This is something I will admit I know next to nothing about. Admittedly most things I chirp on about I know a lot less than I would like to or attempt to give off the impression of knowing. Not even knowledge, at least an understanding of. Although as I write that I suspect knowledge comes before understanding so I’m maybe saying them in the wrong order. Anyway I was just listening to The Blindboy Podcast which is hosted by Blindboy Boatclub who is an Irish satirist and one half of hiphop duo The Rubberbandits. I had never heard of him until I watched an episode of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order in which he was one of the guests. The premise of the show is a few comedians sit around discussing a couple of events which happened in the week and one guest comes on to discuss one topic. Blindboy’s was to do with the Union and the inevitable recession facing the English. I don’t think he quite connected with the rest of the guests and he had some interesting things to say but they didn’t seem to be on the same wavelength which was shame. I did though research this man from Limerick who wears a plastic bag on his head to hide his identity and it turns out he has a podcast. I’m now onto the third episode of this. He has a lot.
The first one was an interview with Graham Norton which was quite interesting and I suspect I’m not the only person out there who made that their first episode. The second was a dissection of QAnon which is a dangerous anti-semitic conspiracy theory that suggests Donald Trump is going to save the world by revealing the secrets of child murdering celebrities and adrenal creams. I’m half way through the third one and he’s discussing snails which can’t stop masturbating because they catch some kind of bacterial disease or something. That’s the first half and apparently he ends with a story about taking ecstasy live on Irish radio but I haven’t got that far.
Part of the snail story discusses simulations and how we may be living in one. It relates to fungus that take over the minds of ants, resulting in zombie ants which spread the fungus throughout the colony which then feeds the fungus and so on. I have heard of this, or at least recognise the images he describes about fungus growing out of the ants they’ve taken over. He discussed about how scientists with the use of quantum mechanics discovered something about black holes and how whatever this thing is points towards the idea that we are simply living in a simulation. What I know next to nothing about is quantum mechanics and black holes. I do like to reference quantum mechanics when trying to disprove the absolute truth of determinism because of the existence of random events but beyond that, and I doubt I really know the workings of that, I don’t know shit. But that doesn’t matter.
The point is that potentially we are living in a simulation. Blindboy mentioned the ancient Vedic scriptures which also suggest we may be living in a simulation. My mind then drifted on to science and how it has been proving a lot of things previously dismissed as nonsense, such as auras. In someway science is already like a religion. It is blindly followed as truth despite constantly changing and proponents of science, which I am far more than I’m not, can and are accused of being dogmatic in the process. Science then is becoming a religion, in certain respects at least. The important point though is that we’re just living in a simulation. Or maybe we’re not. But maybe we are. Does that mean there is a point to it all. There is a point to existence after all and maybe it isn’t simply to push a boulder up a mountain and watch it roll down the other side. Anyway, interesting podcast, well worth a listen.
Observations and Misunderstandings 