiny, the floodgates were opened.  (in other words, twelve books to convince myself I'm not crazy) I still have so many, though, that I don't dare reveal for the reason that the prehuman just cannot cope with them.

It reminds me of a cleric (priest, preacher, shaman? I don't know which) I met on a plane once that was reading Da Vinci Code.  It was such a striking contrast that I tried to joke around with him.  A preacher reading Da Vinci Code?  He responded by saying he was reading it to find some way to shoot holes in it.  That's what the prehuman loves to do.  They are trained into it from birth.  Especially the religious.  So, no, I'll keep the crazier thoughts to myself.  There is only one with whom I would share them.  Heck, it might repel her, also.

Timeline eraser

 April 19, 2024

 I have this problem with the current, dimwitted attempts at online social interaction.  The timeline is way too constrictive.

The problem is that it is suited to prehumans and the profit motive above all.

Even attempting a two-dimensional online social interaction site would not make sense at this time.  If I had more bandwidth, I'd probably try to get it developed anyways.

The idea is to replace the timeline with topics and interest.    The real goal would be to have the topics of interest to a global (human) audience to rise to the top.

I envision a page that looks much like a star map, where each conversation (not just soundbites that cry out for attention) is a star.  I also envision clusters of stars but that might be a bit more difficult.  The clusters of stars would have to be defined by a topic.  That may work.  I'm just not sure how it would work.  May be a good place to attempt to use AI for human uses rather than the other way around.  My annoyance with technology is that it seems the technology uses the prehuman more than the other way around.

Certainly, the brightness of the star would indicate interest in a particular topic.  Maybe brightness of a cluster of stars indicates a broader interest.  Or, maybe the cluster of stars is various conversations on a specific topic.  That sounds better.

I know just how complicated it becomes to highlight something of current interest.  There become multiple variables, such as time, immediate interest, long term interest, and number of people that have current/long term interest.  This becomes meaningless to the stirring of mania on a timeline, subsuming all else.

It's the third millennium.  We can do better.

As time progresses, I would hope that the topics would evolve into topics of the highest interests of the human race.

Anyways, the more I ponder this idea, the more I like it.  I can see global decisions being made by rational argument rather than forceful argument and rule.

It really could end up replacing politicians and governments.  Wouldn't that be a blessing.  It also provides a smooth road to the transition away from gov'ts and, maybe, a rational roadmap for so much more.  True rule of the people before it is done.

I'm not sure what it does for the monsters, which is why this will be much more effective when the monsters, trying to manipulate any systems put in place to their advantage, are gone.  I expect they could find a way to manipulate any system for their advantage, like rats on a ship.  That, in fact, has been one of the primary premises of my life.  It's not enough to regulate the rats, they gnaw through regulation like the rats they are.  No, humanity has to rid itself of the impetus to become a rat.  That is, essentially, what I have done.

Anyways, I tried to cope with the news services in this 2-D OSIS but, the more I think about it, they don't belong.  News, sports seem counterproductive.  Music and, maybe other forms of entertainment suit but, even then, it would be in the form of conversations only.  Maybe attached music?  I am sure the rats could infest this to make it biased.

Which gets to another point.  I had, at first, thought that everyone should have a valid, traceable id to use this system but, the more I think about it, the more I am convinced it would be better to wait until we are fully human and the monsters are, at least, in small enough numbers and easily identified by humans as to make their efforts too feeble to be of any importance.  Sooner or later, they will be gone entirely.  I am certain of that.  Then, there is no need for id's at all because we are human, not just acting out the part under inhuman conditions.  I shudder to suggest that locked doors could become a thing of the past.  No one would believe that, right?  It may be too much to ask but, I just don't know.  I can see a human race that has enough respect for itself to provide for all and individuals have enough respect for themselves that they wouldn't steal a dime.  Heck, there are plenty of those already.  Many in the gutters of our prehumanity and few in the halls of justice, industry, and government.

