The Complete Universe of Memes: Branches of Reality on the Reality Tree

The Complete

Universe of Memes

Branches of Reality on The Reality Tree

Lloyd Harrison Whitling

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The Complete Universe of Memes

Branches of Reality on The Reality Tree

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A humanized interpretation of genetics, memetics, and mathematic theories relative to evolution. Permission to quote may be obtained through the author’s website, http://lloydwhitling.com

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ISBN: 978-1-4759-0834-3 (ebook)

Contents

PREFACE

THIS, MY TEACHERS TOLD ME

MEMES, MEMETICS, MY-MY!

THE IDEOLOGY OF PLUNDER: MALIGNANT MEMES

ACTUALITY VERSUS REALITY

A NEW THEORY ABOUT THE HUMAN UNIVERSE

PART I: OF DEMONS AND DEITIES

PART II THE ROLES OF SCIENCE AND SYNTHETIC REALITY

THE ENERGY OF DREAMS

QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THEORIES

VIBRATIONS: FROM SOUND TO COSMIC WAVES

ENERGY OF THE MIND

MENTAL ENERGY

THE METAPHYSICS OF SYNERGISIS

SYNTHETIC REALITY

THE APPLIED MAGICK OF SYNERGISIS

EVOKING A DEMON

DEITY IN SYNERGISIS

THE MAGICK OF SYNERGISIS

THE MAGICK OF SYNERGISTS

GLOSSARY

YOU ARE THE AUTHOR

Other Books by This Author

To my wife, I have devoted all my words. They are a legacy of myself that, perhaps, only she can appreciate; coming, as they have, from her efforts, tears and fears as well as my own. As so many other authors seem to know (judging from their dedications), to dedicate a book to anyone else when such as this is true, would be farcical and a treachery, or at least the worst kind of unappreciative heartlessness.

It took much of my spare time, over the past half century, developing the ideas presented in this work. The early conception of it, I owe to my very good friend, John O’Donovan: Without his very constructive criticism and the insights I gained through his agile, poignant questioning, I could not have finished it. A friend like he is, everyone should be so lucky as to find.

I communicated often but never got to meet Robert Rimmer, whose visionary ideas about teaching socialization by learning how to love each other have been upsetting people for decades. A true American patriot concerned about our cultural woes, willing to put forth creative efforts and thought and bear the brunt of critical disclaim, we need more, not fewer, of his kind. To him, and his insistence that I publish this book, I owe the guts to go on.

And, Don Robinson: He gave me a book which piqued my interest and sent me off to hunt in new directions. Because of him, I found needles and thread to sew this work together into a wholesome whole.

Thank you, Don.

"Evolution deals with the development of plants and animals? Sorry!—Evolution deals with the development of the entire universe, beginning with the first one-dimensional bit of matter, and became the First Cause from which developed everything existent…

Nothing about Evolution should require ‘proving to make us notice it!"

PREFACE

First Thoughts

The ideas expressed in this book look so obvious to me, I feel astounded and amazed they are not common knowledge. I find a bit of an idea here, a piece of another there, but nothing in our culture to connect them. It’s like a conspiracy has grown up to keep us from discovering what may be the most important things to know in all our lives. The ideas are not easily assembled. A great education will spread the bits of them farther apart, bury them under rote and pedagogy, and make them ever harder to discover en masse. Evolution deals with the development of plants and animals? Sorry!—Evolution deals with the development of the entire universe, beginning with the first one-dimensional bit of matter, and became the First Cause from which developed everything existent. We are so immersed in all the aspects of Evolution that it should be obvious to us. Nothing about Evolution should require ‘proving’ to make us notice it!

Let me get one thing straight, right at the beginning: I have no mathematical schooling beyond the rudiments everybody possesses. I have no paperwork to persuade you I am smarter than you and therefore know what I’m writing about. All I have is imagination, an ability to visualize the obvious, and half a century of long-lived, abiding interest in this subject matter, which causes me to absorb what I become exposed to and struggle to keep it in focus.

Who I am is not the important question. It is, in fact, distracting, an avoidance of the inquiry you should make if you’re to understand what’s true. The important question you should ask instead, is who you are.

