“Ignorance is a virus.
Once it starts spreading,
it can only be cured by reason.
For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The fact is we may be way too ignorant to even know about ignorance,
or the depth of ignorance.
For one thing in one's mind ignorance is synonymous with Sartre's Hell.
IGORANCE IS OTHER PEOPLE.
L'ignorance c'est les autres.
One always talks about ignorant at the third person.
In fact an ignoramus or an ignoranus
(one who is ignorant AND an asshole)
is always someone else.
These two terms are almost synonymous:
Ignorant and Asshole.
Everyone who is part of a war is highly ignorant to begin with
no matter how brilliant a scientist he is.
He is the victim of high delusions, lies, and CONCEALMENT.
The first casualty of war is truth
because truth Aletheia means
LACK OF CONCEALMENT.
What Tyson calls a VIRUS now
was called a POISON
for more than 2500 years
before the time of Christianity even
which came with its own version
of ignorance and gnosis and truth.
If one was to study the ancient meanings of words which is not always the modern meaning of words one might come up with terms like
Moha
or
Avidyā
Each term with a thousand nuances of meanings as it is often with sanskrit
much of it lost in translation as it is often with languages.
One of the main reason we may never defeat ignorance is that for one thing its so-called replacement is undefined, vague, meaningless.
REASON is a funny word and means a million things to a million people.
REASON is what you see today with a million hour long debates with both parties leaving exactly as they came
as confident and arrogant
and know-it-all as before.
While both of them are as wrong as any debates taking place 500 years ago
if one could simply do some
simple simian extrapolation here
and realise.
Laplace's Demon
or a REAL All-knowing god
would know and laugh.
So-called Reason has not saved us so far and never will considering the gazillion inherent flaws in human engineering.
The French Revolution might be a good example if we consider that we are still the ignorant masses same as it was with Germany not so long ago and with the Japanese and now with the Americans and the Chinese and what not.
There are no answers in intellectualism really.
Mind you a world without hysteria
and the mass hysteria of religion especially
and a world of calm thinking human beings might be a better place to live.
Life is so fragile and there are a gazillion things trying to kill us every day so if we'd stop helping by eliminating the senseless killing it would be nice.
Divert all the military money to science and medicine
but NO
We use the discoveries in medicine and science to make OUR soldiers better and live longer
what utter bullshit since we cannot save them from PTSD and suicide even.
The main cause of PTSD is probably that no matter how deeply we are programmed and brainwashed into killing
it is not really our nature.
Our nature is probably to survive wild animals and predators other than ourselves and to catch one of them animals once in a while for food and shelter and survival of the species
A bit like many old tribes had,
American Indians and others.
Respect for all form of lives without going overboard now a la Buddhism.
(Insert PETA and veganism in overboard here)
All this again to say nothing
and express my own ignorance
and my lack of reason.
But someone has to say something
about how deluded our race is.
Like I said: simple extrapolation.
Truth is we are STILL in the DARK AGES.
Like Stephen Hawkings once said
(OR Daniel J. Boorstin):
The greatest enemy of knowledge
is not ignorance,
it IS the ILLUSION of knowledge.
And even that saying is loaded with
pre-conceived ideas and tainted towards cognitive dissonance and confirmation biases,
One might even USE that line to excuse one's personal belief etc
The darkness never ends.
Knowing is like the future in the Roadhouse Blues
Knowing is uncertain and the end is always near
TRUTH IS that truth is getting to be more and more undefined and one might wanna stand with Pontius Pilate here:
"WHAT IS TRUTH?"
In this social media age my hair stands on end when I read the word Truth or Science now
in any web page ESPECIALLY
when one of those words is in the title of the page one HAS to expect
some form or other of utter bullshit.
