You can't prune people like hedges-- it's ok to be better than another but shared equality remains.

I don't think cryonics is inherently a purely secular enterprise but it certainly seems that way these days. What has become known as "sprirituality" is in fact a shared capacity for creative cognition among human beings-- a quality that sets us apart from the animals, despite having animal components. The significant nature of man is more akin to God-- in that the capacity for understanding an applying the universal principles to increase the potential population density of Earth exists.

In this light, I trimmed my front doorstep hedge this morning. I pruned it. Recent rain stimulated thousands of new light green leafy chutes and the hedge had already needed to be trimmed back. Decapitating the chutes led to metaphorical musings on the political situations in history and currently where people are being trimmed back-- this is the essence of Globalism-- the new imperialism, based on the values of the anti-Renaisssance Enlightenment.

People are not plants however. And they're not even animals. They're an order of existence in the universe that are in a provable phase space-- beyond geological, beyond biological-- although embedded in these matricies. The nooetic sphere was created by the dimension of mind of man. The noos are the artifacts, the intergenerational knowledge.

Further musings while sweating and cutting in the morning heat and humidity, in sight of the Scottsdale mountains, just beyond where the cryonics mausoleum Alcor is situated, I got to thinking about how we all want to become better-- but the startling realization that a lot of people want to become better than other people at something in order to dominate them-- or subvert them-- struck me-- becuase the idea of becoming better can be viewed in two ways.

One way-- is just that-- survival of the fittest. Get yours. My money. The other way is to be better within the context of the higher principles of the universe-- up there where there appear to be principles embedded in the universe waiting for our discovery and applications as though the singularity has already occurred. And we assist our fellow humans in that mission of continuance. We of the Renaissance say that there is plenty for everyone-- no need to prune humans like this hedge.

The higher mission of mankind is to go forth and multipy-- and provide the foundation for future generations to succeed us in a civilization. this is no less true in cryonics--- but no cryonicist I've ever met thinks that way. I find myself isolated in that view-- as I sweat, prune the hedge, and look over at the mountains, thinking about the cryonauts, and my possible future as a cryonaut.

Cryonics is embedded in society, and civilization. And civilization is intergenerational. There are higher principles we're all attempting to achieve and competition amongs ourselves is certainly warrented but there comes a point where it's NOT strictly warrented-- when one's own better position and situation-- goes into outreach mode where the next generation is built-- because to NOT lay THAT groundwork-- is to subvert the future. So in effect, the best selfishness becomes selfLESSness. A paradox.

A paradox this morning, as I prune my hedge.