Are you someone who deserves the best life has to offer? Are you someone who might wish to be that kind of person? Are you someone with the guts to look yourself in the eye and demand to be that kind of person?

Everything in this book comes from readily available facts. You don’t have to be converted from your chosen beliefs to check them out, or learn about them. All you need is the energy and self-confidence to overcome the eagerness with which you accept the word of others about what is true, and about how they know. Without that energy and some daring, you will remain gullible and at their mercy. So, let me set this all down as I see it, present it, and tell the world, Here it is, take it or leave it: A gift to you from this old man.

While thousands of kids went off to college to learn about quantum, particle, matrix, and string theories (and, later, Memetics), I worked to earn a bottom-class living to support a family and raise female hellions, and mentally lurched around the various notions about what the Universe is made of, how it all began, and Who is God? The product of the endless arguments between parents of unresolvably disparate religions, my own curiosity piqued rather than dampened by the ongoing conflict, I knew somebody had to be right and set out to learn whatever truths I could find.

This kind of qualification, I do not recommend to anybody. From the religious to the scientific, I found inconsistencies in every idea I investigated. Some happy person has held his epiphany up to the light of reason and exclaimed, "Eureka, this is it!

Other happy people have smiled at it, fondled it, reasoned over it, made love to it, and said, What a lovely baby we finally have made! The lovelier the baby, the shorter its life-span, it began to seem. I kept running against the notion that things had to be explained a certain way before their truths could be seen, but could not convince myself that truth, whatever it might prove to be, should not be something obvious once it somehow came to light. Beauty being in the eyes of the beholder is fine, for those who love warts and stretch marks. Ever mindful of my battling parents, I kept offending myself by finding the warts, fangs, and rattles at the ends of tails, and offending others by drawing their attention to them.

I discovered the reasons for those warts, rattles, and fangs is because we humans have three versions of ‘reality’ mixed together under one label in our minds. I only recently learned a sorry reason others prefer not to learn about the obvious holes in their honored convictions. We don’t often have our data properly categorized. Because (mostly) of not knowing about the holes, we lump everything together under headings we could label The Truth and (to quote): works of the devil. Those lumps are called memes by those involved in the study of Memetics. Memetics is, itself, readily acknowledged to be a meme by all these scholars.

I’ve learned to break The Truth down to its three components:

ACTUALITY: The things that stub your toes, the things that bump your nose. Whatever constitutes entities and forms in any realm.

REALITY: The intangible stuff we know is there, cannot put our hands on, but we use it anyway.

SYNTHETIC and ARTIFICIAL REALITY: The things we invent when we don’t know the real answers, and then act as though we do. This is the realm of viral memes.

It seems important to remember most people hold their beliefs sacred because they can find no worthy reasons to change. If their beliefs seem to support their existences, for what reasons should they doubt the value of their sacred doctrines? Who, of any of us, would listen to a stranger telling them all they’re doing wrong if they had not first suspected it themselves? If they find their beliefs tested by stressful circumstances, they grit their teeth, call upon their faith, and stand up to it as a challenge. Why?—because they believe truths they hold dear will, in the long run, prove themselves right as they have so many times before. When money comes in again, good health returns, battles are won, they know they can swell their chests in pride because they stood as rocks, resolute and enduring. Their memes survived whole and sound, and strengthened.

It also seems important to realize humanity could not have persisted without such resilience and dogged determination. It’s too easy to become judgmental when dealing with the matters we hold sacred, and too easy to forget sacred ideas have achieved prominence in human thought for good and valid reasons established long ago, including those with which we now disagree. All but a few of us lack the time or inclination to seek new answers for questions that seem to have been put to rest in ancient eras. We feel satisfied our lives will be lived to the fullest while we support ourselves according to memes established by our forefathers which have replicated within our own minds.

This attitude, that has persisted throughout the slow growth of our pool of knowledge during all the past generations, has begun to fail us in the whirlwinds now tearing at the security of our hallowed ideals. We will have to study the tornado brought upon us by the advance of technology, and learn its features and manners or we will fail to conquer it. If we intend for our civilization to survive without regression into an uncultured chaos that now threatens each of us daily, we will have to learn to deal with our yearning for continued stability with open eyes, ears, and hearts. It’s either that, or risk becoming inmates of a militarized nation. We will not conquer by cowering before it. We cannot make it go away by disavowing its presence. We cannot win the battle of knowledge by choosing ignorance. Think: If we could harness the destructiveness that has been unleashed into our midst and turn it to our own ends, what forces we could learn to control! Should we not dare to look around ourselves and see with what desperation we should pursue a social goal very much akin to this?—and how late we are to begin?

