I bet you can't guess whose flag this was going to be.
There is no need for revolution, thanks. All the pieces are in place and whatever anybody does it looks like we are heading toward one direction. As I write this article I feel like I have reached a checkpoint in my life. I have finally decided to go with the flow and become a happy person. What is the flow? To explain that I think about my time in the ocean. There is a place in the ocean where you get too far for the shore breaking waves to form. You are almost behind the waves. And the current of the ocean start to take you slowly somewhere. It is quite soothing there. I remember feeling the heat of my neck, that area of the brain stem being cooled by the ocean water. Taking stress and tension away and letting it dissipate into the vast waves.
There is no need for revolution. The waves themselves are strong and persistent enough to erode and deposit anything anywhere. I haven’t been blogging consistently for the past few months for a few reasons. But the main reason why I haven’t been blogging much is because I see myself when I blog. I face myself. It’s different from just barfing on a page. You can share suffering by blogging about yourself, however mundane the articles are. It is a big realization to actually believe and come to grips with an idea that suffering is real. I live a good life, so I don’t mean that I am suffering like how hungry or abused people suffer. But what I’m talking about is suffering of the soul or spirit or some term that describes the part of a life-form that desires to connect with other life forms. Why do I want to connect with other beings? I remember a part of the movie “Contact” where the aliens in the form of the main character’s dead father said basically that the existence of each other (life forms and especially other intelligent life forms across the galaxy) made the loneliness bearable. Facebook helps. It at least is a reminder that you have friends out there. But sometimes I feel like I can connect with beings that are farther away than my city or state or even my planet. I honestly feel like I am connected with life that thinks the distance between planets and galaxies is simply chump change. I especially feel this way when alone in the dark. I used to be afraid of this feeling. But now it’s something that makes me want to laugh, like I’m being tickled or something.
I know that politically and economically things seem pretty crazy right now. But the sad reality is that regardless of how this recession is affecting our economy, the earth is getting more interconnected everyday. Some people fear ideas like the North American Union or the creation of a Mexican, USA and Canadian super-state but the bottom line is that the pipelines and freeways that will connect us are like neurons in a brain that will facilitate faster communication and in the specific case of the natural gas pipelines, blood flow. It doesn’t really matter if the USA stays sovereign or joins a EU-like commonwealth the end result is the same, unity. Whether or not any of us see it, we are moving toward unity. I think unity is the next step before space travel and colonization really takes off. It will just be less sloppy that way. And I can see how there are creatures out there who want to meet us. But I sense that some of the entities beyond earth can see us and many are afraid of us. We have such ambitious minds and so many greedy tendencies that even bums on the street seem to not be lazy. Why do those guys have so much stuff? I bet aliens are looking down on us being like, “Uh…no way. I don’t want those humans opening up in my side of the Galaxy, they’ll sell porno and video games to our kids till we have to foreclose on 85% of our star systems and then their wealthy population will buy up all our property at super-low rates. I say let’s wait and see how they deal with the next major world war or plague. Maybe that will thin ’em out a bit so we can work on prepare for their arrival a bit more.”
The system is using both sides of the doughnut to get to a certain point. The exportation of US jobs overseas has helped us get there. The interconnectedness of the internet has helped us get there. But what is there? I think “there” is a place where decisions about what massive amounts of human beings focus on and work toward achieving are done so like somebody who is playing a strategy simulation computer game. Where problems are identified and then a huge chunk of the planetary population are allocated to solving those problems rapidly. Many people feel that this style of government would require a dictator or some kind of facist regime, but I don’t think so. What’s probably going to happen is that there will be a form of democracy, maybe not how we envision it today in the USA, but it will still permit voting and civic involvement in representative democracy. And that representative democracy will basically be overseen by a planetary monarch or sovereign. That sovereign will have dictatorial power but will rarely use it. Instead, that power will be implemented and utilized by the elected representatives.
The alternative is some sort of global village. But we already tried that and it failed. I’m talking about the Articles of Confederation. It was the system of government set in place before the USA federal government. The Articles of Confederation were just simply too loose to hold together the colonies of the east coast. You just can’t have a paypal donate button for government, you need a tighter knit system. I think what’s going to happen is that the internet is going to provide the global village of information that will provide the proverbial “check” to the evolving super-unitary-state government of the future by informing the public beyond standard propaganda. That is why there is no need for revolution. The global village can assist the World Government make educated decisions and will help direct the focus of the sovereign. The global village will be the yang to the World Government’s yin. Together we will have an orderly hierarchical system of government with the advantages of an anarchic information dissemination system.
This article felt good.
-Tyler
