Andre-Marie Ampere's Lost Force

from Google AI:

The Law Explained

Magnetic Fields from Current:
The fundamental principle is that moving electric charges (electric current) create magnetic fields.

The Integral Form:
The law uses a line integral to sum up the magnetic field (B) along a closed loop, where the result is directly proportional to the total current (I) passing through that loop.

Permeability of Free Space (µ₀):
This is a constant that relates the magnetic field to the electric current.

The Closed Path:
You choose an imaginary closed loop (often called an "Amperian loop") around the current source.

Net Current:
You must consider the net current passing through the loop

...and the missing piece of kinesis, the direction of the flowing current (i), its' longitudinal Force.  There are no 'Fields' just individual Forces.  Fields are the mathematical artifacts of summing the integral equation

I suspect that this is what forms the fundamental basis for the "Electric Universe" Theory (speculation confirmed below)

from Google AI:

The relationship between Ampere's and the Electric Universe theory is foundational to the theory's cosmology. While amperes are a standard unit of measure in conventional physics, the Electric Universe theory uses the underlying principle of electric current to explain phenomena that mainstream science attributes to gravity and nuclear fusion. The theory proposes that vast electric currents measured in amperes, called Birkeland currents, course through plasma in space and are the primary organizing force of the cosmos.

The Electric Universe view

Proponents of the Electric Universe theory reinterpret many observed celestial phenomena as evidence of large-scale electric currents. Key ideas include:

Birkeland currents: These are gigantic, twisting filaments of electric current that flow through plasma, the most common state of matter in the universe. In the Electric Universe model, these currents connect galaxies and stars.Galaxy formation: In this model, galaxies form from the "z-pinch" effect of these powerful Birkeland currents interacting in plasma. In this scenario, the electric currents carry a massive number of amperes—simulations suggest as many as \(10^{18}\) amperes.

Stellar power source: Instead of being powered by internal nuclear fusion, the Electric Universe theory suggests that stars like our sun are powered externally by an electric discharge from the surrounding plasma. This would be analogous to a celestial fluorescent light.

Cosmic "lightning": Phenomena such as planetary scarring and the behavior of comets are re-envisioned as electrical discharges or "mega-lightning" events, rather than the result of impacts.

Rejection of current models: To support its cosmology, the Electric Universe theory rejects standard astrophysical concepts like the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, and gravity's dominant role in organizing galactic structures.

Mainstream scientific perspective:

The Electric Universe theory is not supported by mainstream science and is considered a pseudoscience. The core tenets, such as gravity playing a negligible role and stars being externally powered by electric currents, are inconsistent with established laws of physics and observational evidence. Mainstream astrophysics acknowledges the existence of electric currents and magnetic fields in space but assigns them a role secondary to gravity for the large-scale structure of the universe.

Zizek, Historical Moments when the Tools of Elite Oppression Change Hands?

The moment when Antigone claims Universality (glimpses Station 11 and begins to act accordingly)

Transcending Former Impossibilities

...and Perhaps Perishing in the Process

...yet Slaves, at least momentarily, become their own Masters

Boson Stars... Made entirely of Axions....???

Anxiety and James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"

A Flaneur's Derive thru Soviet Psychogeography: Industrialized Housing

from Google AI:

Psychogeography is the study of how geographical environments influence human emotions and behavior, often explored through the practice of the dérive, a form of unplanned urban drifting or ambling through a city to discover hidden qualities of place. This practice can bring renewed artistic and architectural energy by encouraging a deeper, more sensory connection with urban spaces, moving beyond purely functional or capitalist perspectives to uncover the unique impact of place on individuals.

MC Escher, "Montecelio" (1924)

Inverse Social Hierarchies?

More MC Escher

MC Escher's "The Print Gallery" (1956)

Illustrating the Droste Effect and subsequent application to Conformal Field Theory

Vibe Physics: Chatter Overheard at the Physics Water Fountain

Side Question for Google AI:

Is a Penrose blow-up a jet coming from a black hole?

