i’ve created a page for the infinit yes on facebook, found here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Infinit-Yes/130365950368574

eventually I’ll be integrating the feed from this page into my website, as a sort of news-source type thing (similar to my personal facebook feed now, but with more content).
do me a favor and hit ‘like’ (as of when this note wsa written I need 12 more people to be able to fully set up my page name/url).

thanks buds.

let alone that making these video’s would become an obsession of mine:

Some are better than others, some are more popular than other, and they’re done is a few different styles, but I’m just amazed I was able to make all of these in the timespan of four months. And while I’m re-pimping, here are some of my favorite written-type posts:

- Science, Wonder, and the Beauty of What’s Real
- the answer to 1984 is not 1776
- is it really spiritual if it doesn’t do anything?
- telescoping evolution
- any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
- …complains that more guys don’t experiment (ie. want to have sex with me)
- they’d let us play with markers, but i keep trying to draw infinity

So, like I’m about to say in my next post (about shambhala), this is my new year. I just turned twenty-three and a whole lot of new possibilities seem to keep presenting themselves to me. But with each new possibility comes new fears and new obstacles.

“The Infinit Yes” started as a small sub-section on the ‘dope creatures’ band website which I used to share my ‘thoughts’, just before 2010, I reformatted it into a more standard blog, and 4 months ago I started my youtube channel. The Infinit Yes keeps changing, and I’m hoping my next major update to the site will reflect this change (check end of summer 2010), and I hope my videos will continue to evolve and branch out, and MOST OF ALL I’d like to thank everyone and anyone who’s watched, shared, commented on, or otherwise shown your support for what I do. I’ve spent a lot of time on this site and these videos, and you guys make it all worth it.

i’m doing this in an effort to focus the site. I like posting other people’s content, but really the reason I pay for a domain name is to post my content. SO, from now on, if I just want to share something, or have a quick thought, I’ll post it on twitter l) (I’m gonna work on getting a feed up somewhere on the home page, so that even if you’r not a twitter user you can still see my stream), or facebook, I like connecting on there as well.

I will still include other people’s content in my posts on this site, but only if I have something substantive to add to or say about it.

http://twitter.com/theinfinityes

Everything plastic or rubber is made of oil. Oil fuels our transport, our trade, our economy. Our entire civilization is based on the use of fossil fuels for both energy and materials.

There are ways to fix these problems, but since we’re barely even attempting to implement them, the problems associate with depleting oil are escalating.

9. Bio Engineering:

We’re learning so much about how our bodies function at such a fast rate, that the applications seem almost science fiction, like the recently developed ‘bionic eye’ for blind people, a small camera either implanted into the eye socket or word on glasses that wirelessly sends a signal to an implant behind your ear, which interfaces with your brain to produce an image (see video here). If we can replace an eye, why not a heart? Or a brain (after transferring the data, of course)?

We are experimenting with being able to switch genes on and off. We are learning to literally grow tissues, or even entire organs in a lab, and implant them. We are learning to reverse the biological processes of aging. We are on the brink of attaining an unprecedented amount of control over our biology and the biology of our descendants. This raises many questions that are unique to our times and deserve a lot of discussion.

8. The Emerging Global Police State:

International Bankers, largely based in and in control of the United States and the other central UN nations are quietly imposing new laws that restrict people’s freedoms ad create an environment of fear, which leads to submission. But people will only accept so much, sometimes all too many of their freedoms to be taken away before being pushed to the brink, but there always is a brink. And the confused, power-hungry, fear mongers are always pushing the limits.

The illusion of freedom and democracy that has enshrouded the western world is dissipating due to many of the other factors listed here.

7. Technological Unemployment:

It started when tractors replaced farm workers. Then the people who built the tractors were replaced by automated factories. So everyone moved to the service industry, but now we have ATM’s and automated restaurants and waiters and vending machines.

The fact, is that in any industry, the more we automate the work (ie; assign it to machines rather than humans), the more efficiently the work is done. Machines are stealing our jobs (and they’re better at them, too)!!!! That’s why we can’t keep people employed. There isn’t enough work for them to do, and since they can’t work, they can’t spend, so companies has to cut costs, fire more people, further diminish the purchasing power of the individual. You see the diminishing returns here. This type of loop cannot be sustained.

We’ve ignored this (shifted people to new industries) for almost 80 years, and it’s finally starting to catch up to us (there really isn’t much work left for us to do).

6. Between 10% and 20% of the World’s Population is Starving:

and the global wealth gap is widening, which will only increase this number. As Citibank stated in their leaked internal memo, while they have successfully achieved the accumulation of power through monetary means, government, unfortunately still remains a one person one vote power structure. This clearly shows the mindset of the super-wealthy, who could easily afford to feed everyone on the planet, but choose, instead, due to their conditioning, to allow people to starve, tacitly allowing millions of deaths every day.

I wonder how far they think they can push it, before people start to say enough is enough. I know I’m already saying it. And so are a lot of other people.

5. AI:

Many parts of the brain have been modeled. Neural networks have been simulated. We don’t yet have all the processing power and neural models available to ‘build a brain’, but the pieces are falling together, if you pay attention to the news in that area. Ray Kurzweil projects we will have human level machine intelligence by 2029.

If a robot has the ability to react, discuss, argue that it is conscious and can feel, who would we be to say that it doesn’t? What if it has had the memories of a loved one transferred into it? The philosophical and intellectual debate this poses over what it means to be ‘alive’ or ‘conscious’ has the ability to fundamentally alter our perspectives on what it means to be a human. If that’s not revolutionary I don’t know what is.

