What Shadows Talk About Behind Our Backs

Miss Information? So do we. It's coming back around again.

How is everyone enjoying the Age of Misinformation? This exciting moment in history is brought to us by "What was Covid" and is sponsored by a war in Ukraine, called "The War in Ukraine" with funding from "What A Vagina Means, The Inside Story" "the 2020 Election was Stolen," and "Math is Racist." Special thanks include the "Stock Market is Fake" as well as "The World is Flat." Notably; "Alien Beings" both "Did" and "Did Not" contribute to this article as they both "Do" and "Do Not" exist. And of course every-bodies favorite cultural sponsor of mis-information "Epstein didn't kill himself." In general, the Age of Misinformation is made possible by charitable grants from the K.M. Arx Foundation for communist rappers, seeking to bring Marxism to the people who are always most susceptible to it since 1848.

If you are someone for whom gender, or politics, or racism or alien abductions - or Bernie "made-off" with your life savings - if you are someone who feels pain over these things, and these things have taken a hold of your life in some defining way, this article is for you, and we hope it helps a little. Humor is how we keep going through hard times, and we direct it at the ones shaping the categories, not the ones who fall into them.

If you're one of those people, we want you to know - we know - your pain is real even if we cannot feel it with you. We know the heart in your chest pumps blood through your precious body. We want you to know what defines you today, these "defining" things, they don’t stand a chance against your future happiness. None of us ever really are so isolated in this life, we are simply led to believe as much by not being told of the hidden connections, the ones deeper than the surface "definitions" imposed upon us by our society. For there is no pain someone has that is not shared by another stanger across the world, and that makes them close in heart, even if they never meet. Find your friends and cherrish them. Love your family. The ones that really matter. No matter your pain, we'll get through this age, The Age of Misinformation. On the other side of this moment is an era where a young person dies at 100 years old. We're about to cure diseases. We're about to have increadable technology. Don't blow it now Humanity! Especially not over stuff like this...

Thankfully, we don't have to look too far to see through the veil, we only have to be willing to look. And for those who don't know how, or have the strength to do it on their own, we must help them, as we have ourselves been helped by the caring empathy of others and the Love of God.

Marcus Aurelius said while presiding over the decline of the Pax-Romana as one of the last noble and good Emperors, ...[if the birds preform their tasks every day surely we can too...We're not alive to lay about in bed all day.] If we could see what our apathy has cost us surely we would be charged into action. It isn't someone else’s job. It's our job.

Misinformation will end when we learn to apply this principal from personal life to our society - when we decide to prefer the relatively small effort for Truth over the leisure of lies. It will end when we are active in the information we consume, and not just passive devours. It's our job to ensure we are the type of people who prefer the Truth. For there has always been a security in knowing, and a power in knowledge, and there always will be...It's why people wear fake hipster glasses. It's why jocks wear cardigan sweaters now. It's why Sun Tzu is taught at West Point. Victory isn’t random. You need a plan. You need a victory plan.

We're Living In a World of Fools Breaking Us Down

If you think the Truth is relative to who you are, or that it is subjective to what you believe, or if you just want to be left alone, this article is going to hurt and it is for you. There's many reasons for the hurt, but Time is specifically one of the reasons knowing the Truth hurts People so much. Our lives are, like the universe itself, defined by the fact that they will end. And so learning the Truth has always come with the rather melancholy notion of wishing to have known it sooner - so as to not have wasted the time in between.

We travel through our lives inside our bodies, but we also travel inside our egos - inside our minds - throughout our lives, and we are young and we are old.

This is why parents want the best for their children - to provide the Time advantage. It's why getting into Harvard matters. It's why there's a Rookie-of-the-Year. It's why youth is valued superficially and age taken for granted. This is why Truth and Beauty have always pursued one another. There's nothing as sweet as having the Truth and the Time to twiddle it between your thumbs and nothing as sour as not having the time you want for a Truth untapped.

