History is written by the winners and in the vacuums of national propaganda; when you can only see what they tell you to see, how can you know otherwise? This is the great conundrum of our time, vacuums, how is it that we can overcome these very isolating realities and build a world worth living/fighting for. For it is in vacuums that ignorance thrives, and with it all of the wretched refuse that comes along with it; racism, sexism, xenophobia ect ect.
We often, whether we know it or not, are deep in vacuums. This, more often than not, is a hindrance to our species wellbeing; as when we are separated from the rest of us we develop antisocial tendencies towards the rest of the human community. These vacuums breed separatist feelings and cultures, we see that capitalism and religion thrive on living unopposed by competing systems or even truth itself. Vacuums are often low or devoid of criticism, they separate human groups from the whole of humanity, and they protect themselves viciously from outside influence.
However, there is one truth that is most important when discussing these things, vacuums can be breached and once breached they become in a state of flux that is both volatile and permanent; one cannot put the lightning back in the bottle. Enforced ignorance is how ineffective and wrong headed systems survive, for if the light were shown upon them they would crumble to dust. What is the light? Nihilism is the light!
Should we come to understand that all human mental constructions are but arbitrary creations for the use of a cultural and economic control scheme, than we would cease to act as if there were 'absolute laws' when dealing with many of our human constructed systems; this is not to say that certain things, patterns, do not follow, as every action gains an equal and opposite reaction. Science and nature are things that are not 'human constructs' but rather are descriptions/reflections of the natural world.
When we realize that constructing society, more than likely, would be more effective utilizing the scientific method rather than the purely arbitrary ways in which we do them now, we would benefit immensely from such a realization! Yes, there are no 'absolute meanings' but we rather can look at our method of constructing a control scheme (society/economics) as rather a building project; we're using different materials, and the right materials and layout are required to construct the most stable and efficient building. The materials themselves contain no 'truth' or 'purpose' on an individual level, just as individual cells in a body, alone, are basically worthless. The pieces we use for societal construction are all individual items, in idea space, that alone are useless to us, but put together in the a certain order may yield a better result than we currently are witnessing today.
Our morals, our ethics, our laws, our politics and our economy. All of these things are games, in so much as they are derived by rules, and they necessarily create the outcomes that the rules are designed to create based upon their design. These things are, in effect, arbitrary; there is no 'purpose' beyond the outcomes of the 'control scheme' that we have designed, what we get is what we've programmed into the system. All of these human constructs are entirely able to be changed or redesigned; in as much as the laws of men can be, not withstanding the chaotic behavior/emotive responses of the human race.
Cultural evolution leads to system evolution, these things are intertwined, and as such our control schemes evolve with us; to keep pace. However, every system can and eventually does 'break down' and no longer can keep pace with its environment; leading to either 'branching off' of 'extinction'. These things are part of the realities of the growth, life and death of memes. We must harness the understanding of nihilism if we are to confront memetics as engineers of human society, culture, politics and economics. Should we come to the understanding that value, law, morality, economics and religion are all elaborate memes designed explicitly as human control schemes, than we will be able to develop much more efficient and humane systems by which to live and take part in. Through memetic construction and the use of the scientific method we could create a more harmonious world order in better keeping with the best that man has to offer; as individuals and as groups. For one reality reigns supreme, there no utopia, no world divest of strife, violence or force, nor is there a heaven; the most insidious utopia of all, as it plays upon the very lie just described but say's that you shall get it after you die, this is the greatest promoter of self-helplessness and giving people a reason to put up with oppression because 'they know' a better life awaits them afterword, what an evil lie. No, the best we can get is the best we can construct, and the best we can construct may not be heaven or utopia, but it will be better than what we have now.
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