Maybe  the biggest technological hurdle is the required graphics and the adaptation of AI.  Those would be radically new and prehumans are just so much the mimic.  If someone makes a easy timeline interface, they will.  It's been done before and everyone can copy it.  The expertise is in abundance, like those humans fleeing X to find some other site to develop/use.

The point (all puns intended)

 The point is that all men; that is a human, sentient male; can do something they never believed was possible and always desired to do.  They desired to do it so desperately that it drove them crazy, derailed our sentient state, wrecked any hope of humanity becoming what Nature always intended:  a loving, emotionally stable, rational, sentient race that respects itself instead of constantly tearing itself down.

We are so close to educating the heart that it hurts.

The long answer is a bit more complicated.

One rant

    This is my version of bitching and moaning.  Yes, that is my quirky smile you see.

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  Geez, there are so many to choose from I know not where to start!

How does one convey a lifetime so very different from the rest of humanity?

I think about the kind of thoughts that I have had for a lifetime that are so very different.  Why?

Two that always strike me are the bus station and the realization to look at humanity as a single human.

Both were crucial revelations.  I talk about the bus station elsewhere, including in some of the books.  What it amounts to is a realization that we are defined by our relationships with others in a big way.  Somehow, I moved on from that to the acceptance that no one knows anyone else.  Other people's perceptions of us define who we are and our perceptions of ourselves.   It doesn't need to be that way.  More importantly, I won't be that way once we find our way to our humanity.

From that time, I loved being in airports and any place else in which I knew no one.  It was a sort of freedom.  There's that freedom, again.  It is much closer to the real liberty we are looking for.  Liberation from the nitwit animal.

From there, it was an easy step to realize that we, as a race, are messed up.

That's a good place to get into the other revelation that, if one looks at humanity as a single entity, it is easy to see that three thousand years ago the human race was as a child growing up in a new world or realization with no guidance.  We have not progressed.  If anything, we have digressed or regressed.

To say we did a poor job of it would be an understatement.  We so desperately wanted guidance that we created gods to fill the gap.

Sadly, those with no sense and a strong desire to submit to the animal, took over the guidance of the human race.  Do you really think that the perversions of the priests and clerics are new?  Useful?  Other than a destructive force?

We kept pushing the envelope based on so many lies.  The lies just kept growing to cover the heinous activities instead of guiding us anywhere worthwhile.

As long as we accept some humans disguising their words as guidance from some ephemeral god, we are sunk.

    I don't think I ever mentioned that the same evening that I was stuck in the bus station, then overnight in an airport, I was listening to a couple or three albums by The Moody Blues.  It certainly had a profound effect on the rest of my life.  That concentration of isolation, along with the gist conveyed by the music, were important in some way.

    All pieces of the puzzle, dots to connect.  I was just thinking of a Cat  Stevens song that told the story of how we have never known the story.  There are so many of those.  I can't help it.  It has been one of my guiding lights.  Creative people so want to break loose but become lost amidst the paradigms of nonsense.  

    Yes, of course, I'm going to mention the Lady here.  I truly believe that, while she may or may not have the answer yet in words, She knows.  I'm sure she will disagree.

    The gods we created are just a crutch that keep us from standing up on our own as a sentient creature and realizing that we are far more than the animals that preceded us.

    One of my favorite songs, nowadays, is "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals.  It has a lot of hope packed into it while, at the same time, conveying a lot about the dilemma we have faced for three thousand years. 

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    Wow!  I don't know what it is about Her but I can't get enough.  Wow!  Feeling my doom today.

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Wow!  Am I feeling my doom today.  The one thing I will not tolerate, besides complete breakdown of the body, is the slightest breakdown of the mind.

But, how do I know when the mind is gone?  Considering I have spent a life in self-appraisal as an individual as well as a member of a sentient race, I think I should be able to tell with ease.  I hope so.  I am not one to fool myself easily.  There is a current and ongoing situation that baffles me.  It seems most likely I"m fooling myself.  I sure hope not.  I'll find out soon enough.

Generations, Part II

 Generations, Part II

I have said often that it will take three generations to overcome the animal.  

That is not the same as sloughing off every remnant of the animal conventions.

