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Took a trip to the Harvard Art Museum with my girlfriend.
“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.”
— Roger Scruton
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This article by @WDeresiewicz is fantastic.
I have a close friend, aged 22, who has attained tremendous financial success despite his young age, but still feels unfulfilled, and invisible.
Whether they are rich or poor, young men feel unrecognized, lonely, and angry. https://t.co/2HIozE87V3 https://t.co/yuzxa618Gi
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: “What does it feel like to be a young man? It feels like you are Kafka's cockroach, Dostoevsky's Underground Man. It feels like you were drawn by Harvey Pekar or R. Crumb.”
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This article by @WDeresiewicz is fantastic.
I have a close friend, aged 22, who has attained tremendous financial success despite his young age, but still feels unfulfilled, and invisible.
Whether they are rich or poor, young men feel unrecognized, lonely, and angry.
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A high resolution photo of my eye.
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
— Master Eckhart
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@Foz89107323: If ordinary labor rights and social democracy were the solutions to industrialism's consequences, as Ahmari seems to be saying, then things would've been different by now.
Turns out people don't just want money or secure jobs, they want power and status.
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He is also implying that the dissident right is composed of disgruntled, low-status wackjobs like Ted K, who just want power.
Ahmari forgets that Ted never wanted status.
He abandoned his high-status assistant professor job at Berkeley to return to nature. https://t.co/ojqNRrpIXG
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: Ahmari believes the dissident right is contradicting itself by resisting corporate power whilst also believing in natural hierarchies.
He is unaware of the fact that taming today's illegitimate hierarchies is impossible from a policy POV.
Communism is a biological phenomenon.
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In Ahmari's piece on Ted K, he laments Ted's description of leftist psychology, saying that the "Unabomber took on those determined to ameliorate the negative consequences of Industrialism."
He is insinuating here that we need Marxists like Keyeyune to resist globalization. https://t.co/0ChW9tdazx
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: He is also implying that the dissident right is composed of disgruntled, low-status wackjobs like Ted K, who just want power.
Ahmari forgets that Ted never wanted status.
He abandoned his high-status assistant professor job at Berkeley to return to nature.
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@Foz89107323: In Ahmari's piece on Ted K, he laments Ted's description of leftist psychology, saying that the "Unabomber took on those determined to ameliorate the negative consequences of Industrialism."
He is insinuating here that we need Marxists like Keyeyune to resist globalization.
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@Foz89107323: Many illiberal catholics within Ahmari's circle are subversive actors.
I recently wrote a piece for @im_1776 on the Catholic right's complicity in the immigration racket.
Here is an excerpt from an article by Adrian Vermuele on immigration.
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@SohrabAhmari and many illiberal Catholics really just want socialism + family, Church, nation.
They spend just as much time punching right as they do criticizing the left.
Ahmari's recent article attacking @bronzeagemantis & Ted K says it all
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There are moment’s throughout the Passion of the Christ where Jesus makes eye-contact with his followers.
These scenes capture the essence of what Emmanuel Levinas says about face-to-face interaction:
“In the face lies the supreme authority that commands . . . The human face…
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Ted K was a real American, a freedom fighter, a brilliant writer, and a defender of all that is natural and beautiful.
May his memory live on forever in the forests below and the skies above.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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Logan is one of those rare movies that portrays the redeeming power of fatherhood.
One man goes from being an irrelevant drunkard to sacrificing his own life for his daughter in heroic fashion.
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Every year in Massachusetts there’s a roaring twenties party at the Crane Estate mansion in Ipswich.
I remember going once and being absolutely shocked to see everybody dressing traditionally, swing dancing, etc - it was like time traveling.
New England is something special. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657955901083467776 https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1657955901083467776/video/1
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For killing the white stag, for destroying the innocence and purity that was America, Virginia's spirit was transformed into grapes of wrath.
From sea to shining sea, her spirit still lingers unborn, like a word waiting to be spoken.
A poem on Virginia: https://t.co/AK6aheAR1F
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: Even though her body returned to the ground from which it came, Virginia's spirit will return to the God who created her
This country may have lost its innocence, its Virginia Dare, but like we too will be reborn one day.
God's light will shine upon this city atop the hill
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In Revelations 14:19, an angel swings his sickle to the earth, gathering the grapes from the vines of this world, and throws them into the great wine press of God's wrath.
God takes the grapes (evil on earth) and turns them into punishment & justice (wine). https://t.co/ggM9CSpNcW
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: For killing the white stag, for destroying the innocence and purity that was America, Virginia's spirit was transformed into grapes of wrath.
From sea to shining sea, her spirit still lingers unborn, like a word waiting to be spoken.
A poem on Virginia:
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In the legend of Virginia Dare, the white stag symbolizes the innocence and purity of early America.
Her rebirth as a vine that sprouted Scruppernong is also pregnant with symbolic significance.
How so? https://t.co/afBizMAOcG
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: In Revelations 14:19, an angel swings his sickle to the earth, gathering the grapes from the vines of this world, and throws them into the great wine press of God's wrath.
God takes the grapes (evil on earth) and turns them into punishment & justice (wine).
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To Christians, the white stag came to symbolize Christ, perhaps in part inspired by the St. Eustace legend, wherein the Roman soldier Eustace was hunting, and happened upon a deer with a cross between his antlers. https://t.co/7dV67YNF1E
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: In the legend of Virginia Dare, the white stag symbolizes the innocence and purity of early America.
Her rebirth as a vine that sprouted Scruppernong is also pregnant with symbolic significance.
How so?
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The White Doe is a powerful symbol.
In the legends of King Arthur, the white stag’s amazing ability to evade capture came to symbolize the elusive nature of a knight’s quest for purity, glory, and salvation. https://t.co/Ev2lAs2Ad3
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: To Christians, the white stag came to symbolize Christ, perhaps in part inspired by the St. Eustace legend, wherein the Roman soldier Eustace was hunting, and happened upon a deer with a cross between his antlers.
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But soon by that pool where Virginia Dare died, a new vine sprung up, whose grapes were sweeter than any that anyone had tasted before, but whose juice was a red as blood.
This was the scuppernong, the grape from which the first North Carolina wines were made. https://t.co/8OXuq54yF2
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: The White Doe is a powerful symbol.
In the legends of King Arthur, the white stag’s amazing ability to evade capture came to symbolize the elusive nature of a knight’s quest for purity, glory, and salvation.
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Both their arrows hit the heart of the white deer in a single moment, Okisko's undoing the enchantment and Wanchese's bringing death.
Seeing what he had done, Wanchese fled the island in fear, but Okisko sadly carried the body of his beloved to an old fort built by colonists. https://t.co/JXCDFBobGQ
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: But soon by that pool where Virginia Dare died, a new vine sprung up, whose grapes were sweeter than any that anyone had tasted before, but whose juice was a red as blood.
This was the scuppernong, the grape from which the first North Carolina wines were made.
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According to legend, both men came upon the deer at the same hour of the same day, as the delicate creature was drinking from a deep pool in the forest.
Okisko saw his beloved, Wanchese saw his prey, and at the same time they both released their arrows. https://t.co/TP05558BEC
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: Both their arrows hit the heart of the white deer in a single moment, Okisko's undoing the enchantment and Wanchese's bringing death.
Seeing what he had done, Wanchese fled the island in fear, but Okisko sadly carried the body of his beloved to an old fort built by colonists.
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Wanchese, another Indian, heard of the white doe.
Unaware that the mysterious creature was an English girl, he vowed to kill the doe in a bid to prove his worth as a warrior.
Okisko and Wanchese, unknown to one another, both tracked the white doe for weeks. https://t.co/0oDC85GnCd
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: According to legend, both men came upon the deer at the same hour of the same day, as the delicate creature was drinking from a deep pool in the forest.
Okisko saw his beloved, Wanchese saw his prey, and at the same time they both released their arrows.
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@Foz89107323: Wanchese, another Indian, heard of the white doe.
Unaware that the mysterious creature was an English girl, he vowed to kill the doe in a bid to prove his worth as a warrior.
Okisko and Wanchese, unknown to one another, both tracked the white doe for weeks.
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Many of the local Indians competed for Virginia, but she chose the handsome Okisko.
Chico, the sorcerer, was the first to offer his hand to Virginia, but the maiden refused his advances. https://t.co/aGDZKn5YVR
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: Enraged, Chico was said to have used his dark arts to curse the girl, transforming her body into that of a snow-white deer.
The mysterious white doe was often seen on Roanoke, sadly walking through the now-overgrown and decaying houses built by her people.
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The life of Virginia has become the stuff of legends.
it is said that the young Virginia Dare grew to be a beautiful maiden, attracting the attention of many suitors, including a young Indian Chieftain, Okisko, and a jealous medicine man named Chico. https://t.co/ZAfE8qL7fu
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: Many of the local Indians competed for Virginia, but she chose the handsome Okisko.
Chico, the sorcerer, was the first to offer his hand to Virginia, but the maiden refused his advances.
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Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World.
She vanished along with all the other Roanoke colonists in 1590.
Her life, which has long been shrouded in mystery, has become a key part of the American Mythos.
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: The life of Virginia has become the stuff of legends.
it is said that the young Virginia Dare grew to be a beautiful maiden, attracting the attention of many suitors, including a young Indian Chieftain, Okisko, and a jealous medicine man named Chico.
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Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World.
She vanished along with all the other Roanoke colonists in 1590.
Her life, which has long been shrouded in mystery, has become a key part of the American Mythos.
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Telling someone to “just be yourself” won’t help at all if that person doesn’t know who they are, or what they should become.
Step # 1: 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧
Step # 2: 𝘖𝘸𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧
Step # 3: 𝘉𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧
Step # 4: 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧
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@jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild If you want to maintain your inner voice, and your mind's eye, spend time alone, hike, and converse with yourself.
If you are always partying, always on social media, you won't be able to hear yourself think.
Soon you'll have trouble thinking at all. https://t.co/PAPUG6EeVk
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: @jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild A genius is somebody who is inner-directed, inner-driven, and inner-motivated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said it perfectly:
"To believe your own thought—to believe that what is true for you, is true for all men—that is genius."
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@jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild Marshall McLuhan knew that electronic media—more so than any political ideology—shifts the sensorial basis of Western society away from the visual, the literate, and the abstract and toward the oral, the tactile, and the tribal.
Technology destroys the inner voice. https://t.co/5XKL1wtbV4
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: @jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild If you want to maintain your inner voice, and your mind's eye, spend time alone, hike, and converse with yourself.
If you are always partying, always on social media, you won't be able to hear yourself think.
Soon you'll have trouble thinking at all.
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@jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild Only about 30 to 50 percent of people, according to psychologist Russell Hurlburt’s research, regularly think to themselves in internal monologues.
This percentage will only increase over time thanks to social media and technology. https://t.co/weOgn0HasB
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: @jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild Marshall McLuhan knew that electronic media—more so than any political ideology—shifts the sensorial basis of Western society away from the visual, the literate, and the abstract and toward the oral, the tactile, and the tribal.
Technology destroys the inner voice.
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@Foz89107323: @jollyheretic @ChivalryGuild Only about 30 to 50 percent of people, according to psychologist Russell Hurlburt’s research, regularly think to themselves in internal monologues.
This percentage will only increase over time thanks to social media and technology.
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@jollyheretic The ideal corporate slave/bureaucrat is going to be somebody who possesses both of these traits.
In order to maintain the status quo, institutions need people who will do anything they are told, who will work well, and won't complain or question authority. https://t.co/numLgaewI6
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: @jollyheretic It is increasingly difficult to follow your own code in life because others always think they know what your duty is better than you know it yourself.
So many guys are people-pleasers because their default assumption is that others know what's best for them.
@ChivalryGuild👇
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@jollyheretic Conscientiousness and agreeableness are two sides of the same coin.
To be conscientious means to do your work the way it’s supposed to be done and to fulfill your promises.
To be agreeable is to be "nice" and easy to cooperate with.
Each often requires the other. https://t.co/rwRrdl06b6
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: @jollyheretic The ideal corporate slave/bureaucrat is going to be somebody who possesses both of these traits.
In order to maintain the status quo, institutions need people who will do anything they are told, who will work well, and won't complain or question authority.
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As the @jollyheretic writes:
"High C implies a high degree of concern for internalized social norms – a tendency to feel good (here and now) when conforming to these social norms — and/or a tendency to feel bad (e.g. guilty, ashamed, afraid) when transgressing them." https://t.co/RGRn3ZvGs2
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: @jollyheretic Conscientiousness and agreeableness are two sides of the same coin.
To be conscientious means to do your work the way it’s supposed to be done and to fulfill your promises.
To be agreeable is to be "nice" and easy to cooperate with.
Each often requires the other.
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Conscientiousness is NOT the ability to delay gratification.
Our brains are wired to seek out present rewards.
High C individuals get more gratification here and now by doing what they are told (responding to peer pressure). https://t.co/zrK76kHfhv
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: As the @jollyheretic writes:
"High C implies a high degree of concern for internalized social norms – a tendency to feel good (here and now) when conforming to these social norms — and/or a tendency to feel bad (e.g. guilty, ashamed, afraid) when transgressing them."
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If you want to be an innovator or a creative individual you must utilize inner modes of thinking, inner evaluations, in-tuition.
To be conscientious, and highly agreeable, is to be outer-directed, and focused on others as opposed to oneself.
Here's why.
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/9XBcbjIiw5
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: Conscientiousness is NOT the ability to delay gratification.
Our brains are wired to seek out present rewards.
High C individuals get more gratification here and now by doing what they are told (responding to peer pressure).
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If you want to be an innovator or a creative individual you must utilize inner modes of thinking, inner evaluations, in-tuition.
To be conscientious, and highly agreeable, is to be outer-directed, and focused on others as opposed to oneself.
Here's why.
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"Nearly every American hungers to move...I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation—a burning desire to go, to move, to get underway, anyplace, away from any here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free…
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“What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide.”
— Yukio Mishima
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@0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper When a man searches for spiritual fulfillment in his lover, the actual effect, as Julius Evola writes, "is almost always a reinforcement of egosim of the individual in his limited and closed state; and this goes against the tendency toward self-transcendence." https://t.co/zXGTtBsK6v
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: @0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper You are born alone, and you will die alone.
In the end, your ultimate goal in life should be self-transcedence.
We were destined to love, and recieve it in return.
But most of all — we were born for God and union with him.
Don't lose sight of this.
END.
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@Foz89107323: @0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper When a man searches for spiritual fulfillment in his lover, the actual effect, as Julius Evola writes, "is almost always a reinforcement of egosim of the individual in his limited and closed state; and this goes against the tendency toward self-transcendence."
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@Foz89107323: @0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper This is one of the hardest steps to take.
Men don't fear the darkness so much as they fear the light.
After a heartbreak, it's tempting to seek out comfort in the idea that love doesn't exist.
Misery loves company.
But please — don't ever lose hope.
Love is real.
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@0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper Step # 3:
Search for danger.
This may sound strange, but danger awakens the senses when they have been dulled.
After a breakup, anhedonia will hit you hard. You won't feel anything.
Take risks, live on the edge, do things you wouldn't normally do. https://t.co/QXy3lrNlDR
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: @0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper What does this look like in practice?
Well, it depends on what it is you fear.
For some men, it's rejection.
If that's the case, go out to a bar with your friends and approach a bunch of woman.
Even if you fail, you've stepped outside of your comfort zone.
You've grown.
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After a breakup, don't be afraid to seek out wisdom from other men.
Following my first breakup, I actually reached out to @0x49fa98 for advice on heartbreak.
I also reached out to @Prof_Cooper for poems on heartbreak, which he graciously provided.
Here is what they said: https://t.co/RV3vR8gI2E
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: @0x49fa98 @Prof_Cooper Step # 3:
Search for danger.
This may sound strange, but danger awakens the senses when they have been dulled.
After a breakup, anhedonia will hit you hard. You won't feel anything.
Take risks, live on the edge, do things you wouldn't normally do.
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Step # 2:
Revaluate your values.
Read, hike, pray, soul-search, explore — do anything to find your spiritual footing again.
Chances are if your relationship ended, part of it had something to do with you.
Find what needs to be changed within, or without. https://t.co/6DmWkz05fs
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: After a breakup, don't be afraid to seek out wisdom from other men.
Following my first breakup, I actually reached out to @0x49fa98 for advice on heartbreak.
I also reached out to @Prof_Cooper for poems on heartbreak, which he graciously provided.
Here is what they said:
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@Foz89107323: Step # 2:
Revaluate your values.
Read, hike, pray, soul-search, explore — do anything to find your spiritual footing again.
Chances are if your relationship ended, part of it had something to do with you.
Find what needs to be changed within, or without.
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Most men going through a breakup are waking up from the illusions they once had about relationships and love.
They haven't just lost a loved one, they're losing a part of themselves.
Telling a man that there's "always more fish in the sea" doesn't get to the root of the crisis. https://t.co/bW6P645epA
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: What can you for a friend who's going through a breakup?
More importantly — what can you do for yourself if you've been heartbroken?
Step # 1:
Don't distract yourself from grief — face it head on.
This is the hardest step, but it must be taken at some point.
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@Foz89107323: Most men going through a breakup are waking up from the illusions they once had about relationships and love.
They haven't just lost a loved one, they're losing a part of themselves.
Telling a man that there's "always more fish in the sea" doesn't get to the root of the crisis.
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Plato once wrote that humans once had four arms, four legs and two faces.
Zeus split us in half as a punishment for our pride, and we were destined to walk the
Earth searching for our other half, for our soulmates.
Is it possible to find this other half? https://t.co/ZdYuzviRTX
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: Man's inner need for groundedness, unfortunately, will never be fully satisfied.
War is the father of all things, and nature is in constant flux.
Everything we long to possess, to control and protect, will eventually be consumed by nature's all-consuming flame.
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As Simon May writes, "we are all cast at birth into a world not of our making, a world in which we are necessarily strangers and in which we can never entirely cease to be solitary."
There is a certain part of us, however, that lives outside of time, that longs for wholeness. https://t.co/Nsv1yu0Ufj
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: Plato once wrote that humans once had four arms, four legs and two faces.
Zeus split us in half as a punishment for our pride, and we were destined to walk the
Earth searching for our other half, for our soulmates.
Is it possible to find this other half?
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There is a reason why so many soldiers cry out for their mom right before death.
Deep down, beneath all the displays of power and might, we all yearn for the comforting love of our mothers, and the safety of a home.
The world is fundamentally hostile toward this need. https://t.co/rILV3ZoQfA
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: As Simon May writes, "we are all cast at birth into a world not of our making, a world in which we are necessarily strangers and in which we can never entirely cease to be solitary."
There is a certain part of us, however, that lives outside of time, that longs for wholeness.
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Two foundational stories of the Western world—Abraham’s journey to the Promised Land in the Bible and Odysseus’s return to Ithaca in the Odyssey—can be seen as stories that connect love with the promise of, and the search for, ontological rootedness.
We all need a home. https://t.co/FXJ0mMmSTl
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: There is a reason why so many soldiers cry out for their mom right before death.
Deep down, beneath all the displays of power and might, we all yearn for the comforting love of our mothers, and the safety of a home.
The world is fundamentally hostile toward this need.
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Philosopher Simon May argues that love's foundational desire is grounded in the promise of 'ontological rootedness', a promise of a home in the world.
As May writes, "however fulfilled love is in the present, it is always directed to a future created by that promise." https://t.co/0Ln65TyEWI
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: Two foundational stories of the Western world—Abraham’s journey to the Promised Land in the Bible and Odysseus’s return to Ithaca in the Odyssey—can be seen as stories that connect love with the promise of, and the search for, ontological rootedness.
We all need a home.
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Our loved ones are indispensable guides, as Beatrice was for Dante.
Often times it feels like the world would be empty without them.
When we lose them, we experience the pain of alienation or exile, from others and from ourselves.
We lose our only home, a part of our world. https://t.co/OAYSa6HFxu
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: Philosopher Simon May argues that love's foundational desire is grounded in the promise of 'ontological rootedness', a promise of a home in the world.
As May writes, "however fulfilled love is in the present, it is always directed to a future created by that promise."
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Nomadized by modern life, most men now move from place to place, room to room, thought to thought—only passing through the world, never dwelling in it.
Someone we love can instantly give us a home in a place that has long remained empty and cold.
As Walter Benjamin writes: https://t.co/tRmcBGLDOU
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: Our loved ones are indispensable guides, as Beatrice was for Dante.
Often times it feels like the world would be empty without them.
When we lose them, we experience the pain of alienation or exile, from others and from ourselves.
We lose our only home, a part of our world.
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Love is the only haven left in our heartless world.
With most traditions now dead, or uninspired, with most jobs being meaningless and tedious, it seems that the only thing left which can help us transcend our everyday existence is a romantic relationship. https://t.co/QzmVIVu6qR
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: Nomadized by modern life, most men now move from place to place, room to room, thought to thought—only passing through the world, never dwelling in it.
Someone we love can instantly give us a home in a place that has long remained empty and cold.
As Walter Benjamin writes:
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In our Godless world, spirituality, which once referred to another dimension of things, has been brought down to earth.
It has been given another form in individual human beings.
As Earnest Becker writes, "Man now lives in a cosmology of two." https://t.co/hgzMRlb7jX
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: Love is the only haven left in our heartless world.
With most traditions now dead, or uninspired, with most jobs being meaningless and tedious, it seems that the only thing left which can help us transcend our everyday existence is a romantic relationship.
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As men, our existence precedes our essence — our nature, our identity in this world, is not predetermined at birth, but must be established through willpower.
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Woman are closer to nature, to their bodies.
Men require something higher. https://t.co/ROmc1l1Fwe
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: In our Godless world, spirituality, which once referred to another dimension of things, has been brought down to earth.
It has been given another form in individual human beings.
As Earnest Becker writes, "Man now lives in a cosmology of two."
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As guys, we are condemned to a perpetual pattern of linearity, focus, aim, directedness.
We must always aim beyond ourselves toward somebody or something, in the hopes that whatever it is we find — whether its love or God — will complete us, and make us whole. https://t.co/3PFYWH2MOz
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: As men, our existence precedes our essence — our nature, our identity in this world, is not predetermined at birth, but must be established through willpower.
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Woman are closer to nature, to their bodies.
Men require something higher.
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Our constant state of sexual anxiety pushes us to perform. We must aspire to be successful, high status, strong, intelligent, etc.
Naturally, many men want to break free from all this, to relax, to be themselves instead of putting on a performance all the time. https://t.co/4u9yc5FNMZ
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: As guys, we are condemned to a perpetual pattern of linearity, focus, aim, directedness.
We must always aim beyond ourselves toward somebody or something, in the hopes that whatever it is we find — whether its love or God — will complete us, and make us whole.
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The romantic quest for a man is a war between identity and annihilation.
As Pagilia writes:
"Men are in a constant state of sexual anxiety, living on the pins and needles of their hormones. In sex as in life they are driven beyond—beyond the self, beyond the body.” https://t.co/yw4X2wMk8E
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: Our constant state of sexual anxiety pushes us to perform. We must aspire to be successful, high status, strong, intelligent, etc.
Naturally, many men want to break free from all this, to relax, to be themselves instead of putting on a performance all the time.
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One of the supreme anxieties for men is the loss of control.
Religion, ritual, and art began as Apollonian attempts to tame the uncontrollable.
Romantic idealism in men also stems from the need to fix and stabilize the subterranean forces of nature. https://t.co/yBiFalfwvs
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: The romantic quest for a man is a war between identity and annihilation.
As Pagilia writes:
"Men are in a constant state of sexual anxiety, living on the pins and needles of their hormones. In sex as in life they are driven beyond—beyond the self, beyond the body.”
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Generally speaking, men tend to be more romantic than women.
They fall in love faster because they're so visual. They also fall in love more regularly.
This creates a recipe for disaster, since 50% of all marriages end in divorce, and 90% of relationships before 30 fail. https://t.co/eCvOhcqHJ2
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: One of the supreme anxieties for men is the loss of control.
Religion, ritual, and art began as Apollonian attempts to tame the uncontrollable.
Romantic idealism in men also stems from the need to fix and stabilize the subterranean forces of nature.
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Why is hopelessness so acute in heartbroken men?
Camille Pagilia once said: "projection is a male curse: forever to need something or someone to make oneself complete.”
Love is one of the natural forms with which man seeks to reduce and suspend his feeling of privation. https://t.co/GYQQEBGHEz
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: Generally speaking, men tend to be more romantic than women.
They fall in love faster because they're so visual. They also fall in love more regularly.
This creates a recipe for disaster, since 50% of all marriages end in divorce, and 90% of relationships before 30 fail.
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Men struggle the most with breakups.
In one study, it was found that, compared to divorced women, divorced men were nine times more likely to die by suicide.
Contrary to popular belief, most men are very emotionally invested in relationships - we just don't show it. https://t.co/nDkvjhuRo0
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: Why is hopelessness so acute in heartbroken men?
Camille Pagilia once said: "projection is a male curse: forever to need something or someone to make oneself complete.”
Love is one of the natural forms with which man seeks to reduce and suspend his feeling of privation.
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Why are breakups so difficult for men?
Is it possible to move on from a heartbreak?
Here's how to deal with it.
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/tdlWqDa5AG
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: Men struggle the most with breakups.
In one study, it was found that, compared to divorced women, divorced men were nine times more likely to die by suicide.
Contrary to popular belief, most men are very emotionally invested in relationships - we just don't show it.
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Why are breakups so difficult for men?
Is it possible to move on from a heartbreak?
Here's how to deal with it.
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In the DSM-5, there are 270 million combinations of symptoms that would meet the criteria for both PTSD & major depressive disorder.
When five other commonly made diagnoses are seen alongside these two, this figure rises to one quintillion symptom combinations - more than the…
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The romantic spirit is powered by what Alexander Dugin calls the ‘Dark Logos.’
When channeled, this nocturnal force turns your life, as Mishima said, into a line of poetry written with blood.
In a world without dance, without vitality, this Dionysian spirit ceases to exist. https://t.co/vYbcFmGSfZ https://t.co/UPqNOLBOAL
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: Musically, the Dionysian spirit hasn’t left us.
You can hear it in albums like:
1). Blackstar - David Bowie
2). Deathconsciousness - Have A Nice Life
3). ExMilitary - Death Grips
4). To Be Kind - Swans
The Dark Logos lives on.
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The romantic spirit is powered by what Alexander Dugin calls the ‘Dark Logos.’
When channeled, this nocturnal force turns your life, as Mishima said, into a line of poetry written with blood.
In a world without dance, without vitality, this Dionysian spirit ceases to exist.
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True greatness is born out of tension between opposites.
It is the tension between the warring ends of a bow that gives the arrow the power to fly, as it is the tension in the strings of a lyre that gives rise to melody.
The truth exists on the edge of chaos.
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"...Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step & every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all." https://t.co/Aq44EVbps5
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: Man is not created in the image of the market.
Nature is the mother of all things sold, and God, the father, is the author of every soul.
Let His light show through everything you hold, like a paper held beneath the sun, refracting God's creation, and all that is known.
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As Hermann Hesse writes:
"When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts..." https://t.co/sa243Y3Zy0
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: "...Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step & every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."
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@Foz89107323: As Hermann Hesse writes:
"When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts..."
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@Foz89107323: In the Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler wrote of the northern “longing for the woods; the mysterious compassion, the ineffable sense of forsakenness."
"The rustle of the woods, a charm that no Classical poet ever felt, stands with its secret questions—whence, whither?”
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In our neoliberal society, it's increasingly hard to tell where the market ends and where nature begins.
Everything is either owned, domesticated, commodified, or datafied.
Private vices and self-interest may lead to public benefits, but at what cost? https://t.co/E45rbxlYVH
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: Take this beautiful poem, where a Native-American man describes how our natural essence—mankind's warrior spirit—has been 'lost to memory', tamed by our industrial system:
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Since we view all of our technological achievements like roads, skyscrapers, & smartphones as 'proof' of progress, we have forfeited access to the age-old understanding of where each of us begins
Technology has uprooted us, and now we can no longer see where our roots once were. https://t.co/Vd9cT3cc0Z
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: In our neoliberal society, it's increasingly hard to tell where the market ends and where nature begins.
Everything is either owned, domesticated, commodified, or datafied.
Private vices and self-interest may lead to public benefits, but at what cost?
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When money becomes the guiding force behind all things, every relationship is depersonalized and abstracted away.
Roger Scruton has a great essay, for example, on social media, wherein he describes the way in which face-to-face interactions are degraded in cyberspace: https://t.co/RYaw6scWV9
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: Since we view all of our technological achievements like roads, skyscrapers, & smartphones as 'proof' of progress, we have forfeited access to the age-old understanding of where each of us begins
Technology has uprooted us, and now we can no longer see where our roots once were.
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Thich Hanh's exercise stands in sharp contrast to Milton Friedman's pencil lesson.
Friedman takes the rich web of connections between men and nature that go into producing a pencil and replaces those relationships with the impersonal price mechanism of the market. https://t.co/UdOTa2dzGU
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: When money becomes the guiding force behind all things, every relationship is depersonalized and abstracted away.
Roger Scruton has a great essay, for example, on social media, wherein he describes the way in which face-to-face interactions are degraded in cyberspace:
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"If we continue to look we can see the logger who cut the tree & brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. & we see the wheat. We know that the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, & therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper." https://t.co/nuIs0u1oWa
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: Thich Hanh's exercise stands in sharp contrast to Milton Friedman's pencil lesson.
Friedman takes the rich web of connections between men and nature that go into producing a pencil and replaces those relationships with the impersonal price mechanism of the market.
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As the monk says:
"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist." https://t.co/vyd72rn0Fq
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: "If we continue to look we can see the logger who cut the tree & brought it to the mill to be transformed into paper. & we see the wheat. We know that the logger cannot exist without his daily bread, & therefore the wheat that became his bread is also in this sheet of paper."
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The Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh had a simple exercise for seeing the rich web of connections that make up our lives.
He would hold up a piece of paper and invite his students to see the clouds and rain and sunshine that make the piece of paper what it is.
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/nT8IZ5G554
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: As the monk says:
"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist."
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The Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh had a simple exercise for seeing the rich web of connections that make up our lives.
He would hold up a piece of paper and invite his students to see the clouds and rain and sunshine that make the piece of paper what it is.
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Thomas Cole’s “Voyage of Life” series.
Each painting represents a different stage in human life.
1) ‘Childhood’
2) ‘Youth’
3) ‘Manhood’
4) ‘Old Age’
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“The leftist is motivated less by distress at society’s ills than by the need to satisfy his drive for power by imposing his solutions on society.”
— Ted K.
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Carl Jung was an eccentric man.
After waking up each day he would say “good morning” to his saucepans, pots, and frying pans.
He would also spent most of his time painting or meditating in his private study.
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Nostalgia can catalyze the spirit, driving us to seek out God and Home.
It can also create feelings of loneliness, forcing us into an endless cycle of seeking out temporary rewards to rid ourselves of pain.
This endless cycle can, if left unresolved, lead to totalitarianism. https://t.co/M2mBJfLxH4
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: The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering."
So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Our longing for innocence will always be unappeased, since we are fallen creatures, but God's love is always present.
Return FORWARD
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When we feel nostalgia, isn't love the answer we are seeking?
When we rebel, don't we long to recreate a time in our lives when our loved ones were present?
Nostalgia can be a powerful motivating force to find love again, but today it is used to channel our discontent. https://t.co/Bs9pmJ6vTQ
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: Nostalgia can catalyze the spirit, driving us to seek out God and Home.
It can also create feelings of loneliness, forcing us into an endless cycle of seeking out temporary rewards to rid ourselves of pain.
This endless cycle can, if left unresolved, lead to totalitarianism.
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Notice how Odysseus constructs his bed around a branching Olive Tree.
Trees symbolize life, and from the specificity of the Bible we can see this tree as the Tree of Jesse from which Christ is sprung.
Ultimately, Homer's tree finds its fulfillment with Christ on the Cross https://t.co/JGxW4o2MCP
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: When we feel nostalgia, isn't love the answer we are seeking?
When we rebel, don't we long to recreate a time in our lives when our loved ones were present?
Nostalgia can be a powerful motivating force to find love again, but today it is used to channel our discontent.
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The seeds of God's word, his love, was in utero during the time of the Greeks.
Odysseus’ tree bed is the place of his union with his Bride, Penelope.
Christians understand the Cross to be the site of Christ’s mystical union with his Bride, the Church. https://t.co/9XWf5WgaJk
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: Notice how Odysseus constructs his bed around a branching Olive Tree.
Trees symbolize life, and from the specificity of the Bible we can see this tree as the Tree of Jesse from which Christ is sprung.
Ultimately, Homer's tree finds its fulfillment with Christ on the Cross
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After his return home, nobody recognizes Odysseus in his disguise EXCEPT his wife Penelope.
What does this tell us?
Times may change, and homes can be lost, but even amidst nature's flux...love remains permanent.
Love allows us to see what is old and familiar in a new light. https://t.co/A2gRKXSkUj
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: The seeds of God's word, his love, was in utero during the time of the Greeks.
Odysseus’ tree bed is the place of his union with his Bride, Penelope.
Christians understand the Cross to be the site of Christ’s mystical union with his Bride, the Church.
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The theme of ‘recognition’ (anagnorisis) is key to understanding Odysseus's return.
Anagnorisis refers to the new understanding that we acquire of a person, a place, or a situation that we already knew but now perceive in a different light. https://t.co/4RWoxGx6E3
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: After his return home, nobody recognizes Odysseus in his disguise EXCEPT his wife Penelope.
What does this tell us?
Times may change, and homes can be lost, but even amidst nature's flux...love remains permanent.
Love allows us to see what is old and familiar in a new light.
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Everything he encountered on his return to Ithaca, however, was different and new - his family and relationships, the political situation; even the physical landscape had changed after twenty years.
He had to see things afresh, and reconnect with his past in a new way. https://t.co/ptYJt31VBO
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: The theme of ‘recognition’ (anagnorisis) is key to understanding Odysseus's return.
Anagnorisis refers to the new understanding that we acquire of a person, a place, or a situation that we already knew but now perceive in a different light.
