2015: Recto Verso

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a titan whose name meant, “forethought,” and indeed, he was said to have the ability to look into the future. Prometheus’ brother, Epimetheus whose name meant, “afterthought,” was put on Earth to make life difficult for man and to release all the evils upon the world.

Forethought and afterthought are most certainly the most over-used mental functions at the end and the beginning of a New Year. With forethought, you apply planning and consideration before you take action in the new year. Afterthought of course, is a mental exercise where you look back at the year that has passed and you take into account all that is happened.

You sometimes are proud of what has happened and sometimes, there is a liberating feeling you don’t have to face past problems again, or, your afterthoughts can make you feel a sense of fleeting regret.

Afterthoughts can also give you that sinking feeling – or that feeling of a lack of accomplishment or failure. This is where “forethought” once again is utilized to develop a plan to attempt something again and hope that a different approach will bring success.

Afterthought and forethought can be seen as a mythical juxtaposition. In 2016, it looks as if the idea of thinking twice and acting at once will be the way things are handled.

As I was coming off the Christmas holiday, I was feeling a sense of dread because at the end of the year, there seems to be this dead space or dead time where good information ceases to flow. It is a time where instead of reporting what is presently happening, we have to report what has happened, and what we can fore-structure in the future.

It is all recollection and speculation – recto and verso, forward and backwards. It is like the collective consciousness is apprehensive about moving forward into the new year.

This is why there are retrospectives and predictions and somewhere in between, there are stories that are reported which give us a few clues as to what to expect in the new year ahead.

It is a little something I call the, “future tense, future intense.”

It is as if there is some sort of Darwinian aspect to the news these days. The corporate media has decided to report certain stories that feed the fire of dissent and bigotry, while other stories, which confirm we are in a time of deceit, and are ignored in order to benefit corporate interests.

So goes the ebb and flow of the apocalyptic news cycle.

I recently commented that the diet of fear has been force fed into us with tools like neuromarketing with 24 hour news cycles and social media. This has given us a lack of social cohesion and maybe we are beginning to see that both our collective consciousness and the collective unconscious are being reprogrammed and evolving into something we cannot yet define.

Our obsessive pursuit of wealth, beauty, and immortality is becoming so overwhelming that it could be creating a new form of transhumanist thought and that all terra bytes, and pixels are replacing all the jots and tittles —and while your mind and your unconscious mind are not loaded with machinery, we are most certainly being eased into the idea that we must think and speak like machines.

For lack of a better terminology, this can be seen as a form of reverse “Transbemanism” or a dark version of mental “Transmorphism.”

A “beme” is the smallest unit of someone’s essential nature. These so-called bemes are found in your thoughts, your dreams, and your core belief centers. These are the smaller intangible items that form your personality and the way you conduct your daily affairs.

“Bemes” are similar to “memes,” units of cultural transmission that we absorb and analyze both forward and reverse, recto and verso. It is all done at lightning speed as the brain can receive this information and decipher it as language or perceive it as danger and in some cases, store it and then present it in future tense at appropriate times.

An idea such as “war is bad” is a meme that can be passed from person to person the way genes are passed from parents to children. The meme “war is bad” can also be mutated into “war is always bad” or “war is good.” From these memes or bemes come morphemes or symbols that represent the idea.

“War is bad” can be expressed as a peace sign or a dove or even the cross of Jesus. These are affective morphemes because the collective unconscious responds to all kinds of metaphors, bemes and memes that have been programmed into us throughout time.

By analogy, a beme is a unit of existence, nature or character that can behave like a gene. Hence, a beme can produce behaviors like a gene can produce proteins. Also, a beme can be replicated or combined or mutated either within a being or in an offspring.

This could make a good argument for why certain civilizations can be more war-like than others, more spiritual than others, or in the case of where we seem to heading, more machine-like as we respond to our robotic, and computer counterparts, like cell phones, GPS systems and automated services that we believe makes our lives less complicated.

