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June 12, 2003
Global Brain, First Licks
I just finished the prologue to Howard Bloom's Global Brain. I do this stuff called reading when on vacation. My first impression is that he's on to something. Being of a mind to relate much of it down to the first person observations, I think that group selection is a very reasonable theory. I'll let him flesh out the whole thing.
According to my Seditionist partner, Carter G. Woodson wrote that because of his education, the negro will always find the back door, and if there isn't one, he'll invent one. Certainly Woodson wasn't thinking of the Ur-Matrix world of backdoors that Bryan Alexander sees (among the many things he sees). Rather he was thinking in the black white terms of respectability and denial of same. Bloom says, him that gets gets more and them with the L on the forehead schlep off to die in the corner, voluntarily. This is the altruism of the non-type A personalities. Which, by the way I see as a reason for being gay as contrasted with simply being homosexual.
But I like the Ur interpretation of a role of blackness. More Matrixwise, consider that the Oracle is black in the Woodson via Alexander way. She offers the choice to see which ones might be the One. She is the yacc, lint and lex of the Matrix. She parses out the inevitable bugs, except that she understand that this human yang is necessary for the survival of machine yin, so she sees which one of the yang talkers understand why they have been sent like cool mau-maus to destroy. She is actively searching for those who hack the Matrix, those who would make their own backdoors, and most graciously she gives Neo the (offset) address to the Keymaker, master of all doors.
Zion is created and recreated. It is group selecting for the best One who gets to pick the next generation if he fails to save his own Zion. It is by definition a refining process.
Back to this reality and American Negroes keeping it real. Some get beat down so deeply that they don't bother. They become the resounding thud. Is the resounding thud good for society? Do the winners learn from the losers, or is subversion self-defeating? Woodson would say that the Negro must find the front door, but the Negro is only meaningful in America. Kwame Ture would have a contrasting Negritude answer. The Negro must unbecome Negro and then become Black, generating for themselves and the rest of the world a higher brighter reality. Group selection. Do it for unity.
As I get through chapters, I suppose I'll find the ways and means of communication of group selection. What it means, for example, to kill off the HNIC and how that person is determined. Blacks in America have evolved as a group nicely. I like that he puts this in the context of all biology. My intent is not to inscribe any racial lesson, but to see how the group selction might be ascribed to a group of humans identified by a set of subversive / anti-social / self-destructive behaviors.
Once upon a time I wrote that America tells itself horror stories in black. Here's another reason.
Posted by mbowen at June 12, 2003 11:54 AM
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