So, Richter, Goddamn Reactor 106 Threw Its Agitator Again.

[Doktor Howl]

Discordianism doesn't have a cage though, at least not here, where the pinealists and various dogmatic assholes whose threads you dig up have been chased away.  So you have to have something else if you want a cage.

I think you mean "Fortress".  A Black Iron Fortress.

[Jasper]

This is it.  Ideas about reality are tools, not divinities.  Tools are for solving problems.  We didn't evolve this prefrontal cortex shit because nature thought it'd be a nice touch, we have it because we need it, same way we needed the hand-axe and fire.

But we've spent the last few thousand years creating the myth of the purely rational agent, and cutting the human being apart into various dualities so that people started assuming that everything we do is rational.

We aren't rational.  We usually aren't even decent.

Dr. Hawking is right, if there are aliens out there, we should avoid them on the basic principle that they may be anything like us.  Tribe loving, idea worshipping, self aggrandizing, hairy, live-birth nut-eating skin monsters with fire and an axe to grind.

There's hope though.  If there are people who think the thoughts I'm seeing voiced here, that means I'm not alone on this horrible, beautiful planet.  Because I didn't petition for existence, and neither did any of us, and all we have is each other, at the best of times.  Social fictions don't keep you company, people do.

[Doktor Howl]

Social fictions don't keep you company, people do.

You'd think so, anyway.

But it seems that people are more than willing to cast aside their friends, if their friends do not make proper obiesance to their particular idols.

[Jasper]

Failures of perspective abound.  We are all Ahab.

[Doktor Howl]

Failures of perspective abound.  We are all Ahab.

Oh, I like that.

I like that a lot.

I think I have tomorrow's rant.  Just gotta bounce it around a bit.

[Kai]

Dok, you know this human thing is cyclical. And you know we are all still monkeys, even with our Discordian tendency to walk upright.


That's all I've got.

[Doktor Howl]

Dok, you know this human thing is cyclical. And you know we are all still monkeys, even with our Discordian tendency to walk upright.


That's all I've got.

Oh, sure.  But what the hell are we here for, if not to build a better monkey?

Because the ones we have aren't working right.

[Jasper]

I'm chuffed about that last line, myself.

And I'd like to add that science is possible, but it never affords absolute certainty or inifallible knowledge.  It's built to make affordances for that, because all you have other than empricism is pure reason, and we all know what a crock that is.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm chuffed about that last line, myself.

And I'd like to add that science is possible, but it never affords absolute certainty or inifallible knowledge.  It's built to make affordances for that, because all you have other than empricism is pure reason, and we all know what a crock that is.

1.  Which line?

2.  No, I meant that science is impossible because monkeys insist on imposing their own preconceptions onto data.

[Jasper]

The Ahab line.  Yeah, interpretation is risky business, but someone has to do it.

[Doktor Howl]

The Ahab line.  Yeah, interpretation is risky business, but someone has to do it.

Chuffed?

[Jasper]

I think it's british, colloquial for "pleased with oneself".

[Kai]

Dok, you know this human thing is cyclical. And you know we are all still monkeys, even with our Discordian tendency to walk upright.


That's all I've got.

Oh, sure.  But what the hell are we here for, if not to build a better monkey?

Because the ones we have aren't working right.

Are you suggesting Transhumanism?

[Doktor Howl]

Dok, you know this human thing is cyclical. And you know we are all still monkeys, even with our Discordian tendency to walk upright.


That's all I've got.

Oh, sure.  But what the hell are we here for, if not to build a better monkey?

Because the ones we have aren't working right.

Are you suggesting Transhumanism?

I'll settle for plain old humanism first.  Crawl before you walk, walk before you run.

[Jasper]

Dok, you know this human thing is cyclical. And you know we are all still monkeys, even with our Discordian tendency to walk upright.


That's all I've got.

Oh, sure.  But what the hell are we here for, if not to build a better monkey?

Because the ones we have aren't working right.

Are you suggesting Transhumanism?

I like to think of it as transcendentalism for philosophical materialists.