Not even for 10 innocents?!!

Not even for 10 innocents?!!
(As an homage to Abraham's query to God in the Plains of Mamre)

The wrath of judgment's blade has taken the innocent along with the guilty. Are we, by our own deeds, so far gone that not even the innocent can be protected from the wrath of consequences? Still the apologists and the reductionist try to minimalize the scope so to keep the operations of their social order to their advantage. Just like a geo-spheric calamity of nature, the human-originated calamity rolls indifferently in its destruction of whomever is in its wanton path.

It's not as if there weren't signs (of the times) screaming and warning us. They've been there. Yet, those whose self-interest was more important than the welfare of the vulnerable led and portrayed the illusion like the Judas goats they were. Like Pontius Pilate they wash their hands of the matter in denial of their own culpability.

Woe to them and theirs who continue to buy into and swallow the social and cultural swill being fed to them. God didn't destroy Sodom-Gomorrah. They did it to themselves in their own willful hubris and blind ignorance.

The Yoga of Serendipity

The yoga of serendipity is the zen of an attitude of cognitive associations. It is the process of connecting by conscious and subconscious means the events and phenomena that affect your sensory receptors. It is trusting the feedback your body gives you in dreams, satori, and prose from the processing of those stimuli through your logos.

Our logos is the limiting factor. We were born into THIS world dimension, so we have an inherent, mortal struggle with a logos base that is circumscribed by the second and third hand knowledge being passed on to us. The zen for the yoga comes in when we become aware of those associations of seemingly random events and phenomena as having some correlation with each other. After that its trusting that the correlations 'fabricated' by your psyche are valid conclusions. Amazingly, they will be.

Once you get to that amazed point of validation, then the acceleration of serendipities (and time) begins. The imperative of using-and racing-time to get to an intensity of focus and coherence which allows you to enter a rabbit-hole zone of intrepid 'adventures' becomes the adrenalin rush of your life. In ways, this vitalization appears to be the 'yoga' of the zen. The amplified energy allows for the engaging of intuitive possibilities that lead to serendipitous, unintended paths of revelatory knowledge of self and being.

Dreams, deja vus, new acquaintances, and mundane statements or expressions become the gateways to a life that has little to do with the acquisition of more than the basics for your genetic physiology. The trappings of the temporal and secular life are little more than stage props for the advent of the next mystery visitation into your awareness and life. Learning to engage those topsy-turvy causing visitations with grace and elegance becomes the yoga of those serendipities. The benefit to you are incidental facility. The greater or profound effect are the affects to one's environment.

I liken it to what is called the '100 monkey syndrome'. When a certain (cosmic) mass shares a similar resonance, they coincidentally affect their surroundings-like a fission, chain reaction. the chain reaction moves out like the roots of the tree. The fractal math functions would best describe this effect. As a tangible occurrence, this serendipitous yoga is the way the cosmos heals itself. We of the chain reaction syndrome are the convenient vessels for this.

As we maximize the efficiency of our carnal vessels we make the fractal reactions of connection and growth with others that more likely. This discipline (yoga) will detach and estrange us from many of the social, vocational, and cultural forms that are presently part of our attending attention. In fact, you are being a de facto shaman in discipline and social interaction. You are the 'medicine' giver for the Cosmos. You'll be making your 'house-calls' where ever the opportunity of serendipity presents itself in sound, vision, or 'in-sight!'.

That's the primer for the Yoga of Serendipity.

Signals of self-realization

Life is a metaphor of signals in symbols or signs that leave us hints and clues of our nature-powers. Once we pick up on the significance of the signs and symbols, we can begin the deconstruction of the cultural indoctrination to be free of its emotional anchors to our mental, thus cognitive, potential.

Once we begin to realize the cognitive potential without the emotional delusions we were slipped into by our trust in authority figures, intimate and institutional, we become free agents. As free agents, we become vessels of reinterpretation. We transform the literal prose into a metaphoric poetry for people to see the associative connections between the objective, sensual, physical reality and the sensuous, metaphysical inspirations of multi-dimensional speculations.

The muse that interlopes in our consciousness points out the serendipities of events and phenomena that knits together the diverse forms and their dimensions. From those dimensions we get a broader view of our identity. It's as if we were either commissioned to be in this scenario, or that our bio-chemistry and physiology were predisposed to be effected by a coherent pattern of the signals for that awareness. Once the patterns are detected we see the corresponding analogies in the other signals that come our way.

In this way it is a 'calling' by nature's architecture, as it would be called a divine predestination. We see ourselves as part of a living organism. That organism is an aggregate group of connections of responses to stimulations. Those responses are shared awareness for the aggregate as well as subjective inspirations.