Even if a trans-human makes it to the end of the universe, when they watch the last star burn out, when everything freezes and the Great Collapse thermodynamiclly sucks our multi-dimensional-space-time back to a one dimensional singularity, when quantum gravity's effect upon our supposed multiverse expanse inverts... whatever would happen would that person not spend their final moments in reflection of their journey to that spot, no matter how "advanced" they became? How far can we truly ever leave our humanity or biology behind? Or our universe? Can we ever transcend our humanity or "the human condition?" These ideas are windows to the Truth and point us back to the big questions. The Truth we are racing towards from every aspect of human endeavor. The Truth of living through exponential-technological-growth. It's been a long time since we intentionally applied our technological growth to the humanities. We've been building planes, trains, and automobiles. But technology isn't only manifest in our rudimentary activities. It's about to bleed into the other aspect of our lives previously untouched, into our languages in a totally revolutionary way, backwards from the microprocessor to the written word and maybe even to the spoken word. Just for this to be on your screen right now there’s so much happening lingustically. All the code. The front end. The back end. Your device. We all know how it works. But this paradigme is about to be shattered and the cracks are getting bigger. Did you know that we are currently living through the greatest linguistic change in human history? Do you understand why this will change everything? The end of the Age of Misinformation is likely to inspiere shock and awe across our civilization and our hearts stand to be broken, and that helps us to grow. But the Truth is worth it.

Indeed, we are growing up, and it is worth noting how much "Truth" and our perception(s) of it factor into the equation of our development, however technological it already is or ever becomes - or ever was. Truth has been studied for a long time now, and from so many angles and cultures both scientific and experimental. Both philosophically and metaphysically. Those who know its' story understand that Truth does (in fact) exist outside of the human experience. It is not something we project into existence. It is something existence projects into us. We're not talking about the physical laws or the dogmatic religion that "science" has unfortunately become (we will discuss that later) - but rather the Truth of all existence, beyond our science, and the consequential values imposed by that existence upon us and upon everything that exists within existence by the Truth. And this isn't actually so hard to understand. It's why the mystery is there. And we all know that deep down.

More importantly, the Truth shows us what is not true. It shows us the false paths and shines light into them so we can find our way. The Truth lights up the darkness, even small truths have this power, to reveal what is shadowed out. The light shows us the paths, and the obstacles, and their shadows. We must carry the Truth before us like a person holding a candle to find their way. When the Age of Truth arrives, we will see clearly how the shadows have been creating a world of darkness for us. A world filled with people holding candles but no one to light them. And without the light the shadow-world becomes the world we know, a reflection of our personal and societal insecurities and fears, a world where you have to know the shadow to survive and so we rationalize why it's good. The rationalizations are the things we step over as we maneuver around obstacles in the dark. The obstacles we acknowledge, but the shadows are never discussed. We only seeking to maneuver around the obstacles and keep going into the void. Anything to keep from sitting still and asking if the darkness is normal.

These shadows talk about us behind our backs too. The mock us, like the lowest common denominator, always canceling out humanities best intentions. We see an era where Humanity is being divided by so many obsticals. But it's the shadows that are the real obsticals. The Age of Misinformation exists because of our apathy, not because of our technology or globalism or left vs right. The Age of Misinformation exists because currently and historically we have been willing to simply manouver around these shadow-obsticals, our base tribalisms. We take the path of least resistance and we step over the shadows as we're manouvering forwards, doing whatever is requiered to "keep it going." Even the specalist has become relative so they can now specialize. And Truth is deministed, and relativism increases, and the darkness continues.

"But MMXXX, hot things are only hot because their temperature is RELATIVE to what's hot for a person to touch." ... ... ... This is where we need to grow. We're not kids anymore. We need to stop thinking like children and we need to grow up. Shit's getting too crazy. ... ... ... What makes something hot? Is it because Paris Hiton says so? Is it because the sensory apparatus of an organism is damaged due to the radiant energies? Are elements being metamorphosed? ... ... ... What makes something hot?

The Truth is indeed, what comes next, it's what comes after this Age of Misinformation. If you don't believe us we can prove it to you very simply by using the Truth. Here it is in one sentence, you have read 1831 words already, so pay attention now that we're finally here.

The Age of Misinformation will end when the Age of Truth begins, and this will be signified by arguments of relativity being replaced by arguments of calculations.

