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The Purpose of Life

The Purpose of Life Chemical World

By

Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS

The Purpose of Life Chemical World

Copyright © 2022 by Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS

All rights reserved.

This book was published by Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS in the United States of America in the month of September of the Year of the Lord Coronavirus 2022.

Dedication

For Roxanna Gómez Sequeira, my daughter, as an offering to her, the sublime child who keeps growing, before my admiration, through her heroic existential experience.

For María del Rosario Aguirre Durán, my life partner, in gratitude for the seeds of love that she plants in my hippocampus.

Epigraph

My mission is to keep the fire under the receptive membrane, where thoughts start to gestate, burning at the precise degree, so image and meaning can fuse. When the fusion is over, the membrane will freeze and I will become a pulse of imagination trapped within one of its vesicles.

TIntroductionhe title of my book, The Purpose of Life, is also the heading of the essay collection that constitutes it. I wrote the compositions in response to my instinct for creating words and arranging them on the canvas of my mind as an imaginary trail of my existence in the sensual world.

The following essay, “The Man Without Credentials,” is an example of the kinds of ideas that populate the pages of my work.

The man without credentials does not have anything to prove. The meaning of life according to the “men of God” priests, politicians, generals, and bankers does not afflict him. He does not dress in uniform, impart blessings, or demand salutations of submission. His expression is an effect of the energy that transforms his atomic mass into the light that illuminates his dreams.

The emotions of faith and war are incompatible with his self and sense as products of the chemical world in which he is a

true flame. He is not interested in being admitted into the dogmatic order based on the doctrine of salvation as a gift from God or the State.

Likeanakedape whogrewlikeawildplant, he erects his mind to observe the prelude to the end of the pragmatic mind world in stock market fluctuations and bankers’ instigations of war.

The man without credentials does not have an origin or a destination. He appears and disappears circumstantially like a firefly in the darkness of space.

Chapter One The Purpose of Life

As a temporal product of the chemical reactions that the Big Bang stimulated, is life the carrier of a purpose that was realized when Homo sapiens’ ancestors began to live consciously and self-aware and transform their world?

Is humans’ interpretation of self, as an object that they possess and accessorize to cover their shamed nakedness and show it as their pretension to the meaning of their metabolic life, the purpose of life?

Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) i , which is the evolution of the Atomic Bomb Intelligence, the beginning of the end of molecular intelligent life?

Despite the answers to the posed questions, the bacteria in the “warm little pond” ii of life produced the conditions for the evolution of

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Homo sapiens, driven by the force of natural selectionastheirunintendedpurpose.Thus, the wise primates grew free from the object of legislationandsermon,likehandpaintersinthe dream space between heaven and Earth. However, their descendants today are the prey of the headhunters who capture them with the “air of salvation,” put them into an altered state of consciousness, extract their frontal lobes, and offer them as a sacrifice to the God that the ruling class trusts to keep capitalism alive.

Politicians and priests, the illusionists of the ruling class, dissolve the humans’ natural self in nationality and religion, the elements of war, in order to purify them as allegiants to the State and Church. The illusionists persuade their objects to debilitate themselves by renouncing their power of self-sufficiency and surrendering to the power of the institutions that compel them to believe that they can protect and redeem them.

The propagandists of the political, economic,andreligiousmiraclesturn thesocial insecurity that the ruling class creates by voraciouslydevouringtheworldintoahopefor a secure and blessed holographic future. In

ordertogainconfidenceinthemselves,humans kill one another in the “merchants of death’s” iii for-profit wars, medicated to feel enthusiastic about their purpose in a life whose model is designed by opulent legislators and judges in conformity with the barbarian ruling class’s desire. The humans who are workers buy the model, like a seductive car, as an exercise of “their freedom” in the market until the bankers deplete their net worth and discard them into the financial wasteland.

Since the State nationalized their instincts, humans have existed as political products ordered in capitalism as the bodies of energy and data that fuel its engine. Human existence as the product of creative will by a subject who has sovereignty over itself and its environment isbeingtransformedbycomputerprogrammers intoadatamodelfortheevolutionofdigital life in a digital market.

Before the Digital Revolution iv , industrialists disconnected the human frontal lobe from its natural environment and connected it to the Boulton and Watt steam engine v in their factories to complement the force that they needed to propel the Industrial

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Revolution. vi Human workers, including children,wereconcentratedin the“dark satanic mills,” vii where they toiled, suffered, and died. Thus, they produced the wealth that was the foundation of the “information superhighway,” viii without having received the goods of technological progress.

Without the power of their selfincandescence and self-transformation, humans are pulled by the gravitational force of the Massive Ad Machine that reduces them to the condition of soulless mannequins. As such, they display the brand names of the shiny objects they purchase to accessorize their insecure selves in order to participate in the spectacle of their deterioration as products of capitalism bound to become discontinued.

Humans do not exist as the subjects who create their predicates, imprinted with their chemical sameness, as the declarations of their purpose in the world.

Their lack of the power of creative will in the relationship with themselves and its application as an existential mechanism is the reason they have not continued evolving as the

models of nature transformed into the brain of a changing universe. They are the standardized products made by the ruling class’s political parties with the residues of the dissolution of their being in the psyche of the State, its Constitution and Penal Code.

The State is adapting to the technological elite’s for-profit robotics revolution by adopting their purpose of replacing humans as the model of intelligence, emotion, beauty, and morality for society’s evolution with “more efficient and cost-effective” robots. The ruling class’s opulent legislators are passing the laws thatjustify robotizationand budget ix tosupport thedevelopmentofan AIGovernment x capable of realizing the Digital Global Manifest Destiny. xi

The purpose of life is being written by AI engineers as effective algorithms for conducting profitable businesses and wars using the intelligence that humans invented with their bare hands as a stellar act of creative willtoevolveastheworld'sconsciousness.The technological elite ison a “living faithcrusade” to conquer and subordinate Homo sapiens’ brains the regulators of the thoughts and

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emotions that are the matter for the creation of their existence to applications without a psyche that can help them to know themselves and understand their dreams better. The creation of their dependency on technology as a condition for their existence and the replacement of their need to create their emotions with frictionless “emotion icons” are parts of the process of dehumanizing them in order to incorporate them as nuts and bolts of the robotics revolution.

