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Tiffany The philosophic dung-beetle
The name Tiffany is derived from the ancient
Greek: theophanos, meaning ‘manifestation of
God’. The dung beetle,
or scarab, was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians as divine. In Victor’s Way, where Nature is considered God, the dung beetle
serves as avatar of the recycling (of, for instance, cosmic dust) and its
self-re-assembly functions, and which are the sine qua non functions of
survival of all naturally emergent systems, including you, a true mammal and
alfa predator. Of course,
Tiffany is not your
ordinary Kerry or Serengeti beetle scavenging dung as feed for her young. Our Tiffany recycles dodgy
philosophical fictions and fraudulent religious fantasies, to wit,
intellectual dung. She feeds yesterday’s detritus as necessary initial life
support to her cocooned young and which that latter, if they cannot wean
themselves to adult feed, retards them in infancy and which results in an
inauthentic existence of confusion and misery. Engraved on Tiffany’s turd are 700
names of the most toxic (for mature adults) philosophic spoofers (like Plato
and Kant) and religious fantasists (like the salvation scammers St. Paul,
Nagarjuna et al). The turd serves to increase the mindfulness of the
adolescent that the mumbo-jumbo of those (with hindsight of modern science)
misguided intellectual fantasists has long since passed its sell-by date and
has, therefore, become a health hazard for those attempting to create a new
reality. As can be
observed, NATURE (as GOD) progresses by
‘stepping back to step forward.’ That means that yesterday’s wisdom/knowledge
(i.e. as karmic (i.e. action) residue serving as primary feed) is necessary
for the infant’s survival. In other words, infancy, supported in the main by
Natural Intelligence (to wit: NI), is nature’s way of stepping back, its
primary feed functioning as cultural (i.e. Artificial Intelligence (to wit:
AI)) restart. During adolescence, however, the human mammal needs to wean
itself from its early life (AI) feed, now toxic, in order to ‘step forward’
by generating its own (AI) feed (streams) thus achieving authentic mature
adulthood and for which it self-rewards with
happiness. |
