Pandorra's Box.

In many ways the internet is a Pandorra's box.  It has let all the evil out into the world. The internet is not a learning tool.  It is a tool for people to pursue politics.

H. G. Wells in his essay _Global Brain_ predicted that a device would exist to store all human memory.  This device was apparently realized in the internet.  However, instead of being used to store all human memory and knowledge, the internet is also used to unleash predators upon society.

The Role of Technology.

While the second law of thermodynamics maintains that the universe is approaching an ever further increase in entropy, life appears to be increasing in complexity.  With life and the creation of humanity came the rise of technology from its primitive state in the stone age to its modern totalistic  influence.  This increase of complexity in technological advancement has been called "extropy" to contrast it with the increasing entropy theory of the universe.  Today technology operates at every level of our lives, and with the advent of computers and especially the internet its influence has proven even more total.  Throughout history many have maintained that technology had a negative influence that went along with its positive advantages.  Spengler for example considered technology to ultimately be a Faustian pact with the devil.  Certain sects also struggled with technology including for example the Old Order Amish, who opposed technological advancement beyond the 19th century.  The late 19th century brought further technological advancement which was decried by various intellectuals who despised the cities and praised the peasant life.  Television was also decried by intellectuals as a mind numbing tool when it first became available.  And the internet has also been objected to for spreading false rumors and gossip.  While it is true that technology has increasingly raised our standard of living, it is also true that technology has a dark side which will ultimately be our undoing.

The Gnostic Heresy.

The resurrection of the Gnostic heresy in twentieth century political religions can be understood as a result of the incorporation of medieval and anti-Christian heresy into ideology.  Gnosticism frequently maintains that the Creator Deity is in fact a blind Demiurge. Thus, the Creator is associated with a principle of evil.  The entropic decline of the universe can also be understood in a gnostic manner.

The Rise of Eugenics.

In the nineteenth century with the discovery of the Darwin theory eugenics was constituted (as first considered by Francis Galton) as a means to control the population.  The weak and the "feeble-minded" were especially singled out by eugenicists.  Positive eugenics advocated a system of selective breeding to build a superior race, while negative eugenics advocated euthanasia and extermination of the "unfit".  Eugenics ended with the defeat of totalitarianism following the Second World War. In recent times however, with the rise of genetic engineering,eugenics has been reconsidered and with an increasing population, eugenic measures may come to take effect.

(It is of interest to note that eugenic measures were predicted in the nineteenth century by science fiction writers such as H. G. Wells or Benson, a Catholic who predicted an apocalypse in which euthanasia was seen as a "merciful end" to the weak and unfit.)

The Problem With Modern Math.

Anthony Chaikin says that the problem with modern math is that so few mathematicians are believers in God.  This has led to a view of math that denies free will and sees math as nothing more than the manipulation of symbols.  Chaikin notes that prominent mathematicians of the past such as Descartes, Pascal, Newton, and Leibniz were believers, as well as recent mathematicians such as Cantor and Godel.  If modern mathematicians refuse to recognize God this goes along with the decline of mathematics.

The Death of the Old World and the Birth of Defeat.

Cyberspace represents the last frontier for humanity and it has largely been conquered. Space exploration has been shut down and science is coming to an end.  The old world is dying and the new world is an ugly relic of the world that once was.  When the world was young there were still opportunities for the young, especially young men that have been stifled in the new world.  The rot has taken over.  And today's generation is the weakest yet.

The Raping of the Past.

One of my principle objects to amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, and the internet in general is that it allows for the systematic raping of the past. By allowing anyone to post a review for any material, certain books which contain profound thoughts or which dealt with past events are being plundered.  I view much of this activity and the top reviewers as similar to Spanish conquistadores who raped and plundered much of the New World that they found here.  In addition, past attocities such as the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, and the Nazi tyranny are not laid to rest by systematically plundered again by a young and ruthless generation.  This raping of the past must be allowed to stop before we destroy our entire heritage.  Further, there are many old souls whose remains are being plundered anew by the cyber archeologists and thugs and who need be allowed to rest in peace.

Science and the Theologians.

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends in a bad dream.  He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peaks; as he pulls himself over the last rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
-Robert Jastrow, _God and the Astronomers_.