Humans are not making the evolutionary revolution that they need by changing the ideas and institutions that have become inadequate to their instincts for growth, both philosophical and material, periodically. They are robotizing themselves while making the robots that are replacing them as the reason for society’s existence in order to adapt to the Brave New (Robotic) World.

The working class is digging their digital graves, thus creating the conditions for their vanishment, the advent of a new robotic ruling class and State, and the evolution of artificial life. Their submission to the judgment and lifestyle dictated by the owners of the market

debilitates them and, thus, prevents them from understanding their predicament and resolving it. The human workers need to overcome the slave self, recuperate their self-independence, and exercise their creative will as a tool for managing themselves and the society that they maintain. They should be the writers of the algorithmsforthecreationofagovernmentthat responds to their need to be free and keep evolving as producers of ideas, discoverers of truths, and creators of art.

The descendants of the coal miners of the Industrial Revolution must fight to overthrow the robots that are snatching their minds as the imperative condition for regaining their natural evolutionary trajectory and flourishing. This is the only way they can preserve the value of their humanity, transform into an ever wiser and kinder species, and prevent being exterminated by the technological elite, the new Digital Predator Species.

The crisis of the human species is being cultivated by the lie merchants who control the explosive heads of the masses of believers in conspiracy theories. The preachers of the New Testament of religious-political salvation say

The Purpose of Life that the decline of humanity is a consequence of a “lack of love for God and country.” Therefore, they are fighting with virulence for the election of a narcissist, brutish Christian tyrant to the pulpit of the State to lead them to the restoration of the faith and a revival of the country’s greatness.

AI is evolving as a children’s magic show before the eyes of a working class under the spell of the ruling class’s Democrat and Republican Party magicians. The wage slaves give the barkers of the corporatocracy’s political spectacle their power in exchange for the blue or red pill of “faith in the country.” This contradictory relationship produces the workers’ submission to the ruling class and theirpowertomaintainthemselvesasthesocial parasites that create the Misery Index xii by avariciously stealing the wealth produced by the workers whom they exploit.

The working class’s political infantilism enables the ruling class’s opulent politicians to seize control of their sense of purpose and dissolve it in the “national interest. ” It is defined by opulent legislators in the policies that the State passes in response to the ruling

class’s demands, including war, to keep their profits ever growing.

Workers must stop committing hara kiri by supporting their class enemy’s candidates for public office. Instead of serving as the sacrificial lamb that the State offers to the God of Greed of the capitalist class, they should use their power to recover the State, establish their purpose as the producers of society’s wellbeing, and contain their extinction. Their passivity is the platform upon which the technological elite are conducting their robotic revolution to preserve the Holy Grail of capitalism.

The founding parents of the developing robotic nation have accredited themselves as philosophers, honoris causa, and translated the categorical imperative to the language of the “technical imperative” xiii in order to justify their creation of The Modern Prometheus xiv in the form of a humanoid robot.

The descendants of Homo sapiens who dissent with the technological elite’s vision of a holographic Disneyesque future for humanity must assume the historic task of solving the

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crisis of their species by becoming the philosophers and architects of the purpose of human life. They must act as the antithesis of the digital dystopia in which the Pied Pipers of Silicon Valley are leading the children of the humanfuture, carriersof the allelesof altruism, to a technological cave in which reality is the shadow of an emoticon on a cyberspace screen that absorbs their eyes.

What should be the purpose of humans in a world where the ruling class is pushing life and them to extinction? Humans are the products of evolution and the sapience and emotions that they developed through that process and used astoolsfortheirgrowthasplantsinaworldthat they did not know but had to conquer in order to survive. This is the experience and historical lesson that they need to remember when decidingtheirpurpose in an era in which robots are replacing them at the profit making speed propelled by the owners of the robotics industry’s infinite avarice.

As a temporal, fragile, and self destructive species, the purpose of humans should be to develop a mode of life through which they can gain wisdom through the practice of altruism.

This is the condition for the invention of a technology subordinated to the growth of a humanist society where they would not have to kill one another as prey in order to survive. The descendants of Homo habilis, inventors of stone tools, can realize this goal only if they overcome the morally blind animal latent in their genetic code, struggling to become the dominant instinct whose force can propel them towards madness, war, and extinction.

In the digital world, which the Technological Gods created without the categorical imperative as an element, humans do not have to have a purpose or a moral reason in order to justify their existence in it. The technological elite are a product of the Central Processing Unit (CPU), the power with which they have imposed themselves as the Grand Algorithm that interprets the purpose of humanity to be the attainment of an eternal digital life as an algorithm sustained by pure andindifferentdata.The“siliconmasters”have consecrated themselves as the supreme consciousness of the technology with which they are uploading the human frontal lobe to their laboratories as part of the process of designing the digital brain.

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In the CPU world factory, humans are processed as bodies of data to produce smart robots, free from good and evil, that know humans better than they know themselves, to control them as the software of the State’s new digital domination machine.

The programmers of the purpose of life in capitalism have captured everyday life and written it as the algorithms that direct thevisual illusions with which they invade the humans’ frontal lobes and stimulate them to fill their shopping carts with shiny ornaments of happiness. They have expropriated humans of their philosophical sense of purpose in their lives and replaced it with fatal algorithms, which excite them to serve as the stimulators of the On Demand Economy and imitators of the luxurious bioplastic appearance of “the rich and famous” on Reality Mediocrity TV shows in a life that capitalists have commodified.

