The Physical End of Phi...
The physical death of phi is at hand, allowing it's spiritual form to become of greater influence. Phi is the numerical constant repeated over and over in nature. This number is equal to the ratio of a current stage of the Fibonacci sequence against the previous stage. The Fibonacci sequence (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987,1597,2584,etc...) is a sequence developed to represent the reproductive growth given the absence of death. The sequence is most commonly known regarding Fibonacci's rabbits, where each stage represents the number of rabbit couples if it takes a stage to reach maturity (being able to sexually reproduce). This ratio of this sequence equals 1.618034... which equals the golden ratio, or phi.
So phi is the numeric representation of growth, but as I stated earlier, death isn't taken into account and the persistence of couples reproducing is a given. Humans are beginning to defy phi. Couples are increasingly becoming prone to avoid reproducing and if they do they only have a single child. This is most commonly found in developed countries where the instinctual urges are repressed. Evidence is shown in the growth rate that mankind is veering from the Fibonacci path.
The growth rate of the world population has continued to climb due to the prevalence of underdeveloped nations. India and China were significantly responsible due to their previously destitute status, but now since they are burgeoning into developed nations, their growth is growing stagnant. This has been predicted based upon the nature of advancement. As one nation develops to a certain extent, given time all other nations will follow suit. The typical time-span for such a transition is one generation (approximately twenty years).
Humans are also drastically effecting their environment. By invading the wilderness and polluting the planet we are making the population growth of other species stagnate or decline. So the lack of growth is a worldwide phenomenon, constituting a physical death of phi.
This absence of growth in the physical aspect is starting to cause a feeling of a lack of fulfillment. People are unsatisfied with merely existing. Institutions have made an effort to tranquilize the increasingly anxious masses. They deliver messages, services and products that are meant to pacify us, quiet that instinctual desire for growth. But that desire, that passion to grow, is the very essence of life itself. Passion itself is the conceptual byproduct of phi. Without it we are no different from a mechanical clock. But a mechanism is what the authorities desire us to be. A mechanism doesn't change unexpectedly without outside influence. So the authority controls the influences exposed to the public. They hope that without the knowledge of the spiral, man won't crave it, but if they do, the "problem" can easily be medicated.
The current wave of psychological pharmaceuticals is to quiet the mind. But it is the mind in which we have any hope of life. The physical death of phi is a necessary phenomenon. Our environment is limited and cannot support the continuing spiral of growth. So the sequence must plateau in the physical world but in the dimension of the conceptual it can continue ad infinitum. So the drugs that are being marketed to us (eg. Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Paxil, Luvox, Neurosine, Celexa, Zyban, Meridia, Effexor, Cymbalta, etc...) are all designed to kill the conceptual phi and make man into a cog in a wheel.
The messages we are exposed to also work to silence passion. The sheer volume and quantity of the messages to which we are exposed creates in the audience a stupor, for as they continuously try to sort out and make sense of the incoming information, more input is piled upon them until it exhausts will itself. And since most every message has no meaning, our minds cannot understand them and any effort to do so is futile. The mind becomes overloaded and gives up, leaving one bordering on vegetative. Again the cog role of man prevails.
The authority encourages consumerism so that man continuously works to obtain products and services. We work diligently in order to purchase products that rarely satisfy any instinctual need. We subscribe to services that most often only perpetuate the need of the service rather than satisfying any other desire. Man's needs themselves are programmed for us by the messages we receive.
Our society idolizes celebrities to such a degree that the very items that the celebrities adorn are craved by the masses as much or greater than the needs of the flesh. Indeed, many people, in efforts to resemble celebrities, mutilate themselves and physically harm their bodies. In that respect man hasn't changed since the jungle.
These celebrities themselves are mere puppets to the institutions. These institutions mold the celebrities to fit a role to appeal to a segment of society. Then they use the dedication of society to such a celebrity to promote products and services. Every segment of society has a celebrity. Country: Nascar Racers. Suburban Children: Pop Stars. Religiously Devout: Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Siddhartha, Shiva. The institutions form the concepts of all these celebrities and man, in an attempt to emulate them, places themselves into the wheel to become a cog.
People sell themselves short through celebrity worship. The celebrities become the ultimate goal of their existence. But by subscribing to such a goal they have no chance of exceeding it and progressing to their ultimate potential.
If man were to free themselves of the chains of institutional servitude, they would be more able to identify their potential. They could set a goal far beyond the institutional marionettes. They could leave their box and acquire a better understanding of the world. But these actions would require will power, the very thing that every institution is aiming to destroy.
Instead of the celebrities, these tangible idols that represent an ideal, people should worship the conceptual phi. The growth of the mind, the spiraling of understanding and the fulfillment derived therein would serve a better purpose than the cog.
The cog role, however, can never be escaped. We are indeed rooted in this universe. The mind itself is a product of the universe and is, in fact a miniature representation of it. We form concepts much as matter forms planets and stars. There is a possibility for conceptual growth. So although we may never escape the cog role, we can grow to become a greater cog, turning this wheel of the world faster and farther than before. We must remember that the wheel need not end where the celebrities stopped.
How are we to grow? Certainly not by reinventing the wheel, mimicking others or by abandoning everything. Improvement is growth. We could start by focusing on the original. New ideas are what matter most to conceptual growth. Specialization itself is not a negative method in growth, but without a broader understanding of the world, how would one know what direction they travel? They can't so, dedication to specialization should not act as blinders. We should always keep in mind the forest when dealing with the trees.
