Bluesman Commentary

Are We a Smart Species

Since the development of personhood which I contend begot at the signing of the Magna Carter (1215) or common laws and reached zenith in the American Civil Rights, we have had the evolutionary tension between the self-cultivating person and the needs of the common or community, given the tribes and slaves that gather under one flag and now the globe. Augmented with societies burden of carrying individuals who are deemed mentally incapable or apparently unproductive. In many nations after WWII, it is now called Human Rights, which is still being debated, in blood also.
A development of scientific tools saw leaps in the 1960’s and on, in order to prove or disproof many spectialive philosophies of science or what are known as a priori knowledge. Three great events occurred empirically, one – understanding life under the laws of thermodynamics (Chaos and Order); two – the Working Theory of the Mind; and three, the actually experiments of DNA and biological evolution, proven.
One of the biggest postulation put to rest was that babies were born sponges, now we know; they are already engaged with an active mind, to be intellectually nurtured up to adulthood. That intelligence is 40% inbred and the rest based on education, personality and life experiences.
Two – that change in behavior can modify genes and be passed down to next generation, a better understanding of natural selection or adaptation.
Evolution Shown
Three – That this thing we called life is not center around the human and everything must die and give to another life form. The species’ called human came from other species’, defeated two offspring, and probably will split again or evolve closer to the machine and further from the animal. Yet, the basic human ontologically will remain with all its quirkiness and with the dominance of unconsciousness, till our total end into the impregnated void.
There are much more exciting proven and disproven working theories, especially in Cosmology, but I choice to keep to these because of a growing debate about us the Human race and solutions to serious problems in our present future.
We play-out again this person verse, now, the common globe, as we played out the Libertine (Libbers) verses Calvinist (Determinist); now it is Personhood verses Technologists. Enhancements….Happiness!??
Yet I agree with Karl Popper there has to be something between Chance and Determinism; as a scientist on the Universe series puts it, our species has been an awesome achievement given the Sun will be brighter in 1/2 billion years. To be continued.

Where is the new middle ground for the human?

The spreading of science to the public was just recently in my generation of the Baby Boomers. Now with the increase of technology and pragmatic observation, there is a growing debate around “free will” – choice, and the dominance of the subconscious in every day behaviors, very old philosophically, yet, with known ontology, augmented by première discoveries of genome and theories of the mind.
As the swing of, authoritarianism is on an increase around the world, augmented by the old battles of Liber, Conservative, Anarchist, Theocrats and now Technocrats, we find ourselves in a necessary dialogue at a very dangerous time since 1920’s. With the privileges of the Western world, and the inadequacies of central government, entropy has caught up to it after 400 years, of course, triggered by new ideas, new markets, new skills, and, not some denial of Divine Ethos, or, some written Social-Economical Fiat of the 18th Century.
Mediterranean Area for 12 Centuries
2500 BC – Angels with Wings
Natural Forces/Divine protection
900 BC Iraq – Cherub – gods and human beings
600 BC – Persians dualistic struggle
Magic to solve daily lives
Planned Funerals
1000 BC -Guardian Angel – Judaism
160 BC – Cherub
Lilth 1:27 Genesis, Canaanite, then Eve (Gnome states more than one Eve out of Africa)
Enoch – 365 year old book
Daniel – Michael and Gabriel
Set Satan an adversary of human not g_d 1 CE Job and Apocryphal (Hidden Book)
80 BC Solomon text books, spell casting
First Christian 336 CE
Coptic Church 3k years old – Mary and 9 Angels, Amulets
1300 – 1600 Europe -Violent Church/State Inquisitions – Demons/Saints
Human wish fulfillment of Utopia – Divine Harmony with Cosmos
Angels – History International Channel 2011-01-23

By 1555, Calvinists were firmly in place on the Genevan town council, so the Libertines, led by Perrin, responded with an “attempted coup against the government and called for the massacre of the French … This was the last great political challenge Calvin had to face in Geneva”. Wiki

Even if we say farewell to the Holocene Era and welcome the Anthropocene Era, human emotive and propensities are not changing that fast. Life has proven evolution is a tedious process. The duality of liberal leanings and conservative leanings will remain with all the extremes. It still remains how consciousness and mindfulness, as we look to travel our galaxy and our planet changes ( to what no one can predict precisely) will change the evolving person and its society. The danger remains as a species, for groups, to demand control of the uncontrollable; to continue the dead art of Theism, and its archaic rebuttals of Atheism. The “mantras” of daily religion or “meaningless rituals” will exist as the junk of our bodies is an integral part of our evolution and of the Cosmos. No matter what we call g_d.
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT
Called or not called God is present
Jung, Carl
We Have Looked Back To See Our Future

Entanglements

Aztec gods hold sway on America
Sacrificed children for

conquest foot ball

Temples built high
Names gloried
Idol worship abounded

Mother’s tears heard
Revenge by Mothers of Justice
Royalty naked again

Aztec gods hold sway on America
Scarified children for

ephemeral mortals

Ifá/ òrìşà
Ancient Wisdom:

Ika Meji! We will no longer make ebo with people!

