Ouroborus, Quantum Foam, and the Metaphysics of Evil
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Summary
Why is this world so evil? Why is it that the higher up on the food chain you go, the more evil you have to be? When will King Arthur return and save us? Or is there something else we should be worried about?
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The year 1919 saw the case of Dodge versus the Ford Motor Company make its
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way through the American court system. From this case was established the
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principle of shareholder primacy, that shareholders needed to come first and
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employees and customers had to come second. You see, Dodge had been upset with
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Mr. Ford for paying his workers too much and providing too good of a product.
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That decision has led to this modern situation we find ourselves in where
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corporations are legally required to be evil. Take the case of Gerber baby food.
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Gerber baby food is an alternative form of nutrition for children that is
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inherently inferior to breast milk. But there are many cases where, for various
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reasons, breast milk may not be available. That's the argument for creating this
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product in the first place. But then the Gerber Corporation figured something out.
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If you give mothers a free three-month supply of baby food, their breasts will dry up,
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making the children now completely reliant upon Gerber baby food. This is bad for the
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children. It makes them weaker immunologically. It lowers IQ. It's just bad for the children,
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and it's bad for society, but it's good for the shareholders. This practice was
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eventually banned in American law, but they're still doing it to this day in Africa.
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Yeah. As if those poor kids don't need every IQ point they can grab.
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Now, there was a joke by the comedian Bill Hicks back in the 90s. He was going on about what awful
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human being marketers are, and he joked about them making arsenic a new baby food supplement. Well,
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they increased the allowable amounts of arsenic, which can be in baby food. Shareholder supremacy.
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Why is it that the higher up on the food chain you go,
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Who's got more freedom of speech? Me or Elon Musk? He's got greater reach.
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But I dare say that I have greater freedom of speech. There's some things that if Elon said them,
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Why is reality like that? Why is it that the more power you attain, the more evil you have to be?
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There were a couple of good articles on this recently, which is one inspired this video by
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Neoliberal Feudalism. They're linked down below, and they go a bit more in depth. I think we all know
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about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. I don't need to belabor these points.
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Instead, what I want to talk about is the metaphysics underlying all of this.
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Quantum foam, which was a theory developed in the 1950s,
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is based upon the Heidegger Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. We should all know that name thanks to Breaking Bad.
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He posited, if you go down to the Planck length,
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which is 10 to the 20 times smaller than a proton.
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If you go down to the Planck length, the Planck time, the Uncertainty Principle predicts that
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fundamental particles are going to be spontaneously appearing and disappearing. Micro black holes,
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wormholes, wormholes, that there's this chaotic foam, this, this TV static at the ground of reality.
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for a brief moment, you can spin up two equally charged, negatively charged, oppositely charged particles
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and have them exist momentarily before they self-anihilate again.
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It may have some effects on distant light of different frequencies that we see from stars, galaxies.
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We haven't proven it yet, and this is not a physics lecture. This is a meta-physics lecture.
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But bear with me. Let's run with this idea of quantum foam.
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Because the idea of doing something impossible by cheating physics is what technology is all about.
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Currently, here on the farm, we have been working on creating a ram pump.
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The way a ram pump works is if you run water downhill, and you have a little check valve,
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and you pop out some of the water, and you create a water hammer, that water hammer can force water back
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up a hill to twice the height it was once set, at the cost of half the water.
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Completely automated. You put it in place, you tap it once with your finger, and boom, you've got a
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Technology is always about tricking the universe into doing something impossible.
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So what if the universe itself was an impossible magic trick from the very beginning?
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is a quantum fluctuation of two opposites arranged in such a manner that they spiral outwards?
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What if all of this reality is just pulling apart of two oppositely charged particles to create a current
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in between them, in a space where nothing exists whatsoever? Just this illusory magic trick
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of pretending that instead of zero, we've actually got plus one and minus one.
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What if nothing in reality is real? It's just a bit of prestigitation, a stage illusion
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On its own, it's a pretty useless trick. Because space and time on its own, a space and time that don't exist,
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is just a space and time that don't exist. It's useless until you add an observer.
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Why is it? Why is it that eyes are such an inky black color?
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I mean, of course they're not. I mean, I think we all know that eyes are actually red. Your optical nerves
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are red like everything else on the inside of you.
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This, in the old days of camera flash, this is what caused red eye in the old photos.
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I'm sure all these new smartphones correct for that, but kids, back when you used to take a nighttime
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shot of your friends, all of their eyes were glowing red.
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Because that temporary flash reflected off the optical nerve at the back of the eye.
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Eyes aren't really black, and yet they're all black.
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Why is it when you look into the lens of a camera?
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You can't see the optical receptors on the other side.
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To quote insane clown posse, I ain't talking to a scientist about this, because that's not the point
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The fact there is this universal illusion of unlimited, infinite depth in the eyes.
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And at the very far end of that tunnel is a spark of light.
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It's one of those little clues that are left in reality that all is not as it seems.
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The higher you ascend psychically, spiritually, the more time you spend observing yourself observing.
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You remember that time as a child when you saw the celebrity on TV do a thing.
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And part of you thought, I should do that thing that the celebrity is doing, while part of you watched
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yourself thinking that you should do the thing, understanding that you're only thinking that
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because a random celebrity on TV did the thing.
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The infinite fractal nature of observation itself, the end of that tunnel, is where you find God.
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So if reality is nothing but this magic trick, this artificial division of zero into opposites,
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opposites through which a current can flow, mixed in with the supernatural act of observation.
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All of these eyes, all of these spirits enmeshed in the flesh to observe the reality that we're all pretending is real.
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If reality is this stage magician's trick, this mathematical sleight of hand,
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if fundamentally nothing really exists, it's just by separating the elements we can pretend that it exists.
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Then everything within existence is preying upon everything else within existence.
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It's Ouroboros. It's the Midgard serpent eating its own tail, encircling reality,
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pulling apart reality so that reality might exist.
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And yet there's nothing else in reality from which we might draw sustenance.
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And therefore, while these spiritual nodes of observation populate the universe,
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the only way for any of it to exist is to prey upon everything else.
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We need power so that we can consume other creatures to maintain our own existence.
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So either this is just a universe built for souls to suffer in.
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So if we start to consider those at the top of the pecking order,
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But if power is nothing but power over your fellow nodes of perception,
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if you're missing the point of experiencing this universe,
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and you're locked into mistaking this fake hypothetical reality for truth,
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if it's turtles all the way down and turtles in a giant circle,
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the more millions of watchers you have compelling your behavior.
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You no longer have the freedom to be a stainless steel rat crawling through the system
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who's being manipulated by the gods for their own ends,
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or manipulated by high politics for their own ends?
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to be somebody with just enough freedom to move around,
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but not so much freedom that you ever enter one of the history books.
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Let's finish by considering Michael Rockefeller.
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deliberately ceding destructive social movements
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to keep the population disunited and antagonistic against one another
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an investigative journalist that was trying to pursue this case
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Ultimately, you can't escape the game of power.
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Even vegetarians are responsible for the deaths of animals
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I suppose you can become one of the living mummies
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Eventually, you turn into a monster like Yuval Harari.
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A man that knows that his brain is nothing but chemicals