The Mob.

The mob has intervened throughout history through violent means.  During the Middle Ages various millenarian sects provoked the mob to engage in violent actions against dissidents.  Perhaps the earliest moment of mob intervention in modern history was the French revolution (constituting the rise of the first period of decline), in which an angry mob provoked by Illuminists under the Duc d'Orleans killed the king.  The Russian revolution resulted in the death of the tsar and the rise of mass communism.  Democracy too constitutes a case of mob rule, in which a levelling process has taken place.  In the recent era, a new form of mob violence exists, both in the form of violent protests and in the rise of cyber-mob violence and a surveillance society.

Comments on Stephen Hawking.

Hawking's new  bitter comments on the nature of God, the role of religion, life after death, and his belief that the brain is just a computer raise questions that have long been answered.  For example, the idea that the mind is a computer was addressed by Kurt Godel long ago (along with several other philosophers who built on his work).  Godel maintained that his theorem showed that the mind could not be a computer because with in any formal system (large enough to contain Peano arithmetic), there existed statements which could not be proven within that system showing that the system could not be both complete and consistent.

Healthy Versus Ill Cultures.

We know health and vigor when we see it and today's society is very ill and full of spiritually diseased people.  Even the youth lack the zest for life that could be found in all previous generations.  It is rare to see genuine signs of health today in anything. Political correctness controls the very thoughts in our heads.  How can this possible be living?

Everything They Warned Us About Has Come to Pass.

In examining the world of today, we can see that nearly everything they warned us about has come to pass.  Conservatives early on warned us of the dangers of postmodernism and relativism.  There was always the fear that the academic gobbledygook that passed for critical intelligence would eventually take over all the rest of society.  Conservatives warned against relativists who maintained that there was no truth and ironists who did likewise.  With today's internet there is no longer a truth in that all views are now seen as equal.  Libertarians always warned that eventually psychiatry would take over.  While this always seemed an absurd fear long ago when psychiatry was solely used to treat severe cases of schizophrenia, today's psychiatry is light years beyond this original intention.  Luddites warned us of the dangers of computers and technology.  Today's computers are so advanced and with the internet an entirely new mob mind is made possible.

Why the Internet is Evil.

One of the reasons that the internet is evil is because it is playing God. In the past when one sought for answers or inspiriation, one would meditate or pray on the matter.  Today one merely uses the internet to locate information and thus avoids dealing directly with God.  The internet is a modern day Tower of Babel and it is mostly being used to further evil in the world.  In addition, most of the information offered by the internet is useless and pointless.  Very little good information exists online in a situation where bad information over-rules good and entropy takes over society.  Much of the internet is pointless gossip, and rumor (often vile rumor) takes the place of fact and truth.  In addition, the internet is a gross violation of our privacy and the sanctity of our thoughts.

The Open Society and the Closed Society.

Multibillionaire George Soros has recently advocated the "open society" as his vision for the future of the West.  This is an idea originally expounded by the philosopher of science Karl Popper who maintained that unlimited free inquiry was best for the development of science.  Popper chiefly used this to argue against others such as Plato and Hegel who he claimed were totalitarian advocates of a closed society.  The founders of the internet also advocate this idea and when Jeff Bezos the founder of amazon.com recently said that the goal of his company was to "let the truth out" this idea may be seen expressed.  Essentially this is the idea for the Enlightenment notion of free speech which was allowed for as a means to criticize a totalitarian government.  However, let us take a look at what this notion of unlimited free speech entails.

Originally to Enlightenment philosophers and to the authors of the U.S. Constitution the notion of free speech was meant to allow a free press to criticize the government and advocate for any sort of other government.  However, free speech came to take on different meanings when the Supreme Court allowed pornographers the "free speech right" to publish their filth.  Unlimited "free speech" has proven another thing entirely and we are seeing the disastrous consequences of it.  People no longer maintain a private self (the ultimate fulfillment of the open society advocated by the evil billionaire Soros).  Private comportment now becomes public comportment and gross violations of privacy are not only maintained but encouraged thanks to the internet which intrudes upon privacy and violates the  sanctity of the individual in all respects.  Further, genuine knowledge is replaced by useless "information" which has a high entropy content.  This marks the true decline of civilized society and the decay of humanity.  We can see why an evil madman like Soros would revel in such a thing and I find it interesting to note that he is an atheist meaning that he thinks it all is meaningless anyway.

