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*disclaimer: random thoughts and philosophies that have been running through my head of late. Take it how you want, believe or laugh at me as you choose.*
Some of you might recognize the title of this thread from assassins creed 1. The Creed of the Assassins was simple, nothing is true, everything is permitted. At first I thought it was just random gibberish, but through the course of the game, you come to find out exactly how far the developers took that philosophy through the story line.
Now taking that very simple line and apply it to real life, everything you have been told about how the world works, why it works that way, and what your part in it is. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. What I would like to see is for people to start asking why they do what they do?
Why do you go to work? to make money
why do you need money? to pay my bills, to buy food
Why do you have bills? I pay bills to have a house to live in, a phone to talk to my friends, to pay for gas to get to work, to pay for my car. I need food to live duh.
why don't you grow your own food? I don't know how.
you went to school right? why didn't they teach you how to grow your own food and build your own house?
the first hard question I had to answer myself, Why do schools not teach us how to live on our own, how to grow our own food, how to construct and build things. Why are they teaching us how to depend on others to do that work for us? Now I'm not saying all of school is bad, We need math, we certainly need reading and writing, but why do we need chemistry? Biology? why do we need to know how many stomachs cows have and not know how to build our own house? if we need food to eat why are we learning about photosynthesis and not taught how to plant it? Because we live in a society that is based around the illusion that someone else will take care of it.
Our society is an illusion, a fictional illusion of how the world works, and the illusion works because everyone believes it, and follows it because they believe it to be fact. What are these illusions that I am talking about? The rules of society and how it works. What else has rules? A game, a game has rules. In a game, you are given a set of Rules to play by and you abide by them and are rewarded properly by the given set of rewards dictated by the Rules. Well what is a rule? nothing but a limitation that was constructed by the mind in order to keep order and rewards fair.
We see this in society as well. you follow the rules, you are rewarded with something of value that allows you to live in what seems to be a comfortable life. That comfortable life however depends on other people continuing to follow the same rules, and all the same resources are there.
Someone needs to pump the gas into the tanker to take it to the gas station so you can buy your gas for your car so you can take it to the store to buy the food that someone else grew so you can eat and survive. That food was delivered to the store by a truck that used gas to get there, the food was planted and harvested by trucks that used gas.
Now what our society needs to continue to hold it's illusion that there will always be someone who will do what we need to do to survive. Oil and Gas. Things the whole world knows we are running out of, yet most people don't think about the true consequence of what will happen when it's gone.
Suddenly the farmer can't plant as much food as he could by himself because he can't drive his big tractor, he has to use a horse and plow to plant and his own manual labor to harvest. The truck driver that drove the food to market can't drive the food there anymore because his truck has no gas. he can only move food by horse and buggy now. which means he moves less, in more time. he can't go as far, the Corn grown in Kansas is rotten by the time it makes it to the east coast. Suddenly there is food shortages in the cities, prices skyrocket, people have to move away. They don't know how to grow their own food, they die of starvation. Power plants shut down, heat goes out, you have to start burning wood for heat in the winter. Everything electrical and oil dependent shuts down. Communication breaks down, large governments implode because they cannot properly administrate the large crisis, or get aid out to people in time because their is no quick mode of transportation any more.
Now you can look at all of these problems, and deny them, and I do admit that some of these are worst case Scenarios but the lesson is, I hope, clear. Stop relying on other people to create a place in which you can survive, learn to grow your own food, build your own house, learn to survive on your own.
That isn't enough though. you will not survive by building a cabin in the woods near a creek and go hunting every night for food and scrounging up berries. you won't last on your own that way. What we need are communities, groups of people working together, using their trades to help each other survive. Now all of them have to grow food, enough for themselves and one other if they can spare it. that allows for a poor harvest so you yourself can survive a harsh winter. There isn't enough time in the day to plant crops and build a house. what we need are simple small communities like the Amish who all work together to support each other. Now they do it because of religious reasons, but if we could model a society based on their basic small communities. Life would be harder, but simpler. We could learn to live without technology through their societies, we wouldn't have to adopt their religion, but just make a new way of living that doesn't depend on layers and layers of technology and electricity.
anyways I have to end this rant.... need to head to work.