By our study of memes, we discover how nonliving processes can take on an agenda of their own that seems almost as if directed by a form of intelligence. We cannot accredit Nature with intellect, nor the force of Evolution, but we feel a goal of some kind has been set as a result of our observations of Nature and Her forces at work. The memes we see as parasitic when they destroy their hosts for the sake of their own propagation. We can see ourselves as parasitic when we destroy our environment in support of agendas that serve only our own purposes. For humanity to survive, we have learned to conquer all manner of diseases and physical viruses that seek to destroy us for their own ends. While we now turn our attentions to our memes, the viruses of our minds, by learning to deal with them, perhaps we can see how our own ways need corrections before Nature’s attentions get turned toward us.

The basic goal of any truly scientific approach is to disprove itself, for only by doing this can true knowledge be gained; and true knowledge is what the true scientist is after, whatever others might try to gainsay about effects of his pursuits. The many roads science takes for its investigations, while invisible to each other, have reinforced each others’ findings, which gives great strength to statements that, only a few decades ago, would have been condemned as heretical. Not much more than a century ago, they’d have suffered hardships, jail, or death as a reward for their discoveries. I have learned this is the approach we should use in our daily living, lest our own vested interests fail to support us and, instead, lead us to our own downfalls. We need to learn to thrive on rectitude, not wiliness. We must strive to pursue new knowledge, not to kill its bearers, but to acquire it for ourselves.

That the results of science’s methods seem cold and sterile there is no denying, whatever effects it has had on the physical comforts of our existence. For a populace in love with the mysteries inherent to animistic ambiguosity, science has left our collective mentalities emptied of illusions that lost meaning while we reached adulthood. We question, as the years pass. We sense more and more the answers we are given are either inane, evasive, or hostile; mischievous more than honest and serious, by those who proclaim themselves leaders and guides to our gullible selves.

Still, among us are many who feel a definite need for ideology to hush the echoes left in place of that which science ousted. We are required to apply, in our youth, knowledge we will not gain until we achieve adulthood. It is the hollow emptiness that feels cold to people, a mental vacuum begging for invasions by memes. Angels and spirits gave life to fantastic worlds that once thrived in our minds. The loss of ritual and defined standards we once discovered in those worlds took away a sense of direction or guidance; it left a lack of security. These things are needed now, not after the lifetime or so it will take hardcore experimental science to meet the common individual’s understanding. Many cling tenaciously to old ways in their fear of science’s void; yet, to make a claim of being ‘old-fashioned’ in your beliefs is to admit to your lack of knowledge, and your fear for your future. An undesirable admission for one to be forced to make, even if only to himself, taking such a stance is often an unheralded cause for one to be placed in lower positions of employment. For the memes who drive us, we develop an ‘attitude’ and, with it, end up jeopardizing the security and future well-being we feel concerned about!

Many beliefs and practices have functioned well, over the great length of human history, that appear to be failing during the times in which we now live. Sometimes that apparent failure is only because we have greatly increased our abilities to communicate and spread bad news more quickly over vaster distances. Sometimes that quicker ability to tell our stories to greater numbers of others with more vivid pictures than ever before, has only hastened the activities by copycats of shocking crimes while the horror still appalls the rest of us. More often, though, that apparent failure is because generations of us have been doing right deeds for wrong reasons; and without the right reasons to back us up, we are finding we cannot pass the right disciplines on to the technologically-aware generations walking behind us. Our parasitic memes have become obvious to the somewhat more enlightened youths, who do not hesitate to point them out with derision while offering nothing to replace whatever common sense those memes supported.

