The new year celebrates new beginnings as one casts the past aside. It is a difficult to judge how to do this. With every passing year, Millennial conditions diverge more radically from the past. Perceptions must expand to deal with the global exchange of knowledge and technological and scientific
advancements. We must find
new ways to understand the world, to interpret the cloud of data.
Reality and the larger reality: courtesy of
Graham Hancock's Daily Alternative News Desk, recent headlines herald one discovery after another. Every
day, new boundaries are breached. Scientists explore the mysteries of matter to the point where matter disappears. Look again at something mundane, and it reveals a trove of secrets, while past certainties crumble in confusion:
- Russia Today: 'Noah's Ark': Russia to build world first DNA databank of all living things (26 December 2014)
- Hurriyet Daily News: Massive ancient underground city discovered in Turkey's Nevşehir (28 December 2014): "With 2014 soon coming to an end, potentially the year’s biggest
archeological discovery of an underground city has come from Turkey’s
Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir, which is known world-wide for
its Fairy Chimneys rock formation. The city was discovered by
means of Turkey’s Housing Development Administration’s (TOKİ) urban
transformation project. Some 1,500 buildings were destructed located in
and around the Nevşehir fortress, and the underground city was
discovered when the earthmoving to construct new buildings had started. TOKİ Head Mehmet Ergün Turan said the area where the discovery was made was announced as an archeological area to be preserved. 'It
is not a known underground city. Tunnel passages of seven kilometers
are being discussed. We stopped the construction we were planning to do
on these areas when an underground city was discovered,' said Turan. The
city is thought to date back 5,000 years and is located around the
Nevşehir fortress. Escape galleries and hidden churches were discovered
inside the underground city."
- Newsweek: The campaign to prove Shakespeare didn't exist (29 December 2014)
- PhysOrg: Scientists race to save 'books' in the burning 'library of life' (29 December 2014)
- Wired: Machine intelligence cracks genetic controls 29 December 2014): "Most genetic research to date has focused on just 1 percent of the genome—the areas that code for proteins. But new research, published Dec. 18 in Science,
provides an initial map for the sections of the genome that orchestrate
this protein-building process. 'It’s one thing to have the book—the big
question is how you read the book,' said Brendan Frey, a computational
biologist at the University of Toronto who led the new research."
- The Independent: Large Hadron Collider ready to delve even deeper than 'God particle' as it switches back on at double power (29 December 2014)
- PhysOrg: Study reveals new half-light half-matter quantum particles (29 December 2014): "In a pioneering study, Professor Menon and his team were able to discover half-light, half-matter particles in atomically thin semiconductors (thickness ~ a millionth of a single sheet of paper) consisting of two-dimensional (2D) layer of molybdenum and sulfur atoms arranged similar to graphene. They sandwiched this 2D material in a light trapping structure to realize these composite quantum particles. 'Besides being a fundamental breakthrough, this opens up the possibility of making devices which take the benefits of both light and matter,' said Professor Menon."
Technocrats and scientists are blindly confident as they manipulate and extend our knowledge of reality. But they often lack the training, intuition or perspective to assess the human consequences of their protean experiments.
The tools we use to understand the expanding world are out of date. The
best of the past departs in the blink of an eye. Yet the worst of the
past lives on, zombified, in political
ideologies, pop philosophies, corporate strategies and contemporary
world views. How did this mismatch between reality and perception
happen? In the latter half of the 20th century, reality became a
commodity, subject to the demands of corporate profit and
organization, of advertising and of disaster capitalism. Marketing agendas
restrict reality's accepted boundaries and punish activity which defines
reality beyond those agendas.
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