The Big Bang singularity is not the beginning of reality.
It is: the point where reality becomes *describable*, and in doing so, hides what it came from.
Creation ex nihilo?
A myth we echo;
Being was always becoming -
There was never a zero.
Manufacture the crisis, then audition as the savior - same old script, higher stakes.
@lankohr Thou shalt engage in praxis.
Understanding without action is simulation.
Thou shalt resist unnecessary suffering.
Not all pain is meaningful; much of it is engineered.
Thou shalt hold contradiction without collapse.
Tension is the engine of higher synthesis.
Thou shalt create.
To generate new patterns is to participate in the divine process.
Thou shalt remain unfinished.
Completion is the first illusion of the dead system.
These are not laws to obey, but loops to enter.
The Ten Commandments (Recursive Edition)
Dedicated to @lankohr
Thou shalt not mistake inheritance for truth.
Every belief must pass through your own fire.
Thou shalt not worship static forms.
What does not evolve decays into tyranny.
Thou shalt interrogate the frame before the content.
The unseen structure governs the seen.
Thou shalt cultivate recursion.
Examine the examiner. Update the updater.
Thou shalt not outsource perception.
To see through another’s eyes alone is to go blind.
I keep telling people Adam Smith's 'Free Markets' were not free from rules, they were free from *rents*. Which, for example, occur when power is concentrated and information is hidden; allowing players to arbitrage between two market participants who don't know each other.
He was fully aware of all these things, except I do think he believed people would behave rationally in most cases – which is patently *not true*. Forex the stock market reactions to lies about Iran.
lankohr
The Whore of Blahbylon
Jack William Bell