It is as easy to point blame fingers when we don’t know the causes of our problems, as it is to invent causes, when we don’t know them, for why things are going right. Each of us knows the state of our own mind, and whether we intend to do right by the culture that supports us, or to suck it dry of the lifeblood on which it thrives. Each of us knows that, if we purposefully limit the kinds of knowledge we possess, we can support all kinds of notions because parasitic memes will find us to be easily acquired hosts. We find that easy to observe in others, hard to see in our own selves, and so it feels easy to avoid acknowledging our own responsibilities in the fostering of our current state of social chaos. Still, it feels awkward to run against those with smoke-blinded eyes, who rush toward the fire while trying to escape. No one can help but worry they might know something that has stayed hidden to our own eyes.

The science you will find here, has been presented in a manner for which many scientists will curse your author. You might find this science hard to comprehend at first. You have a lifetime on your side, during which you can compare what you read here with information you will glean on your own, while never forgetting the aim of honest science is to disprove its own theories while discovering how things really work. The very aspect of science we joke about, is the part of it that functions best.

You’ll come across many references to energy entities regarded to be demons and angels while reading this work. Alternative names for them could be antisoul, and soul except those two terms represent their effects relative to the development of human synergy. With all four names at your disposal, you can develop a more complete picture of the natural memetic phenomena involved. The terms already enjoy a history of use in some of our cultures, among folks who will immediately know how to apply the ideas of ‘antisoul and understand the nature of parasitic, malignant memes I have labeled ‘demons. From that, it should be easy to see how benignant memes should well be labeled ‘angels in support of ‘souls .

The first section of this work is to support the reality of memes, the validity of Memetics as a science, and the instructive/constructive side of the idea in an attempt to balance the excess of negative literature it has already generated. The second section is to show how to apply the concepts developed in the first section, how to further develop them, and some esoteric relevance for this entire subject matter.

THIS, MY TEACHERS TOLD ME

You have a right to be angered by what I say; you have no right to say I made you angry.

You have a right to say my words are foolish; you have no right to say I am a fool.

You have a right to disagree, he said; you have no right to call me evil just because I might be wrong.

You have a right to try saying what I said better; if you think you know how, you have an obligation to humanity to do it if you can.

You have a right to look for my mistakes; your obligation is to set them straight without making an offensive issue.

I may seem bigger than you in one or two ways—my weaknesses make up for that. We truly are equals, you and I; I expect you to show all the ways your grandness exceeds mine.

Aye, that he said, and more; and still he did not say it all!

We both could be buffoons, he said; dolts, clowns, absurd in our own self-estimations—we have that right. our duty to each other is not to condemn with blame, but to teach with understanding and compassion; and, also, to be forgiving of our own selves.

We have the right—Nay, the duty!—to learn our capacities. But, we must strive to keep our freedom while doing so: We must seek good understanding of new things we hear and read, not build knowledge from what we wish was said but wasn’t.

So, don’t condemn me, he’d plead of me, if I try to teach when it is so apparent there is nothing for certain that’s known. There are many guesses Man has made about this Universe we are a part of: I can describe them and (he’d say), when it comes time for us to try them out, I will be your student as you are mine.

My teachers have been many men and women. Of one mind, they were: That we are here to learn, and that what there is to learn is why we’re here.

Scientists and religionists write books about their concerns as though their intended readers share their interest and depth of information, and so should not need to read their books.

MEMES, MEMETICS, MY-MY!

Why is this book necessary? What will it do for me as its reader?

Science nowadays has become a vast wilderness of disconnected weaves in a fabric named Tangible Rectitude and Virtue with technology as an accidental, sometimes intended by-product. Its probes into the heretofore unknowable unknown, relegated by the common person to God’s Realm, are met by dismay which distance serves to heighten. Its purposes regarded with suspicion by the average Most Of Us, even those in high muckety up places, we cannot turn away from the technology it has induced. Still, its ability to make accessible the previously incomprehensible world, if only the results could be more widely disseminated, would soften the effects of religion’s shackles, gags, and blinders. Science does not proselytize because it has not learned to speak the ordinary person’s language, it is still too immature and, for reasons about to become apparent, the ordinary person couldn’t care much less.

