The World has No Utility.

Nature Destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK that 2008 crisis, experts warn

Article in Guardian giving yet another pointless "measure" of Nature. This one following the trend of trying to force Nature into economic terms.

But articles like this are clearly far off the mark. Giving economic measures of Nature is exactly like someone saying that if my children die then I won't have anyone to look after me in old age. Is that really what you think the point of your children is?

Viewing everything as "utility" is in fact the whole problem, and that comes from the Ideology of Capitalism.

A quick application of SRH deals with everything below. Assume that be base things on utility: what is the use of things we need to find out. So what is the use of Nature for example. But then we need to ask what is the use of asking what the use of things is? Quickly we see there is no use to this.

So in fact the world has absolutely no utility what so ever, it is all completely pointless and useless... well that is except for a few deranged Capitalists who seem to think there is such a thing as "profit".. well "profit" until you die and lose it all anyway LOL.

Realising that we as individuals are really pointless and useless is actually a good thing to cope with. It clears up the desperate need to achieve and become some one that plagues modern thinking. Not a day goes by these days without someone referring to their life in terms of "utility." I want to achieve my goals and dreams, I want my life to be useful and meaningful. Well we shouldn't deny these things but they are not the point. There is no point. Becoming fixated on these things can mean you miss the fact there is no point entirely. Becoming fixated on these things means that even thinking there is no point can seem depressing and frightening. I guess the drug addict views coming of drugs like this at first. It takes time to get used to it. You look at people from pre-capitalist societies and they are just happy to set under a tree and let time pass in peace. To the Western Capitalist this is time wasted, but that is the irony. After the capitalist has built their empire, it will crumble and they will be left with nothing under a tree (if not literally then when they die). Remind me what the goal was again?

In general this total fixation on utility means Western "Civilisation" literally marks the low point and end of humanity.

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Simple things to think about kind of erase all this "Modern" thinking.

How did human's get here? It's a question as old as humanity itself, and we don't know.

Current thinking uses ideas of physics, chemistry, biology, information theory and mathematics to suggest that by evolution simple structures generated emergent properties that were selected for to create ever more complex structure until humans arrived. Dawkin's famous "Blind Watchmaker" details mechanism that can take simple things and generate ever more complex ones without any intelligence, foresight or planning. I should add that a "human" is also much more than a physical animal. Language and mind are just as important and through cultural evolution, wars and progress, human mind evolves too. But this works in tandem with the biological. While language is a creative art and cultural phenomenon the evolution of speech is very much connected to the biological evolution of the pharynx and larynx. They had to develop in parallel. And so when we speak of "modern" humans we need look at how they are "facilitated" by the human's before. We would not be talking or singing today had ancient ancestors not developed voice. And while what they used it for is now forgotten, we have appropriated it in our modern world. Perhaps our ancestors sang to each other rather than talk, who knows?

But how ever complex our ideas get they are houses of cards built on a table and by SRH that table will always be unknown. Indeed it is that interplay between the known and the unknown which enables knowledge.

It means that "mystery" pervades everything. What is certain when seen one way, is mysterious seen the other. The most ordinary thing in the world, in the Northern Hemisphere we walk over thousands every autumn:

And yet if a probe returned from a distant planet with one and we saw for the first time how extraordinary. Sure we can explain things in terms of DNA, biology, physics etc but we could never predict it going forward. We always gather evidence and build our house of cards of theories on what is there. We build our theories for ourselves but "What is there" doesn't need our theories. That makes it by definition mysterious. If the world needs our theories then what theory governs the creation and use of theories? Chicken and egg. SRH. There must be something that cannot be theorised in order to found theory itself. That makes the world in its essence a mystery.

This gets us into the same mental space as faith in religions and emptiness in Buddhism. Ultimately freedom and truth comes from a place of "mystery." I mean "mystery" not like a cross-word of detective novel. There is no task to complete here. Instead it is like sitting by a spring watching the water bubbling up. We can't see where they water comes from, we don't need to because the water comes to us. Likewise the mystery of the world, the mysterious source, brings the world to us and there is nothing to do. Everything will be revealed in its own time. Just be patient and be ready. That is the Mystery.

So now we apply all that, to the kind of nonsense in modern thinking which comes out in its nonsense about Nature. The busy-ness of modern Capitalism with its apparent certainty and definite goals. I believe they are things like "Wealth" (after Adam Smith, 1776) and "Progress" (after Anne Turgot, 1750) both it should be noted appearing at the start, and apologising, for Capitalism. These gain favour in the minds of people which have already been collapsed into "Enlightenment" (meant ironically and pejoratively) and the idea that knowledge is a commodity that can be absolutely gained and held. The division of the world into absolute truths and falsehoods that are obtainable. A simple consideration of this raises immediate questions. Is "Quantum Physics" obtainable? Well you can go to school and learn it all, but it is out of the bounds of most people to have time or inclination to do this. So you end up with Esoteric Priests even in the world of Positivism who hold the keys to knowledge. We have to downgrade knowledge to something that can be held with enough effort. But as Newton says "I stand on the shoulders of giants" so we also need the work of pervious generations to get us where we are. Even the greatest scholars of the 1700s could not imagine what we have devised today in Quantum Physics. And while this points to Progress, it also points to Relativity. IF what you know depends upon the Past then it is no longer absolute. This is the broader weakness of the idea of Progress that if tomorrow people will have progressed beyond today then today we are ignorant and poor. That defeats Adam Smith as well as Turgot. So its all nonsense and after we step off the merry-go-round we are back at the mystery of nature... to which we may have done enormous damage while we were intoxicated and deranged in a psychosis of utility nonsense.

Definitely time to partition economics off into its own world like we have religion. When there is a political debate we ask the heads of the church, we ask the heads of the city, and we invite other stake holders to join the debate. We do not do what modern bought and corrupt politicians do, which is resolve to promote the economy as though it were some axiom. Eco-nomics is just the study of "home" (specifically human dwelling) not to be confused with Eco-logy which is the broader study of homes in general. Economics has no particular significance.