Several Comments.

In his writings, Ted Kaczynski makes note of the fact that in the revolt against the System several indications are quashed. One of these is the role of the old dissenters and hold outs from a previous era.  Kaczynski sites a source from a modern author claiming that the parents of a transsexual had her exorcised to be rid of demons.  The author claims that this is the common American response to such things.  Kaczynski rightly notes that this is not the common American response to such things but is one of tolerance.  Rather it was the parents of the child who were holdouts from a previous era and thus in opposition to the System.  This is why their actions had to be opposed by the System in the very name of opposing the System.

Kaczynski notes the superficiality of the radical left and political correctness.  Further he considers the role of the pampered university intellectuals and their political obsessions noting the fact that their radicalism is entirely phony and in fact promotes the interests of the System exactly.

The dead.

Looking back on history we can see one thing that stands out, the inevitable decay, decline, and vengeance of death.  We see the extinction of earlier species, such as the dinosaurs, the decline of lost civilizations, and the loss of our ancestors.  Since the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution that it spawned, we have witnessed the raping of nature and the hunting of indigenous peoples.  In modern times, the world wars brought the dead on the battlefield.  We see today the decline of all true spiriuality and the decay of civilization. The internet has made possible a further raping of the past, and the atomic bomb leaving many dead in its trail promises to wipe out humanity. The possibility of space travel constitutes a further raping of other worlds.  The Russian philosoper Fedorov had a special reverence for the dead and the ghosts of civilization maintaining that all the dead and our ancestors still lived.  We can see this reverence in the Japanese cult of Shinto, other ancient forms of belief, and the Christian and Catholic cult of the saints. Even ancient man at the level of the Neanderthals incorporated spiritual reverence for the dead and honor of those who had gone before.  Our modern era under the vapidity of atheism and materialism refuses to honor the dead and the aged and those who have gone before.  But their spirits live on, all the dead of the earth even into this period of decadence and decline.

"To hell with you, and to hell with the internet."

Ray Bradbury was recently asked to allow his book to appear on yahoo, his answer was "to hell with you, and to hell with the internet".  Bradbury described the internet as a "scam of the computer industry" and "meaningless" and "absurd".  Perhaps the 90 year old Bradbury is right given the deteriorating intellectual content of much of the internet and political blog (i.e. user generated content).

A Review of Ted Kaczynski's _Technological Slavery_.

_Technological Slavery: The collected writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a. k. a. “The Unabomber”_ (2010, Feral House Press) consists of the collected writings of Ted Kaczynski (the convicted Unabomber) regarding the nature of technological and industrial society and his efforts to combat it through revolutionary terrorism. This book includes the manifesto released by Kaczynski (as “FC”) as well as various writings and letters of Kaczynski concerning technological progress and the role of “wild nature”. The book is introduced an edited by the philosopher David Skrbina who comments on the theories of Kaczynki concerning the decline of technological and industrial society. Kaczynski was a mathematics professor who left his career to pursue a solitary existence in Montana. Kaczynski was to develop a theory of technological society and his love for nature led him to engage in acts of terrorism. For this he was arrested and is now in prison.

The basic arguments presented in this book concern the role of technological and industrial society and the harm it has caused to both mankind and “wild nature”. Kaczynski sees technological society as a “System” designed to oppress the individual. Kaczynski considers some of the harmful psychological effects of technological society as well as the role of “over-civilized” people and the superficiality of modern leftism and political correctness. Kaczynski examines the theories of anarcho-primitivists concerning the role of primitive humans but finds their theories to be marred by modern day political correctness. Kaczynski considers the role of revolution and examines the history of democracy as well as the role of the Russian Bolsheviks and the triumph of Western democracy in the two world wars. Kaczynski examines the harmful effects of modern day advertising and the role of surrogate activities in combating the “power process”. Kaczynski regards modern technological society to be unfulfilling and thus sees the need for individuals to rebel against it.