World Population reached 7 Billion

Not until 1804 did the world reach the 1 billion mark, and in 1974, there were still only 4 billion in the world.

Sifting World

Mapping the Anthropocene

Muerte

Michecacihualt
Always there to remind you
7 billion will feed

A warrior never worries about his fear
Carlos Castaneda

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Two men have passed, seemly from different journeys, yet; there are similarities. One of course is Steve Jobs and the other is the great Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth.
A Great American Warrior

Their lives center this debate for me, around conscious and this thing called free will. I believe the exceptional person has a strong will and a higher consciousness. We can’t allow the technocrats to shape this very important discussion, though I agree; free will has been miscued for many historical reasons and one is ignorance. Science is demanding a narrative by us whom believe in the Spirit and the Beauty of Men and Women who shaped the evolution of the human species.
Free Will Is Challenged

This conversation will be louder as time goes by; two of my favorite scientist have shaped it long ago:

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, “Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium”, 1941

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan

Earth Doesn’t Love Us
Our Species
Our Cousins

Where there are humans,
You’ll find flies,
And Buddhas.
Kobayashi Issa

The Story of Twins – Baba Wáňdé Abimbólá
At one time, the king of Ife went into the forest (against the advice of his advisors and kin). His only son was ill and none of the diviners/healers was able to cure him. The king went looking for a particular tree he thought would cure his son. He went where he remembered it, but it wasn’t there. He then went to another place he thought it was, but nothing looked familiar. Before long he was lost. Earlier, the òrìşà Ifa (Òrúnmilá) had twin children called Ędun. One was male, one female. They were humans but they had tails. Their mother, Pèrègúnlèlè, had many husbands, and had children with each of them. Ifa taught them (the Ędun) how to make medicine. They weren’t particularly happy with the humans, because the people mocked them because of their tails. When they were of age, Ędun went into the bush.
Back to the king.
Ędun saw the king, lost in the forest and exclaimed “the source of good character is lost”. This sounds like the cry of the colobus monkey. They asked the king, “Why are you here?” He replied, “I am lost in the forest. I don’t know the way back to town.” Ędun brought water to the king and he drank. Then Ędun told the king to mount on their back. They traveled rapidly, tree to tree back to the edge of the city. They asked if he could find his way home from there and he said “yes”. Then Ędun left and the king called all his advisors and kin and said he would not go to the palace until the whole world had a chance to celebrate his return. The invitation to the party, called Oşìn, was sent to everyone.
There are 18 apartments in the royal palace. The King lives in the farthest back apartment, the 18th. The 17th apartment is for the diviners. There are 16 royal diviners who are, after initiation and election/appointment, kings in their own right.
Then Ędun (the colobus monkey) went. They were warned about the rudeness and shame found by the other animals but they were human and had helped the king. They also knocked on the door at Ìlèkùn Olà. The response was the same. The Ędun replied “When the king was lost, we brought him back. When he was thirsty we gave him water to drink. How can you keep us out?” The king heard them and replied, “That is true, open the door and let them in.” Ędun said “No, you don’t need to open the door, we will open it.”
The people inside tried to open it, but were unsuccessful. Ędun then used their àşe, or their medicine, learned from Ifa himself, to open the door. They then became one of the Awo Oòni, diviner kings in the 17th apartment of the royal palace. Because of Ędun, twin children are revered (or worshiped) as Ìbejì.

USPS made adjustment in operations from Franklin’s operation and transformed into its current form in 1971 under the Postal Reorganization Act.
CHANGE is our constant as humans, as is our stable traditions of commerce and market. Yet in reality nothing is absolutely stable or secure. There always those big hiccups down these rivers.
The US Post Office was one of our first examples of national, commercial services. It stayed pretty well run, even, brought in the first Kennedy Program (allowing “handicap” persons to work), with the lowest cost for mail in the world.
THEN a change of communication and commerce came into being like a rapid break in a dam. Over a billion people a day were now e-mailing, even the pie and cheese cards were not being sent, through this massive mortar, brick, and people network. This was already taking place in 1987; the USPS has been forced to give up residential first class mail. One that was perfected after WW II, the young couldn’t care less. So what will be our social tradition, many elders are transforming themselves.
The pension system as we know it is dead. With all wage contracts being frozen up to 3 years. The USPS will probably be next to convert: forcing all employees into a personal IRA or 401 in the nearest Credit Union, and direct deposit only please!
The amount of deployment and attrition of employees has increased since 1991, demanding now: part time (4 hrs a day), “non-traditional” workers, and written into the 21st Century Wage/Health Contracts. The 50 thousand job ($50,000) is no more for the non-managerial and top has been downsized when duplications are taken out of the process. Streamlined Management and Functions; got big automata machines for flats, and kiosks; the question still will be: what is it you are selling and consumer’s attraction to this new Postal Service. For us elders, customers service will probably re- introduce sales trucks, just like getting your daily ice cream. WTF! This is the new Post Office Store, grandpa.