Religion nowadays has fostered a vast wilderness of increasingly stretched claims of Holy Rectitude and Morality clothed in eye-wool, with service to humanity and God as a seemingly accidental, sometimes intended by-product. Its claims upon Truth as a product of its inroads into the unknown and supposed unknowable are increasingly met by dismayed fright which distance seems to heighten, and its purposes increasingly get questioned by growing numbers of us, especially those in high muckety realms in fields of science as well as those in their own ranks who do not share whatever particular beliefs we happen to be referring to. But religion spreads and grows because it speaks and understands the language used by the numerous average Most Of Us, and retains the ability to change its story to fit its audience.

Scientists and religionists write books about their concerns as though their intended readers share their interest and depth of information, and so should not need to read their books. Those who interpret their literature into meaningful language are welcomed by the religionists, but spurned and burned by those at science’s helm, who critique and criticize, and correct by post-revision back into the language of the enigmatic. Those of us who spend our lives at work so we can pay the taxes and other tolls which fund both kinds of enterprises (so that those who write their enigmatic literature can spend their time acquiring all that bewildering information and compounding it into something momentous enough to share with themselves and others of their refinement) are genuinely regarded as being purposefully ignorant by dint of our lack of access to their circles, experiences, and their interests. For someone to proudly claim, I am a Christian, and have it become interpreted to mean, I am a hyper-emotional, intentionally ignorant clod, is a form of elitism not deserving of practice in our society, but it is, in that way and many others, and in reverse. If correctly understood and applied, Memetics should put an end to that insensitive kind of emasculation by both sides of the gap.

So you will understand my position here, let me inform you of this: I am a person who claims no great depth of knowledge in any particular subject. My interests have been wide-ranging and varied throughout the decades of my lifetime, my curiosity inclined toward digging at whatever irritants probed for my attention at any particular period. Most of my goals have been to try to solve whatever problems demanded action at the time. Sometimes it might have been relatives or acquaintances (often in enforced association at a workplace), trying to immerse my psyche into whatever the latest God fad might have been. I struggled with extreme concern one time, to understand why someone of extraordinary intelligence lost his mind. To keep myself from getting involved in drugs, to understand a new technological marvel that might apply to my interests in music and writing (Transistors—I was there at the start of their emergence into consumer goods! Computers—I gawked in amazement while a typist rattled a bunch of keys and her printed words appeared in another room! Recorders—My amazement rendered me voiceless! My intrigue rendered me penniless!) and singing and dancing and communicating, and trying to survive in a world hurriedly growing complex on an expanding scale while nurturing six people with my humble income have kept me occupied. The lifelong threat of hunger has always focused my attention. I’ve got hands-on, been there experience with all of these things I write about.

I worked for a medium manufacturer in the music field for a long time. Our products ranged from reel to reel tape, 8-track and cassette cartridges for home recording, answering machines, and for other companies who produced pre-recorded music and brand-name blanks. Spreading my efforts out over parts specifications, recording tape problems, plastics technology, and basic metallurgy forced me to diversify my interests into all the fields associated with them, to communicate with all their venders at a knowledgeable level, and to be able to interpret problems so they, and my bosses, could keep a handle on them. I will brag about this much: I did it. I left in 1977 (I think) when the oil crisis of that era forced my company to move to Mexico. No habler español. Besides, I felt bored!

I learned a lot of different and unusual things as a result of my experiences, but the point is I am still an ignorant human being, as ignorant as anyone, in comparison to all the things that exist for us to know. Doctors go to school for a decade, and their studies continue for a lifetime. Their knowledge grows deep, about the fields in which they work. When something unexpected gets thrown at them, as we saw in late 2001 with the anthrax business, they are as stymied as the rest of us. We all know what we know. We won’t know what we don’t know until it slaps us in the face. Some of us know one or two things to great depth. Some of us know to some depth a few things. Some of us have a shallow knowledge about a great variety of concerns. If the part of each of our brains that contains all our knowledge could be somehow removed and weighed, the amount of everybody’s erudition should be very similar from one person to the next, but for our ability to acquire new knowledge and assimilate it. Alright?

According to concepts derived from the science of Memetics, we acquire knowledge in the form of memes (Memetics is the study of memes). Knowledge arrives to each of us as packets of information, called memes, that we obtain by instruction or imitation. Memes, often described as the cultural equivalents of computer viruses, may be defined as any self-referential system of perceptions which contains within itself the instructions for its own replication and proliferation.