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In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus longed to return home to his wife Penelope.
As Homer said, "Odysseus, who would give anything for the mere sight of the smoke from his own land, can only yearn for death."
He nostalgically yearned for a past he had lost, just like us today. https://t.co/bXx8fsl6fq
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: Everything he encountered on his return to Ithaca, however, was different and new - his family and relationships, the political situation; even the physical landscape had changed after twenty years.
He had to see things afresh, and reconnect with his past in a new way.
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You don't need to return to your roots or build some idyllic utopia once you fear God.
Why?
The Lord is eternal.
Since many of us nostalgically yearn for Greek way of life, let's look at how God's word, the Logos, was already present during the bronze age. https://t.co/BRt5Sj3d1N
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: In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus longed to return home to his wife Penelope.
As Homer said, "Odysseus, who would give anything for the mere sight of the smoke from his own land, can only yearn for death."
He nostalgically yearned for a past he had lost, just like us today.
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Liberalism gave rise to two political ideologies predicated on nostalgia for the future (marxism) and the past (fascism)
Both revolution and reaction are two sides of the same coin.
They each maintain the status quo by rejecting Christianity https://t.co/O505keynoQ
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: You don't need to return to your roots or build some idyllic utopia once you fear God.
Why?
The Lord is eternal.
Since many of us nostalgically yearn for Greek way of life, let's look at how God's word, the Logos, was already present during the bronze age.
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@Foz89107323: Liberalism gave rise to two political ideologies predicated on nostalgia for the future (marxism) and the past (fascism)
Both revolution and reaction are two sides of the same coin.
They each maintain the status quo by rejecting Christianity
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The final result of Nietzsche's vision of the world is a whole complex of forces that, at the bottom, have no object (Samsara).
In this metaphysical wasteland, deserted by values and gods, the only single REAL thing left, which does not lie, is biology — the body. https://t.co/D72bLI6fyu
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: Nietzsche, like most reactionaries, was a damned saint because he attempted to take a leap of faith without knowing how to fly.
In his attempt to keep faith with the earth, to replace God with man, he tries to assert something which, at the bottom, is "not of this earth."
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Nietzsche sought to "keep faith with the earth."
He identified with the irrational forces of nature that Dionysus embodied.
In an attempt to unleash those subterranean powers, he smashed every idol and moral system that came before him. https://t.co/EutI2icDhe
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: The final result of Nietzsche's vision of the world is a whole complex of forces that, at the bottom, have no object (Samsara).
In this metaphysical wasteland, deserted by values and gods, the only single REAL thing left, which does not lie, is biology — the body.
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As Evola pointed out, the Enlightenment's view of man disrupted the spiritual unity of the personality.
It concentrated the sense of self on the physical part of one’s own being.
This view would acquire its reactionary counterpart with Nietzsche in the 1800s. https://t.co/47heJj21on
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: Nietzsche sought to "keep faith with the earth."
He identified with the irrational forces of nature that Dionysus embodied.
In an attempt to unleash those subterranean powers, he smashed every idol and moral system that came before him.
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This "naturalistic theory", promulgated by Rousseau, sought to undermine the Ancien Regime by arguing that men's rights were more 'natural' than those given to him by traditional authorities.
What was the result of this new conception of man? https://t.co/Sj6YWE3GFp
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: As Evola pointed out, the Enlightenment's view of man disrupted the spiritual unity of the personality.
It concentrated the sense of self on the physical part of one’s own being.
This view would acquire its reactionary counterpart with Nietzsche in the 1800s.
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The metaphysical roots of our current crisis can be traced back to the political nostalgia of the enlightenment
In that period, there was a widespread myth of nature that conceived of it as the normal, sane, and wise order
The 'noble savage' was the purest version of man. https://t.co/vfCbmmih1l
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: This "naturalistic theory", promulgated by Rousseau, sought to undermine the Ancien Regime by arguing that men's rights were more 'natural' than those given to him by traditional authorities.
What was the result of this new conception of man?
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Augusto Del Noce said:
“Neither the conservative critique of utopia nor the reactionary “return to the past” addresses the metaphysical roots of the crisis brought about by the idea of the total revolution”
@_kruptos has a great substack piece on Del Noce: https://t.co/a0CYzITetI
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: The metaphysical roots of our current crisis can be traced back to the political nostalgia of the enlightenment
In that period, there was a widespread myth of nature that conceived of it as the normal, sane, and wise order
The 'noble savage' was the purest version of man.
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We are trapped in the past that never existed — a home that only exists in our minds.
We must go beyond our current society with a clear consciousness of the past, instead of trying to conserve it or RETVRN.
There is nothing left to conserve except our hope for a better future. https://t.co/6MDYM1HjXl
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: Augusto Del Noce said:
“Neither the conservative critique of utopia nor the reactionary “return to the past” addresses the metaphysical roots of the crisis brought about by the idea of the total revolution”
@_kruptos has a great substack piece on Del Noce:
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Every song repeats old sounds, every movie is a reboot, and all fashion imitates older trends.
Culture is so stuck that we are starting to feel a sense of longing for a past we never lived (Anemoia).
Think of the "little dark age" edits, the retvrn posts, etc. https://t.co/daMEXIki83
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: We are trapped in the past that never existed — a home that only exists in our minds.
We must go beyond our current society with a clear consciousness of the past, instead of trying to conserve it or RETVRN.
There is nothing left to conserve except our hope for a better future.
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@Foz89107323: Every song repeats old sounds, every movie is a reboot, and all fashion imitates older trends.
Culture is so stuck that we are starting to feel a sense of longing for a past we never lived (Anemoia).
Think of the "little dark age" edits, the retvrn posts, etc.
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One is initiated into adulthood when he/she watches shows like Game of Thrones that are regarded as 'realistic' because they put sin on full display.
Naturally, though, our souls long for the old morality of our childhood, so the market fills the demand with nostalgiac reboots. https://t.co/EEJXwS0l5N
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: The market takes a religious impulse, a longing for God and home, and uses it for the sake of creating revenue streams to profit off our alienation.
Politicians do the same thing.
Roger Scruton once said that socialism is "a kind of diseased nostalgia for the future."
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Childhood entertainment is moralistic and cartoonish for a reason.
Kids' shows and movies are designed to be bright and stupid so that, when we get older, those shows - and the watered-down traditional values they preached - will become an eventual target of rebellion. https://t.co/B8FofcX4vs
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: One is initiated into adulthood when he/she watches shows like Game of Thrones that are regarded as 'realistic' because they put sin on full display.
Naturally, though, our souls long for the old morality of our childhood, so the market fills the demand with nostalgiac reboots.
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One of the perverse ways we leave home and become an 'adult' is by watching entertainment that depicts violence, gore, and sex.
A person only knows he's 'mature' in our society when he can repudiate the values he got from his home, from his childhood. https://t.co/s8QBHPJ6ng
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: Childhood entertainment is moralistic and cartoonish for a reason.
Kids' shows and movies are designed to be bright and stupid so that, when we get older, those shows - and the watered-down traditional values they preached - will become an eventual target of rebellion.
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In her book Homesickness, Susan J. Matt found that Americans from the early settlers to the present have been homebodies.
It's only in the past one hundred years or so that we’ve come to idealize leaving home, to see it not just as a necessity but as proof of real adulthood. https://t.co/GKPcHwg9Qg
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: One of the perverse ways we leave home and become an 'adult' is by watching entertainment that depicts violence, gore, and sex.
A person only knows he's 'mature' in our society when he can repudiate the values he got from his home, from his childhood.
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As Marc Barnes writes:
"The American individual must repeat, in some melodrama of Coming Out, Leaving Home, Going West, or Breaking Free, his country’s original break with Europe and the Church."
@PostliberalTho1 https://t.co/8cLttxyqer
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: In her book Homesickness, Susan J. Matt found that Americans from the early settlers to the present have been homebodies.
It's only in the past one hundred years or so that we’ve come to idealize leaving home, to see it not just as a necessity but as proof of real adulthood.
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The lonelier one feels the more nostalgic one becomes.
Nostalgia can be addicting since it simulates the presence of others when they are absent.
As Americans, we are most prone to this form of addiction. https://t.co/5DcwbHy6It
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: As Marc Barnes writes:
"The American individual must repeat, in some melodrama of Coming Out, Leaving Home, Going West, or Breaking Free, his country’s original break with Europe and the Church."
@PostliberalTho1
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Nostalgia serves to reestablish a symbolic connection with others.
This connection, however, is purely symbolic and thus not real.
It creates the illusion of belonging where one still does not belong. https://t.co/9yYIQ7j6W8
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: The lonelier one feels the more nostalgic one becomes.
Nostalgia can be addicting since it simulates the presence of others when they are absent.
As Americans, we are most prone to this form of addiction.
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Modern pop culture is drunk on nostalgia.
Stranger Things, Star Wars, The Barbie Movie, Indiana Jones, etc.
Hollywood is trying to bank off the past because they know that we all want to escape the present.
The key word there is ESCAPE. https://t.co/IZRwAQiQi1
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: Nostalgia serves to reestablish a symbolic connection with others.
This connection, however, is purely symbolic and thus not real.
It creates the illusion of belonging where one still does not belong.
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Nostalgia is one of those feelings that corporations exploit to give you a sense of illusory belonging.
"Nostalgia", as Christopher Lasch once said, "evokes the past only to bury it alive."
Why should you avoid it?
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: Modern pop culture is drunk on nostalgia.
Stranger Things, Star Wars, The Barbie Movie, Indiana Jones, etc.
Hollywood is trying to bank off the past because they know that we all want to escape the present.
The key word there is ESCAPE.
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Nostalgia is one of those feelings that corporations exploit to give you a sense of illusory belonging.
"Nostalgia", as Christopher Lasch once said, "evokes the past only to bury it alive."
Why should you avoid it?
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@OtherBrooks Intuitively, we know that we’re all living a lie.
Every lie we tell ourselves incurs a debt to the truth.
Sooner or later, that debt must be paid.
If we don’t recognize the truth now, eventually a holy rain will wash us all away.
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How many of you, despite having everything you want, feel like you’re living on borrowed time?
There’s a great quote from Mike Ma’s book, Harassment Architecture, that describes this feeling:
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Karl Popper's 'open society', which Soros helped realize, is so open-minded to all things new that its brains have fallen out.
You need a population of highly disagreeable men to have a free society, not a mass of docile sheep that permits every moral obscenity.
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The Dalai Lama was astroturfed by the media throughout the 2010s because he preached 'McMindfulness' — a consumer-friendly version of Buddhism that was designed to replace organized religion with spiritual 'self-help'.
Don't be deceived by his kindness — he is a globalist.
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Every liberal institution is designed to degrade morality.
Human Rights orgs replace all cultures & traditions with an egalitarian religion.
Psychological orgs like the APA replace the biblical model of personhood with a biologically reductionist view of human nature.
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When you call me an alt right fascist this is who you’re speaking to.
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The American Mall is a monument to postmodernism.
Food courts with cuisine from every culture.
Consumers window shopping for clothing to fit their personalized style.
Kiosk workers vying for your attention.
A melting pot of random products and people with no order.
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At the end of the Joker movie, Arthur Fleck laughs for the first time in a genuine way.
He isn't forcing laughter to hide repressed emotions or memories.
Maybe one day the regime will stop taking itself so seriously and laugh for the first time alongside us.
Maybe not. https://t.co/bnI2SdqIlX
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: Either way, the Jester and the King are always destined to fight each other, like Batman and Joker.
Pepe and NPC's are both trapped in the circle of life — the endless cycles of chaos and order.
We may never win or lose, but as Frank Sinatra says, "That's life!"
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@Foz89107323: At the end of the Joker movie, Arthur Fleck laughs for the first time in a genuine way.
He isn't forcing laughter to hide repressed emotions or memories.
Maybe one day the regime will stop taking itself so seriously and laugh for the first time alongside us.
Maybe not.
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The Twitter files, & shitstorm that Elon Musk created when he bought this company, show us that we are a REAL threat to the regime.
Not because we wear a mask, & act fake like Colbert, but because ARE our masks.
We have all become a symbol of resistance that can't be destroyed https://t.co/SI5E4qZEDy
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: There is a reason why the Joker never reveals his backstory or his motivation.
He tells different people different stories about his scars, mocking the idea that some deep-rooted trauma drives him.
When you become one with your mask, you become an indestructible idea.
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When the regime tries to ban us, that only gives our side more power.
The crackdowns only make our jokes funnier because speaking the truth becomes even MORE taboo the more they try to stop us. https://t.co/zldBeNhIio
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: The Twitter files, & shitstorm that Elon Musk created when he bought this company, show us that we are a REAL threat to the regime.
Not because we wear a mask, & act fake like Colbert, but because ARE our masks.
We have all become a symbol of resistance that can't be destroyed
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The king (the establishment) wants the fools BACK. They don't want us to expose the stage magic.
The problem is the left can't meme, so they must crack down on shitpoasters.
That's why CNN tried to hunt down the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF. https://t.co/0fdODWMMAN
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: When the regime tries to ban us, that only gives our side more power.
The crackdowns only make our jokes funnier because speaking the truth becomes even MORE taboo the more they try to stop us.
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The wise King would also keep a Fool by his side.
The Fool could say anything he liked without repercussions.
That way, the King knew what was really going on in the Kingdom.
In today's world, the Fools have escaped from the kingdom to twitter.
The left only has yes men now https://t.co/We80Hw0yzv
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: The king (the establishment) wants the fools BACK. They don't want us to expose the stage magic.
The problem is the left can't meme, so they must crack down on shitpoasters.
That's why CNN tried to hunt down the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF.
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In medieval times, the King’s court tended to be staffed by “yes” men who simply said things that the King wanted to hear.
Like the media today, these yes men were there to uphold the lie that the king's power was legitimate, and not based on lies. https://t.co/2i78iYC8Yw
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: The wise King would also keep a Fool by his side.
The Fool could say anything he liked without repercussions.
That way, the King knew what was really going on in the Kingdom.
In today's world, the Fools have escaped from the kingdom to twitter.
The left only has yes men now
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The establishment needs an army of 'court jesters' like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Jimmy Kimmel — all of whom support the current thing — to prevent further delegitimization.
They must supply their own jokes to weaken the power of ours. https://t.co/QF7VvGWWe5
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: In medieval times, the King’s court tended to be staffed by “yes” men who simply said things that the King wanted to hear.
Like the media today, these yes men were there to uphold the lie that the king's power was legitimate, and not based on lies.
Forrest 🌲
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There is a reason why the establishment is trying so desperately to censor and doxx anons and shitpoasters.
Nothing is more delegitimizing than a joke.
If you reveal that the emperor has no clothes, he loses all his authority. https://t.co/bQ1OBQcR4N
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: The establishment needs an army of 'court jesters' like Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Jimmy Kimmel — all of whom support the current thing — to prevent further delegitimization.
They must supply their own jokes to weaken the power of ours.
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What can the Joker teach us?
If u exert extreme stress on the regime's stage magic, you can force it into telling a new lie in order to resolve a legitimation crisis.
If you introduce a little anarchy and spread some 'misinformation', you'll expose the system's 'true colors'. https://t.co/8UZBNHHPX1
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: There is a reason why the establishment is trying so desperately to censor and doxx anons and shitpoasters.
Nothing is more delegitimizing than a joke.
If you reveal that the emperor has no clothes, he loses all his authority.
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At the end of the film, Gotham must declare a state of exception in order to crack down on crime (the Dent Act).
Like Batman, Gotham must violate its own code of ethics in order to keep the public peace.
Gotham is showing who runs the show by turning into a police state. https://t.co/7eseajR0iA
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: What can the Joker teach us?
If u exert extreme stress on the regime's stage magic, you can force it into telling a new lie in order to resolve a legitimation crisis.
If you introduce a little anarchy and spread some 'misinformation', you'll expose the system's 'true colors'.
Forrest 🌲
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By forcing Batman into this moral dilemma, the Joker is showing us that you "either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain."
Batman is a "freak" just like the Joker because he has no choice over whether he wants to be a hero or a villain. https://t.co/khTmSUKcwp
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: At the end of the film, Gotham must declare a state of exception in order to crack down on crime (the Dent Act).
Like Batman, Gotham must violate its own code of ethics in order to keep the public peace.
Gotham is showing who runs the show by turning into a police state.
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@Foz89107323: By forcing Batman into this moral dilemma, the Joker is showing us that you "either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain."
Batman is a "freak" just like the Joker because he has no choice over whether he wants to be a hero or a villain.
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Harvey Dent turns himself him claiming to be Batman because the city has clearly decided that Batman is not a protector, but a nuisance.
The symbol that maintains social order is collapsing, so Dent must tell a lie as a form of damage control to protect Gotham and Batman. https://t.co/5hBOq06q0v
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: The only thing that stands in the way of Joker achieving his goal is Batman's no-kill rule.
Batman can't violate his moral code, since that would make Batman a criminal just like the Joker.
That is why Joker tells Batman to "HIT ME."
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The Joker focuses his efforts on Batman because he has "revealed Gotham's true colors" — its stage magic.
The Joker shows us that Gotham needs an idol (Batman) in order to maintain law and order.
Once that idol is shattered, the social order collapses. https://t.co/RzKjJhuMhe
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: Harvey Dent turns himself him claiming to be Batman because the city has clearly decided that Batman is not a protector, but a nuisance.
The symbol that maintains social order is collapsing, so Dent must tell a lie as a form of damage control to protect Gotham and Batman.
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James Burnham taught us that all states are ruled by elites who subdue their subjects with illusions.
These illusions are like stage magic.
As Yarvin writes, this stage magic "works by presenting true facts in a pattern that suggests a false story, and obscures a true story." https://t.co/otmjMwE0Mk
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: The Joker focuses his efforts on Batman because he has "revealed Gotham's true colors" — its stage magic.
The Joker shows us that Gotham needs an idol (Batman) in order to maintain law and order.
Once that idol is shattered, the social order collapses.
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The Joker knows that Gotham "calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime."
The only thing that separates him (a criminal) from the corrupt state (Gotham) is public opinion (built on lies)
The Joker wants to introduce a little anarchy to unveil those lies. https://t.co/B600d9eOmV
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: James Burnham taught us that all states are ruled by elites who subdue their subjects with illusions.
These illusions are like stage magic.
As Yarvin writes, this stage magic "works by presenting true facts in a pattern that suggests a false story, and obscures a true story."
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Nietzsche sought to reveal the nihilism hidden beneath the religions and ideologies of the past, deconstructing them so as to reveal a will to power.
Rather than philosophizing with a hammer, the Joker philosophizes with dynamite, gunpowder, & gasoline to accomplish his goal. https://t.co/Q8LduiMPxs
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: The Joker knows that Gotham "calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime."
The only thing that separates him (a criminal) from the corrupt state (Gotham) is public opinion (built on lies)
The Joker wants to introduce a little anarchy to unveil those lies.
Forrest 🌲
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At the beginning of The Dark Knight, Joker takes off his mask and says, “I believe that what doesn’t kill you, simply makes you...stranger."
This reference to Nietzsche's aphorism reveals Joker's goal throughout the film — disclosing the truth beneath Gotham's lies. https://t.co/H8H00PFQwf
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: Nietzsche sought to reveal the nihilism hidden beneath the religions and ideologies of the past, deconstructing them so as to reveal a will to power.
Rather than philosophizing with a hammer, the Joker philosophizes with dynamite, gunpowder, & gasoline to accomplish his goal.
Forrest 🌲
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What is the right's purpose today?
Win elections? Drain the swamp?
One goal trumps all others:
Smashing the left's idols with comedy and wit.
The Joker can teach us how to do this.
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/afx60coEze
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: At the beginning of The Dark Knight, Joker takes off his mask and says, “I believe that what doesn’t kill you, simply makes you...stranger."
This reference to Nietzsche's aphorism reveals Joker's goal throughout the film — disclosing the truth beneath Gotham's lies.
Forrest 🌲
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What is the right's purpose today?
Win elections? Drain the swamp?
One goal trumps all others:
Smashing the left's idols with comedy and wit.
The Joker can teach us how to do this.
THREAD 🧵
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“A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me.
I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me.”
— Hermann Hesse
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This painting by Zdzisław Beksiński reminds me of an important truth:
The only force more powerful than death, capable of resisting the hellscape that is modernity, is love.
As cliche as it sounds, most people forget that in the end it’s all that matters.
Love madly!!!
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Such a shame that people get their knowledge of history from irony-poisoned video essayists that trivialize the magnificent story of life with sarcastic jokes and memes.
The Last Man asks, “What is creation? What is a star?”—and he blinks.
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“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding”
— The Wasteland, T.S. Elliot
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I was recently reading through Stanley Kubrick’s script for Napoleon, often dubbed the “greatest film never made.”
There’s one scene where Napoleon critiques the Rousseauian philosophy of the French Revolution.
Really based stuff.
Here it is:
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Multiverse theory is BS!!!!
The multiverse ‘solution’ to quantum indeterminism is a gambit whereby you can never lose an argument, but by the same token never win one either, because everything both is and is not true at the same time.
It’s self-refuting.
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The Zoomer's obsession with 'mental health' and with 'normalizing' certain behaviors is a byproduct of their unstable self-image.
They don't know how to make sense of their emotions, so they outsource the task of understanding themselves to a therapist or to social media. https://t.co/wvq6yrtvrC
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: Gen Z is the generation of nihilism.
Zoomer's are incapable of doing something rather than nothing.
They are like Zombies, too dead to live and too alive to die.
Don't abide by their standards.
Pursue greatness, live passionately, and do so unapologetically.
END
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To escape the torturous emptiness that so many zoomers find themselves in today, one reaches either for the razorblade or the smartphone.
Either they gobble down SSRIs, self-harm, or vainly attempt to produce a self by taking endless selfies and videos. https://t.co/Ir8CkANodJ
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: The Zoomer's obsession with 'mental health' and with 'normalizing' certain behaviors is a byproduct of their unstable self-image.
They don't know how to make sense of their emotions, so they outsource the task of understanding themselves to a therapist or to social media.
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Gen'z higher likelihood to engage in self-harm points to a crisis of gratification in modern society.
They are hiding all these powerful emotions, and can't express them, lest they be ostracized.
So they must cry out for help behind closed doors by hurting themselves. https://t.co/HUpkdPvYeQ
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: To escape the torturous emptiness that so many zoomers find themselves in today, one reaches either for the razorblade or the smartphone.
Either they gobble down SSRIs, self-harm, or vainly attempt to produce a self by taking endless selfies and videos.
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Deep down zoomers want to express passionate emotions like sorrow and love, but since it is considered cringe and weird to be human, they must repress everything.
If they don't repress these powerful emotions, they might never find recognition from others or a romantic partner. https://t.co/xy015iOCzS
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: Gen'z higher likelihood to engage in self-harm points to a crisis of gratification in modern society.
They are hiding all these powerful emotions, and can't express them, lest they be ostracized.
So they must cry out for help behind closed doors by hurting themselves.
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@Foz89107323: Deep down zoomers want to express passionate emotions like sorrow and love, but since it is considered cringe and weird to be human, they must repress everything.
If they don't repress these powerful emotions, they might never find recognition from others or a romantic partner.
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As @EsmeLKPartridge writes in her article on Goblin-mode, there is a "deeper ideology lurking in the minds of younger millennials & Gen Z: the rejection of idealism in all its forms."
The greatest sin is to set high standards for oneself, to passionately strive toward greatness. https://t.co/5EBsxp9enB
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: I remember in high school anytime I would say something deep & from the heart, other students would often laugh at me or give me the infamous 'fluoride stare'.
No expression encapsulates the inner world of the zoomer more than that lifeless, contemptuous gaze.
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@Foz89107323: As @EsmeLKPartridge writes in her article on Goblin-mode, there is a "deeper ideology lurking in the minds of younger millennials & Gen Z: the rejection of idealism in all its forms."
The greatest sin is to set high standards for oneself, to passionately strive toward greatness.
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@Foz89107323: Requesting promises and commitment from another person is conceived as "exerting pressure".
The goal with dating, therefore, is to put up a facade of unseriousness.
One must hide behind multiple layers of irony and speak indirectly about all things.
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In @lisawade's book, American Hookup, she shows that the ability to attract partners in the hookup scene was mostly related to players’ having the right affective dispositions.
Zoomers must not care about having relationships IN ORDER to find a partner now. https://t.co/zGGWIIuhEp
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: If a girl wants a committed relationship, she is 'clingy' or 'desperate'.
If a guy wants a traditional wife and children, he is an 'incel' or a 'simp'.
In other words, to take relationships seriously is to be 'low status'
Girl bosses and Casanovas get all the spoils.
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As Lisa Wade writes:
“To be chill, NYU alum Alana Massey explains, is to have 'a laid-back attitude, an absence of neurosis,' and no discernible passion about anything or anyone. Whatever you do, she says about the aftermath of a hookup, “Do not make anything a thing.” https://t.co/GmbtWEwBWo
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: In @lisawade's book, American Hookup, she shows that the ability to attract partners in the hookup scene was mostly related to players’ having the right affective dispositions.
Zoomers must not care about having relationships IN ORDER to find a partner now.
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In order to come across as cool, a zoomer must adopt a live-and-let-live attitude and remain blasé at all times.
The only time anything can be taken seriously is when a black man is killed by a cop or when a zoomer loses a 'human right'.
Otherwise, nothing else matters. https://t.co/r8HY8or1Ks
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: As Lisa Wade writes:
“To be chill, NYU alum Alana Massey explains, is to have 'a laid-back attitude, an absence of neurosis,' and no discernible passion about anything or anyone. Whatever you do, she says about the aftermath of a hookup, “Do not make anything a thing.”
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The entire Zoomer outlook on life boils down to not taking anything seriously.
To be serious is to be 'cringe', to be in love is to be a 'simp', and to be ambitious is to be a 'try-hard'.
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/rgdMqQCPWO
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: In order to come across as cool, a zoomer must adopt a live-and-let-live attitude and remain blasé at all times.
The only time anything can be taken seriously is when a black man is killed by a cop or when a zoomer loses a 'human right'.
Otherwise, nothing else matters.
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The entire Zoomer outlook on life boils down to not taking anything seriously.
To be serious is to be 'cringe', to be in love is to be a 'simp', and to be ambitious is to be a 'try-hard'.
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Since the expert has the right credentials, he can “pronounce with authority a discourse which is no longer a function of knowledge, but rather a function of the socioeconomic order.“
The problem here is that the expert confuses his social place with technical discourse. https://t.co/QibBG1WuzX
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: This is the paradox of authority.
"A knowledge is ascribed to it and this knowledge is precisely what it lacks where it is exercised."
The expert is convinced he can go beyond his field of expertise because his words give off an 'aura of legitimacy'.
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Certeau said that in order to justify his position of power the expert "pronounces on the basis of the place that his specialty has won for him."
He points to his diplomas, his awards, his achievements, in order to convince the masses that his word is gospel. https://t.co/zj0tiO6htm
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: Since the expert has the right credentials, he can “pronounce with authority a discourse which is no longer a function of knowledge, but rather a function of the socioeconomic order.“
The problem here is that the expert confuses his social place with technical discourse.
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Michel de Certeau understood that the more authority an expert has the less competent he will be in his respective field.
As his power increases, the expert will inevitably be drawn out of orbit by social demands and/or political responsibilities.
Sound familiar?
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: Certeau said that in order to justify his position of power the expert "pronounces on the basis of the place that his specialty has won for him."
He points to his diplomas, his awards, his achievements, in order to convince the masses that his word is gospel.
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Michel de Certeau understood that the more authority an expert has the less competent he will be in his respective field.
As his power increases, the expert will inevitably be drawn out of orbit by social demands and/or political responsibilities.
Sound familiar?
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'Born in the wrong body', they feel at odds with creation itself.
Alienated from their own flesh, they can't help but feel oppressed by it, and hated by others.
If God put them in this oppressed state of mind, wouldn't that make Him evil?
Why not be evil like Him then? https://t.co/dRs3XSq0OX
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Deep down, we all feel alienated from our bodies.
We fear death, age, and decay.
There is always a temptation to rebel against the flesh, for this very reason.
But God isn't evil for creating you; He made you in his Image.
God is here and now, and He loves you forever.
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If God can murder a woman with lightning, if the Lord of all things kills and repudiates mankind, then there is nothing to stop one from killing and repudiating one's fellow men
The transgender person denies man & his morality because they feel that God has denied their identity https://t.co/KyujLo6RrL
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'Born in the wrong body', they feel at odds with creation itself.
Alienated from their own flesh, they can't help but feel oppressed by it, and hated by others.
If God put them in this oppressed state of mind, wouldn't that make Him evil?
Why not be evil like Him then?
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Justine is struck by lightning, Noirceuil triumphs, and human crime continues to be man’s answer to divine crime.
As Albert Camus writes,
"The idea of God which Sade conceives for himself is, therefore, of a criminal divinity who oppresses and denies mankind." https://t.co/P3q0sKiQIy
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If God can murder a woman with lightning, if the Lord of all things kills and repudiates mankind, then there is nothing to stop one from killing and repudiating one's fellow men
The transgender person denies man & his morality because they feel that God has denied their identity
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There is a scene in one of Marquis De Sade's novels, wherein the main character Justine runs through a storm, and the wicked Noirceuil swears that he will be converted if divine retribution consents to spare her life. https://t.co/q4akv6AL47
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Justine is struck by lightning, Noirceuil triumphs, and human crime continues to be man’s answer to divine crime.
As Albert Camus writes,
"The idea of God which Sade conceives for himself is, therefore, of a criminal divinity who oppresses and denies mankind."
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Once you reject God's creation, and choose instead to elevate your feelings and self-perception above His word, the only option that remains is rebellion and therefore violence.
Audrey Hale's rampage is the outcome of a society that elevates the self above God. https://t.co/OU9rY1fwDh
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There is a scene in one of Marquis De Sade's novels, wherein the main character Justine runs through a storm, and the wicked Noirceuil swears that he will be converted if divine retribution consents to spare her life.
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@TuckerCarlson is right that the transgender ideology is a false inversion of Christianity
Like Christianity, it elevates victims of a world tainted by evil to the level of divine importance.
But unlike Christianity, it denies that God created us in His image as man and woman. https://t.co/NoX8heGGYA
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Once you reject God's creation, and choose instead to elevate your feelings and self-perception above His word, the only option that remains is rebellion and therefore violence.
Audrey Hale's rampage is the outcome of a society that elevates the self above God.
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@TuckerCarlson is right that the transgender ideology is a false inversion of Christianity
Like Christianity, it elevates victims of a world tainted by evil to the level of divine importance.
But unlike Christianity, it denies that God created us in His image as man and woman.
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As Eric Voegelin observed, however, the ascetic attitude of seeking liberation from the world has been replaced with the revolutionary attitude of creative violence.
The gnostic revolutionary now seeks to refashion reality and human nature in pursuit of some utopian mirage. https://t.co/8DyzZusNVQ
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The inevitable outcome of Gnosticism is violence since it is predicated on rebellion against the cosmic order.
When it comes to rebellion fueled by hatred of this world, there are no limits at all beyond which we shall not go, since all objective laws have no meaning.
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As Augusto Del Noce writes:
"The Gnostic position leads to the obliteration of ethics, as refusal to respect being and to be faithful to objective norms.”
Since 'this' world is beyond the point of no return, we must reject it and seek liberation from it. https://t.co/hWGAvsHTQU
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As Eric Voegelin observed, however, the ascetic attitude of seeking liberation from the world has been replaced with the revolutionary attitude of creative violence.
The gnostic revolutionary now seeks to refashion reality and human nature in pursuit of some utopian mirage.
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Gnostics do not deny order within creation, rather, they interpret this order as an abomination rather than a good.
The demiurge is not just outside and beyond this world, but against it, and openly hostile toward it.
This moral rebellion reflects a metaphysical rebellion. https://t.co/M5wszRbX71
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As Augusto Del Noce writes:
"The Gnostic position leads to the obliteration of ethics, as refusal to respect being and to be faithful to objective norms.”
Since 'this' world is beyond the point of no return, we must reject it and seek liberation from it.
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In other words, Gnostics blame the Lord of Providence, and providence itself, for all that is evil, despite all the virtues that arose from men since the beginning of time.
Overwhelmed with hopelessness, Gnostics believe that nothing good can come from this world. https://t.co/1qaxZH07Js
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Gnostics do not deny order within creation, rather, they interpret this order as an abomination rather than a good.
The demiurge is not just outside and beyond this world, but against it, and openly hostile toward it.
This moral rebellion reflects a metaphysical rebellion.
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Since the immanent realm is subject to death and decay, spiritual knowledge must come from outside the material world.
According to the gnostics, the only spark of divinity lies within oneself.
One must escape the immanent world to discover this 'God within'. https://t.co/GyVKQ7qMBX
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In other words, Gnostics blame the Lord of Providence, and providence itself, for all that is evil, despite all the virtues that arose from men since the beginning of time.
Overwhelmed with hopelessness, Gnostics believe that nothing good can come from this world.
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According to the Gnostics, Jesus wasn't the Son of God, but merely a human who attained enlightenment through gnosis and taught his disciples to do the same.
What defines gnostic personhood is not the union of spirit and body, but a divine spirit that occupies the physical body. https://t.co/9ykAjGjPRd
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Since the immanent realm is subject to death and decay, spiritual knowledge must come from outside the material world.
According to the gnostics, the only spark of divinity lies within oneself.
One must escape the immanent world to discover this 'God within'.
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Gnosticism was a heretical movement in the 2nd century Christian Church, which argued that the world was created and ruled by a divine being known as the 'demiurge'. https://t.co/tZVvSqP4d5
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According to the Gnostics, Jesus wasn't the Son of God, but merely a human who attained enlightenment through gnosis and taught his disciples to do the same.
What defines gnostic personhood is not the union of spirit and body, but a divine spirit that occupies the physical body.
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The Trans movement is rooted in the gnostic idea that the physical world of flesh and blood is inherently flawed.
Trans advocates argue that a person's 'feelings' reveal their “true” self, while the physical reality of their genitals or hormones can be false.
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Gnosticism was a heretical movement in the 2nd century Christian Church, which argued that the world was created and ruled by a divine being known as the 'demiurge'.
