#122.21 - Short entry

Here's a short entry now. Why is it so important that EVERYONE follow everything which is being said? This insistence of conformity in itself is so dangerous. I am watching the population of India and Brazil dying. It is awful but also they have been dying for a very very long time. I wonder if it is the middle class which is now being affected or is it the most vulnerable. The destitute and the ill. You have to wonder about the nature of the virus. Globalisation has contributed to it massively. As long as you have travel you will have pandemics. That is the nature of things.

God I'm glad I did all that before this mania. It will take years before anything is reset again.

I will desperately miss being in Singapore this year though. We have never not gone to Singapore two years in a row. The boys are so used to going there now... for the past eight years we have spent at least six weeks there. It is the other place on Earth where they spend the most amount of their time... except for East Anglia. 

I'm still booze free - I don't expect to return to it this year. In fact I feel like I don't care about it anymore. It is rather wonderful to not have to think about it as a way to cope with life. 

I'm rereading the Occult Science book again. It is even better the second time round. The idea that we need to be open to the invisible world because otherwise it will deaden us as people is so true. I have seen it now first hand. Previously it was something which was a nice to have. However, in the past year nothing is more obvious. I'm so glad of Russell Brand. Oddly the only person who is doing open and serious interviews. From the other end of the spectrum and doing it in a completely different way, Freddie Sayers. There is Matt Taiebbi too... great people - and Chris Hedges. 

Everyone else is mostly mental. The BBC have gone off the deep end. Oh most amusing the AI must have picked up the Success title on my blog twice removed and is now showing me videos about how to become successful. It is ludicrous. They have stopped showing me pooping secret videos though which is a win. Oh yes, the other stupid thing they have started showing me is how to self publish. Because a friend had written in Messenger about self publishing. What this does show me though is that they are listening and they are watching and if I were to do anything which was vaguely illegal I would definitely not be using social media - or in fact any media at all. Do they not realise that revolutions have been organised since before the advent of social media? You don't need a Twitter account to take down the government. Governments do that for themselves. They become so oppressive and so corrupt that the people just rise up. All you need are people to rise up. Because you did it to yourself. Yes, it isn't social media, it is YOU. You cannot get away with corruption forever. It will either implode - like it did on Easter Island where you have mahoosive environmental and social destruction - you scorch your own earth, or you have revolution where people take back the power. 

These stupid tech companies and Davosians. What do they not have? They do not have variety and they do not have history. And how do you know this? You know this because they are behaving the way they do. No one who has a iota of common sense would have the hubris and arrogance which they are no possessed of. And you don't have to go far to listen to someone who is possessed of common sense - Vandana Shiva. Chris Hedges. They are the most sensible people right now.

They have the long view. Will their view prevail? If they are not taken seriously then we will all be wiped out. If they are then we have a chance to turn the clocks back. Or rather forward and have a future. Sadly I think that greed and the Darwinist way of looking at the world will triumph. Sadly. But it's ok. I did try in my own way. I did try. However, I am going to continue because that is all I can do. 

What I do know is this: there will never be a machine more intelligent than even the most basic form of life. More oppressive, more unthinking, more uncanny - yes to all those things. But never more intelligent. I don't know why we are so intent on making machines lifelike? Surely we already have so much of life which is already lifelike. Like Frankenstein we are doing something entirely irrelevant. We already have the capacity to create life... why try to make life from death?

I wonder what a non-Darwinian world will be like? Colonialism and Darwinism... a marriage made in hell. It is the metaphor for Frankenstein.