Goodbye corruption. Goodbye institutional crime. That alone seems impossible now. But what do you think blockchain is really for, your digital rocks? Grow up, we gotta fix voting first obviously. This is the answer to the Panama Papers. To crypto billionaires getting whacked over the past 5 years all over the world. To Snowden. To Bernie. To Jeffery. To whatever the heck is going on with Trump and his secret war against "the deep state." And no matter what you believe, we all believe the Truth matters right? Even if you're trying to suppress it you have to posses it first. The big things that circumvent all of us but which are predicated in so many ways upon us - especially those of us who are U.S. Citizens in whose name the world has been "secularized." (Sorry for that by the way rest of the world, our bad...our bad for sure. It was our job to make sure it didn't happen. Our hearts were in the right place. But our candles weren't lit yet. The darkness had a hold of us. Were we scared. And we were lied to. And we're sorry. Everything our fore fathers had sacrificed - their blood and treasure all throughout American history - the generation to finally bring into being the promises of the future - the children of the Greatest Generation - the Baby Boomers children - "we Millennials"...we just didn’t know. We're sorry. Please forgive us. We are not one another's ememies. P.S. thank you Afghanistan for practically iradicating your own poppy fields after we left WTF? I wonder why we never could achomplish that with 20,000 Green Berets and Navy Seals and Marines because those people don't really fail at much ya know...?) Anybody seen American Gangster? Denzel was fire.

We Belong To You And Me

This is one of the exciting things about being alive right now. So many singularities converging from so many historical vectors. Francis Fukuyama is famous for understanding this very well, as noted by his particularly insightful The End of History and The Last Man, where he tracks our societies development from it's origins and begins to question what is next. It was the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz some three centuries earlier however who perhaps has given us the greatest insight into the future and into this moment of mis-information. Rather than our development being signified by the great industrial developments of recent eras, all the planes-trains-and-automobiles, Leibniz began to see something else. A turning inwards where our language would eventually evolve into something so precise that we could calculate our way through any disagreement to mutual benefit.

Characteristica Universalis was the name given to this new language by Leibniz, "the universal language of thought." He believed this characteristica universalis would eventually transpire between people across a calculus ratiocinator, or a calculus for reasoning - or a reasoning machine. Like an abacus or calculator, except for words and ideas. This notion could breath new life into the concept of smart-contracts perhaps? "If controversies were to arise," protracted Leibniz, "there would be no more need of disputation between two philosophers than between two calculators. For it would suffice for them to take their pencils in their hands and to sit down at the abacus, and say to each other, "let us calculate."

This is the moment we are currently poised to enter. The internet is a powerful step into this new Age of Truth. Many of the WEB3 tech under development around the world are specific to base level truths - identity, provenance, fairness...it's all there behind the projects, an intrinsic level of Truth being programmed into everything. Skeptics will say this is how they will enslave us, and that is very true, WEB3can be a disaster for liberty. And for sure it already is with "cryptocurrency" and it is for sure going to get worse with FEDNOW and Pandemic Treaties etc...it is going to get worse before it gets better absolutely, but once it starts to get better, it wont just be better. It will be different in a primordial way. Truer to life. The end of capitalism vs communism. Something better for everyone.

Imagine software that made sure your traffic ticket had to be lawful, and doing it in real time. Imagine our most sacred documents: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights; imagine them breathing a freshness and fairness and God given Liberty into our money and our transactions in a way that hemp parchment behind glass never could. Imagine Truth in journalism and what it would mean to really be informed so that you can fulfill more of your role in the world, community and family.

Imagine what this would mean for medicine and all our arguments. For war and our arguments. For economics and for education. Imagine a safety and a freedom ensured and made new by the Truth.

We're arguing about what is hot so much that we're all getting burned. We're burning ourselves and we're burning the people next to us. We're burning strangers and we're burning our friends and family. We're burning our leaders and we're burning those we are supposed to lead. We're burning groups who are different than we are. We are burning our history. We are burning our present. And we are burning our future. Like Mother Nature's most unfortunate, somber, and heart wrenching metaphor - maybe it is only the heat of fire that can restore, like with a forest, or purify like with metals. So here we go. No more B.S. What is happening to the world? ... ... ... My friends, let us calculate :)

You May Not Think I Care For You, When You Know Down Inside That I Really Do

Imagine a group of climate activists gathering somewhere. They are students and concerned citizens. They hold in their hearts the highest and best aspirations of humanity. They plan on putting themselves into harms way in order to bring attention to the damage people are causing to the planet. If you ask them why they are doing this they will inform you via "facts." They will note rising global temperatures. They will quote scientific studies which model CO2 and water vapor. Why the rest of us do not join them in saving the world is a conundrum to them. Do we not care? Do we hate the Earth? Are we brainwashed by consumerism? For crying out loud, "entire ecosystems are collapsing."