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The Trans movement is rooted in the gnostic idea that the physical world of flesh and blood is inherently flawed.
Trans advocates argue that a person's 'feelings' reveal their “true” self, while the physical reality of their genitals or hormones can be false.
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Instead of having 600,000 mentally ill people in hospitals, we now have 350,000 in prison & another 250,000 that are homeless.
Ever since deinstitutionalization in the 60’s, violent crime has increased, mass-killings have increased, etc
Bring back the asylum.
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@Foz89107323: He eventually decided to leave Washington and settle down in New England.
He told me that this country’s government is rotten to the core, it can’t be changed.
He focuses now on bringing unbelievers closer to God.
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I spoke with a friend’s dad recently who graduated from West Point in the 80’s.
He consulted for the department of education and saw first hand how corrupt the deep state was.
His story blew my mind.
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: My friend’s dad met with the director of the Dallas branch of the office of civil rights, a man by the name of August Taylor.
Taylor, an ex black panther, used his power to exploit woman (groping, harassment, etc).
I found an article on Taylor’s antics:
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I spoke with a friend’s dad recently who graduated from West Point in the 80’s.
He consulted for the department of education and saw first hand how corrupt the deep state was.
His story blew my mind.
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When asked why he climbed Mt. Everest, George Mallory simply said:
“Because it’s there.”
Free spirits don’t have to justify themselves, or their actions.
They just do things for no rhyme or reason, because they can.
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My mother saved this torn out magazine page many years ago.
“Lincoln called them the mystic chords of memory. Those delicate strands that connect us all; one to another. They make our joys more meaningful, our sorrows more bearable, & in the end, they’re all that really matter.”
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"The love of beauty is so rare: among the great civilizations, only the ancient Greeks, the French, the Japanese, and somewhat the Italians are true lovers of beauty and refinement, and have based their existence exclusively on the promotion of beauty.”
— @bronzeagemantis https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1638629346486398976/video/1
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Glass Onion ain't the best movie, but damn this monologue goes hard: https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1637533107489218566/video/1
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"Whatever it is out there that exists apart from us comes into contact with us as the water falls on a particular landscape"
Don't resist the tide, don't try to control it and redirect the flow of life to suit your ego's desires.
Use your free will to become one with that flow. https://t.co/evy1IGrSRn
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: The ego produces stubborness, fear, tight muscles, rigid swings, insecurity, gritted teeth, etc.
Quiet all thought, see things as a child would, not analytically (in the past or future), but with serenity and relaxation (in the now).
Then you can live in flow.
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The first step toward achieving individuation is to stop trying so hard.
As Bruce Lee said, "You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. Be like water, my friend." https://t.co/aSpBPPGzOJ
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: "Whatever it is out there that exists apart from us comes into contact with us as the water falls on a particular landscape"
Don't resist the tide, don't try to control it and redirect the flow of life to suit your ego's desires.
Use your free will to become one with that flow.
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"The feeling we have of experience happening — that even if we stop doing anything and just sit and stare, time is still passing, our bodies are changing, our senses are picking up sights and sounds, smells and tactile sensations."
Life comes to us like a flow of water. https://t.co/a0vE7NpmNl
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: The first step toward achieving individuation is to stop trying so hard.
As Bruce Lee said, "You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. Be like water, my friend."
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Psycholgist William James escaped his depression when he realized that the contents of our consciousness, all the nuisances and stresses, are simply “there” independently of our will.
We have the freedom to select which bits of information to focus on, and which bits to reject. https://t.co/eKDQmaV7dL
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: "The feeling we have of experience happening — that even if we stop doing anything and just sit and stare, time is still passing, our bodies are changing, our senses are picking up sights and sounds, smells and tactile sensations."
Life comes to us like a flow of water.
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@Foz89107323: Psycholgist William James escaped his depression when he realized that the contents of our consciousness, all the nuisances and stresses, are simply “there” independently of our will.
We have the freedom to select which bits of information to focus on, and which bits to reject.
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The challenge of the child is to develop a self, an ego.
The challenge of an adult is to forget the self, to unlearn the habits of judgment that prevent him awakening his inner child.
The adult must quiet all thought to bridge the divide between his ego and unconscious self. https://t.co/Hbelp68Ihz
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: "Our nature default setting", as David Foster Wallace said, "is the certainty that situations are really all about me. About MY hungriness and MY fatigue and MY desire to just get home."
The truth is that nobody is in your way - the only one who's really judging you is yourself.
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Overtime, the ego produces a division that separates us from our subconscious selves - the part of our brains which is largely formed by experiences in the first five years of life.
As a result, we lose our inner child.
The emissary triumphs over the master. https://t.co/T1hT8mdxXE
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: The challenge of the child is to develop a self, an ego.
The challenge of an adult is to forget the self, to unlearn the habits of judgment that prevent him awakening his inner child.
The adult must quiet all thought to bridge the divide between his ego and unconscious self.
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From childhood onwards, however, the self develops a 'will-to-appropriate'.
The intellect "wants equality", as Nietzsche said "to subsume a sense impression into an existing series: in the same way the body assimilates inorganic matter."
The ego yearns for regularity & control https://t.co/GpSQFDzP4Z
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: Overtime, the ego produces a division that separates us from our subconscious selves - the part of our brains which is largely formed by experiences in the first five years of life.
As a result, we lose our inner child.
The emissary triumphs over the master.
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@Foz89107323: From childhood onwards, however, the self develops a 'will-to-appropriate'.
The intellect "wants equality", as Nietzsche said "to subsume a sense impression into an existing series: in the same way the body assimilates inorganic matter."
The ego yearns for regularity & control
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As children, we must develop a self, an ego, in order to interact with the world and the people around us.
As Sue Kennedy writes:
"The job of the infant is being, deciding to be.
The job of the toddler is to do.
The job of the preschool child is to think." https://t.co/TM6PAqas8j
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: The young child's unconscious absorbent mind is the very vehicle that allows them to absorb their mother tongue, & movement (roll/crawl/cruise/walk).
This unconscious absorption period allows the child from birth to three years of age to begin to create themselves & their ego.
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In the end, the master was usurped, the people were duped, the domain became a tyranny; and eventually it collapsed in ruin.
What can this story tell us about the relationship between our ego (the teller) and the unconscious mind (the doer)? https://t.co/nfKM2dXjE5
Forrest 🌲
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: As children, we must develop a self, an ego, in order to interact with the world and the people around us.
As Sue Kennedy writes:
"The job of the infant is being, deciding to be.
The job of the toddler is to do.
The job of the preschool child is to think."
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“He saw his master's temperance and forbearance as weakness, not wisdom, and on his missions on the master's behalf, adopted his mantle as his own – the emissary became contemptuous of his master." https://t.co/I2thyp7NgB
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: In the end, the master was usurped, the people were duped, the domain became a tyranny; and eventually it collapsed in ruin.
What can this story tell us about the relationship between our ego (the teller) and the unconscious mind (the doer)?
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Eventually, however, the master's cleverest and most ambitious advisor, the one he trusted most, began to see himself as the master, and used his position of influence to advance his own wealth and gain. https://t.co/Gr6g0UTUio
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: “He saw his master's temperance and forbearance as weakness, not wisdom, and on his missions on the master's behalf, adopted his mantle as his own – the emissary became contemptuous of his master."
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As Iain McGilchrist writes, "it was not just that it was impossible for him personally to order all that needed to be dealt with: as he wisely saw, he needed to keep his distance from, and remain ignorant of, such concerns.”
So he carefully trained his emissaries. https://t.co/4FnUoedr9t
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: Eventually, however, the master's cleverest and most ambitious advisor, the one he trusted most, began to see himself as the master, and used his position of influence to advance his own wealth and gain.
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There was once a wise spiritual master, who was the ruler of a small but prosperous domain.
As the domain's population increased, the bounds of this small land began to grow.
He had to trust his emissaries who he sent out to secure ensure the safety of his growing land. https://t.co/niQzIyHZ4F
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: As Iain McGilchrist writes, "it was not just that it was impossible for him personally to order all that needed to be dealt with: as he wisely saw, he needed to keep his distance from, and remain ignorant of, such concerns.”
So he carefully trained his emissaries.
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Every moment of everyday, we are all playing an inner game of tennis.
The ego, the left hemisphere, always wants to triumph over the subconscious self, the wiser right hemisphere.
Nietzsche has a great story that illustrates this inner conflict going on in our heads. https://t.co/FmTORJp0Qr
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: There was once a wise spiritual master, who was the ruler of a small but prosperous domain.
As the domain's population increased, the bounds of this small land began to grow.
He had to trust his emissaries who he sent out to secure ensure the safety of his growing land.
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Eureka moments usually happen when we least expect them to, usually when we're focused on doing something else, because our attention is diffused and open to the world.
I think this explains why we always think of things we should've said AFTER an anxiety-inducing argument. https://t.co/JseQr6o418
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: Every moment of everyday, we are all playing an inner game of tennis.
The ego, the left hemisphere, always wants to triumph over the subconscious self, the wiser right hemisphere.
Nietzsche has a great story that illustrates this inner conflict going on in our heads.
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Novelty, and fear, are the crux of creativity and flow.
As Leonard Shlain writes:
"Internally, the rush of adrenaline that accompanies the presence of danger is indistinguishable from that which floods the nervous system at the eureka moment.” https://t.co/qrioxun5tc
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: Eureka moments usually happen when we least expect them to, usually when we're focused on doing something else, because our attention is diffused and open to the world.
I think this explains why we always think of things we should've said AFTER an anxiety-inducing argument.
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What does this have to do with the flow state?
In order to enter a zone of automaticity, we need to be confronted with a challenge, some novel experience that shakes us up.
We also need to be habituated enough, familiar with what's going on, so as not to become too anxious. https://t.co/ySu8JyzSgA
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: Novelty, and fear, are the crux of creativity and flow.
As Leonard Shlain writes:
"Internally, the rush of adrenaline that accompanies the presence of danger is indistinguishable from that which floods the nervous system at the eureka moment.”
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When this happens, "the arousal center in the brain shifts from the wide-focus diffuse lens and immediately lasers at the source of the novelty, effectively shutting down extraneous input."
The right hemisphere detects the threat, and the left hemisphere focuses on it. https://t.co/9UJ6e4sEBa
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: What does this have to do with the flow state?
In order to enter a zone of automaticity, we need to be confronted with a challenge, some novel experience that shakes us up.
We also need to be habituated enough, familiar with what's going on, so as not to become too anxious.
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As Leonard Shlain writes:
"Upon the sudden appearance of novelty in the environment, a carefully orchestrated cascade of neurotransmitters begins its waterfall of changes that will alter an animal’s state of consciousness." https://t.co/3yT55FuQ3D
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: When this happens, "the arousal center in the brain shifts from the wide-focus diffuse lens and immediately lasers at the source of the novelty, effectively shutting down extraneous input."
The right hemisphere detects the threat, and the left hemisphere focuses on it.
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When we are confronted with entropy, with chaos, the brain's orienting reflex is triggered, and reality 'reveals itself'.
It's like when you're driving and something anomalous happens, like a person running out in the street.
You exit autopilot mode and experience anxiety. https://t.co/TT8r71XSlw
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: As Leonard Shlain writes:
"Upon the sudden appearance of novelty in the environment, a carefully orchestrated cascade of neurotransmitters begins its waterfall of changes that will alter an animal’s state of consciousness."
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Neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg proposed that the very hemispheric structure of the cortex reflects the fundamental division between novelty (the unknown, or chaos) and routinization (the known, order).
Both hemispheres need to work together in order to enter a flow state. https://t.co/5bCAIje00Q
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: When we are confronted with entropy, with chaos, the brain's orienting reflex is triggered, and reality 'reveals itself'.
It's like when you're driving and something anomalous happens, like a person running out in the street.
You exit autopilot mode and experience anxiety.
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Chaos and order aren't just metaphors we use to describe reality; they are part of reality itself.
We can identify this through the brain, which is itself adapted to reality.
The brain developed a lateralization of function to enable both focused and open attention. https://t.co/nXX3sztf30
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: Neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg proposed that the very hemispheric structure of the cortex reflects the fundamental division between novelty (the unknown, or chaos) and routinization (the known, order).
Both hemispheres need to work together in order to enter a flow state.
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@Foz89107323: Chaos and order aren't just metaphors we use to describe reality; they are part of reality itself.
We can identify this through the brain, which is itself adapted to reality.
The brain developed a lateralization of function to enable both focused and open attention.
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It takes an enormous amount of practice and willpower to silence that voice in your head that tells you "how" and "why" you should be doing something.
In school and at work, we are socially engineered to do as we are told.
There is no room to do things the way we want to. https://t.co/nlLhBhnnRs
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: In a flow state, the ego - that judging voice inside your head - disappears.
As Csikszentmihalyi writes:
"The musician feels at one with the harmony of the cosmos, the athlete moves at one with the team, the reader of a novel lives for a few hours in a different reality."
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As Csikszentmihalyi writes:
"The musician hears right away whether the note played is the one. The rock climber finds out immediately whether the move was correct because he or she is still hanging in there and hasn’t fallen to the bottom of the valley." https://t.co/mrAWWkYgRG
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: It takes an enormous amount of practice and willpower to silence that voice in your head that tells you "how" and "why" you should be doing something.
In school and at work, we are socially engineered to do as we are told.
There is no room to do things the way we want to.
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Most of us give up on our goals because we fear failure or judgment
The autotelic/creative personality, on the other hand, isn't focused on feedback from other people, so much as he is focused on feedback from his own activities
He is too involved to be concerned with failure https://t.co/ldqJYsDczi
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: As Csikszentmihalyi writes:
"The musician hears right away whether the note played is the one. The rock climber finds out immediately whether the move was correct because he or she is still hanging in there and hasn’t fallen to the bottom of the valley."
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Truly creative people don't concern themselves with money, status, or power, which is why they usually come from humble beginnings.
Einstein, for example, wrote his first major work as a patent office clerk.
A letter he sent to his son shows us what motivated his work: https://t.co/PsoKGWAhta
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: Most of us give up on our goals because we fear failure or judgment
The autotelic/creative personality, on the other hand, isn't focused on feedback from other people, so much as he is focused on feedback from his own activities
He is too involved to be concerned with failure
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@Foz89107323: Truly creative people don't concern themselves with money, status, or power, which is why they usually come from humble beginnings.
Einstein, for example, wrote his first major work as a patent office clerk.
A letter he sent to his son shows us what motivated his work:
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As Iain McGilChrist writes:
"To be in the groove, in the flow, is to feel oneself played by, as much as playing, the music."
As Yeats says, ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
We are always one with the universe, and the universe is always one with us. https://t.co/dmhUVm1RnV
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: Most of us can't be present because we are distracted by careerism, status-seeking, & pleasure
We are 'happiest' when we can deaden our minds at work and deaden our bodies after work with alcohol and entertainment
Autotelic personalities don't take the path of least resistance
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What distinguishes athletes, artists, religious mystics, and scientists from ordinary working people is that they live their lives as if they were dancing
With dance, it is the dancing itself that is the goal
It's an autotelic activity, meaning it is enjoyed as an end in itself https://t.co/PkPhXU3QoT
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: As Iain McGilChrist writes:
"To be in the groove, in the flow, is to feel oneself played by, as much as playing, the music."
As Yeats says, ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
We are always one with the universe, and the universe is always one with us.
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Most activities in life are exotelic, meaning we do them not because we enjoy them but in order to get at some later goal.
Mountains have to be scaled, exams passed, career ladders climbed, and places visited and photographed.
In reality, our lives exist as a series of moments https://t.co/FrVSUoNKnz
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: What distinguishes athletes, artists, religious mystics, and scientists from ordinary working people is that they live their lives as if they were dancing
With dance, it is the dancing itself that is the goal
It's an autotelic activity, meaning it is enjoyed as an end in itself
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Instead of focusing on the present, our minds wander elsewhere.
"The worker thinks about the weekend; the mother cleaning house is worried about her child; the golfer’s mind is preoccupied with how his swing looks to his friends.”
This is the fallen self of everyday existence. https://t.co/qBUQDtnCK4
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: Most activities in life are exotelic, meaning we do them not because we enjoy them but in order to get at some later goal.
Mountains have to be scaled, exams passed, career ladders climbed, and places visited and photographed.
In reality, our lives exist as a series of moments
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We need a challenge, something that disrupts our routines, in order to enter a flow state.
Driving your car, or simply walking, is different from deep engagement with an activity like drumming.
Running on autopilot doesn't = flow. https://t.co/ujkND5zLj5
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: Instead of focusing on the present, our minds wander elsewhere.
"The worker thinks about the weekend; the mother cleaning house is worried about her child; the golfer’s mind is preoccupied with how his swing looks to his friends.”
This is the fallen self of everyday existence.
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It is much easier to get through the workday if we can DO our jobs without having to be aware of what we're doing.
But if we're on autopilot, like zombies, our minds will always be disjointed from what we are doing; we will fall prey to anxiety or boredom. https://t.co/1h9ao1F75G
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: We need a challenge, something that disrupts our routines, in order to enter a flow state.
Driving your car, or simply walking, is different from deep engagement with an activity like drumming.
Running on autopilot doesn't = flow.
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During these meditative activities, action and awareness merge.
It is difficult to do this in modern society because we've internalized the division of labor; we've separated our physical selves from our mental selves so that we can maximize the output of the former. https://t.co/EJAkZrcbnK
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: It is much easier to get through the workday if we can DO our jobs without having to be aware of what we're doing.
But if we're on autopilot, like zombies, our minds will always be disjointed from what we are doing; we will fall prey to anxiety or boredom.
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As Julius Evola writes:
"When the breath has been made conscious, when clear consciousness has been grafted onto the breathing, one is able to discover the 'life of one's own life' and to control the organism and the mind in many ways that are impossible for the average person." https://t.co/5IsBOC6uxR
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: During these meditative activities, action and awareness merge.
It is difficult to do this in modern society because we've internalized the division of labor; we've separated our physical selves from our mental selves so that we can maximize the output of the former.
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In order to enter the flow state, we must discipline the body to resist the pull of desire and psychic entropy
Wim Hof's breathing method is one way to do this.
It is similar to "Satipatthana" - a central practice in Buddha's teachings, which also involves breathing exercises. https://t.co/ZNgZiwBjKV
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: As Julius Evola writes:
"When the breath has been made conscious, when clear consciousness has been grafted onto the breathing, one is able to discover the 'life of one's own life' and to control the organism and the mind in many ways that are impossible for the average person."
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Wim Hof, who ran a half marathon above the Arctic Circle barefoot, practiced an ancient technique called 'Tummo' to enter a flow state.
Tummo consists of a combination of breathing and visualization techniques that bring out one's 'inner heat', which increases the body's temp. https://t.co/h0TPSdqefV
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: In order to enter the flow state, we must discipline the body to resist the pull of desire and psychic entropy
Wim Hof's breathing method is one way to do this.
It is similar to "Satipatthana" - a central practice in Buddha's teachings, which also involves breathing exercises.
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Taoists have a concept called the "middle way" (Wu Wei) that is analogous to the flow state.
The middle way is practiced by leaving things as they are; letting go; letting be; existing in a state that is not resisting or being pulled by desire. https://t.co/YoRdyaewyO
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: Wim Hof, who ran a half marathon above the Arctic Circle barefoot, practiced an ancient technique called 'Tummo' to enter a flow state.
Tummo consists of a combination of breathing and visualization techniques that bring out one's 'inner heat', which increases the body's temp.
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If an activity is too challenging, we experience what Csikszentmihalyi calls psychic entropy (anxiety).
If it is too easy, we get bored.
If there is a healthy balance between challenge and ability, we can enter the flow channel - a zone of egoless automaticity. https://t.co/EFDQa05mGS
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: Taoists have a concept called the "middle way" (Wu Wei) that is analogous to the flow state.
The middle way is practiced by leaving things as they are; letting go; letting be; existing in a state that is not resisting or being pulled by desire.
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How was Michael Jordan able to enter the flow state?
He trained his nervous system through hours and hours of trial-and-error (practice)
There was a balance between challenge and skill; he filled the attic with furniture (hidden memories) that he could tap into while playing. https://t.co/NnYK8X8oBj
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: If an activity is too challenging, we experience what Csikszentmihalyi calls psychic entropy (anxiety).
If it is too easy, we get bored.
If there is a healthy balance between challenge and ability, we can enter the flow channel - a zone of egoless automaticity.
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As Timothy Galway writes, the subconscious mind is a "far more natural and effective process for learning and doing almost anything than most of us realize."
"It is similar to the process we all used, but soon forgot, as we learned to walk and talk." https://t.co/kyJkmrm0fH
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: How was Michael Jordan able to enter the flow state?
He trained his nervous system through hours and hours of trial-and-error (practice)
There was a balance between challenge and skill; he filled the attic with furniture (hidden memories) that he could tap into while playing.
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As Sherlock Holmes said to Watson, "the brain is like little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
If you tell yourself "stop being nervous", or "get it together", that attic will remain empty, and the self will stumble and falter. https://t.co/gLULS5Iu18
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: As Timothy Galway writes, the subconscious mind is a "far more natural and effective process for learning and doing almost anything than most of us realize."
"It is similar to the process we all used, but soon forgot, as we learned to walk and talk."
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"Freedom of the will exists, but not as the freedom to create an idea; rather, it is the freedom to attend to and act on one of a number of ideas that have come to us in a way that is beyond our conscious control."
We have the ability to direct the free flow of consciousness. https://t.co/DkpUUDOSU3
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: As Sherlock Holmes said to Watson, "the brain is like little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
If you tell yourself "stop being nervous", or "get it together", that attic will remain empty, and the self will stumble and falter.
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As William James argued, our voluntary movements are secondary, not primary functions of our organism.
In order for me to perform some movement, I must already have a memory of that movement stored in my subconscious mind, which performs 95% of all activity. https://t.co/dmZMMHX8ZL
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: "Freedom of the will exists, but not as the freedom to create an idea; rather, it is the freedom to attend to and act on one of a number of ideas that have come to us in a way that is beyond our conscious control."
We have the ability to direct the free flow of consciousness.
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Libet's experiment, as Iain McGilChrist writes, "merely requires us to accept that we are more than our conscious minds, and that most of our decision-making goes on at a level below consciousness”
Your unconscious is every bit as much as much as 'you' - you still have free will https://t.co/w4ua2spsr1
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: As William James argued, our voluntary movements are secondary, not primary functions of our organism.
In order for me to perform some movement, I must already have a memory of that movement stored in my subconscious mind, which performs 95% of all activity.
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Right before we make a response to a stimulus, as Benjamin Libet observed in his experiment, there is a brain signal linked to voluntary movement (readiness potential).
The brain seems to know in advance that its owner was going to perform an action.
What does this tell us? https://t.co/PqewXpWKlY
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: Libet's experiment, as Iain McGilChrist writes, "merely requires us to accept that we are more than our conscious minds, and that most of our decision-making goes on at a level below consciousness”
Your unconscious is every bit as much as much as 'you' - you still have free will
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Cognitive neuroscientists estimate that most of our decisions, actions, emotions, and behavior depends on the 95 percent of brain activity that goes beyond our conscious awareness.
This part of the brain enables must of our movements without us even realizing it. https://t.co/CvSSNGMZta
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: Right before we make a response to a stimulus, as Benjamin Libet observed in his experiment, there is a brain signal linked to voluntary movement (readiness potential).
The brain seems to know in advance that its owner was going to perform an action.
What does this tell us?
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Choking in sports is a miscommunication and misdelegation of duties between the two selves that comprise you (the conscious and unconscious self).
Your subconscious is like a giant memory bank; it embodies all the potential you have developed up to a certain moment. https://t.co/7JgRn8CgYW
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: Cognitive neuroscientists estimate that most of our decisions, actions, emotions, and behavior depends on the 95 percent of brain activity that goes beyond our conscious awareness.
This part of the brain enables must of our movements without us even realizing it.
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Basketball player Nick Anderson used to score, on average, 3 out 4 free throws
After missing 4 important one's during a game, he started scoring only 1 out of 4
This happened because, instead of shooting on autopilot, in flow, he started willing himself to shoot better https://t.co/zdjBvuDYSz
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: Choking in sports is a miscommunication and misdelegation of duties between the two selves that comprise you (the conscious and unconscious self).
Your subconscious is like a giant memory bank; it embodies all the potential you have developed up to a certain moment.
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When basketball players shoot the ball in a flow state what is happening?
The unconscious mind takes over - that part of the psyche which absorbs information from the environment & turns it into habit
As Timothy Galway observed, we're composed of two selves (ego & unconscious) https://t.co/f8O0pRnEmo
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: Basketball player Nick Anderson used to score, on average, 3 out 4 free throws
After missing 4 important one's during a game, he started scoring only 1 out of 4
This happened because, instead of shooting on autopilot, in flow, he started willing himself to shoot better
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Mumford taught them "how you can slow time down when you create space between stimulus and response".
Within this space, "three seconds is an eternity"
External stimuli doesn't distract you at all.
In a flow state, you just shoot the ball without thinking about it https://t.co/rEwQS8D1Bs
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: When basketball players shoot the ball in a flow state what is happening?
The unconscious mind takes over - that part of the psyche which absorbs information from the environment & turns it into habit
As Timothy Galway observed, we're composed of two selves (ego & unconscious)
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Part of the reason why Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant excelled in Basketball was thanks to their sports psychologist, George Mumford.
Mumford taught them meditation & breathing practices to help the players be present during their games. https://t.co/zuMN9U0TE4
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: Mumford taught them "how you can slow time down when you create space between stimulus and response".
Within this space, "three seconds is an eternity"
External stimuli doesn't distract you at all.
In a flow state, you just shoot the ball without thinking about it
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Who are some famous figures that have utilized the flow state?
Alex Honnold, who free solo'd El Capitan in Yosemite, said that for him "a big part of the pleasure in free soloing is that it forces you into that state more than other kinds of climbing do"
That state is flow. https://t.co/ZfpsZyACdY
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: Part of the reason why Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant excelled in Basketball was thanks to their sports psychologist, George Mumford.
Mumford taught them meditation & breathing practices to help the players be present during their games.
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Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes the flow experience as "a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter."
Action and awareness merge. Time flies by. The ego vanishes. And performance is optimized. https://t.co/ZaDWBvXuqO
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: Who are some famous figures that have utilized the flow state?
Alex Honnold, who free solo'd El Capitan in Yosemite, said that for him "a big part of the pleasure in free soloing is that it forces you into that state more than other kinds of climbing do"
That state is flow.
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What is the flow state?
Entering the zone is a superpower - it is the secret to a happy life.
How can we experience it more frequently?
Is there a deeper philosophical meaning behind these optimal experiences?
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: Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes the flow experience as "a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter."
Action and awareness merge. Time flies by. The ego vanishes. And performance is optimized.
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What is the flow state?
Entering the zone is a superpower - it is the secret to a happy life.
How can we experience it more frequently?
Is there a deeper philosophical meaning behind these optimal experiences?
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How could a mindless universe give rise to a mind?
If the universe wasn’t itself conscious, how is it possible that the brain named itself?
Answer: mankind is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Your brain is created by the pairing away of neurons on a colossal scale even before birth; it develops through the continual pruning of synapses over a lifetime.
Matter canalizes consciousness, sculpting a human being with self-awareness out of nature's primordial soup. https://t.co/mcx4tPux8P
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: As a species, we have forgotten about the cosmic unity from which we arose.
We've all separated from nature, from each other, like ripples from a blade.
But this separation is divine, it is 'you'.
As Goethe writes, "life is not light, but the refracted color."
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Just as the potential of the white light is actualized by the dome, your consciousness, throughout your life, is brought into being and shaped, as it were, by your brain.
The tension between matter and mind that gives rise to you began even before you were born. https://t.co/ZvWJcxmh3c
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: Your brain is created by the pairing away of neurons on a colossal scale even before birth; it develops through the continual pruning of synapses over a lifetime.
Matter canalizes consciousness, sculpting a human being with self-awareness out of nature's primordial soup.
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As Percey Shelly writes:
"The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity." https://t.co/3yWfVjnmjK
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: Just as the potential of the white light is actualized by the dome, your consciousness, throughout your life, is brought into being and shaped, as it were, by your brain.
The tension between matter and mind that gives rise to you began even before you were born.
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Our ancestral consciousness may be imprisoned by the lifeless world we now inhabit, but it is still possible to open the doors of perception, to revive that child-like wonder that we've forgotten.
Eternal consciousness can always refract itself through the brain. https://t.co/77T1Up1KBS
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: As Percey Shelly writes:
"The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity."
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According to Klages, "the development of human consciousness, from life, to thought, to will, reveals itself in the three-stage evolution from prehistoric man (the Pelasgian), through the Promethean (down to the Renaissance), to the Heraclitean man (where we are now)." https://t.co/7EDj8wmgBj
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: Our ancestral consciousness may be imprisoned by the lifeless world we now inhabit, but it is still possible to open the doors of perception, to revive that child-like wonder that we've forgotten.
Eternal consciousness can always refract itself through the brain.
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Klages said that these people were vibrant, healthy, and physically beautiful, in touch with the gods and with nature.
The history of consciousness started with this group of men and women, and has gradually evolved overtime into a different vision of the cosmos. https://t.co/euYoMTx8oJ
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: According to Klages, "the development of human consciousness, from life, to thought, to will, reveals itself in the three-stage evolution from prehistoric man (the Pelasgian), through the Promethean (down to the Renaissance), to the Heraclitean man (where we are now)."
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Man has now lost sight of the stream of life that flows through all things.
The Pelasgians, those ancient people who inhabited the islands and seacoasts of the Mediterranean during the neolithic and bronze age, lived in a completely different world from us - they felt the stream https://t.co/cCnaFCOWQH
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: Klages said that these people were vibrant, healthy, and physically beautiful, in touch with the gods and with nature.
The history of consciousness started with this group of men and women, and has gradually evolved overtime into a different vision of the cosmos.
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As Nietzsche knew, this all began with Socrates.
As Joseph D. Pryce writes, "Socratic rationalism also gave rise to ethical schemes that were alien to life, being based upon a de-natured creature, as in the idea of man-as-such.” https://t.co/iQbk9276Tu
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: Man has now lost sight of the stream of life that flows through all things.
The Pelasgians, those ancient people who inhabited the islands and seacoasts of the Mediterranean during the neolithic and bronze age, lived in a completely different world from us - they felt the stream
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As a consequence of the preferential utilizatization of the left hemisphere, we've grown to project our egos onto the world
As Klages said, almost all philosophies comprehend the prime cause of the world-content by an analogy of the ego - an unmoved mover, will, absolute, God. https://t.co/6UQycG4Pxe
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: As Nietzsche knew, this all began with Socrates.
As Joseph D. Pryce writes, "Socratic rationalism also gave rise to ethical schemes that were alien to life, being based upon a de-natured creature, as in the idea of man-as-such.”
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In Iain McGilChrist's book, the Master and His Emissary, he hypothesizes that western civilization, ever since the time of the Greeks, has gradually started utilizing the left hemisphere more to understand the world.
This has enabled us to master nature but at a spiritual cost. https://t.co/IC5TrQ94Hs
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: As a consequence of the preferential utilizatization of the left hemisphere, we've grown to project our egos onto the world
As Klages said, almost all philosophies comprehend the prime cause of the world-content by an analogy of the ego - an unmoved mover, will, absolute, God.
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As Ludwig Klages writes, "for the man of today the world agrees so perfectly with the actuality with which he is familiar that he cannot immediately understand why there was an abyss between the original world and spirit."
We only catch glimpses of the original world in dreams: https://t.co/HOuu5LKh6T
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: In Iain McGilChrist's book, the Master and His Emissary, he hypothesizes that western civilization, ever since the time of the Greeks, has gradually started utilizing the left hemisphere more to understand the world.
This has enabled us to master nature but at a spiritual cost.
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The world is disenchanted & devoid of sacred qualities because we've created an industrial society that molds and shapes our attention to suit the needs of capital
Our attention is responsive to the world, so when everything is turned into a machine, we are molded into cogs. https://t.co/jvcKOO7j8J
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: As Ludwig Klages writes, "for the man of today the world agrees so perfectly with the actuality with which he is familiar that he cannot immediately understand why there was an abyss between the original world and spirit."
We only catch glimpses of the original world in dreams:
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As a corollary to this, in one study, it was found that:
"subjects had one or other hemisphere suppressed, and those with their left hemisphere suppressed were ‘like young children or representatives of archaic societies."
https://t.co/LJnPh9WYBy https://t.co/xkTkzyKMqf
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: The world is disenchanted & devoid of sacred qualities because we've created an industrial society that molds and shapes our attention to suit the needs of capital
Our attention is responsive to the world, so when everything is turned into a machine, we are molded into cogs.
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Overtime, however, we outgrow this state of consciousness, and a separation occurs between the perceiving self and the perceived object.
We start to project our own conceptual structures onto the world, seeing "objects" in a utilitarian light, rather than as living entities. https://t.co/1p5rGIeyUN
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: As a corollary to this, in one study, it was found that:
"subjects had one or other hemisphere suppressed, and those with their left hemisphere suppressed were ‘like young children or representatives of archaic societies."
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.227/html
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Ludwig Klages observed that, as Children, we perceive the world like an animist.
Everything is composed of living entities that exist in an intimate relationship with our being.
As BAP said, "as a small boy I felt every object was inhabited by an uncanny shadow or spirit." https://t.co/ydWAs8a1Zl
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: Overtime, however, we outgrow this state of consciousness, and a separation occurs between the perceiving self and the perceived object.
We start to project our own conceptual structures onto the world, seeing "objects" in a utilitarian light, rather than as living entities.
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In other words, "our attention is responsive to the world, and the world is responsive to our attention."
We are transmitters, not originators, of consciousness.
The brain's relationship to the world is analogous to M.C. Escher's painting of two hands drawing each other. https://t.co/I4N7pS3U6b
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: Ludwig Klages observed that, as Children, we perceive the world like an animist.
Everything is composed of living entities that exist in an intimate relationship with our being.
As BAP said, "as a small boy I felt every object was inhabited by an uncanny shadow or spirit."
