2016

"May you live in interesting times." 

(ancient Chinese curse.)

1.

All of history, all of philosophy, all learning

altogether...

all art, all music, every photo, every movie,

every conversation ever recorded...

the sum of every library, museum, gallery

news stand....

is all available at the touch of a button.

2.

There has never been such rapid change

in the history of mankind:

the exponential increase of information,

the exponential increase of population,

the exponential dying off of species,

the exponential pollution of the earth,

the exponential pressurization of society.

3.

There's an algorithm going on here, and,

it's reaching it's conclusion. The Maya

were only off a couple of years, and

Fukushima happened before 2012.

Most humans don't care about these things.

Most humans are happy with a nice meal,

getting laid, watching their team win...or,

more and more,

they're happy to get back from the mall in one

piece, happy they  can find some bread to eat,

water to drink that doesn't burn when you hold 

a match to it. The world is running low 

on Casablancas. 

Weaker species just die off. Humans are 

resilient, just stupid. We were in trouble

ever since self awareness; the curse of the

apple that banned us from the Eden that 

was already everywhere around. Humans

saw themselves as separate from everything

else. Multiply that by seven billion and you

begin to see the problem. The Bruce Jenner

remake is the poster child for the fallacy of

misplaced concreteness. "Woman" of the year?

The imagination stretches and breaks...anything

can be anything. It makes the Buddhist point

that reality is illusion. 

4.

Human progress has been an oxymoron since,

at least, 2500 B.C..

The human world is a gigantic pimple

that's coming to a head....sorry, folks,

it's just that simple....neocon game

notwithstanding. Occam's razor says

it all. "Things become very clear when

you're cornered." (Chogyam Trungpa)