The book includes the manifesto “Industrial Society and Its Future” as well as several of the writings of Kaczynski and his letters to David Skribina and others. Kaczynski comments on the anarcho-primitivist movement explaining how modern anthropologists falsely believe that primitive societies were politically correct (in terms of gender equality, more time for leisure, and environmental soundness). Kaczynski offers several goals for revolution and explains why he left his career in math to go live in the wilderness. One thing I could not understand is why he resorted to terrorism as he did. His bombs sent to computer programmers and others were largely ineffective for his goals, resulted in unnecessary killing, and ended him up in prison. It makes little sense why someone of his intelligence would resort to such horrific and pointless measures.

Predictions for the Future.

In the nineteenth century various degenerationist theories began to circulate that maintained that civilization or Western culture had entered a period of decline or even that mankind had entered a biological decline.  These theories were often prompted by the discovery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the earth was seen as winding down.  However, these theories were really a secularized and scientized version of traditional religious notions of a decline from a previous Edenic golden age.

In the twentieth century, these theories were played out in the reactions of socialism, fascism, and communism to the Industrial revolution forecast in the nineteenth century.  And in the twenty-first century various environmenal predictions were made concerning the future of human history.

Among the predictions of the past which have proven correct were those of Huxley concerning the rise of a vast pharmaceutical industry to alleviate all human complaints and even depression and those of Wells concerning the creation of a global government and global memory device as seen with the advent of the internet.

The Real Loser in Today's Society - Social Conservativism.

In today's political battles there are two seperate sides which seem to have taken prominence referring to themselves as the left and the right. However, what this battle seems to be mostly about is economics.  While it is certainly possible and indeed highly likely that the right or a politically correct form of economic libertarianism might win the battle against economic socialism, what remains lost for certain is the old form of social conservativism.  In fact, to even bring up ideas that were only mildly or moderately considered socially conservative a few years ago is to have oneself branded a bigot or a malcontent.  Such ideas simply no longer have any place in polite discourse.  In terms of economics it may actually make more sense to support the losing economic left which opposes the corporations than the social Darwinist economic right. To bring up one example, not that long ago in America even something such as divorce was illegal, but to even maintain such an idea today would get one labelled a bigot and throw out of society.  The old social values of the World War II generation appear to have been lost by this rotten greedy generation.  So essentially there are two politically correct parties that differ only on the value of economics.

The Great Decline.

According to the laws of thermodynamics entropy is being maximized in our universe as we approach a heat death of maximum disorder. It remains problematic to note that while the universe is a clock winding down, life remains a clock winding up. As life increases in complexity, along with it comes a new development seen only in the sentient creatures produced by the unfolding of life and that is technological developent. Technology also increases in complexity. With technology has arisen a third development, an "information revolution" in which information has taken over and "eaten up" all previous knowledge. However, information by itself is not true knowledge and is fundamentally related to entropy. The more information available the less likely rational decisions become possible and the greater the disorder. Thus, information remains a third component increasing in complexity but at the same time creating more disorder.

We can witness these facts as they unfold in human history. In prehistoric times, man lived a primitive hunter-gatherer existence in harmony with the natural world. We may consider such times as the earliest of human ages before the rise of civilization. However, human life during such periods was painful and short. Alternatively, the humans existing during such times were far stronger and more hardy (but also much smaller in stature) than modern man. With the advance of technology two distinct phenomena emerged. The first of these was agriculture and the taming of the wild. The second was the arrival of civilization. Ancient civilizations were a caste based system in which a class of slaves performed the duties of maintaining a class of rulers. Along with this occurred the development of relgion, which emerged from the primitive omnipotent being of the earliest humans to the civilized deity of ancient man. With the arrival of more and newer technological developments, made possible with the discovery of mathematics, industry developed within society. Further we were to witness a society that became ever more materialistic and acquisitive (initially reflected in the mad pursuit of gold by monarchs, the heirs to the ancient castes).

The New World Order.