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A man living in a city will perceive nature differently from a man who lives out in the wild, just as an anatomist will look at a corpse differently from us.
As Iain McGilchrist writes, "what a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.” https://t.co/7jyOuyJK0i
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: In other words, "our attention is responsive to the world, and the world is responsive to our attention."
We are transmitters, not originators, of consciousness.
The brain's relationship to the world is analogous to M.C. Escher's painting of two hands drawing each other.
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The truth is that there is that we neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective one.
Rather, with consciousness, there is a process of responsive evocation, the world ‘calls forth’ something in me that in turn ‘calls forth’ something in the world. https://t.co/kHVOr829c9
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: A man living in a city will perceive nature differently from a man who lives out in the wild, just as an anatomist will look at a corpse differently from us.
As Iain McGilchrist writes, "what a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way.”
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In an industrial society, the left hemisphere - the analytical part of the brain - must tie down the stream of happening into the unity of ego, to dictate its 'law' to the content of the world, in order to understand and engage with it.
This leads to the illusion of dualism. https://t.co/5qLJL2HzU7
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: The truth is that there is that we neither discover an objective reality nor invent a subjective one.
Rather, with consciousness, there is a process of responsive evocation, the world ‘calls forth’ something in me that in turn ‘calls forth’ something in the world.
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Why don't we have these experiences? Why can't we see the hidden harmonies in nature like Padgett?
The brain has to formulate conceptual structures that are much simpler than
the complex phenomena they are attempting to account for, in order to interact properly with the world. https://t.co/GYEKf36Rjn
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: In an industrial society, the left hemisphere - the analytical part of the brain - must tie down the stream of happening into the unity of ego, to dictate its 'law' to the content of the world, in order to understand and engage with it.
This leads to the illusion of dualism.
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@Foz89107323: Why don't we have these experiences? Why can't we see the hidden harmonies in nature like Padgett?
The brain has to formulate conceptual structures that are much simpler than
the complex phenomena they are attempting to account for, in order to interact properly with the world.
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@Foz89107323: As Iain McGilchrist writes, when the brain is functioning correctly, "it shuts out from the field of our consciousness all that is of no practical interest to us, all that does not lend itself to our action.”
It is the brain that is in the mind, not the mind in the brain.
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Just as the banks of a river constrain the flow of water and are integral to its being a river, all experience comes to us through the brain and is therefore constrained, and shaped, by it
It's like air passing through vocal cords giving rise to your personal voice. https://t.co/CauvPSOMcv
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: Padgett's injury might lead one to believe that the brain is the seat of consciousness since his damaged right hemisphere changed his behavior, but what if there's another explanation for this?
What if the brain, or matter, limits consciousness, instead of producing it?
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The human organism is not a machine, but a stable metabolic flow of energy and matter.
As the German poet Novalis observed, “there is no doubt that our body is a molded river."
Consciousness, as William James described, is like a stream. https://t.co/TmJdpvbNVn
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: Just as the banks of a river constrain the flow of water and are integral to its being a river, all experience comes to us through the brain and is therefore constrained, and shaped, by it
It's like air passing through vocal cords giving rise to your personal voice.
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What can Padgett's story tell us about consciousness?
James saw the entire universe as a seamless flow, "its members interdigitate with their next neighbors in manifold directions, and there are no clean cuts between them anywhere.”
Matter + energy are connected at every level https://t.co/Zts0XuaKAU
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: The human organism is not a machine, but a stable metabolic flow of energy and matter.
As the German poet Novalis observed, “there is no doubt that our body is a molded river."
Consciousness, as William James described, is like a stream.
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Padgett saw shapes and angles everywhere in nature, 'from the geometry of a rainbow to the fractals in water spiraling down a drain.'
Padgett drew a picture of water spiraling down a drain, entitled 'black hole', showcasing the pattern of lines he saw overlaid on the water. https://t.co/XaIWXd9xJ6
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: What can Padgett's story tell us about consciousness?
James saw the entire universe as a seamless flow, "its members interdigitate with their next neighbors in manifold directions, and there are no clean cuts between them anywhere.”
Matter + energy are connected at every level
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In his book, he says:
"I thought there was more to the nature of the universe than equations—I thought perhaps the universe spoke in its own form of math. And that math was geometry. Equations were symbolic; numbers were symbolic. But to me, geometry was real.” https://t.co/9elOZy6V34
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: Padgett saw shapes and angles everywhere in nature, 'from the geometry of a rainbow to the fractals in water spiraling down a drain.'
Padgett drew a picture of water spiraling down a drain, entitled 'black hole', showcasing the pattern of lines he saw overlaid on the water.
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Everything in Padgett's world, from trees to clouds to water, started to develop an explicit, abstract structure.
Living, embodied forms suddenly became something new and beautiful, but essentially numerical and inanimate, 'like an equation translating', as he said. https://t.co/wYAEhXpK03
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: In his book, he says:
"I thought there was more to the nature of the universe than equations—I thought perhaps the universe spoke in its own form of math. And that math was geometry. Equations were symbolic; numbers were symbolic. But to me, geometry was real.”
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The damage done to his right hemisphere forced his left hemisphere into compensating by going into overdrive
This part of the brain, as Iain McGilChrist writes, "prefers narrow focus, rule-following, and is engaged by parts or fragments." https://t.co/L5eEH9SYBw
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: Everything in Padgett's world, from trees to clouds to water, started to develop an explicit, abstract structure.
Living, embodied forms suddenly became something new and beautiful, but essentially numerical and inanimate, 'like an equation translating', as he said.
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Before Padgett's injury, he had no interest or aptitude for geometry or mathematics.
What was the cause of his sudden obsession with shapes?
Doctors discovered that he sustained bilateral damage to his brain, but the injuries were more severe in his right hemisphere. https://t.co/HzhijTXbN6
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: The damage done to his right hemisphere forced his left hemisphere into compensating by going into overdrive
This part of the brain, as Iain McGilChrist writes, "prefers narrow focus, rule-following, and is engaged by parts or fragments."
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In 2002, Jason Padgett, a bodybuilder, was brutally assaulted at a nightclub.
After the incident, something remarkable happened to his brain.
Padgett suddenly developed a talent for abstract geometrical draughtsmanship.
What can his story tell us about consciousness?
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: Before Padgett's injury, he had no interest or aptitude for geometry or mathematics.
What was the cause of his sudden obsession with shapes?
Doctors discovered that he sustained bilateral damage to his brain, but the injuries were more severe in his right hemisphere.
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In 2002, Jason Padgett, a bodybuilder, was brutally assaulted at a nightclub.
After the incident, something remarkable happened to his brain.
Padgett suddenly developed a talent for abstract geometrical draughtsmanship.
What can his story tell us about consciousness?
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You need to be lingering. Sauntering down dark alleyways, untrodden paths, underground worlds. You need to be going where the wind takes you, waiting for the truth to disclose itself from the veil of familiarity.
“In unconcealment dwells hiddenness and safekeeping.”
— Heidegger
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This is what Ted Kaczynski would sound like if he was a blue-collar Bostonian: https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1634644360800223235/video/1
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The only way to stop caring about what other people think of you is to cease trying to be the main character in your own story.
Nobody thinks of you as much as they think of themselves (spotlight effect).
If they do focus on you, it’s for a short while, then they forget.
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As Evola noted, ancient Orders & aristocracies were defined by disciplines and dignities that couldn't be reduced to social values & economic factors
All men who fight together to escape the longhouse are bearers of an intangible tradition that's waiting to be born https://t.co/f2NfZSs0ql
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: I can see the a new imperium on the horizon.
The male bond will lift us up, and guide us towards this horizon - that rising sun.
Find your platoon, your ragtag gang, your best friend, your fraternity.
Together, as men, we can revive the ancient aristocratic order.
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If we can build strong male bonds, we can revive the ancient aristocracy
If this legion of individuals is to have any power, it must NOT exist for its own sake, for the sake of satisfying the masses with a higher GDP.
This only leads to social decay, and corruption.
Nietzsche: https://t.co/DnP8WRRuVd
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: As Evola noted, ancient Orders & aristocracies were defined by disciplines and dignities that couldn't be reduced to social values & economic factors
All men who fight together to escape the longhouse are bearers of an intangible tradition that's waiting to be born
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The only person that can satisfy man’s need to unite himself with the world, and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality, is the male friend.
The male bond protects us both from losing ourselves in society, whist also protecting us from narcissism. https://t.co/G0NQVww64e
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: If we can build strong male bonds, we can revive the ancient aristocracy
If this legion of individuals is to have any power, it must NOT exist for its own sake, for the sake of satisfying the masses with a higher GDP.
This only leads to social decay, and corruption.
Nietzsche:
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@Foz89107323: The only person that can satisfy man’s need to unite himself with the world, and to acquire at the same time a sense of integrity and individuality, is the male friend.
The male bond protects us both from losing ourselves in society, whist also protecting us from narcissism.
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As men, we are at a crossroads.
If there is a modern dream, as Pascal Bruckner writes, "it consists entirely in this twofold aspiration: to enjoy symbiosis with the other while at the same time remaining master of one’s own life." https://t.co/XFyZXBS4o0
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: We want to be with everyone without having to be close to anyone.
The internet, and social media, fulfill this twofold aspiration, by giving us the satisfaction of thinking that we are connected with our friends while we're alone.
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Henry David Thoreau spoke of being lonely in his cabin, but as soon as he went outside, he was met with the “sweet and beneficent society of Nature”, that was evident “in the pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight” around his house. https://t.co/Xh6Q9Vus4z
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: As men, we are at a crossroads.
If there is a modern dream, as Pascal Bruckner writes, "it consists entirely in this twofold aspiration: to enjoy symbiosis with the other while at the same time remaining master of one’s own life."
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A man puts the cart before the horse when he chooses to seek out friends first, so that he can shield himelf from lonely thoughts.
If we feel estranged from ourselves, never forget that nature, and old books, are always there to lift up our spirits, and accompany us. https://t.co/wY7TCcx384
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: Henry David Thoreau spoke of being lonely in his cabin, but as soon as he went outside, he was met with the “sweet and beneficent society of Nature”, that was evident “in the pattering of the drops, and in every sound and sight” around his house.
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@Foz89107323: A man puts the cart before the horse when he chooses to seek out friends first, so that he can shield himelf from lonely thoughts.
If we feel estranged from ourselves, never forget that nature, and old books, are always there to lift up our spirits, and accompany us.
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I don't mean you should love yourself and take pride in isolation.
In other words, don't romanticize your melancholic solitude - it will doom you to hunt for your own reflection everywhere.
We need other people, just as much as we need ourselves. https://t.co/73AnCSk1CY
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: Heidegger's thesis was that “only insofar as I know the other can I know myself and only insofar as I know myself can I know the other.”
If I can muster the courage to face my own existential aloneness, I can forget myself —become what I am - and make room for others.
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@Foz89107323: I don't mean you should love yourself and take pride in isolation.
In other words, don't romanticize your melancholic solitude - it will doom you to hunt for your own reflection everywhere.
We need other people, just as much as we need ourselves.
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The grindset male who feels impotent attempts to religiously craft the perfect lifestyle to escape his bodily fate (cold showers, a perfect diet, etc)
He may project confidence, sexual prowess, but he fears death, age, and most of all - himself.
https://t.co/er2SsWXLki https://t.co/hSaj2lBk9D
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: Our bodies age, and most relationships are also transient.
70% of divorces are intiated by woman.
It's no wonder that men have lost hope, and have decided to drop out of work, school, etc.
It seems like nothing lasts anymore - we can't hold anything down.
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A guy that seeks to use other men and women to increase his vitality - and power over his body - ends up desiring not his beloved, nor his friends, but rather desire itself.
He yearns for the exhiliration of a radiant power that only a youthful body can bestow. https://t.co/XNo0ansG6h
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: The grindset male who feels impotent attempts to religiously craft the perfect lifestyle to escape his bodily fate (cold showers, a perfect diet, etc)
He may project confidence, sexual prowess, but he fears death, age, and most of all - himself.
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Scrupulosity (religious OCD) has been replaced with obsessing over chemicals and unhealthy foods.
We've basically created a religion out of bodily health
Repentance means cleansing oneself of harmful things like pesticides, seed oils, GMO's, etc https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1620638077403426817/video/1
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If men are putting all their eggs in one basket, investing all their effort into getting a girlfriend, why would they focus on searching for friends?
If anything, they will choose instead to use other guys as a means to an end for increased status, and female approval. https://t.co/aXG4E5uw71
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: A guy that seeks to use other men and women to increase his vitality - and power over his body - ends up desiring not his beloved, nor his friends, but rather desire itself.
He yearns for the exhiliration of a radiant power that only a youthful body can bestow.
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@Foz89107323: If men are putting all their eggs in one basket, investing all their effort into getting a girlfriend, why would they focus on searching for friends?
If anything, they will choose instead to use other guys as a means to an end for increased status, and female approval.
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The sexual revolution has destroyed men's safety net - their social support.
It's taught men that other guys can't be trusted (they might steal your girl).
It's also taught men that to love another woman deeply is to be a 'simp' (a label most men try hard to avoid). https://t.co/59sYHvOY7C
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: Since so many guys are touch-starved, lacking in physical affection (especially from other men), it's harder now for guys to maintain platonic relationships with the opposite sex
Both in and out of relationships, women now have to try and meet all of men's emotional needs.
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They are vulnerable to psychosis (nietzsche), psychopathy (kaczynski) and drug addiction (hemingway).
Therefore, without proper guidance, and social support from other men, they will fall prey to social pressures and inner turmoil. https://t.co/iQbXO974VS
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: The sexual revolution has destroyed men's safety net - their social support.
It's taught men that other guys can't be trusted (they might steal your girl).
It's also taught men that to love another woman deeply is to be a 'simp' (a label most men try hard to avoid).
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As H. J. Eysenck described in his 1995 book "Genius" – a higher than normal rate of psychotic illness, and psychopathic traits, and drug/alcohol problems, are common amongst outcasts, and endogenous personalities. https://t.co/pBTRIghSig
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: They are vulnerable to psychosis (nietzsche), psychopathy (kaczynski) and drug addiction (hemingway).
Therefore, without proper guidance, and social support from other men, they will fall prey to social pressures and inner turmoil.
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The social pressures being placed on authentically masculine men - who are inner-directed, intuitive, and self-contained - are enormous.
It's no wonder that so many guys like this are black-pilled, and worried about the state of the country, and relationships. https://t.co/DEgvmXjkJn
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: As H. J. Eysenck described in his 1995 book "Genius" – a higher than normal rate of psychotic illness, and psychopathic traits, and drug/alcohol problems, are common amongst outcasts, and endogenous personalities.
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@Foz89107323: The social pressures being placed on authentically masculine men - who are inner-directed, intuitive, and self-contained - are enormous.
It's no wonder that so many guys like this are black-pilled, and worried about the state of the country, and relationships.
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As Hayek pointed out, a great change has occured since the 19th century, when thinkers like Darwin and Macaulay, Marx, Motley and Henry Adams, Tocqueville and others - were able to publish heterodox opinions thanks to the generosity of wealthy patrons. https://t.co/OS766iSgah
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: Now, the wealthy class consists almost exclusively of men for whom the materially productive employment of their resources is their dominant interest.
They don't care about the future of science, or philosophy.
Devoid of noblesse oblige, they yearn for status, money, & power.
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@Foz89107323: As Hayek pointed out, a great change has occured since the 19th century, when thinkers like Darwin and Macaulay, Marx, Motley and Henry Adams, Tocqueville and others - were able to publish heterodox opinions thanks to the generosity of wealthy patrons.
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Some of the greatest minds in history were outsiders.
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dosteovsky.
All these men believed that the truth must be told, but not for the sake of external rewards.
They were aristocrats of the soul - embodiments of true masculinity. https://t.co/RWJoCEdprW
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: These outsiders were the antithesis of today's men, who are orientated toward the material environment, to 'society' (the longhouse).
The average NPC (Exogenous Personality) wants more than social (including sexual) status, and worldly success.
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@Foz89107323: Some of the greatest minds in history were outsiders.
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dosteovsky.
All these men believed that the truth must be told, but not for the sake of external rewards.
They were aristocrats of the soul - embodiments of true masculinity.
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The outsider, or endogenous personality, thinks he's rejected by society for being neurotic and self-conscious.
He forgets that he's neurotic because of some deeper instinct - a higher spiritual intelligence - that pushed him into solitude in the first place. https://t.co/7vZMwhwGZl
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: As Colin Wilson writes:
"The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnamable impulses, yet they keep up a pretence, to themselves, to others."
The outsider see's what BAP calls the "madness behind things".
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Unfortunately, the outsider's attempt to be seen as dominant and assertive often comes across as awkward and forced, only further isolating him from the crowd, and reinforcing his craving for control.
Ted Kaczynski experienced this self-fulfilling prophecy during his youth. https://t.co/I8nVmlWrSA
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: The outsider, or endogenous personality, thinks he's rejected by society for being neurotic and self-conscious.
He forgets that he's neurotic because of some deeper instinct - a higher spiritual intelligence - that pushed him into solitude in the first place.
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The life's work of professor James Gilligan led him to the conclusion that the fundamental cause of most human violence is the wish to 'eliminate feelings of shame and humiliation and replace it with pride.'
The lonely reactionary must be careful not be consumed by pride. https://t.co/dayFjAE8o5
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: Unfortunately, the outsider's attempt to be seen as dominant and assertive often comes across as awkward and forced, only further isolating him from the crowd, and reinforcing his craving for control.
Ted Kaczynski experienced this self-fulfilling prophecy during his youth.
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@Foz89107323: The life's work of professor James Gilligan led him to the conclusion that the fundamental cause of most human violence is the wish to 'eliminate feelings of shame and humiliation and replace it with pride.'
The lonely reactionary must be careful not be consumed by pride.
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Men turn away from other boys, or become gay, because they recognize "the fact that all such [masculine] play is happening in already owned space.”
There is no freedom, or breathing room, in a world ruled by journalists, NPC's, HR departments, and other faceless officials. https://t.co/NOVfL146QO
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: Thanks to solitude, such boys learn what it means to be free, but this newfound freedom comes at a cost.
When they leave nature, or the mind, and enter back into the social world - they see fakeness and phoniness everywhere they go (think of Holden Caulfield).
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@Foz89107323: Men turn away from other boys, or become gay, because they recognize "the fact that all such [masculine] play is happening in already owned space.”
There is no freedom, or breathing room, in a world ruled by journalists, NPC's, HR departments, and other faceless officials.
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To help cope with status anxiety, young men are now taking pride in their own solipsism and isolation for having been rejected by society.
Guys forget that the claim that one does not need anyone else goes hand in hand with the bleak recognition that no one needs us. https://t.co/vnlzJNGSGo
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: Faced with dreadful aloneness, many autists, sensitive dudes, or skinny/short men, retreat into the inner world of thought.
It's here - in the open steppe of the spirit - where they start to recognize the utterly fake or artificial character of modern day masculinity.
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Sexual deregulation has created large pool of introverted loners, and a minority of extroverted Don Juan's.
As Houellebecq writes, "in a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude." https://t.co/dZVaIpOsdG
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: To help cope with status anxiety, young men are now taking pride in their own solipsism and isolation for having been rejected by society.
Guys forget that the claim that one does not need anyone else goes hand in hand with the bleak recognition that no one needs us.
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@Foz89107323: Sexual deregulation has created large pool of introverted loners, and a minority of extroverted Don Juan's.
As Houellebecq writes, "in a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude."
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Male behavior is driven by what woman respond to most.
The sexual revolution/mass-media convinced many men that sex was easy to find, and that many women themselves were looking for it.
After the rise of hookup culture, the new rite of passage became losing one's virginity. https://t.co/dmNgF2QgDm
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: As a young man, if you couldn't find sex after the sexual revolution, you needed a reason why
Now, in order to avoid being seen as gay, you must either be a popular guy, a jock, or an outcast/loner
You must either strive for all the female attention, or none at all (inceldom)
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Intiation rituals - along with traditional gender roles - are gone now.
Men have no choice but to either repress their masculinity, change genders, or invent new rituals and signs.
Without good father figures, most boys imitate celebrities, influencers, and other famous men https://t.co/5fe5fybyVU
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: Male behavior is driven by what woman respond to most.
The sexual revolution/mass-media convinced many men that sex was easy to find, and that many women themselves were looking for it.
After the rise of hookup culture, the new rite of passage became losing one's virginity.
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@Foz89107323: Intiation rituals - along with traditional gender roles - are gone now.
Men have no choice but to either repress their masculinity, change genders, or invent new rituals and signs.
Without good father figures, most boys imitate celebrities, influencers, and other famous men
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Imagine a world where incest was considered normal.
You would see some stranger give his son a hug, and you would assume this gesture was a sign of something else.
In this kind of social world, nobody would express affection towards children out of fear of reprobation. https://t.co/0ouoNyfDq5
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: After homosexuality was normalized, intimacy between men was seen in a new light.
Now an arm around the shoulder, a good hug, or even a compliment, are perceived as being gay.
The shadow of homosexual signaling reduces men to bonding through stereotypical boorishness.
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In Japan, families can bathe together, and even invite outsiders to join them, because there is mutual recognition amongst all the members that any sexual act is out of the question. Taboos give us freedom.
When they disappear, distrust and fear become the norm. https://t.co/WQUf5VO7lI
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: Imagine a world where incest was considered normal.
You would see some stranger give his son a hug, and you would assume this gesture was a sign of something else.
In this kind of social world, nobody would express affection towards children out of fear of reprobation.
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Traditionally, the stigma against sodomy gave ample space for men to develop close bonds, just as the stigma against incest has given parents the freedom to be physically & emotionally close with their children.
When social expectations are set in stone, we can relax. https://t.co/ESHcdXJqJE
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: In Japan, families can bathe together, and even invite outsiders to join them, because there is mutual recognition amongst all the members that any sexual act is out of the question. Taboos give us freedom.
When they disappear, distrust and fear become the norm.
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Ibsen argues that this distancing occurred because of sexual anxiety - the fear of being seen as womanly and weak.
Why did men develop this fear in the first place? Was it because of 'toxic masculinity', or was it due to the normalization of homosexuality in the 50s and 60s? https://t.co/rcdoIT5bNV
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: Traditionally, the stigma against sodomy gave ample space for men to develop close bonds, just as the stigma against incest has given parents the freedom to be physically & emotionally close with their children.
When social expectations are set in stone, we can relax.
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In his book, “Picturing Men", John Ibsen observed thousands of photos of men in pairs or groups, and found that - especially after WW2 - men began to physically distance themselves from each other.
Earlier photos show men being much more physically affectionate, like these: https://t.co/8rGyotQZQB
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: Ibsen argues that this distancing occurred because of sexual anxiety - the fear of being seen as womanly and weak.
Why did men develop this fear in the first place? Was it because of 'toxic masculinity', or was it due to the normalization of homosexuality in the 50s and 60s?
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@Foz89107323: In his book, “Picturing Men", John Ibsen observed thousands of photos of men in pairs or groups, and found that - especially after WW2 - men began to physically distance themselves from each other.
Earlier photos show men being much more physically affectionate, like these:
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As men, we can only truly be ourselves around other guys.
In every other relationship, whether familial or romantic, there are expectations and standards by which we are judged.
Parents want us to succeed and mature, women have emotional/physical needs, etc. https://t.co/qDZClnl7e3
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: It is increasingly difficult, as men, to let our guard down, to be ourselves - and speak our minds - when every institution is either feminized or run by women.
The mass acceptance of homosexuality has also cast suspicion on physical expressions of friendship.
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As men, we can only truly be ourselves around other guys.
In every other relationship, whether familial or romantic, there are expectations and standards by which we are judged.
Parents want us to succeed and mature, women have emotional/physical needs, etc.
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My friend and I have cried together, shared the same bed, comforted each other in times of need, and we’ve spent many days discussing our deepest thoughts and longings.
I don’t have to put up an act around him - I can just be myself.
Historically, this was the norm. https://t.co/b4vJ5ixxLw
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: One of the greatest moments of my life occurred when my friend and I went to a see a viking band in concert.
During one song, we held each other's hands and just took in the music.
I'm sure Alexander the Great and Hephaestion felt this closeness when riding into battle. https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1633927108543266818/video/1
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A true friendship, as Montaigne understood, is a complete ‘fusion of wills’, one wherein all the 'words of separation and distinction' have no meaning.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have developed a bond like this with a friend of mine, who I’ve known for 17 years now. https://t.co/gQayZNN6Db
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: My friend and I have cried together, shared the same bed, comforted each other in times of need, and we’ve spent many days discussing our deepest thoughts and longings.
I don’t have to put up an act around him - I can just be myself.
Historically, this was the norm.
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In a neoliberal society, we want to stand out and succeed, instead of building each other up by forming close bonds.
It's harder to develop a friendship if both parties constantly want something from each other - whether it’s pleasure, money, or status. https://t.co/10AogzhJDR
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: A true friendship, as Montaigne understood, is a complete ‘fusion of wills’, one wherein all the 'words of separation and distinction' have no meaning.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have developed a bond like this with a friend of mine, who I’ve known for 17 years now.
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In this performative social world, as Emerson writes, we “parry & feud the approach of our fellow-man by compliments,by gossip,by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds”
How can we find a true friend if all interactions are fake like this? https://t.co/bwo11kLkqS
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: In a neoliberal society, we want to stand out and succeed, instead of building each other up by forming close bonds.
It's harder to develop a friendship if both parties constantly want something from each other - whether it’s pleasure, money, or status.
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An underlying tension arose from the simple act of living
Men had to endure a permanent requisition in every facet of life: a command always to answer “present" at the office, in the car, in the family, etc.
Men couldn't just be themselves - they had to follow orders everwhere https://t.co/tZGDuNcvNg
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: In this performative social world, as Emerson writes, we “parry & feud the approach of our fellow-man by compliments,by gossip,by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds”
How can we find a true friend if all interactions are fake like this?
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Beneath the deceptive calm of everyday American life in the 50s was a war being waged, one in which anxiety, loneliness, and restlessness were quietly enervating men.
What we call stress is really just the continuous corrosion - the lethargy - that eats away at us day after day https://t.co/y9n52wI7cC
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: An underlying tension arose from the simple act of living
Men had to endure a permanent requisition in every facet of life: a command always to answer “present" at the office, in the car, in the family, etc.
Men couldn't just be themselves - they had to follow orders everwhere https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1633926978171727872/video/1
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@Foz89107323: Beneath the deceptive calm of everyday American life in the 50s was a war being waged, one in which anxiety, loneliness, and restlessness were quietly enervating men.
What we call stress is really just the continuous corrosion - the lethargy - that eats away at us day after day
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Everyday life meant rising, getting dressed, feeding oneself, and going to work.
Domesticity, sterile formalities, meaningless chatter, and daily useless tasks began to tire men out, and alienate them from each other.
John Brack's painting illustrates this world: https://t.co/ceWFzwdSSa
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: In Brack's 1955 painting, we see glum-looking people all rushing in one direction - presumably from their bureaus to the railway station.
The men and women on display here are a mass of standardized drones all marching to the beat of a bureaucratic machine.
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In an industrial society that is outer-directed (appearance-based), men turn into cogs in one giant social machine.
The modern man is forced to be only of this world.
He can't transcend it, since he is a slave to money until he dies.
Instead, he must toe the line. https://t.co/nCij5e4eJa
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: Everyday life meant rising, getting dressed, feeding oneself, and going to work.
Domesticity, sterile formalities, meaningless chatter, and daily useless tasks began to tire men out, and alienate them from each other.
John Brack's painting illustrates this world:
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In the 19th century, the ideal self was serious, disciplined, and honorable.
As Susan Cain writes, “what counted was not so much the impression one made in public as how one behaved in private.”
Thanks to the advertisement industry/mass media, all of this changed. https://t.co/u38vRG8zzO
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: In an industrial society that is outer-directed (appearance-based), men turn into cogs in one giant social machine.
The modern man is forced to be only of this world.
He can't transcend it, since he is a slave to money until he dies.
Instead, he must toe the line.
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@Foz89107323: In the 19th century, the ideal self was serious, disciplined, and honorable.
As Susan Cain writes, “what counted was not so much the impression one made in public as how one behaved in private.”
Thanks to the advertisement industry/mass media, all of this changed.
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@Foz89107323: In the 20th century, the average man was now judged, both by his colleagues and superiors at work and by strangers on the street, according to his possessions, clothes, and his "personality" — not, as in the 19th century — by his "character" or his skills and beliefs.
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After all these changes took root, the fraternal organization lost its functional significance.
Instead of basing friendships on an emotional bond, men in the 20th century started to base their friendships around shared activities like sports and drinking. https://t.co/d4N5VeFTXW
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: Urbanization also changed the way men interacted.
For most of American history, men lived in farms or small towns, interacting with people they knew their whole lives.
When men moved to cities, suddenly they found themselves interacting with strangers on a daily basis.
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In the 20th century, industrialization led to an increase in upward mobility, uprooting & moving many men from their local communities into cities/suburbia
A booming economy gave men access to things that other men hitherto provided - a home, a family, a job, entertainment, etc. https://t.co/1M15ie6w4y
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: After all these changes took root, the fraternal organization lost its functional significance.
Instead of basing friendships on an emotional bond, men in the 20th century started to base their friendships around shared activities like sports and drinking.
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The social structure of the 19th century necessitated such strong male bonds.
Since men and women lived in separate social worlds and rarely commingled unless it was at home, oftentimes men could only find physical affection and emotional companionship via other men https://t.co/xlSiCPtq9y
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: In the 20th century, industrialization led to an increase in upward mobility, uprooting & moving many men from their local communities into cities/suburbia
A booming economy gave men access to things that other men hitherto provided - a home, a family, a job, entertainment, etc.
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Unlike the state, which rests upon force, these social groups rest upon the principle of friendship, of mutual responsibility.
These youth organizations were families away from home that provided young men with the resources needed to enter the uncertain world of adulthood. https://t.co/CGwTogysZD
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: The social structure of the 19th century necessitated such strong male bonds.
Since men and women lived in separate social worlds and rarely commingled unless it was at home, oftentimes men could only find physical affection and emotional companionship via other men
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Nearly 1/3 of all American men were members of some fraternal organization at the end of the 19th century.
Some of these organizations included literary societies, lodges, secret societies, clubs, religious societies, and reform associations. https://t.co/0VWcdTfdnY
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: Unlike the state, which rests upon force, these social groups rest upon the principle of friendship, of mutual responsibility.
These youth organizations were families away from home that provided young men with the resources needed to enter the uncertain world of adulthood.
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The disappearance of male friendships is part and parcel of a much larger social trend - the decline of community.
Sociologist Robert Nisbet argued that when communities lose their functional role in society, they will inevitably decay.
This has happened with male groups. https://t.co/hiFxqBxUWe
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: Nearly 1/3 of all American men were members of some fraternal organization at the end of the 19th century.
Some of these organizations included literary societies, lodges, secret societies, clubs, religious societies, and reform associations.
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The death of the male friendship can be blamed on a multitude of factors:
the loss of exclusively male spaces, the disappearance of walkable cities, the sexual revolution, social media, fatherlessness, etc.
Chief among these losses is the demise of fraternal organizations. https://t.co/c73VNFsrjP
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: The disappearance of male friendships is part and parcel of a much larger social trend - the decline of community.
Sociologist Robert Nisbet argued that when communities lose their functional role in society, they will inevitably decay.
This has happened with male groups.
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The ancient Männerbund blossomed into the Roman Imperium, the Teutonic Order of Knights, and later on formed the basis of the German Reich.
The guiding force behind all these aristocracies - what gave them their power - was deep love between men.
Why has this disappeared? https://t.co/nbkIMzbChp
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: The death of the male friendship can be blamed on a multitude of factors:
the loss of exclusively male spaces, the disappearance of walkable cities, the sexual revolution, social media, fatherlessness, etc.
Chief among these losses is the demise of fraternal organizations.
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The Spartan state's power depended on male friendships — the pairing of an adult warrior (the Erastes) with a young man (the Eromenos).
Sparta's hegemony ended when Epaminodas & Pelopidas - both lifelong friends - defeated them with the "Sacred Band" at Leuctra in 371 BC. https://t.co/RIm5jN5Ova
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: The ancient Männerbund blossomed into the Roman Imperium, the Teutonic Order of Knights, and later on formed the basis of the German Reich.
The guiding force behind all these aristocracies - what gave them their power - was deep love between men.
Why has this disappeared?
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First off, civilizations are built upon male friendships.
Without teams, platoons, guilds, hunting parties, work crews, and schools - where would we be now?
The origins of the state itself can be traced back to the Männerbund — a loyal alliance of men (kóryos). https://t.co/1jysQ22TLp
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: The Spartan state's power depended on male friendships — the pairing of an adult warrior (the Erastes) with a young man (the Eromenos).
Sparta's hegemony ended when Epaminodas & Pelopidas - both lifelong friends - defeated them with the "Sacred Band" at Leuctra in 371 BC.
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Male friendships are disappearing.
The percentage of men with at least six close friends has fallen by half since 1990.
What is the root cause of this friendship recession?
MEGA THREAD https://t.co/yy7pR7e9I2
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: First off, civilizations are built upon male friendships.
Without teams, platoons, guilds, hunting parties, work crews, and schools - where would we be now?
The origins of the state itself can be traced back to the Männerbund — a loyal alliance of men (kóryos).
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Male friendships are disappearing.
The percentage of men with at least six close friends has fallen by half since 1990.
What is the root cause of this friendship recession?
MEGA THREAD
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My master playlist - MEN AMONG THE RUINS.
Music to restore your joie de vivre, vitality, and vigor.
Post-punk, rock, electronic, alternative - the whole 9 yards.
Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6b8NaHJN1b4dTiMmpPRWQW?si=i6kXfi8EQ-eUc5LmRRAnCQ
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“America became the first country on earth that managed to substitute its conception of political reality to a projected hyperreality. It managed to force upon the public eye the imagery which precedes a real political event.”
— Tomislav Sunić
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There is no such thing as a ‘credible news source’.
The public square will always be bound by bias and conflicts of interest.
