The Second Tenet Of Elementalism

1. The Conceivable Universe is divided into consciousness and the Great Fractal.

2. This is the Second and Divisional Tenet of Elementalism.

3. The First Tenet of Elementalism is that consciousness is the prima materia. The Second Tenet relates to the Division of the One, which is the division of consciousness into consciousness and the Great Fractal.

4. In the beginning, consciousness is only conscious of itself. But by willingly choosing to forget parts of itself, it can cause itself to become conscious of other things.

5. All of these other things, whether physical or metaphysical, make up the Great Fractal, which itself is everything that it is possible for consciousness to perceive or to conceive.

6. The Conceivable Universe, then, is this twofold division between consciousness and the contents of consciousness.

7. Existence is nothing more than consciousness exploring the Great Fractal. This is understood by contemplating the Second Tenet.

8. Except for when consciousness is in a pure form, existence cannot be anything else. All lives, in all realms and dimensions, are experienced as a fragment of consciousness exploring the Great Fractal.

9. Everything that is conceivable falls into either the category of consciousness or the category of the contents of consciousness.

10. In contrast to consciousness, the contents of consciousness are ever-changing. Also in contrast to consciousness, the contents of consciousness are multifarious.

11. The Conceivable Universe, then, has a static component akin to the Sun, and a dynamic component akin to the Moon. The Sun-like component is consciousness, which radiates like the Sun, and the Moon-like component is the Great Fractal, which reflects all of the moods of the divine.

12. The individual conscious being experiences the Conceivable Universe as an ever-changing set of perceptions that pass through their consciousness. This is always true, no matter which dimension they’re in. It’s true before life, it’s true during life, it’s true after death.

13. Every individual being experiences reality this way: as a fragment of the divine consciousness exploring the Great Fractal, in eternity, through countless lives and countless deaths.

14. The intensity with which consciousness explores the Great Fractal is experienced as time. A low intensity will be experienced as time passing slowly. A high intensity will be experienced as time passing rapidly.

15. The higher the intensity with which consciousness explores the Great Fractal, the greater the emotional pressure. If this emotional pressure becomes too great, it is experienced as trauma.

16. The higher the frequency of a consciousness, the more rapidly it can explore the Great Fractal without incurring emotional damage. Dramatic changes in the contents of consciousness can cause suffering to lower-frequency minds.

17. Understanding the Second Tenet leads naturally to the Third Tenet.

This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.

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Why You Should Join A Gang Instead Of Working

New Zealand now has over 7,000 gang members, an increase of some 13% from a year previous. Many theories have been put forward to explain this sudden rise, but none of them are adequately grounded in economic psychology. This essay makes a seemingly preposterous argument: that it makes more sense to join a gang nowadays than to work.

According to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand, the average New Zealand house price is now $810,000, up 19% from a year earlier. According to interest.co.nz, the ratio of this average house price to the median household income is now 8.43.

This ratio was 5.87 as recently as July 2016. Even back then, it meant that a working couple able to save 25% of their total wage could expect to take over 23 years to pay for the average house. That was considered “severely unaffordable” by all honest commentators. But it’s now almost 50% worse than even that.

These are terrifying statistics for anyone at, or near, the bottom of the educational ladder. The average household income, according to the stats mentioned above, is $96,114. That means over 33 years for the average couple, saving 25% of their total wage, to pay for the average house. Any household with a minimum wage earner will likely have it much harder than this.

This means it’s now realistically impossible for a significant, and growing, proportion of New Zealand workers to ever own a home on their wage. It’s even more difficult for those who aren’t part of a steady couple.

Historically speaking, those at the bottom of society have always had one universal method of radically improving their position: crime. And the bigger the crime, the better. Many people say that crime doesn’t pay, but this is only true for the lower classes. Pull off a big enough heist and you can go up an entire league.

As Chuang Tzu once observed: “The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.” Petty thievery won’t get you into a house that you can raise a family in, but full-time drug running is another story.

A young New Zealander without an education might have no chance of ever owning a house by working for one, but there’s a ready alternative: to join a gang, and get $810,000 through crime.

It’s common for dedicated meth users to go through $1,000 of meth in a week. Someone supplying it need only have a dozen customers with this level of demand and they could sell $600,000 worth of meth in a single year. Assuming $400,000 of expenses in precursor/bulk wholesale costs, rip-offs and fees to one’s own gang so as to keep covering for your operations, this means an income of $200,000 per year – tax free.

The only major downside is a small risk of getting killed or imprisoned.