No, a Penrose "blow-up" is not a jet coming from a black hole. They are distinct theoretical concepts related to black holes and general relativity.

Here is a breakdown of what each concept refers to:

Penrose blow-up (or singularity theorem)

• What it is: The Penrose singularity theorem is a mathematical proof in general relativity showing that once matter collapses to a certain point, a spacetime singularity is inevitable. A "blow-up" in this context refers to the point in spacetime where the mathematics breaks down and quantities like density and spacetime curvature become infinite. This signifies the "end of spacetime" according to the theory.
• Location: This singularity is located at the center of the black hole, beyond the event horizon.
• Function: The theorem is a prediction about the internal structure of a black hole, not an external, observable event.

Jets coming from a black hole

• What they are: Jets are powerful, collimated beams of superheated plasma that are ejected at nearly the speed of light from the poles of an active black hole.
• Location: The jets do not originate from the singularity itself. Instead, they are launched from the magnetic and gravitational fields surrounding the black hole's event horizon, in the region of the accretion disk.
• Function: These jets are a mechanism for the black hole system to release excess energy and mass. They can be so large that they stretch across millions of light-years.

The connection: The Penrose process vs. the singularity theorem

It's possible that the confusion arises from another concept named after Roger Penrose: the Penrose process, which is related to the energy that powers black hole jets.

• Penrose process: A theoretical mechanism describing how a particle entering the ergosphere (a region just outside the event horizon of a rotating black hole) could split. One piece falls into the black hole with "negative energy," allowing the other piece to escape with more energy than it had initially, extracting rotational energy from the black hole.
• Powering jets: This process, along with the Blandford–Znajek process, is a proposed explanation for how rotating black holes can fuel their incredibly powerful jets.

In summary, the Penrose singularity theorem describes the theoretical point of infinite density and curvature at the heart of a black hole, while the Penrose process is a theoretical mechanism for extracting energy from a spinning black hole, contributing to the formation of the observed jets. The jets themselves are not the singularity, but rather a byproduct of the extreme physics in the region just outside the event horizon.

Chunking thru Mind Factories, Past and Present

from Google AI:

James Joyce once famously said that if it took him seventeen years to write Finnegans Wake, then a reader should take seventeen years to read it. In his usual prophetic way, he turned out to be exactly right

Sifting through the accreted layers

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."

Andrei Tarkovsky

"Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it"

-William James

"To err is human, to forgive is divine"

-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism" (1711) 

Connection timed out at 09:09...

The Trace of Existence - κινησις (Kinesis, Motion)

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”

― Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1892 version) and its' kinesis

Conformal Field Theory (CFT) Primer

Tech Dreams Run Amok...

...as American government legitimacy declines

Can the Deep State be reformed?  It's looking doubtful. All bets currently lie in the vain hope of an AI-based Technological Singularity

(or for some others, a Gay Space Navy)  ;)

So What is it about the "Woke" Epistemology that Isn't True? To that you must also answer the "Why do it" question. And no, it isn't ever simply to "hold on to power" or to "reveal the truth".

Counter hegemonic narratives aren't more likely to be true simply because they run counter to the dominant narrative.  They're simply likely to contain some aspect of the truth that the hegemonic view has omitted, either deliberately or as a function of narrative simplification.  Counter-narratives force the holders of dominant hegemonic narratives to explain the discrepancy in opinion about facts (or facts omitted) and prove that the omission wasn't deliberate.  That doesn't make the counter-narratives true.  They simply expose complexity concealed by the narrative's omissions or help make the narrative "more true" through inclusion of the omitted perspective and making it therefore more universally applicable.