Since its earliest foundations the government has existed by means of rape and plunder.  Long, long ago a band of marauders plowed under vast cultural deformations in society to create a system of government.  This government rose to prominence throughout the eras and attained greater and greater power for itself through war and conquest.  Legitimized war came under the aegis of the government and through war it became capable of controlling vast resources and wealth.  The government grew with each added year and with it the power became consolidated in a centralized bureaucracy.  The New World Order is the idea that eventually the government will come to take on the aspects of a world government giving itself unlimited reign over the entire peoples of the world.  This will spell the death of mankind as a handful of elites administer to the rest of the world.

Why All Attempts to "Turn Back the Clock" Have Failed.

The Enlightenment sought after mankind's unlimited progress into the future.  However, the Enlightenment project largely failed as the increasing empowerment of the individual led to a decline in culture and the rise of a useless conformity.  Following, this decline various attempts have been made to "turn back the clock" by reactionaries hoping to achieve a return to a simpler or less technologically dependent era.  All such attempts have failed and will continue to fail.  One of the reasons for this feared by reactionaries of all sorts concerns the role of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  This is the idea that eventually the content of a system will dissipate to be thinned out and replaced by a static vacuum.  This is referred to as heat death and a maximization of entropy.  The Enlightenment may be understood in this respect as an exponential explosion of entropy into the system which has brought only further advances and followed by an information era along with a decline in the standard of living for a vast majority.  The information era represents the lowest level of entropic collapse in which good information is driven out by bad and trivial information.  The greatest increase in trivial information represents an increase in entropy as society ceases to function properly

Can Survival of the Fittest Be Overcome.

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes described early human life as "nasty, brutish, and short".  This belief is incapsulated in the Darwinian theory of the brute struggle to survive.  Everywhere in nature we see the brute struggle to survive in that all animals must eat to live.  This brute struggle is reflected in a fierce competition between and within species in which the most fit survive and the weak perish.  This struggle is referred to as the "survival of the fittest" as first coined by Herbert Spencer.  However, in modern human civilized life we see a different story.  Human civilization demonstrates a weakening of this brute comptition as reflected in written law and moral code.  While the "fit" survive, the unfit and the weak are cared for so that they may survive too.  Modern medicine has led further in the direction of promoting the lifespan of the "unfit" and has aided the fit to become even fitter.  A codified system of objective moral law and widespread belief in a deity and in particular in the West the Christian religion which teaches compassion have led to a further civilizing influence.  While wars are still fought, they have decreased in scope and become more civilized affairs governed by law and conduct.  Force is often still applied but has greatly been lessened in scope and applied in a more direct and less haphazard manner.  These civilized influences raise an interesting question.  Can man and has man overcome the law of the survival of the fittest through civilization and its objective code of morality and prohibitions?  If we believe in a God, then we can claim that indeed this is our destiny.  Until our eventual redemption, overcoming the brute struggle to survive remains our divine mission and our highest accomplishment.

The Case for an Aristocracy.

I believe that a strong case can be made for the formation of an aristocracy. But we must consider several notions as to what would constitute a proper aristocracy.

1. An nobility of race (this is the belief in racial superiority, an aristocracy of blood, the Aryan race).
2. An nobility of intelligence (this is the belief in technocracy, the rule of the inventor, engineer, and scientist).
3. An nobility of learning (this is the idea presented in Plato's republic of the "philosopher-kings").
4. An nobility of wealth (this is the belief in plutocracy - the least preferable of all forms of aristocracy).
5. An nobility of virtue (a noble sainthood).
6. A nobility of producers (this is the "agrarian aristocracy of farmer-producers").
7. An inverse nobility of the oppressed and poor (this is the idea behind liberation theology and the Marxian worship of the proletariat).

The New Dark Age.

I believe that we are currently living in one of the most dismal of Dark Ages known to man. While technology has largely liberated mankind from many of his past ties to the earth and nature, kin, race, family, and tradition, it continues to besiege him in a spiritual vacuum. Thinking has become impossible, and I would estimate that very few can any longer think. We are continually besieged by power mad individuals, a media that endless spews vacuous content at us, and a society faced with moral decline. I see such a period including the rampant consumerism that accompanies it as the sign of a new Dark Age, far worse than any of the so-called European dark ages. It could last hundreds, possibly thousands of years.

The Rotten Generation.

