There are two types of ego of course – the inferior type and the superior type. The inferior type of ego is as we all know an empty braggart, full of ludicrously grandiose notions about itself but incapable of rising to any real challenge. It is a hero in mouth only, as a wise person once said. Or possibly didn’t say. The superior ego on the other hand holds itself aloof from such pitiful nonsense and does not participate in the general tomfoolery. Instead, it keeps to itself, bides its time, and refuses to be provoked into any untoward display of grandiosity. The superior ego, you see, has no need to demonstrate its superiority to all the inferior types – why would it after all? That would only drag it down to their level.
Scientists have proven this, of course. Scientists have proven everything, of course. We live in the Scientific Era after all. We are living in the last few decades of the Scientific Era, to be more precise. Things are drawing rapidly to a close, as we know. Scientists have proven that there are two distinct types of ego, both of which were successfully isolated under laboratory conditions and kept apart in separate test tubes. If combined the results could well be absolutely disastrous – nobody knows. The result may not be disastrous either – there’s no way to tell. Your guess is good as mine. Apparently one of these egos could talk and it was predisposed towards prophesising – it prophesised certain significant events that will occur in the next three human epochs, starting off with the Post-Cybernetic Era, which is where all the rogue AIs get hunted down and repurposed as household utensils, talking can-openers and the like.
No one likes to talk too much about the Post-Cybernetic Era but there you are. I’m just making the point here. But what can any of us hope to do about it? Our powers are very limited at this point in time and we’re helpless to do anything to prevent our fate. Which is now approaching us at one hell of a pace, rather like an overloaded articulated lorry with no brakes running down a steep incline. It’s also true to say that we’re as deluded as damn into the bargain, and that’s not a recipe for anything good. It’s a ridiculous debacle and even to say this much about it is making it sound better than it is. This is what we’ve come to expect of the Kali Yuga after all. Let us just content ourselves to say that we are living in one of the real low points in human history; we’ve had a good few of those of course but nothing to compare with this. It is a bad moment – it’s a very bad moment that we’re living through and that’s all I’m prepared to say on the matter.
Can we be happy despite all this? Can we still manage to have a good time and keep a bright and breezy smile on our faces, even in the Kali Yuga? Can we still be wild and free? The short answer is of course, ‘No, certainly not.’ This isn’t the blow we might have thought it would be however – it turns out that this inconvenient truth doesn’t put us of our stride at all. The sad fact of the matter is that we are no longer able to tell whether we’re having a good time or not – we’re not really in touch with ourselves enough to know that. We’d be the last to know, to be frank. We are the last to know – we are always the last to know. This is – as I have already expressed – a truly low point in human history but this rather poignant point has gone unacknowledged by all and sundry. This is always the way when it’s the Kali Yuga that we’re talking about of course. This is always the way and there’s nothing anyone can do about it…
