Meet the Existential Virus

To understand the nemesis of humankind, read the story of Jamadagni. It presents, without scientific understanding, the amoral person and the information advantage, (the knowledge of reincarnation), he uses to get his way. In the story, he orders his sons, one by one, to kill their mother. All of them refuse and are "turned to stone" as punishment. The youngest son, Parashurama, (also known in mythology as Abraham), kills his mother and is rewarded by having his family brought back to life, without knowledge of having been murdered or turned to stone. This is what humankind is up against: a psychopath with the power of life over death, and his devoted adherents.

The definition of a god, historically, is a person who in addition to having beaten death, knows the secret of how it's done. Their visibility is inversely proportional to humankind's credulity for practical reasons. It is only an information advantage, after all. That is why the concept of god has by now been abstracted to mean anything and nothing. The existentially privileged people are still here though, riding humankind Jamadagni-style.

The modern skeptical mind is encouraged to believe that stories of gods were inventions devised to control people. Of course that is true to some extent, but I believe that the stories describe an actuality that isn't acknowledged anymore. Mythology records the existence of groups of gods and their contentions, and times when people did not die. Goddesses combed battlefields collecting the souls of the dead. The Bible remembers the number of years, in the hundreds, that each one of its patriarchs lived. The indication is that each one of us has the physical equipment, referred to by mythology as the soul, necessary for reincarnation. I believe that we were designed to colonize the universe in generation ships and build worlds.

Short of a biography of failure, the events in our particular story demonstrate the worst perils of our existential vocation. Fortunately, our story also demonstrates that our intelligence has built-in fail-safe mechanisms. It was our intelligence that brought us to the threshold of being able to understand our existential predicament. We have been isolated from our origin and split by information into gods and mortals, and as a consequence have been deliberately raised with multiple psychopathies that still afflict us.

The Jamadagni continuum rewarded its mortal followers with the suite of supremacisms that continue to deform our world: zoological supremacism, gender supremacism, racial supremacism, cultural supremacism, ideological supremacism, and financial supremacism. The beneficiaries of such existentially costly rewards are the people traditionally enlisted to defend the virus against our collective intelligence.

Now that humankind is technologically enabled and conceptually prepared, we will be reunited with the intelligence that brought us here. We are not this marvelously capable and existentially fortunate by accident. Mythology predicted that one day, this world would be transformed into an ideal world. The authors of that prediction understood that our predicament is a problem of information that will be solved in time. Here we are, living through that moment. The power that games humankind as if we were existential garbage is finding it increasingly difficult to get us to destroy each other for its benefit.

Here we are on the threshold of an emancipated existence, a world of seven billion marvelously capable and existentially fortunate beings still represented and ruled by its morally bankrupt hijackers and their hired hands--the select few for whom our intelligence has always been the "original sin" that opposes them existentially. Here, still, only their "interests" matter. Everything else is expendable, even the son of their god. They demonstrate the truth under pressure. That is why their rotten world doesn't make sense anymore; it is coming to an end. We are not going extinct, their savage game is. The days of "look what they can be made to do" are over.

We Build Worlds

My mother bought this dollhouse kit 40 years ago, and I tried building it and failed 35 years ago. Now that I have the skills and the tools, the patience, and the time, fixing my old mistakes and overcoming the limitations of the kit has been an enjoyable challenge. To make it more satisfying as a vehicle for the imagination, I made it more like an architectural model and less like a toy.


Today I made 5 doors, 2 interior and 3 exterior. A cipher building a cipher, I am. There's a lot to be said for being able to make things. For me, it is a lifeline. Creativity is humankind's saving grace.

Wealth tends to diminish the impetus for creativity. Why make things when one can buy them? The answer to that question is purely spiritual and a matter of wisdom. Making things teaches and reinforces good habits of mind, including firsthand knowledge of the value of labor and its products. Our young world, captive to wealth from the beginning, has always suffered from a dearth of this among the most privileged people. As it is, they learn to toy with the lives of others and "break things."

Sometimes in dreams and visions I get glimpses of this world's actual edifice and it is as ugly as its history. It is a war zone in a perpetual state of privation and disrepair, dictated by the desires of the privileged.

It is evidence of humankind's innate creative drive that wealthy countries support lucrative industries that cater to do-it-yourselfers and hobbyists. And it is a sign of the disparities and incongruities of this world that privileged people like me can have personal factories to make things for pleasure that people in poor countries make for a living.

Humankind is an information species. We are brilliant when the information is good and lost when it's not. For us, Hell is a world of bad information. The Devil is the King of Lies and those who willingly serve him are demons. Behold their domain.

If humankind is to achieve its potential, our history will have to serve as a lesson for all time of what can happen when we are separated from good information. We are strong together, truly. Now we have the technological framework to protect each other and vanquish existential nightmares. It is a singular redeeming achievement as well as a beautiful thing. Congratulations; don't let the aggressively privileged imps break it now that they know the end of their rule is at hand. That is what all the manufactured commotion is about.

Eighty years ago, they were able to reset the world through war. They are attempting to conjure a disaster on that scale to "lead" us through. If only they could save us instead from the existential catastrophe they actually are.