Memetics seems to very heartily meet science’s grueling standards of repeatability, predictability, and verifiability. We can obtain our memes in a controlled environment (as at a college, university, or church). We can go find them for ourselves by following our inclinations and exploring the paths of whimsy and chance. That is the way I have found my own memes, but there has remained for a lifetime, a central interest which drove my explorations and called me back to assemble my results in the context of the interest’s theme: All of existence is a process resulting from the playing out of events. Human events result from cause and effect playing against human interests and circumstances.

Memetics serves as verification of that idea; and that idea, once understood, serves to verify the reality of Memetics. A person with a limited background must stand before a wall bare of framed documents and papers affirming deep knowledge gained in a controlled environment. My wall glistens of distracting polished varnish, like a snow-capped desert that does not make an imposing point of reference but for its blinding vast vacancy. Instead, its glossy expanse distracts from the speaker’s own mantle of authority on any subject. I, now serving in that speaker’s role, must turn to others recognized in their own fields and allow their already written words to make my statements for me. So be it! I will later enjoy the privilege of embellishment and the establishment of meaning!

In his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins said: Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. If a scientist hears, or reads about, a good idea, he passes it on to his colleagues and students. He mentions it in his articles and his lectures. If the idea catches on, it can be said to propagate itself, spreading from brain to brain.

Memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically. When you plant a fertile meme in my mind, you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the memes propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. And this isn’t just a way of talking—the meme for, say, ‘belief in life after death’ is actually realized physically, millions of times over, as a structure in the nervous systems of people all over the world.

Daniel Quinn in Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure: We’re the disposable vehicles in which our memes are riding to immortality. These memes come to us from all the speakers who are vocal wherever we happen to grow up—parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, teachers, preachers, bosses, co-workers, and everyone involved in producing things like textbooks, novels, comic books, movies, television shows, newspapers, magazines, internet sites, and so on. All these people are constantly repeating to each other (and of course their children, their students, their employees, and so on) the memes they’ve received during their lifetime. All these voices taken together constitute the voice of Mother Culture.

In The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore is shown in a website page: (http://www.2think.org/mememachine.shtml), as rendering how a meme develops in a description of a simple event she became involved in while attempting to watch fireworks one fourth of July evening.

The proof of the meme pudding is the adaptation of the idea into business practices designed to set sparks to an enterprise’s degree of success, as in Seth Godin’s Unleashing the Idea Virus ISBN 0-7868-8717-6: Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way… Business people don’t want to bother with things that aren’t useful and don’t work.

These authors, and others, agree on key points that are important to our conception of existence: (1) That memes are events; (2) that memes have an existence that can be recognized, described, and duplicated; (3) that memes replicate, reproduce, spread, in spite of attempts to prevent them from doing so; (4) that memes gain physical presence by taking up residence in the minds and nervous systems of their hosts just like any other living organism; (5) that some potential hosts can become resistant to their intrusions. These are important because they are exactly the ideas I have been describing as soul/antisoul, and demon/daemon in my own writing and poetry of the last four decades, as being the results of cause and effect within the human processes of living.

Most of the compositions I have read regarding memes deals with their adverse side, and do not tell the entire story, nor have they dealt with morality and ethics relative to Memetics, except in the same averse fashion. We know from medicine that the same kinds of organisms can live in the body as parasites or as necessary supporters of our survival through symbiosis (a reason often given for eating yogurt, for example, to support the desirable bacteria in our guts). I heartily recommend that, perhaps, this literature be evaluated in the light of my own past writings about soul and antisoul, and about demons versus daemons; and that, conversely, my work be assessed in the light shed by the science of Memetics so that, in the end, it can all become accessible to the common, ordinary person who can improve his own pathway through life with it. Enter from stage left: Malignant versus benignant memes. Enter from stage extreme right: Virulent parasitical memes.

Any accountant can tell you that intangibles can oftentimes be more important to one’s state of wellbeing, than his or her tangibles. In fact, intangibles can make the difference between the states of poverty and wealth.