Phi has acted as a martyr. It is dying so that we may worship its spirit. If we fail to acknowledge this great spirit and honor it accordingly, we risk loosing that very spirit of life within us all.
Praise be to Phi!!!
So phi is the numeric representation of growth, but as I stated earlier, death isn't taken into account and the persistence of couples reproducing is a given. Humans are beginning to defy phi. Couples are increasingly becoming prone to avoid reproducing and if they do they only have a single child. This is most commonly found in developed countries where the instinctual urges are repressed. Evidence is shown in the growth rate that mankind is veering from the Fibonacci path.
The growth rate of the world population has continued to climb due to the prevalence of underdeveloped nations. India and China were significantly responsible due to their previously destitute status, but now since they are burgeoning into developed nations, their growth is growing stagnant. This has been predicted based upon the nature of advancement. As one nation develops to a certain extent, given time all other nations will follow suit. The typical time-span for such a transition is one generation (approximately twenty years).
Humans are also drastically effecting their environment. By invading the wilderness and polluting the planet we are making the population growth of other species stagnate or decline. So the lack of growth is a worldwide phenomenon, constituting a physical death of phi.
This absence of growth in the physical aspect is starting to cause a feeling of a lack of fulfillment. People are unsatisfied with merely existing. Institutions have made an effort to tranquilize the increasingly anxious masses. They deliver messages, services and products that are meant to pacify us, quiet that instinctual desire for growth. But that desire, that passion to grow, is the very essence of life itself. Passion itself is the conceptual byproduct of phi. Without it we are no different from a mechanical clock. But a mechanism is what the authorities desire us to be. A mechanism doesn't change unexpectedly without outside influence. So the authority controls the influences exposed to the public. They hope that without the knowledge of the spiral, man won't crave it, but if they do, the "problem" can easily be medicated.
The current wave of psychological pharmaceuticals is to quiet the mind. But it is the mind in which we have any hope of life. The physical death of phi is a necessary phenomenon. Our environment is limited and cannot support the continuing spiral of growth. So the sequence must plateau in the physical world but in the dimension of the conceptual it can continue ad infinitum. So the drugs that are being marketed to us (eg. Prozac, Zoloft, Lexapro, Paxil, Luvox, Neurosine, Celexa, Zyban, Meridia, Effexor, Cymbalta, etc...) are all designed to kill the conceptual phi and make man into a cog in a wheel.
The messages we are exposed to also work to silence passion. The sheer volume and quantity of the messages to which we are exposed creates in the audience a stupor, for as they continuously try to sort out and make sense of the incoming information, more input is piled upon them until it exhausts will itself. And since most every message has no meaning, our minds cannot understand them and any effort to do so is futile. The mind becomes overloaded and gives up, leaving one bordering on vegetative. Again the cog role of man prevails.
The authority encourages consumerism so that man continuously works to obtain products and services. We work diligently in order to purchase products that rarely satisfy any instinctual need. We subscribe to services that most often only perpetuate the need of the service rather than satisfying any other desire. Man's needs themselves are programmed for us by the messages we receive.
Our society idolizes celebrities to such a degree that the very items that the celebrities adorn are craved by the masses as much or greater than the needs of the flesh. Indeed, many people, in efforts to resemble celebrities, mutilate themselves and physically harm their bodies. In that respect man hasn't changed since the jungle.
These celebrities themselves are mere puppets to the institutions. These institutions mold the celebrities to fit a role to appeal to a segment of society. Then they use the dedication of society to such a celebrity to promote products and services. Every segment of society has a celebrity. Country: Nascar Racers. Suburban Children: Pop Stars. Religiously Devout: Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Siddhartha, Shiva. The institutions form the concepts of all these celebrities and man, in an attempt to emulate them, places themselves into the wheel to become a cog.
People sell themselves short through celebrity worship. The celebrities become the ultimate goal of their existence. But by subscribing to such a goal they have no chance of exceeding it and progressing to their ultimate potential.
If man were to free themselves of the chains of institutional servitude, they would be more able to identify their potential. They could set a goal far beyond the institutional marionettes. They could leave their box and acquire a better understanding of the world. But these actions would require will power, the very thing that every institution is aiming to destroy.
Instead of the celebrities, these tangible idols that represent an ideal, people should worship the conceptual phi. The growth of the mind, the spiraling of understanding and the fulfillment derived therein would serve a better purpose than the cog.
The cog role, however, can never be escaped. We are indeed rooted in this universe. The mind itself is a product of the universe and is, in fact a miniature representation of it. We form concepts much as matter forms planets and stars. There is a possibility for conceptual growth. So although we may never escape the cog role, we can grow to become a greater cog, turning this wheel of the world faster and farther than before. We must remember that the wheel need not end where the celebrities stopped.
How are we to grow? Certainly not by reinventing the wheel, mimicking others or by abandoning everything. Improvement is growth. We could start by focusing on the original. New ideas are what matter most to conceptual growth. Specialization itself is not a negative method in growth, but without a broader understanding of the world, how would one know what direction they travel? They can't so, dedication to specialization should not act as blinders. We should always keep in mind the forest when dealing with the trees.
Phi has acted as a martyr. It is dying so that we may worship its spirit. If we fail to acknowledge this great spirit and honor it accordingly, we risk loosing that very spirit of life within us all.
Praise be to Phi!!!
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