Well riposted Marcus...
It has been a while since the playing field has been a simple
one-dimensional good/evil, light/dark, black/white.... I don't have a
good formulation of this parsimony principle, but systems do seem to be
as low dimensional as possible, but no lower... in the spirit of Willem
of Occam or Einstein's (as simple as possible but no simpler).
I would say that rapid motion (growth/change, etc) offers more
exploitable territory in the same landscape... when that landscape is
flooded, then we have new dimensions emerge (fish begin to fly,
salamanders gills begin to function in (humid) air, lillypads reach up
out of the swamp, etc.).
In this use of the term occult, I suppose we are meaning both operating
in (otherwise) uncharted territories as well as discovering new
dimensional/modalities.
- Steve
Glen writes,
"Anyway, my point is basically that even the majority-vs-minority conception is in
the domain of Light. To be Dark means appreciating the entire (occult) mechanism, but
especially focusing on the rarely used pathways."
I'll distinguish between popular and powerful pathways. A reason the
powers-that-be circle the wagons on things like renewable energy is because
they had/have enough instinctive fear to imagine it could well succeed; so, in
the medium term, obstacles must be created to slow it. (Until they can hire
people with interest of this occult mechanism to sort it out for them.) Being
an early bitcoin miner was pretty much a requirement for being a bitcoin
millionaire (at least with the means later to make large capital investments).
Even in the mainstream trading systems, the exploitable inefficiencies are
transitory, and knowledge of them is held closely by the people that model
those systems. Again, rarely used pathways lead to profit. Imagination and
the occult go together. Rapid growth and the occult go together.
Marcus
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