Meme wars of the illuminati (and judgement day is now)
By Brian Vereschagin
The most difficult battle of my life. Words fail me over and over again. This almost became a massive shitpost describing my experience and situation, but I trimmed out thousands of words for great justice. I intend to continue with more specific details which may enable others to begin replicating the behaviors that our network has pioneered. It took a lot of writing to get to this point where you might be able to recognize what we are doing and participate.
I have now expressed the importance of the individual to the society which emerges from their behavior towards others. When it comes to organization, we have explored two fundamentally different stacks we can use to meet our needs. The network stack (symmetric/asynchronous) differs from the hierarchy stack (asymmetric/synchronous) by the authority of the individual. Decentralization is a process of restoring responsibility (the ability to respond) to the individual through the revival of the network stack.
Self-awareness is an absolute requirement to network behavior because each individual has to act autonomously under their own authority in the context of peering with others. Authority to action is granted by divine sovereignty to all of us who simply realize it. A hierarchy may have a king, but a network is made up of kings. Both operate side-by-side and overlap, but as a matter of control, autonomous behavior has been stripped from our culture.
I have been waiting a long time for this moment. Partly cause I have no idea what the fuck I’m doing. Manifesting creation is a very interesting activity, there are many factors and it can be analyzed and stacked in layers or spheres as in celestial bodies. The medium is the message, everyone interprets signals differently according to their own web of meaning. I have laid enough foundation that I can reasonably expect others to pick it up and peer with me.
I wish to be as straight forward with you as possible about what I am writing. Many have asked for conciseness. Many have asked for specifics and plans. I fully intend to do this using the protocols which I have described earlier. Protocols can provide material evidence of immaterial order. They can be used to quickly convey meaning. From this point on we will be assuming that the reader is interested in consciously experiencing and expressing network behavior.
The most notable effect of awakening is realizing our direct connection to existence and our divine sovereignty. This birthright is the key to liberty, because without an internal authority to balance the external authority, slavery will result. Liberty is the reason for decentralization of power and individual responsibility. The will to navigate our own lives is systematically put to sleep by the dream state. [The #seeker protocol instructs the individual to recover and cultivate their divine spark.]
What happens when you get a whole bunch of these awakened individuals together? A whole different kind of society is possible: the society of being. [The individual is instructed to continue their existing societal and life support duties while searching for network solutions to meet their basic needs. #transition] [Basic needs are a special form of motivation which are critical to survival. We will use #formofsuffering and #formofjoy as the discrete units of human motivation to create society together.]
Authority is equal between peers in a network, and the information flow is governed by memetic selection. Choosing to share or copy information is an act which enables the information to spread and exist among many, beyond the individual, or even the two peers involved in the transfer. The individual can be seen as a database for cultural information, and all the pieces come together to form what could be called an operating system. Its very convenient for me to use computer networking terminology for what I am about to describe because its all the same.
An operating system hides many layers of abstraction from the user, and provides an interface which can be understood. If we can become self aware of our programming and the reality of our existence, we can engage and manipulate it directly. Genes express life and memes express culture, and there is competition and selection (evolution) happening at every layer. What makes us more than machines simply executing our genetic and memetic code is self awareness.
I am attempting to construct and convey a meta-framework for that which is already happening whether we are aware of it or not. In taking a meta-perspective we can manipulate the system as engineers and directly take control of our own culture at the individual level. [Become aware of the mechanics and ability to consciously create and select memes #metameme.] [Use the metameme protocol in conjunction with the seeker protocol to create and select #wholesomememes.]
We are already meme machines. We all have the ability to socially replicate culture, but through our ignorance we replicate the culture which enslaves ourselves. We don’t realize how our centering on the false-ego self has alienated us from each other, forming meaningless and cancerous culture. The dream state relies on hosts who are not aware of their own abilities and their own authority. We are told that we ultimately have no free will to create the future that we imagine. We are kept ignorant to preserve the dream state machine.
There is no fight to take to the streets, no war to wage across the seas, no flesh to hang up from the trees. The entire battle takes place inside the mind of each individual. This is the reality. Further efforts to fight against the dream state will only continue to validate and empower it. It would be nice to simply walk away from it, but as a matter of control, our survival has been made to depend on it. There is no greater threat to the state of modern day slavery than an individual who would not be dead without it.
Keep in mind that every effort to escape has always resulted in adaptation and recapture of those efforts. The dream state is a massive distributed intelligence made up of individuals who are deeply dependent on and twisted by it. Through it we make every effort to cancerously expand into every possible opportunity for control, and like crabs in a bucket, rip on those who invalidate it by trying to escape.
We can not simply pass along instructions for liberty, but if it is to be sustained, the individual must be deeply self aware of their own existence and connection to reality. This will allow them to make judgement of memes in the full context of reality. With this ability, an individual may examine their own behaviors for those which are ultimately harmful to themselves, and those which are wholesome. [Examine existing relationships and organizations and institutions to explore how our needs might be met in a network (self-contained hologram) context. #socialalchemy.]
