the future is now...

Stockholm syndrome sir. This place blows.

the number one reply to this is that time travel is stupid and impossible.

the number two reply, a CLOSE number two, is that people want to die and leave this place because their existence is so painful.

the number three reply is Jesus etc.

I continued to be shocked that so many people, seemingly young, healthy, attractive people, find the thought of CONTINUING TO LIVE to be a bad thought.

An interesting note. The Native Americans are the only people whose afterlife was simply an idealized version of their actual existence.

Are people really this miserable?

People want answers. It seems to me that those who know what's best for people possess this feeling prior to actually, you know, knowing. Is there really any difference between what Nietzsche called Pathos der Distanz and objectivity, as much the same people call it today? Is it just an increasing tissue of euphemism, with those who enjoy controlling people willing to find more and more abstruse reasons for so doing, and bigger and better bribes to gain permission?

These are the unintentional (let's be clear about this) fruits of opening up people's heads. Again, let's be clear, the head-openers were always on a different strata than those whose heads were being opened. It's about trust. Call it paranoia, misery, what have you; can you see why it is that technocrats are mistrusted? It is indeed an achievement...some might call it a victory of sorts. But this weariness and apathy are the costs--people for whom it no longer matters if the future is destroyed, because all the elements out of which that wonder (theologically speaking: awe, or from a more naturalistic perspective: the numinous) have been invaded and raped, humiliated, weighed,"made efficient" etc.

It's difficult. Why did they do it, why did they desire control? More, why so very much control? These goodies aren't the reason, the hesitancy was not due to the desire to perfect them for the masses; that very word "masses" should tell you everything you need to know about ostensible altruistic reasons for all this. Simply put, you have already won. But the cost of people no longer desiring to be free is that they no longer care. It's something that I'm struggling with myself. And cognizance of the reasons for it tend to make a person rather angry, especially if they are prone to thinking about them, those "miserable" people.

What is so bad about liking fat people? Or having a fetish? Or seeing someone eat a food you find unhealthy? Are these actual dislikes? Or rather *proxies* for the only consistent part of those natures who now are offering up such wonderful things? Why is it for certain people, security is only felt by way of total control? Happiness is happenstance--it militates against control. Don't you see that?

Where is the free energy and anti-gravity tech?