Theories about conspiracy theories

They all overestimate the realm and rigging of the human intellect, or to be more precise, the binary functioning of that human capacity. People say the odds of a loner carrying off the assassination of a leader of a free world are slim,and therefore is an argument for multiple conspirators. This argument betrays an assumption about the fitness of binary thinking to evaluate the world. In fact the plans of men are flimsy at the best. Darn dumb luck explains little except the liklihood of man's plans occasionally appearing efficacious.

My comments are meant to illuminate not the heroes or villains -- little difference from a certain perspective -- but how the logic of any theorist can go astray. I of course know nothing about what happened, but something about how people think and what they are loathe to investigate within themselves. 

You can only define the dead

This occurred to me while I was revising the book. Of course in the case of Jan Cox, his reach was so multi directional, that the normal idea of beginning and end is to drastically distort his life and effect. Still any definition only points to --- what is already moldering. 

Halloween monsters

How useful is it that one day a year people can discuss that which they endeavor to pretend does not even exist, the rest of the year?

People talk about monsters, but that term merely is another way of distancing the intellect from the reality of our world. The monsters are always carefully placed beyond credibility. 

By monsters I do not merely refer to the reality of starvation and disease on our planet. The monsters are largely  the result of the insistence of the human intellect that things are either this or they are that--- a bifurcation which while useful dealing with the external world, only confuses when it is given the cloak of invincibility. 

People cannot realize their helplessness though that is the only useful step towards defining a path with a solid foundation. They cannot because it would simply produce mass hysteria or lethargy. This effect would destroy the world we live in, without helping anybody. 

Monsters then are the realities we must ignore to survive. Yet throughout history they have been glimpsed, and so we call the briefly and blurrily glimpsed, "monsters" since that label assures us they are phantasms. 

Only a few dare peer over the edge of the cliff of binary reason. And though a "band of brothers" may help you gather your courage, in fact, the leaning forward over the edge, this is solitary. 

The annual event called Halloween exists not to encourage a resolve to pursue reality -- no, it is a chance for a group chant to ward off ----truth. 

'The Answer is Never the Answer"

Old Derrida joke. But one I think Spinoza either originated or would have approved of. The point is wherever you think you can rest, verbally, in fact, you need to press, to keep questioning, sifting pebbles if nothing else, because, the answer is never "the answer." It can't be, the answer is in words. So you must have missed it. 

Perhaps god prefers atheists

This strikes me as likely -- that god prefers athesits over believers.
He may, see the atheists as plucky, brave, compared to those believers
who are 'good' because they fear punishment. I of course know nothing
about god, but I suspect--- SUSPECT-- he is doing the best he can. And
no job description I am aware of includes concern about the voting
results of his creatures.

Let someone else describe self-observing

An interview with Thich Nhat Hanh was replayed on NPR today. A detail in the discussion about the practise of mindfulness delighted me. He said there was a necessary vigilance in your thinking, a practise, like "Walking on Stilts." This is what Jan Cox called by a variety of terms, the variety of course reflecting his methodological insistence on originality in language. 

But neuralizing is well described as 'walking on stilts' in your cerebral awareness. 

Erase the zoos

What is this sense for freedom that all creatures have, from moths to mollusks, and 

how is it the most complicated of those creatures, with a featureless crinkle in their brains, 

would deny it to the others.