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-tock ing 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   (Author’s note : When i wrote that sentence a few weeks ago (edit: 4 weeks), i already had the next 4-5 pages mapped out on Catholicism’s/MSC’s audacious ride to global mind-control.   First page Time-travel - this one is Culture - its relationship to Time - then onto THE Church - bang bang bang - page-a-day - explore where it goes from there … which is somewhere up the Daly River - see you in the NT… 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 ... ( )/a(n):  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 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 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 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 ... 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. 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 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, T HE 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.