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Episode 9 – Century of the Self

S3 — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:54:46 +0000

The sad part of this story that is unfolding in front of our eyes is that we are steam rolling ourselves to the realization that we need big brother. Mankind has systematically made decisions that have created historical events which prove we must be controlled; ideally controlled by ourselves, from ourselves.

Since the beginning of recorded history we have developed a more complicated version of control for ourselves, beginning with God, and layering deeper into our psyche with laws, social norms, status, anxiety, and finally fear. We now live in a self created world of illusion by choice.

To save ourselves from our violent and virulent behavior we are evolving a complex system of self regulation so that we can advance to the next level of existence… homo sapien sapien sapien. It is only in a peaceful state that we can evolve to this next level that manages it’s existence on planet Earth with other species and observes it’s place in the natural world with respect and honor.

Humanity, prepare yourself for the introduction of your final stage of evolution… the illusion of the illuminati. Created for us by our desires and secret thoughts, the story of the global control of humanity is unfolding in front of your eyes. Look around and listen quietly, watch carefully,and you will see in every story there is a link; a link to a grand scheme, one in the proportion of no other.

You see, this scheme was not created by one person… this is the final dimension of human evolution… our social psychology is doing something wonderful… with the development of the internet, telephone, and instant communication our species is finally able to operate on a level it never has.

Our social consciousness can now reach globally as waves of ideology waft in cyberspace colliding to create what you see today. We consume the product… and create a need for it… that product is the final and global control of humanity.

This necessary control of the evil we metaphorically started when we bit the apple in the garden of Eden from the serpents hand is going to emerge with the appearance of a messiah. All three religions have this messiah, and most of the world believes in one of the three religions. Every one of the three most common religions started from sun worship. So in essence, the root of these religions is the rebirth or the recreation of the Sun, or the messiah. Ironically we named our messiah “the illuminated ones” or illuminati. This vision (the illuminati) of our social consciousness will evolve to control our animal urges and allow us to evolve to the next level of enlightenment, look at it as the second renaissance of the human race.

An era where resources are respected and distributed with foresight, much like how you would handle your own savings account will emerge. And our violence will be controlled by our self medicating with any manner we choose (lifestyle) so that we can play a role in the movement of our species off this rock and to the heavens… to do what we have been craving since the last land mass was discovered on this world… to explore.

Just as dogs like to walk, and birds like to fly, humans crave exploration. This curious ape we are all trapped in is a novel species. One that likes to explore it’s environment, it’s own intellectual capabilities, and more importantly it’s own psychology. We have the likes of Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Mozart, Issac Newton, Robert Boyle, Avicenna, Socrates, Beethoven, Jesus Christ, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King to thank for their contributions to just a small fragment of the overall knowledge and experience of the modern human being.

So in a divine and ironic way, this Truman Show that we each live, exists so that we can prevent the inevitable complete destruction of our existence. It is only through this means of life, that we can control ourselves from hurting each other, our world and every thing that might come across our path in this thing called Life.

Soon, we will each have our own colloquial “apple” in our hands; just as shiny, just as beautiful, and just as irresistible as the first one we couldn’t help but bite. The fruit, of this “new” garden of Eden will propel us to indeed another world, different from the one we live in now. The Apples we all carry will locate us, they will connect us, they will help us share our ideas, and access the ultimate evolution of democracy, the internet.

I find it beautiful, and truly remarkable of our incredible species.

Bravo on this final molting and our final step. Welcome home messiah… we look forward to traveling to the Stars with you.

Episode 8 – Century of the Self

S3 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:12:52 +0000

OMG! Let’s go to the mall and shop for those new skinny jeans!

Will that be the dialog that get’s us off this planet to explore the universe? I that the language that results in the discovery of an entire line of science (like what Isaac Newton did when he published Principia, the very first discussion and introduction to physics)?

If you haven’t realized it by now, your way of life dooms the species to another failed version of intelligent life in the universe. Wouldn’t it be great if our species passed the inter-galactic SATs and figured out that MORE SHIT doesn’t make you a better person?

Wanna read more… read this: www.adbusters.org

(disclaimer for the faint of heart: the use of the word “your” is meant for the readers out there who are new to The Ultimate Spaceship, and are still molting out of their cocoons to wake up the possibilities of a world without slavery, i.e. debt, indentured servitude to buy products that don’t contribute to a real life).

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Episode 7 – Century of the Self

S3 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:26:26 +0000

You wonder why I do this? I mean why do I spend my time writing or maintaining this site? Truthfully, I ask myself this question. Even though many of us are talking about these ideas, the fact is that the amount of information or should I say disinformation our there about what is real is much more pervasive. The number of brains that have been controlled past the point of awakening frighteningly outnumbers what we do.

