Culture
All great powers in history have succeeded in controlling our perception of reality - culture is the medium used to achieve this control
Time-travel
Time-travel is real - i can prove it …
Australia's Original inhabitants time-travelled from 60k year ago to the 18-19 hundreds.
Trick is: it’s not you, the human, who whisks-off through Time/Space, so much as Time/Space comes to you. It travelled to the Originals - it could travel to us from 60 k into some other dystopian future - via aliens/AI/hybrids/what-have-you - it could happen at any tick of the clock …
Time is … only a word - Anaxagoras’s Nous is a better word - but Time, as we know it, was a concept invented by western culture, which defined it by metricizing it:
1. Clocks: tick-tock-tick-tocking their seconds, minutes, hours away for Earth spinning on its axis - makes me dizzy thinking about it … Each revolution one day long - Mon-day-i-got-Fri-day-on-my-mind … We set alarm clocks to it, take it one-day-at-at-a-time, work, knock-off, make dates, eat, watch entertainment, enforce curfews, go to sleep. Spinning is The Days of our Lives. But: Seven days do not a weeketh make. Weeks, months, years, centuries - the higher-ups - that’s a different force of physics entirely …
2. Calendars: 30 Days have September April June & November - all the rest have 31, excepting February … which is a weird fucking month, that should be banned. Calendars are Earth’s lap-times (sensational ones) - calculated according to our revolvement around Sun. Which is a bloody long way. 900 million k’s. Btw, don’t be late. Meanwhile, Sun is also revolving around the centre of the galaxy at galactic speed - ends up you're doing 2mil+ k - sitting on the couch. (If only we could travel that speed in a different direction … you could get to Mars in 30 minutes)
There are two types of humans:
1. Spinners (tree-thinkers - people caught in the daily grind - the minutiae )
2. Revolvers (forests - transcendentalists - big picture thinkers)
That’s crap. I made that up, but spectrum-wise - we have both inside us, one is more, less, or so-so, emphasized. It also fluctuates within us.
Spinning - revolving - both dizzying - are (funda) mental-input-forces acting on us. It’s like, not like, it is, going on two different, scary rides at the Amusement Park at the End of the Universe - happening at insane speeds - at the same time … perpetually … That’s gotta do ya fucking head in … surely …
It doesn’t somehow. Sends you 'round the bend, literally - in a circular motion, it’s all bending - but it’s also the state we blithely exist in. I’m doing it now: typing at millions of k an hour whilst spinning like a top …! Feels slower though. Slow as a snail. I wish i could go faster … Sometimes i do have a spinning feeling when i stand up too quick, so that’s something.
But does it matter? We're accustomed to it - it's innate - we don't feel it - who cares?
Ignore it, carry on is what the experts advise. Understanding beyond that ... ? Does Time even exist as a fundamental of the Universe? I think not. It's a by-product of something else. At best it's a misnomer. Nous or Consciousness gets you a lot closer to the origin of existence than Time ever will
Clocks/Calendars are empirical measurements - they don’t capture Time/Nous’s essence .. they downstream-register its existence on a machine: that’s all
The Originals had a good way of looking at it: the Everywhen
Everything that has happened or will happen or could have happened … but didn’t … wells from the Everywhen … or doesn’t …
One fine day, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a breed-unto-themselves, welled up …
When these universes entwined, the Missionaries assumed the position of the Aliens from the Everywhen - come to Save us in the name of Jesus & The Blessed Virgin.
This book is a look at what happens when Cultures time-travel/collide ...
Culture
Apart from clocks & calendars, there’s another way to register Time/Nous/Whatever’s presence: Culture
But got stuck on one-fucking-word: Culture
It’s central to the MSC story, but what is it? What does it mean? Define your terms …
First there are different levels. You can talk about the Shin Boner Spirit culture at the North Melbourne Football Club - or a full-anthropological immersion into an indigenous buluo - you'll find a lot of difference - that difference is the beauty - but there will still be an arrangement of celebrated values & meaningful participation in both those communities that connects with its members. Culture is that connective stuff.
That's all great, but it led to thinking about Culture as a stand-alone Thing. It results in a pattern - a spectrum - a primary wave/particle influence - that all us humans experience. It's powerful as fuck ... So what is it - when it's stripped back to its core?
By the time i got through - well i didn’t get through - but four weeks later i realized i had 4-5 pages about Culture - which is fascinating - but it’s a different book, mate - we’re doing this one - on MSC's influence on NT indigenous people - we need one page max - otherwise it will block the flow of the story. Park it.
But …
Put it in bullet points if you have to - one page or less - on my desk by tomorrow)
Culture, as a force, is ...
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Thought: Made from Thought - that’s its primary constituent - which, according to its FB-page, is currently in a Chicken n Egg relationship with Action
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dynamic library of accumulated consciousness: a recording of observed manifestations of human reality - i.e History. As with clocks/calendars, it is a measurement of Time. We measure ourselves against it - it measures us, shapes us. It can also bend Time
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communal mental-image: that amounts to an interactive mind-computer-game - with rules - generated by people. But culture is not a real person as such - similar, but different, a virtual version of a real one. Reality is the interface image between perception/projection
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living entity: same as any other bio-mass - follows the laws of DNA - wants to exist - extend. To that end - it consumes. To do that efficiently, it cooperates, organizes - forms functional societies - same way cells do - except it doesn’t die like we do ...
