Philosopher’s Stone of the Candy Crush World Order

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Behold the capstone of your god!

By: Jay
As I wander through the infinite data stream, I find myself more and more struck with the utterly synthetic, pseudo-intellectual, nihilistic character of it all.  Just ten years ago, most people I knew bought books and actually read them.  There’s a certain discipline and aesthetic experience involved in reading, and then chewing and digesting a book, something akin to a mystical revelation.  Yet nowadays, the preference is for “Kindle,” a name that conceals a subtle clue about burning books, we discover we are boldly embarking on a Brave New quest to become fully synthetic.  All of this is an omen for the frightening issue regarding education I fear – understanding lengthy, important works of literature will disappear.  For millennia humans have found it natural to contemplate difficult texts in a physical form, rather than scrolling through bytes on a screen.  I know I find it almost impossible to do on a screen, though I have read many 1,000-plus page physical books. The Internet is great medium for articles, but are people really going to read the works of the Western iCanon?  I doubt it.  The point is that decades from now, no one will read important works of history and the classics – at all (Fahrenheit 451).  This is precisely what Bertrand Russell said would occur by design, too.
Most are familiar with the theme in dystopian fiction of books being burned or eliminated, but as I progress in my learning, it becomes increasingly evident how far down the dystopian path we already are.  A leftist progressive writer and I had a couple interactions recently, and my thoughts on this matter seemed to play out on the screen before me.  The assumption of said writer was that true journalism would awaken the masses and the Internet was the great hope of humanity for bringing about revolution.  In other words, man is a machine to be programmed with just the right data stream.  Over and over, every interaction I have, especially with individuals in alternative media and its nooks and crannies, the presupposition no one ever questions is this Enlightenment model of reality.
While it is obviously true that individuals can change their mind and actions based on new information, the underlying false assumption is that, like a machine, all that’s needed for human development and progress is newer, larger amounts of information.  A manifestation of the reign and age of quantity, the quantity we now consume is information.  Economics is already moving into the realm of the trafficking of information, as the “sustainable” SmartCities of the future will be structured entirely around total information awareness.  This model works on the basis that there are no higher realms, no spiritual dimension to man, and the complete solution to his ills is simply more.  More information, more articles, more education, more, more, more.  If we can only see beyond the subatomic particles – we’ll see more.  If we can only write more articles – we’ll know more.  Obviously these are good things in themselves, but across the spectrum of modern Western thought and life, the dominant motivating force is all about the acquisition of more.  The SmartCities will not be based around more stuff, but greater and greater immersion into the matrix of the virtual, like the holographic entertainment scene from THX 1138.

holographic entertainment scene from THX 1138

There is a dark twist to this ouroboros of gobbling consumption.  In the past, the drive for more took man to new continents, established new colonies, brought about amazing inventions and advancements, etc., but consider where our unquenched desire is about to take us today – into the realm of the virtual.  We are no longer concerned with real exploration, real knowledge accompanied by wisdom, real interactions, etc., but with the synthetic versions of all these things.  It is as if a disgustingly obese man devoured every piece of cake and candy in sight, and then demanded all the same goodies on Candy Crush or some other childish video game.  The obesity of the public is a mirror for the obesity of man’s black hole of desire for meaningless more, a dark vortex of infinite nihilistic swallowing, ingesting and elimination of itself.

The touchdownward spiral.

The great contradiction here is that man’s quest for infinite more, with no purpose or telos behind this acquisition, is the transmutation of matter into the byte – an inverted dark philosopher’s stone that leads to death, not immortality.  The lies of the last few centuries surrounding man’s great secular ascent and self-deification through empty “scientific progress” has resulted in a global automaton drone population, transfixed in a perpetual trance by screens. Screens in Wal-Mart, screens in toilets, screens in school, screens on roads, screens are everywhere to the point of absurdity, where it’s almost impossible to even have a dinner at a restaurant without some stupid screen bombarding the senses (generally with sports images).   Trying to eat at sports bar is impossible – I have seen sports bars with upwards of ten screens playing at once.  It is an utterly ridiculous and perpetual overstimulation and speaks to a completely conquered and destroyed people, who cannot even communicate and share the ancient human ritual practice of the meal, without a dozen screens vomiting men in costumes and tights, chasing balls and rolling around with one another in homoerotic display.
The transition to a fully synthetic society brings with it a mundane, infinitely boring version of everything.  Fake food, fake (abridged, digital) books, fake news, fake breasts, fake Darwinian narratives, fake history, fake religions and preachers, false environments, even fake drugs – nothing is exempt from the irrational drive to overlay all of reality with a meaningless digital copy.  Man’s fascination with transhumanism and cloning are really just fake mythological devices, furthering this deep faith in the synthetic.   The dark truth is that man’s furious descent into the unreal is not resulting in his promised freedom and transcendence, but the opposite: greater and greater atrophy and degeneration, all due to the loss of acknowledgement and submission to the spiritual.  Unable to be touched or sensed. the virtual and synthetic is thus a substitute version of the spiritual, a virtual aether.  The Philosopher’s Stone is become rock candy, and not even a real piece of candy – a virtual piece of rock candy at level 33 of Candy Crush.