A perfect example of this is the recent commotion about the Russian mathematician, Dr Grigori Perelman who declined a $1,000,000 prize for solving the 100 year old Poincaré conjecture, one of the most complicated mathematical problems in the world – so complex, in fact, that after Perelman posted his proofs in 2002 it took several years for other experts to confirm he was correct.

The media is quick to call him insane and write him into the pages of history as a bizarre aberration of the human race, that may be smart, but in no way is normal. But I ask is it possible that the coverage you see isn’t honest.

What if you were the bizarre ones and he was the normal one. The guy who doesn’t want a new BMW or a big house in the hills. What if he was the normal one? The debate about normal being subjective is not of concern to me here. I am talking about something bigger than that. Our role in this thing we call life. Imagine that you and every one of us had a purpose. Something bigger than just waking up, eating, buy stuff, fucking, shitting and sleeping. Is that idea possible in your mind?

I think the proof is right in front of you. The very fact that our media is shoving their propaganda into your brains that the Russian is crazy and you are normal and that we are all fascinated with this is proof. Inside of every person out there is a true self that secretly wishes they were free from the status anxiety and irrelevant competition that society imposes on their lives.

I recently undertook another experiment on my life and my psychology. I decided to get rid of all my clothes. I reduced my entire closet down to 2 pairs of jeans (the same), 4 white t-shirts (the same), 2 black mocks (the same), a winter coat, 1 suit, 2 white dress shirts, 1 black tie, 1 pair of tennis shoes, and 1 pair of dress shoes. Every else was out. Given to charity.

Now keep in mind, this is my entire wardrobe. A life’s worth of collecting “my identity”. You know, you get up in the morning and after your shower you have that little thought about “what am I going to look like today” (which also translates to what costume am I going to put on today for the world to see me in).

I wouldn’t be surprised if you are taken back by this at first. It might also seem insane to you. But in reality this was the ultimate test to see if my mind was free from the social control that fashion and appearance has on us. This Einstonian way of life changes the way you interact with and are perceived by society. I no longer put together my “clown suit” before I enter the world. Clothing now serves it’s purpose. To cover me from the elements and provide me the most basic participation in society necessary to connect to another human being without disturbing the social norm… I would be clothed and not naked. The clothing is functional and basic. The suit and tie are only used when social or cultural norms require a level of respect be paid. For me I drew those boundaries at funerals, weddings, and professional lectures. These functions historically were the events that ancient human beings took time to adorn themselves to pay their respects.

I shared this with you tonight because at this point, if you are reading this essay, you have probably watch all 6 of the first series of the Century of the Self. This documentary should hopefully have sparked your interest in what forces are driving your decisions. Even if you believe that these forces do not exist, the intelligent decision would be to investigate the evidence and prove it to yourself that indeed nothing is driving your life. You are in control of your own subconscious. Wouldn’t that be something you would want to know for sure? I do.

I want to thank you for coming and visiting this site. I search the internet every day looking for something like it that speaks vividly about our condition. To my disappointment I have only found a few.

The second part of Century of the Self (also in 6 episodes) called The Engineering of Consent is now going to be aired here on the spaceship every other day. I am sure you will enjoy it more than the first.

I see you, and I respect you. To your awakening, your good health, and your complete realization of what it means to be such a grand creation of nature, Homo Sapien Sapien.

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Episode 6 – Century of the Self

S3 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:29:14 +0000

From an email I received by a friend after discussion about some ideas a few days ago…

“I thought, given our conversation last week, that I should share this with you. I just finished the documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, and I’m a little overwhelmed. It plays on my bred-in sense of Catholic guilt. I feel like I’m part of this blind, waking-dead, consumerist flock that bends over for The Man so it can get the shaft of debt and corporate servitude.

I think of how much I value the shit I buy and I think about how the more comfortable I am, the less I care about the world around me. It’s not so much that the film tells you these things, but rather it reveals the cracks in a system that you’re pushed into unwittingly by this culture of self. It reminds me, in a lot of ways, of The Century of Self and how I fit into that model.

I think about my parents, for instance, when my dad was my age, he was married, had me and owned a house. He wasn’t paying a mortgage, he owned the house. Then 2 years later, he sold that house and bought another one, which I grew up in and he and my mom lived in for 20 years. I rent every month and could not imagine being in the same boat. I have student loans and credit card debt, which is something my parents never had when they were my age.