We are now learning both the beme and the meme are becoming mightier than the gene.

We may also see this as a reason to explain the 100th monkey anomaly, where learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached. The paranormal aspects of the effect is that even unrelated species of monkeys can find themselves doing the same actions as the others – even when those monkey’s can’t relate or even know the other monkeys. It is a paranormal and sometime debunked method of discussing and predicting change. Not just any kind of change but change that influences movement of consciousness.

Change so often happens quickly and unexpectedly and the adaptation to that change is a remarkable thing to watch on a social level. Not all things remain the same and some things reach a tipping point or a point of autonomy.

Autonomy can be broadly understood as simply rejecting any large, centralized and hierarchical structures tied to the nation-state. Autonomy should also be understood as a way to be independent from corporate influence or multinational control mechanisms that wish to contribute or support change. Change with autonomy is self-starting and should be done without well-known political structures that have been proven time and again as being corrupt and divisive.

Change created in a revolutionary way is change without an enabling by political opportunism or corporate support. It is change that is sought independently and it is change that is sought for a benefit of separation and freedom.

Behaviors and ideas are viral. They spread rapidly and any thought of benefit can create a social benefit that breeds empathy for a cause that is just. Anything negative, paranoid or violent breeds behaviors that are untrusting and unsupportive. In the new century, it seems that people are confused about how to create an effective revolution with autonomy.

We now understand that our existence and participation in social media environments have given us a reason to theorize that transmissible units of character or existence are more important than genetic information.

For example, in the past many people often married for the benefit of contributing to their immediate gene pool. Mates were sought after for their genetic contribution in creating a healthy and genetically viable family.

Now, none of this matters – well for the majority, this type of mate seeking no longer exists.

Most people’s love-mate is a person with whom they share no genetic commonality outside of that which is in the general gene pool of their community. However, a lasting interpersonal relationship is only possible if the two partners share a strong appreciation for each other’s bemes – their characters, natures, and ideational units of existence.

This is why we can now see very successful relationships begin with an online relationship, and match.com dating services are now having remarkable track records.

Now in the future, would it be completely out of the question to say that while hardware is used to facilitate the exchanges of memes and bemes that there would be other unconventional ways of determining what is buried beneath the surface of the conscious mind?

Think about it – would it be necessary to purchase mindware or even thoughtware to analyze thoroughly what someone truly thinks? This type of thoughtware would have to have the ability to assess afterthought, forethought, bemes, memes and many other chemical signals that the brain is using in order to keep up with our technological new age.

One of my favorite television guilty pleasures is a show called, Black Mirror. It is a program that originates from England and deals with the darker aspects of technology and how it can and will affect us in a negative light. The show called “The Entire History of You” is the third episode of the first season.

In an alternate reality, most people have a ‘grain’ implanted behind their ear that records everything they do, see or hear. This allows memories to be played back either in front of the person’s eyes or on a screen, a process known as a ‘re-do.’

It is literally a rewind or playing your life backwards in order to watch forward to relive memories or to review something you have forgotten. I am sure that one can see the abuses that can come with this type of technology. In the case of the main character, it was used to analyze and reveal personal thoughts and moments in the mind of his wife, including moments she had with a friend while he was away on business.

This is the future that may invade or cognitive liberties. The mind is still in a place where they can’t to get everything — at least not yet and perhaps it is time to realize new technologies and even old ones can be used to reveal what is truly going on in the human mind.

Imagine what can be harvested from the human consciousness. Think of all of the bad, and all of the good that can come from his research. Think of how we can analyze both afterthought and forethought — perhaps in way to help us to devise plans that can be helpful to the evolution of our kind. Perhaps it will help us communicate in a way that language of all kinds can indicate that or bemes and memes are in perfect synchronization.

It is vital because we know that word and actions matter. Language, both spoken and unspoken, is vital to creating actions to guarantee a safe and secure world.

Language shapes perception. Perception drives actions.

From 2016….into destiny.

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