The Grand De-Unification Theory
I’m working towards my master’s degree in American political history through Beck University. Eventually, I’d like to get my doctorate from the Limbaugh Institute for Conservative Studies.
Prof. Beck has quite a syllabus. I’m already well-studied in the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. One of the books on list is “The Coming Insurrection” authored by some group called “The Invisible Committee.” Published by MIT (as in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of all schools), it is a plan for throwing the world into chaos, with absolutely no goal.
Quite a manipulative book (as all Communist books are), though mercifully short, at 123 pages, the first chapter is a foul, self-indulgent, middle-finger rant at civilized society. The French author, or author(s), when not exercising their profane vocabulary, runs around in circles of multi-syllable words about nihilism, the uselessness of life, and the evils of societal order and especially the nuclear family.
Throughout the book, even in subsequent chapters, the author(s) makes frequent reference to psychiatric treatment and medications. Are these the ravings of a collective group, or a sociopathic lunatic with multiple personality disorder?
Whoever they are, they may be crazy, but they’re not stupid. Having disoriented the reader with the self-indulgent, adolescent rantings of the first chapter, the author immediately switches track. Adults by now have tossed the book aside, leaving only the young, the stupid, and the mentally infirm to continue. The next chapters are perfectly lucid.
The author leads the reader down a fairly cognizant trail of arguments about materialism and consumerism. According to this author, we spend and consume too much. But before the chapter is over, they’re defending the rights of unions to strike and even resort to violence and vandalism to get their “fair share”. If what the author says is true, shouldn’t they be trying harder to “make do”?
Work and making money don’t matter to this lazy set of authors. They would much rather not work, sil vous plait. They admit that needing things like food, clothing, and shelter is a problem. Eventually, what exists will wear out or run out. But that’s someone else’s problem.
Their answer to such shortages is to steal. Steal with zeal is their philosophy. They don’t owe the world a living, they figure. They won’t beg one of the world, either. They’ll just take what they want. It’s so simple, so uncomplicated. So completely evil.
Besides the family and the police, whom they revile (“Everyone hates you,” they sneer at policemen), there’s one other set of people they hate. Given the fact that the book was published by the top engineering school in the country, their loathing for engineers and scientists, particularly particle scientists, seems strange. But these scientists and engineers represent everything they oppose: order, discipline, concentration, and growth.
Happily, just before I picked up The Coming Insurrection, I had read an article about particle theory in the December 2010 issue of Scientific American. I had meant to give the subscription to my engineering student nephew. Too late, I discovered he already had a subscription, so I kept it for myself instead.
The article, “A Geometric Theory of Everything” by physicist A. Garrett Lisi (a former surfer boy) and James Owen Weatherall, is about a search for the link between Einstein’s theory of relativity with quantum theory (the study of particles of matter). Lisi and Weatherall use geometry to study the link between the great and small, between energy and gravity.
The secret, they claim, lies in bundles of fermions. “The main geometric [the study of shapes] underlying the Standard Model is that every point in our spacetime has shapes attached to it, called ‘fibers,’ each corresponding to a different kind of particle. The entire geometric object is called a ‘fiber bundle.’ The electric and magnetic fields existing everywhere in our space are result of fibers with the simplest shape: the circle.”
These circles, Lisi and Weatherall tell us, attach to other objects in space. Electromagnetism consists of circles attached to every point of spacetime. Over time and space, these bundles of electrically-charged fibers twist around the circle, like threads around a screw. An electromagnetic wave is the undulation of circles over spacetime.
“One quantum of an electromagnetic wave – a photon – is a propagating particle of light.”
Yoda was right, then, according to this theory – “The Force” surrounds us and binds the universe together. The physicists haven’t figured everything out. With each collision in the particle matter collider, new particles are discovered.
Meanwhile, the Invisible Committee regards itself as the dark matter, the black holes of the universe. As earnestly as the physicists are trying to piece the puzzles together to discover a “beautiful” universe, the IC and comrades are just as determined to tear the universe apart, to create a permanent chaos.
The Invisible Committee urges its readers to throw off every sense of duty to family, employer, and society in general – even to themselves. There is no individual, either; only loyalty to the commune, which they advise us all to live in.
They have no qualms about committing violence and pride themselves on every victory against the police, the ultimate symbols of law and order. They advise followers to work in small groups, and use the element of surprise as their weapon. A few people strategically spread out like guerrillas can cause a lot of chaos and overwhelm the forces of law and order. Still, they admit the police, armed with technology and superior weapons, have them at a loss at times. The police have learned the art of deceit (an art the Committee boasts of employing itself), infiltrating their ranks to foil the insurrectionists. The Committee has not yet learned how to identify them. Perhaps they should consult the Hell’s Angels or The Outlaws.
The Invisible Committee turns its nose up at intellectuals, who only want to talk, yet they themselves are overly fond of using large, multisyllable words in long, run-on sentences. They prefer action, they say, to words. Politics is just a waste of time. They criticize the existence of Assemblies as a waste of time and taxpayers’ money. Whereas the Tea Parties are willing to suffer legislatures, as long as they answer to the people.
People like the Invisible Committee should have been committed to mental hospitals long ago. Thanks to the Liberals, they let these “useful idiots” loose upon society to commit murder and mayhem, robbery, vandalism, and chaos in order to create a power vacuum which they intend to occupy when the time is right.
The Invisible Committee would have us believe that life itself is futile. They are self-proclaimed “nihilists”. Life is senseless and useless, according to their unhinged views of life. Clearly, some of their mental and emotional “fiber bundles” have come unhinged. Their minds have spun off into the vacuum of space, unconnected to reality.
Certainly, their intentions are dangerous. As for their philosophy, the best defense is a little philosophy of our own: “Living well is the best revenge.” Our strategy should be one of positive enlightenment. The best way to defeat them is to be happy.
