We need more context to prevent the aliens from taking over.

It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Hello stranger! Or should I say, fellow alien? Context is a very crucial thing for every relationship, not just in the books we read or to the people who matter most to us; but also in the places we go, or in the food we eat, you might be asking “what the heck does food have to do with aliens?” But please wait for more context because without context, you won’t be able to perceive what I am actually trying to say.

Who are the Aliens? and what are they trying to take over?

The aliens are from a cold world made out of numbers called Planet Binary. This world has no way of existing without the power of earths most valuable resource— human attention. And with the power of human attention, these aliens can continue to reproduce which is a vital necessity for any organism. Therefore, the Aliens will do anything to capture your attention. The Aliens have created portals to earth through what we call radios or newspaper but more recently, as Alien technology advanced, we now call these portals “screens”. These screens have camouflage capabilities which allow Aliens to look like us so that they can continue to harvest our attention without giving rise to suspicion of manipulative self-interested intent. The only problem is that humans are constantly adapting so they can spend their most precious resource on what matters most— real relationships. Therefore the Aliens have had to invest billions and billions of dollars to continue supporting new advances in Captology to hijack and extract our attention which has created an arms race, humans vs Aliens, to the bottom of the brainstem. We are losing this war. The Aliens are taking over. The only way to stop the Aliens from taking over is context. Literally. I am one of those Aliens. A stranger. Strangers are now everywhere. Everyone is becoming more and more strange as we lose relational context. As we build more context, we will become less and less alien to one another.

What am I actually talking about?

Every metaphysical community has a central spirit, and this spirit protects the community from aliens, now the spirit that guides a community can either be good or bad depending on its orientation; however this is beside the point. To get a better idea of what this spirit looks like lets look at what Jordan Peterson has to say in his new book, We Who Wrestle with God:

Around that central idea (Axiomatic assumption, Spirit, God, Predications, ideologies, Marxism), stake in the ground, staff, flagpole, or guiding staff develops a network of ideas, images, and behaviors. When composed of living minds, that network is no mere “system of ideas.” It is instead a character expressing itself in the form of zeitgeist; a character that can and does posses an entire culture . . . What is true of words, is also true of the imaginative images and dramas that guide us and that contain a further “map of meaning” representing the behavioral patterns, rituals, and manners of our culture. They have a living center, which is there whether it is acknowledged or not, and which plays a casual role in the determination of our individual and collective patters of attention and action. And that much, as it definitely is, is not all: That behavioral/cultural foundation, still primarily implicit (as it is action rather than its representation in word or image), reflects the structure of ordered and intelligible world. That world is encoded in our map in the same way that dying from walking over the edge of a bridge into the rushing river below reflects the relationship between knowledge and reality. This is the reflection of the cosmos itself in the soul of man. Thus, even when God is dead, he maintains his existence not only in the depths but in the patterned order of being and becoming itself.

When aliens begin to invade our communal sanctuaries such as when we are at home, the dinner table, church, or community events, we perniciously lose the shared contextual fabric that makes up our social communities. If we continue paying too much attention towards aliens instead of the people who are right in front of us, we will continue to subvert the integrity of social harmony that characterizes western society, Jordan Peterson elaborates:

If we were not imitating one another, we could not live together. But in imitating “one another” we are also imitating the past, our tradition—or, more accurately, the spirit of the tradition and, with God’s grace, the living spirit of that tradition and not the remnant patterns of its corpse.

Dr. Peterson goes on to talk about a potential language of meaning; this language is accurately characterized as “The Word of God” which is not just words; but is reflected in every dimension of relational experience, words just happen to be the best way to reflect reality. In every dimension, including the symbol “food”, is a storehouse of value representing the affective valence we have towards a given object of attention. Most of the associations are implicit in the symbol; however, without this storehouse of value within every relationship, we are unable to perceive anything at all. Without context, our relational brain structures weaken. Scientist such as Matthew Lieberman call this relational brain structure social cognition; but I like to call this brain structure relational cognition. Context is the only way we can generate value and perception. The value that you see when a baby hurts their head, the value of a mother telling her kids why they need to be quiet during church, when we have a shared space of context floating around our relationships, we can can create a shared understanding; which is a prerequisite to any fruitful shared experience.

Our shared experiences are what defend us against the aliens. When we know the who, the what, the where, the when, the why, we can begin to infer the correct meaning of new phenomena without having to question the very foundation and validity of reality. By having a strong contextual fabric surrounding your field of real relational experiences, the significance of real shared experiences will deepen and widen with relevance to that which has been built on before which in turn creates harmonic stability between person-perception and social communities; ultimately leading our attention towards agathon.

God bless all of you and hope to see you in realspace.