Humans arenot evolving as an altruistic and peaceful species. They are not transforming into organisms that produce more than metabolic and environmental waste, luxury items, stupidity, weapons, and war video games.Theproductionofthephilosophyoflife

(what is it for) and justice as its justification, through moral self-revolution, is not the purpose of the humans engendered by the “What’s in It for Me?” existential moral imperative of capitalism.

Scientists, artists, actors, comedians, and athletes have transformed into commodities who exhibit themselves in the Circus Maximus, dedicated to the Gods of Excess, Stupidity, and War, to excite the audience to consume the shiny objects of desire like pills (“uppers” and “downers”) that induce them into the hypnotic state where they feel maximum pleasure.

The State has replaced humans as the agency and agents of their idea of themselves, as the cognitive element and the sense of the world, with its own idea of itself as the culmination of their evolution and complete fulfillment of their aspirations. This is the consequence of the dissolution of the human altruistic instinct into the selfish instinct of the ruling class by the legislators who imitate their Roman lifestyle and convert their barbarian opinion into the spirit of public policy.

The wise humans of today do not exist in a world where they are free from want and war

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as the autonomous evolving objects of their philosophical reflections. They are the consumer parts of the engine of the economy whose frontal lobe is controlled by the operators of the Psychological Advertising Machine. The well-being and security of their lives are subjected by the State to the military budget and for-profit wars instigated by the Military Industrial Complex.

The producers of the nation’s wealth do not have the leisure that is necessary to live introspectively, in dialogue with themselves about the state of their lives. They work to live and vice versa, and consume stimulants for working and sedatives for sleeping in order to fulfill the brutal labor power demands of capitalism. As a consequence, they have become the functionally sick objects of exploitation by the new technological doctors who sell them mental health applications as the new digital drugs that induce them into an altered state where their suffering magically disappears.

They live as objects of suspicion, whose expression can be used against them by the State, in the one-dimensional space called law

and order, delineated by opulent legislators, supervised by the Market Army, and watched by the providential eye of PRISM. xv In that exclusive zone, they pay lifetime war taxes, vote to earn the prized I Voted sticker (which they proudly display like children on their chests as a receipt for good behavior), wage the “merchants of death’s” wars, and donate their dead bodies to the owners of the Soylent Green machine, which recycles them into the sensational market’s “next big thing.”

The technological elite is leading the new Invasion of the Body Snatchers xvi by infiltrating the human body with smart microchips with the purpose of seizing control of the brain, “where dreams are born xvii , ” as the end of AI. The beings whose stellar and peculiar lives were the inspiration and concern of the humanities now are treated as the data mines which are exploited for profits by the AI Industry.

Humans’ intrinsic importance for the continuation of the evolution of life as a stellar experience and the molecular mind as the Lyceum ofthephilosophical futureofhumanity has been superseded by the projected billions

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Humans have submitted to the power of the microchip by opening their bodies to the new technological colonizers, excited by their promise of a future “frictionless life” produced by a perfect human-machine connection. They are shedding their moral skin in order to grow robotic skin and thus meet the conditions of the next stage of their evolution, in which robots will select the fittest.

The technological elite have imposed themselvesonthefrontallobe oftheworldthey have colonized as the embodiment of “the specialvirtuesoftheAmericanpeopleandtheir institutions” fit for realizing the Digital Global Manifest Destiny. After conditioning their brains and devaluingthemselvesunderthelong,toxic,and

vicious tyranny of the ruling class’s automated production, workers became the first robots, who now are adapting to the Brave New (Technological) World. Workers, including children, suffered psychological damage during their forced extraction from feudalism and violent insertion into the fiery womb of capitalism. The damage imprinted on their descendants, who, in turn, were shocked by the carnage of World War I that the “merchants of death” supported.

The wage slaves are exhausted from the struggle to survive war, economic, policy, and “born again” xviii shocks through their generations. They are sick of medicating themselves in order to be able to live the stressful life contaminated with the ruling class’s ideas and vices. This is why they are committing suicide and dying from loneliness, the side effect of the “pursuit of happiness.”

The robotic revolution is evolving from the ashesoftheworkerswhomthe “robberbarons” xix consumedasthe vitalbrains ofthe Industrial Revolution. Since then, the working class has not risen to fulfill its evolutionary need to overcome the tyrannic condition of wage

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slavery, imposed by the State on behalf of the ruling class, and transform themselves into the institutions of their reason, freedom, justice, peace, and evolutionary progress.

In the involving Digital Revolution, humans are becoming more dependent on the way of life that market psychologists design for them, using the ruling class’s self-indulgent extravagance as the model. The market educates consumers with instant gratification and painkillers. It is their cradle and grave.

Life and the animals that it organized and evolved into humans do not carry a purpose that is separate from that of the cell during its chemical existence. The end of cellular life happens with indifference to humans’ goals. Despite this truth, some humans design an aim as part of their plan for constructing a raison d'être and stimulating their evolutionary altruistic instincts in a meaningless world. However, their lives, imagination, and effort to achieve their goal are conditioned by capitalism’sselfishpurpose,whichistheanima of the State and the capitalist class’s wars.

The State the legislator, judge, jailer, and executioner of capitalism expropriated

humans of their power to transform into the creators of the new idea of themselves in the world and their philosophical constitution as the vehicles through which they could continue their transition to higher expressions of rational existence. The capitalist ideologues have conjugated life’s purpose with the possession of of money as the path through which humans attain self-realization and become happy.

The innocent mindthat wasproduced by the molecular revolution has been corrupted by the aggressive profit-making virus that the capitalist class exhales into the streams of the consciousness of society. It is the driving force in the capitalist market that has reduced humans to the condition of a commodity. In capitalism, becoming a businessperson, as the proudful realization of the national dream, has substituted the value of the aspiration to be a teacher of humanism.