This has come to mind of late as I turned my attention towards education, news, literature, etc.

I guess fiction doesn't concern me so much.  It is independent action of authors.  

News and education are different.  They are bureaucratic institutions.  They are much more tops-down organizations than pseudo-independent authors.  They could take awhile to adjust to the new circumstances of the human.  These won't even begin to change until the human supersedes the prehuman, starts infiltrating their ranks, so to speak, in a big way.

To change, they will take effort.  News should change far sooner than education.  News is based on change.  As the narrative of the human changes, so will the news.  It will still take some time but I would expect it to begin changing soon after the effect of our humanity begins to be felt.

How and when the news changes from the effort to stir up the masses will be completely dependent on the masses.

Education, though, is a huge change.  The worst part (which is going to be hard to explain) is that the rote is driven by rote.  Children growing up is a necessity and, thank goodness, the profit motive has not yet taken hold of the education systems - yet.  Prehumans learn by rote.  Anyone even partially human today has a problem with that.  They rebel as their humanity attempts to emerge.  Again, maybe the change in humanity will be enough to smooth this out.  Independent thought needs to be encouraged rather than stamped out.

What makes it so complicated is finding a substitute for rote.  Is some level of rote necessary?  Just part of the package?  How does the human, sentient race teach the independent thought which will be necessary for a human environment? I really am at a loss on this one.  I only highlight it so that the earliest full-fledged humans can begin to ponder it soonest.

    Maybe I am making it more difficult than it needs to be.  Humans growing up into their humanity and positions of education should be enough.  Yeah, that borderline case really helped clarify, it's just a matter of humans being the only form of sentient life.  When the prehumans are gone, so are our problems.  Errr, you do get that we are the prehumans, right?  There's no getting around it.  We might be able to come much closer to the true model of humanity but I don't think I can ever drag out all of the nastiness that was embedded.  Still, a vast improvement in teh first generation is a very fine place to start.

    If I had my druthers, I'd probably plant myself right smack dab at the beginning of the first generation to grow up without the baggage implanted by the previous generation.  That will be an incredible point it time.  Just as Ancient Greece was and other centers of discovering our sentience for the first time.  Arrrggghhh!  I have to say it.  Right now, it seems like a poor showing but that is just my rage talking.  Desiderata.

First attempt in this post to explain what I sensed so long ago:

It may even be simpler than I suggest.  As I have also emphasized, our progress towards our humanity, once the bane is removed, will be natural.  There is no need to force it.

I guess what I run into with education is the bureaucratic tradition of the animal.  Independent thought is forced into submission.  A Japanese phrase comes to mind.  "What happens to the nail that sticks up?  It is hammered down."  (different nail from The Nail, though it is intriguingly related).

That desire to hammer the nail down will be relieved - finally.

So, maybe, just like I expect with institutions, it will adjust naturally unless any major change is necessary.  As I have also pondered, the hierarchical institutional structure of prehuman organizations will need to change.  I believe that will happen naturally, though I don't desire to go into the details of the change.  It will be just a matter of humans rather than prehumans organizing for the benefit of humanity rather than the few.

The big difference in education is that it is about children.  Does the same hold true?  As we become human, does it adjust naturally because it is humans in charge?  I guess so.

    There is another point to keep in mind.  Renewal.  Thank goodness.  It may make the change even more rapid than I expect.  With each generation, with the fetters unbound, it could be truly awesome to behold.

   I think the newer explanation works a lot better.

Noble qualities

Have you ever considered the human noble qualities, like honour, integrity, and dignity, etc?  They are not totally absent but mostly so.  Almost like an afterthought.

Can you imagine a world in which they are the most prominent characteristics?  They become so common that they are accepted as a natural part of being human?  I can.  I have.  The effect will be profound.  When people retain their self-respect, the noble qualities remain intact.

Open hearts and unlocked doors.

I'd really like to leave this posted at the beginning but I think it is too much.  People would guffaw and jeer.  So, I will move it towards the end.  Besides, I don't much like the date on it.