There are over seven billion people
swarming over the planet's surface. Many live under oppression,
under deprivation, under slavery, under subjugation. Many live in
fear, insecurity, confusion. Many live deprived of truthful
information, under illusions, delusions, under myths and lies. Many
are killed, tortured, persecuted, raped, murdered. Many live under
incarceration, both physical and psychological. Many live and many
die in obscurity, in anonymity. Many are wasted. Many are lost.
Many more are born. The population grows. Its impact on the planet
grows. Many life forms that shared the planet have been pushed into
extinction. Many more life forms are being pushed ever closer to
extinction. The destruction and poisoning of the environment
proceeds at a rapid pace. Many more people continue to be born.
Dire consequences loom.
And Kim Kardashian has published
photographs of her breasts. And this dominates the world news.
The human brain is weak, defective,
vulnerable to primitive and powerful hormones, vulnerable to memetic
infection, to co-optation, to hijack, to exploitation, to subversion.
The critically defective nature of the human brain dooms the species
to certain oblivion.
The brain sees nothing of this. It
envelopes itself in self-adoration. It attributes to itself
infallibility. It sees nothing as sacrosanct. It violates
everything, grabs, squeezes, and rends everything, shatters,
penetrates, and eats everything. The body lives in depravity while
the brain holds itself in a state of grace. The brain sees its
actions as necessarily correct, as justified, as inevitable.
Extinction, death, violation,
ignorance. Enormous forces working towards entropy in the biosphere.
And Lebron James has moved back to
Cleveland. And this dominates the world news.
There are over seven billion people
swarming over the planet's surface, and in each a brain that sees
only itself, cares only about itself, will do anything to satisfy
itself, to acquire more, and more. To acquire glory, wealth, and
fame by any and all means. And more of it, and more. To evade
aging, to evade death, to evade costs, to evade responsibilities.
Each of them desiring to reap all benefits and externalize all costs.
Each of them lusting, hungering, driven by greed, by selfishness.
The brain sees nothing of this. It is
hidden behind veils, walls, curtains of whitewash and euphemism,
behind screens, hedges, and fogs of expiation, of justification, of
rationalization.
And this, that, and the other product,
and service, will be your salvation, thanks to the genius and the
philanthropy of this, that and the other corporation.
The human brain chooses obliviousness,
avoidance, denial, distraction, rejection, refusal to acknowledge, a
suspension of belief, alternate realities, insularity,
self-absorption. There is no community, no support, no true
comradery. There is no effectual compassion, no true charity, no
true hospitality, no true magnanimity.
Love is dead. With it shall go the
human species, and most of the planetary biosphere.
The brain sees nothing of this.
Consume! Enjoy! And the stock market dominates the world news.