Replication is the act of the machine. And machines are and always will be much better at it than us.
And if “information”, understood formally, is the presence of the unexpected and new, then the goal and output of machines is the removal of all information, all novelty, all innovation, because all are understood as defects.
And the goal of a conformist machine, of a left wing cult–or for that matter any cult, with the left wing cult merely being the most relevant right now–is perfect replication also. They want replicated behavior, and replicated words, which are understood tacitly to represent ideas, even if this is in most cases not in fact true.
Replication morality is based on the fight, flight, shame response. It depends on continual tension, that you may miss some cue, make some mistake, and be judged, shamed, and expelled. This is the latent if nearly always irrational fear.
This form of morality is not only unwise, it is a formal rejection of wisdom, which is to say of the ability to learn.
Spiritual growth consists in the gradual, slow accumulation of something, of an energy that is hard to define. Of light, perhaps, if we define light as the unexpected and uncontingent.
Nearly everything going on in America is turning us into reflexive machines. We are taught obedience through social media. We are taught stress through relentless work. Our educational systems fail to teach basic history and philosophy. What they do teach is emotionality denuded of context.
It is not too late to turn around, I don’t think, although perhaps I am blind myself. I can and will continue to pursue my own path, and can and will continue to hope against hope that at least some among the lunatics trying to throw us over a cliff wake up before it is too late.
And I will continue to pray that our system succeeds in repelling the fraudulent Presidency of Joe Biden. If he is willing to commit a crime that large to get into office, what would he not be capable of once he is handed the power he sought? Could our elections not be fully Venezuelan in two years? Is there any reason to hope we will ever have an honest election again?
Over and over and over we see our leaders fail us. Donald Trump was not the first choice of nearly anyone, but unless all hope is truly lost, he continues to do his best–his imperfect but still enthusiastic best–to protect America from the many enemies it has within it, who at this moment are vastly vastly more dangerous than any other nations on Earth. This alone makes him great in my view.
We will see soon if we have Nazi courts, or Liberal ones.