the S.I.S. (Social Immune System)

This is an edit of a post I made on an older blog, but I found it's relevance hasn't diminished.
Society, specifically western society, has evolved to kill you if you do not participate in it in a way that adds to it's growth and success efficiently and in a manner that it 'desires'.
Oh, it's subtle about it, and it's unspoken, so no one can warn you that it's about to happen. If too many people knew, it's effectiveness at getting rid of the undesirables would be compromised.
A simple example: If you don't do your taxes, you can't get medicare.
If you don't have medicare, you're more likely to suffer from illness longer, and therefore more likely to die.
Without an income, you cannot afford a place to live, which increases the stress on your body, which leads to a greater chance of death.
If you appear as an 'outsider' you will be less likely to receive aid from citizens, and therefore more likely to die.
Less work is done to investigate and prevent crimes committed on 'outsiders' which increases the probability of death, etc...


Members of society will also tend to resent you if you do not participate in the pre-approved methods. Resentment tends to manifest in passive methods of pushing people to the outskirts. Such as getting dropped to the bottom of waiting lists, or refused service at businesses. Things like that will increase the likelihood of not getting healthy food, or medicine in a timely manner, etc... all those add some percentiles on to the chances of dying earlier.
And resentment is especially strong in those that seem to be 'making it' in ways which are not 'sanctioned' by society. Look at how marginalized prostitution and illegal drug distribution are.
So try to remember this the next time you refuse to help someone, or even ignore/avoid someone, because you find them unsavoury, or a 'Damned Hipster', or whatever your personal disliked group. You are pushing them one step closer to the edge.
You are acting as a sleeper agent for the status quo.
This may sound a bit like whining about how the world is out to get me, etc... But as a suicidal rock god once said, “Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you”.

An explanation of the Title (Tiamatrix)

The title comes from a personal revelation of mine regarding the nature, and metaphysical cosmology of existence.

First off I need to define some terms, and some perspectives.

When discussing things like the origins of reality in a metaphysical sense one must first give the caveat that everything stated is a metaphor. When you get to the very beginning of things most of what we conceive of didn't exist, and were so primal you can't define them except through metaphor. What I call 'Gods' and 'Spirits' and the like are base 'concepts' that have some kind of agency. I cannot say that they had wills and minds as we conceive them, as we a re talking about the fundamental building blocks of the experience of existing, and the nature of reality.

Also, one of the main perspectives I come from is that the only thing I can say for sure about anything is that I seem to exist. When I say 'I', I am referring to awareness, or consciousness. Everything in existence other than that is highly suspect. In other words, I come from the perspective that experience, or the experiencer, are primary, and what is experienced is either secondary, or illusionary, in the sense of impossible to prove (proof being an axiom of a material realist world view, as something has to be 'real' for proof to exist).

So. My personal revelation is roughly as follows. What I call 'Tiamat' is, in essence (remember, metaphors here), the primal 'stuff' that is experienced by consciousness. It is what matter is based on. It is the object to consciousness’s subject. Consciousness is the 'active' principle (yang) whereas Tiamat is the reactive (yin). This can be conceived of as a disembodied 'Spirit' or consciousness, entering into a realm of existence, or a 'body'. This 'Body/Realm' tracks very well on to the Primal Deity Tiamat, hence why I use the name. Tiamatrix is a play on the name to describe it's nature as the Matrix of the world. In both it's structural sense and to equate it somewhat with the Matrix of the film of the same name.

Those of you who are familiar with the Myths surrounding Tiamat, will also recognize that there was a divine agency that killed and dismembered Tiamat to create the world.

This is where I have blended some Gnostic concepts and some Mesopotamian myths.

I encourage those of you not familiar with the myths surrounding the slaying of Tiamat to read up on it as it is fascinating, and tragic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiamat

At the beginning of things, there was The Primal Consciousness (the One), and the Primal Experience (Tiamat). They found each other, and played many games of both experiencing and being experienced. They were mirrors of each other, lovers, and siblings, parent and child to each other. And through these unions, children weere born (consciousness under the illusion of separateness became many gods and goddesses). As these children were mixes of other concepts, they became distinct in character, which was disruptive to the older, more primal gods (think a cacophony versus a single note, or a simple melody). This caused a rift between the old and the new. Murders were planned and wars were fought. The One was slain, But there was a favoured child, one of the newer gods who loved Tiamat, and lamented the death of the one, so Tiamat gave him control over the realms (in the original myth by giving him the tablet of destinies). He challenged the head of the new gods (Marduk, or the Demiurge) to battle, but he lost. The Demiurge then took the tablet of destinies and slew Tiamat, and made the world from her body. Then took the essence of her champion and mixed it with the stuff of the world to create humanity. This is the condition we find ourselves in. We are the essence of that failed hero trapped in a prison made from the corpse of our Lover and Mother.

That is the Tiamatrix.