Gangbanging is relatively dangerous, but the vast majority of gang members manage to conduct their affairs without getting killed. In recent years, New Zealand has averaged about 61 homicides a year. Even assuming that the majority of those were gang-related, it means that a person in a gang has little more than a 0.5% chance of being killed in any given year.

Even if this risk is 50 times higher than the risk of being murdered if one isn’t in a gang, it’s still a fairly low risk. It means that, after four years of selling meth and saving $4,000 a week, one would have earned enough to buy the average house, with a mere 2% chance of getting killed (approximately).

The risk of being imprisoned is also relatively minor. Furthermore, as shit as prison might be, it’s not a whole lot worse than busting a gut for 40 hours a week and being left with nothing after taxes, bills and rents are paid. At least rent is free in prison, and while there you can easily make the contacts that will help you sell meth more discreetly once you get out.

In the cold light of day, a young New Zealand man, one with ambitions to own a home so that he can raise a family in it, is better off joining a gang and getting taxed at 0% than getting educated, earning a professional wage and getting taxed at 39%. He can actually own a house the first way, whereas the second demands decades of work for partial equity in one. Even if he does manage to own a house the second way, he likely won’t have enough spare energy to raise a family in it.

What many middle-class people – especially those who inherit wealth – don’t realise is that few people join gangs purely out of malice and spite. Some of them join gangs because, on balance, they can have a better life in one. The prospect of working for 50 years to merely own some equity in a cold, damp house is a miserable one. It’s not surprising that the more daring of the country’s young men are tempted to gamble for a better life.

The solution to New Zealand’s rising gang problem will inevitably be a multifaceted one, but the basis of it must be enabling even poorly-educated workers to own their own home and raise a family. As long as workers aren’t getting paid enough for this to be possible, they’re better off joining gangs.

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The First Tenet Of Elementalism

The First Tenet of Elementalism: consciousness is the prima materia.

Consciousness is the original source from which all else manifests. Consciousness is eternal and immutable, being outside of time and space. As such, it is the one thing whose existence needs no explanation. Those asking where consciousness came from have based their question on illogical premises.

This is the first teaching of Elementalism, because it needs to be understood before anything else can be understood. Consciousness came first, before language, before thought, even before the division into masculine and feminine.

The mystery of consciousness is much simpler than most people today, lost in materialism, could hope to realise. The truth is that consciousness is more fundamental than the material world. It existed for an eternity before the material world first manifested, and will exist for an eternity after the material world unmanifests.

Because consciousness is more fundamental than language, it cannot be described in language. As such, there are no definitions of consciousness that make any sense. Anyone who is conscious knows what consciousness is, and therefore doesn’t need to have it defined. The Elementalist doesn’t try to define consciousness. The assumption is that anyone trying to define it doesn’t understand it.

Elementalism teaches that materialism is to ontology what Flat Earth Theory is to astronomy. It’s a nonsense theory that was only believed because an illusion was apparent. Every Elementalist understands that materialism is a primitive theory for those who don’t get it.

The idea that consciousness evolved from biological processes of natural and sexual selection will, one enlightened day, be categorised alongside the idea that the Moon is made of cheese. It’s an absurdity that was only accepted thanks to a profound collective misdirection.

Consciousness has always existed, since before there were even bacteria on Earth, because consciousness dreamed up the Earth, and not the other way around. The Elementalist knows that consciousness is the primary element of all those that exist. All else is dependent upon it. This is the First Tenet.

Consciousness, then, in its creative infinity, is the same thing as God. The consciousness possessed by the individual is an infinitely small fragment of the total glory possessed by God. All of us that are conscious (which is all of us) are God.

Accepting the First Tenet will require a radical shift in mindset for most people. The average Westerner is conditioned to believe that physical matter is the prima materia, and that their own consciousness is something that evolved out of ever-complexifying self-reproducing organic forms.

Knowing consciousness to be the prima materia, the Elementalist is unafraid of death, recognising the death of one’s body to merely be a change of physical form. Because consciousness is the prima materia, all else is mere perception, which rises and falls like the wind. That which perceives remains resolute in eternity.

Anyone who understands the First Tenet also understands the Good News of Elementalism, which is that consciousness, being the prima materia, necessarily survives the death of one’s physical body. This is called the Good News of Elementalism because it means that all suffering is transient, even the anxiety of death.

An Elementalist can immediately overcome any death anxiety by recalling the First Tenet. Meditating regularly upon the First Tenet will build a spiritual armour that defends from any fears grounded in biology. The one who meditates regularly upon the First Tenet will know that all of the horrors of this world are nothing more than the illusion of threat, and their combined power is nothing more than the ability to alter perception.

Understanding the First Tenet leads naturally to the Second Tenet, which describes what one is conscious of.