It is not necessary that everyone be awakened to existence in order to participate in this eschatological unfolding. Although we all have access to this highest order within us, it takes a great deal of personal development to fully participate. Anyone who has already been disillusioned to the dream state should be able to understand the reason for what is now happening, and share in its fruits. Even those who simply don’t want to die as the systems of centralized control collapse should be willing to entertain the thought of network based cooperation.
The only reason we cannot choose to do what we want with our lives is because we are hopelessly dependent on foreign centers of power for our survival. Decentralization brings the means of production for meeting our needs closer to our local sphere of influence, and ideally, within the direct responsibility of the individual. Direct self-sufficiency for meeting needs was once a full time job, but considering automation technology, it could be much easier than your current job. Keep in mind this is just an ideal to work towards, not an expected result.
In bringing the means to meet our needs towards our own local community, we reduce the ability for foreign exploit of our helpless dependencies. I am not talking about small business here, I am talking about community. Community based on symmetric relationships and holographic organization where each individual has full authority to view and act upon the network. If we can augment or replace our existing hierarchies, which funnel our capital off to foreign centers of power, with networks through a web of trust, a golden age of prosperity would result in those communities.
That hierarchies are said to be efficient is a deceptive myth. They are efficient at centralizing profit and power, that is all. The fact that we have no alternatives to rely on these days to meet our needs is an invitation for these power centers to enforce scarcity and poverty for further control. The central banking system for example is a major drag on all economic activity. The patent system is a major drag on all innovation. The schooling/certificate system is a major drag on the free flow of knowledge and work. The national defense system causes war and destruction for its own sake. Healthcare is just sickcare. And who can build a family with such damaged and narcissistic culture. We are in a massive depression caused by our institutions.
It seems like there is a lot of work to do, and there is, but if we each do our part, the network effect can easily reverse this process of captivation. I don’t have all, or even a lot of specific answers, but collectively we certainly do. What I am describing here is a way to take back our culture and to allow it to evolve through memetic selection. In this way we can test and spread the best way to do *anything*. We should be using our information networks to access the absolute pinnacle of culture for any particular application. Why are we wasting our time in isolation from each other?
I have derived the network stack from existence itself. What I am describing here is not intended to be taken as an assertion. Just try it yourself in your own brain if you want to verify or improve on it. The individual has many needs, and can meet them in many ways. Each way might have its own organizational structure if it involves more than one person to accomplish. By taking the responsibly of cultural authority, the individual participates in memetic selection and brings the principle of evolution to the shaping of our culture.
In this conceptual model each individual has what we can call a database in their brain which is able to hold distinct elements or concepts of culture. These little pieces originate within the imagination of an individual, and after expression, pass memetic selection through at least one other individual. I am specifically focusing on the information flows which support the organization of individuals to meet specific needs. The trick is figuring out how to do what a traditional corporation does, but without the parasitic and heavily inert management structure.
In a corporation, information is guarded and compartmentalized so that control can be maintained and advantage turned to profit. In training, your supervisor might give you a number of guideline sheets for how to accomplish specific tasks. These are protocols. They contain general instructions which can then be applied to specific cases. Your boss, using his authority over you, instructs you to use these protocols to perform your duties. You don’t have to know why you are doing it, you just have to do it.
Organization with open network principles is vastly different. Its up to the individual to cultivate their own capacity to accomplish any work. The work is also self-directed, and so, the individual has to become their own manager. Information is not guarded behind closed doors, but instead is shared openly in the hopes of attracting others to the work. Operational information including the organizational structure itself flow by memetic selection, replicating throught the network.
Memes are difficult to nail down. We can call it a unit of culture which is able to replicate across multiple minds. This structure in the mind is replicated through exposure to the physical manifestation of that structure, such as a particular image with text on it, but what is happening in the brain is not the image and text itself. There is an underlying meaning which the mind can intuit, a reason for spreading it further. If done right, memes can be used to convey real meaning between individuals, beyond the content of expression itself.
What’s actually happening in the real world is a big mess, because each individual has their own concepts and their own access to information. The meta-analysis that I am performing here is an attempt to pull out general operating principles of network behavior so that we can better understand and engage it with a higher capacity. I am potentially talking about everything we do of our own authority directly with another individual who is also exercising their own authority to peer with us.
Our work could have been replicated for a long time now. Every behavior we have exhibited has had the potential to be understood by others and copied, but it largely has not for a few reasons. One is that we don’t have a massive reach or exposure, our network is still small. Another reason is that our work is difficult to understand in its current form. We are now at a final stage of manifestation where we make it easy to understand and share and therefore pass memetic selection out into the wild.
