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		<title>On Consciousness and Cataclysm</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When 4chan spawned a meme of (Japanese) pokémon raising an overactive China, I had the sense that this was part of a 'species' of memes that identifies semi-structures, or emergent, patterns in worldly events]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_47" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.newalexandria.org/thinking/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wild-china-appears.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-47 " title="wild-china-appears" src="http://www.newalexandria.org/thinking/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/wild-china-appears-300x175.jpg" alt="4chan calls wormsign on the Wild China" width="300" height="175" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">4chan calls wormsign on the Wild China</p></div>
<p>Let me start by saying that I have a general predisposition to the notion that the way that we think and act has an influence on the events we come to live &#8211; a law of consequences that allows for stuff <a title="research of the PEAR lab and ICRL" href="http://www.icrl.org" target="_blank">outside of the stringent idioms of Science</a>.</p>
<p>So when 4chan spawned a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme" target="_blank">meme</a> of (Japanese) <a title="A Wild China Appears!" href="http://www.laughinggame.com/2008/07/29/a-wild-china-appears/" target="_blank">pokémon raising an overactive China</a>, I had the sense that this was part of a &#8216;species&#8217; of memes that identifies semi-structures, or emergent, patterns in worldly events.</p>
<p>Mostly, it pulls on the story of the over-large thing falling to supernatural forces &#8211; like the <a title="the hidden weakness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles'_heel" target="_blank">heel of Achilles</a>.  It may play part in a larger pattern of ultimatum, such as the <a title="babel != babylon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel" target="_blank">destruction of the Tower of Babylon</a>, the <a title="we lift our lamp...." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Destruction_of_the_Library" target="_blank">burned Library at Alexandria</a>, or the <a title="crystal power has an achilles heal..." href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis" target="_blank">&#8216;sinking&#8217; of Atlantis</a>.  The root of pattern may be seen as an un-wield-able degree of energy passing through a thing &#8211; &#8216;the biggest thing&#8217; &#8211; destroying it.  Such a principle also is represented in Chinese Taoist theory, of an excess of one thing inverting into its opposite.  As well with the <a title="Gardener's 'Genesis of the Grail Kings'" href="http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/mystery-babylon.htm" target="_blank">shem-tower</a> in Babylon, it lacked <a title="&quot;Whom does the grail serve?&quot;" href="http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/creator/holygrail.htm" target="_blank">sufficient coherence of virtue</a> to transmit the divine energy which it was built to otherwise conduct.</p>
<p>In this case, little island Japan – with its <a title="can gojira monsutā fit into my poketto?" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla" target="_blank">legendary monsters</a> and <a title="gotta catch 'em all" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokemon" target="_blank">modern evolution of them</a> &#8211;  hold an interesting relationship to mainland China.  Indeed, this article is no place for a recap of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan#Culture_and_recreation" target="_blank">cultural</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan#Science_and_technology" target="_blank"> influence</a> and <a title="messy history" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China_–_Japan_relations" target="_blank">political differentiation</a>.  The notion of Japanese pokémon laying waste to over-striving People&#8217;s Republic of China hold enough &#8216;mythological water&#8217; to slip deep into the domain of active memetics.</p>
<p>The notion that there is a &#8216;species&#8217; of memes that participate in the emergence of worldly trends is a concept that I&#8217;m growing under the banner of the &#8220;Zabadogodagon&#8221; &#8211; a collection of the emergent forms that transcend human law into natural / given law.  Their mechanics in the physical world has growing recognition in <a title="REGs from the PEAR lab" href="http://www.psyleron.com/" target="_blank">mind-matter systems</a>, <a title="thanks Roger" href="http://noosphere.princeton.edu/" target="_blank">global consciousness research</a>, <a title="Radin's emotionality test" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2596201/Dean-Radin-Timereversed-human-experience-Experimental-evidence-and-implications" target="_blank">retro-causality</a>, and even the <a title="you'll be surprised how convincing it feels" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision#Core_ideas" target="_blank">wilder sides of plasma</a> <a title="you'll be surprised how convincing it feels" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worlds_in_Collision#Core_ideas" target="_blank">cosmology</a>.</p>
<p>Hooray 4chan&#8230;&#8230; <img src='http://www.newalexandria.org/thinking/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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