I was looking at black swans and seeing brontosauruses, which got me to wondering along non-Darwinian lines out of dissatisfaction with that model & yet acceptance at least of the mechanism of selectional pressure at the heart of it.
Neither the north pole nor the strength of gravity have any intention of sitting still, so it is possible that their wanderlust has significant effects on, for instance, the bone density & frames of fauna the world over.
Shifts in constants to which some are sensitive both within and without, aligned as it were with "the tide in the affairs of men", may produce significant effects on the cognition and interaction of generations, peoples, nations, everything that depends on everything else in the equation.
So, I am curious to know whether the model of life actually follows these varying 'constants' more so than agreeing with the mainstream Darwinian model; or if it agrees, then as the plum pudding model to the present double candelabra of progressively tinier particles & vaster galactic structures.
I am curious to know, in other words, not so much whether Darwinian evolution is false as whether it is filagree. For it would seem likely that natural selection is subordinate to larger variation in constants.
Solitude is the sun that shines if there is any to shine, the cell wall that protects spiritual pregnancy. It is where one need not breathe in the homogenizing sewer of mass-produced & stereotyped interactions & lines of questioning, which is especially important in our day: most of the humans currently alive are basically factory-farmed chooks no matter what their apparent pay, status & holdings. Regardless of any & all manner of apparent accoutrements, they are nothing but processed animals if they never enjoy their time alone.
Now as to the blossoming, the spring, the renaissance of solitude, it is like nothing that the drones can buy from stores or share with mates or fill out applications for at work. It is nothing like those things, and it is richer than all of those things, a light yoke & magnetic in this darkening world of dying slaves. There are consequences to interacting with the degraded and degrading Leveled People of the Dark Age.
Certain states of mind will never happen in the lives of people who do not permit their solitude to blossom, nor should they; for the very aversion to solitude in itself safeguards those holy states of mind from the profane. The profane, for the purposes of this comment, are not defined in terms of any explicit religious tradition but rather their collapse of life down into immanent social relations and physical environments.
Solitude! Solitude! It is a rich oasis amid a desert the grains of which cannot bear to be alone. Why is it that they cannot bear to be alone? Because orangutan. Because they are deserted. Because they are repulsed by differentiating chain reaction. I, for one, and for all solitaries, for all people! say that interaction has become totalitarian, termitic & unhealthy at all levels of society; that the world desperately needs more personal solitude.
How unreliable, homogenized, & empty they become when they are always mixing with each other, mixing quite away. I see so many empty whirls of social interaction swirling like so many golden finches quite away. Even the solitude of other people has become suspicious to them. Nearly always social interactions stink of interferers, busybodies, gossips, unsolicited suggestions, nosy questionings, iniquitous manipulations. Solitude is what the world needs most! and not more empty yapping. Empty yapping has ravaged this world, reducing the mass of men to stoats in waistcoats, pigs in wigs.
The recent obsession with the Mayan calendar was nothing but the de facto jamming of something much more constructive: by focusing on a New World eschatology, people did not focus on its Islamic and Jewish counterparts, which would have been a logical and coherent extension of group awareness on the matter of eschatology and its repercussions. Mass men steeped in End Times expectancy were interpreting a cyclical system in terms of it, an absurdly convoluted operation: in effect going straight for the junk food.
Since Christian End Times beliefs obviously affect -- among other things, American foreign policy -- it behooves us to consider whether the same pattern is true of the other Peoples of the Book (whether as concerns foreign policy specifically or in a more general sense).
Instead of entertaining themselves with ‘tzolkins’, people should have been learning about Moshiach and Dajjal, since those figures and beliefs have serious repercussions for Christian, Muslim and Jewish relations both in the Middle East and generally; and while they were about it, and before they plundered the New World as obtusely as before, they might have learned about Kalki the Machine & the Doctrine of Four Ages.
Something does not need to be true in order for it to have mass organizational appeal, although its having such appeal is not in itself an indication of falsehood (as with the desacralization of the Doctrine of Four Ages, known as dialectical materialism, whose mass form retains some vestiges of the original model).
The beliefs of the various Christians, Muslims and Jews -- and there is sweeping internal variation -- do not need to be true in order to cross-reference to an extraordinary degree with one another in agreement as in disagreement. One is, for instance, fascinated by the varying treatments of Simon Cyrenean in Valentian Gnosticism and Islam or of Mary in the New Testament & the Talmud; and there are many other examples which I might have mentioned to drive home the point.
Serious consideration of the eschatologies and soteriologies of peoples and civilizations, while revelatory and interesting, does not command a fraction of the attention that people were willing to fritter away on a distorted view of the Mayan sense of time and space. It is highly significant that the Jewish Moshiach (i.e. Messiah) and the Islamic Dajjal (i.e. Satan) are considered the same figure, at least in Islamic tradition; it is as significant that most Western people are ignorant of this fact.
They are also generally ignorant of the central role played by the figure known as Isa Jesus in Islamic eschatology. If this ignorance were addressed, then it would surely contribute to world peace and possibly even end the War on Terror. Of course, the end of the War on Terror is likely to be the beginning of the American Inquisition -- see my poem "Walpurgisnacht" for an extended treatment of this "law of conservation of" concept -- so perhaps we shouldn't immanentize the eschaton.
Carl Jung, in his book Psychological Types, charitably refers to St. Anselm's ontological argument as a "psychological fact", by which he meant as distinct from a truth per se. In a similar vein, I propose that we treat these variant End Times expectancies as "eschatological facts", notice that they are present in the room with us, accept their heft in the hand, & broaden our understanding of their intertwining.
