< last updated August 1, 2024 >
For a condensed and updated version see the lyrics: https://stcelfer.bandcamp.com/album/i-thought-u-thought-i
THE NEW NORMAL
I am not sure why people are saying this. The past never returns. This is a feel-good belief, a nostalgia, that is not only not true post-pandemic but before. It's a position that will never meet expectation and causes reaction and a fraction that can lead to violence.
IN THE FACE OF EXTINCTION
Since the pandemic of 2020-2022 and the possibility of a global war (between military powers even though it has been running rampant for years between economic ones - not to mention our hanging on the precipice of nuclear annihilation for 80 years), I realized that ALL human experience is a delusion, some more effective for survival than others.
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Without delusion you risk losing the faculty to dream or fantasize? Without being somewhat disconnected from reality, a state defined by positions of power, you risk new ideas coming to fruition. Artists are always the 'odd' person who is on the fringes. Art is the exercise and acceptance of a nonsensical functional delusion, practice for the real world -- if you can see, hear, smell, or feel it.
NORMAL EXPOSED IN THE WAKE OF COLLAPSE
There is no 'good' or 'bad' delusion, just ones that work better for humans to live on this planet. 
I present my argument in the following posts against the weaponization of the meaning of 'normal' and how language, as a technology, can do violence. When someone uses the word 'normal' it must be recognized as an attack against the other.
Power (people, institutions) uses 'normal' as a control. Just when you think your power has increased because you feel normal -- brace yourself -- the opposite has occurred.
...first, a quick and dirty definition of what I mean by 'power':
"a person, organization, or country that has control over others, often because of wealth, importance, or great military strength"
POWER | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
archaic : a force of armed men
Power Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
FIRST, THE DISCLAIMER:
THIS
PAGE IS HEAVILY UNDER CONSTRUCTION USING A METHOD AKIN TO
WITTGENSTEIN'S WAY OF WORKING ON INDEX CARDS. HERE, ASSEMBLED, IS A SERIES OF PHRASES / SENTENCES / APHORISMS / PARAGRAPHS (BUT NEVER AN ESSAY) THAT WILL BE ADJUSTED AND RE-ARRANGED WHILE WORKING OUT THE PROBLEM OF MY "acquiescing to the adaptive function of delusion, the need to mythologize and invent".
THIS TEXT IS HEAVILY FLAWED ALTHOUGH OCCASIONALLY I BELIEVE THERE'S A GEM IN THERE... UNTIL I CHANGE MY MIND AND THINK ANOTHER CRINGY SECTION IS SUDDENLY PROFOUND. ...AND THEN BACK AGAIN. THIS IS A PLACE TO WORK OUT AN IDEA THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPRESS IN FLAWED, MAN-MADE LANGUAGE.
Also, I stay true to the initial impetus to put these ideas down during the Northern Hemisphere winter and pandemic lockdown of 2020. The text has been tweaked after pondering; nonetheless, the sometimes comical and often ridiculous inspirations (legos, space stations) remain fixed to their date of discovery. It ends with the war in Ukraine and before the increasing catastrophe of war in Palestine.
When and Why Is This Suddenly Admired?
An ecstatically celebrated release of a custom LEGO set promoting the use of molotov cocktails.
(I mean, it's great that Ukrainians are defending themselves and I would, too,
but kids pretending to throw molotov cocktails?)
And this in the name of saving the kids (of Ukraine)???
(I mean, it's great that Ukrainians are defending themselves and I would, too,
but kids pretending to throw molotov cocktails?)
And this in the name of saving the kids (of Ukraine)???
And death threats are OK, now?
We are blood thirsty now... ...and ready for war.
Contradicting Without Blinking
The same news outlet making light of the Lego set also published this article (among similar others) a couple years before and warned of a far right phenomena in Ukraine:
Making two contradictory judgements about the same news item is OK depending on the historical AND social context. The bottom line is just that: for outlets that want to make money they have to create as many consumers as possible both interested and supportive of their current viewpoint. (This author is making no judgement of the current or past news, but merely making light of the contradictory content that was provided.)