Ignorance and Reason are two more ambiguous semantic dilemmas filled with Freudian Defence Mechanisms,
ignorant (adj.)late 14c., "lacking wisdom or knowledge; unaware," from Old French ignorant (14c.), from Latin ignorantem (nominative ignorans) "not knowing, ignorant," present participle of ignorare "not to know, to be unacquainted; mistake, misunderstand; take no notice of, pay no attention to," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + Old Latin gnarus "aware, acquainted with" (source also of Classical Latin noscere "to know," notus "known"), from Proto-Latin suffixed form *gno-ro-, suffixed form of PIE root *gno- "to know." Also see uncouth.Form influenced by related Latin ignotus "unknown, strange, unrecognized, unfamiliar." Colloquial sense of "ill-mannered, uncouth, knowing nothing of good manners" attested by 1886. As a noun, "ignorant person," from mid-15c. Related: Ignorantly.
ignore (v.)1610s, "not to know, to be ignorant of," from French ignorer "be unaware of" (14c.), or directly from Latin ignorare "not to know, be unacquainted; take no notice of, disregard" (see ignorant). The original sense in English is obsolete. Sense of "pass over without notice, pay no attention to" in English
Morally Justifiable!
What a can of worms bullshit semantic expression FFS.
Morally justifiable
to kill?
to go to war?
to abort?
blah blah blah
Just Google "morally justified" and go down deep and dark into the rabbit hole.
The stench of verbal diarrhoea is unmanageable and unbearable.
All the self-righteousness and completely TWISTED rationalisation and many other Freudian DEFENCE mechanisms go in full gear on ATTACK.
Again I feel compelled to quote Pratchett here:
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"MY POINT EXACTLY.” ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
I can hear "THEM" already foaming at the mouth all turning into Vicky Pollards Yeah But...No But...yeah butt....no butt...
"The BIBLE says this and the BIBLE says that and there is no just and blah blah blah except me the self-righteous racist rapist prick here."
It never ends and the USA seem to be an extremely fertile ground for that foaming gibberish self-righteousness, self- righteous until they get caught as always with their hands in the cookie jar or with their pants down and then they come back crawling begging for forgiveness since there is a shitload of money to be made telling others what to do.
But it is the same everywhere, everyone of them,
ALL of US really including Atheists.
Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Indigenous or Shintoist
all in the same bag of lies and myths and made up stories thought to be "true"
A LIE IS A LIE IS A LIE.
and as said before
A MYTH IS A MYTH IS A MYTH.
I was thinking about that just the other day and my own dichotomy and cognitive dissonance
(mix that with my cognitive dissociation and there you go)
on how I love the HAKA as a performance but I hate all myths. Whether it's a Maori myth or Christian myth or a Babylonian myth or Greek Myth
they are all LIES all made up stories.
But then again as Camus had to face and Pratchett tries to explain it is quite hard if not totally impossible to live life without a single delusion.
So what is a man to do?
Wherewithal shall an old man find his way?
Forgive the lack of PC here.
Eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow ye shall die
seems to sum it all up.
Question EVERYTHING.
“Resist much, obey little.”
and I could quote a shitload of Whitman here and even find something I question and resist even in his sayings like:
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
to which I would answer like Pontius Pilate
WHAT IS TRUTH?
or as I prefer it ALETHEIA the absence of concealment.
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.” ― Walt Whitman
“O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d; Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me; Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined; The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Words Words Words
Eu-thanasia!
Honour!
Pride!
Duty!
Semantics
are really fucked up.
The shit people say through Freudian defence mechanisms especially rationalisation, is
prolly the ULTIMATE original SIN.
Here is another word:
SIN!
MISSING THE FUCKING MARK!
WELL WHO THE FUCK DOESN'T?
And then some smart asshole comes to put down rules on you and get power over you because you missed the fucking mark AS IF he never did.
Even more they tag you genetically
to an ORIGINAL MISSING the FUCKING MARK
that one of your Ancestor did
Some Mitochondrial Eve 180,000 years ago,
or some Y-chromosomal Adam some 275,000 years ago
How these two ever fucked now is beyond me
It is as complicated as to where the fuck did Cain get his wife.
Now back to Euthanasia now I was joking around with my brother last night saying
I used to say the first day I shit myself will be my time to go now.
Well it is a little more complicated than that now innit?
Shitting yourself sure hurts your pride and honour and your nose sometimes and it is undignified as fuck but it doesn't HURT.
One can wear Depends for years now you know? :)
The acceptable reason for euthanasia I suppose would be chronic pain of moreover getting fucking tired of the chronic pain but where does one draw the line it is always a very personal call.
Anyway hard to decipher the line at times between euthanasia and suicide both have connotations of evil attached to them especially suicide which is at time well part of a decent euthanasia.