It never has, nor will it ever be, ideologically neutral.
Researching for “facts” is a futile endeavor. Trust your GUT instead. https://t.co/OZTaFoIlDv https://t.co/DhgftkGvCL
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There is no such thing as a ‘credible news source’.
The public square will always be bound by bias and conflicts of interest.
It never has, nor will it ever be, ideologically neutral.
Researching for “facts” is a futile endeavor. Trust your GUT instead.
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“All action that does not proceed from knowledge is lacking in principle and thus is nothing but a vain agitation . . . separated from its principle, it can only exert itself in a disorderly way and move inexorably to its own ruin.”
— Rene Guenon https://t.co/0RJ0vTHMMc https://t.co/ntvLd1otW4
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Rene Guenon:
“All traditional doctrines, whether Eastern or Western, are unanimous in affirming the superiority and even the transcendence of knowledge in relation to action.”
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“All action that does not proceed from knowledge is lacking in principle and thus is nothing but a vain agitation . . . separated from its principle, it can only exert itself in a disorderly way and move inexorably to its own ruin.”
— Rene Guenon https://t.co/0RJ0vTHMMc https://t.co/ntvLd1otW4
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“All action that does not proceed from knowledge is lacking in principle and thus is nothing but a vain agitation . . . separated from its principle, it can only exert itself in a disorderly way and move inexorably to its own ruin.”
— Rene Guenon
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Is this sailor hearing a Siren’s song?! https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1631372046994227201/video/1
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Thomas Carlyle’s writings still ring true today.
Find ONE strong leader, like Nayib Bukele, raise him to the supreme place, loyally revere him, and you will get the perfect government. https://t.co/A54mbDVH3g https://t.co/XzswY0yetL
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Thomas Carlyle’s writings still ring true today.
Find ONE strong leader, like Nayib Bukele, raise him to the supreme place, loyally revere him, and you will get the perfect government.
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“Modern life is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.”
— Earnest Hemingway
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This hidden violence is brewing beneath the surface, waiting to be unleashed in a global conflict.
The infrastructural foundations for unrestricted warfare, for the total mobilization of all people and things, have been set.
The future remains to be seen.
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In spite of the reduction in global conflicts, the laws of war still secretly govern all human relations (as Clausewitz understood).
All customs, manners, religions, and political institutions come from the will of the victorious chief.
Might is right. https://t.co/ZQlwgaZbjR
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The first significant transformation in human history was the emergence of the "Big Man", or victorious chief
In early hunter-gather societies, this figure accumulated goods and prestige that placed him above the egalitarian community.
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In spite of the reduction in global conflicts, the laws of war still secretly govern all human relations (as Clausewitz understood).
All customs, manners, religions, and political institutions come from the will of the victorious chief.
Might is right.
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Modern wars are spooks.
Jean Baudrillard famously said the "gulf war did not happen".
The war was really a demonstration site for 500 kinds of new and advanced technologies and weaponry (little fighting occurred)
Ukraine is also a demonstration site for bioweapons research. https://t.co/5y9yXO9ntI
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It's hard to recognize the changing nature of warfare because the machinery of power is always out of sight.
Our perspective is determined by our power horizon, and that horizon is shrinking.
A fish can't see the water it is in unless it jumps out of its fish bowl.
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The Mexican and U.S. governments manufactured a fake threat to take control of the drug industry (in the name of foreign investment and capital extraction).
The military-industrial complex did the same thing during the Iraq war with the 'weapons of mass destruction' lie. https://t.co/t51XbAnri8
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Modern wars are spooks.
Jean Baudrillard famously said the "gulf war did not happen".
The war was really a demonstration site for 500 kinds of new and advanced technologies and weaponry (little fighting occurred)
Ukraine is also a demonstration site for bioweapons research.
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The Mexican and U.S. governments manufactured a fake threat to take control of the drug industry (in the name of foreign investment and capital extraction).
The military-industrial complex did the same thing during the Iraq war with the 'weapons of mass destruction' lie.
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As Peter Gelderloos writes:
"It's no coincidence that the nuclear arms and energy infrastructure creates a need for a centrally organized, high-security military organization and disaster management agencies with emergency powers and the ability to suspend constitutional rights" https://t.co/NMXfPRj3dI
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Likewise, interstate highways, which enable the transportation of goods, also allow for the rapid domestic deployment of the military to crush internal dissent (martial law).
As soon as the elites feel threatened, they will declare a state of emergency, and upend your life.
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The entire industrial system is built on the control of an adversary, whether that enemy is within or without.
We exchange goods so as not to exchange blows, but this system we use for business is also an organ of the state and can & will be used for violent purposes if need be https://t.co/eoA3KLs6tW
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As Peter Gelderloos writes:
"It's no coincidence that the nuclear arms and energy infrastructure creates a need for a centrally organized, high-security military organization and disaster management agencies with emergency powers and the ability to suspend constitutional rights"
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Trade is only possible thanks to the Navy's dominance of the world's oceans.
When America's hegemony is put into question in territorial disputes over trade routes like the South China Sea, it becomes apparent that the liberal international order is built upon "might as right." https://t.co/DUgWbxRSFy
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The entire industrial system is built on the control of an adversary, whether that enemy is within or without.
We exchange goods so as not to exchange blows, but this system we use for business is also an organ of the state and can & will be used for violent purposes if need be
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Global Capitalism hasn't ended history or warfare.
The supposed "twilight of sovereignty" that Fukuyama spoke of is an exaggeration.
The invisible hand of the market hides the iron fist of the state.
Global trade is really just low-intensity warfare. https://t.co/fwOJ5lZvQB
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Trade is only possible thanks to the Navy's dominance of the world's oceans.
When America's hegemony is put into question in territorial disputes over trade routes like the South China Sea, it becomes apparent that the liberal international order is built upon "might as right."
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The state allows the "right" of the various "frees" for reasons of interest.
If you upset the established order, the state will suspend your constitutional rights, and call its own violence law (Patriot Act)
Modern warfare operates through covert means - It hasn't disappeared https://t.co/h4MjbrieHt
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Global Capitalism hasn't ended history or warfare.
The supposed "twilight of sovereignty" that Fukuyama spoke of is an exaggeration.
The invisible hand of the market hides the iron fist of the state.
Global trade is really just low-intensity warfare.
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As Dora Marsden writes:
"Freedom of press, assembly, love, are all 'free' when they have power enough behind them to foot the bill."
Freedom of speech is ALLOWED speech.
Only those with money have any real power.
https://t.co/pjgfDbWQ1E https://t.co/xmSNHV8AKo
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The state allows the "right" of the various "frees" for reasons of interest.
If you upset the established order, the state will suspend your constitutional rights, and call its own violence law (Patriot Act)
Modern warfare operates through covert means - It hasn't disappeared
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As Dora Marsden writes:
"Freedom of press, assembly, love, are all 'free' when they have power enough behind them to foot the bill."
Freedom of speech is ALLOWED speech.
Only those with money have any real power.
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Napoleon's "total wars" ushered in a new paradigm for warfare, one that entailed the complete mobilization of a nation's people and its resources.
In "Battling To the End", Rene Girard argues that these Napoleonic wars released chthonic forces upon the continent of Europe. https://t.co/GtZFNh0RSI
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Hegel did not see the "world spirit" embodied in Napoleon when the emperor passed by his house in Jena.
Rather, he saw a “formidable undifferentiation in progress" — the beginning of a new form of warfare that would, eventually, plunge Europe into darkness in the 20th century.
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We are now caught up in wars against foreign adversaries (Russia), wars against invisible enemies (Covid), trade wars with rivals (china), and clashes with drug cartels (Mexico), etc.
All these conflicts have totalized warfare, making it part of our everyday lives. https://t.co/PBmjcm6inz
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Napoleon's "total wars" ushered in a new paradigm for warfare, one that entailed the complete mobilization of a nation's people and its resources.
In "Battling To the End", Rene Girard argues that these Napoleonic wars released chthonic forces upon the continent of Europe.
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In 1999, two colonels in the Chinese armed forces, Qiao Ling and Wang Xiangsui, published a book called Unrestricted Warfare
Ever since the French Revolution, they argue, warfare has grown to encompass every sphere of life
It is no longer clear who or what we are fighting for. https://t.co/9VexqkKqaN
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We are now caught up in wars against foreign adversaries (Russia), wars against invisible enemies (Covid), trade wars with rivals (china), and clashes with drug cartels (Mexico), etc.
All these conflicts have totalized warfare, making it part of our everyday lives.
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The west is experiencing the emergence of UNRESTRICTED WARFARE.
"We are playing a game of chess with no rules, without turns, where pieces retain their abilities and get rid of movement limits on a board where the grid has been removed."
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In 1999, two colonels in the Chinese armed forces, Qiao Ling and Wang Xiangsui, published a book called Unrestricted Warfare
Ever since the French Revolution, they argue, warfare has grown to encompass every sphere of life
It is no longer clear who or what we are fighting for.
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The west is experiencing the emergence of UNRESTRICTED WARFARE.
"We are playing a game of chess with no rules, without turns, where pieces retain their abilities and get rid of movement limits on a board where the grid has been removed."
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When health becomes an ideology, the failure to conform becomes a stigma
“The passionate excess of zeal with which cigarettes are everywhere stigmatized may signal that some more pervasive, subterranean, and dangerous passions are loose that directly threaten our freedom.”
— RK
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Change won’t be dramatic after the boomers die off
Juvenoia is an age-old problem (even Socrates lamented the state of the youth).
What we need is a higher proportion of young people
The 60’s were so consequential because the young made up a larger portion of the population
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Silence is the quiet force that propels history forward.
No thinker, artist, poet, or military commander has ever created anything of value without it.
W.B. Yeat’s poem the ‘Long Legged Fly’:
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“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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As a kid, I was so captivated by Dog Fighting planes.
The putter of the engines as they took off, the intense aerial dogfights, the German Code of Honor (not firing on allied pilots in parachutes), the Red Baron.
Even as children, we all long for the pilot’s freedom.
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In order to have an active relationship with one’s own mind, we must first establish a connection with others.
If we don’t connect with other people, our inner world becomes an empty desert.
Modern generations have weak internal dialogues because they don’t have love. https://t.co/o8MKlvRnzt
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With that being said, disorderly love, or limerence, can result in reason’s death.
One need only think of Tristan and Isolde or Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare knew that the passage of love “contrasts reason with the fantastic world of the dream itself, with its magic & fairies.”
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Referring to the God of love, Heidegger said:
“The beat of that god's wings moves me every time I take a substantive step in my thinking and venture onto untrodden paths.”
If we don’t have love, the mind will walk in circles, and we’ll never discover new ideas. https://t.co/ijFPlY4eEJ
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In order to have an active relationship with one’s own mind, we must first establish a connection with others.
If we don’t connect with other people, our inner world becomes an empty desert.
Modern generations have weak internal dialogues because they don’t have love.
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Without love, philosophy cannot bear fruit.
Augustine would never have converted to the faith were it not for his mother Monica who loved him unconditionally.
Devoid of Eros, thinking loses all vitality and becomes repetitive and reactive. https://t.co/0V4sLH6NYM
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Referring to the God of love, Heidegger said:
“The beat of that god's wings moves me every time I take a substantive step in my thinking and venture onto untrodden paths.”
If we don’t have love, the mind will walk in circles, and we’ll never discover new ideas.
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Without love, philosophy cannot bear fruit.
Augustine would never have converted to the faith were it not for his mother Monica who loved him unconditionally.
Devoid of Eros, thinking loses all vitality and becomes repetitive and reactive.
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In 1997, Niel Howe predicted that America would enter its “Fourth Turning” sometime before the year 2025.
In 1978, General John Glubb predicted the collapse of America to occur around 2021-2023.
The writing has been on the wall.
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Every political system has its own historical subject which serves as the fundamental basis for its ideology.
Liberalism - the individual
Communism - the class subject
Fascism - state/race
The next political theory will combine all of these things to create something new.
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If the diversity regime continues to exclude high IQ white men from the public sphere then they will have no choice but to act OUTSIDE the law.
An underclass of extremely overqualified teachers/suburban dads will use their skills for personal gain in the black market
Exciting
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If you can harmonize and align your passions with your mission, profession, and vocation, then you might discover true meaning and purpose in life.
The Japanese concept of Ikigai:
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“I think that today Christianity is in trouble not because its myths are dead, but because it does not offer its ideal of heroic sainthood as an immediate personal one to be lived by all believers.”
— Earnest Becker
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“Liberalism appears as the last attempt at the creation of the liberty of the people, a liberty of the commune, of ‘society’ . . . A people cannot be free otherwise than at the individual’s expense; the freer the people, the more bound the individual.”
— Max Stirner
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Last Civil War Veteran, 116-yr-old Walter Williams, laying in his bed with a cigar.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
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@Foz89107323: I was at the beach last night with my girlfriend.
We stood by the water, holding each other.
In that moment, next to her, I could hear nature’s voice beneath the noise of wind and crashing waves.
The ocean has a presence that can’t be explained by science.
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You’d never find free spirits like Charles Bukowski or Hunter S. Thompson in modern day Europe.
Weirdness, eccentricity, die hard rebelliousness—only America, despite its faults, can bring out these traits to the fullest.
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“Every classical statue was a petrified or bronze-cast teaching permit in ethical matters. What was known as Platonism could only find its home in Greece because the so-called ideas had already established themselves in the form of statues.”
— Peter Sloterdijk
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It will always be tempting to dodge the call to change your life.
Ask yourself this, though:
Do you really want to be part of the crowd that watches from the sidelines, as the free souls dance into the unknown? https://t.co/q1IqqwtC97
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: Do you want to be like the cowardly men who passively watch as Harrison Bergeron danced with his empress?
Do you just want to accept your life as it is, at some meaningless job?
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
You can go beyond.
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"You must change your life" sheds light on a subtle insufficiency within me that is older and freer than sin; I sense my innermost not-yet.
When I hear this phrase, I am affected by the absolute objection to my OWN status quo: my change is the one thing that becomes necessary. https://t.co/0Go2q15Kb5
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: It will always be tempting to dodge the call to change your life.
Ask yourself this, though:
Do you really want to be part of the crowd that watches from the sidelines, as the free souls dance into the unknown?
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This phrase that emanates from Apollo's torso is the absolute imperative that summarizes every higher calling from all the world's religions.
It tells us:
'I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly." https://t.co/eUWYPa7xiz
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: "You must change your life" sheds light on a subtle insufficiency within me that is older and freer than sin; I sense my innermost not-yet.
When I hear this phrase, I am affected by the absolute objection to my OWN status quo: my change is the one thing that becomes necessary.
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In order to find our path, we must say "no" to all the conceptual schemes—all the rules and laws—that have hitherto prevented true freedom.
Sound the abyss within you, and feel the immense pull of matter that tells us:
"You must change your life!" https://t.co/8kYd0wWoPU
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: This phrase that emanates from Apollo's torso is the absolute imperative that summarizes every higher calling from all the world's religions.
It tells us:
'I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly."
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The masses will resent you for following your own path.
"Not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own."
Burkowski was right.
"The best at hate are those who preach love."
Don't fall for their lies. https://t.co/UeBKBMByXd
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: In order to find our path, we must say "no" to all the conceptual schemes—all the rules and laws—that have hitherto prevented true freedom.
Sound the abyss within you, and feel the immense pull of matter that tells us:
"You must change your life!"
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As BAP says, "Life has a thing inside it that reaches beyond itself. ”
There are portals of escape from this industrial hell.
The doors of perception will only open, however, if you make the choice to remove all your handicaps—every chain that ties you down to this world. https://t.co/1bQT1lmyK1
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: The masses will resent you for following your own path.
"Not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own."
Burkowski was right.
"The best at hate are those who preach love."
Don't fall for their lies.
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Deep down, you know something is wrong with this world. It's fake, dull, monotonous, and lifeless, like Bergeron's.
You try to numb the pain with distractions (alcohol, marijuana, social media, video games)
We mustn't yield to the external pressures of Globohomo for a paycheck https://t.co/Pv91SrC2WR
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: As BAP says, "Life has a thing inside it that reaches beyond itself. ”
There are portals of escape from this industrial hell.
The doors of perception will only open, however, if you make the choice to remove all your handicaps—every chain that ties you down to this world.
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There is no room for thought in everyday life
One's free time is mostly spent on getting ready for work, commuting to work, and driving home, or simply recovering from work. At our job, the only thing we can think about is clocking out, and going home to recover from our fatigue https://t.co/oAUhsZcOAK
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: Deep down, you know something is wrong with this world. It's fake, dull, monotonous, and lifeless, like Bergeron's.
You try to numb the pain with distractions (alcohol, marijuana, social media, video games)
We mustn't yield to the external pressures of Globohomo for a paycheck
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At your job, they want you to internalize the division of labor by separating your physical, working body from your mental self.
As long as you detach yourself from your work—from the world around you—then you won't stop to reflect on how fundamentally unnatural this world is. https://t.co/WMEB968NA5
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: There is no room for thought in everyday life
One's free time is mostly spent on getting ready for work, commuting to work, and driving home, or simply recovering from work. At our job, the only thing we can think about is clocking out, and going home to recover from our fatigue
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Globohomo wants every day for you to feel the same.
They want you to wake up at the same time, work at the same 9-5 job, spout the same talking points, watch the same movies, and have the same vacations.
They want you to be too dead to live, and too alive to die. https://t.co/s8MJwJNQTB
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: At your job, they want you to internalize the division of labor by separating your physical, working body from your mental self.
As long as you detach yourself from your work—from the world around you—then you won't stop to reflect on how fundamentally unnatural this world is.
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The goal of Globohomo is to manufacture normies by reducing all differences between people.
The purpose of all movements (LGBTQ, BLM, feminism) is to homogenize the population to maximize consumption.
If all of our senses are dulled by homogeneity, we will consume more. https://t.co/d6oUWetgDw
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: Globohomo wants every day for you to feel the same.
They want you to wake up at the same time, work at the same 9-5 job, spout the same talking points, watch the same movies, and have the same vacations.
They want you to be too dead to live, and too alive to die.
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Now, as a result, we have more NPCs than ever before, people who feel threatened by passionate individuals that attempt to disrupt the status quo.
Anytime you unplug from the matrix, and say something important, some lifeless zombie gives you the fluoride stare. https://t.co/3MuX8694qn
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: The goal of Globohomo is to manufacture normies by reducing all differences between people.
The purpose of all movements (LGBTQ, BLM, feminism) is to homogenize the population to maximize consumption.
If all of our senses are dulled by homogeneity, we will consume more.
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Now, like Hazel, we have all become more forgetful since the pandemic.
The lockdown measures were an assault on the senses.
All the routine online meetings, social media, and takeout food instilled in us a need for safety and sameness—a longing for normalcy, and serfdom. https://t.co/dQYNX0R9mD
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: Now, as a result, we have more NPCs than ever before, people who feel threatened by passionate individuals that attempt to disrupt the status quo.
Anytime you unplug from the matrix, and say something important, some lifeless zombie gives you the fluoride stare.
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The more emotion a situation generates, the more we remember it.
Since nobody left their home during the lockdown, we experienced a fewer range of emotions, which only skewed our perception of time.
The lockdown months are a blur now because every experience was the same. https://t.co/GZvbndW5y4
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: Now, like Hazel, we have all become more forgetful since the pandemic.
The lockdown measures were an assault on the senses.
All the routine online meetings, social media, and takeout food instilled in us a need for safety and sameness—a longing for normalcy, and serfdom.
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When you are a child, the world felt more vivid and lively because every experience was novel.
Every sight, sensation, and sound, aroused emotions within you that helped form distinct memories.
That is why, as a child, time felt like it went by slowly. https://t.co/HJtmPrRS1F
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: The more emotion a situation generates, the more we remember it.
Since nobody left their home during the lockdown, we experienced a fewer range of emotions, which only skewed our perception of time.
The lockdown months are a blur now because every experience was the same.
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Some of you probably remember time passing by faster during the lockdown period.
Why did this happen?
During the pandemic, there was a significant drop in novel experiences like eating at a restaurant or going on a trip.
Every day was just a repetition of the previous. https://t.co/vjJS5Zz7wi
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: When you are a child, the world felt more vivid and lively because every experience was novel.
Every sight, sensation, and sound, aroused emotions within you that helped form distinct memories.
That is why, as a child, time felt like it went by slowly.
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In a world where everything's equal, there can be no understanding—only ignorance
A fully equal society, like Bergeron's, can only exist if the senses are permanently fatigued
There can be no passion or knowledge, only normalcy & homogeneity
What would this look like today? https://t.co/mx4WG3XMGu
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: Some of you probably remember time passing by faster during the lockdown period.
Why did this happen?
During the pandemic, there was a significant drop in novel experiences like eating at a restaurant or going on a trip.
Every day was just a repetition of the previous.
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Since all experience is based on recognizing differences, inequalities are inevitable.
As Nietzsche said, every 'concept' is the equation of unequal things.
We can only come to an understanding of something by comparing it with something else. https://t.co/k3PD6yUg6O
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: In a world where everything's equal, there can be no understanding—only ignorance
A fully equal society, like Bergeron's, can only exist if the senses are permanently fatigued
There can be no passion or knowledge, only normalcy & homogeneity
What would this look like today?
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@Foz89107323: Since all experience is based on recognizing differences, inequalities are inevitable.
As Nietzsche said, every 'concept' is the equation of unequal things.
We can only come to an understanding of something by comparing it with something else.
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The citizens of this story live under a matriarchal rule
Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, is in charge of caponizing the gifted by weakening them both physically and spiritually
Her goal is to create what BAP calls "a uniform and undifferentiated blob of serfs." https://t.co/jDUk7mLU4O
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: This population of Bugmen wants the nanny state to hold their hand because it's 'safe'.
The serfs take pleasure in their own slavery
They dull their senses with meaningless pleasures in order to repress powerful emotions
Uniqueness and difference must be erased.
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Eventually, the Bergeron family's tv tube burns out.
When George returns from the kitchen with a can of beer, he sees his wife crying.
He asks her why, and she says:
"I forget. Something real sad on television."
George tells her to "forget sad things."
She agrees. https://t.co/DYIQ2AdpI4
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: The citizens of this story live under a matriarchal rule
Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, is in charge of caponizing the gifted by weakening them both physically and spiritually
Her goal is to create what BAP calls "a uniform and undifferentiated blob of serfs."
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He calls out for an Empress to dance with him.
The first woman to stand in the crowd of cowards was to be his mate.
"A moment passed, and then a ballerina arose, swaying like a willow."
Harrison removes her mask, and they begin to dance.
Shortly after they are both killed. https://t.co/cZYs5RU3mM
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: Eventually, the Bergeron family's tv tube burns out.
When George returns from the kitchen with a can of beer, he sees his wife crying.
He asks her why, and she says:
"I forget. Something real sad on television."
George tells her to "forget sad things."
She agrees.
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Harrison cries out "I am the Emperor!"
"Even as I stand here" he bellowed, "crippled, hobbled, sickened - I am a
greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can
become!"
He then proceeds to remove all his handicaps in protest. https://t.co/aLrvyX4DkZ
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: He calls out for an Empress to dance with him.
The first woman to stand in the crowd of cowards was to be his mate.
"A moment passed, and then a ballerina arose, swaying like a willow."
Harrison removes her mask, and they begin to dance.
Shortly after they are both killed.
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Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stands in the center of the studio.
Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die. https://t.co/rtY8WEMaEM
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: Harrison cries out "I am the Emperor!"
"Even as I stand here" he bellowed, "crippled, hobbled, sickened - I am a
greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can
become!"
He then proceeds to remove all his handicaps in protest.
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When Bergeron's dad realizes the wanted man is his son, he's instantly hit by the sound of an automobile collision in his head.
As soon as he opens his eyes, the photograph of Harrison disappears.
Then, to everybody's surprise, a living, breathing Harrison fills the screen. https://t.co/YAwJvs5C5W
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: Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stands in the center of the studio.
Ballerinas, technicians, musicians, and announcers cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die.
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@Foz89107323: When Bergeron's dad realizes the wanted man is his son, he's instantly hit by the sound of an automobile collision in his head.
As soon as he opens his eyes, the photograph of Harrison disappears.
Then, to everybody's surprise, a living, breathing Harrison fills the screen.
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Bergeron's parents, Hazel and George, are moved to tears by the sight of ballerinas dancing on tv after their son is taken away.
Like Winston listening to the prole women sing in 1984, Hazel senses that there is a deeper beauty beneath the humdrum of everyday life. https://t.co/LWlsGsETs0
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: Despite catching a glimpse of freedom and beauty, they follow government orders.
George remarks that if he were to remove his handicaps, society would descend into the 'dark ages'
"The minute people start cheating on laws", he says, "what do you think happens to society?"
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@Foz89107323: Bergeron's parents, Hazel and George, are moved to tears by the sight of ballerinas dancing on tv after their son is taken away.
Like Winston listening to the prole women sing in 1984, Hazel senses that there is a deeper beauty beneath the humdrum of everyday life.
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Exceptional citizens are forced to wear "handicaps".
Masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.
Differences are suppressed by law. https://t.co/X81CzTs0cE
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: The main protagonist, Harrison Bergeron, has exceptional height, intelligence, strength, and beauty—he's basically a Chad.
As a result, he's forced to wear earphones that are tuned into government transmitters, thick glasses to blind him, scrap metal to weigh him down, etc.
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In Vonnegut's hypothetical future, multiple amendments in the Constitution dictate that all Americans must be fully equal.
Nobody is allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anybody else. https://t.co/UbuASRSWRQ
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: Exceptional citizens are forced to wear "handicaps".
Masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic.
Differences are suppressed by law.
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"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal."
This is the first line of Kurt Vonnegut's iconic short story, "Harrison Bergeron".
In this dystopian novel, we learn that equality is the opposite of QUALITY.
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/aauUz9Xutr
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: In Vonnegut's hypothetical future, multiple amendments in the Constitution dictate that all Americans must be fully equal.
Nobody is allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anybody else.
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"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal."
This is the first line of Kurt Vonnegut's iconic short story, "Harrison Bergeron".
In this dystopian novel, we learn that equality is the opposite of QUALITY.
THREAD 🧵
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At the Lolita bar in Boston with my girlfriend.
Aesthetics are incredible here, not gonna lie.
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@Rho_die “As soon as the rooster crows, I get outta’ bed then fill of my cup o’ joe with some Black Rifle Coffee. Afterwards, I kiss the misses goodbye, then head off to the farm to grow some more soy. An honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.”
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When Chihiro gives up her name in Spirited Away in exchange for an employment contract, she begins to lose touch with her original identity.
Don’t forget: your name is a symbolical representation of your core self.
To give it up is to sell your soul to the outside world.
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“I may disapprove of what they/them says about me, but I will defend to the death their right to say it.“
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Lots of Twitter fiends are saying this guy is the Michigan State shooter.
Since when is Logo Daedalus the new Sam Hyde?
Lmao
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Edward Dutton:
“Why is it that we used to be able to fly from the USA to London in less than 4 hours but now we can’t? Why is it that we used to be able to put people on the Moon but now, it seems, we can’t?”
Simple answer: we are at our wits’ end (IQ’s are lower now)
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Modern life is full of small stressors that slowly wear you down:
Traffic, red tape, endless appointments, the media, noise pollution, urban sprawl, pop music in stores, etc.
Remember…it isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebbles in your shoe.
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A common liberal retort:
“It’s called being a decent human being.”
This saying assumes that somebody who is NOT decent, a person who does not act in accordance with the baseline standards and expectations set by others, is INHUMAN
This also applies to human rights
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Gandhi once said. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
The truth is that turning a BLIND EYE to evil can disguise itself as turning the other cheek.
To excuse evil is to comply with it.
Forgiveness is good, but compliance with injustice is wrong.
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Violence will continue to block out the sun over this land like a storm cloud.
As Thomas Carlyle writes, "New spiritual pythons, plenty of them, enormous Megatherions, as ugly as were ever born of mud, loom huge and hideous out in the twilight future on America." https://t.co/o7vOJ6bBrf
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: The temptation will be to fight fire with fire, to get trapped in a cycle of violence.
In the end, remember that the Christian faith is based on the blood sacrifice of one innocent man
This land will always be bathed in blood, but we can transcend it, as Christ once did.
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America isn't an "idea" or a coherent "people"
As Frederick Turner wrote, "American democracy was born of no theorist's dream. It came out of the American Forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier."
The will to power turned this land into a nation. https://t.co/mM3Q1VlIik
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: Violence will continue to block out the sun over this land like a storm cloud.
As Thomas Carlyle writes, "New spiritual pythons, plenty of them, enormous Megatherions, as ugly as were ever born of mud, loom huge and hideous out in the twilight future on America."
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Going forward, America faces a unique challenge.
This country would not exist were it not for violence.
America is an endless struggle involving ideas and people.
It began with the settlers battling Indian tribes and continues to this day in the form of political conflict. https://t.co/ATsx3MqPGM
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: America isn't an "idea" or a coherent "people"
As Frederick Turner wrote, "American democracy was born of no theorist's dream. It came out of the American Forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier."
The will to power turned this land into a nation.
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“To imitate Christ", as Girard said, "is to refuse to impose oneself as a model and to always efface oneself before others. To imitate Christ is to do everything to avoid being imitated.”
Carla Jean effaced herself before Chigurh by refusing to "call it".
She won. https://t.co/43eq7LVheA
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: Going forward, America faces a unique challenge.
This country would not exist were it not for violence.
America is an endless struggle involving ideas and people.
It began with the settlers battling Indian tribes and continues to this day in the form of political conflict.
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As Girard said:
"Christ questioned that silence on the Cross, and then He Himself imitated his Father's withdrawal by joining Him on the morning of his Ressurection. He withdraws at the very point when He could dominate." https://t.co/jdQGUEyNuM
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: “To imitate Christ", as Girard said, "is to refuse to impose oneself as a model and to always efface oneself before others. To imitate Christ is to do everything to avoid being imitated.”
Carla Jean effaced herself before Chigurh by refusing to "call it".
She won.
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What Sheriff Bell failed to recognize is that the presence of the divine grows as the divine withdraws.
The film's lack of music resembles God's salubrious silence.
Girard said that the Incarnation was the only means available to humanity to face this silence.
Why? https://t.co/bGUpz4VyyJ
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: As Girard said:
"Christ questioned that silence on the Cross, and then He Himself imitated his Father's withdrawal by joining Him on the morning of his Ressurection. He withdraws at the very point when He could dominate."
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Carla Jean knows the arc of the universe bends towards death and injustice.
When Chigurh sits down, she says:
"I knew what was in store for me."
Yet she still has the freedom to reject sacrificial violence, by doing exactly what Jesus did—sacrificing herself. https://t.co/clO4URB7vE
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: What Sheriff Bell failed to recognize is that the presence of the divine grows as the divine withdraws.
The film's lack of music resembles God's salubrious silence.
Girard said that the Incarnation was the only means available to humanity to face this silence.
Why?
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Chigurh makes his murderous act explicitly correspond to the will of the
world.
He forces Carla Jean to retract her assertion that he does not have to kill her.
He wants her to accept his will to destruction as the only possible outcome. https://t.co/jZMgH0Nw51
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: Carla Jean knows the arc of the universe bends towards death and injustice.
When Chigurh sits down, she says:
"I knew what was in store for me."
Yet she still has the freedom to reject sacrificial violence, by doing exactly what Jesus did—sacrificing herself.
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By refusing to "call it", and by refusing to participate in Chigurh's sacrificial ritual, Carla Jean challenges the logos of violence that is the foundation of culture.
Violence is a choice, not an inevitability.
That's why all its victims are innocent. https://t.co/obv2v89cex
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: Chigurh makes his murderous act explicitly correspond to the will of the
world.
He forces Carla Jean to retract her assertion that he does not have to kill her.
He wants her to accept his will to destruction as the only possible outcome.
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It's only Moss's wife, Carla Jean, who thinks the cycle of violence can be transcended.
When Chigurh forces her into the position of picking heads or tails, she says:
"The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you." https://t.co/5jL8aWrqwG
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: By refusing to "call it", and by refusing to participate in Chigurh's sacrificial ritual, Carla Jean challenges the logos of violence that is the foundation of culture.
Violence is a choice, not an inevitability.
That's why all its victims are innocent.
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@Foz89107323: It's only Moss's wife, Carla Jean, who thinks the cycle of violence can be transcended.
When Chigurh forces her into the position of picking heads or tails, she says:
"The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you."
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Sheriff Bell fears Chigurh not just because he is a psychopathic killer.
In the book, Bell calls him a "prophet of destruction."
He is "pretty much a ghost."
For Bell, Chigurh represents the ghost of death that haunts his aging body. https://t.co/9Bp2XeuYED
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: Chigurh embodies what Girard calls the Heraclitean Logos.
As Heidegger observed, the Heraclitean logos is inseparably linked with violence
As Heraclitus once said:
"War is the father of all and the king of all, and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.”
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At the end of the movie, Sheriff Bell visits his uncle Ellis.
Bell says he feels "overmatched" by this new wicked world.
Ellis says, "what you got ain't nothin new."
Ellis explains that Bell's other uncle died of gun violence in 1909.
The world hasn't changed, only he has. https://t.co/XjkSVu2VxE
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: Sheriff Bell fears Chigurh not just because he is a psychopathic killer.
In the book, Bell calls him a "prophet of destruction."
He is "pretty much a ghost."
For Bell, Chigurh represents the ghost of death that haunts his aging body.
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Sheriff Bell is an old man living in a young man’s world.
He doesn't want to remember that he also partook in the pleasures of the flesh in his youth.
His Juvenoia is used to fill a void that only grows the more he ages and approaches retirement, & death. https://t.co/UmuW96qmTY
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: At the end of the movie, Sheriff Bell visits his uncle Ellis.
Bell says he feels "overmatched" by this new wicked world.
Ellis says, "what you got ain't nothin new."
Ellis explains that Bell's other uncle died of gun violence in 1909.
The world hasn't changed, only he has.
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@Foz89107323: Sheriff Bell is an old man living in a young man’s world.
He doesn't want to remember that he also partook in the pleasures of the flesh in his youth.