Imagine a group of climate scientists gathering somewhere. They are Nobel Prize winners and Ph.D researchers. They hold in their hearts the highest and best aspirations of humanity. They plan on putting their careers into harms way into order to bring attention to the damage people are causing to society. If you ask them why they are doing this they will inform you via "facts." They will note the recently discovered Global Hydrocarbon Cycle and specifically cite Pentadecane. They will quote scientific studies which model CO2 and water vapor. Why the rest of us allow society to be enslaved by globalist-climate-technocrates is a conundrum to them. Do we not care? Do we hate ourselves? Are we brainwashed by consumerism. For crying out loud, "there is no climate emergency."

Imagine a group of medical professionals. They are doctors and nurses. They are suddenly at the center of a modern contagious outbreak. The news coverage is 24/7. Everything is changed because of emergency procedures, especially the medical domain. Despite great risk to themselves these people do their best to help others and mitigate the spread of the deadly pandemic. These front-line warriors cannot understand why some people will not protect themselves, and even worse, why some people willingly choose to endanger others by refusing to comply with medical advice. Although they hold the highest aspirations of humanity within their hearts and display heroic action and care regularly, these people cannot help to feel a quiet modern tribalism being imposed upon themselves. Well, at least they are on the right side of history they say to themselves as they wonder when people will finally learn.

Imagine a group of medical professionals. They are doctors and nurses. They are suddenly at the center of a modern contagious outbreak. The news coverage is 24/7. Everything is changing because of emergency procedures, although the virus behind the pandemic is never isolated in a lab. Despite great risk to their reputations these people do their best to calm the hysteria and mitigate the spread of misinformation. These front-line warriors cannot understand why some people will subject themselves to medical procedures which have no scientific evidence for being effective against the virus. The blind complicitness with which people follow unfounded orders begins to impose a quiet modern tribalism on these people and they wonder when people will finally learn.

Imagine a group of people who believe passionately in defending woman's rights and the sanctity of their bodies and what they choose to do with it...

Imagine a group of people who believe passionately in defending human rights and the sanctity of our bodies and what we choose to do with it...

Imagine a group of freedom fighters...

Imagine a group of terrorists...

Imagine Black...

Imagine White...

Imagine the rainbow with and without indigo...

... ... ... it is easy to think that "let us calculate" means the two sides of every argument will somehow be made reconciled by Peace. This is not true. They will be reconciled by Truth. These are the Truths we don't want to know because they hurt, and we want the peace, even if it means the shadow. The time in between, the hurt...the hurt...the deep hurt...We must face it is we are to leave our shadows behind. Help light other candles. Do whatever you can in peace and love and Truth which encompasses both.

It's Me You Need To Show, How Deep Is Your Love

Some of these things are easier to calculate about than others. There's two sides to every story right? But is there two sides to global warming? People either are or are not causing it right? Carbon-credits are or are not actually helping right? This is where Leibniz can take us all out for a free meal. Imagine what we could accomplish if we could reach levels of understanding and compromise previously undreamt of. What would the world look like if we could all have the same data - the best data available - and reach a Nash Equilibrium across the most challenging aspects of what makes us different or the same. The shadows we don't want to acknowledge. War (economic & kinetic). Poverty. Hunger. Disease. Education. Corruption.

As Jefferson said ... what happens if we "enlighten the population generally?" Certainly we could at least come to an understanding about the Truth behind the Elite's jets and carbon-offsets right? We don't have to necessarily make ourselves any smarter (although some think that is what we must do). If we only had better data, better ways to share it. Does this sound like WEB3 to anyone?

It doesn't have to look like the Globalist-Elites vision (where somehow they get to keep flying around talking shit on our cars because they are offsetting their own carbon. Like - even if their version of climate change being man made is true - can a person who understands calculus please explain to these $#%&ing ideologues wtf Le Chatelier's Principle means or do you need a moron moonlighting blogger "journalist" to do it...?) Fine...

In any system, if you screw with it - but it can resist you, the whole thing will eventually just reset and resist you. Boom. Henry Louis Le Chatelier. French dude. 1850-1936. Mustache. Monopoly guy eye-glass thing. US Marine hair cut high and tight cause he liked discipline. Chemist. Ooo Lala la Sorbonne.

The point is look at these arguments. How ridiculous right. We live in an era when people puts signs in front of their houses that say "science is science," and that is true - but they certainly don't know what that means. Masks either do or do not protect you from spreading and/or contracting Covid...or they do not...And things like this have been really had to figure out and not helpful distractions during times when the Truth is actually needed really badly.

