Orwell and Huxley and Enlightenment

"Oh brave new world that has such people in it" Huxley borrowed a phrase from Shakespeare to title his image of a world shaped by genetic engineering. Orwell's "1984" envisions a world equally constrained, but constrained by coercion rather than co-option. The forces necessary to the fruition of either outcome are fully at work. The future is not "either-or": it is "both-and". It is not necessary or recommended to resist the inertia of these social forces, for ultimately they will come under the sway of enlightenment.

It is not that enlightenment will become fashionable, but rather that enlightenment is humanities only hope: and therefore its last resort. Eventually the obvious will become apparent even to the hopelessly occluded, and it can not happen a moment too soon.

The center will hold. And that center is the awakening of the universe in it's individuated droplets.

Politics and Ethics

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Awareness and the Real

The wish to escape from creature-hood pretty much defines what we think of as saints. Those to whom we ascribe the saint-hood thing tend to be those who in our estimation are more evolved than ourselves. There is no evolution of awareness. Consciousness is formal. Consciousness is informal. Consciousness is complex. Consciousness is evolving. Awareness is not evolving. Awareness is simply aware.

Awareness is the limit of our being. All ideas are created shapes of self and have utility for better or for worse. Ideas are the product of consciousness. Consciousness is the product of awareness.

If our awareness is a mystery to us we have not seen our selves.