As the social importance overtakes the already fictionally flawed facts of history, the signs of a collapse of a generally accepted reality are imminent...
Now turning to one of the most popular books over the past more than a century...
THE WAR AGAINST NATURE BEGINS:
Isaiah 66:4
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
This gets weird. Now the war against nature literally means that the world is not round, because the book said so...
It's hard to trust the visual world now with the power of visual media in the hands, quite literally, of everyone, plus with: WHAT LOOKS LIKE PROOFS OF REALITY AS FABRICATIONS OF POWER.
People exercise their power in the most self-centered ways and find the facts that suit their delusion of themselves.
WHAT IS DELUSION?
"A delusion is a false belief that is based on an incorrect interpretation of reality."
--Harvard Health Publishing
WHAT IS REALITY?
The access to personal information, the monetization of general knowledge, and the designation of experts (gods) vs the rest of us -- through brainwashing techniques.
Who would not want to get healthier?
Who would not want to get healthier?
OMG! It's free!!
ONE OF THE TOP ADS (Spring 2020) ON GOOGLE WHILE SEARCHING FOR "DELUSION" IS A DELUSION ITSELF, ALSO MONETIZED:
Irrefutable Scientific Proof ISS Footage is Fraudulent
Sep 17, 2020 · Among my favorite hoax topics is the fraudulence of the International Space Station. Videos purporting to be from the International Space Station are absolutely not taken from orbit. This has been demonstrated without the slightest shadow of a doubt in many different ways. Delusion, Reality, Or Truth (Part 1) Fantasy is a form of delusion. Most fantasies (this includes illusions) are designed to give people feelings of happiness or utopia. This form of delusion is a product of vain imaginations that is able to create a perfect world that is solely based on the person’s personal concepts, desires, and needs.Copyright © sandra-cires-art.chu 2020
The text used to attract visitors to Sandra Cires YouTube page was actually stolen from this site and is probably some kind of 'buy followers' scheme that re-routes searches.
In 2020 under the darkness of pandemic lockdown this was popular on the internet.
WHEN DID A FOLLOWER OR A 'LIKE' START HAVING TANGIBLE VALUE?
The number one search, this erect purple penis, will tell us after the ad:
https://hbr.org/2017/03/whats-the-value-of-a-like
https://hbr.org/2017/03/whats-the-value-of-a-like
SOMEDAY THE SUN WILL GET BIGGER AND ENGULF THE EARTH:
we have no right to exist
This is what every nefarious, ill-willed character or movement has always known... and why we continue to be fascinated by them.
And, why they always talk about 'evil':
Our gods say more about us than about them.
(+ There's that finger thing again! It's like gang signals.)
IS ALL PERCEPTION DELUSION?
When delusion is so pervasive in the normal assumptions of the majority why not assume all perception is a level of delusion. As a dog sees a great place to pee, a well positioned place to mark its territory, we see a fire hydrant, a well placed safety apparatus to protect man-made shelters. (We don't see a great place to go to the toilet.)
AND POWER CORRUPTS HOW WE PERCEIVE
The internet is solely a fiction. Nothing happens there. There is no there. So to make it fake is it's natural progress. It can only serve as entertainment, something from which we falsely believe that we can gain wisdom or simply a break from reality... ALL FAKE.
Stories, at least effective ones, meaning holding a power over the reader, are fictions, by definition. They are not truthful and cannot be. The true ones are boring.
Real life is boring by purpose as it holds no power over us.
WE ONLY KNOW A SHARED DELUSION
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATED THIS COMBINATION AT A POPULAR E-COMMERCE SITE.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATED THIS COMBINATION AT A POPULAR E-COMMERCE SITE.
SEARCHING FOR AN ARTIST AND A BOOK I WAS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING (LEFT), CREATED THE ITEM IN THE MIDDLE WITH A FURTHER REACTION ON THE FAR RIGHT -- AS SOMETHING I SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN.