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manipulatable commodity: which has currency - human power. If there was no culture, there’d be no power. Culture is the magic ingredient that makes the metaphysical world go round. Cultural influence is a finite commodity. The more it is centralized, the less influence the individual has - & vice verca - it's an inverse relationship.
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two-way street: if Culture’s Dynamic is functioning healthfully, it influences you - but you can influence its arse back. The Taiwanese indigenous buluo community is one good example - traditional & modern versions - where the village has real power. It was under attack by Big-culture - fought through it in the 1990s - still going strong today. It’s also at the heart of Aristotle’s polis thinking - the first anti-globalist - he knew the dangers of power centralization having lived in the time of Alexander the Great. The ideal state, Aristotle said, is one encompassed by the range of the town-crier’s voice. That way, if you’ve got a good idea, or a helping hand, or a grievance, you can input it meaningfully into your culture . Try doing that in the New Normal - see how you get along. Indigenous (& non) communities, self-sustaining ones, are vestiges of Aristotle’s polis. If the power/internet goes off in a drawn out war, which it will, these communities will come roaring back into style
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eternal God: outlives us all - true life after death
Manipulation
Of the above, the manipulatable characteristic of Culture is the most pertinent to our story.
There are periods in history, long-ones, where: whoppers told by those with the cultural clout to make them come true … came true … ! Cultural Influencers succeeded in track-jumping Reality onto a non-Truth, alternative universe. Anthrax/Iraq War 2 is one (non-contentious?) example - but there are many others - bigger ones - we'll get there shortly.
That raises some questions:
If Culture can exert mass influence on its human components to create a fake reality, are we living in a Lie-averse, an Unreality?
What happens to the real Reality/Time/Future - that was hi-jacked?
Does that still exist? In some parallel mode? Can we re-connect? Or: that's all gone now ...?
In the culture/time equation, the idea that progression = enlightenment … it's not like that. Yes Time/Nous can travel towards the light, but also sideways, backwards, into darkness … It’s not a fixed-deal … well it isn’t, ... until it is.
Fixing the deal in an interactive game-world is the goal. It's in our DNA to do that. The more you fix it, the better. Moreover, it’s a War - against Whoever-you-project-to-be-a-threat. If you control the Cultural Image of Reality, you control everything, including Time, whatever that means … you get to decide.
Therein lies Culture's time-travelling trick. Orwell puts it best in 1984 (written 1948):
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past
Jesus Culture is a good example of how that works - at scale.
Jesus Time
Time is divided into BC - Before Christ - then AD - After Christ. How many people managed to get Time segregated from the day they were born …?
A few, Sun-Yat-sen, not many, been tried, there are epochs, dynasties, but one time to rule them all … invariably you get usurped. Jesus Time was a usurpation of Founding of Rome Time - which was already at 1278 when it got got by The Church (in 525 AD). Meaning the year now should be/would be 2775 ...
See, i told you time-travel is possible! The other thing is that the Founding of Rome was a human endeavour - not an individual that can be deified - like Jesus was: born of the Blessed Virgin, crucified for our sins, then, miraculously, ascended into Heaven on the Third Day. From where God the Son watches us … with God the Father & God the Holy Ghost.
Jesus didn’t alter Time himself of course - that came much, much later - 500 odd years later, with the advent of hierarchical religion. Organized global mind-control - self-described - on a mission to convert the world to the Catholic way of thinking. High Priest interpreters of the secret higher-truth began curating/enforcing a manufactured version of Reality - backed by money, military-muscle.
Jesus Time was a stroke of cultural genius - brainchild of Dionysius Exiguus, a Catholic monk, aka Denis The Little. Dionysius was a mathematician/influencer at a point in history when THE Church was already the dominant cultural influence. He saw an MOU opening in Time-branding: next-level entrenchment of Catholicism - whilst accelerating his own pocket-rocket rise through the ranks of that all-powerful universe.
This Time-coup was shepherded through by Pope/Saint John I. Became canon law.
Four years after the BC/AD Papal Decree, philosophy was banned by THE Church in 529 because it: conflicted with Christianity (AC Grayling, History of Philosophy) So having stolen select tenets from Anaxagoras, Aristotle et al, re the existence of a primary universal force, then twisted that to fit its own designs, THE Church, like a ruthless mafia boss, began psychotically eliminating those who knew too much:
We don’t need more enquiries into the origin of existence, the nature of reality, or ethics - we’ve definitively decided all that - we've moved on. Any further discussion on the topic will only undermine our authority.
Welcome to the fifth-century, Ladies & Gentlemen, the dawn … doesn’t sound right … of the Dark Ages! The Downside-up World … A Time-warped world.
The mid-500’s were sliding doors years. When those doors ground shut, with THE Church left with Totalitarian control over western Culture, it was 900 years of Darkness in the dungeons for poor old humanity. I'm not convinced we've yet emerged - we did - but then THE Science dragged us back in ...
It's a reminder for people today - when you surrender human rights to the mind-control experts due to God , THE Science, THE Economy, THE Algorithm, or … whatever … don’t think you’re gonna get em back a few years later in the New Normal …
Once Totalitarianism gets a cultural grip on the script … you’re fucked. That’s why they call it Total. It’s devilishly hard to break free when you’re imprisoned by the cultural plot.