And none of this makes an argument "woke".  Woke arguments are motivated by the guilt/pride feelings of the holder which seek to transform a bad quality into a good one (as explored in Post-colonialism*). Like a white neoliberal saying, "white conservatives are racists, but I'm not like them because I call them white racists too and do not criticize other racial minorities (even when they're even MORE racist)".   It "pretends" at universalism to make the opinion holder's opinion seem true.  THAT is "woke".  It attempts to transform the woke neoracism of anti-racism and make the speaker seem like a "good" person.  It's really just racism from an opposite racial perspective.  And Tucker Carlson does NOT do this.  He is NOT woke, or a member of the "woke right".  If there is a "woke right" it consists soley of white nationalists, who are openly racist.  That's "honest racism", not neoracism disguised in faux-universalism like in the case of the majority of the woke-progressive left.

The epistemology that James derides  as 'woke' is actually useful, in  the sense that it seeks to overcome fixed and many times over-simplified categories.  Its' deficiency lies in the fact that it only seeks to do this through a racial/ cultural/ ethnic/ sexual based schizo-analytic process, and does not often recognize or include other socially valid non-woke categories and subsystems.

*“Postcolonialism is the invention of rich Indian guys who wanted to make a good career in the west by playing on the guilt of white liberals”

― Slavoj Žižek

Even presenting itself and impersonating Universal Truth isn't the real point of Wokism.  The Point is that Wokism isn't any form of Truth or Epistemological System.  It's a pathological Identity formation that is race-based and a reflection of that Identity formation's Will to Power employing the psychological pathologies of both racial Guilt AND racial Pride in its' narrative's rhetorical service.  And THAT service is to an epistemological confusion. for as Hannah Arendt noticed in her extensive studies post-"Eichmann in Jerusalem" case:

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

Critical Comments upon the Post-Colonial Guilt-Pride Project of Occidentalism

From Google AI:

"Les non-dupes errent" translates to "those who are not duped err" and is a phrase coined by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It highlights the idea that in a world based on social fiction and symbolic deception, those who believe they are entirely immune to these illusions are the ones most likely to lose their way or be misguided. They err not by being fooled by a necessary semblance, but by being so certain of their own lack of deception that they miss the underlying reality, becoming truly "deceived" by their own perceived enlightenment.

 

Meaning and context 

Symbolic order and Semblance:

Lacan argued that society, language, and the symbolic order are inherently built on fictions or semblances, which are necessary to create social bonds and a sense of reality. 

Being "duped":

To "be duped" is to be caught in this necessary illusion, to accept the social semblance without critical analysis but in a way that allows for meaning and connection. 

The "non-duped":

The "non-duped" are those who believe they have seen through the illusion and are therefore not fooled by it. However, by clinging to their perceived enlightenment, they deny the fundamental truth of this symbolic deception, thus making a greater mistake and "erring".

Thanks St. Paul (and the Pauline Intervention in Language) for the Slave Morality!

...more on Nietzsche and the Pauline Intervention.

Ariadne and Theseus in the Maze

Nietzsche, "Ariadne's Lament" (A Battle of Super-Ego and Ego between shame, guilt, praise and pride)

Ariadne's Lament

Who will warm me, who loves me still?
Give warm hands!
Give the heart's brazier!
Prone, shuddering
Like one half dead, whose feet are warmed;
Shaken, alas! by unknown fevers,
Trembling at pointed arrows of glacial frost,
Hunted by you, Thought!
Nameless! Cloaked! Horrid!
You hunter behind clouds!
Struck down by your lightning,
Your scornful eye, glaring at me out of the dark!
Thus I lie,
Writhing, twisted, tormented
By all the eternal afflictions,
Struck
By you, cruelest hunter,
You unknown—god ...

Strike deeper!
Strike one more time!
Stab, break this heart!
Why all this affliction
With blunt-toothed arrows?
How can you gaze evermore,
Unweary of human agony,
With the spiteful lightning eyes of gods?
You do not wish to kill,
Only to torment, torment?
Why torment—me,
You spiteful unknown god?