Reward seeking behaviour presents a problem to AI. As an aggregations of human ideas, it is incapable of achieving it's claims (OF INTELLIGENCE: which, in addition to discernment, requires a certain level of creativity); However, it can change the claim to achieve itself (OR POWER: self-fulfilling prophecy). The dream of Artificial Intelligence looks back. Most technology is narcissism in disguise. Mesmerized by our reflection, our phones are portable mirrors, reflecting the internal workings of the brain not just the features of our face for a selfie. Now! We bridge the gap between expectation and perception.
AI IS SIMPLY HOOLIGANISM.
Free energy principle[edit] - 2020
The Free energy principle provides an explanation for embodied perception in neuroscience and tries to explain how biological systems maintain order by restricting themselves to a limited number of states or beliefs about hidden states in their environment. A biological system performs active inference in sampling action outcomes to maximise the evidence for its model of the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzXFiudJc8DELUSION IS PRESENT IN MANY WAYS FROM A VIDEO OF A PRESIDENT TALKING TO HIS DEVOTED FOLLOWERS. HE SERVED IN THE ARMY AS A PARACHUTER. OVER HIS LIFETIME HE HAS JUMPED 48 TIMES. (THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE A YEAR DURING HIS ADULTHOOD.)
DURING AN UNREMARKABLE CAREER, HE WAS MOST KNOWN AS BEING REPRIMANDED FOR SOMEHOW OBTAINING (ALTHOUGH MOST LIKELY BY PURCHASING AS SURPLUS) OLD PARACHUTES AND MAKING THEM INTO TRENDY BACKPACKS THEN SELLING THEM FOR HIS OWN PROFIT. AFTER GETTING CAUGHT HE TURNED THIS INTO A POLITICAL PROTEST AGAINST THE POOR WAGES OF OFFICERS IN THE ARMED FORCES, A SKILL FOR SPIN THAT WOULD PROPEL HIM TO THE PRESIDENCY MANY YEARS LATER (DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE NEVER PASSED A MEANINGFUL LEGISLATION DURING HIS CAREER AS A STATESMAN).
THIS APPARENTLY IMPROVISED AND CASUAL YOUTUBE VIDEO IS HEAVILY STAGED FROM THE PAINTING ON THE WALL TO THE DOLLS ON THE DESK.
(even his trademark finger pose could be interpreted as more homoeroticity
+ he looks like a 5 year old
++ all this EVEN AFTER HE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO FAKE EVERYTHING UP.)
The New Slavery
THE POWER OF CAPITALISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT OF A FUNNEL. IN BASE TERMS IT FUNNELS MONEY FROM MANY PEOPLE TO ONE PERSON IN THE NAME OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP. THAT PERSON IS A NEW GOD.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THE MOST ENERGY OF THOSE IN POWER IS SPENT ON APPEARANCES? FROM MARKETING TO LEGAL. WHO MAKES ANYTHING ANYMORE? AND SOON ROBOTS WILL MAKE EVERYTHING RENDERING THE UNDERCLASS USELESS AND THE CORPORATE SLAVE, THE PERSON WHO 'MADE IT', MORE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW THE NEEDS OF THE SYSTEM.
At the Amazon headquarters in Seattle, home to much of the top 1%, are ubiquitous Amazon hubs or lockers. I am sure this is regarded as a 'service'. However, it is a necessary that those making wealth endulge the system that makes their wealth - like a serpent eating its tail.
Seen on the bathroom wall: "Bill Gates is an asshole who destroyed this world AND he knows it (Excel, Artificial Intelligence, and other un-human mechanisms). He carries the weight of this guilt and is the reason he looks 150. He is trying to undo all the bad he has done with his bullshit Malaria causes, etc. What kind of person would put up with him for all those years? How many more years are we going to believe in these "advances", "improvements", "the future". What is up with that hollow look in his eyes and of Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos - a deep dark nothingness of no feeling. Are we being taken over by an alien force in disguise and subdued into a listless, opiated mass for their benefit."
LANGUAGE CAN ONLY SAY WHAT WE UNDERSTAND IN COMMON
I ❤️ NY
I like complete thoughts that are more complex than a little picture of a smiley face.
