Whores & Robots
We are fighting WaR!
Money whores who base their lives on the single-minded conquest of “making money” are the standard-bearers of modern culture. Drone-like robots who refuse to challenge this narcissistic, thoughtless way of living propagate the existence of whores.
Whores & Robots is an ACTIVE philosophy and group of people seeking to transform this diseased and corrupt way of thinking. We want to re-engage in promoting a healthier, more balanced philosophy and way of thinking for our community and culture. This campaign can only be successful with the ACTIVE help and commitment from people like YOU! People willing to take on any role that you can spare. Roles that include as little as passing along these ideas and promoting the philosophies that YOU believe are helpful is a good first step.
At the CORE of our philosophy is the promotion and adherence to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Inalienable RIGHTS or individual RIGHTS (as describe in the Philosophy of Liberty video on the Homepage) and personal responsibilities are inseparable opposites sided of the same coin. As Jordan Peterson puts it (and I am paraphrasing here): ‘your Inalienable Rights’ allow you to dispose your personal responsibilities.’ Our inalienable RIGHTS help us to understand the ownership that we have of ourselves. Personal responsibility, on the other hand, gives us an assurance mechanism for the things we do and WHY we might do them. This seems to be a fundamental aspect of maintaining balance among a healthy culture and society. Personal responsibility is the sociological force that is the equivalent of gravity’s force in the physical world. If it is allowed to be universally and uniformly applied, its purpose is irreplaceable. It is a check and balance system that hinges ALL of us by requiring consequences (and rewards) for the things that we do (and sometimes don’t do). It is cause and effect.
The next level of importance in our philosophy is the promotion and adherence to a familial unit. A family unit is the most fundamental building block of human (and many other species) sociology. In our culture’s recent history, this basic building block is not DIScouraged, but it certainly isn’t emphasized to the degree that a healthy human society might like it to be. Think of the story of the 3 Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. If your culture was the house built out of straw or sticks, it probably wouldn’t sustain the attacks of this world’s various versions of the big, bad wolf. However, if your culture was like the house built out of BRICKS, it would be sturdy and resilient. Families (in the many forms they come) are the BRICKS of our society. As much as we all have disagreement and sometimes even antipathy for parts of our family, for those with even mildly functional families, we know these people to be our most valuable resources throughout our lives. Fervent and committed promotion of this basic building block is a necessary component of a healthy, balanced society.
By the time we get to this next level of priority, one can begin to see the pattern of concentric circles beginning to show themselves. Community is a term that gets loosely thrown around by many of our culture’s supposed institutions of leadership. In this day and age, few people in first-world cultures are exposed to the functions that a traditional community would offer. Food supply, education, health care, shelter (construction) are all things that have been “outsourced” to entities outside the community in “advanced” society. The efficiency of outsourcing these things has had tremendous upside for human comfort and convenience. Unfortunately, comfort and convenience are some of the same things that remove us from cause and effect. They have also caused us to become disconnected from our communities. TRUE community cares about the preservation of the 2 concepts that were previously mentioned, the community itself, AND the 4th level of the concentric circle (its physical ENVIRONMENT or land-base). True communities preserve all 4 of these concentric circles through the complex integration of ideas, experiences, and beliefs of its members. True communities seek constantly to protect their members, preserve and protect their ever-changing and adapting ideals and philosophies, and preserve and protect the specific, local environment that serves them and sustains them. Communities that extract resources from other neighboring communities (or steal those resources through various versions of force or manipulation (think financial manipulation)) constantly run the risk of retaliation for misunderstandings that arise from these extractions. All wars and most small conflicts are the outcome of these extractions and misunderstandings. Negotiating exchanges of resources between communities has proven to be one of humankind’s most difficult propositions. These resources can include labor, agricultural goods, energy and mineral resources (i.e. oil, gas, gold, silver, lithium, etc.), finished products, intellectual property, etc. Exchanging them extensively in a “global economy” has given us a uniquely comfortable existence and a broad degree of consumption of resources that wouldn’t, typically, be at our disposal. While this has been, seemingly, good for most of humankind, it has also had some severely negative effects on certain communities and environments, AND it has disconnected us from a more human (less robotic) existence. The more enamored we get with technology and the convenience that it brings about, the LESS human (more robotic) we become.
Obviously, the most all-encompassing of the 4 levels of concentric circles is the Environment/Land-base that we ALL cannot live without. For most of us on this big blue marble we call Earth, the place we call “home” is the 1-2 mile radius of land surrounding the shelter that we live in. I never spent a lot of time thinking about this and NEVER was formally taught to think of my “home” in this light until I started reading Derrick Jensen’s book, Endgame. In it, he redefines many things about inhabiting this Earth that modern culture has rooted out of us as humans. One of those definitions is what being a human is. The word “human” is a derivation of a Latin word “humus” which means earth or ground. That is to say that humans are OF the earth and it is the earth that gives rise to humans (and life). Another term that is very familiar to us is “mother nature.” For the vast majority of human history (which extends anywhere from 10,000 to as much as 1 million years), humans have been forced to maintain a distinct and intimate relationship with mother nature. It was a matter of utility and feasibility. In a world where you could not travel too much outside of your 1-2 mile radius of your home, you were forced to become symbiotically related to that land. It would feed you, cloth you, warm you, protect you, sustain you and cradle you. It would also take from you, hurt you, starve you, and kill you. You not only had to worship the Earth, but you also had to respect it.
To most “conservatively” minded people, the first 2 circles probably sound sensible and familiar. When I start talking about community, it probably starts provoking some questions and, certainly, when I integrate environment into the conversation, conservative people may be thinking: “TREE-HUGGER!” I am going to ask that whether you define yourself as “conservative,” “liberal,” red, white, blue, or purple; please keep an open mind! There is a LOT of pre-conditioning that has been done to our minds in this culture for the past 100 years!
None of this is to suggest that humans need to revert to a caveman-like existence to achieve the “healthier balance” that has been referred to. Because there is no “pot of gold” at the end of any rainbow, I don’t believe that there is AN answer. I do, however, believe that our attention to and awareness of these ideas is a step in a direction AWAY FROM descending further into a culture of Whores & Robots!