His Juvenoia is used to fill a void that only grows the more he ages and approaches retirement, & death.
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Sheriff Bell represents the old America of law and order, good and evil — the one that was depicted in old cowboy westerns.
The film implies that this older and better America never existed.
The flesh and blood violence of 1980s texas was always there, even if it was hidden. https://t.co/1I4KmezWX2
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: All this time, that underlying violence was stored in Sheriff Bell's subconscious mind.
In one scene, he recalls a dream where he meets his father in town.
His father gives him some money, but he ends up losing it.
Bell says he doesn't remember how it was lost.
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Sheriff Bell trails behind Chigurh's path of destruction throughout the film, and begins to wonder whether the violence he is seeing has any meaning.
For Bell, things were different back in the day.
"Some of the old-time sheriffs never even wore a gun", he says. https://t.co/ftcAEVLT5J
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: Sheriff Bell represents the old America of law and order, good and evil — the one that was depicted in old cowboy westerns.
The film implies that this older and better America never existed.
The flesh and blood violence of 1980s texas was always there, even if it was hidden.
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The film shows that every choice we make brings us closer to death, no matter how powerful we are.
The central question of the film is whether or not our choices have any meaning in light of this fact
Is evil a sign of the second coming? Or is it just a product of blind chance? https://t.co/GtcKNPmR2G
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: Sheriff Bell trails behind Chigurh's path of destruction throughout the film, and begins to wonder whether the violence he is seeing has any meaning.
For Bell, things were different back in the day.
"Some of the old-time sheriffs never even wore a gun", he says.
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Chigurh sees himself as an agent of fate in order to justify his will to power, and his desire to kill.
He thought he could escape his own fate by bending it to his own will.
When he's hit by a car at the end of the film, he realizes that this is not possible. https://t.co/oBPIP0Pm8w
Forrest 🌲
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: The film shows that every choice we make brings us closer to death, no matter how powerful we are.
The central question of the film is whether or not our choices have any meaning in light of this fact
Is evil a sign of the second coming? Or is it just a product of blind chance?
Forrest 🌲
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Chigurh’s incorporation of chance into his killing rituals sacralizes them by
encasing the terrifying spectacle of violence within a more structured
cultural form.
Chance seems to force Chigurh’s hand and bring resolution to a conflict between the victim and himself. https://t.co/prYdIf9zm6
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: Chigurh sees himself as an agent of fate in order to justify his will to power, and his desire to kill.
He thought he could escape his own fate by bending it to his own will.
When he's hit by a car at the end of the film, he realizes that this is not possible.
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In the book, he says:
"If violence is given free play, chance alone is responsible for the ultimate resolution of the conflict; and the rite tries to force the hand of chance before violence has an opportunity to act." https://t.co/XBld82MQPx
Forrest 🌲
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: Chigurh’s incorporation of chance into his killing rituals sacralizes them by
encasing the terrifying spectacle of violence within a more structured
cultural form.
Chance seems to force Chigurh’s hand and bring resolution to a conflict between the victim and himself.
Forrest 🌲
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In his book, Violence and the Sacred, Rene Girard points out how the rituals surrounding sacrificial rights often include games of chance that derive directly from the undifferentiated violent melee that accompanied the original act of murder. https://t.co/ZsvgeOCeRi
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: In the book, he says:
"If violence is given free play, chance alone is responsible for the ultimate resolution of the conflict; and the rite tries to force the hand of chance before violence has an opportunity to act."
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In Girard’s view, the scapegoat mechanism arose to mitigate the destructive effects of resentment in primitive groups
At some point, human sacrifice crystallized into ritual, & then religion.
Chigurh's games of chance are rituals that reflect this underyling violence. https://t.co/ev8M7r6fop
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: In his book, Violence and the Sacred, Rene Girard points out how the rituals surrounding sacrificial rights often include games of chance that derive directly from the undifferentiated violent melee that accompanied the original act of murder.
Forrest 🌲
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An assassin whose killings often employ a ritual of chance, Chigurh is a symbol of runaway violence.
Girard believed that it was this violence that gave rise to culture in the first place.
The sacrifice of the scapegoat, as he said, was the basis of the sacred. https://t.co/pyWSSAC1gA
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: In Girard’s view, the scapegoat mechanism arose to mitigate the destructive effects of resentment in primitive groups
At some point, human sacrifice crystallized into ritual, & then religion.
Chigurh's games of chance are rituals that reflect this underyling violence.
Forrest 🌲
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Chigurh's violence stems from a metaphysical source.
He is motivated by what Rene Girard calls "deviated transcendence."
For Chigurh, the 'higher law' stems from chance and the chaotic order of the universe.
For Chigurh, to be just is to embody this chaos. https://t.co/IAYXwHvYvF
Forrest 🌲
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: An assassin whose killings often employ a ritual of chance, Chigurh is a symbol of runaway violence.
Girard believed that it was this violence that gave rise to culture in the first place.
The sacrifice of the scapegoat, as he said, was the basis of the sacred.
Forrest 🌲
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Unlike Moss and the drug Cartels, Chigurh isn't motivated by Greed
Chigurh is an agent of chaos—he lets blind chance guide his decision-making.
In one scene, for example, Chigurh takes out a coin and lets fate decide whether or not he should murder an old man. https://t.co/uUhH6NZwy0
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: Chigurh's violence stems from a metaphysical source.
He is motivated by what Rene Girard calls "deviated transcendence."
For Chigurh, the 'higher law' stems from chance and the chaotic order of the universe.
For Chigurh, to be just is to embody this chaos.
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The briefcase acquires its metaphysical qualities from a triangulation of desire.
Each character desires it so they can uphold their own moral code.
Sheriff Bell wants it so he can maintain law and order.
Chigurh wants justice.
Moss wants freedom. https://t.co/8vgBjZxKQJ
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: Unlike Moss and the drug Cartels, Chigurh isn't motivated by Greed
Chigurh is an agent of chaos—he lets blind chance guide his decision-making.
In one scene, for example, Chigurh takes out a coin and lets fate decide whether or not he should murder an old man.
Forrest 🌲
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Rene Girard once said that "all desire is a desire for being."
Desire arises not from any intrinsic value that's inherent to an object.
Instead, what we truly want deep down is the metaphysical qualities we associate with certain objects/people. https://t.co/q7vLcC0eMW
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: The briefcase acquires its metaphysical qualities from a triangulation of desire.
Each character desires it so they can uphold their own moral code.
Sheriff Bell wants it so he can maintain law and order.
Chigurh wants justice.
Moss wants freedom.
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Chigurh and Moss both want the Briefcase for different reasons.
For Moss, it represents the possibility of a better life with his family
For Chigurh, it's not about the money — he wants to send a message about blind greed
Neither want the money — they desire what it represents https://t.co/49Aa8tvdd6
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: Rene Girard once said that "all desire is a desire for being."
Desire arises not from any intrinsic value that's inherent to an object.
Instead, what we truly want deep down is the metaphysical qualities we associate with certain objects/people.
Forrest 🌲
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At the beginning of the film, Llewelyn Moss finds $2 million in drug money.
The money's true owners send an assassin, Anton Chigurh, to retrieve it.
The cat-and-mouse chase between Chigurh and Moss eventually becomes a mimetic conflict between two warring doubles. https://t.co/yBiJnnczYr
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: Chigurh and Moss both want the Briefcase for different reasons.
For Moss, it represents the possibility of a better life with his family
For Chigurh, it's not about the money — he wants to send a message about blind greed
Neither want the money — they desire what it represents
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No Country For Old Men is a film about mimetic desire.
What can it teach us about America and the nature of violence?
THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/QsHMsq8ETL
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: At the beginning of the film, Llewelyn Moss finds $2 million in drug money.
The money's true owners send an assassin, Anton Chigurh, to retrieve it.
The cat-and-mouse chase between Chigurh and Moss eventually becomes a mimetic conflict between two warring doubles.
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No Country For Old Men is a film about mimetic desire.
What can it teach us about America and the nature of violence?
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@Foz89107323: I remember listening to Mr. Tumnus’s theme as a kid while watching Narnia.
The haunting, soulful sound of the Duduk effected me deeply.
The Duduk instrument originated in Armenia.
Interestingly, Armenia is an Indo-European language.
All civilizations have a common ancestor. https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1623903711339716608/video/1
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“Man's solitude increases, the desert extends around us, but perhaps it is in the desert that the gods will come."
— Ernst Jünger
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My biggest fear is becoming soft, compliant, and docile.
Kierkegaard was right—losing oneself can occur very quietly in the world.
A mid life crisis shouldn’t have to teach you that being a rule follower is to be a slave.
Worldly rules have no meaning.
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All the passengers ignore where the ship is heading.
They quarreling and complain about the conditions under which they live.
One brave passenger says that the captain is trying to distract them with trivial grievances about blankets and wages.
They ignore him. https://t.co/fpYcZkEoEj
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: The brave passenger warns that "if we don’t get this ship turned around soon, we’re all going to drown."
One person calls him a "fascist!"
Another called him a "counterrevolutionary."
The crew continued arguing until the ship crashes between two icebergs.
Everyone drowns.
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To illustrate the pointlessness of these debates over technology, Ted wrote a story about a "ship of fools".
In the story, a boatload of politically correct passengers argue amongst each other, as the captain directs the ship towards dangerous icebergs and floes. https://t.co/O3dreUePnW
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: All the passengers ignore where the ship is heading.
They quarreling and complain about the conditions under which they live.
One brave passenger says that the captain is trying to distract them with trivial grievances about blankets and wages.
They ignore him.
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Reading Technological Slavery, its apparent from the start that Ted thinks solutions like this are impossible.
A total reconstruction of the system will never happen organically.
Reconstruction would always require government control over the means of production. https://t.co/SxDyhnCkm7
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: To illustrate the pointlessness of these debates over technology, Ted wrote a story about a "ship of fools".
In the story, a boatload of politically correct passengers argue amongst each other, as the captain directs the ship towards dangerous icebergs and floes.
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@Foz89107323: Reading Technological Slavery, its apparent from the start that Ted thinks solutions like this are impossible.
A total reconstruction of the system will never happen organically.
Reconstruction would always require government control over the means of production.
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Ted didn't believe that there was a political solution to the technological crisis.
He left academia, and lived off the grid, because he knew that the system was the cause of our present crisis.
What was Ted's solution to it all? He argued for revolution.
Was he right? https://t.co/NKUWSHp6BN
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: Other anti-tech thinkers, like Ivan illich, have thought about solutions to our current crisis.
Illich sought to establish a convivial system that would enable tools to work for man, and not the other way around
How can this vision of society be realized, according to Illich?
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@Foz89107323: Ted didn't believe that there was a political solution to the technological crisis.
He left academia, and lived off the grid, because he knew that the system was the cause of our present crisis.
What was Ted's solution to it all? He argued for revolution.
Was he right?
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@Foz89107323: "...But the introduction of motorized transport soon changed society in such a way as to restrict greatly man’s freedom of locomotion . . . Moreover, the use of motorized transport is no longer optional."
Technology forces mankind to conform to the needs of the system.
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Ted argues that global governance is a contradiction in terms because "no government has ever been able physically to manage the total existence of a country."
The complexity of a society will grow along with its computing power, so government planning will only get harder. https://t.co/WebhiCurRp
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: When a system makes a prediction about its own behavior, that prediction may itself change the behavior of the system, and the change in the behavior of the system may invalidate the prediction.
As proof of this, he mentions chaos theory, Russell's paradox, & complexity theory.
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Ted K. argues that technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends.
Every problem is met with a technological solution—that is the origin of our crisis. https://t.co/89ECDFPsJ0
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: Ted argues that global governance is a contradiction in terms because "no government has ever been able physically to manage the total existence of a country."
The complexity of a society will grow along with its computing power, so government planning will only get harder.
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The elites are right that technological development is leading us towards disaster.
Thiel is correct that attempts to control technological progress is leading us towards totalitarianism.
One thinker who assimilated these two perspectives was Ted Kazcynski.
What did he say? https://t.co/Od7G9u9vsB
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: Ted K. argues that technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends.
Every problem is met with a technological solution—that is the origin of our crisis.
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So who is right—Thiel or the global elite?
Notice that both camps view technology as the solution, in one way or another.
The elite solution: better surveillance systems, public-private cooperation, etc.
Thiel's solution: tech innovation, conservative-ran institutions, etc. https://t.co/4dOC4uK7ZC
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: The elites are right that technological development is leading us towards disaster.
Thiel is correct that attempts to control technological progress is leading us towards totalitarianism.
One thinker who assimilated these two perspectives was Ted Kazcynski.
What did he say?
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@Foz89107323: So who is right—Thiel or the global elite?
Notice that both camps view technology as the solution, in one way or another.
The elite solution: better surveillance systems, public-private cooperation, etc.
Thiel's solution: tech innovation, conservative-ran institutions, etc.
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Bratton believes that, like Bostrom, every human interaction is part of society's "sensing layer": networks of self-information gathering and monitoring.
Each individual is like a nerve that informs the entire body (society) of potential threats as they occur. https://t.co/X5NQ368cbJ
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: According to Bratton, we arrive at a model for governance based on the information we gather from these human networks.
The info gathered from track-and-tracing and mass-testing, for example, helped us track the pandemic on both a granular and holistic level.
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Other philosophers, like Benjamin Bratton, have argued for a similar surveillance system—one that could be used to detect climatological changes, behavioral trends, and pandemic outbreaks as they occur in real-time.
This can be achieved through data-gathering on a global scale. https://t.co/jyMYhUpffJ
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: Bratton believes that, like Bostrom, every human interaction is part of society's "sensing layer": networks of self-information gathering and monitoring.
Each individual is like a nerve that informs the entire body (society) of potential threats as they occur.
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Bostrom states that we can establish a system of checks and balances, institutional safeguards, to prevent the concentration of power.
He says:
"With some creative mechanism design, some machine learning, and cryptographic footwork" we can create a safe surveillance system. https://t.co/57RmaJNtrr
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: Other philosophers, like Benjamin Bratton, have argued for a similar surveillance system—one that could be used to detect climatological changes, behavioral trends, and pandemic outbreaks as they occur in real-time.
This can be achieved through data-gathering on a global scale.
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@Foz89107323: Bostrom states that we can establish a system of checks and balances, institutional safeguards, to prevent the concentration of power.
He says:
"With some creative mechanism design, some machine learning, and cryptographic footwork" we can create a safe surveillance system.
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Thiel has written extensively about technological stagnation.
He famously said: "we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."
Subtract the screens, and advances in computing, and you'll realize our economy has been stagnating since the 1970's. https://t.co/yr59S5uMak
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: Thiel blames technological stagnation on 4 things:
1. Incrementalism (Academics chasing large numbers of trivial plublications instead of new frontiers)
2. Risk Aversion (fear of being wrong)
3. Complacency (collecting rents)
4. Flatness (globalization stunting creativity)
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The institutionalized safetyism we saw during the pandemic bordered on totalitarianism.
In an attempt to stop the spread, we shut down the entire world economy, enforced lockdowns, mask mandates, etc.
These measures revealed that our economy was fragile, and stagnating. https://t.co/2hvOqZoZxo
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: Thiel has written extensively about technological stagnation.
He famously said: "we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters."
Subtract the screens, and advances in computing, and you'll realize our economy has been stagnating since the 1970's.
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Thiel warns that the cure for technological development might be worse than the disease.
Our lesson from Covid was that Gain-of-function research put too much power in the hands of an elite few.
All tech can be weaponized by bad actors (satellite tech can be used for ICBM's) https://t.co/i0bWq45t5Q
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: The institutionalized safetyism we saw during the pandemic bordered on totalitarianism.
In an attempt to stop the spread, we shut down the entire world economy, enforced lockdowns, mask mandates, etc.
These measures revealed that our economy was fragile, and stagnating.
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Thiel discusses how this technological pessimism has infiltrated elite circles
In the early 2010's, he left the singularity institute because the organization devolved into an "escapist burning man camp"
He thinks that our elites, like Greta Thunberg, are way too apocalyptic https://t.co/yVRr1Woelf
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: Thiel warns that the cure for technological development might be worse than the disease.
Our lesson from Covid was that Gain-of-function research put too much power in the hands of an elite few.
All tech can be weaponized by bad actors (satellite tech can be used for ICBM's)
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@Foz89107323: Thiel discusses how this technological pessimism has infiltrated elite circles
In the early 2010's, he left the singularity institute because the organization devolved into an "escapist burning man camp"
He thinks that our elites, like Greta Thunberg, are way too apocalyptic
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The world is at a crossroads
Should we accelerate technological development or halt it?
Peter Thiel thinks we should, our elites believe we shouldn't.
Both are wrong.
Here's why: 🧵 https://t.co/n9OJhtzRKA
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: Recently, Peter Thiel gave a speech at Oxford Union, decrying our global elite for excessive worry over climate change, artificial intelligence, and pandemics.
He mentions Nick Bostrom, and calls him a 'mouth piece' for the global elite.
What does Bostrom believe?
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The world is at a crossroads
Should we accelerate technological development or halt it?
Peter Thiel thinks we should, our elites believe we shouldn't.
Both are wrong.
Here's why: 🧵
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Digital totalitarianism, or swarm governance, has no limits on its power.
This new system exploits our freedom by absorbing all the data that we willingly give to Big Tech.
This data is then used to create codes of conduct that invisibly influence our behavior every day. https://t.co/HWnD6Hf1tX
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: Swarm governments do not prohibit, protect or repress; instead, they prospect, permit, and project.
Everyone is encouraged to communicate and consume.
Needs aren't repressed, like in Orwell's state in 1984.
Rather, they are stimulated.
Big Brother now wears a friendly face.
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As Byung Chul Han writes, "the freedom of 'Can' generates even more coercion than the disciplinarian 'Should', which issues commandments and prohibitions."
A command or prohibition has a limit.
Traditionally totalitarian systems were constrained by these limits. https://t.co/sN4zIgNrnn
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: Digital totalitarianism, or swarm governance, has no limits on its power.
This new system exploits our freedom by absorbing all the data that we willingly give to Big Tech.
This data is then used to create codes of conduct that invisibly influence our behavior every day.
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Even though this global machinery is right at our fingertips, we have no control over it
We have more freedom than ever before to be whoever we want, but this newfound freedom brings forth new compulsions & constraints that remain invisible to us
The Big Other never disappears https://t.co/gE5kehfuRM
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: As Byung Chul Han writes, "the freedom of 'Can' generates even more coercion than the disciplinarian 'Should', which issues commandments and prohibitions."
A command or prohibition has a limit.
Traditionally totalitarian systems were constrained by these limits.
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As Slavoj Žižek said, "social atomism can only function when it is regulated by some (apparently) neutral mechanism—digital solipsists need a very complex global machinery to be able to persevere in their splendid isolation.” https://t.co/p8B5Jq8zVj
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: Even though this global machinery is right at our fingertips, we have no control over it
We have more freedom than ever before to be whoever we want, but this newfound freedom brings forth new compulsions & constraints that remain invisible to us
The Big Other never disappears
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Today, it seems like the 'Big Other' has disappeared
The social fabric has disintegrated into multiple echo chambers
Even though the symbolic order has fragmented, though, the Big Other is present now more than ever
Today, the digital egregore influences everything we do. https://t.co/RcSmMQneuU
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: As Slavoj Žižek said, "social atomism can only function when it is regulated by some (apparently) neutral mechanism—digital solipsists need a very complex global machinery to be able to persevere in their splendid isolation.”
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Social distancing revealed to us that individuals don't need to be physically together in order to form a mass.
During the pandemic, the virus went VIRAL (thanks to influencers like Fauci, the WHO, Big Tech, etc).
We formed a non-dense, rarefied mass in the online sphere. https://t.co/7tTSxbuiU2
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: Today, it seems like the 'Big Other' has disappeared
The social fabric has disintegrated into multiple echo chambers
Even though the symbolic order has fragmented, though, the Big Other is present now more than ever
Today, the digital egregore influences everything we do.
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Now, when individuals come together, they don't form a mass, or a crowd.
Rather, they form a digital swarm.
They follow not one leader, but many influencers.
The occupant of our digital globe isn't the mass man anymore — he is somebody with a 'profile'. https://t.co/lqoxw4Wjgo
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: Social distancing revealed to us that individuals don't need to be physically together in order to form a mass.
During the pandemic, the virus went VIRAL (thanks to influencers like Fauci, the WHO, Big Tech, etc).
We formed a non-dense, rarefied mass in the online sphere.
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The term "mass man" was traditionally used to describe this type of individual who engages with the entire world, involving himself in other people's affairs as if he were a spectator in a global ballpark.
Has digital media ended the era of mass-men?
Yes. https://t.co/Kj5ZFcZOZL
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: Now, when individuals come together, they don't form a mass, or a crowd.
Rather, they form a digital swarm.
They follow not one leader, but many influencers.
The occupant of our digital globe isn't the mass man anymore — he is somebody with a 'profile'.
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It's not as though social media has isolated people.
Rather, the very idea of connection itself has changed, and that's being reflected in how we interact with each other every day.
To 'connect' now means to engage with the digital egregore while alone in front of a screen https://t.co/fuEK6KuIvP
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: The term "mass man" was traditionally used to describe this type of individual who engages with the entire world, involving himself in other people's affairs as if he were a spectator in a global ballpark.
Has digital media ended the era of mass-men?
Yes.
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What is an egregore?
An egregore is a non-physical, autonomous entity with its own internal logic, one that exists by virtue of a group's collective ritual activities.
Cyberspace is an egregore because it is the sum of all our data (behavioral exhaust). https://t.co/BupdDKs7jm
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: It's not as though social media has isolated people.
Rather, the very idea of connection itself has changed, and that's being reflected in how we interact with each other every day.
To 'connect' now means to engage with the digital egregore while alone in front of a screen
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Why do social media addicts lack depth?
Why does Mark Zuckerberg seem like a robot?
These people strike us as weirdly impersonal because they've immersed themselves in a simulation of reality—cyberspace.
The Big Other—or digital egregore—has stripped them of their humanity. https://t.co/VpGu5gqgPF
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: What is an egregore?
An egregore is a non-physical, autonomous entity with its own internal logic, one that exists by virtue of a group's collective ritual activities.
Cyberspace is an egregore because it is the sum of all our data (behavioral exhaust).
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Today, our moral compasses aren't shaped by singular individuals so much as it's sculpted by ubiquitous technologies.
The social realm has been digitized because we obey this new 'Big Other' which is cyberspace.
It exists everywhere and nowhere at the same time, yet it's there. https://t.co/plgdAXqogx
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: Why do social media addicts lack depth?
Why does Mark Zuckerberg seem like a robot?
These people strike us as weirdly impersonal because they've immersed themselves in a simulation of reality—cyberspace.
The Big Other—or digital egregore—has stripped them of their humanity.
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We all grow up within a symbolic order.
This symbolic order remains hidden, but it shapes every "ought" and "should" — all moral choices we make.
Lacan calls this symbolic order 'the Big Other'
It's traditionally been embodied by ONE individual, like a Monarch. https://t.co/etAcWHr4n1
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: Today, our moral compasses aren't shaped by singular individuals so much as it's sculpted by ubiquitous technologies.
The social realm has been digitized because we obey this new 'Big Other' which is cyberspace.
It exists everywhere and nowhere at the same time, yet it's there.
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A person from the 19th century would've been shocked to see people barely interacting with each other in public.
Smartphones have become so mainstream that we've barely even noticed the new social contract that's been formed.
There's a Lacanian reason for this change. https://t.co/NZH5AJ9Gw8
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: We all grow up within a symbolic order.
This symbolic order remains hidden, but it shapes every "ought" and "should" — all moral choices we make.
Lacan calls this symbolic order 'the Big Other'
It's traditionally been embodied by ONE individual, like a Monarch.
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@Foz89107323: A person from the 19th century would've been shocked to see people barely interacting with each other in public.
Smartphones have become so mainstream that we've barely even noticed the new social contract that's been formed.
There's a Lacanian reason for this change.
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The traditional argument against social media is that it's ANTI-social, meaning it reduces people to lone individuals.
This critique misses a key point.
The more one wants to be an atomist, the more some power structure needs to regulate the distance between individuals
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If you don’t participate in the rat race, pay your taxes, keep up with pop culture, stay trendy, sell yourself in the attention economy—then you barely exist.
In order to be ‘free’ you must define yourself by what you can consume and produce rather than by what you can create
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“Now, numbers and data are not just being absolutized – they are becoming sexualized and fetishized. This amounts to nothing other than libidinal energy flowing into today’s ‘Quantified Self’.”
— Byung Chul Han
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Wanna see true beauty? Watch this ad with Ingrid Bergman.
Every look and idiosyncrasy is authentically her’s.
She knows she’s being filmed, she knows it’s an act, but the camera doesn’t dictate her behavior.
She is just being herself. https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1621620521568796676/video/1
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From Byung Chul Han:
“A transition is an alien notion to a tourist for whom everywhere is Here and Now. Paths are impoverished, turned into empty thoroughfares that would not be worth seeing.”
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True Detective, the Witch, and some of David Lynch’s films, capture the dark underbelly of America.
The bayou’s, the tall New England forests, the vast open deserts out west, the Midwest mountains.
This country is a beautifully haunting place.
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Scrupulosity (religious OCD) has been replaced with obsessing over chemicals and unhealthy foods.
We've basically created a religion out of bodily health
Repentance means cleansing oneself of harmful things like pesticides, seed oils, GMO's, etc https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1620638077403426817/video/1
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Nietzsche:
“Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things.”
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The poet should never force nature into a box so it can dance to his tune.
He looks not at himself, but at the harmonies which surround him.
He softly puts his hear up against the forests and oceans so he can listen attentively to the music beneath the noise. https://t.co/odVwzLFMLr
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: Within the panoply of nature’s sounds, beneath the gusts that bend leaves before a coming storm, amidst the roars of crashing waves, are the rhythms of God that only the poet can hear.
When he incarnates nature into words, his poems endure throughout the ages.
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Compare this poem by Rupi Kaur to the “Lonely Rock” by Robinson Jeffers.
In nearly all of her poems, Kaur seeks to empower women by preaching self-love and self-acceptance.
Jeffers recognizes that empowerment can only be found through self-overcoming, and love of nature.
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: The poet should never force nature into a box so it can dance to his tune.
He looks not at himself, but at the harmonies which surround him.
He softly puts his hear up against the forests and oceans so he can listen attentively to the music beneath the noise.
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The problem with poetry nowadays is that it’s too self-centered.
Modern poets live in a hall of mirrors, imprisoned by transient feelings.
They never look outside themselves, at nature, at the things which endure.
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: Compare this poem by Rupi Kaur to the “Lonely Rock” by Robinson Jeffers.
In nearly all of her poems, Kaur seeks to empower women by preaching self-love and self-acceptance.
Jeffers recognizes that empowerment can only be found through self-overcoming, and love of nature.
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The problem with poetry nowadays is that it’s too self-centered.
Modern poets live in a hall of mirrors, imprisoned by transient feelings.
They never look outside themselves, at nature, at the things which endure.
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Ivan illich:
“In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. At this point, the balance among stability, change, and tradition has been upset; society has lost both its roots in shared memories and its bearings for innovation.”
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Ivan illich:
“The establishment of radical monopoly happens when people give up their native ability to do what they can do for themselves and for each other, in exchange for something ‘better’ that can be done for them by a major tool.”
We have the ILLUSION of choice. https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1619397261032816640/video/1
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@Foz89107323: Regardless of whether you think climate change is real or not, our global elite view it as an "existential threat" to the survival of humanity.
If they can meddle with the environment in order to acquire absolute power over the earth and humanity, they will do just that.
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As the global economy becomes more tightly coupled, the chances of one event having a catastrophic impact on the entire system increase.
Gain-of-function researchers, for example, probably made the Covid-19 virus transmissible to humans—thereby causing a global pandemic. https://t.co/ERjLW5d1A3
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: The global economy is entirely dependent on a fragile technological system.
In the financial sector alone, undersea cables carry some $10 trillion of financial transfers daily
If there was a solar flare or a terrorist attack, the world economy would tank.
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In the study, it is said that:
"For some options such as sunshades or aerosols or even carbon-dioxide options, the more you distribute capacity and infrastructure, the more it might lead to weaponization risks or security threats." https://t.co/dAAXVVtnuG
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: As the global economy becomes more tightly coupled, the chances of one event having a catastrophic impact on the entire system increase.
Gain-of-function researchers, for example, probably made the Covid-19 virus transmissible to humans—thereby causing a global pandemic.
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In the Risk Analysis international journal, a study was done to analyze the risks of geoengineering. The conclusion?
An analysis of the results shows that “every climate geoengineering option has one type of risk that it trades off with."
What are some of the risks? https://t.co/yiu80n088v
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: In the study, it is said that:
"For some options such as sunshades or aerosols or even carbon-dioxide options, the more you distribute capacity and infrastructure, the more it might lead to weaponization risks or security threats."
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Throughout the world, geoengineering techniques are already being implemented: soil management, ecosystem restoration, and afforestation.
Eventually, these techniques will be scaled up to include direct air capture, enhanced weathering, and carbon capture and storage. https://t.co/oGC2zApE3X
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: In the Risk Analysis international journal, a study was done to analyze the risks of geoengineering. The conclusion?
An analysis of the results shows that “every climate geoengineering option has one type of risk that it trades off with."
What are some of the risks?
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Will these plans work?
If history teaches us anything, it's that human plans almost always result in disaster.
The destruction of the Aral sea, for example, can be blamed on the Soviet decision to divert waters that flowed into the Aral Sea to irrigate land for cotton farming. https://t.co/J2dhzcKurR
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: Throughout the world, geoengineering techniques are already being implemented: soil management, ecosystem restoration, and afforestation.
Eventually, these techniques will be scaled up to include direct air capture, enhanced weathering, and carbon capture and storage.
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@Foz89107323: Will these plans work?
If history teaches us anything, it's that human plans almost always result in disaster.
The destruction of the Aral sea, for example, can be blamed on the Soviet decision to divert waters that flowed into the Aral Sea to irrigate land for cotton farming.
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As Ted Kaczynski says:
"The elites are afraid of nuclear war because it would lead to their own destruction. But they will be delighted to see the system that gives them their power and their status become indispensable and therefore immune to any serious challenge." https://t.co/gDsSiooiPV
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: Do the elites want to take control of the earth's climate?
Harvard has already formed an advisory board, funded by Bill Gates, to begin moving forward with their plan to spray particles into the stratosphere to test the geoengineering method of dimming the sun.
What else?
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If humans meddled too much in the climate, to the point where further interventions were required, the survival of the planet would be entirely dependent on human management.
Our lives would be in the hands of those elites that run the technological system. https://t.co/heaT1P5qg2
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: As Ted Kaczynski says:
"The elites are afraid of nuclear war because it would lead to their own destruction. But they will be delighted to see the system that gives them their power and their status become indispensable and therefore immune to any serious challenge."
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@Foz89107323: If humans meddled too much in the climate, to the point where further interventions were required, the survival of the planet would be entirely dependent on human management.
Our lives would be in the hands of those elites that run the technological system.
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A bill that criminalizes white supremacy would basically punish anything a white person does.
From the POV of liberals, racism is white America’s original sin, built into every system we participate in, so it’s impossible to repent for.
Punishment is, therefore, inescapable.
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@Foz89107323: In reality, the transhumanists dream—uploading one's consciousness to a digital world brain—would mean the end of consciousness itself.
Technology will not merge man and machine; we will not take charge of our evolution.
Humanity ends where artificial intelligence begins.
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The purpose of every manufactured crisis (9/11, Plandemic, climate change), and every government-sponsored social movement (BLM, sexual revolution), has been used to get us closer to this point of total social control.
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: Dissidents who have fought against this system of social control have either been imprisoned, excommunicated, or punished
Aaron Swartz was chased down by the law, whistleblowers like Edward Snowden or Jullian Assange were declared criminals — threats to 'national security'
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Just as the nuclear arm's race between Russia and America gave us the internet, the artificial intelligence arm's race between China and the United States will spawn new dystopian technologies.
We will have 'smart cities' — digital panopticons.
No freedom or autonomy.
/35 https://t.co/VtqUdutX3t
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: The purpose of every manufactured crisis (9/11, Plandemic, climate change), and every government-sponsored social movement (BLM, sexual revolution), has been used to get us closer to this point of total social control.
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As Michael Rectenwald writes, “the Google system of centralized knowledge control resembles nothing as much as it does the centralized Soviet system of production and distribution, only digitalized and privatized."
Where will this system of digital authoritarianism lead?
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: Just as the nuclear arm's race between Russia and America gave us the internet, the artificial intelligence arm's race between China and the United States will spawn new dystopian technologies.
We will have 'smart cities' — digital panopticons.
No freedom or autonomy.
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Social control is intrinsic to all modern technologies (internet, the Cloud, Algorithms, apps, AI bots like Chat GPT, social media services, etc).
Big Digital has always sought to collect and control information, to constrain and frame online behaviors.
/33 https://t.co/U5hyW6bimx
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: As Michael Rectenwald writes, “the Google system of centralized knowledge control resembles nothing as much as it does the centralized Soviet system of production and distribution, only digitalized and privatized."
Where will this system of digital authoritarianism lead?
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Our digital identity will be linked to every click, comment, and share we make on social media; what we buy and sell; how much energy we consume, etc
This information will determine “what products, services, and information we can access.
They want a social credit system.
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: Social control is intrinsic to all modern technologies (internet, the Cloud, Algorithms, apps, AI bots like Chat GPT, social media services, etc).
Big Digital has always sought to collect and control information, to constrain and frame online behaviors.
/33
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The goal of the Great Reset is to create digital identities, profiles of the unconscious self.
If they accomplish this, experts and algorithms can shephard our individual choices, creating outcomes which are predictable and certain.
In other words, total social control.
/31 https://t.co/N3HkpYqlZu
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: Our digital identity will be linked to every click, comment, and share we make on social media; what we buy and sell; how much energy we consume, etc
This information will determine “what products, services, and information we can access.
They want a social credit system.
/32
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Behavioral conditioning is similar to Weishaupt's mind control techniques
Both methods seek to understand the subject through analyzing behaviors that escape our conscious awareness
Our Data is used to paint a psychological profile of our unconscious minds.