4. Environmental Crisis:

Whether global warming is man made or not, we need to take care of our planet and our environment holistically. Failure to do this will inevitably result in environmental catastrophe. When this happens, something big is going to need to change.

3. The Flopping Global Economy:

The world-wide debt balloon is bursting. There are signs of it everywhere, world leaders are meeting to discuss it, and coming up with no real answers, just empty targets that won’t be met, and wouldn’t help even if they were met. A market economy is based on growth, but we only have one planet. It and the amount of resources on it are not growing, so we can’t keep using them at an accelerated rate.

The fact is that we live in a global Ponzi scheme, an upsidedown pyramid that is about to tip one way or the other. We need an ‘economic’ system that is based on the holistic management of the entire earth, it’s life, and it’s resources.

2. Nanotechnology:

Nanotechnology brings the promise of being able to manipulate matter at the level of molecules. In Eric Drexler’s Engine’s of Creation, a seminal book on Nanotech, he describes nano-scale assemblers that would have the ability to arrange matter in any way (ie; make apple pie from thin air, simply by re arranging the molecules). How is the economy going to work when everyone can have any material possessions they want at only the cost of raw materials?

Nanotechnology also carries with it the promise of being able to upgrade our human bodies. More efficient neurons, better red blood cells, better internal defense systems for healing cuts and bruises.

Nanotechnology takes it’s cue from our own molecular machinery (cells and the like), yet allows us to manipulate and improve upon it. It will likely also function as a catalyst for both AI, and is intermingled with Bio Engineering, in my opinion.

1. The Internet, ie: The Freedom and Spread of Information:

Hey guess what everyone? The United States and every member of it’s empire and most of the rest of the world is living in a Police State (see #8). We are not free, not in action, not in the choice of our governments or money masters.

But we all know that. We haven’t all been tricked, and we’re telling each other about what’s happening. We’re working right in front of their faces to remove them from power. Until about ten years ago, they were very effective at controlling public opinion. We all thought what the TV told us to, we all thought what was on TV was real. Now we know it’s just reality television, a drama played out for our amusement and distraction.

How do we know? Because we’re making our own videos, we’re learning how to think from each other, rather than from a single source, and that is unfortunate for anyone who wants things to stay the same. The printing press caused a revolution due to it’s ability to spread information. The internet does this on a scale many orders of magnitude larger, so should we expect that the resulting revolution will also be on a scale many orders of magnitutde larger?

Any one of these things has the potential to start a monumental revolution, either of the mind, or of our external environment. The fact that they are all happening at the same time is why I feel confident in saying that something big is coming.

What should we do about it? Well, if you ask me, I like the direction of the Zeitgeist Movement. To me it seems like the most reasonable option we have left.

charlie’s post arrest statement, describing the brutality he endured inside:

Charlie interviewed about the experience by Alex Jones, who acts like Alex Jones, but they make some good points about Canada’s Fascism being real:

Ani Difranco – Fuel

They were digging a new foundation in Manhattan
And they discovered a slave cemetery there
May their souls rest easy now that lynching is frowned upon
And we’ve moved on to the electric chair
And I wonder who’s gonna be president
Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber?
And who’s gonna have the big
Blockbuster box office
This summer
How ’bout we put up a wall
Between the houses and the highway
And then you can go your way
And I can go my way
Except all the radios agree with all the TV’s
And all the magazines agree with all the radios
And I keep hearing that same damn song
Everywhere I go
Maybe I should put a bucket over my head
And a marshmallow in each ear
And stumble around for another dumb numb week
For another hum drum hit song to appear
People used to make records
As in a record of an event
The event of people
Playing music in a room
Now everything is cross-marketing
It’s about sunglasses and shoes
Or guns or drugs
You choose
We got it rehashed
We got it half-assed
We’re digging up all the graves
And we’re spitting on the past
And we can choose between the colors
Of the lipstick on the whores
Cuz we know the difference
Between the font of twenty percent more
And the font of teriyaki
You tell me
How does that make you feel?
You tell me what’s real
They say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
Even when they’re dry as my lips for years
Even when they’re stranded on a small desert island
With no place in two thousand miles to buy beer
And I wonder is he different
Is he different
Has he changed
What he’s about
Or is he just a liar
With nothing to lie about
Am I headed for the same brick wall
Is there anything I can do
About anything at all
Except go back to that corner in Manhattan
And dig deeper
Dig deeper this time
Down beneath the impossible pain of our history
Beneath unknown bones
Beneath the bedrock of the mystery
Beneath the sewage system and the path train
Beneath the cobblestones and the water main
Beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
Beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
Beneath everything I can think of to think about
Beneath it all
Beneath all get out
Beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel
There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel There’s a fire that’s just waiting for fuel

This is todays only real journalism. People like this.

Remember though, as always. Never believe anything you see or hear. Just try and understand it as best you can.

Maybe I only like him when he’s being a sarcastic asshole to people I disagree with (not that I’m a Ron Paul supporter… dude’s an insane capitalist, but he’s smart, and he tells the truth, btu he has a blind spot when it comes to the free market. listen closer to the end when he talks about privatizing the FAA).

by the way, the video title is BS. nowhere is Maher ‘exposed as a corporate shill’, though of course he has to be one to some extent to have his own HBO show.

This is wonderful and amazing, and yet another example of accelerating technologies and our beginning to merge with machines (pacemakers, neural implants, cochlear implants)

BUT it’s sad that the report starts off saying how a huge amount of people die of heart disease every year, but they COULD NEVER mention the real root cause, (mcdonalds, burger king, fruit loops, snickers, etc, etc,) for fear of upsetting the advertisers. The ones with the money.