The Pressures Toward Global Materialistic Avarice in the 21st Century

                    :The question arises, "How do people deceive themselves so well as to convince, marginalize and materially exploit others?" In this age of "The Pandering Bourgeoisie," people are bred to consume wastefully, I too covet sometimes, pointlessly. Billionaires, Monarchs, and authoritarians are always the most aggressively subservient people, enslaved by their wealth, delusions of power, and their hostile pretenses of absolute control. All of the world's best research is now subsumed under the agendas of paranoid business departments.

                    I used to love the Beatitudes until I read the part about giving your life for Jesus. Martyrs do make good cornerstones for religions. But does submission to God also require passivity under the force of oppression? "Blessed are the meek, Blessed are the poor," Blessed are the insipid. (Is this a recipe for breeding human sheep? I love Jesus, not martyrdom.) Materialism is enhanced by enforced self denial. Self pity and self sacrifice can make anyone cruel and unfeeling. (What's sacrificed is the love of an unfeeling Father.) Affluence Ministries appeal to our self pity. Addictions to money are the hardest Jones to break.

                    I myself refuse to worship a god who would punish innocent children for straying and refusing to believe. If god is a such a jealous bully, no wonder he needs the devil to seduce innocent non believers. If believing in god means we are to judge the children of strangers to be damned by birth, why believe in anything at all? Ever? Thus our faiths have led us to the temptations of avarice. Our faith has made us martyrs to the dollar. I'd rather starve, and I have.

I'm reading a fascinating book by David Weinberger called "TOO BIG TO KNOW." It's about the failure of hierarchical authorities in a data driven society. A.K.A. Clerical abuse. Today's social information networks debate all the available knowledge. But the old long form authors (of which I tend to follow) are still with us. We now also get the constant noise of antagonistic dialogs through arrogant online discussion.

The Talmud for me is the old form text with an evolving open record. Wikipedia is also an example of a group moderated knowledge compendium. I would say if you want to look at uncontested knowledge like Euclid's "ELEMENTS" or Newton's "PRINCIPIA," we see both are enhanced by contemporary analysis producing ever more refined and precise corrections. No final authority is needed to close the book or codify correct conduct.

The clerical academics of most philosophies and religions are often bullshit. Not to say that these works are always wrong per say. It's just that most of what was written was early and often inaccurate. When we look at many the arguments surrounding conflicting worldviews, we often get lost in semantics. The greater challenge becomes, "Knowing when we're wrong, and finding out what to do when we are wrong."

Declarative intentional learning is hopefully adaptive. "Authoritative Knowledge," however, is enforced. Parroting scripted messaging often induces silent withdrawal. But this may be the only sign a person will show, of receptivity. Even these brief moments of subjective awareness can be so subtle, that the person spouting half truths can suddenly relapse back into denials and evasions. (Here's a case tautology: My own, "Money is the hardest addiction to break." Even if it is true, where's my evidence and am I just being preachy?)

I write extensively on recuperative deprogramming. I will continue to post more articles from my book on this subject.

Why I won't try to replace G+

                 
                    G+ spoiled me. I started as a blogger on an indispensable throw away issue, the Psychic's consultants ethics. What if they aren't always insane, corrupt or ignorant. The obvious correlations with religion and politics have been a hard sell.

                    Starting to write my book "ZENOPHILE," on Blogger meant only the blog & media giants cared about my unique and provocative content. When I started on G+ I linked to Google Analytics and YouTube with my Math Movie Graphics. This opened up a floodgate of engagement that only my multi-tiered outreach could have achieved. I tried writing about my rarefied interests in for instance, Google image decompression algorithms testing out their image recognition software on my math art.

                     Not to mention the Russian Porn Mafia whose original interests were prompted by my admitted use of their applied Games Theory approach to intimacy and dating compatibility. I use a very elaborate system of checklists identifying distinguishing markings and variations of distinctions.

                     Long and short of it is, just like G+, mine too was an experiment that went horribly, horribly right. And no one will likely ever got to see it. I'm not that disappointed. My whole life has been thus both extremely successful and outwardly pointless. The G+ experiment made it possible for me to limit the noise of engagement, which I deliberately avoid. I devised a strategy of Creative Personalization where I let advertising tell me what GOOGLE can see of my extremely limited inroads into the internet. Less data about  me is qualifiedly more. No email. No commerce. No google searches ever. No YouTube except for music. The amount of the revealing info into the Google personalization profiling algorithms, is used to target potential markets. This foe me was an endless gold mine for reverse surveillance, profiling the profilers.

                     But the end came much too early, with the rollout of G+beta. No more tasty unique advertising prompting from my interests.  One last sudden upswing in engagement was coming through the Porn Mafia until the election. Now my ads on YOUTUBE are predictably pedestrian, as they should have always been. But even back then I was still getting people coming through the porn dating sites from Czech armaments dealers, Russian book clubs, Turkish Hacking conglomerates, Ukrainian hunting clubs, Japanese code designers, etc, etc. I couldn't have made this stuff up.

                     I do like being able to find things that most people will never get to see, much less want to know about. Having had so many careers where I simply have too much self respect to want to pander or proselytize, I appreciate the need to just let go and move on to something else often unrelated. With the closing of G+beta, I'll miss the few people I've actually been able to learn from and their informative posts on my G+ Home Page.

                     This is the unsigned Painting. It not what you get, but it's what you give yourself. Dearest Dr. Ed. You once said to me that, "It's very hard to connect with people over the web. Full stop. The new beginning is here. When I have been advised to create my own new online "Community" to identify and address this apparent gap in perceived social connectivity, I confess I prefer to accept the successes and failings of my social experiments as part of a much larger learning curve. To where and when, I don't know. (I can't say, "We'll see." That's the Don Bot's elastic slogan.)