Tezcat sez:

Think of your brain as a computer program, designed to function in a certain way. Unfortunately, people are going to keep trying to hack your brain, so you've got to keep developing patches to keep the operating system running smoothly. That, or you can just let the virus take control. Have you ever used an infected computer? Your brain is infected with a virus, and there *is* anti-virus software available to remedy the situation, but, y'know, you just have to run the software. Trendmicro isn't going to come to your house and fix your computer for you...

The Death of Romanticism

(uncanny)Romance in the modern world has become almost sickeningly self-aware of the atrocities that one party willfully commits against another. Like a billion tiny droplets of oil raining into the north pacific ocean, woefully under-prepared for the power human beings have over each other, in only symbolic and superficial ways, yes, but still, these are enough to maintain a completely arbitrary and corrupt, and increasingly crumbling mental prison. Those who suffer do so, in so many cases, willingly, unable to open themselves up to the emotional warfare that’s being played out on a day to day basis in our astonishingly counter-productive post-ideological capitalist society. Forced to, every day, play the role of the actor, and to occlude the individual in favor of some incomprehensible system of social interactions, the social contract with which our ancestors sold us all into slavery. How long are we going to remain in intellectual servitude to those ideas and those obligations that have no bearing upon our present reality? Relationships became like living theatre, with all the actors playing out their relationship roles, because nobody nobody sent knows anything about anything anymore, and instead of admitting that we are of equal unimportance as every other historical actor, every other historical actor, then we can establish a working relationship with honesty among our castes, where we acknowledge each other as human beings, all working to the same goal: communion with the other, and ourselves. Some characterize this relationship as a return to the oblivion from whence we all came, other characterize it as God, some as Nirvana. There was no verifiable evidence to support a single interpretation, and what’s more is that to focus increasingly upon a rigidly dogmatic course of thought runs counter to the fundamental precepts of epistemological anarchism which underlie the very foundations of modern thought. But in order to live in the world which begat them, they would be forced to devote varying degrees of their time acting out these corrupt roles, left to reflect upon it later, to wallow, and suffer, and live with our own limitations, and contradictions; admission is the first step towards recovery.

Mentally Mad

IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Strange Fruit

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
High Fives

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
I'll House You

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Submarine 3

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Beauty Lies in the Eye

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
My Man's Gone Now

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
More Than U Know

WHAT IS 2+2?
Nomanisisland

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Ding! Dong!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Hate

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Pomps & Pride

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Anger

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Changeling

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Why I Love You

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Tenin

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Time Tough

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
City Morning Song

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Breathe and Stop

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Needle in a Haystack

WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Egowar

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
African Hustle

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Truth Fact & Correct

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
King of the Road

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Doomage

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
I Can't Believe You Actually Died

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
We Were Patriots

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
The Mystery of Doom

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Ab Qètri Berhan

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Beautiful

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Mentally Mad

On the origin of species...

"I believe that the human brain may be capable of perceiving the nature of true-reality, what some might refer to as God, but I am doubtful that we as a species are evolved enough to utilize this capacity. I will make allowances for the possibility that some individuals, through random evolutionary mutation, are born with an innately greater ability to perceive true-reality, but contend that even if this is the case, the limits of human language prevent one from conceptualizing such perceptions in words, and attempts to do so invariably lead to intellectual oppression through the destructive tendancies of religious dogmatism, and are thus, in effect, counter-productive to the goal of perceiving true-reality in the first place. I will also make allowances for the possibility of psycho-active chemicals activating the portions of the brain that enable one to make such perceptions, though whether psycho-active chemicals actually allow one to perceive true-reality, or merely mimic the effects of doing so is presently indeterminate."

"Natural selection dictates that as a species we evolved, over monumental passages of time, from increasingly simple and primative forms of life, and this goes for our sensory capabilities as well. At some point in our evolutionary history, our ancestors were without the benefit of the senses that we rely upon in order to effectively perceive our reality, the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. In all of these instances, the human brain had the evolve these abilities. For an Amoeba floating in a pool of primordial ooze, the concept of sense-perception does not exist, and having never known the ability to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the environment, such a lifeform does not miss, nor can it even conceive of an environment any different to that which it has known it's entire lifespan. It would be naive to assume that the human species has reached the end of evolution, that we can perceive all there is to perceive, especially when logic dictates that the human-animal necessarily remain ignorant of anything beyond our limited biological capacities."

"What separates the human-animal from established evolutionary tendencies is the unique ability of the human-animal to affect their environment, to affect their own evolution. We have reached a point, not the necessarily end of evolution, but a point where we can choose, as a society, to mitigate the effects of the environment upon our evolution. This means that we have reached the point where we can now choose to continue, or embrace, the course of biological evolution, or we can choose to resist biological evolution, through manipulating the degree to which the human-animal is forced to reckon with the natural environment."

"As such, the inability of the human-animal to perceive the nature of true-reality must necessarily be seen as only a temporary-condition in terms of our biological evolution. There is no reason to assume that the limits of what we can perceive through recourse to our sensory organs are congruent to the limits of true-reality. To do so would be equivalent to the man who, born deaf, assumes reality itself is without sound. However, only once the human-animal, as a society, begins to foster and encourage a dialog with the unknown will there ever be the possibility of developing the necessary physical apparatus to effectively perceive that which exists beyond the temporary limits of human perception."