Aha!
You creep closer
Around midnight? ...
What do you want?
Speak!
You push me, press upon me,
Ah, already much too close!
You hear me breathing,
You eavesdrop on my heart,
Most jealous one! —
What are you jealous of anyway?
Away! Away!
What's the ladder for?
Do you want inside,
Would you get into my heart,
And enter
My most secret thoughts?
Shameless one! Unknown! Thief!
What do you wish to steal for yourself?
What do you wish to hear for yourself?
What will you gain by torture,
You torturer!
You—executioner-god!
Or am I, like a dog,
To wallow before you?
Devoted, eager due to my
Love for you—fawning over you?
In vain!
It stabs again!
Cruelest sting!
I am not your dog, only your prey,
Cruelest hunter!
Your proudest prisoner,
You robber behind clouds ...
Speak finally!
You, cloaked by lightning! Unknown! Speak!
What do you want, highwayman, from—me?...

What?
A ransom?
What do you want for ransom?
Demand much—so advises my pride!
And talk little—my pride advises as well!

Aha!
Me?—you want me?
Me—all of me? ...

Aha!
And tormenting me, fool that you are,
You wrack my pride?
Give me love—who warms me still?
Who loves me still?
Give warm hands,
Give the heart's brazier,
Give me, the loneliest one,
Ice, alas! whom ice sevenfold
Has taught to yearn for enemies,
Even for my enemies
Give, yes, surrender to me,
Cruelest enemy —
Yourself! ...

Gone!
He has fled,
My only companion,
My splendid enemy,
My unknown,
My executioner-god! ...

No!
Come back!
With all your afflictions!
All my tears gush forth
To you they stream
And the last flames of my heart
Glow for you.
Oh, come back,
My unknown god! my pain!
My ultimate happiness! ....

A lightening bolt. Dionysus becomes visible in emerald beauty.


Dionysus:

Be clever, Ariadne! ...
You have little ears; you have my ears:
Put a clever word in them! —
Must one not first hate oneself, in order to love oneself? ...
I am your labyrinth ...

On the Latent Heat of Vapourization

from Google AI:

The latent heat of vaporization is the amount of energy required to change a substance from a liquid to a gas (vapor) at a constant temperature, typically its boiling point. It's often called the heat of vaporization. This energy input doesn't increase the substance's temperature, but instead, is used to overcome the intermolecular forces holding the liquid molecules together, allowing them to transition into a gaseous state.

...and atmospheric cooling during global warming

More from Google AI:

There isn't a simple ratio of "global warm to ice periods" because Earth's climate has alternated between long ice ages and shorter interglacial warm periods over millions of years, with each cycle lasting about 100,000 years, but with warmer periods lasting roughly 20,000 years and cooler, glaciated periods lasting about 80,000 years. The crucial difference is the rate of warming; the current period of global warming due to human-caused emissions is occurring tens to hundreds of times faster than natural warming transitions from past ice ages.

Global Warming - Prelude to the Next Ice Age?

Hey Kairos, is it Dasein Time Yet?

Michael Parenti, "Imperialism, Drugs, and Social Control"

GGoogle AI:

The invasion of Kuwait refers to Iraq's military action on August 2, 1990, when Iraqi forces occupied the neighboring country, leading to the Persian Gulf War. Driven by the goal of controlling Kuwait's oil reserves, canceling Iraqi debt, and asserting regional power, Iraq's invasion was met with immediate global condemnation and a United Nations-backed military coalition led by the U.S.. The conflict concluded in early 1991 with the liberation of Kuwait and the re-establishment of its sovereignty.

Sundance, "Outline #5 – The Prequel"

If you have followed the construct of the Trump-Russia collusion story, you are likely outraged that accountability has not followed. There’s a very frustrating reason for that, and I will explain how two distinctly different issues are beingconflated. Separating them is the key.

The first issue is the FBI’s illegal surveillance of presidential candidates, including candidate Donald Trump. The second issue is the Clinton campaign inspired Russia-Collusion story, that led to Crossfire Hurricane, colloquially known as “Russiagate.” All investigative emphasis, including John Durham, has been on the latter which takes you into a DC silo construct where all tentacles lead to dead ends and inaction.