Retail Post Office
Closure List

Disclaimer: I work for the unions

The resurrection of dead ideology comes with accompanying theology, and, many folks don’t understand even educated blacks. I am proud to see, intelligent men in our faith called Ifá/ òrìşà, yet; that are not requisitions for independent and present-future, thinking. The Afro I know is quite a utilitarian. I guess they had to be coming out of Africa. Orisa and Akonedi pots have been buried because they ain’t prosperous, ergo; what is has to be, no matter the form. It is a perennial story, till we no longer exist, that is Olodumare’s throw on the mat!
If human nature does not change; consciousness does, as like information from evolutionary matter. The idea of Cardinals’ and Bishops in any formal religion should be understood by conscious folks, the story has been told. We have entered a different planet, again; for in many ways we are all g_ds at play in this Mysterious Cosmos.

Ancestors
The council sits in circle,
Intangible members of Olorun
Madres coach a righteous path
As I journey The Marketplace.

Vision
Vulture looks at death -
Floating to see more life
Faith finds a good game.

Daily Religion (in honor of P.K. Dick)
Stimulators
Kind app’s engagement Basho
Replica Humans’

Awon Iyami
Namibia
Castrum turn sandy drift
Owl still soars

We need to re-read “THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION” BY BROTHER CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS

What Did Priests Do Before and After 1500 C.E.?
Martin Waldseemüller’s world map showing the 1st use of the name “America”1507.

“Literature is an absolute necessity so that civilization continues to exist, renewing and preserving in us the best of what is human so that we do not retreat into the savagery of isolationism… world without literature would be a world without desires or ideals or irreverence …” Lost would be “the capacity to move out of one’s self and into another, into others, modeled with the clay of our dreams.”” Mario Vargas Llosa

New word Boomeritis, my generations, getting older and attempting to shape up, as tremendous progress in medical diseases, occurring, as we live longer and have the highest assets in human history.
Boomeritis

Yet! I feel it with the loss of gifted persons who have left me, as I look at our present future. For consciousness has grown, augmented by a repetitions of social problems in human evolutions; what is it we will see? It is unfolding in our palm, in nanoseconds!
We know the solutions of problems in front of us Cities and Growth
Yet we must understand the consciousness this poet has riffed (ibae):Winter In America 1974 There is a greatness to America; one leg is ending the vulgar poverty but where is the will Food Shortage

Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are
African-American Proverb
You can’t hate the root of a tree, and not hate the tree.
Malcolm X
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
Nikki Giovanni

In May of 1961, I was 11 years old, and I watched the nightly news and began to see what I would call my older brothers and sisters and a few whites challenge the white power structure, and many were beaten to the ground, having the President to call out the National Guards. Freedom Riders It changed my life forever.
Then we got folks saying you must love the kinky hair, full lips, and become conscious, that Little Sambo, and Tarzan was a creation of those who hated us. Why should we hate what was natural to our own. We went and pulled out old customs and created new customs under black consciousness. For if one hated or did not know one’s culture, how could you love and stand tall, even for those you supposedly love? And then there was Malcolm who demanded we stop hating ourselves, James Brown, I am Black and I am Proud, and then the Black and Latin Power.
I remember going out with a darker skin girl and told by my peeps in H.S. that I picked at the bottom of the barrel, shook me. Understanding Afro-Americana and the knowledge of one’s culture and legacies gave me a deep love, till this day, learning to re-love the beauty of the Euro-Americans and the race called human. The election of Barack Hussein Obama II, our 44th POTUS is a prideful event of Americana.
All of the debates for moving conscious folks forward begin within their own community and traditions, and end with a workable resolve. Segregation and integration is a wasted conversation, unless it impinges on the rights of a community, including the right of playing. Even if Euro-Americans continue to foster and pander to the illusion of black ethnic inferiority, it is an illusion of dying priledges and a grasp for waning glory. Race is a misnomer, and equality is a process, not a goal. This is why conscious collaboration is an evolutionary power.
Discrimination lies in the micro, the daily work and power relationship, for discrimination and favoritism of ethnic grouping and gender still existence in our human core. Reasoning cannot exist without basic metaphors arisen from common experiences GEORGE LAKOFF
If Euro-America wants to go open dicatator in our nation, no matter the actor, it reveals a ethnic revenage that will not last very long. Ye of so little faith. The Justice System is definely complicit with breeding ignorance and superfluous lives, the black skin tone, majority, is a cruel historical consequence, which will take another, 50th years to resolve. Yet the victory of me and my older brothers and sisters, gave this nation the fire of true libertines: the dignified person is the center of a just and stable society, protected by a common ethos, to protect said persons and family.
Afro-Americans gave a blueprint for all who wish to push the doors of opportunity open, even used in Egypt. We can now say that all can not excel, but the core of our struggle was dignity, the violence within a community must be neturalize. There are no governments on the globe to be trusted even ours, but are necessary. All wounds and pathogly must be healed by local means, for as we revealed in 1961, this journey called life waits for no one’s dead ideas.