I just got done reading "The Lucifer Principle" by Howard Bloom, and all I can say is...wow! This book packs a punch in the gut for those who hold tightly to the notion that we are are smarter than the average monkey, it rubs raw, the brittle balloon we call "individuality" and enlightenment. In a few hundred pages, this book, slams the shit filled ideological pampers we call 'humanity' and replaces it with rubbed raw flesh and gnashing teeth, bare, exposed, nobs of nasty nature and beastly beginings; leaving the reader rocking in unabashed hypnosis, picking at the scabs of delusion.
It is a rough exposing uncomfortable ride into the real biological ramifications of multiculturalism and evolutionary systems. It seems, according to Bloom, we are savage at heart, deeper than that, we are barbaric in nature...first and foremost we are out to get whats ours. Now i know you all know that already, the idea of the savage monkey is not a new one, but that's where Bloom's specialization becomes important, he is a cultural anthropologist.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY!
In this perspective, the biologist looks at the world as large viscous chunks, BLOBS, giant ten-member...hundred member...million member...BILLION MEMBER, organized systems of brutal dominance and death. Bloom articulates in a hundred historical ways just how dominant our species is, dominant, organized by memes, and willing to sacrifice everything in order to sustain the gene.
And just what does this mean to you?
It means that while you are reading this, or praying to Allah, or beating off in those few quiet moments before the family gets home from soccer...whether you know it or not, or even want to...you are participating in the process that continues the meme. You are PART of the process, either directly as the cop is when he stomps the ever loving shit out of the protester, or indirectly, as in when that hurried mother drives past the bleeding protester because the kids want McDonald's.
And the worst part?
I don't know...like a bee in bee hive, Bloom says, that we are all linked to the hive, genetically sutured to all it does, even before humane rationality, and according to Bloom, the Super Organism is the "True" shape of the human species, not the drone, or the doctor, or the bored college student.
The SUPER ORGANISM!
Bottom Line? BLOOMY HAS A POINT! Quiet few of them to be exact...
FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A THE SUPERORGANISM IS...WATCH AND LEARN!!!
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