Liberation is a Scary Ride

Intellectually the last few months have been the most challenging of my life. Just when I thought I'd turned a corner the rabbit hole plunged deeper. I've learned a few great lessons. The most important is that the ridiculous notion of finite truths and answers. Really good thinking comes from suspending judgement and that's a whole lot easier said than done. Another realisation is that I don't think there's any one expert out there who can compile it all together in a way that I agree with everything they say. I have my trusted sources of course but for the first time ever I'm happy to get all the information possible and reach a work in progress conclusion for myself.

Sometimes  I've erased weeks of learning on the realisation I've become too dependant on any one source and finally paid a heavier price than if I'd just suspended judgement a little longer or been a little bit more sceptical and in the hard core cases a little more open minded.

The interview above is starting to resonate with me on a level that gives a sneak preview of things to come. It was Michael Tsarion who said something along the lines of when the curtain is unveiled the number of people who have said nothing but will want to present themselves as being in the know or aligned with us conspiratorial scholars will be annoying. He's right and so on that note I just want to tip you off officially that conspiracy (or whatever epithet turns you on) is the new black. The earlier you jump in the less obstacles will be in our collective way.

Our Reptilian Brains (The R-Complex)

Of all the subjects that has people shaking their heads in absolute surety before heading back to the safety and reality of FOX news its the reptilian topic within the alien genre. There's an irony there in so much as the amygdala or reptile brain is very much part of human biology and neurology. 

The amygdala is the fight or flight part of the brain that chooses not to weigh up all the evidence when quick decisions are needed, and so its unavoidably amusing that people running away from the subject are deploying the part of the brain that prevents most learning about reptilian brains. 

Epistemologically it's like refusing to engage the cerebral cortex in order to study how the cerebral cortex came into being so rapidly. If one questions the veracity of evolutionary theory's punctuated equilibrium, it's an overnight appearance in terms of evolutionary time and like waking up one morning without a bicameral mind. But you wont even get that far if you've shut down the cerebrum faculties because the amygdala simply isn't up to the task. Good at erections and a rush of adrenaline if that's more your thing.

I was watching Arthur C Clarke earlier of 2001 Space Odyssey fame and wondering how an artist writer could also be so talented as to propose the invention of the earth shrinking satellite when I heard him repeat a line that if any description of the future isn't so fantastic it's unbelievable it's as likely to be not up to scratch, and I thought that an appropriate way to end this post.

Scratching The Surface

Via We Must Know