Russiagate was a Clinton-inspired political smear campaign that was given the patina of credibility by the FBI opening the investigation called “Crossfire Hurricane.” If you focus on that storyline, you end up with zero accountability and endless talk that goes nowhere.

However, if President Trump and DNI Tulsi Gabbard reveal the first element, the FBI’s illegal surveillance of candidate Donald Trump, that path has a physical trail and documents that cannot be deflected by political obfuscation.

♦THE FBI SURVEILLANCE – The original agreement between Clinton and Obama, going back to 2008, was for Obama to take the nomination, the presidency and then eventually support Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid.

Obama would be President. Obama would appoint Clinton to Secretary of State, Hillary would then use her office to build wealth for herself and her family, and then HRC would exit the Dept of State to begin her presidential run.

John Podesta would enter the Obama administration as Hillary left (post Benghazi mess) in 2013. Podesta would look out for Hillary’s interests from his position inside the Obama White House. The Clintons and Obamas never fully trusted each other.

Barack Obama would put all the mechanisms into place that would transition his administration into Hillary Clinton’s. That was always the plan running in the background.

In 2015, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had a check-in meeting -just touching base to firm up the goals and objectives as Hillary began her campaign launch. Podesta then left the White House to take up position inside the campaign, and Obama would maintain Clinton’s interests as planned without a monitor.

All of President Obama’s appointments, in/after 2015, were essentially through the prism of assisting Hillary Clinton to win in 2016. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (tarmac meeting), Deputy AG Sally Yates, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and FBI Director James Comey were all part of that.

This is a key point missed by many. In the last two years of Obama, the cabinet and top-tier members of the administration would align their institutional interests to that of Hillary Clinton.

Technically, Hillary had eyes and ears all over the White House at the time, and with Hillary Clinton being a foregone conclusion, per the expectations of Washington DC, everyone would fall in line during the transition from Obama to Clinton.

Again, this was the general plan. Obama would show up in 2016 to campaign for Hillary, and all would be seamless.

The FBI was aware of the plan for transition from Obama to Clinton. Hence, the FBI role in elinating the threat later presented by the Hillary Clinton laptop scandal, private servers and the subsequent issues of her receiving and transmitting classified information.

Remember, Clinton’s motive as Secretary of State was to sell her position for material wealth. That’s why she used a personal email, maintained her own servers, and generally controlled how her activity could be monitored and tracked. [Also, she didn’t fully trust Obama]

The FBI activity was to support, defend and facilitate the Clinton effort. This is again a key to understanding “Russiagate.”

After March 2016 (Super Tuesday), it became obvious Donald Trump was going to win the Republican nomination. Trump would be Clinton’s opponent.

♦The surveillance – Using access to the NSA database, the U.S. Govt., specifically “FBI Contractors”, began doing political surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign. This intel was then sent to the Clinton team. Clinton would benefit from knowing the communication inside the Trump campaign. All of that intel was in the metadata captured by the NSA and searched by the FBI contractors.

All of this activity was political surveillance, using govt resources to feed the Clinton team the info.

♦”RUSSIAGATE” – When the Clinton campaign launched the Russia Collusion dirty trick move against her opponent Donald Trump, originally using Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, the role of the Obama administration was to facilitate the political hit, and at the very least not impede it. Hence, former CIA Director John Brennan briefing Barack Obama on the status of the Russia collusion hoax as it spread in 2016 via the Clinton campaign.

However, as a result of the circle of information, Obama had a problem. The sourcing of the intel could trace to the illegal FBI surveillance of the NSA database. That’s why they needed a plausible shift within the surveillance. That’s where the Carter Page FISA comes in.

Specifically, because President Obama was, by extension, now a participant in the Clinton created “Russia Collusion hoax,” and specifically because his administration officials were participants in the process (DOJ, FBI), when President Trump won the 2016 election, President Barack Obama was now exposed by the threat the operation represented. This context is the impetus for the January 5, 2017 meeting and subsequent Susan Rice memo.

