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April 23, 2008

History of the Urt

At best, history ‘began’ to be ‘recorded’ around five thousand years ago. Before that though, nothing happened that was worthy of being noted down on paper. Geologic history and ice cores note several thousand cycles of fire and ice ages, just as many periods of extinction, but for the most part they will show a history without humanity in the picture. We just gave it all a name. Language is our bane. Before man, everything was simply life and death. As the earth swung through the stars, which were also born lived and died, life sprang up, had its chance to get somewhere, beginning simply with amino acids combining to form single cells which evolved and evolved and evolved and evolved. It reached many stages, goop, sludge, fungi, plants, animals, and unlike any other that has made it man rode in on a high fucking horse to conquer the whole thing. Actually that is only the hope of some men who play the whole thing like a chess game with six billion epiphenomenal peons to run through slaughterhouses which a majority of the world’s population call a life, barely surviving, and even if they do, it is in agony. They will not be remembered in the history books, they are the proverbial unwritten losers. Sixty five million years ago, dinosaurs lost, but even natural science, biology, tells us that there are currently vestiges of dinosaur life, such as alligators, crocodiles, sharks, and such. Man came into the picture one hundred and fifty thousand years ago, and evolved to current standards. Some things survived sixty five million years to current standards as animals, if man could come about in one hundred and fifty thousand years, could not some race of shape shifting lizards be able to evolve through very selective breeding techniques. A race of responsible lizards who have somehow taken the reigns from man when things got too out of hand, like standing on the gas pedal to destroy a deer instead of letting it destroy your car. I’m not saying I believe that a race of lizard people rule the world, but if history shows anything it is that humans really know nothing about anything, so a race of lizard men is not necessarily impossible, albeit improbable. The real point is that we’re new folks on the block, and history lies by saying that something happens on time. Nothing ever does, everything occurs in tides, build ups, peaks, and declines. The growth of the population of the earth is ever increasing even as people starve as billion people nations upgrade and industrialize, demanding better food, transportation, and living. The build up. Millions of baby boomers retire looking for social security and money in IRAs which banks may not be able to come up with, as millions of their children replace them to try and make more money than their parents did, and want the same things as their friends overseas. The peak. Meanwhile the earth is heating up, as the seas get more acidic and sterilize over the next forty years, and chunks of ice caps disappear. The decline. Life came from the ocean, and now it will end there, and, if science isn’t full of shit, the rest of us will be gone too, losers.

April 16, 2008

Measures of the Urt

Time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, years; at least on earth. These measurements are all based off of the relative position of the earth to the Sun. One full elliptic of the sun is one year, and one full rotation of the earth is one day. Man separated that even further to hours, minutes and seconds, 24 hours in a day, sixty (!?!) minutes in an hour, sixty (?!?) seconds to a minutes. The latter three measurements are arbitrary, only there as a means of further separation of time for the sake of control. Without time being broken up further than a day, one cannot measure the time they work to anything less than an entire day. Even that is arbitrary though, for when there are eight hours of sunlight in Minneapolis followed by sixteen of dark on the winter solstice, in Argentina sixteen hours of sun are enjoyed and followed by a short eight hour night on their summer solstice. The only cycle that does not change across the globe is the lunar cycle; when there’s a full moon in Minneapolis, there’s a full moon across the globe. The moon itself affects tide cycles, and poor timing of lunar cycles can cause river reversing tsunamis. That’s beside the point though. Time is a construct of man. Certainly there is something that pushes the universe along, and keeps everything from happening all at once, but if time is real, it should be able to be proven scientifically. But it can’t. Mathematically, time cannot exist; mathematically the universe does not flow forward as does the tide, but instead lurches forward like an automobile on square wheels. This even makes it problematic for the measurement of distances and speed. Speed is distance traveled per time traveled: i.e. sixty miles per hour. Distances can be measured in reality, but their distinctions are as arbitrary as time, a mile is 5280 feet, and a foot is twelve (?!?) inches. A Kilometer is not so arbitrary of a measurement, but is still a relative measurement; ten thousand kilometers from the equator to a pole, one hundred centimeters to each meter, and ten millimeters to each centimeter. All measurements are based off of mathematical happenstance.
It is the nature of man, at least some men, to order things, in higher to lower. One plus one equals two, and two is greater than either individual one; hierarchy. Maybe, though, one plus one is only two here on earth. There maybe some advanced civilization in which one plus one equals one. There are tribes in the Amazon that have no number beyond three. Everything is in groups thereof. Modernism has given birth to infinity, presumably allowing the ranks of man and the earth itself to aspire to such a number. Time is always in the present though, and can never go backwards; the earth must continue its long journey around the sun, just as it continues to turn. The measurements we use for everyday existence are just a convenience to be able to measure and then separate all things into their respective spot of taxonomy: the construct for the modernist desire to know everything. As we march forward through space and time, though, the only things we can know for certain are not things that can be measured. Truth and knowledge are only retainable by each individual on earth. There is no universal truth or knowledge, but only personal truth and personal knowledge. The problem is that no one wants to seek their own personal knowledge or truth. They allow it to be told to them in classrooms and in beamed to them through their idiot boxes, accepting things the way they are, and sitting idly by as the social kills the individual.

April 13, 2008

Governing the Urt

Speaking the classical sense of conservatism and liberalism, there is no form of conservative government on the planet. Anywhere. This stems from the idea that any formal governance is liberal. The liberal government men will always say that there is a need for government and not only that but bigger government. Fascism, communism, socialism, democracy, social democracy, and corporate socialism are forms of liberalism which give more power to government than to the people. The United States of America was founded as a constitutional republic, by which the constitution supposedly limits the power of government. However, all officials elected to government are elected by popular vote; whoever has a majority of the votes is the winning electorate, which is the basis of the liberal democracy upon which constitutional republics are modeled. Majority vote and majority rule are not egalitarian in means or ends; in short, might does not make right. Aristocracy is a more conservative, smaller form of government but concentrates power through inbred bloodlines. It would be cool, I think, if there was indeed a king of a region- of a certain number of people, within a certain geographical region-who was chosen at random, from anyone from any walk of life. If there was a DC high school janitor who had to serve as president for four years, chances are that minimum wage would go up, as would laborer rights across the nation. Instead, during my life, the presidents “serving� the people have been an actor turned politician, a business man turned politician, a lawyer tuned politician, and a president’s son turned politician. Democracy is a government meant to be representative of the people, but these men seem to represent everything most people, or at least I consider to be plagues of society; celebrity culture, big business, lawyers, politicians, assholes. Governments around the globe have similar democratic and social representative imbalances, because every nation on earth is ruled by elitist and the idea of elitism.