The Trinity of Control and Playing the Tunes of Society

Humans have created wonderful technologies and made astounding discoveries about the universe due to our superior intelligence and intricate machines, but we are still animals at heart. Human nature is animal nature and as such, idealists and dreamers will usually end up disappointed because like animals, when threatened, humans will ALWAYS think of themselves first. In many ways, human, or rather, animal nature is, like natural selection and evolution in general, just another cog in the Universal Clockwork. I believe it is in fact one of the driving forces behind the Patterns of Recognition enabling human history to constantly repeat itself in cycles, because humans and their inherent animal nature have remained unchanged. History has shown the true nature of humanity and of animals, time and time again, as mentioned earlier both on a geological scale with species exterminating other species to ensure their own wellbeing and survival, but also again and again in recorded history when stronger civilizations have made contact with weaker ones. The Romans across Europe, the Conquistadors in Latin America and the Manifest Destiny of the White Man in North America. All of these came, saw and conquered, because it was too easy not to. This is the dependability of human nature. We say it is within our nature, that very choice and meaning of the word, illustrates that our nature is nature itself. We are part of nature, thus our instincts go hand-in-hand with it, as well as all other of nature’s creations, i.e. animals. 

When faced with opportunities to improve their own conditions at the cost of others, on a long enough timeline, the stronger will eventually rise on top of the weaker. This not only applies to inter-civilization encounters. Within societies as well, certain stronger individuals will seize any opportunity they can get to rise high and above the masses. Many times these individuals are like the false prophets I have mentioned before, using the Trinity of Control to play on people’s need to believe, their desperate desire for directions and purpose. The ideas that the false prophets convey might seem sound in theory and they might themselves even believe it at first and have good intentions, but in reality, corrupted by the power they create or simply with a planned out strategy they rise as dictators at the cost of the masses. Stalin and Mao are good examples. Communism works fine in theory, everyone is the same and everyone shares the responsibilities of the state. That is all good and true for Stalin and Mao, but not for the millions that died during their rule and/or dictatorship. They are examples of false prophets using the second part of the Trinity of Control, society. They both rose up as part of a revolution that swept in and cleaned out an old, outdated regime, enticing the masses with idealistic ideas of perfect societies where everyone was equal, and the people ate it up and eventually suffered the results. The same can be said about Hitler, Franco or Mussolini. They are other examples of false prophets who played the tunes of society and used the Trinity of Control to gain supporters and overthrow the established order of their times. Although they were promoting a very different type of society their methods were the same as Stalin and Mao and they all successfully enticed the masses to create new societies which eventually transformed into de facto dictatorships. Without sounding like a doomsday prophet myself, this tendency is still seen today with the various crises facing contemporary society. People like Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Rodrigo Duterte all play the tunes of society within the Trinity of Control to entice the impressionable masses to further their own agenda, perhaps from a desire to do good but with the potential for the same consequences. Hopefully the consequences will not be as dire this time. Preventing this could be up to some of the more positive examples of individuals playing the tunes of society which will be mentioned later, but in reality the responsibility lies with each and every individual. Everyone needs to evolve a global consciousness and understand that they are part of something bigger. A Network of Legends heading for perpetual destruction, as long as it keeps following the Patterns of Recognition. Unless we learn to adapt and evolve. Then maybe the network could run more smoothly and without interruptions. Thankfully, history also have examples of the Patterns of Recognition providing impetus for progress, so maybe we should not abandon all hope just yet.

Building the Nature of Tomorrow and Preparing for the Worst

So in an ideal scenario, what we need to focus our attention towards right now are technologies that allow us to grow as a population without putting additional strain on our planet. Here I am talking about cloning, synthetic food, clean energy, floating cities and all that other sci-fi stuff you see on Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel. The thing is that most of this stuff is no longer sci-fi, the technologies are there, but nobody wants to put money into it to make it more efficient and streamlined. As long as there are still fossil fuels left, people can still make money off of it, and nobody is going to care about alternative energies, even if the dangers of the future when their resources run out, are being put right in front of their nose. They are making money right now, why worry about the future? The danger of contentment.

Other times it is simply a matter of survival rather than greed. The plantation owners in Sabah want to make money to make a better life for their children, ordinary small time land owners as well, so they are forced to cut down the rainforest to produce more palm oil. The fishermen in the Philippines want to catch fish to feed their children. None of these think about conservation issues long-term, but after all why should they? Are we any better in the western world? Who are we to tell third world countries that they can’t harvest their own natural resources when we have been doing exactly that for the past thousands of years in the western world? The old forests of Europe are all but gone. The North Sea is completely overfished. We want to be able to go on holiday and see wild animals, when in another time we could have done that in our backyard. Ironically, in poorer countries, eco-tourism is one of the only reasons for preserving the natural world. This again illustrates the power of contentment, or put more bluntly: the power of money. Animals can keep existing, as long as they make us money. If they are not making money, herein lies nature’s greatest threat. Then, sadly, it will not be missed until it’s gone. And even then, putting my transcender hat back on, in a couple of generations, given that we are still here, who’s gonna care? I mean how many alive today care about the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo? Conservationists, probably. But not many others I fear. The Jurassic Park of the future will be like the rainforest of our present.

This is not a stupid idea, in fact I think it could be one of the solutions we are looking for. In Jurassic Park the scientists struggle to find intact dinosaur DNA to re-create species with modern cloning technology. This is allegedly happening right now with the mammoth. So why don’t we keep a record of every living species’ DNA and make a virtual Noah’s Ark to use in a future when we have the technology to survive without harvesting natural resources. To my happy surprise I realized recently that this is already being done, such as for instance in the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard or the Frozen Zoo in San Diego. To play it safe I think we should do this with as many species as possible and then when we have the means and the opportunity, we could gather humans together in super cities and make space for continent sized national parks. Transnational parks are beginning to spring up in Africa already. One day, if we become a Type II civilization, we might even have entire Earth-like planets at our disposal to use solely as animal reserves. Imagine a whole planet sized national park, with no resident human population because we would reside on other planets. Then conservationists would be out of a job, the true utopia of their dreams and of the past, would be reality. This is an end goal that would be worth fighting for and beneficial for all. I might be getting lost in the forest of my own optimism now, but this does not change the facts about the challenges that lie ahead and what needs to be done to overcome them. There are no quick fixes to these issues even though many leaders like to convince people that there are. Such leaders will be described further in the following post.