Cognitive Discipine in the Culture of Illusions

We face the challenge of focus and coherence in the petri-dish culture of spectacle and distraction, with the accompanying metaphysical supporting mantras. Even the language is oriented for inertial status quos of stasis. From language to acts, you are the outlier, the appendage or appendical branch reaching out from the body seeking to explore beyond what is the homeostasis of the core body. Our function is NOT the purposes of the core. We are the dna structured to seek and find. Our rna is meant to support our unique composition. We are the bio-chemistry of re-formatting.

We are of the symbols and metaphors consequence of things beyond their temporally conditioned use. We are the architects of meaning and the draftsmen for the blueprints of new designs of expression. Ours is not the consumption and satiation of what already is. We are the re-organizers for what could be. We see knowledge as not some mentally warehoused stuff to be regurgitated orally or used as the obsolete or anachronistic excuse for present and future actions. And we DON'T see knowledge as another proprietary possession of our specie to be used as a weapon on other specie forms.

Knowledge, scientia, is there to be the signal, symbol, and metaphor of reconnecting us with the natural world of the multiverses. We are the linguistic alchemist. We take the serendipitous and phenomenological experience of the signals, symbols, and metaphors of knowledge and apply them in the service of our organic functioning within ourselves and their relatings to entities, intangible as well as tangible, about us.

We are a part of a grander web of scientia. In that grander web is the energy of the multi-verses. To know the poetry of the prose is to feel that energy that radiates and transmits from all forms and unites us in a communal family of common purpose-to know and feel each other as extensions of our own being.

Finding consonance of focus in a toxic cultural and social medium

The materialists celebrate their engaging in different activities. Many of those activities are just titillations of stimulation; what I call over-compensation to reclaim the identity they gave up for their employment, status, and trophy relationships. They NEED the sensory spectacles of external sources for their rejuvenation, otherwise they'd have to face a discontent for which they have an impotent apathy about.

These diverting attention-spectacles are replacing the internal physiological and psychological mechanisms that provide the inspiration and motivation for the same rush of satisfaction that those spectacles of distraction serve-like an addictive drug. Since we are cognitively trained to seek out these tangible experiences to be the indirect signals of our opaqued being, for our commercial and emotional contentment, we become predispostionally motivated to the behaviors that apprehend and acquire these trappings.

In the meantime, as we are in this process, becoming an artifact and commodity, ourselves. With the few glorious and inglorious exceptions, who become icons for mimicked paradigms, we become one of the fungible social and cultural widget functionaries whose only affirmations for their existence are the external stimulations that artificially create the existential exhilaration of satisfaction. It's the same as utilizing an ersatz, politically or socially correct, authorized item as the allowed product for your expression. And consequentially, we intentionally and unintentionally seek others to be the emotional, if not the practical enablers in consensus of submission for our activities. Many times these co-dependent, enablement-seeking efforts create a social and cultural web that is a perverse expression of our original intent and a degradation of the ideals for that intent. We have settled by adaptive accommodation into a false representation of ourselves and what we know as better, if not the truth.

Just as the tale of the Tower of Babel described how the multitude of languages was made to confound and obstruct men's hubristic designs for mortal achievement, it also gives a corollary tale of how not only the form of communication can become an obstacle of comprehension, but the substance of the content can further compound the misperceptions and misconceptions of the actors. The misperceptions and the resulting misconceptions create a fiction of the perceivers about themselves, as well as the entities and forms of their environment. Thus the narratives that are our bases of logic become degraded to myths and legends in the delusions of our misperceptions and their misconceptions.

In this gauntlet of psychological falsities there exist the base, popular fallacy and the improvisations, which are derived from them. All these do is divert the energy of a coherent focus to the sensory diversions that have been provided by the cultural fallacy as the affirmations for our being. In fact, the cultural fallacy is the conception of the pursuit of materialistic consumption. That pursuit has perverted and degenerated the processes of our feral physiology whose broader functions are NOT the gluttony of sensory stimulation. The broader functions are for the processing of signals and stimuli for an associative correlation of insight and appreciation of the synergistic and interconnected systems of the phenomena of existence.

There is NO escape or redemption within the framework of the cultural fallacies and their social derivatives. It is a toxic, psychological environment of illusions. One would to acquire an ascetic estrangement from most of the cultural and social forms to relieve the trashing of one's cognitive abilities down the distracting and dissipating paths of external sensory titillation. One would have to acquire the eye-of-the-needle, gatekeeper quality to have a discrete filter that could separate the functional and insightful, associative enhancement from the affected titillation of acute, sensory stimulation.