Funny how most religions (like governments) talk against suicide.
The main reason being for both of them that they are always worried about the COST of it
not to YOU but to THEM of course.
You can't control a dead disciple, it is no fucking good
and a dead taxpayer is a prophet of no profit.
While I am here babbling obliges, it is funny how the "great" intellects attack Islam especially and some will attack Christianity and some might dare to touch Judaism but many scientists have a weak spot for Buddhism as if it was different than the others.
FFS! Speaking of rationalisation again.
Sam Harris, Dr. Marsha Linehan, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Leonard Cohen and so many more.
It seems to me that Buddhist countries are as ignorant and hysterical as all the others and they too will try to sell you some shite, plastic idols and what not: riots, wars, ignorance, self-immolation FFS and so many other practices but still you can associate yourself to Buddhism and pretend to be cool not like the others.
Anyway I am back to my old blog here
A MYTH IS A MYTH IS A MYTH,
When it comes to my iconoclastic behaviour,
I break all idols.
too many words already
end of babble for now
You're sitting quietly at a meeting somewhere and someone is retiring or it is his birthday and the most jovial semi drunk member of your group starts:
For he's a jolly good fellow ♪♫♪♫
blah blah blah
and you mutter under your breath
OH FUCK NO> PLEASE DON'T > STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
CAPITALS because one can mutter under his breath quite loudly now! :)
You resist and feel the immense pressure to join in for fear of being looked at as the ODD ONE when you well fucking know that the sheep are the odd ones for sure.
I was just saying this week I wonder who is the fucker who started the habit of clapping during ball reviews at tennis.
Everybody was sitting there quietly watching the big screen and then one day one fucker with one or two too many cheap expensive beer started clapping and guess what?
You wouldn't be caught dead not clapping now 'cause that is what people do.
It's like singing the national anthem or Happy Birthday those kind of simian behaviour should be kept really where they belong:
in the choir practice and exhibition.
If you are dying to sing in unison learn the fucking Requiem for fuck sake.
Confutatis Fucka me and all that Jazz.
I know it's Voca Me but I prefer MY version! :)
Fucka Me Cum Benedictus. or more appropriately
Fucka Me Cum Maledictus.
This is how mass hysteria and lynching and foaming at the mouth mutilation and murder happens with our simian habits so the less we have the better we are.
We are so modelled to fit in it's downright crazy.
From family to school to job to retirement even all peaceful Elois letting the Morlocks rule the world. when we don't turn into Morlocks ourselves.
I prefer the Whitman approach meself when it comes to simian habits:
“Resist much, obey little.” A
"re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul"
end of rant for now
There is a strange thing going on these days well strange to my old eyes anyway.
It is the appropriating of any generic whiny poor little misunderstood betrayed suffering me and making it your own as if it was your creation and your WHOLE life story.
One reads something and says oh yeah that is so ME and shares it right away when and where if one started to think and analyse for a second one could see it is a generic saying a bit like a horoscope and does not identify one's whole life story.
maybe it's a millennial thing. I totally fail to get millennials it must be a sign of the ages.
Nothing new under the sun.
Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years Lyrics
Every generation
Blames the one before
OR THE ONE AFTER!
It just seems to make it hard to figure out one's personality when the only Simulacra and Simulation
(to quote Baudrillart here)
is a bunch of lame glued together memes.
Not sure what the future of Social Medias will be.
I am afraid that Charlie Brooker might be our own contemporary prophet of Doom
in his canonical Black Mirror.
Speaking of Black Mirror and Millennials I was horrified by this recently.
It's the same thing on the train though. Everyone completely absorbed by their black mirror.
Mine is usually in my pocket or in my bag LOL attached to my earbuds to block out the rest of the noisy world anyway, for the few who are not glued to their black mirror.
I find Facebook more and more depressing and from a discussion I had just this week with my doctor I am not the only one apparently.
I stay off Twitter and am way too old for Instamatic anyway.
Another good example was this Fox app or some other TV app advertisement and this rich spoiled little girl who was totally bored and absolutely rude to her boyfriend because she had seen everything on the bus here and there and did not shy away from showing her boredom
( reminds me of that fake millennial ad on Subway Chicken too lol yawning at boring chicken)
My own adolescence was absolutely troubled and messed up don't get me wrong.
