Selling weirdness back into our culture will be mainstream

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness." ~Albert Einstein


Why are people not Mad as hell? There is a Secret That Will Destroy the World's Financial System. China's control over economic data gave everyone the comfort of an apparent growth economy in China despite the fallout from the Global Financial crisis. Now the paper dragon is starting to show weakness. Their likely default on derivatives contracts has caused another reverberation of panic. A trade war could be inevitable. Imagine the implications of a halt on all trade with China. Would it hurt them more then it would hurt us? What kind of calculations are the Chinese making? The Chinese know their investments in US Treasuries (and for that matter all dollar denominated assets without the backing of real capital) is going to see major losses, what is their plan? Remember; this is a culture where the Art of War is well read and understood.

After the loss of some $7 trillion in household wealth (US GDP was $14T last year), we can not continue as if nothing happened. After all, it was the artificial creation of this wealth that was driving our economy. We have not had a self-sustaining economy for a long time. Now we face the loss of $7 trillion and the loss of the credit that has been driving our consumer lifestyle. We are broke and tragically in debt. The old system has failed, is failing, and will always fail. Human progress is about finding the opportunity in crisis.

Technology will be our savior. The exponential advancement of knowledge will give us the opportunity to design the Future. Claytronics (Programmable Matter) and Nanofactorys will make consumerism obsolete. Human labor is approaching obsolescence. What would people do in the New World Order of minimal occupation and massive abundance?

We are about to witness the birth of the next phase of humanity. It seems to me that humanity is following a specific pattern of evolution that is happening spontaneously and synchronously. Some people see this next phase of humanity as The Singularity, others see it as a mystical 2012 event, I suspect that both are right and both are wrong. If enough people believe in something it will happen, just not the way they planned.

I imagine that we will see the rise of a Religion of Intelligence and Life and a new era of taking responsibility for the world we create will emerge.

There are patterns to human civilization that are predictable. They can be suppressed, but never overcome. The pressure grows stronger when suppressed and never put away once they are released. Books can be burnt, but knowledge accumulates. Lines that once crossed we can never return. The battle between a liberal or conservative approach is only about the slope of the line of progress, most conservatives will not openly support regression such as dismantling Medicare. Such is true for racial civil rights, public education, libraries, labor laws, natural rights, religious freedom, and other progressive ideas of the past.

Society is a Pandora's box. They are now selling pot in California in direct violation of federal law. The reemergence of psychedelics for treatment of alcohol and heroin addiction will cause them to follow shortly afterward. People already have access to medicinal psychedelics on-line with little fear of federal intervention. This is not going to be like the '60's. This time counter culture will be mainstream. Selling weirdness back into our culture will be mainstream.