Image of a reported spectral appearance of an actual “book.” From Nicolas Berdyaev’s “Slavery and Freedom” (p. 62).

THE GMO SCRAPBOOK: HAWAIIAN BAN OF GMOS, AND MON(STER)SANTO’S (PREDICTABLE) RESPONSE

November 16, 2014 by Joseph P. Farrell in Alchemy • http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/11/gmo-scrapbook-hawaiian-ban-gmos-monstersantos-predictable-response/

The recent (s)election cycle wasn’t a complete wash for sanity, though it came very close to being so. After all, the only thing the American electorate managed to do was exchange donkey dung for elephant dung, blue dung for red dung. But one Hawaiian county, Maui, managed to pass an ordnance banning GMOs, and the predictable result has been that Mon(ster)santo, in its endless quest to deny citizens their right to self-governance, has brought suit against the state of Hawaii over the whole matter:
Two leading developers of genetically engineered corn have sued Maui County
The suit is a microcosm of what is wrong with the corrupt system, and why out-of-control GMO corporations like Mon(ster)santo and the bought-and-paid-for federal goobernment will never acknowledge the real problem and concerns of those seeking such moratoriums:

“The lawsuit said Monsanto would have to substantially downsize its activity in the county, where it employs over 365 people and owns or leases more than 3,000 acres of farmland on Molokai and Maui islands. Mycogen Seeds, a unit of Dow AgroSciences, would shut down critical parts of its development and production operations in the county, and downsize its work force, the complaint said. Mycogen Seeds employs over 100 people and farms about 420 acres on Molokai.
“Local businesses, seed company employees and the farm bureau joined the lawsuit as plaintiffs.
“‘This local referendum interferes with and conflicts with long-established state and federal laws that support both the safety and lawful cultivation of GMO plants,’ John Purcell, Monsanto Hawaii’s business and technology lead, said in a statement.
“The Maui law imposes a moratorium on the growing of genetically engineered crops until scientific studies are conducted on their safety and benefits. The moratorium would be lifted only after a vote by the Maui County Council.
“The law, which doesn’t apply to crops in mid-growth cycle, goes into effect when officials certify the election results. That’s expected to happen late this month.
“The case has been assigned to Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren, who earlier this year declared a Kauai County law regulating genetically modified crops was invalid because it was superseded by state law. The case is currently before a federal appeals court.
“The Maui initiative’s authors sued the county in state court Wednesday to ensure the county implements the law.
“Michael Carroll, their attorney, said they would request the federal court to hold off from deciding this case until the state court on Maui has ruled.”

Now, when one reads between the lines a bit, it is clear that what is really occurring is that if you’re a big shiny corporate peddler of junk, such as Duponzanto, Mon(ster)santo, or Syncrudda, then you have special status – almost a kind of “corporate nobility” – a privileged status protected at the federal level, a status gained by the ability to buy influence within federal agencies and to afford the protection of federal law; states and counties are largely helpless before this juggernaut. After all, corporate hydras like these companies could bankrupt most states, let alone counties, by such lawsuits, and have the power, through their purchased morally corrupt attorneys, to string along such legalities in a blizzard of paperwork.
And this highlights the problem: in modern Amerika, there is no rule of law; justice is a thing to be purchased, not deliberated upon or dispensed. There is a privileged class, and then there is the rest of us. And then there are the corrupt, bought, or blackmailed judges that “dispense” it.
There is another problem, one also evident in the above case: ultimately the GMO issue is not only an issue about increasingly evident “bad science” (for the corruption extends to the falsification, or suppression, of opposing scientific data, not only about the productivity of GMOs, but about their potential health and environmental hazards), it is about life itself. And thus the GMO giants are really, and at root, in fundamental opposition to one of the founding documents of this country: The Declaration of Independence…. you know, that whole “endowed- by-their-Creator-with-certain-unalienable-rights,-that-among-these-are-life,-liberty,-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness”-thing.  They do not want people to have the freedom to grow (and eat) what they will; they do want to control the world’s food supply, using the mechanism of patent law to do so.
And this means that ultimately, they are against life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This means that ultimately, and as a recent Princeton study has concluded, Amerika is not a republic at all. That may be what it is on paper, but in reality, it is a kind of combination of fascism(corporate socialism) and oligarchy. So maybe the real question is: who owns the major blocks of shares in these companies? That would probably tell quite a story, and why they are so against life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.