Most people's perspective of reality
consists of two things:
Themselves and everybody else.
Themselves and the ENTIRE universe.
These things are actually the same thing.
I think this misconception comes about
because your sensory perception is from a single point in space,
so it's a easy mistake to make.
What can bring about a sudden transformation
of the common consciousness?
Does that "thing" exist and what form does it take?
Dig the details but always look at the whole map
starts at 6:30
Who the fuck is Otto?
does anybody know Otto?
Is Otto gay?
i am intrigued by this person (no homo)
I search for the ultimate meme
Nam Shub: An incantation, chant, poem, or speech thought to have magical power in Sumerian texts.
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head, a video, an image? All of these things are in a sense ideas that have gone 'viral'. They spread, infect, and multiply in the same manner as a virus. For examples you can consider anything from the spread of Communism, to religion, to any super popular video on YouTube. These viral ideas can be classified as 'Nam Shubs'. The Nam Shub was first spoke of in Ancient Sumerian culture as basically a form of programming for the human mind, brain washing if you will. The Nam Shubs of the past were much more total than todays YouTube videos. To contemplate the true implications of such a thing we go to science fiction, as we often do to supply plausible and acceptable scenarios to the seemingly farfetched. In Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, he explores the full implications of the Nam Shub and what it could be used for.
In Snow Crash, a cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson, nam-shubs take the extreme shape found in the nam-shub of Enki as well as The Tower of Babble. Snow Crash is defined as a drug, a virus, and a religion. It can be better understood however as a nam-shub that spreads like a virus, with a 'high' similar to a drug, personality changes that include loss of one’s individual consciousness, that results in a cult like mentality, and lowers ones ability to reason against radical and illogical ideas such as found in Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates. Furthermore, Snow Crash, like The Nam-Shub of Enki and The Tower of Babble, affects the linguistics of any infected, causing such things as speaking in tongues. To fully understand Snow Crash lets first consider how it is spread. Snow Crash is spread two ways. One way is through blood. Those infected by Snow Crash are forced to be 'blood donors' for a time after being infected. Their blood is harvested and exported to be used to infect others. Snow Crash can also be spread to hackers in a very specific manner through their fundamental understanding of binary code. This idea plays off the idea that there are fundamental structures inside our brain that are based off of language. Having access to these fundamental structures allows for total programming of the brain. Hackers are infected through the viewing of a certain series of binary code. This code to others, not having such a fundamental rooting in computer language, would appear as no more than a blur of ones and zeros. To a hacker however, the brain automatically interprets and absorbs the program. This is comparable to the access to a computers main frame through the bios. allowing for completely by passing any defenses.