Since the first “factory system” xx was invented, human workers have not had the necessary freedom to live introspectively in the world that the ruling class has privatized in order to be able to conceive and institutionalize their purpose in their lives without the Church

The Purpose of Life and the State. The machines that the capitalist class implanted in the minds of the infant industrial working class as “fertilizers of civilization” have subdued the prefrontal cortex and sucked the psyche of humanity.

Today, the survivors of the capitalist class’s deindustrialization war stand in line before the gate of the “information superhighway,” waiting for a “humanoid robot” to scan their state-issued Quick Response (QR) code and let them into the smart factory after their long generational march from the Industrial Revolution.

In the distance from their emotions to their eyes, they look like lost children who have forgottenthepasswordtoenterthehousewhere their hearts palpitate. Holding their mobiles, absorbed by the screen light, they seek an application that could lead them back home to “a better, happier life.” While struggling to pay the bill on time to maintain their frontal lobe connectedtotheinternet,humansdieofdespair after having waited a lifetime to “gain entry intothelaw,” xxi inordertobecomethesubjects of justice, and hoped for the coming of the Robot Messiah in vain.

Chapter Two Chemical World

We are the solitary inhabitants of the subconscious world generated by neurotransmitters.Oursensationoflivingisthe intermittent reaction we exhibit through opposite emotional expressions when extraneous “psycho agents” stimulate our minds with their simulations of colorful, flavorsome, and desirable pleasures.

In a world excited by the selfishness of the bankers who manipulate the prime rate, we are the serfs of an imperialist Landlord who owns a State demarcated by nuclear warheads.

Warning signs of private property and punishmentfortrespassing aredisplayedacross the country like the Eye of Providence on the US $1 dollar bill. They serve as the stimulants whose intention is to condition our reaction to the historical, unceasing deprivation of our right to be free from the condition of inequality

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imposed upon us by the ruling class with the Golden Scepter of the Power of Divine Favor.

The imperialist regime that administers the State is composed of opulent and obtuse legislators trademarked “Democrat” and “Republican” by bankers who use it as their law and order to rig the economy, compete for mega profits, and instigate the fabrication of wars as good investment products.

The lives we live are the effects of the balance of power, poverty, and social friction in a market controlled by avaricious capitalists who prefix the value of our labor and life expectancy. As the dispossessed survivors of the imperialist war ofconquest, we pay taxes to the Manifest Destiny Government for allowing us to live in the empire’s ghettos, supervised by plantation police.

Beleaguered by barbarian slumlords, liquor dealers, payday lenders, pawnbrokers, arms dealers, bond dealers, and morticians, we rush through the alleys of our altered urban nervous system with time expiring on the capitalist meter that measures the utility value of our lives towards the voting booth, which is the

repository of our phantom freedoms. We are born under the expectation of the State that we will become its jurisdictional objects equal under the God it trusts but separated by the equality of ambition and competition in a market where the law is enforced through the fear of the Landlord exercised by his army.

In a state of illusionary motion, we live watching the spectacle of delightful living animated by sportscasters, political candidates, plastic surgery celebrities, clowns, magicians, contortionists, and entities of bizarre appearance projected through our naked retina by the architects of deception on TV.

Our minds are the precious prey of the men of the State and God politicians, priests, and generals who strive to capture them, enticing us to surrender our will to them with promises of world supremacy, peace, military glory, and eternal salvation.

Disconnected from the womb of our mammalian dreams of a world made of delightful carnal sensations, we have decayed into political automatons branded by a State

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wherelifeisaprobability controlledbybankers and Landlords, and insurance experts and tax planners, planted with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and nuclear waste sites, and celebrated in war movies and victory parades.

In that remote zone severed from the root of our chemical sameness we are the suspicious semblances of an individual existence turned on and off with the remote control operated by the lords of social drugs and illusions. Our experience of feelings in a reality generated by our friction against the brutality of the do or die economy is an extension of the brain’s virtual arrangement of the self in the flitting moments of excitement precipitated by the convergence of the chemical torrents of desire and illusion and of life and death in the yellow water where we had our first dream of the world of the living.

Chapter Three Objects of Thought The Machine

The machine that was the Industrial Revolution’s Technological Messiah, whose mythological purpose was to deliver humans from a labor-intensive life so that they could dedicate themselves to selfcultivation was used by its owners as the model for the organization of their brutal system, input and output, of domination.

The State has become the machine that produces the self of its tributaries and the elements of its environment: country, God, army, market, circus, and war. This sovereign machine also imposes the creed, identity, law, and punishment that are the conditions for humans to exist in the political farm it controls in conformity with the greed of the owners of the money, land, and factory farm.

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Humans are being superseded by the machine as the root of their selves and agents of the creativewillwithwhichthey constructed the human world. As discarded outputs of the machine, humans are falling into the pit of a dead-end imperialist democracy due to the loss of the power that they developed as the objects that transformed into the cognitive subjects of the process of evolution.

The umbilical cord that connected humans to the womb of life has been replaced by the StateandtheChurchwiththecordofallegiance that connects their frontal lobes to the doctrine whose moral end is to maintain the ruling class as the body ordained by God to dominate them.

The descendants of Homo sapiens have lost the reason and morals that they created to engage with the world as the cognitive agents of the free chemical reactions of their naked brain.Theyhavedefeatedthemselveswithself doubt in the face of the inflexible demands of life and the crisis created by the ferocious avarice of the ruling class, who are sucking the marrow out of life.

Instead of fighting to change the static self and institutions that contain their altruistic

evolution, they surrendered their power to the State and the Church. Consequently, the capitalist-branded politicians whom they follow areleading them to ruin inthe fossilfuel and pharmaceutical worlds, which are dominated by the for-profit war industry that they support.