Some of you might recognize the title of this thread from assassins creed 1. The Creed of the Assassins was simple, nothing is true, everything is permitted. At first I thought it was just random gibberish, but through the course of the game, you come to find out exactly how far the developers took that philosophy through the story line.
Now taking that very simple line and apply it to real life, everything you have been told about how the world works, why it works that way, and what your part in it is. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. What I would like to see is for people to start asking why they do what they do?
Why do you go to work? to make money
why do you need money? to pay my bills, to buy food
Why do you have bills? I pay bills to have a house to live in, a phone to talk to my friends, to pay for gas to get to work, to pay for my car. I need food to live duh.
why don't you grow your own food? I don't know how.
you went to school right? why didn't they teach you how to grow your own food and build your own house?
the first hard question I had to answer myself, Why do schools not teach us how to live on our own, how to grow our own food, how to construct and build things. Why are they teaching us how to depend on others to do that work for us? Now I'm not saying all of school is bad, We need math, we certainly need reading and writing, but why do we need chemistry? Biology? why do we need to know how many stomachs cows have and not know how to build our own house? if we need food to eat why are we learning about photosynthesis and not taught how to plant it? Because we live in a society that is based around the illusion that someone else will take care of it.
Our society is an illusion, a fictional illusion of how the world works, and the illusion works because everyone believes it, and follows it because they believe it to be fact. What are these illusions that I am talking about? The rules of society and how it works. What else has rules? A game, a game has rules. In a game, you are given a set of Rules to play by and you abide by them and are rewarded properly by the given set of rewards dictated by the Rules. Well what is a rule? nothing but a limitation that was constructed by the mind in order to keep order and rewards fair.
We see this in society as well. you follow the rules, you are rewarded with something of value that allows you to live in what seems to be a comfortable life. That comfortable life however depends on other people continuing to follow the same rules, and all the same resources are there.
Someone needs to pump the gas into the tanker to take it to the gas station so you can buy your gas for your car so you can take it to the store to buy the food that someone else grew so you can eat and survive. That food was delivered to the store by a truck that used gas to get there, the food was planted and harvested by trucks that used gas.
Now what our society needs to continue to hold it's illusion that there will always be someone who will do what we need to do to survive. Oil and Gas. Things the whole world knows we are running out of, yet most people don't think about the true consequence of what will happen when it's gone.
Suddenly the farmer can't plant as much food as he could by himself because he can't drive his big tractor, he has to use a horse and plow to plant and his own manual labor to harvest. The truck driver that drove the food to market can't drive the food there anymore because his truck has no gas. he can only move food by horse and buggy now. which means he moves less, in more time. he can't go as far, the Corn grown in Kansas is rotten by the time it makes it to the east coast. Suddenly there is food shortages in the cities, prices skyrocket, people have to move away. They don't know how to grow their own food, they die of starvation. Power plants shut down, heat goes out, you have to start burning wood for heat in the winter. Everything electrical and oil dependent shuts down. Communication breaks down, large governments implode because they cannot properly administrate the large crisis, or get aid out to people in time because their is no quick mode of transportation any more.
Now you can look at all of these problems, and deny them, and I do admit that some of these are worst case Scenarios but the lesson is, I hope, clear. Stop relying on other people to create a place in which you can survive, learn to grow your own food, build your own house, learn to survive on your own.
That isn't enough though. you will not survive by building a cabin in the woods near a creek and go hunting every night for food and scrounging up berries. you won't last on your own that way. What we need are communities, groups of people working together, using their trades to help each other survive. Now all of them have to grow food, enough for themselves and one other if they can spare it. that allows for a poor harvest so you yourself can survive a harsh winter. There isn't enough time in the day to plant crops and build a house. what we need are simple small communities like the Amish who all work together to support each other. Now they do it because of religious reasons, but if we could model a society based on their basic small communities. Life would be harder, but simpler. We could learn to live without technology through their societies, we wouldn't have to adopt their religion, but just make a new way of living that doesn't depend on layers and layers of technology and electricity.
anyways I have to end this rant.... need to head to work.
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