I know that you have very little respect for filmmakers, artists and entertainers. I certainly agree that our culture celebrates trivialities that promote “idiocracy” and helps lull everyone to sleep to create distractions from everything going on around us. It’s important, however, to remember why filmmaking is so powerful: it is a visceral experience that is easily absorbed by a viewer that can leave an indelible impression. This is especially true of Capitalism: A Love Story. Although much more pointed and direct than a dramatization of the same ideas, this documentary is shocking because it is so true in so many ways. And it makes one’s pursuit of all things transitory seem as insignificant as it actually is to the grand scheme of things.

Initially, I was not excited to see this movie because this subject had been of particular interest to me over the past 18 months or so since the burst of the housing bubble and I felt like I knew it pretty well. Some of the topics and illustrations in the film were old news to me, but it was the film’s presentation that made the difference. It drove the message home and was able to connect emotionally which was a different experience than following the subject on CNN or the AP or public radio podcasts or where ever because those sources were only engaging on an intellectual level. It’s silly. I understand that this method is the way in which propaganda works and that everything delivered in this form needs to be met with some degree of skepticism, but the way the film was able to capture the emotional gravity of these events, really helped stoke the flames of my passion for this topic.”

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Episode 5 – Century of the Self

S3 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:25:32 +0000

The following is an essay that everyone should read. It is posted on the Adbusters and written by Alexander Zaitchik. This awakening is real.

The Vanishing Face of Gaia

Are we prepared for whatever’s coming?

“Just as in 1939 we had to give up on a massive scale the comfortable lifestyle of peacetime, so soon we may feel rich with only a quarter of what we consume now. If we do it right and with enthusiasm, it will not seem a depressing phase of denial but instead, as in 1940, a chance to redeem ourselves. For the young, life will be full of opportunities to serve, to create, and they will have a purpose for living.”

- James Lovelock from The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning.

If people know anything about the British scientist James Lovelock, it is his theory of a living Earth, known as Gaia. Lovelock began formulating this revolutionary vision in the late 1960s while working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It was there, not far from the ground zero of West Coast counterculture, that he began to wonder: Might the Earth possess a sophisticated planetary intelligence, one that regulates the countless interactions of plants, animals, minerals, gases and the sun’s heat (all of the ingredients and products of ever-evolving life) in such a way as to maintain a climate homeostasis amenable to a lush, living planet? In short, does Mother Earth like life, and does she do her best to make us comfortable?

Once regarded as a quasi-mystical expression of longing more than a science-based insight, Lovelock’s theory has overcome the skepticism of his peers. Over the course of four decades of research and experiment, Gaia has officially graduated from a hypothesis to a theory. It is now widely accepted that the biosphere’s elements are no passive collection of independent actors responding to conditions but together form a living web that actively creates and maintains those conditions, including temperature. Lovelock has been compared to Copernicus and Darwin for fathering and nurturing the Gaia paradigm.

In recent years, however, Lovelock has been more frequently compared to a trumpeter of doom. Over the course of three books and dozens of articles and interviews, Lovelock has emerged since the mid-2000s as the world’s leading climate pessimist and stoic. By his estimation it is not only too late for climate legislation as currently proposed; it is too late for any legislation, however radical. Cataclysmic climate change will hit in the coming century, he believes. Any efforts to pretend otherwise only delay the necessary work of preparing for the climate apocalypse.

“Most of the ‘green’ stuff is verging on a gigantic scam,” Lovelock told the New Scientist shortly before the release of his latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia. “Carbon trading, with its huge government subsidies, is just what finance and industry wanted. It’s not going to do a damn thing about climate change, but it’ll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning.”

Lovelock’s steep descent into morbidity – he would call it clarity – began with his controversial 2006 book, The Revenge of Gaia, in which the 90-year-old scientist put hope junkies on notice. That contrarian work sought to demolish the terms of the climate debate as childlike and based on wishful thinking. Angering his erstwhile environmentalist allies, it also mocked our response to the crisis at the personal, national and species level.

Lovelock’s dark certainty about looming climate collapse results from his viewing current climate data through the lens of Gaia Theory. This lens, he maintains, allows for a more comprehensive, intuitive and ultimately more accurately predictive approach. Much of his last book is devoted to explaining why attempts to accurately model climate change with cold computers is akin to the blind efforts of a 19th-century doctor trying to treat diabetes. He notes that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its many mainframes have successfully undershot all indicator trends so far. Most notably, sea-level rise has outpaced IPCC predictions at a rate of 2 to 1.