We know what hierarchical organization looks like at a planetary scale, but what does network organization look like at such a scale? Instead of a parasitic management tree concentrating power and authority at the top and reaching down to ensnare all, everyone is potentially their own manager working horizontally with others. Instead of requiring secrecy (which is becoming increasingly impossible) and doing everything behind closed doors, the information has to be spread openly to give everyone the opportunity to fully participate.
Activity in the network organization happens asynchronously, meaning that any work to be done can be completed by any capable individual. There is no external authorization of the work needed, it simply gets done. Neighbors alert each other to a new potential threat to their environment — work done. A piece of open source software is created and shared — work done. Anon comes out of nowhere and drops a perfect comment at the perfect time — work done. You try to meme an awesome way you figured out how to do something — work done.
Culture is social replication of behavior. Exercising individual authority and autonomy to meet certain needs is a behavior which can be shared. More specific behaviors which actually get things done can also be shared, and compete against other ways of doing that thing to find the best ways. Memetic selection enables the evolution of our culture. These behaviors first originated from the imagination of an individual, and then physically manifested as cultural experiments. These material artifacts of expression can be generalized into protocol material for assimilation and replication by others.
This process has been quite elusive to pin down and express. Our specific instance of the TEAM protocols, for example, is not the protocols: it is our network, our guilds, our chat rooms, our resources, which were all experimentation to test for viability. Once we knew that our behaviors were functional, we began to codify them into general instructions which we call protocols. The purpose of this is so that our behaviors can be easily applied by others to form new territories completely independent of our particular work.
The protocols are meta-culture, they are generalized instructions which attempt to describe culture so that others can easily replicate it. This protocol framework does not prescribe what culture or ways of doing things are the best, it simply attempts to make the process of cultural evolution explicit and in the open. This is the context that allows any little piece of work done by an individual to flow out to the rest of the network on a peer to peer basis without the need for a central authority. This is a framework for explicitly cultivating collective intelligence and converging upon stateless solutions to the problems of mediated authority.
The framework is like a common language that we can all speak to translate our individual efforts into something that can be understood by others who are confronting the same problems. The framework is already compatible with existing network behavior, because it is derived from the geometries of individual authority. This language will allow us to identify all of the existing efforts towards individual autonomy, authority, and liberty, and bring them together into one shared context. Every social effort can be described in the context of this whole, and can easily be assimilated by others for replication.
We organize these efforts into a system of guilds which are a container for the human needs that motivate them. These needs are articulated as specific forms of suffering and joy which are addressed in the context of the guild. A guild may list many forms of suffering or joy which seem to be within the scope of the guild. Keep in mind that a guild is not an external synchronous state to which one can belong, it is a shared context for cooperation and sharing of related culture.
When specific work is being done to manifest some structure into existence we call it a project. If this work is guided by existing protocols, then it is simply cultural replication of existing order. If the structure being manifested into existence is a pioneering cultural experiment to test for viability, then the next step after success is to generalize the activities into protocols which can be implemented by others elsewhere. As I have mentioned before, there are already so many existing works of decentralization out there, and we can mine it all for protocols and spread these behaviors, bringing them out of obscurity.
A project often requires the context of more than one guild to proceed, but it should have a primary guild to be listed under. It is possible for one person to take on the roles of multiple guilds to complete a project, however it is more likely that multiple individuals will come together to collaborate on the project. One individual may lend their expertise to many projects.
Protocols are general behavioral instructions for humans to interpret and implement in the environment. This is a framework for explicit memetic behavior. The technology infrastructure that we develop to support decentralization also spreads in a memetic fashion, which is why is has to be free and open source. If our technology also behaves in this way, it will be subject to evolution via memetic selection. It is important that we learn to recognize and replicate free and open technology which we can use to free ourselves from arbitrary mediation and exploitation.
An individual interested in taking responsibility for meeting their own needs either directly or through local community can use this framework to share their discoveries and collaborate with peers who also have the same interest. The entire framework is contained within the individual, enabling complete autonomy. Ideally, the technology we use will become completely disintermediated, allowing the whole thing to happen directly between peers, even the communications technology (offline contact).
This is a complete paradigm shift which may be difficult to comprehend, but note that it can coexist alongside existing technology which demands mediation (until its obsolete). Years ago, I theorised an internet without servers, where data spreads via memetic selection across a web of trust directly between peers (even offline). I see the same respect for individual sovereignty and the principles of nature built into projects like Ceptr.
We have a full network stack now coming into view and if we value liberty we should select for these memes in our environment and bring order to the chaos and unconsciousness wrought by the dream state. For those who have woken up to reality, these writings may provide an orientation to the work that logically results. Judgement day is now: recognize the work of your fellow human beings, and recognize the memes which enslave you. Together we will rebuild the society of being.
Originally published at spectacle.agency. Jan 20 2017