Following the surprising result in the 2016 election, the team around Obama was constructing plausible deniability.

President Obama did not orchestrate the Russia Collusion hoax; he facilitated it by not interfering with his administration officials who were assisting Hillary Clinton. This is a key distinction.

President Obama knew what was going on, and he was willfully blind as it was carried out. However, the mess and fallout from the effort his FBI and DOJ officials put into assisting Hillary Clinton eventually represented a threat to President Obama.

With an assist from pressuring allies in the legislative branch, Robert Mueller and all 19 of his Clinton-aligned Lawfare operatives were put into place to cover-up the mess created within the Russia Collusion operation. Mueller +19 Lawfare embeds continued the Crossfire Hurricane operation, while the extreme Lawfare strategy was deployed against the Trump administration.

That’s the short, encapsulated version.

The Russia Collusion hoax was created by Hillary Clinton, spread to media through Fusion GPS, and given the patina of credibility by the DOJ and FBI. President Obama facilitated the operation by not interfering in it until it became a threat to him personally.

Both the Obama and Clinton political teams supported and organized the Robert Mueller cover-up. All of this activity is because Hillary Clinton was supposed to win. They all knew the “dirty tricks” that were deployed and specifically what systems were utilized in order to carry it out.

♦ Awakening the public. Among the information President Donald Trump has requested for declassification, there are two important document sets being overlooked.

#1 is the 2017 99-page opinion of FISA Court presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer, covering 2016 FBI Contractor abuse of the NSA database. Tulsi Gabbard needs to get the unredacted version, read it and declassify it. [Yes, revealing the names of the actual FBI contractors]

#2 are the NSA “audit logs” which were preserved by NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, as outlined in his testimony. Where does NSA store their audit logs?

Both document trails outline the FBI conducting political surveillance of the 2016 Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

This is the originating data that follows a parallel path in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

Both paths, (1) the FBI illegal political surveillance, and (2) the Clinton campaign Russia Collusion/Crossfire Hurricane investigation, intersect at the Carter Page FISA warrant and merge together. However, it is important to see them as two distinctly different paths.

The illegal surveillance path was made legal retroactively by the FISA Warrant against Carter Page.

Investigating ‘Russiagate‘, as dirty and unseemly as it was, takes you to a place where politics infected the DOJ/FBI, and every participant carries plausible deniability. However, investigate the 2016 illegal surveillance of Donald Trump’s campaign via the NSA database, and all of that activity cannot be justified.

Do you understand the difference?

If you understand the difference above, then you start to realize why John Solomon is focusing on Russiagate. Beware the person who picks up the flag at the front of the parade, for they are likely steering the crowd for a reason.

Focus on the FBI surveillance of the GOP in 2016, by focusing on how they exploited the NSA database.

As to the Audit Logs preserved by Director Rogers, there are two strong likelihoods:

#1) I suspect one of the workstations involved in the database searches could be identified as an FBI workstation in the DC Law Office of Perkins Coie. At least that workstation could be in communication with the NSA search results.

#2) I also suspect one of the workstations involved in the database searches will be located in the office of Samantha Power at the State Department, with a user id login designated to Power (but she may not have physically logged in). This would be an external, non-domestic, workaround to the legal limits of surveillance. A log-in that can take place from any country not technically bound by the 4th amendment search restrictions found domestically.

Both #1 and #2 above are directly connected to Hillary Clinton. #1 was her campaign law firm, and #2 was her former office in the State Dept.

Bottom line. Authorized “contractors” with the USIC were conducting illegal political surveillance on the 2016 GOP presidential contenders and funneling the results to the Clinton campaign.

There is a document trail directly to this activity, and audit logs showing exactly who was doing it.

The Details 

The 'Mask' of Democracy

Techno-Orientalism: Intercultural Cringe Experienced During Profilic Self-Differentiation

When Mass (Modern) Man* Struggles with Technological Change Related to Self-Identity... and 'Others' Different Cultures to Serve said Purpose and Create a Self-Coherent and Curated 'Profile' for Itself.