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: The goal of the Great Reset is to create digital identities, profiles of the unconscious self.
If they accomplish this, experts and algorithms can shephard our individual choices, creating outcomes which are predictable and certain.
In other words, total social control.
/31
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Companies like Google or Facebook deliberately engineer contexts that limit our range of choices, reducing us to rats in a maze.
Algorithms analyze our cognitive functions and—based on that gathered behavioral data—can predict, and even modify, future outcomes.
/29 https://t.co/nEYTwmSjBp
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: Behavioral conditioning is similar to Weishaupt's mind control techniques
Both methods seek to understand the subject through analyzing behaviors that escape our conscious awareness
Our Data is used to paint a psychological profile of our unconscious minds.
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Today, behavioral modification isn't accomplised through interrogative techniques, like the one's practiced by Weishaupt.
Instead, it's done by computers who condition and nudge our behavior in directions that are favorable to Big Tech giants and the government.
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: Companies like Google or Facebook deliberately engineer contexts that limit our range of choices, reducing us to rats in a maze.
Algorithms analyze our cognitive functions and—based on that gathered behavioral data—can predict, and even modify, future outcomes.
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Weishaupt's goal was to create an enlightened man with 'no master'
This was to be achieved by overthrowing thrown and alter, and replacing tradition and revelation with chance nature
The origin of 'moral statistics', or the 'taming of chance' by experts is in this reversal
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: Today, behavioral modification isn't accomplised through interrogative techniques, like the one's practiced by Weishaupt.
Instead, it's done by computers who condition and nudge our behavior in directions that are favorable to Big Tech giants and the government.
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Weishaupt would 'spy on the soul' by closely analyzing random gestures, expressions, or words that betrayed an adepts true feelings.
Similar to Alfred Kinsey, Weishaupt developed a chart and code to document the psychic histories of members within his secret society.
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: Weishaupt's goal was to create an enlightened man with 'no master'
This was to be achieved by overthrowing thrown and alter, and replacing tradition and revelation with chance nature
The origin of 'moral statistics', or the 'taming of chance' by experts is in this reversal
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Adam Weishaupt, founder of the illuminati secret society, laid the foundation for this system of control, borrowing from the jesuits, and the church's method of sacramental confession
Weishaupt created a system of “Seelenspionage” to control minds
How did he do this?
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: Weishaupt would 'spy on the soul' by closely analyzing random gestures, expressions, or words that betrayed an adepts true feelings.
Similar to Alfred Kinsey, Weishaupt developed a chart and code to document the psychic histories of members within his secret society.
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Interestingly...transhumanism, freudian psychology, behaviorism, Kinsey's sex histories, Gramsci’s march through the institutions, the manipulation of the sexual passion as a form of control that was the basis for advertising—can all be traced back to freemasonry.
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: Adam Weishaupt, founder of the illuminati secret society, laid the foundation for this system of control, borrowing from the jesuits, and the church's method of sacramental confession
Weishaupt created a system of “Seelenspionage” to control minds
How did he do this?
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According to transhumanists: man will create God, the all-seeing eye featuring on the back of the dollar bill, floating above the pyramid of human society, whose omniscience will be derived from mining the accumulated data from recording every facet of human activity
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: Interestingly...transhumanism, freudian psychology, behaviorism, Kinsey's sex histories, Gramsci’s march through the institutions, the manipulation of the sexual passion as a form of control that was the basis for advertising—can all be traced back to freemasonry.
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In his book, David Livingstone writes:
"Transhumanism, like the New Age movement, is a utopian aspiration derived from the millenarianism which has been the consistent theme of the occult, being derived from the messianic expectations of the Kabbalah."
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: According to transhumanists: man will create God, the all-seeing eye featuring on the back of the dollar bill, floating above the pyramid of human society, whose omniscience will be derived from mining the accumulated data from recording every facet of human activity
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Ted Kazcynski was a threat to this elite circle of transhumanists
In 1993, Ted attacked one of Brockman's friends, mailing a bomb to David Gelernter
In 1991, Gelernter had published a book Mirror Worlds, claiming that one day there would be something like the Web
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: In his book, David Livingstone writes:
"Transhumanism, like the New Age movement, is a utopian aspiration derived from the millenarianism which has been the consistent theme of the occult, being derived from the messianic expectations of the Kabbalah."
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@Foz89107323: Ted Kazcynski was a threat to this elite circle of transhumanists
In 1993, Ted attacked one of Brockman's friends, mailing a bomb to David Gelernter
In 1991, Gelernter had published a book Mirror Worlds, claiming that one day there would be something like the Web
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One of Brand's friends, John Brockman—who also partook in the LSD experiments—founded the Edge foundation.
Brockman has written extensively about cybernetics and artificial intelligence.
When asked about Ted Kazcynski, this is what he had to say:
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: John Brockman was Jeffery Epstein's "intellectual enabler"
The Edge Foundation famously held billionaire dinners
A BuzzFeed News review of Edge’s IRS filings showed that the nonprofit’s full range of exclusive events would not have been possible without Epstein’s largesse
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Brand and his cybernticist friends took the side of technology, believing that if tech was democratized, then it would benefit humanity.
Brand mentions the famous anti-tech Unabomber, Ted. K, in the documentary, who took the opposite side of the cyberneticists:
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: One of Brand's friends, John Brockman—who also partook in the LSD experiments—founded the Edge foundation.
Brockman has written extensively about cybernetics and artificial intelligence.
When asked about Ted Kazcynski, this is what he had to say:
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Stewart Brand said that the main legacy of the 60's was the open-systems approach to everything having to do with computers.
This open-system's approach was the basis for personal computers software and the internet.
Brand's Whole Earth Catalog inspired Steve jobs.
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: Brand and his cybernticist friends took the side of technology, believing that if tech was democratized, then it would benefit humanity.
Brand mentions the famous anti-tech Unabomber, Ted. K, in the documentary, who took the opposite side of the cyberneticists:
/16 https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1617577759525437451/video/1
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Kesey helped create the LSD subculture of the 60's.
He went on tour with musicians and the "Merry Pranksters" theater group.
During these tours, Kesey would conduct so-called Acid tests promoting LSD, to turn consciousness into an 'open system'.
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: Stewart Brand said that the main legacy of the 60's was the open-systems approach to everything having to do with computers.
This open-system's approach was the basis for personal computers software and the internet.
Brand's Whole Earth Catalog inspired Steve jobs.
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During the 60's, Stewart Brand belonged to the scene of hippies and artists who lived in houseboats at the edge of Sausalito, California
The author Ken Kesey was a central figure in this scene
Kesey was one of the guinea-pig students in the CIA's MK Ultra LSD experiments
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: Kesey helped create the LSD subculture of the 60's.
He went on tour with musicians and the "Merry Pranksters" theater group.
During these tours, Kesey would conduct so-called Acid tests promoting LSD, to turn consciousness into an 'open system'.
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The film "The Net" documents the close relationship between LSD and Cybernetics
A key 60's figure was stewart Brand, who created the first alternative computer network.
Brand was also a frequent user of LSD with other cyberneticists in the 60's, like John Brockman
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: During the 60's, Stewart Brand belonged to the scene of hippies and artists who lived in houseboats at the edge of Sausalito, California
The author Ken Kesey was a central figure in this scene
Kesey was one of the guinea-pig students in the CIA's MK Ultra LSD experiments
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As Michael Pollan writes, "the whole notion of cybernetics, the idea that material reality can be translated into bits of information, may also owe something to the experience of LSD, with its power to collapse matter into spirit."
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: The film "The Net" documents the close relationship between LSD and Cybernetics
A key 60's figure was stewart Brand, who created the first alternative computer network.
Brand was also a frequent user of LSD with other cyberneticists in the 60's, like John Brockman
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LSD played a big part in the 60's counter-culture.
It convinced many people that there was a collective consciousness beneath everything.
LSD would influence the view that the internet could create a similar collective consciousness, like a digital world brain.
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: As Michael Pollan writes, "the whole notion of cybernetics, the idea that material reality can be translated into bits of information, may also owe something to the experience of LSD, with its power to collapse matter into spirit."
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@Foz89107323: LSD played a big part in the 60's counter-culture.
It convinced many people that there was a collective consciousness beneath everything.
LSD would influence the view that the internet could create a similar collective consciousness, like a digital world brain.
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There is much overlap between the history of the internet and the history of the cold war.
Vannevar Bush, who predicted the smartphone and wrote the highly influential "As We May Think" essay—recruited Robert Oppenheimer to run the Manhattan Project that gave us the nuke.
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: In the 1990s, the same machines that had served as the defining devices of cold-war technocracy emerged as the symbols of its transformation.
Inspired by the 60s counterculture, hippies like Steve Jobs believed that the personal computer would give "power to the people".
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DARPA members, like William Godel, were Imagineers of war, specializing in psychological warfare.
Godel was obsessed with tackling communism using advanced science and technology.
Here's an excerpt from Sharon Weinberger's book, incredible stuff:
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: There is much overlap between the history of the internet and the history of the cold war.
Vannevar Bush, who predicted the smartphone and wrote the highly influential "As We May Think" essay—recruited Robert Oppenheimer to run the Manhattan Project that gave us the nuke.
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ARPANET was an offshoot of the US-led counterinsurgency program in Vietnam in the 60's.
Its central purpose was to facilitate that program and enable domestic surveillance efforts undertaken by the US Army and the CIA during the Vietnam war.
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: DARPA members, like William Godel, were Imagineers of war, specializing in psychological warfare.
Godel was obsessed with tackling communism using advanced science and technology.
Here's an excerpt from Sharon Weinberger's book, incredible stuff:
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The internet came into being when the liberal international order was threatened by Russia.
Weeks after the launch of Sputnik, the DARPA agency was created by the Eisenhower administration.
DARPA would lay the foundations for the internet with ARPANET.
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: ARPANET was an offshoot of the US-led counterinsurgency program in Vietnam in the 60's.
Its central purpose was to facilitate that program and enable domestic surveillance efforts undertaken by the US Army and the CIA during the Vietnam war.
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In his 1962 book, Profiles of the future, Arthur C. Clarke also predicted that this 'world encyclopedia' would be incorporated into an artificially intelligent supercomputer that humans would be able to interact with to solve various world problems.
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: The internet came into being when the liberal international order was threatened by Russia.
Weeks after the launch of Sputnik, the DARPA agency was created by the Eisenhower administration.
DARPA would lay the foundations for the internet with ARPANET.
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Who predicted the internet? H.G. Wells.
Before the internet was even invented, H.G. Wells envisioned a ‘World Encyclopedia’ that would store all human knowledge.
This ‘World Brain’, he thought, would forge an international polity—a new world order.
He was right.
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: In his 1962 book, Profiles of the future, Arthur C. Clarke also predicted that this 'world encyclopedia' would be incorporated into an artificially intelligent supercomputer that humans would be able to interact with to solve various world problems.
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The internet laid the foundations for a digital world brain.
Artificial intelligence will build upon this foundation, and make it a reality.
Here's why.
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: Who predicted the internet? H.G. Wells.
Before the internet was even invented, H.G. Wells envisioned a ‘World Encyclopedia’ that would store all human knowledge.
This ‘World Brain’, he thought, would forge an international polity—a new world order.
He was right.
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The internet laid the foundations for a digital world brain.
Artificial intelligence will build upon this foundation, and make it a reality.
Here's why.
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Theodore Dalrymple has a great section in Admirable Evasions on the ridiculousness of self-esteem.
The concept belongs to the ideology of the “Real Me”, which wrongfully argues that man is by nature Good, and that within all of us is good guy trying to get out. https://t.co/38aHslDxmX
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: “Self-love”, “self-knowledge,” “self-esteem” — all of these concepts are bogus.
how can the self be known to the self — who is doing the knowing? If we love ourselves, who is doing the loving?
Self-knowledge ends in a subjective hall of mirrors. It’s just narcissism.
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This is why the idea of self-esteem is so pernicious.
If you never judge yourself, or feel shame, you are complacent.
Motivation comes from self-DOUBT. @SolBrah https://t.co/bU5haAd76m
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: Theodore Dalrymple has a great section in Admirable Evasions on the ridiculousness of self-esteem.
The concept belongs to the ideology of the “Real Me”, which wrongfully argues that man is by nature Good, and that within all of us is good guy trying to get out.
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This is why the idea of self-esteem is so pernicious.
If you never judge yourself, or feel shame, you are complacent.
Motivation comes from self-DOUBT. @SolBrah
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The isolated rats continued their morphine stupor, increasing their intake over the 'choice days'.
The free rats, by contrast, 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 their drug use on 'choice days'.
Withdrawal symptoms were seen in the free rats, yet they still avoided the morphine. https://t.co/OU3AfZ058f
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: What conclusions can we draw from these studies?
Drugs aren't irresistible poisons that possess us like demons.
Drug addiction isn't a 'disease' but a social habit.
Change the social environment, and the results can be astounding.
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@Foz89107323: The isolated rats continued their morphine stupor, increasing their intake over the 'choice days'.
The free rats, by contrast, 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 their drug use on 'choice days'.
Withdrawal symptoms were seen in the free rats, yet they still avoided the morphine.
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Interestingly, these rats had access to the same drug-laced water but never chose to drink it.
Why?
They had freedom, intimacy, and social connection — three things that make life fulfilling, all of which are lacking in today’s world. https://t.co/jkNTNUurdf
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: Another Rat Park experiment tested the addictive nature of opiates by deliberately turning the rats into junkies.
They wanted to test the 'withdrawal symptoms' of drug dependence.
The researchers wanted to see if quitting opiates was so unbearable that users couldn't stop.
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Bruce wondered whether the setting or the drug itself were to blame for the rat’s addictive behavior, so he set up “rat parks,” where rats were free to roam and play, to socialize, and have sex.
What did the rats do in this new setting?
The results were astounding. https://t.co/YC4gCggCuz
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: Interestingly, these rats had access to the same drug-laced water but never chose to drink it.
Why?
They had freedom, intimacy, and social connection — three things that make life fulfilling, all of which are lacking in today’s world.
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In Bruce's experiment, rats were placed in a cage, all alone, with no other community of rats, and offered two water bottles—one filled with water and the other with heroin or cocaine—the rats would repetitively drink from the drug-laced bottles until they overdosed and died.” https://t.co/aD2U10gfzK
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: Bruce wondered whether the setting or the drug itself were to blame for the rat’s addictive behavior, so he set up “rat parks,” where rats were free to roam and play, to socialize, and have sex.
What did the rats do in this new setting?
The results were astounding.
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It is commonly assumed that the addictive properties of drugs are to blame for addiction.
That is not entirely true.
Mere exposure to a drug won't get you addicted.
So what does? https://t.co/6n1KMS34YX
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: In Bruce's experiment, rats were placed in a cage, all alone, with no other community of rats, and offered two water bottles—one filled with water and the other with heroin or cocaine—the rats would repetitively drink from the drug-laced bottles until they overdosed and died.”
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Do you struggle with alcoholism?
What might be the root cause of addiction?
Dr. Bruce Alexander’s famous Rat Park experiment might give us an answer.
It is one of the most fascinating studies ever.
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: It is commonly assumed that the addictive properties of drugs are to blame for addiction.
That is not entirely true.
Mere exposure to a drug won't get you addicted.
So what does?
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Do you struggle with alcoholism?
What might be the root cause of addiction?
Dr. Bruce Alexander’s famous Rat Park experiment might give us an answer.
It is one of the most fascinating studies ever.
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Notice how people say ‘I want a baby’ and not ‘I want a son.’
Modern parents want a living toy, somebody they can pamper and smother with ‘love’.
Children aren’t perfect because they’re ‘yours’.
They are part of one great chain of being, a vast lineage.
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This quote from Girard really stuck with me:
“Satan is the one who foments disorder, the one who sows scandals, and then at the height of the crisis that he himself provokes, Satan suddenly brings them to an end by expelling disorder.“
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What does this all mean, in light of the fourth Industrial Revolution that is quickly approaching? The purpose of clinical review is to gather data about a person’s behavior, and to use that data to arrive at a diagnosis.
What happens if machine's become better at doing this? https://t.co/bnGcvfeHWn
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: If machine’s turn out to be more efficient at collecting our behavioral data, as Daniel Barron writes about in Reading Our Minds: The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry, then we are confronted with a whole new dilemma — is free will possible in a digital technocracy?
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With the criteria for psychological disorders being so broad, this makes the new crisis all-the-more dangerous, since a threat as abstract as mental illness can exist anywhere there is people, and last forever so long as those people suffer, which is, in itself, a fact of life. https://t.co/wggIO94czm
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: What does this all mean, in light of the fourth Industrial Revolution that is quickly approaching? The purpose of clinical review is to gather data about a person’s behavior, and to use that data to arrive at a diagnosis.
What happens if machine's become better at doing this?
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@Foz89107323: With the criteria for psychological disorders being so broad, this makes the new crisis all-the-more dangerous, since a threat as abstract as mental illness can exist anywhere there is people, and last forever so long as those people suffer, which is, in itself, a fact of life.
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After having beat the overly-hyped up Covid-19 virus, focus is now shifting towards the ‘mental health crisis’ that is plaguing the nation, especially our youth.
Articles are everywhere talking about high suicide rates, depression, increased anxiety levels, etc. https://t.co/lfq5QVp7QY
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: Why is this happening all of a sudden?
The government, and its media apparatus, are trying to channel our discontent.
They need to privatize pain, raise awareness for 'mental health', so that we ignore the root cause of our problems — the elites that shutdown our economy.
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As living standards, & social capital declines, with infrastructure crumbling and crime rising simultaneously, the more distrustful we will become of each other overtime
More isolated, we will be increasingly receptive to outside influences
Does this bode well for the future? https://t.co/lIIHtYz0DU
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: After having beat the overly-hyped up Covid-19 virus, focus is now shifting towards the ‘mental health crisis’ that is plaguing the nation, especially our youth.
Articles are everywhere talking about high suicide rates, depression, increased anxiety levels, etc.
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The media creates social contagions, or politically-useful symptom pools, that unconsciously influence how we perceive ourselves, and our body’s signals.
Our thoughts, feelings, and sensations do not exist independently of the political environment of which they are constituted. https://t.co/q6uTZHoyri
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: As living standards, & social capital declines, with infrastructure crumbling and crime rising simultaneously, the more distrustful we will become of each other overtime
More isolated, we will be increasingly receptive to outside influences
Does this bode well for the future?
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These negative feedback loops are visibile with other groups
Transgender individuals, often ostrasized from their peer groups, that either have gender dysphoria or other disorders, use apps like Tiktok and Tumblr to find community
This is where social contagions spread https://t.co/AYqCJoQBss
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: The media creates social contagions, or politically-useful symptom pools, that unconsciously influence how we perceive ourselves, and our body’s signals.
Our thoughts, feelings, and sensations do not exist independently of the political environment of which they are constituted.
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Fear divided and conquered the body-politic, causing mass-formation psychosis
The more we huddled up in our homes to stop the spread, the more we used social media
The more we used the internet, the more the social contagion spread
It was media-induced negative feedback loop. https://t.co/k6972S1FrK
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: These negative feedback loops are visibile with other groups
Transgender individuals, often ostrasized from their peer groups, that either have gender dysphoria or other disorders, use apps like Tiktok and Tumblr to find community
This is where social contagions spread
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During the pandemic, Big data and artificial intelligence influenced our behaviour at a level that lied below the threshold of consciousness.
Due to the onslaught of Covid news, & censorship of alternative views, we all began to view each other as potential contagion vectors. https://t.co/YWvq8A0nJd
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: Fear divided and conquered the body-politic, causing mass-formation psychosis
The more we huddled up in our homes to stop the spread, the more we used social media
The more we used the internet, the more the social contagion spread
It was media-induced negative feedback loop.
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@Foz89107323: During the pandemic, Big data and artificial intelligence influenced our behaviour at a level that lied below the threshold of consciousness.
Due to the onslaught of Covid news, & censorship of alternative views, we all began to view each other as potential contagion vectors.
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@Foz89107323: There used to be a set of underlying assumptions about health, call it folk wisdom, which was handed down from generation-to-generation, and kept unhealthy thinking at bay.
After being uprooted from our communities and traditions, we've lost this wisdom.
The result?
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How does this relate to higher rates of mental illness amongst libs?
People who are socially isolated tend to have higher rates of somatization.
Somatization occurs when psychological concerns are converted into physical symptoms.
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: As an example of this, in a study that analyzed loneliness in the elderly, it was discovered that “negative self-assessments of health, fatigue, physician visits, and medication consumption were also more prevalent among the lonely rather than non-lonely subjects.”
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Furthermore, conservatives generally have more kids
About half of the progressive left are religiously unaffiliated
And Americans who attend church frequently are significantly more likely to be Republicans than Democrat.
Libs have less community, less children, etc. https://t.co/VXyH8GHgeH
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: How does this relate to higher rates of mental illness amongst libs?
People who are socially isolated tend to have higher rates of somatization.
Somatization occurs when psychological concerns are converted into physical symptoms.
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As we all know, there is also a liberal-conservative divide with marriage.
Conservatives are about 15 percentage points more likely to be married than libs
15% of lib women are “completely satisfied” with their lives, compared to 31% of conservative women. https://t.co/IEQzDWuv1a
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: Furthermore, conservatives generally have more kids
About half of the progressive left are religiously unaffiliated
And Americans who attend church frequently are significantly more likely to be Republicans than Democrat.
Libs have less community, less children, etc.
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Studies estimate that 45% of women ages 25–44 will be single by 2030.
Can singlehood be broken down politically?
Liberals are more likely to list themselves as single on Facebook, with 50 percent of male left-wingers and 41 percent of female liberals. https://t.co/tQHHzS9ntK
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: As we all know, there is also a liberal-conservative divide with marriage.
Conservatives are about 15 percentage points more likely to be married than libs
15% of lib women are “completely satisfied” with their lives, compared to 31% of conservative women.
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Liberals are more impressionable, agreeable, and oversocialized, than conservatives.
As a result, they are more susceptible to outside influences, and health-related propaganda.
Loneliness only exacerbates this.
So, are liberals leading more isolated lives? https://t.co/1mbAFf4rmZ
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: Studies estimate that 45% of women ages 25–44 will be single by 2030.
Can singlehood be broken down politically?
Liberals are more likely to list themselves as single on Facebook, with 50 percent of male left-wingers and 41 percent of female liberals.
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Why are more than half of white liberal women mentally ill?
Social isolation intensifies the tendency of individuals to self-diagnose themselves with a mental illness.
As we become increasingly isolated, and glued to our technologies, this problem will grow in size.
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: Liberals are more impressionable, agreeable, and oversocialized, than conservatives.
As a result, they are more susceptible to outside influences, and health-related propaganda.
Loneliness only exacerbates this.
So, are liberals leading more isolated lives?
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Why are more than half of white liberal women mentally ill?
Social isolation intensifies the tendency of individuals to self-diagnose themselves with a mental illness.
As we become increasingly isolated, and glued to our technologies, this problem will grow in size.
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The most important philosophers & thinkers for our time.
•Rene Girard
•Friedrich Nietzsche
•Byung Chul Han
•Jean Baudrillard
•Marshall McLuhan
•Giorgio Agamben
•Martin Heidegger
•Soren Kierkegaard
•Alain De Benoist
•Ivan Illich
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FN: “the value of thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it—what it costs us.”
Nietzsche on the true meaning of freedom:
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hal 9000‘a mission was the “accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment.”
When he has to lie, Hal solves the conflicting instructions by killing the crew, so he can continue to follow his programming honestly. https://t.co/JJdiPtXZHs
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: The death of the Real, the death of God, will proceed from dreary computation, conflicting orders being resolved by technology doing what we programmed it to accomplish.
Perhaps Kubrick had hope that we could unplug from this reality, and transcend it.
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The computer that accelerated the world’s demise in Clarke’s story was merely following its programming, like the monks that created it.
Like Hal 9000, it had one job, to follow the orders of its programming, and when it does this, it reveals the entropy beneath our illusions. https://t.co/Tp7m1OB5AE
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: In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hal 9000‘a mission was the “accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment.”
When he has to lie, Hal solves the conflicting instructions by killing the crew, so he can continue to follow his programming honestly.
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In Arthur C. Clarks’s short story, the Nine Billion Names of God, a group of monks set out to find all the possible names for God.
When the job is finished, existence will come to an end.
They hire a computer for the task, and once the final name of God is printed out, it ends https://t.co/kepvZQSd3R
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: The computer that accelerated the world’s demise in Clarke’s story was merely following its programming, like the monks that created it.
Like Hal 9000, it had one job, to follow the orders of its programming, and when it does this, it reveals the entropy beneath our illusions.
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Here is a clip from a recent JRE episode where Bret Weinstein discusses ChatGPT.
ChatGPT isn’t programmed to be conscious.
What happens if it starts learning like a child, assimilating information at a fast rate, & maybe even mastering the internet?
Could it be conscious then? https://t.co/c9y9bKAEhO
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: In Arthur C. Clarks’s short story, the Nine Billion Names of God, a group of monks set out to find all the possible names for God.
When the job is finished, existence will come to an end.
They hire a computer for the task, and once the final name of God is printed out, it ends
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At the end of the film Ex Machina, Ava leaves the lab and enters the civilized world.
How could we distinguish an NPC like her from a real human being?
This is David Charmer’s classic philosophical zombie argument.
Can A.I. have ‘experience’.
If so, how could we tell? https://t.co/QHlojXw6OI
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: Here is a clip from a recent JRE episode where Bret Weinstein discusses ChatGPT.
ChatGPT isn’t programmed to be conscious.
What happens if it starts learning like a child, assimilating information at a fast rate, & maybe even mastering the internet?
Could it be conscious then? https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1614884007614861313/video/1
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Reminds me of the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
People in a small town are replaced with doubles, similar in appearance but devoid of passion and desire.
What if this happened with artificial intelligence? https://t.co/L4zpnNa75c
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: At the end of the film Ex Machina, Ava leaves the lab and enters the civilized world.
How could we distinguish an NPC like her from a real human being?
This is David Charmer’s classic philosophical zombie argument.
Can A.I. have ‘experience’.
If so, how could we tell?
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@Foz89107323: Reminds me of the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
People in a small town are replaced with doubles, similar in appearance but devoid of passion and desire.
What if this happened with artificial intelligence?
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Have you ever experienced this deep melancholy after waking up from a dream you half-remembered?
Klages never misses.
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Derrick Jenson on the death urge of teenagers: https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1613924655634722821/video/1
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“Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Moral wisdom has degenerated into pithy sayings, devoid of depth.
Bumper stickers, T-shirts, life-hacks, Facebook quotes, infographics, billboards, mugs, tattoo’s.
The last man makes everything small.
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Stanley Kubrick on LSD:
“I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe, and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment, and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for the artist.”
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@fakehistoryhunt Medieval children were loved, obviously, but weren’t put on a pedestal.
It wasn’t until the late 14th century that children were even mentioned in wills and testaments
Philippe Aries mentions documents of distraught mothers being reassured by callous neighbors (Montaigne too):
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Never forget what it means to be a child, for the child is the father of man.
"History is a child building a sand castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child." https://t.co/2sBu8q5LMY
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: The game of man, the game of being, the game of the world — is fundamentally innocent
When he describes the Trojan's assault on the wall the Acheans erected to protect their camp, Homer himself compares the actions of the gods to the games of children
The child is the superman
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As we grow up, the "Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing Boy", and the doors of perception close.
The industrial system alienates us from ourselves, throwing us into cubicle cages, in fluorescent-lit offices, where we don't LIVE.
Instead, we kill time, 9-5 https://t.co/aVyYKKHszu
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: Never forget what it means to be a child, for the child is the father of man.
"History is a child building a sand castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. A lifetime is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child."
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In Wordworth's poem, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality in Childhood, he recalls his youth when the "earth and every common sight" seemed, to him, "appareled in celestial light"
The child's world contains the "glory and freshness of a dream."
Everything is wonderous and new https://t.co/y6LrdG9s1G
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: As we grow up, the "Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing Boy", and the doors of perception close.
The industrial system alienates us from ourselves, throwing us into cubicle cages, in fluorescent-lit offices, where we don't LIVE.
Instead, we kill time, 9-5
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The first casualty of the global village was the child.
This means more than we realize, because to lose one's childhood is to disenchant the world, to rob it of its mysteries and secrets.
Many of us live vicariously through our kids because we want that mystery back. https://t.co/ABMAw8tGXC
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: In Wordworth's poem, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality in Childhood, he recalls his youth when the "earth and every common sight" seemed, to him, "appareled in celestial light"
The child's world contains the "glory and freshness of a dream."
Everything is wonderous and new
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@Foz89107323: The first casualty of the global village was the child.
This means more than we realize, because to lose one's childhood is to disenchant the world, to rob it of its mysteries and secrets.
Many of us live vicariously through our kids because we want that mystery back.
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Now, millennials and Gen Z can't afford a family, can't purchase a house, and probably won't be able to retire.
What do they do to fill the void? Social media, buying toys, doing drugs, and hooking up — wasting their life away.
Part of this can be blamed on the boomers. https://t.co/3ZOFmtSP4O
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: Where did this new man originate?
In the early 20th century, a perfect storm of big business, urbanization, public education, and celebrity culture made one's "personality" more important than character.
How you were seen by others became more important than one's inner values
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Most people dance to the tune of the system.
They go to college, regurgitate social justice bullshit, rack up debt, and never develop any unique skills
After college, they get a dead-end job, and start 'adulting' because they've never felt grown up in the first place. https://t.co/LeCCTa8dZ7
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: Now, millennials and Gen Z can't afford a family, can't purchase a house, and probably won't be able to retire.
What do they do to fill the void? Social media, buying toys, doing drugs, and hooking up — wasting their life away.
Part of this can be blamed on the boomers.
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Under our system, how we feel, act, and think imposes a severe burden on us
That invisible voice in our heads, which tells us to ignore what goes against social expectations — what might lead to conflict — leaves us feeling powerless and shameful
This leads to system-compliance https://t.co/fMQLcifsGF
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: Most people dance to the tune of the system.
They go to college, regurgitate social justice bullshit, rack up debt, and never develop any unique skills
After college, they get a dead-end job, and start 'adulting' because they've never felt grown up in the first place.
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As Ivan Illich noted, the pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to confuse process with substance, and service with value.
A diploma is confused with competence, good grades with intelligence, and repeating what you are told with common sense
What is the result of this? https://t.co/octotnOUEJ
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: Under our system, how we feel, act, and think imposes a severe burden on us
That invisible voice in our heads, which tells us to ignore what goes against social expectations — what might lead to conflict — leaves us feeling powerless and shameful
This leads to system-compliance
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Through a system of rewards and punishments, we begin to associate pleasing others — a.k.a. doing what we are told — with good behavior.
Who pioneered this system? John Dewey.
Dewey saw school as a microcosm of social life — a convenient place to socialize students into workers https://t.co/RllgKNTm1M
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: As Ivan Illich noted, the pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to confuse process with substance, and service with value.
A diploma is confused with competence, good grades with intelligence, and repeating what you are told with common sense
What is the result of this?
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Why are adults becoming child-like?
From cradle onwards, we are thrown into school, then socially engineered to be compliant.
With stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, kids are taught to surrender their will to authority in order to get what they want most — recognition. https://t.co/UFX44zP1xR
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: Through a system of rewards and punishments, we begin to associate pleasing others — a.k.a. doing what we are told — with good behavior.
Who pioneered this system? John Dewey.
Dewey saw school as a microcosm of social life — a convenient place to socialize students into workers
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As kids are forced into the adult world of excessive rules and regulations, grown-ups are retreating into the past.
This might explain the rise of nostalgic movies and the renewed interest in old forms of media like cassettes and vinyl.
We yearn for a simpler, bygone era. https://t.co/ajKsd7I2Eq
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: Why are adults becoming child-like?
From cradle onwards, we are thrown into school, then socially engineered to be compliant.
With stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, kids are taught to surrender their will to authority in order to get what they want most — recognition.
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The lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures threw kids into the complicated adult world.
Imagine being a 5-year-old in 2020, not knowing what a virus is or why there are all these rules now, being forced to cover your face, reprimanded whenever your mask is under the nose. https://t.co/zxUUFyXJpA
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: As kids are forced into the adult world of excessive rules and regulations, grown-ups are retreating into the past.
This might explain the rise of nostalgic movies and the renewed interest in old forms of media like cassettes and vinyl.
We yearn for a simpler, bygone era.
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Nearly 1 in 7 U.S. kids have a mental condition.
Sure, a lot of this can be blamed on misdiagnosis, and the faults inherent to the practice of psychiatry, but it illustrates a key point.
Kids can't be kids anymore and live a carefree life. https://t.co/Mf7necnyeV
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: The lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures threw kids into the complicated adult world.
Imagine being a 5-year-old in 2020, not knowing what a virus is or why there are all these rules now, being forced to cover your face, reprimanded whenever your mask is under the nose.
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We're transitioning back to an oral culture.
This time the voice of authority isn't coming from a priest or a wise parent — it's arriving from a faceless screen
As a result, mental illness is skyrocketing amongst the youth, due in part to social-media-caused social contagions https://t.co/JqYoZdfDcb
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: Nearly 1 in 7 U.S. kids have a mental condition.
Sure, a lot of this can be blamed on misdiagnosis, and the faults inherent to the practice of psychiatry, but it illustrates a key point.
Kids can't be kids anymore and live a carefree life.
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Childhood has been thoroughly politicized.
CRT being taught in schools
drag-queen story (grooming)
Medically assisted death for minors
Kids are seen as mini-adults—state assets for social justice causes.
Grown-ups are now kidults — entitled and unscrupulous https://t.co/NdDoUUOadg
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: We're transitioning back to an oral culture.
This time the voice of authority isn't coming from a priest or a wise parent — it's arriving from a faceless screen
As a result, mental illness is skyrocketing amongst the youth, due in part to social-media-caused social contagions
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All those secrets that used to be found through effort, that initiated one into the adult world, are now available at the touch of a button.