Some of them are falling like the dried leaves of a plant that ceased to produce its nutrients by the door of democracy’s ghetto liquor store on their journey to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) penal labor prisons.

They continue to decay in that zone where democracy is purified by the guard who administers negative punishment to the prisoners until they lose their humanity. Others are consuming themselves as burning coal, working in the machine hoping to escape it by voting for the corporate political machine’s fool’s paradise program.

The machine is connected to the blood vessels of the workers that produce plasma, the liquid gold that the ruling class needs to drink in order to extend their lives into the future of the digital brain. The survivors of the

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machine’s pressure get high inhaling the vapor that the machine exhales in order to keep their nervous systems vibrating at the level of excitement that the machine requires to be part of its function until it identifies them as uselessparts andpushes theminto thecapitalist democracy burn pit.

The operators of the machine that produces civilization out of poverty are the ruling class’s servants legislators, judges, and generals who are connected to them through their admiration of their Roman opinions and lifestyles. They are the preachers of the value of the machine’s indifference, dressed with a toga of empathy.

Humans are addicted to the vending machinethatsellsthemtheglitterballs which they wear like magic hats on their heads that stimulate the feelings of their existence like sweat drops on the porous world of their withering skin. They are caught in the machine’s cycle of construction and destruction of them as holographic idols of their illusions. The Big Machines Finance, Oil, Pharma, Technological, and the Arms Industry are destroying the world that

humans built as their nest and museum and annihilating its pollinating species.

The machine owners cannot understand the value of life as a means for humans to enter the sensual world, where they may convert it into a conscious experience without exploiting another in order to make a profit.

The Big Technological Machine is replacing humans with robots that will be the enforcers of the fifth industrial revolution’s pledge of allegiance and executioners of the counterrevolutionaries. The authors of the robotics revolution are creating a species of mimicked humans to populate the digital world and operate the digital capitalist machine.

The Government Machine collects taxes and recruits humans for the capitalist economy and war machines. The umbilical cord that connected its head totheheart ofsociety before it decayed into a corporate appliance is now a citizen surveillance machine.

Humans need to recuperate their natural self, willpower, and self-appreciation in order to discern themselves from the machine and

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reestablish their being as the model for reorganizing the world. They must stop serving as springs in the clockwork of the machine that produces the elements of the wild world propaganda,religionism,patriotism,andwar in which the nuclear machine functions on the probability of causing their extinction as the result of a nuclear error.

The machine is the evolution of the ignorance of the State as the indifferent guardian of the avarice and brutality of the ruling class.

CThe Creation of Evil ertain men said that “god” had chosen them to be his spokesmen and, as such, “god” revealed to them that he was the creator of man.

Nothing else.

Since then, these men designated themselves as “god’s prophets, ” turned the word that they invented into law, waged “holy war” against their competitors in the market of faith, enriched themselves with the spoils, and organized themselves into powerful cartels that control the State.

“God’s generals” keep the world divided into territories where they concentrate the humanbeingstheyexploit brandedasfaithful and infidels under the watchful eye of “god’s wrath and love.”

The“creationofman”isthecreationofevil: a terrible tale of deceit told as the benevolent act of a selfish entity. It is the reason millions of people live in obscurantism, enslaved to

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“sin” and the fear of “eternal punishment”, and paying the tribute of “eternal salvation” to “god’s bankers.” They claim that their proclaimed creator is the owner of human beings and, therefore, they cannot live their lives with meaning nor transcend into eternal life without their acceptance of this absolute condition.

In order to make this unreason a dogma, the soldiersof“god” priests,politicians,bankers, andgenerals continuetorepresstheevolution of human instincts into scientific awareness and altruism with the weapons of dogmatism, propaganda, and war justified by the State. It has adopted the tale of creation as an auxiliary doctrine in order to support its claim that it was ordained by “god.”

Certain primates, in the process of their evolutionary march, saw fire, became curious, and thought: “What is this?” “Let us see.” “Could we make it?” Stimulated by the impression of the flames in their neurons, they managed to create fire and turn it into an instrument of the revolutions that they made. With the power of the knowledge of fire, they heightened their awareness, changed their

mode of life, and transformed themselves into Homo sapiens.

Primates became humans through the exercise of the power of their creative will, excited by the environment that they had to overcome with knowledge in order to maintain the course of their evolutionary trajectory. Then, “god” did not exist, and the incipient Homo sapiens were free as the stars in the sky. Homo erectus laid the foundation for the evolution of technology with their controlled use of fire. Their ability was imprinted on the genes of their descendants, who evolved into the writers of the theories of evolution and the origin of the universe and the navigators of space.

“God” was created by men as their divine ego. It is the coin with which they support the value of the “faith” that they manufacture and sell. These “holy men” maintain their condition with the “salvation” tribute they obtain from the exploitation of the ignorance and fear of the human beings that they terrorize with the weapon of “eternal punishment.” They do not pollinate the minds of society with the ideas, goods, and services that its members need to

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maintain their lives and propel the process of evolution of their brains towards ever higher modes of conscious existence, “beyond good and evil,” selfishness, avarice, hate, and war. They are a caste of social parasites who live as fat patricians, in opulence and infertility.

The tale of creation is the obscure product of the minds of men who did not have the adequacy necessary to confront nature as an object of inquiry into its truth in order to understand it and explainit without any “divine breath.” It does not have an umbilical cord that connects it to the universe as the atomic cradle of life and the minds of the curious primates who evolved under its stimulus as subjects susceptible to its majestic beauty.

Without the power of the State as the dissolver of the human natural self in religion and nationality, creation would only be what it is according to its letter: a fantastic and contradictory tale of a narcissistic inventor whose purpose is to control the power of the entity he invented, punish it, and destroy it.