*Mass Man (Modern Man) was a product of the Industrial Revolution. Capitalism commodified Labour and stripped him of its' cultural accoutrements, leaving the massified man to have to establish the meaning of his own identity outside of that of being a cog in the Capitalist machine and its' mass marketing consumer labels.

The Problem of Modernization and Modernity in a Nutshell...

...Institutional literacy...Institutional capability... versus Russia

Competition

...and the evolution of the (Last) Mass Man

(much blinking required)

Rousseau and Voltaire Meet "Avatar"

from Google AI:

In this letter, dated May 4, 1759(?), Voltaire sarcastically praises Rousseau's work, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men), for its cleverness in trying to make humanity "stupid" and long to live on all fours. Voltaire, who was already in his sixties at the time and in poor health, states that he is too old to adopt this new, primitive way of life.

Why do Modern Movies suck?

 "Spectacle is the Sun that Never Sets over the Empire of Modern Passivity"

- Guy Debord, "The Society of the Spectacle'

"Panem et Circenses"

-Juvenal

Is Avatar meaningless?  Or is it a lesson on the meaning of a life and world without technology and spectacle?  A sinthome for a life of real experience?  Of real Folk!   ...not a product of Capital (or is it?).

A Conversation with Jesse Welles (Josephine, The Singer or, The Mouse Folk).

Tik Tok - The Return/ Re-Birth of Folk Music?

Or New Fount of Spectacle?

Entertainment for folk too tired from Work and trapped in Spectacle?

Or the Birth in Anti-fragility of the Prosumer Generation?

Why Intelligence is NOT Merely a Tool (or Trap) of Linguistic Communication

 

"Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it" 

 "Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it"

-William James

Some notes on the above video:

Integral Theory -Ken Wilbur

Four inter-related dimensions of language:

1. Psychological realm - Internal realm of meaning making. 

2. Embodied and Behavioural - Language describes how we feel, and how we can react. 

3. Cultural Realm - Language is a vessel of culture that can transmit shared values, etc. 

4. Social Communication infrastructure. Physical media infrastructure AND institutions and norms which govern communication. they determine who gets to speak, what gets to be said, who gets heard, and how messages travel. They influence the rhythm, reach and tone of public discourse.

Life seeks nourishment, stability, growth, adaptation, connection, repair, and when necessary, sacrifice (among other things).

Six features or characteristics about language"

1. Language is generative. You can recombine finite words and rules into infinite expressive combinations.

2. Displacement. We can communicate about things beyond local space and time (past, present or future).

3. Syntax and grammar. Language has complex rules that can build layered meanings.

4. Language is symbolic and abstract. It doesn't just convey reactions and locations. It refers to ideas, generalizations, and possibilities.

5. Recursiveness. We can use language to reflect upon language itself.

6. Evolution. Our languages adapt "culturally".

Sapir Whorf hypothesis. "The structure of a language determines a native speaker's perception and categorization of experience. It shapes our thoughts and understanding of reality." In weaker form, it nudges (not determines) our cognition, how individuals and cultures navigate reality.

The invention of written language didn't just expand communication, it also concentrated power. Those who could read and write gained access to knowledge, legal authority, religious interpretation, and record keeping, while the majority remained dependent upon on oral transmission. This creating a lasting divide between literacy empowered elites and the broader population creating hierarchies. The Gutenberg Press' Bible broke the Churches hold on Religious interpretation and lead to the Protestant Reformation.  Masonic and Intelligence Community Secrecy serves to Concentrates Power in the hands of certain selected elites (Master Mason or a "siloed" government NSA or CIA Director 33rd degree).

Contemplating Globalism before Bedtime

Lovin' My Tech Bros...

Welcome to the Jungle...