They All Should Let Us Be

So until we have a calculus ratiocinator what are we to do. We just have to all smoke mad weed and dance around and no more fighting? The new UN will be in Jamaica?

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What if there was a business / government language that could be used for stuff like contracts and agreements? Something that shines more light on the shadows. Could that evolve into a supragrammatical language used to make sure agreements are honored etc, that things are fair and by the rules for all? Is Solidity and Smart Contracts the beginning of something that is only now - at the end of the cryptocurrency bubble - being understood? Could the attributes of WEB3 in its' trust and fairness eventually be something more than the parade of horrors that you see when scrolling coinmarketcap? We have some ideas about how WEB3 will eventually pan out in journalism - but what about your field? Can you smell the revolution?

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Leibniz probably isn't too far off about the "let us calculate" thing, but time will tell where his insights will lead us. There is so much cross over in the modern era, like with cybernetics, where entire subjects will be recompiled into future subjects. Go read Oryx and Crake, and lets try take the good and leave the bad in Margaret Atwood's head. IS WEB3 the answer to the Age of Misinformation? No. But it is a pathway out of it. There are many, but this is the path of least resistance, the slow viscous trudge to the finish line. One person at a time. One candle at a time. And then all at once like a death-star of Truth coming together to destroy the Age of Mis-information. And then we'll soar, and remember we should have been flying all along. Fly you fools!

The Shadows of Misinformation and What They Talk About Behind Our Backs..

Do you believe Atlantis? Forget Atlantis, just think about how old history is. Even if you think it's young, it's still a long time. Why do you think our modern society struggles with "does a mask protect against Covid?" Or pick an issue of your liking. A lot of these things could be greatly helped if we could reach some level of base Truth about what we are actually talking about. But even in this example, the spectrum of Medical professionals who range from "virology isn't even real - to - there is about to be another pandemic and this one could be worse" is astounding. What are regular people to think? We'll, were apparently not to think. And thus we fall into our predispositions. That is a very dangerous thing to do at any level. We must strive to see the world for what it is and not what we want it to be.

It is interesting to think about what the different people groups in the different places have struggled with over time. Life was so much harder in the past. But it was simpler to understand. Now life is so easy, but hard to understand. Can anyone else sense the evolutionary macro story going on here? We're about to break out. And yet the biggest hurdles to the Age of Truth may still be ahead of us, obstacles hiding in the shadows. If you don't think this is shadow land by now, just wait for the build up to 2024. It's all so...classically Roman.

The Romans had their shadows too. So indicative of who they were. The great heights of the human condition. The great depravities. We understand them through both their obstacles and their shadows.

As we strive to keep Leibniz in mind with the hopes of better tools to assist one another with, the shadows this article is dedicated to are notions from the mind of Carl Jung, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, the founder of analytical psychology. Like with cybernetics, there is a lot of psychology going on within the Age of Misinformation, but we're not getting paid for this yet so that will have to wait for another time...But cybernetics...Feed back loops of circuits and flesh so similar. Its an ancient story we need to understand better now more than ever. Exponential technological growth wont stop ya know :) If you'd like to help us please subscribe and we'll be sure things get better and more coherent. News and Trends. We're committed :)

As Leibniz's work moves us forward with hope to help each other better, Jung's notion of the shadow shines a unique light on the idea of how and why our language is going to change. At least at the organizational level. It is being driven into the light by the shadow. Our inability to process this fully at the macro level of society is described by Jung, as is how the micro level within the individual can base new understandings, which can hopefully transcend us personally and move into our society. For Jung, the less the shadow is acknowledged in the conscious life, the darker it becomes and more chaotic, and this is true for both levels of shadows. Maybe it's why there is so much craziness right now. Things have been in the shadow for a long time. And things are changing.

"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it...but if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected, and is liable to burst forth suddenly in a moment of unawareness. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."

Maybe the reason we can't figure out what is True is because we haven’t safeguarded the midset and the methodologies to understand what it is. We want Starbucks.

Maybe that’s about to change.

If we don't at least try to help one another see the forest through the trees during the final implosion of the Age of Misinformation, our shadows will stay with us and be metamorphic, ready to entrap us all over again. They will continue to mock our human potential. They will keep us living and dying fast. They will keep us fighting. As we are being confrounted by an entierly new set of obsticals, we must be careful not to step over our shadows anymore. We must face them and we must do it together.

Let us calculate what we're doing and who we are and what we think we understand so well. A little light can chase a lot of darkness, whoever you are, let it shine!