The on-going process of distilling meaning, incidental to one's obligatory and serendipitous pursuits, I see as liberation from the karma of mental inertia that is stuck on the tar-baby of indulgent, sensory consumption for its own sake. When one is distilling meaning, what one takes in or exposes one's senses to, is done as much for the understanding, analysis, and comprehension of the effects on one, as it is done for the aesthetic pleasantries of that moment. The analytical and insightful understanding of the affects of the aesthetics one is engaging becomes an equally, if not the primary collateral reason for engaging that experience. That experience is engaged because it is an incidental extension of one's organic routine of confirmed knowledge and speculation.

This is not the major or main modus operandi of the cultural or social relations. People are affected aesthetes of their own indulgent consumptions. Those indulgent consumptions are degrading degeneration of their capacities to have an internally generated aesthetic. That aesthete would not be an artificial 'fix' but part of a coherent and resonating body of knowledge that connects meaning with a functional purpose, and not just to a satiated feeling.

Contrasting the linguistics of proactive, prospective thinking versus reactive emotive thinking

It comes down to be the affected sob-sister who specializes in after-the-fact damage control, or the cold-eye analyst who's looking ahead and about for what could be preempted so to control the adverse event or situation. The former is so good at seeking to feel good, they can intuitively be sympathetic to obstructions and adversities to feeling good. They're familiar with the gestures and the mantras of those gestures-all of which are for sharing the emotions and the emoting of the 'victim'-undeserved or deserved. It is a behavior that focuses on what happened AFTER 'the horse left the barn'. There is little reflection of how the subject got to that place after the barn door was closed. It is mostly the centering on how to bring comfort, unconditionally, to the situation. This near-compulsion to keep a situation in a state of anesthetized bliss or stability from discomfort, DESERVED and undeserved precludes conceptualizing of alternative actions. It focuses on the consensual mechanics that prescribe the 'needed' comfort level for that group's indulgences. Thus, since affirming the indulgence to be given to a member, socially, is the primary determiner for thought, little attention is given to analysis of the actions taken or neglected to be taken. The damage control and comforting are as much an affirmation for the desires to be indulged or enabled, as it is the palliative for the subject-accountability or responsibility for the adverse consequences being neglected and forgotten in the process. This approach of thinking has its effects and consequences on the language that becomes the mantra for these situations.

On the other hand, the proactive prospective group think is analytical as it is incidentally emotive to the circumstances at hand. The feelings are coincidental to what needs to be done and to be considered. This type of thinker is marginally affected, and does not become self-indulgent in the 'drama' for the sake of having a shared, emoting experience-primarily. Therefore, this analytical approach separates the factors of the event's present and conception from the emotions expressed in the moment. In the separation of the factors from the on-going carnal and psychological experience, the thinker goes beyond the linguistics of 'how to make the subject feel better' to 'how this situation could have had a better genesis'. Since this train of thought has emotions as a coincidental sign of affirming the low arguability of the logic, rather than as the main reason for whatever logic evolves, emotions and the supporting linguistics for the mantras of emotional enabling are transcended. An entirely unique 'linguistic dialect' of form and purpose develops beyond the preoccupation and obsession with affirming the level of group indulgence. It becomes a search for a refining, if not redefinition, of what can and should be affirmed. The alternative perspectives that are formed from this proactive prospection has little to do with carnal comfort. It is concerned with the relationship of concepts that form metaphors of comprehension to devise alternative visions and avenues for behavior. Unlike their emotive brethren, the present is not for maximum, feasible indulgence; the present is base from which the best signals and signs of the present are used to tangibly and intangibly fashion the architecture for a less ecologically adverse future.

JacobinTrotsky at Twitter.com

The state of the economy is an extension of a 30 year progression not a cyclical hyper anomaly

The people in the Rust Belt have been living it for the last 35 years. Ross Perot spoke about it in 1992. What occurred in '08 and has extended to this day is one of the branches and footnotes of a political-economic philosophy that cherishes profits over community. Those who either spin it otherwise or don't discern the common economic thread happening to the 'People of Main Street' are the agents-of-change for-the-worse. Consumers and organized labor are equally guilty for the creation and perpetuation of these conditions. They have stoked the fires for those aggrandizing to make greater profits by holding costs and jobs to depressive levels for individuals and communities, as the aggrandizers supply the supercilious and superfluous to the consumer as labor focuses on narrow provincial concerns for too long to the detriment of global labor concerns.