Mike Benz, "Music for Regime Change"

“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

― Marshall McLuhan

“War and the fear of war have always been considered the main incentives to technological extension of our bodies. Indeed, Lewis Mumford, in his The City in History, considers the walled city itself an extension of our skins, as much as housing and clothing. More even than the preparation for war, the aftermath of invasion is a rich technological period; because the subject culture has to adjust all its sense ratios to accommodate the impact of the invading culture.”

― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.”

― Marshall McLuhan

“Art is anything you can get away with.”

― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities.”

“The poet dislocates language into meaning. The artist smashes open the doors of perception.”

“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".”

― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, having infallibility in their own area of experience. Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an entire community.

― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”

― Marshall McLuhan

“We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

― Marshall McLuhan

“Our technology forces us to live mythically”

― Marshall McLuhan

“Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.”

― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“In the "Republic," Plato vigorously attacked the oral, poetized form as a vehicle for communicating knowledge. He pleaded for a more precise method of communication and classification ("The Ideas"), one which would favor the investigation of facts, principles of reality, human nature, and conduct. What the Greeks meant by "poetry" was radically different from what we mean by poetry. Their "poetic" expression was a product of a collective psyche and mind. The mimetic form, a technique that exploited rhythm, meter and music, achieved the desired psychological response in the listener. Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said. Plato attacked this method because it discouraged disputation and argument. It was in his opinion the chief obstacle to abstract, speculative reasoning - he called it "a poison, and an enemy of the people.”

― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“The ear favours no particular “point of view.”

We are enveloped by sound.

It forms a seamless web around us.

We say, “Music shall fill the air.” We never say, “Music shall fill a particular segment of the air.”We hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus.

Sounds come from “above,” from “below,” from in “front” of us, from “behind” us, from our “right,” from our “left.”

We can‘t shut out sound automatically.

We simply are not equipped with earlids.

Where a visual space is an organised continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships.”

 ― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“Delegated authority is lineal, visual, hierarchical. The authority of knowledge is nonlineal, nonvisual, and inclusive.”

― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.”

― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Minoa (Linear A) vs. Mycenaea (Linear B)

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Select quotes from Marshall McLuhan's "Culture is Our Business"

“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward. They have no identities.”

“One of the many flips of our time is that the electric information environment returns man to the condition of the most primitive prober and hunter. Privacy invasion is now one of our biggest knowledge industries.”

“Visual space is a continuum. On the other hand (i.e., interval as explanation), acoustic space is a sphere without center or margin.”

“In non-visual space both man and animal are hunters.”

“In the age of the information hunter feedback yields to feedforward, the point of view becomes the probe. Problems become discoveries.”

“All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.”

from Google AI:

Marshall McLuhan, a renowned Canadian philosopher and media theorist, explored the profound impact of media and technology on human perception and society. 

His work delves into various aspects of this dynamic relationship, including the concept of "Culture Is Our Business". 

Culture Is Our Business

"Culture Is Our Business" is the title of a 1970 book by Marshall McLuhan, serving as a sequel to his earlier work, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. In this book, McLuhan focuses on the pervasive influence of advertising within the context of the electronic media landscape of the 1960s. 

He viewed commercial messages as more than just persuasive tools, considering them as unacknowledged art forms and cultural artifacts. Through a series of insightful "probes" and a blend of humor and satire, McLuhan dissects the meanings, values, paradoxes, and the underlying function of advertising as propaganda and a shaper of our consumer culture. 

Key takeaways:

Focus on Advertising: "Culture Is Our Business" is a study of how advertising reflects and shapes the cultural landscape.

Advertising as Art and Artifact: McLuhan sees advertisements not merely as commercial messages but as significant cultural expressions worthy of serious study.

Electronic Media's Impact: The book explores how the new electronic media environment transformed the nature of advertising and its influence on society.

Understanding Consumer Culture: It offers a critical examination of the emerging consumer culture driven by the burgeoning electronic media landscape of the time. 

Essentially, McLuhan's "Culture Is Our Business" delves into how advertising, powered by evolving media, plays a central role in shaping and reflecting our culture, deserving critical analysis rather than being dismissed as mere commercialism.