No previous generation has turned so much on truth and decency as "the rotten generation", this current generation.  The old generation has been betrayed in many respects, their spiritual values, their fights against totalitarianism, and their struggles with the depression.  The rotten generation, raised on computers and the internet, seeks to abolish all these things.  Their love of greed and money, their hatred for human decency, their atheism and hate for all true spiritual values.  If the older generation still alive could have guessed that their offspring would become rotten to the core, waste their lives pursuing politics, and act like animals in their hatreds and crassness, no doubt they would be truly disappointed.

Bring Back Laws Against Blasphemy.

One of the problems that Christians face in the modern world is a fundamental dissension in their ranks brought about by centuries of schism. Many Christians continue to hate the Catholic church. While the Catholic church has largely made peace with the mainline Protestant sects and the Orthodox Christians, these groups serve as useful vehicles behind the culture war. A militant and strident atheism seeks to supplant God and denies all religion, hates Christianity, and even denies all true spirituality and metaphysics. Blasphemy has taken on a new face in the outrageous claims made against Christians by the atheists. Traditionally before the decline of the power of the church, laws existed against blasphemy and in particular against unbelief. The United States was founded on the notion of free speech and a free press, but this was originally interpreted only to mean a freedom to speak out against war and a tyrannical government. Still this notion is more liberal and secular than the original notion of speech as existed in the American colonies even which included opposition to blasphemy. In modern America, it is “conservatives” who argue for free speech (I.e. the conservative classical liberals) while the modern degenerated form of liberalism now argues for laws against “hate speech”. All too often these laws are simply foils to suppress the truth (hate speech often means simply true speech), to stifle in the past (in which different notions of speech prevailed), and to stifle criticism of certain groups and even and especially Christianity. While such laws may be justified from a conservative perspective in the goal of creating a more just and righteous society, they are used by today’s liberals to control thought through political correctness. On the other hand, conservatives can argue for laws being put in place as in the original colonies against blasphemy and crimes against God (as even existed through much of our history). Conservatives must seek a radical break with the state through a decentralized system of government where they can restore the values that are ingrained in a conservative society.

The Death of Science.

Science emerged as a prominent force in the Middle Ages when monks ressurrected the wisdom of the ancient Greeks as translated through the Arabs.  This led to a new coleasance in the scientific method as played out in the debate between the medieval realists and the nominalists.  During the Renaissance, ancient wisdom was ressurected and individuals such as Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci made important scientific discoveries and engineering feats.  Science further developed under Descartes and Pascal who revived ancient mathematical methods and created the modern calculator.  The idea of information technology was discovered at this time with roots in numerology and mysticism.  In the late seventeenth century science witnessed a flourishing in the theories of Newton and Leibniz concerning the laws of mechanics and the creation of the calculus.  In the late nineteenth century, theories of the heat death of the universe, the Darwin theory, and theories of degeneration came to play a prominent role in the history of science.  In the twentieth century, modern science emerged in the philosophy of positivism, mathematics was improved through the Hilbert program, and physics witnessed a revolution in the Einsteinian theory of relativity and the quantum theory.  The twentieth century witnessed a great revival in the science of physics with major physicists being instrumental in splitting the atom and in the creation of the atomic bomb.  Following the Second World War with the decline of the Nazi state and the rise of the Soviet state and communism, physics became even more important and the space program offered new opportunities in the competition between the West and the Soviets.  In the late twentieth century with the decline of communism, information technology became important with the rise of computing (which had been developed since the Second World War) and concepts of physics were replaced by information concepts.  As computers became more powerful, information was seen as a greater frontier that promised to replace science.  Further, the science of biology was developed and social sciences including psychology came to overtake the traditional science of physics.  However, when computers reached their pinnacle even information technologies began to decline (contrary to all true predictions)  and science was replaced by politics.  Thus, we have witnessed the death of science in all true forms and the final culmination of human endeavor in a pathetic pursuit of politics and the increase of ever more useless information. The internet is the last gasp of science and offers little hope for humanity.  Once started by phyicists it has been taken over by the masses who pursue politics on it for little gain.

The Ultimate Fate of Physical Reality.

The ultimate fate of physical reality is to enter an apocalypse in which all matter is thoroughly dissipated throughout the universe.