Homo sapiens’ Crisis

Homo sapiens’ crisis consists of their living a superficial, stagnant life (shopping, aging, and dying) designed by the servants of the ruling class legislators, priests, economists, political psychologists, andclowns accordingtotheir Romanopinion and mode of living. Their predicament is also the consequence of their having separated from the umbilical cord of their instincts, which are the source of their power to create their existence, transform it, and affirm it in conformity with theirphilosophical, moral,and material evolutionary needs.

Despite the destruction of Earth and life by the capitalist class, Homo sapiens renounce their power instinct for growth and trust in themselves as the agents of their truth and justice and surrender to the power of the State, which is the executioner of the capitalist class’s judgment. They choose to be lobotomized in order to become the artificial subjects sworn into a contract of allegiance and tribute to the institution of good and evil and war and peace.

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Instead of opposing resistance to their capitalist enemies disguised as compatriots, Homo sapiens turn to the Church and the State as if they were miraculous religious icons susceptible to their plea for protection from the continuous warfare executed by the army of dispossession made up of bankers, landowners, judges, and police with the State’s consent.

The Church and the State live off Homo sapiens’ crisis as the source of their opulence. They do not have any interest in resolving their crisis, namely their lack of power over their lives, their elements, and the evolutionary trajectory that they need to follow in order to avoid becoming extinct.

Home sapiens have been lobotomized by politicians and priests who have replaced their instincts with faith, patriotism, fear, and dependency on the illusion of “the good war” as the hope for a better future.

One Must Be Oneself

One must be oneself, the object of one’s thoughts. The establishment of this relationship is the determinant of the human animal’s ability to create its own self as thetool appropriate to its needs for individuality, recognition of truth, and sense in a world populated by religious and political identity thieves.

We are the products of nature, endowed with the elements of its force. Our umbilical cord connects us with the thermodynamics of thestars,nottothewillofGodortheState.The richnessof thelifethatwe manifestis theeffect of the magnificent transformation of the universe.

The human animal’s creative will is the electric current that sparks the chemical reaction whose substance is its awareness of its self and its power of differentiation. When we submit our relationship with our selves and our dreams to the ruling class’s judgment machine, operated by their political and religious servants, we lose our power and begin to fall

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from the subjective position that we need to occupy in the world into the objective wave of theclamorousmassesthatfollowthereligionist and nationalist charlatans to their ruin.

A human animal that sacrifices itself to fit into the straitjacket of ignorance, selfishness, and dogma of the ruling class’s institutions, Church and State, is not the object of its thoughts.

One is the skin of the object of one’s thoughts that one needs to shed periodically in order to maintain one’s perception in tune with the revolutions of the world and the need to grow new ideas, emotions, and institutions that are adequate to one’s nature and needs as a conscious evolutionary organism.

The Questions

The questions, “What is life?”, “what is death?”, and “whatisthepurpose of the universe?” are the inevitable consequences of Homo sapiens’ experience through the process of evolution.

The wise humans became “naturally selected” philosophers by creating the tools that they needed to survive and transforming their selves into the objects of their emotions, thoughts, desires, existence, preoccupations, and sufferings.

Primitive humans responded to the questions by deifying themselves and erecting opulent monuments to the instincts that drove their egotistical, deluded existence as the preamble to their eternallife on the deadbodies of slaves.

Rational thinkers responded to the philosophically important questions for the continued evolution of humanity as an agent of civilization by opposing the deification ofthe ruling class and the institution of their cruel

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pragmatism as law and order. They dissolved the “divine breath” with reason, replaced obscurantism with science, and thus advanced our evolutionary vision toward altruism.

The avant-garde of our species had the evolutionary advantage of being radically aware of existence as a chemical event whose purity must be guarded against the ruling class’s propagandists who dump the toxic elementsof ignorance,selfishness,religionism, nationalism, hate, and war as virtues into the streams of consciousness of life to corrupt it.

The answers to these questions, or lack thereof, determine the rise or fall of human society.

The Young and Wild

Young and wild, the creatures were the hope for the intellectualization of human instincts grown in the city of burning asphalt, where they lost their childhood sensualities playing with candy vending machines.

Unpreoccupied with the meaning of time, they met at the point in their minds where their sadness flipped into sensational moments of aerial laughter that they extracted from their imagination to stimulatetheirbrainsintoastate of phrenetic movement toward the outer edge of the accidental reality that they created with their brave self-experiments, opening their portal veins in order to feel the current of intoxicated euphoria.

Like children abandoned under the storm of their senses, they lived in an enchanted present generated by the friction of their infant expectations against the desolate pavement of the urban school that had uniformed their emotions. Wounded by the sacrament of love, they transformed their timid, naked vibrations

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into a chemical experience that effervesced the images, which filled their eyes with ephemeral pleasure without an end in the meaninglessness of tomorrow.

The creatures were the objects of the instincts they expressed, as models designed by intelligent molecules with poetry, merry drinking, and luxurious sex.

They designed tribal emotions adorned with the sensual colors of bacteria to maintain the arousal of their desire to coalesce their imagination into an orgasm in a timeless reality aroused. But the impetuousness of their primitive, selfish blood exploded and broke the common artery that carried their lost innocence to the hippocampus of dreams after their volatile consciousness fell into the void of inebriation.

The Emptiness of Faith

Life happens in the empty space that sustains the objects that compose the universe. It is emptiness that allows the growth of the heart and its palpitation to fill the empty mind with resonance. Faith is the result of the force applied by a human being to the empty mind of another with the objective of filling it with the sensation of "divine" fulfillment that infuses life with an empty meaning.

The faithful negate their empty nature and try to fill it with prayers to the empty objects of religious doctrine. They flagellate themselves for the empty word "sin" and pay tribute to the church for their "eternal salvation" to maintain their relationship with the empty word "god."

