Waking Life Page #3

Okay, independent

from the external.

And what is interesting here is that evolution

now becomes an individually centered process,

emanating from the needs

and the desires of the individual,

and not an external process,

a passive process...

where the individual is just

at the whim of the collective.

So, you produce a neo-human with a new

individuality and a new consciousness.

But that's only the beginning

of the evolutionary cycle...

because as

the next cycle proceeds,

the input is now

this new intelligence.

As intelligence

piles on intelligence,

as ability piles on ability,

the speed changes.

Until what?

Until you reach a crescendo in a way...

could be imagined as an enormous

instantaneous fulfillment of human,

human and neo-human

potential.

It could be something

totally different.

It could be the amplification

of the individual,

the multiplication

of individual existences.

Parallel existences now with the individual

no longer restricted by time and space.

And the manifestations

of this neo-human-type evolution,

manifestations could be

dramatically counter-intuitive.

That's the interesting part.

The old evolution is cold.

It's sterile.

It's efficient, okay?

And its manifestations are

those social adaptations.

You're talking about parasitism,

dominance, morality, okay?

Uh, war, predation, these would

be subject to de-emphasis.

These would be

subject to de-evolution.

The new evolutionary paradigm will give

us the human traits of truth, of loyalty,

of justice, of freedom.

These will be the manifestations

of the new evolution.

That is what we would hope to see

from this. That would be nice.

A self-destructive man feels completely

alienated, utterly alone.

He's an outsider

to the human community.

He thinks to himself,

"I must be insane. "

What he fails to realize is that

society has, just as he does,

a vested interest in considerable

losses and catastrophes.

These wars, famines, floods

and quakes meet well-defined needs.

Man wants chaos.

In fact, he's gotta have it.

Depression, strife, riots,

murder, all this dread.

We're irresistibly drawn

to that almost orgiastic state...

created out of death

and destruction.

It's in all of us.

We revel in it.

Sure, the media tries to put

a sad face on these things,

painting them up

as great human tragedies.

But we all know the function

of the media has never been...

to eliminate the evils

of the world, no.

Their job is to persuade us to accept those

evils and get used to living with them.

The powers that be want us

to be passive observers.

Hey, you got a match?

And they haven't given us

any other options...

outside the occasional,

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