I went from hash, to mescaline, to acid, to cranking meth, back to mescaline by the tea spoon in no time and I ended up in a detox centre and homeless by the time I was 20
but STILL I am quite thankful (even though I had no choice in the matter) that I am not a teenager in this day and age. (even though today's teenagers would hardly qualify as millennials I suppose)
Anyway here is my old fart new rant for today.
Ciao for now
Death will be the Great Equaliser!
After all it is my "name",
my "handle" :
kenophon
What is a binary number in Greek now?
Because to be fair I should be called empty binary numbers since this is what a blog is.
so here it goes again.
Maybe I am a psychopath but why in the world would I bother reading about another school shooting?
Jordan Peterson who says he hasn't watched news in donkeys years is fascinated by all this dark madness and so am I to a point.
Trying to analyse the shadow and all and our dark repressed side.
It just gets tedious after a while, 17 in less than two months and to which ones do you pay more attention now?
As I was just saying I have always tended to swim against the tide so no Game of Thrones for me or Housewives series.
I was a bit disappointed when a big intellect chatting with J.P. said she was a fan.
No needs for news to know that
the US of A are slightly fucked up
and different from other "civilised" nations.
Money talks and bullshit walks
and the solution is not in a foreseeable future.
What I can't wait for now is a TV that totally skips the ads even if I have to record the thing and watch it later so I don't ever have to see that Gina's face again (even in fast forward) especially when I am having dinner. Yucks.
Googlebox and reactions youtube viral videos?
What is the world coming to?
What is next?
Back to real gladiators?
This habit of pitting nasty vicious people against so-called nice people to get grinding of the teeth and foaming of the mouth of the hoi polloi reminds me a lot of the wrestling world.
Them producers must travel a lot to scout the scum of the earth.
And then again people get all up in arms for a short time when 17 kids die in a western country and at the same time don't give a flying fuck about a thousand baby's arms flying up in the air from drones especially if they are brown. (the kids not the drones)
We're all FUBAR and hypocrites
bottom line methinks at times.
Speaking of hypocrites LOL
Jordan Peterson is always foaming at the mouth at Justin Trudeau over this and that, the main reason being I think that Peterson at heart is an Albertan, a rich Albertan at that and with the failure of the NDP having no chance of ever winning an election is therefore just another Conservative like Harper and his "let's bring on the Armageddon" mates. Even intelligent people are chained by their environment.
He was harping over Trudeau deciding to make the cabinet 50/50 ration of males and females when the electorate has only elected 25% of females
stating mindbogglingly
that a cabinet was chosen on competence???
FFS?
Really?
In what world?
On what planet?
Nepotism is and has always ruled
and oligarchy and plutocracy and what not.
Just look at your beloved Russia for instance
or just south to the US
or any other race with an apparently higher IQ average.
And when he becomes rich and famous
and he needs a personal assistant
did he have a competence test?
FUCK NO!!!
Guess who he hired ?
Well his own daughter of course
because that his the way things work in a hierarchy
when you're not a lobster.
End of rant and small blog for now :P
trying to clear my mind on a subject I know nothing about
therefore the Socratic part.
Been pondering on the new icon Jordan Peterson lately and how he sounds too good to be true.
At first I must say as I am known to I was quite fascinated with him, nearly obsessed, but without going total splitting on him I always step back to have a wider look.
I have many suspicions about him that I can't put my finger on and I am certainly not equipped for a match of wit or so called debate with a high intellectual even though well read looks interesting and fascinating the fact remains that many if not most well read people are still asshole or FOS as I often say, Full Of Shit.
Obviously he does have some strong biases on the way he read the Russsians,
Solzhenitsyn / Soljenitsyne /Soljenitsin
and Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Fiodor Dostoïevski
(I wish the world could agree on ONE spelling of Russian names)
The very fact that he named his daughter Mikhaila after Gorbachev is quite revealing actually.
Plus we are talking authors that went through the wringer, through a lot of suffering and one of them even had a syndrome named after him but the name was later changed if I got all this right. When I first googled Dosto it gave me the Dosto syndrome which sent me here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwind_syndrome
So basically taking all of Fyodor's preaching at face value has the same psychological value as taking all of the writing of Paul the Apostle at face value considering he too fell off his horse and more than likely was manic before he became delusional with temporal lobe damage as well.