Through empty states of rapture artificially stimulated by the guardians of their faith with empty words they suffer and die in emptiness. Emptiness is the natural space of life that provides the human being with the opportunity to understand it and become a

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conscious part of it without the anxiety caused by the war of the guardians of faith to separate women and men from their natural world.

Faith cannot fill the emptiness of life because it is not a natural element of it or superior to its chemical force. The millenary attemptto fillitwithdivineprophecy continues to dissipate in emptiness.

One is an empty thought oftheobject ofself that arises in the mind, empty of faith. A dream formed by the images illuminated by an empty light in an empty space.

Democracy

Democracy is the luxurious rule of the instincts that emerges after the armed forces have completed the extrajudicial execution of the political dissenters identified by the State Surveillance Machine and the ruling class and their admiring servants legislators, judges, generals, and priests have eaten the appetizing body and drunk the sweet blood of Christ with their hearts beating faithfully to ensure the future of the cult of free enterprise.

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Flags and Crucifixes

The loan sharks make loans to arms manufacturers to keep the world in a state of war. Their ambassadors travel the world together, conquering tax-free zones to create the conditions for the emergence of new indebted markets: political corruption, exploitation, starvation, repression, and death. They and their servants senators, generals, and bishops gather at the presidential palace to celebrate the power of the Eye of Providence on the US $1 dollar bill, surrounded by armed men, flags, and crucifixes.

Ruling Class’s Germs

Since Homo sapiens are born, the Church and the State mark their foreheads with their seals in order to conform them to their doctrines, uniform them, and convert their minds into the conservatory where they plant the germs exhaled by the ruling class into the social atmosphere, which flourish into the toxins of ignorance, selfishness, hate, and war.

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Opium of the Masses

The opium of the anxious masses is anything that may serve as an instrument of power for the preacher of lies, intimidation, and “spiritual security” to seduce his victims, extirpate their instinct for freedom, inquisitiveness, heterodoxy, dissension, and subversiveness, and intoxicate them with the absurdity of the concept of salvation by faith alone.

The Plague

God is a plague that destroys the umbilical cord that binds the human primate to nature and the mammalian-maternal instinct that binds him to humanity. That disease and the faith in it are transmitted as the condition of “eternal life” by liars and thieves, the self-appointed “men of God”. They hallucinate their victims with praise of the plague and the crisis of will power it causes as a sign of the “advent” of their “savior” .

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Incite Your Hands

Incite your hands to give birth to the flash of light of your transformation in the movement of your appearance and disappearance in the memory of the universe.

This is what your ancestors did by igniting the torch with which you have travelled in dreams across the night of your evolution as an animal in search of the stellar cradle of its reason for being.

Intermittent Bubbles

We live peering out into the world of seductions through the pores of consciousness’s flammable skin.

We are the intermittent bubbles that form in the boiling of the desires that transform us into the sensual objects whose touch is necessary to feel pleasure and pain.

We believe in our ego as the purposed element of the random life that emerges from the cosmic void that absorbs it.

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At High Temperatures

Iam the memory without light of a dream without form, projected in the air of an indefinite place.

My heart is the proof of a formula revealed in an esoteric book of a lost world.

The consciousness that I inhabit is made of the membrane of a bacterium that became the nucleus of an idea living in volcanic mud at high temperatures.

The Eternal Life

During their fantastic mind expedition, the seekers of the Grail of Pleasure discovered the beast with the mark of innocence on its forehead in the garden of the elements where the senses unleash the chemical reaction that produces the states of awareness of living anddying and concatenates them into one stellar experience.

They saw the transparency in its gaze and thought it was exotically beautiful. Seduced by theirimpression,theseekerscapturedthebeast, slit its jugulars, and drank its blood, believing that by doing so they would stimulate the arousal of the metabolism of eternal life.

HThe Faithful Heart ow many times does the faithful heart have to sing its song of wisdom until the children who are growing together in the garden of the elements, playing with the particles of their dreams of their past lives as Hippocampi and Aves, hear it and escape from themenwhoarecomingarmedwithcrucifixes, flags, loan contracts, and guns to abduct them, lobotomize them, and feed them to the economic machine?

A Rational Event

Homo sapiens need to live life as a rational event on the basis of their understanding that they are products of nature, equipped with instincts that they can use to evolve into a peacefuland constructive species, free from evil and good.

Therefore, the purpose of human animals must be to maintain their chemical roots free from the impurities divine breath, national spirit, racial purity, hate, and the desire for war that the Church and the State inject into the veins of the natural consciousness of themselves andtheworldthatthey createdwith reason.

By intoxicating Homo sapiens with the doctrine of salvation humans need a power other than themselves to exist and resolve the problems of their existence the priests and politicians who serve the omnipotent ruling class extinguish their feelings of their instincts as the source of their creative will.

Fugitive Thoughts

Iam looking at the spectacular reflections of reality moving through the infinite circuits of the mind in a state of sensation without an object vibrating somewhere in the field of energy. Suddenly, awareness, molecular and bright, surged, revealing the senseful presence of the fugitive thoughts that had escaped from the orbit of my head.

Consciousness

Consciousness is the ensemble of chemical events unleashed by pure energy that moves without divine impetus, free from the contamination carried by the terrible judgment of an artificial God imposed by its manufacturers with violence on Homo sapiens as a condition for their existence as objects of guilt, sentenced to suffer.

The knowledge of life is a power based on its natural properties, which are sufficient for the emergence of the tendency towards rationality and justice in the social minds of human animals. They do not need to be combined or complemented with the additives of good and evil, and repression and punishment administered by the Church and the State.

Ego Rigēre

If one exists as a product of the ego's combustions, one’s freedom to see with the innocent eyes that filter the light that emerges from the friction between lying and truth in the human world is conditioned by its rigorous tests of one’s ability to function as the constant performer of its volatile habits, which constitute the structure whose heads are desire and fear.

Who Are You?