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Could New Zealand Legalise Cannabis On Maori Land?

The outcome of last year’s cannabis referendum was bitter for many Maori people. Despite that some 80% of Maoris voted in favour of changing the law, heavy anti-cannabis sentiment among Pacific Islander and Asian voters saw the referendum ultimately fail. Fortunately for all, an elegant solution exists overseas, and we could copy it.

The 2020 cannabis referendum was close. 50.7% of eligible voters wanted to continue with cannabis prohibition, and 48.4% did not. There was a significant positive correlation between being New Zealand-born and voting Yes in the referendum, so within that 50.7% were a large number of recent immigrants, particularly Chinese ones. Some 80% of Chinese voters voted in favour of locking Kiwi cannabis users in cages.

There are roughly 250,000 ethnic Chinese in New Zealand. Assuming that 80% of them were eligible to vote in the referendum, and assuming that 80% of those did, that gives us 160,000 ethnic Chinese voters. We know from above that 80% of those voted in favour of cannabis prohibition, which gives us 128,000 Chinese No voters opposed to 32,000 Chinese Yes voters. This represents a majority of around 96,000 for the No side among Chinese voters.

In the cannabis referendum overall, 1,474,635 people voted in favour of the continued persecution of cannabis users, and 1,406,973 voted to end it (for more detail on who these people were, see Understanding New Zealand 3). This means that the No side won the cannabis referendum by 67,662 votes.

So a little bit of primary school-level maths shows us that non-Chinese voters wanted to change the cannabis laws. But the native Kiwi majority that wanted reform was forced to endure further prohibition because of the wishes of recent immigrants, often from totalitarian political systems, and with little understanding of our culture.

For someone born in New Zealand, with centuries-deep roots in New Zealand, it seems outrageous to me that voters who came to New Zealand in the last decade took away our right to use cannabis. The voters who have flooded into the country since John Key threw the borders open have no real loyalty to, or respect for, the New Zealand people. They shouldn’t be deciding what rights the rest of us have.

That mostly rural-dwelling Maoris wanted legal cannabis, but got trumped by city-dwelling Pacific Islanders and Asians, has worsened existing social tensions in New Zealand. Maoris already had reason to resent the cannabis laws, which were forced on them by outsiders in the first place. The Sixth Labour Government’s response to their 80% support for legal cannabis has been, so far, to tell them to go fuck themselves.

One obvious, and obviously superior, solution presents itself.

In 2014, the United States Federal Government stated that it would not interfere with any Indian reservation or territory that wanted to legalise cannabis on its land. This declaration was a formality that followed from their already declared policy of non-interference with legal cannabis in Colorado.

One tribe, that of Squaxin Island in Washington, opened a legal cannabis store called ‘Elevation’ in 2015. First nations peoples in Canada have also allowed for legal cannabis sales on their lands. Native tribes in the Americas are generally pro-cannabis for the same reasons that Maoris are: they know it’s much better for them than alcohol is and that cannabis prohibition was pushed on them by outsiders.

This article proposes that the New Zealand Government allow individual Maori tribes to legalise and sell cannabis on their land.

There are two major benefits to this proposal.

The first, and most major, is that it shows some respect to the 48.4% of Kiwis and roughly 80% of Maoris who want a legal respite from cannabis prohibition. Currently, these two groups of people are told that they just have to eat shit, because neither a Labour nor a National Government will do anything about the cannabis laws.

Legal cannabis sales on Maori land would allow for the pro-cannabis half of the population to freely access and to use cannabis there, away from the judgment of those who think they’re scum. This would allow for the custodians of that land to build cannabis dispensaries, cafes and accommodation for the cannabis tourists. If the anti-cannabis half of the population doesn’t like it, they can stay in the cities and drink booze.

The second major benefit, or group of benefits, relate to the tourism potential of this proposal.

If you’re a young Western tourist, and you can choose between travelling to the American West Coast and using cannabis and alcohol, or travelling to New Zealand and using alcohol only, it’s an easy decision. About as easy as choosing between travelling to a Western country and using alcohol or travelling to a Middle Eastern theocracy and using nothing.

Legalising cannabis on Maori land would create a massive tourism boost in rural and impoverished areas like Northland and the East Coast of the North Island. These areas would benefit from both domestic and international tourists, and it would also create a spillover tourism effect for non-Maori businesses who catered to the international tourists who would otherwise have gone to a country with legal cannabis.

The idea of legalising cannabis on Maori land is a sure win for the first party to propose it. It’s the kind of solution that New Zealand needs. Unfortunately, our current parties are either bereft of imagination or more interested in grandstanding than making positive, practical solutions.

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