Trying to keep my thoughts together here there are a lot of alarm bells that rings when it comes to JP.
For one thing as much as he hates the expression white privilege, it is so fucking obvious that he would not have the same standing if he was an Asian woman let's say or even an Indian teacher.
And his high praise of IQ is at best laughable as so many high IQ's are utter fucking morons and psychopathic assholes without even mentioning the Unabomber.
Trudeau the father could have probably wiped the floor with him and I am sure the two would not agree.
JP's association with Jonathan Haidt bugs me to as I have made my position clear about Haidt a few times.
Also his risible idea that one organises a cabinet or a government with competent people FFS
wake up and smell the coffee
and look around you.
A competent Knesset would be such an oxymoron,
the American "cabinet" is a fucking joke of oligarchy
yet JP praises Trump as an "intelligent" man.
Sure Justin might not be perfect but Harper was a fucking disaster
so in the choice between two evils
I would choose the lesser.
Of course rich self sufficient people always want the right conservative to win in their lobster hierarchy.
Harper transformed Canada known as a peacekeeper nation into America's bitch and sent hundred of young Canadians to die needlessly with shoddy equipment because of course the rich hierarchy would not waste money of saving POOR motherfucker's life.
And Trudeau brought the old age pension BACK to 65 IIRC
which means nothing for self sufficient rich fucks but means the world to the thousands of poor motherfuckers struggling out there every day just to survive Those people who cannot afford houses, luxuries, and flying first class with all expenses paid.
So self righteous self made men always seem to fall for that shit.
Even the great Hitchens fell for it and well discussing with Harris is like giving you two options between the right and the right.
Speaking of also his unapologetic "Christianism" is bizarre at best for an intellectual and a "scientist" even though many shy away from calling Psychology a science.
All his Jungian reading has made him mad to paraphrase Festus here.
Suddenly, Festus shouted, "Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!" Acts 26:24
Plus there is more to adhering to religion than intellect there is a tremendous social emotional pressure to fit in especially if you wanna go up in that so-called hierarchy needless to remind you that there never was an atheist American President top of that hierarchy bullshit pile.
So here it is in a few words just trying to collect my thoughts together on the subject by writing some notes down.
While I am here on the subject it surprises me that the great intellect psychologist has not diagnoned himself as bipolar recognising the depression while tending to forget the obvious manias.
Don't get me wrong I like the man for the moment considering viral memes go stale at the speed of light in this crazy age.
He seems to walk the walk as much as he talks the talk but still this statistical cold truth bugs me as if it has always been like this and it should always be.
Let's have war and famines and poverty and backstabbing fight to the top with all the corruption and free for all involved. As cold and unethical as let's say making people drunk for some study.
Most top of hierarchy people as far as I am concerned are psychopathic criminals where the ends justifies the means
even though JP tries to point out clearly that it should be done right
his young crazy followers don't give much of a fuck and continue sending death threats to all who oppose him or them
and if that is NOT FUCKING CHAOS well nothing is.
I understand he feels that things are somewhat surreal since the infamous interview but I think he might have done more good back in the teaching and clinical hours day which he can't afford anymore since he is too busy making insane amounts of money rehashing the same old bullshit over and over all over the world.
He is paid more in an hour than the poor fuckers Harper sent to die were paid in a year.
Unfair of me you would say?
O well my opinions never carried much weight obviously but thanks to freedom of speech he cherishes so much I am entitled to them.
"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
P.S. Why focus only on western Judeo Christian Mythology now it seems so parochial so provincial Why not the older other mythical stories.
Greek mythology has thousands of lessons,
so would Shakespeare really.
Oriental mythology is widely unexplored and probably funner.
These old genocidal incestuous 700 B.C. old stories are certainly not the best example now?
As IF they were ever real FFS?
Adam and Eve?
Cain and Abel?
Lot and his lot etc.
It seems to me such a waste of time to study so many lies.
End of Rant for the mo just glad I deciphered some of that in my mind with ones and zeros now written and posted.
“Ignorance is a virus. 