Prof. Beck has quite a syllabus. I’m already well-studied in the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. One of the books on list is “The Coming Insurrection” authored by some group called “The Invisible Committee.” Published by MIT (as in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of all schools), it is a plan for throwing the world into chaos, with absolutely no goal.
Quite a manipulative book (as all Communist books are), though mercifully short, at 123 pages, the first chapter is a foul, self-indulgent, middle-finger rant at civilized society. The French author, or author(s), when not exercising their profane vocabulary, runs around in circles of multi-syllable words about nihilism, the uselessness of life, and the evils of societal order and especially the nuclear family.
Throughout the book, even in subsequent chapters, the author(s) makes frequent reference to psychiatric treatment and medications. Are these the ravings of a collective group, or a sociopathic lunatic with multiple personality disorder?
Whoever they are, they may be crazy, but they’re not stupid. Having disoriented the reader with the self-indulgent, adolescent rantings of the first chapter, the author immediately switches track. Adults by now have tossed the book aside, leaving only the young, the stupid, and the mentally infirm to continue. The next chapters are perfectly lucid.
The author leads the reader down a fairly cognizant trail of arguments about materialism and consumerism. According to this author, we spend and consume too much. But before the chapter is over, they’re defending the rights of unions to strike and even resort to violence and vandalism to get their “fair share”. If what the author says is true, shouldn’t they be trying harder to “make do”?
Work and making money don’t matter to this lazy set of authors. They would much rather not work, sil vous plait. They admit that needing things like food, clothing, and shelter is a problem. Eventually, what exists will wear out or run out. But that’s someone else’s problem.
Their answer to such shortages is to steal. Steal with zeal is their philosophy. They don’t owe the world a living, they figure. They won’t beg one of the world, either. They’ll just take what they want. It’s so simple, so uncomplicated. So completely evil.
Besides the family and the police, whom they revile (“Everyone hates you,” they sneer at policemen), there’s one other set of people they hate. Given the fact that the book was published by the top engineering school in the country, their loathing for engineers and scientists, particularly particle scientists, seems strange. But these scientists and engineers represent everything they oppose: order, discipline, concentration, and growth.
Happily, just before I picked up The Coming Insurrection, I had read an article about particle theory in the December 2010 issue of Scientific American. I had meant to give the subscription to my engineering student nephew. Too late, I discovered he already had a subscription, so I kept it for myself instead.
The article, “A Geometric Theory of Everything” by physicist A. Garrett Lisi (a former surfer boy) and James Owen Weatherall, is about a search for the link between Einstein’s theory of relativity with quantum theory (the study of particles of matter). Lisi and Weatherall use geometry to study the link between the great and small, between energy and gravity.
The secret, they claim, lies in bundles of fermions. “The main geometric [the study of shapes] underlying the Standard Model is that every point in our spacetime has shapes attached to it, called ‘fibers,’ each corresponding to a different kind of particle. The entire geometric object is called a ‘fiber bundle.’ The electric and magnetic fields existing everywhere in our space are result of fibers with the simplest shape: the circle.”
These circles, Lisi and Weatherall tell us, attach to other objects in space. Electromagnetism consists of circles attached to every point of spacetime. Over time and space, these bundles of electrically-charged fibers twist around the circle, like threads around a screw. An electromagnetic wave is the undulation of circles over spacetime.
“One quantum of an electromagnetic wave – a photon – is a propagating particle of light.”
Yoda was right, then, according to this theory – “The Force” surrounds us and binds the universe together. The physicists haven’t figured everything out. With each collision in the particle matter collider, new particles are discovered.
Meanwhile, the Invisible Committee regards itself as the dark matter, the black holes of the universe. As earnestly as the physicists are trying to piece the puzzles together to discover a “beautiful” universe, the IC and comrades are just as determined to tear the universe apart, to create a permanent chaos.
The Invisible Committee urges its readers to throw off every sense of duty to family, employer, and society in general – even to themselves. There is no individual, either; only loyalty to the commune, which they advise us all to live in.
They have no qualms about committing violence and pride themselves on every victory against the police, the ultimate symbols of law and order. They advise followers to work in small groups, and use the element of surprise as their weapon. A few people strategically spread out like guerrillas can cause a lot of chaos and overwhelm the forces of law and order. Still, they admit the police, armed with technology and superior weapons, have them at a loss at times. The police have learned the art of deceit (an art the Committee boasts of employing itself), infiltrating their ranks to foil the insurrectionists. The Committee has not yet learned how to identify them. Perhaps they should consult the Hell’s Angels or The Outlaws.
The Invisible Committee turns its nose up at intellectuals, who only want to talk, yet they themselves are overly fond of using large, multisyllable words in long, run-on sentences. They prefer action, they say, to words. Politics is just a waste of time. They criticize the existence of Assemblies as a waste of time and taxpayers’ money. Whereas the Tea Parties are willing to suffer legislatures, as long as they answer to the people.
People like the Invisible Committee should have been committed to mental hospitals long ago. Thanks to the Liberals, they let these “useful idiots” loose upon society to commit murder and mayhem, robbery, vandalism, and chaos in order to create a power vacuum which they intend to occupy when the time is right.
The Invisible Committee would have us believe that life itself is futile. They are self-proclaimed “nihilists”. Life is senseless and useless, according to their unhinged views of life. Clearly, some of their mental and emotional “fiber bundles” have come unhinged. Their minds have spun off into the vacuum of space, unconnected to reality.
Certainly, their intentions are dangerous. As for their philosophy, the best defense is a little philosophy of our own: “Living well is the best revenge.” Our strategy should be one of positive enlightenment. The best way to defeat them is to be happy.
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