Of all the trends to watch, Lovelock maintains sea level rise is the most important. Given the complexity of the millions of interactions within the Gaia system, Lovelock argues it is best to ignore year-to-year temperature fluctuations and instead watch the oceans. The seas, he says, are the lone trustworthy indicator of the earth’s heat balance. “Sea level rise is the best available measure of the heat absorbed by the earth because it comes from only two things,” he writes. “[These are] the melting of glaciers and the expansion of water as it warms. Sea level is the thermometer that indicates true global heating.”

Lovelock believes the oceans will expand and rise ever faster, fueled by the dreaded positive feedback loops now under way, which will soon become ferocious amplifiers of global heating. (He finds “warming” too soft a word for the process.) The most important of these feedback loops are the loss of reflective ice cover, replaced by heat absorbent dark water; the death of carbon-eating algae as oceans warm and acidify; and the release of vast stores of methane as the Siberian permafrost thaws. These self-feeding cycles, already in motion, will explode in the coming decades, Lovelock maintains, leading to sudden and dramatic shifts in global climate. “The Earth’s history and simple climate models based on the notion of a live and responsive Earth suggest that sudden change and surprise are more likely than the smooth rising curve of temperature that modelers predict for the next 90 years,” he writes.

The end result of this surge of change will be a drastic reduction of Earth’s carrying capacity. And we need to start preparing now.

“There is no tipping point, just a slope that gets ever steeper,” writes Lovelock. “Because of the rapidity of the Earth’s change, we will need to respond more like the inhabitants of a city threatened by a flood. When they see the unstoppable rise of water, their only option is to escape to higher ground. We have to make our lifeboats seaworthy now [and] stop pretending there is any way back to that lush, comfortable and beautiful Earth we left behind sometime in the 20th century.”

Given this future, delusional politics is a waste of precious time. Indeed, Lovelock’s impatience with feel-good “Yes, we can” liberal environmentalism borders on contempt. He writes that fashionable rhetoric about sustainable development just shows that we “weave the sound of the alarm clock into our dreams.” In one of the book’s many memorable passages on the green politics of hope, Lovelock compares alternative energy to deathbed snake oil peddled by an alt-medicine quack.

“Just as we as individuals try alternative medicine,” writes Lovelock, “our governments have many offers from alternative businesses and their lobbies of sustainable ways to ‘save the planet,’ and from some green hospice there may come the anodyne of hope.”

Lovelock brightens up considerably once he gets past the mechanics of the coming die-off. He is cautiously hopeful that as many as several hundred million humans will survive the century and carve pockets of civilization into the coming hot state. Our current global civilization is about to end, but there is every reason to “take hope from the fact that our species is unusually tough and is unlikely to go extinct in the coming climate catastrophe.”

Here enters Lovelock the playful futurist. Those who survive will be responsible for maintaining a high-tech, low-impact, low-energy society advanced enough to keep the flame of progress alive but small and smart enough to carefully husband what arable land remains. Lovelock guesses the rump human race will cluster around a few temperate islands in the far northern hemisphere, including his native UK. He believes that if emergency preparations are made in time – he compares the present moment to 1939 – and if the worst-case scenarios of geopolitical conflict are avoided – namely resource scrambles leading to global thermonuclear war – then something resembling a modern and even urban lifestyle could await the survivors. There may even be food critics in this future, which need not resemble a Soylent Green scenario of cannibalism and state-rationed crackers. This future civilization will synthesize food from CO2, nitrogen, water and a few minerals. Simple amino acids and sugars, Lovelock cheerfully explains, can be used as feedstock for bulk animal and vegetable tissue created in chemical vats from biopsies. Yum!

A quarter century ago Carl Sagan issued a strange and compelling plea for nuclear disarmament. He urged the superpowers to abolish their thermonuclear arsenals for the sake of mankind’s future evolution and eventual colonization of the galaxy. Echoing Sagan, Lovelock believes it is our duty as an intelligent race, the only one in the cosmic neighborhood, to survive. Only by carrying the flame of civilization into the next century will we have a chance to evolve beyond our current tribal-carnivore brains, which are dominated by short-term thinking and thus responsible for our current predicament.

Whereas Sagan dreamed of alien contact, Lovelock’s promised land is more humble: an evolved species capable of living in balance with Gaia. In the meantime the Earth will grow and change as it always has. Life will continue, human life included, even though billions will suffer and die. Gaia, an aging planet, will roll into the new climate as best she can. In her wise generosity, she will even leave some hospitable land for us, the offending species, “to survive and to live in a way that gives evolution beyond us, into a wiser and more intelligent animal, a chance.”