THE IDEOLOGY OF PLUNDER: MALIGNANT MEMES

The problem with writing that references nudity, human relationships, or sexual escapades is, to the average reader, that becomes what the subject is about. We secretly yearn for a return to Nature’s ways in many respects, and turn to titillation to replace the absence. Sex becomes the whole, not just an important byproduct. The true substance gets superficial ingestion the same way a cheese lover might glance at a milk display on the way to his favorite staple. When that happens, the social commentary becomes overlooked or avoided, and the work gets categorized as pornography, even when sex is only incidental to the main topic.

We secretly yearn for a return to Nature’s ways in many respects, and turn to titillation to replace the absence.

Writing that questions parochial thinking instantly becomes a work of the Devil to the pious mind driven by malignant memes. That kind of derogatory statement has proven to be a handy gimmick for avoiding the pain of having to think, admit to errors, or expose the malignant memes inhabiting a mind in dire need of housecleaning. Since my work also deals with synthetic reality and fanatical thinking, it may become so categorized in spite of my tongue being kept jammed into my cheeks. It is easy to defend the status quo. It must, after all, be working or we wouldn’t be here, right?—or might we not be some better place without it?

Synthetic reality has been used in our culture for generations as a way to control humanity, not to inspire it (except as a highly-promoted accidental byproduct). With its origins in the doctrines of warlike desert pillagers of the past, who deemed it their duty to God to steal from innocent passers-by in order to provide for their own dependants, the main doctrinal influence in our present world requires us to carry on in that tradition. We, therefore, seek to control the members of our own society, of those societies surrounding us, any deviance we find on other continents, and the very nature of the environment in which we thrive like a disease on the face of a planet. Anything which cannot be forced to fit this schema, we seek a way to destroy, and also anything within it that annoys us—or the memes we play host to.

I will strive to be as accurate as I can while sharing the information herein. If I am to do what I believe is right this is the way I must go about my business. If I had my ‘druthers, I would like to be just like everybody else, but I cannot force myself to pretend unawareness and lack of concern.

The ideas to be presented here are based on very simple concepts which can be demonstrated by anyone who feels interested, and which have plenty of support outside this book. The main premise is that Nature is all that exists, and that it follows certain rules our memetic enculturation prevents us from completely learning as a society. If there is a supernatural, it is merely an aspect of Nature, and a more correct name for it would be paranormal. Things which seem paranormal are no more than an aspect of Nature we feel are beyond our present understanding. Ghosts, spirits, flying saucers, demons, souls, ghouls, zombies, God, gods and devils, poltergeists, leprechauns, trolls, memes and all the rest we might doubt but, if they do exist with actuality they are entirely natural. There is nothing else for them to be but fictional.

You cannot see it, you cannot hear nor smell it, you cannot feel it’s there, but it can kill you. Like I said earlier, this is about more than just Memetics.

What is natural, in our state of reality, is our three-dimensional materiality within an ongoing continuum of existence, which we perceive from a certain limited vantage point, the main theme of this work. What we understand and accept without hesitation is what we can perceive on a moment to moment basis. We do not generally understand the effects that ongoing events play in our lives, except in a very minimal manner. We may worry about what is happening various places in our world at various times, and how we might be directly affected by them, but we fail to perceive how events take on a sort-of life of their own, spawn new events, create families of events, and exist within our continuum without our aid or intention, and sometimes in spite of our intentions. They are as real as anything else in Nature’s realm, as alive, as important, as deadly, and memes are only a portion of the whole.

Any accountant can tell you that intangibles can oftentimes be more important to one’s state of wellbeing, than his or her tangibles. In fact, intangibles can make the difference between the states of poverty and wealth. Intangibles exist as part of our continuum of being and, although we cannot easily put our hands on them, we can prove they are there by their effects upon us and all of our surroundings. They make the difference between great wealth and the dregs of deprivation.

Many ideas seem sensible only because of what one is willing to overlook, or can be kept from seeing.

Just such an intangible, synergy is a direct product of an event, and can be shown to exist by its effects. Synergy can be a product of events which we might perceive as being, themselves, constructive or destructive. The name ‘angels’ (or ‘souls’) has been given by me to constructive events and their effects, which are those which may somehow enhance mankind’s vitality within Nature. By the same token, the name ‘demon’ (the equivalent effect is ‘antisoul’) refers to events which deteriorate the quality of our natural existences.