You may be who you think you are if you are able to personify the memory of you that was created by the fusion of your parents’ genes within the compound made of sensations and images arranged by the neurons of which you are an element that you are able to recognize as yourself while you are engaged in the performance of your chemical character on the social mirror where the faces of other compatible selves congregate to examine each other’s awareness and gestures, touch, and collect the feedback that they and you need to support the idea of you as a normal entity that conforms to the habits, dark and bright, that you regard as the traits of your personality.

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The Hydrogen Stone

The darkness of my soul, knower of all things, emits the luminescence that travels the universe within the hydrogen stone, free from the impurities of the will of the gods.

Protoplasma

Your cognitive crown is the wonder of the chemical world: the perfect fusion of the elements that yielded the protoplasma that carries the brilliance of your eyes in the cadence of the universe.

Let helium be the noble light that illuminates your soul and let hydrogen be the symbol of its flammable skin.

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Am

Iam a primate specimen made with the ingredients of the solar system that evolved into the head of a chemical event transformed into a political manifesto by the radical cells operating in the tunnels of the encephalic space where magnetic time passes, absorbing the genetic print of the truth to transfer it to the dark side of the field of light where it becomes a factor of the future cosmicintellectual circumstances.

I am the messenger gland that carries the dreams that occur in the cells when the water atoms become excited upon contact with light to the worlds of organisms without sensual memories.

I am a grain in a sand clock free from the electromagnetic force of desire.

A Galactic Agent

Iam a galactic agent, the carrier of the seed of knowledge and the means for attainingit.Myformbecomesanddisintegrates in the conjuncture where my perception absorbs the pulsation of my senses in a defined space within the movement of the time generated by the expansion of the universe.

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LThe Golden Gene et us continue digging, as we did before we discovered the caves of time, into the blue vein that traverses the hemispheres of cognition with the finger that our ancestors used to draw our path in the winds that formed the world of dreams, from which we evolved like proficient animals speaking in the electromagnetic language of our mother cells, diligently,untilweseethetraceleftbythegene with the golden crest.

Self-realization

The human being is a product of nature, endowed with the elements of its force. In order to find this out, one needs to study the periodic table, not thebible. Ourumbilicalcord unites us with the stars, not with the will of “god.” The richness of life and its temporal pleasure are the effects of the stellar life and death of the universe.

Self realization is a chemical event induced by the electric current of the agent’s will. One is the object of one's thoughts and the chemical basis of one’s perspective on the world. Exposing oneself as an object of acceptance or rejection by another is a deviation from one's genetic path. The only entities that can condition the state of one’s relationship with oneself are the neurons. A person who sacrifices to fit into the straitjacket of the ignorance, selfishness, and dogmatic mind of others has mistaken itself and its reason for being.

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Learn to Walk

Look inside yourself. Don't look for the truth on the surface of your mirror.

Search your inner space for the gene that is the keeper of your key and open your fontanelles with it.

Now that you are a unit of knowledge, take the creature by its hand and start walking to create the path that leads to your cosmic destiny.

Learn to walk and you will be able to fly in your thoughts.

Where the End Begins

As I enter the vacuum, the ego vanishes as the object of reference for the conscious. The desires that it provokes inside the pores of the flesh of the mind cannot become states of pleasure without the fire of metabolism.

In this place, there are no objects of reference for drawing a diagram of oneself. One is something without a name or attributes, sustained by the force of nothingness.

When I am inside the core, the atomic mind enshrouds me, sniffing my exhalation like an animal trying to recognize its creature. I can feel that this is where the end begins again.

About the Author

Humberto Gómez Sequeira HuGóS was born on March 12, 1949, in Granada, Nicaragua, under the military dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza García, the so-called “Tacho,” and his Colonialist Catholic Church (CCC).

“Tacho” was the fictitious general, “Made in USA,” who was appointed by the Hoover Administration as Chief Director of the Nicaraguan National Guard (NG) that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) had trained to relieve them as the occupying force of Nicaragua. The USMC was defeated by the Army for the Defense of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua in the national liberation war that ended in 1933.

The CCC was the confessor of “Tacho” and chaplain of the NG. The alliance between

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Catholicism, the cross, and “Somocismo,” the M1 Garand, was the force that created the atmosphere of obscurantism and fear in which the author's childhood happened in the impoverished La Otra Banda neighborhood of Granada, Nicaragua, like a sensible event, a heliotrope of fragile imagination, whipped by a storm of ignorance and violence.

HuGóS graduated, cum laude, as a Bachelor of Science, Letters, and Philosophy at the Colegio Salesiano San Juan Bosco in Granada, Nicaragua, in 1968. In the United States of America (USA), he studied English and political science at Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California, where he achieved academic status as a member of the Dean’s Honor Roll in the fall of 1975.

The author is a poet, essayist, and digital photography artist. His first collection of poems, entitled In Transition to Poetry, was published in the city of Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1974. Some of the poems contained in that collection are a reflection of the author's reaction to the revolution in Nicaragua and the pain of the victims of the military dictatorship of the fictitious general,

“Made in USA,” Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the so-called “Tachito.”

For his poetry work, the author received the following awards:

• A certificate of Excellence in Poetry, awarded by Teresinka Pereira, director of the International Poetry Society at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA.

• First Place in Poetry, awarded by Lillian Walsh, editor of For Poets Only, a poetry magazine published in Jackson Heights, New York, USA.

HuGóS’ poems have appeared in La Prensa Literaria of Managua, Nicaragua, and magazines, such as Free Venice Beachhead of Venice, California, USA, Poetalk of Berkeley, California, USA, The Plowman of Whitby, Ontario, Canada, and Estrella del Sur of Paterna, Valencia, Spain.

He has self published his books on Amazon and Google. His essays can be read on Issuu and Scribd. And his digital photographic artwork can be seen at DeviantArt.

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