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Something to Believe In

Posted Oct 10, 2007 8 comments

Does your life have any meaning or purpose? If you answered “yes” to that question, it means you’ve got a Supercontext in your head.  That’s not a bad thing.  It sounds like a medical condition but it’s actually a term I stole from a comic book. 

A “Supercontext” is The Big Picture—the narrative myth that gives meaning to your life.  I try to wake up every morning engaged in a quest to save the world, but it can be hard to get enough evidence to convince me I have a fighting chance—or even any effect whatsoever.  You can make your own Supercontext or you can get one second-hand—making your own takes a lot of work, though.

A great way to create a powerful Supercontext is war.  As some dude once observed, “war is a force that gives us meaning.” It provides all of the narrative elements in one single firebomb swoop: thesis/antithesis, protagonist/antagonist, a beginning & an ending, a winner & a pile of bodies. 

Considering you’re now four paragraphs into a Hump Jones with no clitoris jokes, you might be wondering if I posted an article on the wrong site again.  Nay.

MERE RELATIVISM

You’ve probably heard some variation on the Rabbi joke: an elderly Rabbi, or perhaps a wizened old Zen monk, is trying to calm down an over-excited student.  The student, you see, has just realized that almost everything they percieve is an illusion that only exists inside their own heads, and they’re understandably freaked out.  The implications are horrifying: does that mean that everything is just a vast hologram and none of it’s real?  Do we ever truly experience reality?  How can we be truly conscious in a --

-- at which point the Zen Rabbi leans over and punches the student square in the nose, hard and fast. 

You probably got the point before I ever reached the punchline, since Hump Jones readers are among the most intelligent, attractive and high-income human beings on Earth today.  Is that part of your Supercontext?  When I was in high school, I got into “conspiracy theory,” because I believed there was a hidden elite shaping Western culture.  In the past year I’ve come to realize that I’m actually one of them now, and there’s a hell of a lot of work to do.  What actually changed?  Nothing at all—only language patterns inside my head.  And yet, my biceps and testicles have both swollen considerably as a result. 

LET’S SAVE THE FUCKING WORLD

So, anyone want a secondhand Supercontext?  I’m going to lay out the Hump Jones Cosmology in two paragraphs—if it sounds good, take it and run with it.  It’s only true if it’s useful:

Remember Toxoplasmosis? Long story short, it’s a parasite that alters human behavior, making women more promiscuous, and making men more aggressive and depressed.  It does this by altering levels of hormone production and output into the bloodstream.  Yes, a small parasite is capable of doing that.  Yes, that is very scary.  Toxoplasmosis was, like most parasites, discovered because it wasn’t achieving perfect symbiosis with the host.  It’s worth considering that any parasite which has achieved such a union would probably not ever be detected as a parasite. 

Wether the source of All Human Suffering is an external influence or internal wiring problems, one thing is clear: the greatest threat the human survival is posed by human ignorance and human aggression. Orgasmic sex makes people happier, more relaxed, less aggressive, and most importantly of all, healthier human beings.  Sexual repression is a proven catalyst for violence, and yet it continues to be associated with “moral” behavior—this needs to change.  I am currently engaged in an open war for the control of the global media network, which has an astonishing power over the moods, opinions and thoughts of billions of human beings.  The current signal—helplessness, selfishness, and meaninglessness—needs to be shut down wherever possible and replaced with signals that encourage growth, freedom and creativity.

Unpacking the Code

Here’s a bonus tip to round out the Supercontext package: all human innovation and design comes from nature.  All of it. Every mechanical part in existence is based upon something that exists in nature.  The history of human invention is equally a history of human observation.  This not an even remotely new insight, this predates Pythagoras, and recently got proven anew by Bucky Fuller, and if you’re really really into understanding this, you should check out Paul Laffoley. We like to think of ourselves as Human the Creator, but more accurately, we’re unpacking a code that surrounds, sustains and engulfs us.  (It also contains us and consumes us, but I could do this all night.)

AND OH YEAH

Sex is part of love.  Sorry, it is.  It really, really is.  You have sex with some people you love, but certainly not all of them. 

However, consider the many people you love, but do not have sex with.  Like for instance, your mother and father.  They had sex to create you.  Or your siblings.  They, too, were created by your parents having sex.  When you yourself reproduce, you are creating new humans who will love and be loved by other human beings, some of whom they will have sex with.  For real, I should write a kids book.  My point remains: everything we call “civilization” is a group trance we created so we don’t have to deal with the mind-shredding reality of SEX and DEATH. It really is that simple. 

How could a culture be so scared of penis in vagina when there’s 20,000 porn magazines in print for every citizen of the United States of America?  And you call me a weirdo. This constant cognitive dissonance, rapidly cycling between repulsion and attraction—amazingly enough, it kind of stresses people out!  Yeah, I know.  Whodathunkit.

In closing, I think I’m going to declare this Wednesday the next Cuttlefish Day, so be prepared for that.  Big dog shout to Grant Morrison for the whole “Supercontext” term and concept, I just took that football and ran with it.  I hope Big Thaings are on the horizon for everyone else reading this, because the energy is right.  And boy, if you’re having a shitty week, my smile must be the most abrasive thing you’ve dealt with since Listerine, huh?  I’m doing GREAT, thanks for asking.

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