Whether this distant outcome should be enough to sustain our spirits during whatever’s coming, no one can say. It is for each of us to decide.

Alexander Zaitchik is a freelance journalist and contributing writer at AlterNet.org. His work has appeared in the Nation, the Believer, Wired and the New Republic.

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Episode 4 – Century of the Self

S3 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:53:20 +0000

I wonder how many of you (close to a thousand now) are rushing to your computers and clicking on reload ferverently waiting to see if Episode 4 of Century of the Self is up on the Ultimate Spaceship? I wonder how many of you have actually watched it to the end straight through the YouTube link? I wonder how many of those who have finished the series have realized the true world that surrounds them and begun to make changes in their own life?

Once reality shows it’s true self to you, you can’t help but to seek reality, reality. Is it possible we live in a world where are fare to other human beings? Is it possible that we can actually help each other thrive, much like ants do?

Our species continues to ravage the Earth living here as if it was all created for us. All of it. The stars, the massive suns that create stellar systems of their own, with planets that can possibly dwarf the primitive version of life we have here on Earth. All of this, was made for tiny little homo sapien. A species that hasn’t even learned how to cohabitate with itself in peace yet. This primitive hairless ape had the honor of having the entire Universe created for IT.

That is why we live the way we do. The fundamental perception of our role and our place here on Planet Earth is flawed. It is time to open our eyes and realize what makes this all work. Once you look past the curtain that is being pulled over your eyes every day, then you will understand the beauty of what you really are, and why you are really here?

I wish we could sit together and talk about this for hours… it would be nice to know, that there are more of us who love to think about these important thoughts out there.

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Episode 3 – Century of the Self

S3 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:25:28 +0000

And the story continues… keeping people suppressed by their satisfying their egos… read “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley.

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Episode 2 – Century of the Self

S3 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:29:33 +0000

Sparked your interest yet?

You’re so unique. Your style is all your own. You make your own decisions. That’s because you live in the world that you get to create. The ultimate placation of a human being is the eternal ego massage of the all consuming self. Welcome to your own self made prison Joe Public.

As promised the 2nd in a series of episodes that will shed light on the emergence of the ego based marketing strategies that Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud’s nephew) brought to the United States for companies to sell you things and ultimately control the masses.

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Thank you Mr. Freud for our Virtual Insanity

S3 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:06:11 +0000

You think everything around you is real. But it’s not. Some of you will understand this sentence without any further examination. To do so your eyes need to be open and in focus. The rest of you will still think that the world around you is real and we are the ones who don’t get it. But the reality is that you live in a virtual insanity.

It’s not surprising that your first instinct is to dismiss this seemingly harsh and abrasively preachy paragraph. But until you have taken the time to understand the forces that are at play inside of your own head, and the basic construct of the the human condition; you are ill prepared to make judgement.

So as a disciple of the quest for the truth, I am going to provide you with access to some incredible knowledge. And also a special thank you to s5.

Starting tonight, I will post a new episode of a documentary that dissects why who you think you are; why you buy the things you buy; and why you act the way you do, are all created by something and someone other than yourself.

Psychiatry has paved the way to for the use of subconscious driving forces in your brain and turn you into a mindless consuming machine. The scary part is that there is an underlying political agenda to this. Whether it is good or bad is up to you to decide… you can determine that after watching all the episodes.

The film is called “The Century of the Self”. The complete run time is 8 hours long. I will be airing a 10 minute episode every other night (of course you can click through and watch all the episodes on YouTube). Otherwise you can tune in on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to catch the next episode.

The reason for the 10 minute episode is because I know you all have very busy lives, and carving time out of your regular television watching time is difficult, so I figure you can take 10 minutes out of your work and let your boss pay for your daily 10 minute dose of awakening.

If you care about controlling your own brain, you need to watch all 8 hours. I urge you all to do this. Please.

As with everything in life.. The choice is yours.

Remember that we are the generation who is living on the cusp of a new era. Soon you will all witness the emergence of a new world order. A world where people live in public and binary controls their world. Data flowing through cables connecting our thoughts and letting us listen to the silent digital ideas of others about our life. MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter and every other social network is paving the way for the Brave New World that Alfred Huxley predicted in his book.

Last years election was the first in history that was heavily internet driven. Politics has been introduced to this powerful data collective and thus begins the unfolding of one of the greatest chapters of humanity. The world where our governments use our egos to sell us the illusion of freedom.

Welcome my friends to new world of virtual insanity.

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