Thy Gods worship Death
From most individuals point of view, this statement could be translated or deciphered, one way or another, as heresy. And who is this indigenous plebian claiming generalized catchphrases such as this in the first place!? Let us go back and start, as always, first things first.
Where does worshiping death itself come from? Some people would argue, that the great pyramid of Gizeh was created as a tomb and would serve as an ultimate cultural example of normality. I, however, disagree from several points of view. A place of pure death worshipping is a dead end, a cemetery or necropolis or an actual dead end on a line of transportation or processing. As you can easily walk through the pyramids, because it has in fact an entrance and an exit, it is more like an ritual or pilgrimage walk, probably with the means to reflect. In contrast to my thesis is a sarcophagus, which was found in this pyramid in the 1800’s. But with modern carbon-dating you can pretty accurately prove, that there are discrepancies of several dynasties between the erection of the structure and the burial of the tomb, meaning that at some point in time someone had the audacity to change a designated use case for a thing for another, in this case claiming this structure as a tomb for himself.
There is, however, a culture not to far away from this superstructure, both geographically and historically which would fit into this kind of approach. The Byzantine Empire was literally famous for worshipping their dead and it was the Mesopotamian empire, later to be separated in both Byzantine and Mesopotamian Empire, who won a significant war against one of ancient Egypt’s elder dynasties. Marking a point of change in this dynasty, kingdom and region as a whole for generations to come.
But this precedence seems to have much larger implications on us, than most would ever assume. For example: Why do we even bury our dead? Especially in wooden sarcophagi, which in return, were made of healthy living trees, instead of just using dead wood to burn their physical remains? These burial methods expose our ancestors to microorganisms, fungi and other plants that live in the very same soil, almost like exposing a hard-drive with valuable information about mammal-life to alien species of plants. Some people would argue our religious institutions earn a decent coin with this method, because you are of course, not allowed to proceed this ritual on you own. But why even earn a coin as an religious institution, a rightful delegate (of god), imposed to preserve peace and stability?
As you all know, we as a modern civilization have abandoned gold, silver and bronze coins as means of exchange for a more abstract fiat currency. This fiat currency is created out of thin air, imposes interests which can only be paid by constantly printing more currency, creating inflation as a cause and of course all of that with no expiration date whatsoever. Creating more and more theoretical currency in the process. Another dead end. But there is more.
Over the course of history meaningful achievements have been invented and implemented, like our railroad system, waste and trash processing and disposal, communication lines and storage of information. All of those are incomplete and lacking the extra mile to be gone to make them work out with no restrictions. Our Railroads often enough end up in terminals, end of lines, instead of running them in circular lines, periodically. The same goes with our trash, we do have the technology to automatize the whole disposal process in general and process every piece of trash independently to recycle the parts, we can still use or melt into new processing blocks and burn the unrecyclable trash, fueling the plant itself or feed battery systems that would help out in power shortages. Our excrements, our piss and shit, is being flushed down some pipes, often but not always ending into river systems with no previous filtration and cleaning. Sometimes with massive chemical interference and energy intensive processes before, but still highly inefficient. We know how some plants and microorganisms would love this processed water and we do know how to create artificial ecosystems for these lifeforms, but again why put extra thought and money into a halfway working system!? “We’ve always done it that way” is your most likely response to the question.
Another great example is our energy infrastructure. As many of you know i life in cologne area, which was until very recently, fueled by coal plants which again were fed by massively intrusive coal mining machines known as baggers (i.e. 288 or 287). But after pushes from climate Ngo’s those operations were stopped entirely and the machines left to rot in the very holes they dug. Not a great way to show your respect and not a great way to die. They didn’t even bother to call museums like the Smithsonian or alternatives to ask if there is demand to preserve one of these unique steel monsters and exhibit them right next to the T-Rex as unique rarities of a whole time era. There were also no biological surveys that would answer the questions why these holes remain unpopulated by plants and weeds, even years after they shut down. But that is another blog post.
Nuclear Energy Plants fueling, just like Coal Plants, millions of household, creating dependencies that lead to monopoles and massive financial and political influences over the decades. There is no debate about right or wrong on shutting them down one by one. But now, with actual ideas how to process nuclear waste you will find hard times creating the same momentum as the first generation this technology enjoyed. Even with smaller solutions with way better chances of maintenance and repair. Now battery systems take their place, the car fueling system of the future, going down exactly the same road or dead end. Do we actually have a proper plan to process battery waste? Will we build shit-tons of those things anyway and cash out before anyone notices that we don’t? I’ll let you decide.
We do worship death ever since we created temples that usually have one entrance, which also serves as an exit. We worship it on a daily basis, financially, industrially, culturally and socially. To an extend that we kind of have to ask ourself the question: How much will this end up affecting me, as an actual living entity. Am i stupid? Am i a slave? Am i working against my own interest to eventually kill myself with my own work? Haven’t we had similar situations in concentration camps, built by the Nazi’s or National-socialists in the 1930’s & 40’s? How can you actually be Nationalist and Socialist, if those two things work out diametrically against each other? Why am i working on digital “terminals”, arrive on transportation “terminals” and often enough, die on “terminal” cancer?
So many questions. So much work ahead. So little time.
Cheers.
Post Scriptum
Now with the erection of massive data centers world wide, we enter a new era of necropoli and death worshipping. This time we go full digital and as traditionally bound as we are, it is sort of predictable which outcome will occur of the course of the next months and years. Einstein once said: There are two things infinite in this world. Our Universe and human stupidity. But i’m not quite sure with the universe, as of now.
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