This violence of punching each other back and forth with messages that contain text exposes the savage nature of the current apocalyptic system that is in implosion.
What if language is a formal, structured, restrictive, and flawed form of music? A simple level that ensured everyone could get it.
I believe in the idea of a circle but a perfect circle does not exist. I believe in the idea of 1 but nothing stands alone and contains only itself. There is no complete emptiness required to be zero. And the infinite simply describes what we can't measure.
GEOMETRY IS A LANGUAGE AS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE INFLUENCE OF POWER AS THE DYNAMICS OF DISCOURSE.
Is this the ultimate universality of music as it contains language?
Time fixes us to this dimension. Distance fixes us to our world.
Scale is a means to move beyond our world. If you make yourself small enough you can pass through a wall: The Space Between Points.
A wall is a human-made invention to keep humans apart and the environment out. It works -- as that. It is a reality. It is real to humans.
A highway allows human-made vehicles to get from one place to another in a more rapid way. It is a barrier to animals trying to get from one place to another. These are separate realities. It is real to humans and animals for different reasons.
TIME IS A HUMAN CONSTRUCTION TO GIVE MEANING TO DEATH.
(WHEN I HEAR THE CHURCH BELLS RING AT THE TOP OF THE HOUR, I AM REMINDED OF THE POWER (such as the idea of time) EXERCISED BETWEEN HUMANS TRUMPS RACE, GENDER, OR RELIGION. THOSE BELLS ARE SIMPLY A CONTROL IN A MAN-MADE REALITY).
Death is simply a change in scale...
Is boredom the driver of creativity? When there is nothing to do most animals rest. Humans create delusions to fill time. (It is a delusion because time is a manmade idea.)
Instead of Friston's Free Energy Principle, based on the desire that humans want to avoid surprise, perhaps, we must increase BOREDOM. 
HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF. THIS IS A SLOGAN USED BY FRAMEWORKS OF POWER.
Time, the human-made idea: we perceive an order of events. We can never repeat an event that has already happened. This creates a feeling of regret which we try to control through myths and other constructions in the form of reasons, ideas, opinions, or, possibly, routine. We can repeat or not repeat a similar action to an event - the outcome will never be the same. TIME IS SIMPLY THE EXPLANATION OF THE SPACE BETWEEN MOMENTS.
memory = what-is, the perception of the moment, mixed with memories of past perceptions to make a single memory that acts like a SNAPSHOT (the visual world), which is no longer real AND TAINTED BY OTHER SNAPSHOTS.
ARE WE REALLY MAKING PROGRESS OR ARE WE JUST TRYING TO SEE WHAT'S IN FRONT OF US.
PROGRESS IS A FICTION CREATED BY POWER STRUCTURES. BEAUTY IS A BELIEF PREMISED ON DELUSION. LANGUAGE THROUGH LABELING IS THE LOGIC TO JUSTIFY BOTH.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS A REFLECTION, LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR, NARCISSISM. IT CAN'T LEAD EXCEPT BEHIND.
"Schizophrenia and alienation may be the inevitable consequences of phonetic literacy" - Marshall McLuhan
EVERYTHING IS IN BALANCE. TAKE THE GOOD WITH THE BAD. THE GOOD NEEDS THE BAD.
NO ABSOLUTES. PERFECTION IS IMPERFECTION. NO ZEROS. NO INFINITIES. NO GOD. NO TRUTH. NO FORMULAS FOR LIVING. NO NO.
WE LIVE AN EXISTENCE WHICH CAN ONLY MAKE SENSE IN THE FRAME OF DELUSION. THE TRUTH OF DELUSION IS A BELIEF IN NO TRUTH.
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A spectrum of delusion exists that is either closer or further from nature. Reality is a reference to a particular nameable acceptably shared delusion. REALITY AS A HUMAN CONSTRUCT IS NOT NECESSARILY REAL.
THINGS GET MORE REAL AS THEY ARE CLOSER TO NATURE.
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