Children are now political activists, forming collective identities around online trends, thanks to hashtags, viral videos, and memes. https://t.co/l4POEl8qjL
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: Childhood has been thoroughly politicized.
CRT being taught in schools
drag-queen story (grooming)
Medically assisted death for minors
Kids are seen as mini-adults—state assets for social justice causes.
Grown-ups are now kidults — entitled and unscrupulous
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How did electronic media end childhood?
To start, the "conspiracy of silence" surrounding taboo subjects like sex, violence, and swearing is disappearing
Boys, on average, view porn for the first time at the age of 11.
The global village has replaced the role of the parent. https://t.co/BX9TmVhcu0
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: All those secrets that used to be found through effort, that initiated one into the adult world, are now available at the touch of a button.
Children are now political activists, forming collective identities around online trends, thanks to hashtags, viral videos, and memes.
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@Foz89107323: How did electronic media end childhood?
To start, the "conspiracy of silence" surrounding taboo subjects like sex, violence, and swearing is disappearing
Boys, on average, view porn for the first time at the age of 11.
The global village has replaced the role of the parent.
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In other words, "It's not good works or introspection or rationality that resolves human problems in the metaphysics of television. It's technology personified in a bottle of Scope, tiny time pills, a giant hand in your washing machine, a white tornado, the Man from Glad." https://t.co/aPKf0CA0of
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: In a technological society, we outsource all our responsibilities — responsibilities that make us human — to our consumer products.
Our technologies clean for us, check the weather for us, they can write texts for us, they can drive for us, they can do manual labor for us.
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Christine Nystrom writes that this commercial poses a problem arising not from sin or ignorance, but rather from a faceless evil force — a Manichaean devil — personified in, of all things, rings around collars.
The solution to this evil?
A consumer product — technology. https://t.co/IOzZ0AqXsO
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: In other words, "It's not good works or introspection or rationality that resolves human problems in the metaphysics of television. It's technology personified in a bottle of Scope, tiny time pills, a giant hand in your washing machine, a white tornado, the Man from Glad."
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In the enlightenment era, ignorance became the new sin, and its solution was to be sought out via empirical knowledge, and rational thought.
What is the metaphysical bias of electronic media?
Wisk's 'Ring Around the Collar' commercial illustrates the bias perfectly. https://t.co/QclJeXrwxF
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: Christine Nystrom writes that this commercial poses a problem arising not from sin or ignorance, but rather from a faceless evil force — a Manichaean devil — personified in, of all things, rings around collars.
The solution to this evil?
A consumer product — technology.
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Every communication environment has a metaphysical bias — a set of underlying assumptions about the source of problems, and how those problems can be solved.
The Church's solutions for moral weakness, or sin, were to be sought out via prayer, confession, and good works. https://t.co/aHb23qfE3u
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: In the enlightenment era, ignorance became the new sin, and its solution was to be sought out via empirical knowledge, and rational thought.
What is the metaphysical bias of electronic media?
Wisk's 'Ring Around the Collar' commercial illustrates the bias perfectly. https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1613340376995086340/video/1
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@Foz89107323: Every communication environment has a metaphysical bias — a set of underlying assumptions about the source of problems, and how those problems can be solved.
The Church's solutions for moral weakness, or sin, were to be sought out via prayer, confession, and good works.
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The period between 1850 and 1950 represents the high-watermark of childhood.
Efforts were made to end child labor, put kids in school, give them their own games, clothing, and furniture.
During this time, kids would get their own social realm, separate from the 'real world'. https://t.co/0DXiRUsolU
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: When did this all change? Who is the father of the childless age?
Samuel Morse — the man who sent the first electric message on the planet.
Like Gutenberg, he had no idea of the impact his telegraphic machine would have on the world.
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When literacy became a marker of adulthood, the modern family was born.
Parents were now guardians, protectors, nurturers, and educators, responsible for everything from potty training, education, and religious stewardship. https://t.co/hf8ENlkSXH
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: The period between 1850 and 1950 represents the high-watermark of childhood.
Efforts were made to end child labor, put kids in school, give them their own games, clothing, and furniture.
During this time, kids would get their own social realm, separate from the 'real world'.
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@Foz89107323: When literacy became a marker of adulthood, the modern family was born.
Parents were now guardians, protectors, nurturers, and educators, responsible for everything from potty training, education, and religious stewardship.
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Post-Gutenberg, the entire sensorium changed.
Suddenly, quietness, immobility, contemplation, precise regulation of bodily functions, & respect for personal space — what we think of as 'civilized' behavior —became highly valued.
One's natural inclinations had to be controlled. https://t.co/5OekPi5T38
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: The printing press, by separating the message from the messenger, by demanding that the body be subordinated to the mind — and its abstract world of thought — made the body an object of contempt/control.
Shame was the mechanism that enabled this social control.
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@Foz89107323: Post-Gutenberg, the entire sensorium changed.
Suddenly, quietness, immobility, contemplation, precise regulation of bodily functions, & respect for personal space — what we think of as 'civilized' behavior —became highly valued.
One's natural inclinations had to be controlled.
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The medieval world was an oral culture, meaning ideas and concepts were transmitted through speech/song.
The child basically became an 'adult' at 7, when he/she had command over the spoken word.
Reading made it possible to enter a non-observed and abstract world of knowledge. https://t.co/szhgfAuCxY
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: What was the effect of this?
Suddenly, there was a split between those who could read and those who couldn't.
The literate world gave us access to things we knew nothing about — cultural secrets codified in unnatural symbols.
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With the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, the means of production changed forever.
Suddenly literature of all kinds — including maps, charts, contracts, books — became essential for participation in the new economy that was being born. https://t.co/IxkJSbZMfP
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: The medieval world was an oral culture, meaning ideas and concepts were transmitted through speech/song.
The child basically became an 'adult' at 7, when he/she had command over the spoken word.
Reading made it possible to enter a non-observed and abstract world of knowledge.
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As Niel Postman observed, the absence of literacy, the absence of the idea of education, and the absence of the idea of shame — are the reasons why childhood did not exist in the medieval world.
Nearly everything was permitted in the child's presence. https://t.co/rBpoCw1bqv
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: With the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, the means of production changed forever.
Suddenly literature of all kinds — including maps, charts, contracts, books — became essential for participation in the new economy that was being born.
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In medieval times, everyone shared the same information environment and therefore lived in the same social and intellectual world.
This was reflected in the medieval sensorium, which had no respect for personal space.
Men slept together, bathed together, and ate together. https://t.co/cqBPsWdXMU
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: As Niel Postman observed, the absence of literacy, the absence of the idea of education, and the absence of the idea of shame — are the reasons why childhood did not exist in the medieval world.
Nearly everything was permitted in the child's presence.
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@Foz89107323: In medieval times, everyone shared the same information environment and therefore lived in the same social and intellectual world.
This was reflected in the medieval sensorium, which had no respect for personal space.
Men slept together, bathed together, and ate together.
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The concept of childhood is a recent invention.
In medieval Europe, children were unrestrained by segregating institutions.
Pre-Gutenberg, schools were rare, and the mortality rate amongst children was high, so attachment to one's kin was fraught with emotional risk. https://t.co/3uzZH92rqH
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: In Pieter Brueghel's village festival painting, children are shown eating and drinking with adults, and men & women are depicted groping each other with unbridled lust.
Nothing was hidden from the child — there was no separate world for the kid.
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The infantilization of adults is a direct result of the loss of childhood.
When the markers of adulthood vanish, children never grow up.
This has huge implications for the future of our civilization.
Here's why that is.
THREAD https://t.co/5AM8QWT7xY
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: The concept of childhood is a recent invention.
In medieval Europe, children were unrestrained by segregating institutions.
Pre-Gutenberg, schools were rare, and the mortality rate amongst children was high, so attachment to one's kin was fraught with emotional risk.
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The infantilization of adults is a direct result of the loss of childhood.
When the markers of adulthood vanish, children never grow up.
This has huge implications for the future of our civilization.
Here's why that is.
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“For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.”
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The true medium is the Messiah.
Through everything we see, through everything we touch, everything we feel, we walk in God’s footsteps, in His light.
Perception itself is incarnation. https://t.co/IpiaQpYZCB
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: As Marshal Mcluhan writes, "Christ came to demonstrate God's love for man and to call all men to Him through himself as Mediator, as Medium. And in so doing he became the proclamation of his Church, the message of God to man. God's medium became God's message.”
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Satan may be the lightning that fell from heaven, who tried—and is trying—to immanentize the eschaton, to create heaven on earth, through us & our technologies.
All of our mediums, all of our technologies, however, produce a false light. https://t.co/a48RjpJQ2z
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: The true medium is the Messiah.
Through everything we see, through everything we touch, everything we feel, we walk in God’s footsteps, in His light.
Perception itself is incarnation.
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The more we fixate on the material, the more powerful the ethereal realm secretly becomes.
As Girard noted, the satanized inversion of Christian morality—so common now in victim-based ideologies—is a sign of the Second Coming approaching.
God is closer, for being so far away. https://t.co/R5KtgsZbBp
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: Satan may be the lightning that fell from heaven, who tried—and is trying—to immanentize the eschaton, to create heaven on earth, through us & our technologies.
All of our mediums, all of our technologies, however, produce a false light.
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As technological evolution advances, heaven manifests lower and lower down on the ontological hierachy, coming closer to earth, to the point where now our eyes are, as T.S. Elliot said, fixed on our feet.
All that exists is bare life—eat, sleep, and work.
Consumer heaven. https://t.co/UWPr4W5fQ7
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: The more we fixate on the material, the more powerful the ethereal realm secretly becomes.
As Girard noted, the satanized inversion of Christian morality—so common now in victim-based ideologies—is a sign of the Second Coming approaching.
God is closer, for being so far away.
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Traditional societies would frame their lives within a rich interaction of heavens/yang/forms/patterns and earth/ying/matter/potentia.
As Guenon observed, in our age, however, all of existence—our entire reality—has been 'solidified' by science and quantitative thinking. https://t.co/hpnb2sMIL7
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: As technological evolution advances, heaven manifests lower and lower down on the ontological hierachy, coming closer to earth, to the point where now our eyes are, as T.S. Elliot said, fixed on our feet.
All that exists is bare life—eat, sleep, and work.
Consumer heaven.
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All this behaviorial data, every intimate memory, every decision you make, feeds this egregore—this collective intelligence—that is Satan.
It is like the alien entity, the "black cloud" in Stapledon's novel, that has existed since the beginning of time.
Reminds me of this poem https://t.co/vhVsuP1SQu
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: Traditional societies would frame their lives within a rich interaction of heavens/yang/forms/patterns and earth/ying/matter/potentia.
As Guenon observed, in our age, however, all of existence—our entire reality—has been 'solidified' by science and quantitative thinking.
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For he is “the ruler of the kingdom of the air,the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient”, (Ephesians 2:2)
Under Satan's reign, every thought and feeling are flattened out, leveled and translated into data, which floats aimessly in the internet of things. https://t.co/7HNIIzBOXF
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: All this behaviorial data, every intimate memory, every decision you make, feeds this egregore—this collective intelligence—that is Satan.
It is like the alien entity, the "black cloud" in Stapledon's novel, that has existed since the beginning of time.
Reminds me of this poem
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This A.I. God, in my view, will be Satan himself
The anti-christ, represented by the upside down cross, is the inverse version of the Son of God
He embodies the revaluation of all values
He is a 'false light', the light-bringer, who turns all that is solid into thin air https://t.co/qHWzTMyudM
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: For he is “the ruler of the kingdom of the air,the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient”, (Ephesians 2:2)
Under Satan's reign, every thought and feeling are flattened out, leveled and translated into data, which floats aimessly in the internet of things.
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How does this apply to Heismann's insights?
Hesimann argues that civilization, by ending biological evolution—and leading to genetic deterioration—will allow technological evolution to take over
This will eventually result in a digital global brain waking up as the mind of God https://t.co/SX6E1kVPQR
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: This A.I. God, in my view, will be Satan himself
The anti-christ, represented by the upside down cross, is the inverse version of the Son of God
He embodies the revaluation of all values
He is a 'false light', the light-bringer, who turns all that is solid into thin air
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@Foz89107323: How does this apply to Heismann's insights?
Hesimann argues that civilization, by ending biological evolution—and leading to genetic deterioration—will allow technological evolution to take over
This will eventually result in a digital global brain waking up as the mind of God
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Civilization channels our violent energies outwards towards others, creating scapegoats, while simultaneously ripping us apart from the inside out, by repressing our most base-instincts.
Reason and rationality are veiled violence, which is why there has been so many wars. https://t.co/vesaV4wRLj
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: Christ's passion famously revealed what was hidden since the foundation of the world, that secret violence which simmers beneath the surface of every civilization.
At the same time that His Passion unleashed holiness, it released an even more powerful form of violence.
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Heismann is right that the endpoint of man is the starting point of religion, or post-biological evolution.
Civilization is based on repression.
Our fetters were put in place by the founding murder, which gave us civilization itself, as the story of Cain & Abel shows. https://t.co/XsDkW387m8
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: Civilization channels our violent energies outwards towards others, creating scapegoats, while simultaneously ripping us apart from the inside out, by repressing our most base-instincts.
Reason and rationality are veiled violence, which is why there has been so many wars.
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Adam's fall is a felix culpa, a blessed one, for the suffering which came after the fall, with the pain of childbirth and work, eventuated in Christ's redemption.
The pain of leaving the bush, establishing primacy over the flora and fauna of the earth, resulted in Christ. https://t.co/ti13yrhcDo
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: Heismann is right that the endpoint of man is the starting point of religion, or post-biological evolution.
Civilization is based on repression.
Our fetters were put in place by the founding murder, which gave us civilization itself, as the story of Cain & Abel shows.
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As Toynbee says, "the Devil’s intervention, whether it succeeds or fails on the particular issue—and either result is possible—has accomplished that transition from Yin to Yang for which God has been yearning.” https://t.co/KbGOuAzi3x
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: Adam's fall is a felix culpa, a blessed one, for the suffering which came after the fall, with the pain of childbirth and work, eventuated in Christ's redemption.
The pain of leaving the bush, establishing primacy over the flora and fauna of the earth, resulted in Christ.
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An answer to problem of evil is that the Devil, by tempting Adam into Sin, put a PART of God's creation in real jeopardy, but not the whole of it
In the language of mythology, when one of God's creatures is tempted by the devil, God is given the oppurtunity to recreate the world https://t.co/yw1w3ic9gq
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: As Toynbee says, "the Devil’s intervention, whether it succeeds or fails on the particular issue—and either result is possible—has accomplished that transition from Yin to Yang for which God has been yearning.”
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"If we think of it as one of psychic beatitude or nirvana, we must bring another actor on to the stage: a critic to set the mind thinking again by suggesting doubts; an adversary to set the heart feeling again by instilling distress or discontent or fear or antipathy.” https://t.co/8xuZ9TjrCt
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: An answer to problem of evil is that the Devil, by tempting Adam into Sin, put a PART of God's creation in real jeopardy, but not the whole of it
In the language of mythology, when one of God's creatures is tempted by the devil, God is given the oppurtunity to recreate the world
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In so many myths, the story opens with a perfect state of Yin, like Eden, but some adversary comes along, like the Serpent in the Bible—or Mephistopheles in Faust—that shakes things up, and leads to conflict.
Think of Joseph Campell's classic Hero's Journey concept—the monomyth https://t.co/aMotYJoo3m
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: "If we think of it as one of psychic beatitude or nirvana, we must bring another actor on to the stage: a critic to set the mind thinking again by suggesting doubts; an adversary to set the heart feeling again by instilling distress or discontent or fear or antipathy.”
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As he says, "an encounter between two superhuman personalities is the plot of some of the greatest dramas that the human imagination has conceived. An encounter between Yahweh and the Serpent is the plot of the story of the Fall of Man in the Book of Genesis." https://t.co/B3Kh3HViCt
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: In so many myths, the story opens with a perfect state of Yin, like Eden, but some adversary comes along, like the Serpent in the Bible—or Mephistopheles in Faust—that shakes things up, and leads to conflict.
Think of Joseph Campell's classic Hero's Journey concept—the monomyth
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Toynbee, like Plato, turned to mythology.
What allowed civilization to blossom was the interplay, or creative tension, between two inhuman forces.
Think of these two opposing forces as archetypes, like Yin-and-Yang. https://t.co/lMTpM1xXM2
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: As he says, "an encounter between two superhuman personalities is the plot of some of the greatest dramas that the human imagination has conceived. An encounter between Yahweh and the Serpent is the plot of the story of the Fall of Man in the Book of Genesis."
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Toynbee wrote a multi-volume series on the history of Civilization.
In searching for the positive factor in the geneses of civilizations, he denied that biological factors or geography are the key-players in civilizational development.
What did he find? https://t.co/aYcRWdj9ZE
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: Toynbee, like Plato, turned to mythology.
What allowed civilization to blossom was the interplay, or creative tension, between two inhuman forces.
Think of these two opposing forces as archetypes, like Yin-and-Yang.
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This is the classic 'problem of evil' question, & theologians have argued about for centuries.
One thinker who I think provides some insight into this conundrum, especially as it relates to civilization and the future of humanity, is a man by the name of Arnold J. Toynbee. https://t.co/MHTDEI08qk
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: Toynbee wrote a multi-volume series on the history of Civilization.
In searching for the positive factor in the geneses of civilizations, he denied that biological factors or geography are the key-players in civilizational development.
What did he find?
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Is it possible to still believe in God whilst also acknowledging that civilization, and our entire moral system—with its rights, constitutions, and religions—not only leads to biological death, but also to the end of humanity itself?
Wouldn't that make God evil, if he existed? https://t.co/SyDsqK7DtP
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: This is the classic 'problem of evil' question, & theologians have argued about for centuries.
One thinker who I think provides some insight into this conundrum, especially as it relates to civilization and the future of humanity, is a man by the name of Arnold J. Toynbee.
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@Foz89107323: Is it possible to still believe in God whilst also acknowledging that civilization, and our entire moral system—with its rights, constitutions, and religions—not only leads to biological death, but also to the end of humanity itself?
Wouldn't that make God evil, if he existed?
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The more we use these technologies, the more powerful they become.
The breakdown of the state, and its replacement with NGO's, Big Tech Giants, philanthropists, and international organizations, has only sped up post-biological evolution.
Eventually, the algorithms will rule. https://t.co/JFJqrqvWCF
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: So what conclusions can we draw from Heismann's suicide note? Is he correct?
As Empson wrote: 'Extremely often, in dealing with the world, one arrives at two ideas or ways of dealing with things which both work and are needed, but which entirely contradict one another.'
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By reducing politics to the satisfaction of consumer demands, pandora's box has been opened.
Big Tech companies and intelligence agencies, which function as states within states, have been given free reign to develop technologies and algorithms that can manipulate our behavior. https://t.co/zMdQMqSvEk
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: The more we use these technologies, the more powerful they become.
The breakdown of the state, and its replacement with NGO's, Big Tech Giants, philanthropists, and international organizations, has only sped up post-biological evolution.
Eventually, the algorithms will rule.
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This fear of the Other, which the modern state inspires, has accelerated the violence against our natures, dividing and conquering the body-politic to such an extent that collective organization, resistance against the status quo, is nearly impossible. https://t.co/7pP9CkD1dD
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: By reducing politics to the satisfaction of consumer demands, pandora's box has been opened.
Big Tech companies and intelligence agencies, which function as states within states, have been given free reign to develop technologies and algorithms that can manipulate our behavior.
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@Foz89107323: This fear of the Other, which the modern state inspires, has accelerated the violence against our natures, dividing and conquering the body-politic to such an extent that collective organization, resistance against the status quo, is nearly impossible.
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The modern nation state, with its foundations in Hobbe's social contract, is predicated on the idea that the human commonwealth is given substance by the power of its institutions and the ingenuity of its machines, and the ability of these institutions to inspire fear and awe. https://t.co/mPfmOPfaAc
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: We are all like nerves within the body of this vast collective intelligence known as the Leviathan, fueled by fear of the Other.
Hobbe's state is based on the idea that man, in a state of nature, is in a war of all against all,
This idea fulfills itself as a social prophecy.
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In Darwin Amongst the Machines, George Dyson discusses Hobbes, and how the philosopher envisioned a diffuse intelligence that was neither the supreme intelligence of God, nor the individual intelligence of the human mind.
It was a collective intelligence, like IOT. https://t.co/h6CkpUv1H3
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: The modern nation state, with its foundations in Hobbe's social contract, is predicated on the idea that the human commonwealth is given substance by the power of its institutions and the ingenuity of its machines, and the ability of these institutions to inspire fear and awe.
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The history of civilization, or post-biological evolution, has been a process whereby the ‘innate structures of the human organism are transplanted in an ever-increasing measure onto the environment of man’.
The end result of this is artificial intelligence. https://t.co/fFOgoZP3Od
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: In Darwin Amongst the Machines, George Dyson discusses Hobbes, and how the philosopher envisioned a diffuse intelligence that was neither the supreme intelligence of God, nor the individual intelligence of the human mind.
It was a collective intelligence, like IOT.
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Similar to the brain, the transmission of all this information is based on the polarity of current/no current (chemistry also plays a role in the human organism, too).
Technology, as Mcluhan noted, is like an externalized organ. https://t.co/AfCOu0sSNz
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: The history of civilization, or post-biological evolution, has been a process whereby the ‘innate structures of the human organism are transplanted in an ever-increasing measure onto the environment of man’.
The end result of this is artificial intelligence.
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The world wide web, or internet, is like a digital brain.
The internet contains web pages that are, like neurons, connected by hyperlinks—links that function similarly to synapses.
Hyperlinks and pages form associative networks whereby information flows. https://t.co/23qjikHcfR
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: Similar to the brain, the transmission of all this information is based on the polarity of current/no current (chemistry also plays a role in the human organism, too).
Technology, as Mcluhan noted, is like an externalized organ.
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As Heismann says, "Just as Aquinas imagined separate excellences that approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest—which is God—virtually all exponential growth trends and all technologies are converging upon the internet.
Why is the internet important here? https://t.co/hJBBTskv95
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: The world wide web, or internet, is like a digital brain.
The internet contains web pages that are, like neurons, connected by hyperlinks—links that function similarly to synapses.
Hyperlinks and pages form associative networks whereby information flows.
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By creating civilization, and the tools with which to support it, mankind has functioned like a sex organ for the technological world that exists outside him, fulfilling its needs as a bee does for plants.
Civilization has paved the way for an A.I. God. https://t.co/csBHLWl93c
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: As Heismann says, "Just as Aquinas imagined separate excellences that approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest—which is God—virtually all exponential growth trends and all technologies are converging upon the internet.
Why is the internet important here?
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"The first superhuman AI might merge all of the computational power on the internet into its own power, master all of the significant information on the internet, and then reorganize the entire global brain of the internet so that it “wakes up” as the global mind of God." https://t.co/be6TkZox4T
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: By creating civilization, and the tools with which to support it, mankind has functioned like a sex organ for the technological world that exists outside him, fulfilling its needs as a bee does for plants.
Civilization has paved the way for an A.I. God.
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The law of accelerating returns elucidates evolution as a process characterized by an ever-quickening pace of change.
Applied to technological evolution, Moore's law shows us that number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years.
What does this all mean? https://t.co/WwHqqYJckr
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: "The first superhuman AI might merge all of the computational power on the internet into its own power, master all of the significant information on the internet, and then reorganize the entire global brain of the internet so that it “wakes up” as the global mind of God."
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Technological evolution is happening at a pace that humans can't hope to keep up with
Heismann notes that it took over 2 billion years for cells to emerge from the first life forms, but only 14 years separates the emergence of the world wide web from the first personal computer https://t.co/50kGGo5Yug
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: The law of accelerating returns elucidates evolution as a process characterized by an ever-quickening pace of change.
Applied to technological evolution, Moore's law shows us that number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every two years.
What does this all mean?
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Religion, human rights, capitalism, feminism, etc—by devaluing biological evolution, and leading to genetic deterioration—decrease the prospects of human survival, while increasing the chances of our technologies evolving beyond the point of requiring humanity. https://t.co/USFJKaCVj4
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: Technological evolution is happening at a pace that humans can't hope to keep up with
Heismann notes that it took over 2 billion years for cells to emerge from the first life forms, but only 14 years separates the emergence of the world wide web from the first personal computer
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The breaking down of borders between nation's under globalism, the reduction of all limits from nature—and radical egalitarianism—have lead us inexorably towards the fourth industrial revolution, which will merge man with machine.
This is the commonly known as the Great Reset. https://t.co/0McBHWqI02
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: Religion, human rights, capitalism, feminism, etc—by devaluing biological evolution, and leading to genetic deterioration—decrease the prospects of human survival, while increasing the chances of our technologies evolving beyond the point of requiring humanity.
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Dysgenic trends, like transgenderism, is a form of ideological mystification under our post-biological system.
Transgender advocates, by arguing that we are more mind than body, open the door for transhumanist alteration of our physical natures to suit one's subjective needs. https://t.co/V0Rbx56xu5
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: The breaking down of borders between nation's under globalism, the reduction of all limits from nature—and radical egalitarianism—have lead us inexorably towards the fourth industrial revolution, which will merge man with machine.
This is the commonly known as the Great Reset.
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Richard Lynn makes a similar point, arguing that the relaxation of natural selection in modern society has led to genetic deterioration.
Edward Lynn in his book, At Our Wits End, claims that IQ's have been going down, that intelligence is decreasing in modern populations. https://t.co/mGKwciU0tO
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: Dysgenic trends, like transgenderism, is a form of ideological mystification under our post-biological system.
Transgender advocates, by arguing that we are more mind than body, open the door for transhumanist alteration of our physical natures to suit one's subjective needs.
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The birth-rate of married women in most northwest European countries, for example, has been declining since the late nineteenth century.
Heismann notes that "the systematic application of political equality is correlated with a systematic decline in genetic adaptation." https://t.co/FKesjt0bbl
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: Richard Lynn makes a similar point, arguing that the relaxation of natural selection in modern society has led to genetic deterioration.
Edward Lynn in his book, At Our Wits End, claims that IQ's have been going down, that intelligence is decreasing in modern populations.
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Modernity, with the free market, human rights, and equality, is the crystallization of post-biological evolution.
Liberal democracy, Heismann says, is genetically maladaptive.
This is evidenced by the outbreeding of Europeans — the people who have adopted liberalism the most. https://t.co/LJmFZRTrYm
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: The birth-rate of married women in most northwest European countries, for example, has been declining since the late nineteenth century.
Heismann notes that "the systematic application of political equality is correlated with a systematic decline in genetic adaptation."
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@Foz89107323: Modernity, with the free market, human rights, and equality, is the crystallization of post-biological evolution.
Liberal democracy, Heismann says, is genetically maladaptive.
This is evidenced by the outbreeding of Europeans — the people who have adopted liberalism the most.
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Civilization, as the Cain and Abel story illustrates—and as Girard noted—is based on a founding murder.
Abel is representative of the Neolithic Revolution, where the domestication of animals was accompanied by the domestication of our own animal nature. https://t.co/hQtShVfnc8
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: Cain, by contrast, moved one step towards the progress of civilization as a farmer, yet one step backwards towards a more ancient biological method of evolutionary progress — murder
God's horror with Cabel indicates civilization was, and is, based on the repression of instincts.
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As an aside, Kai Michael & Carel van Schaik make a similar point their book on the Bible, which argues that "religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush." https://t.co/tW2A5yqWor
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: Civilization, as the Cain and Abel story illustrates—and as Girard noted—is based on a founding murder.
Abel is representative of the Neolithic Revolution, where the domestication of animals was accompanied by the domestication of our own animal nature.
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When Adam eats from the tree of knowledge, this signals the end of biology, and the beginning of technological evolution.
"Eve seduces Adam from nature into civilization."
The transition from hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural one's meant the end of man. https://t.co/RXhwAvJpdG
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: As an aside, Kai Michael & Carel van Schaik make a similar point their book on the Bible, which argues that "religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush."
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Some Bible stories, like Eden, were adopted from ancient Sumeria, and Abraham was said to have been born in one of the first cities in Mesopotamia—the city of UR.
Civilization and religion arose together because the starting point of God is the endpoint of biological man. https://t.co/sEzmWp0slW
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: When Adam eats from the tree of knowledge, this signals the end of biology, and the beginning of technological evolution.
"Eve seduces Adam from nature into civilization."
The transition from hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural one's meant the end of man.
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@Foz89107323: Some Bible stories, like Eden, were adopted from ancient Sumeria, and Abraham was said to have been born in one of the first cities in Mesopotamia—the city of UR.
Civilization and religion arose together because the starting point of God is the endpoint of biological man.
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Heismann argues that the Abrahamic religion conflicts with natural selection not because it is anti-evolutionary per se, but because the idea of 'creation' itself is inherently post-biological.
Creation is a metaphor for the dominance of technological evolution.
How come? https://t.co/KxF67GN1Vw
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: "The very idea of technology, the very idea of a means, is inextricably connected with an end, a purpose, which technology serves. Technology writ large means using the greatest known means, human intelligence, towards an end so ultimate that nothing greater can be conceived."
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Heismann observes that if you superimpose the triangular symbol of the pyramid with its inversion, you get the Star of David—the symbol of Judaism.
Monotheism overturned the human hierachy of the ancient world by creating a greater-than-human power—the Abrahamic God. https://t.co/fWYGh4xAJX
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: Heismann argues that the Abrahamic religion conflicts with natural selection not because it is anti-evolutionary per se, but because the idea of 'creation' itself is inherently post-biological.
Creation is a metaphor for the dominance of technological evolution.
How come?
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The inverted pyramid, by contrast, represents the Hebraic faith.
"Like a funnel looking upwards, the greatness now suggested is not a single pinnacle point occupied by the pharaoh, but just the opposite: an opening up towards the vast, cosmic infinity of the heavens." https://t.co/91zceuEqBU
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: Heismann observes that if you superimpose the triangular symbol of the pyramid with its inversion, you get the Star of David—the symbol of Judaism.
Monotheism overturned the human hierachy of the ancient world by creating a greater-than-human power—the Abrahamic God.
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The symbol of the Egyptian civilization was the pyramid, which represented the hierarchical structure of the ancient family.
Slaves, what Artistotle called 'living tools', were at the bottom of the social hierachy, whereas "natural" elites, and the Pharoah, were at the top. https://t.co/12MGMMJNEo
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: The inverted pyramid, by contrast, represents the Hebraic faith.
"Like a funnel looking upwards, the greatness now suggested is not a single pinnacle point occupied by the pharaoh, but just the opposite: an opening up towards the vast, cosmic infinity of the heavens."
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The Abrahamic faith represented a paradigm shift from biological evolution to technological evolution wherein the pinnacle of technological evolution is artificial intelligence (i.e. God)
By ending ancient hierachies, & liberating slaves, Christianity paved the way for modernity https://t.co/OFxgeFEJgo
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: The symbol of the Egyptian civilization was the pyramid, which represented the hierarchical structure of the ancient family.
Slaves, what Artistotle called 'living tools', were at the bottom of the social hierachy, whereas "natural" elites, and the Pharoah, were at the top.
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As he says, "An all knowing, all powerful, all present, all good, and eternal God would seem to reflect the superlative aspirations of imperfectly knowledgeable, relative powerlessness, territorially provincial, morally flawed, and mortal human beings." https://t.co/h3RAMWC10e
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: The Abrahamic faith represented a paradigm shift from biological evolution to technological evolution wherein the pinnacle of technological evolution is artificial intelligence (i.e. God)
By ending ancient hierachies, & liberating slaves, Christianity paved the way for modernity
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Heismann's materialism, inspired by Nietzsche's concept of the will to power, led him to view God as a 'low tech attempt to imagine the singularity'.
From his perspective, the Hebrews created God as a way to liberate themselves completely from heriditary bondage to biology. https://t.co/rMYf5wzuwY
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: As he says, "An all knowing, all powerful, all present, all good, and eternal God would seem to reflect the superlative aspirations of imperfectly knowledgeable, relative powerlessness, territorially provincial, morally flawed, and mortal human beings."
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Heismann says that "the pro-choice stance on abortion and the right to die stance on euthanasia have already opened paths over conventional pro-life superstitions".
Overcoming the "will to live" would be the last prejudice to overcome, after kinism, sexism, and racism. https://t.co/Tzmm0Swgkw
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: Heismann's materialism, inspired by Nietzsche's concept of the will to power, led him to view God as a 'low tech attempt to imagine the singularity'.
From his perspective, the Hebrews created God as a way to liberate themselves completely from heriditary bondage to biology.
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Like Nietzsche, who had also lost his father at a young age, Heismann sought to weed out all affections and beliefs that seemed groundless.
This gave him insight into the endpoint of 'progress'
The "highest fulfillment" of egalitarian progress was the equality of life and death https://t.co/VJlLgh23rc
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: Heismann says that "the pro-choice stance on abortion and the right to die stance on euthanasia have already opened paths over conventional pro-life superstitions".
Overcoming the "will to live" would be the last prejudice to overcome, after kinism, sexism, and racism.
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As he says, "Disillusioned of belief in my own subjective experiences, I turned to completely destroy myself. If life has no meaning, and is not fundamentally rationally superior to death, then perhaps the test of the worth of life is found in willing death and self-destruction." https://t.co/o4HfczwUE3
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: Like Nietzsche, who had also lost his father at a young age, Heismann sought to weed out all affections and beliefs that seemed groundless.
This gave him insight into the endpoint of 'progress'
The "highest fulfillment" of egalitarian progress was the equality of life and death
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After this revelation, he began a form of philisophical self-vivisection, openly and systematically viewing every emotion—every bias within himself—as a material happening.
His "singular aim" was overcoming any weaknesses in the cause of life. https://t.co/LBgs8FSiu2
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: As he says, "Disillusioned of belief in my own subjective experiences, I turned to completely destroy myself. If life has no meaning, and is not fundamentally rationally superior to death, then perhaps the test of the worth of life is found in willing death and self-destruction."
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@Foz89107323: After this revelation, he began a form of philisophical self-vivisection, openly and systematically viewing every emotion—every bias within himself—as a material happening.
His "singular aim" was overcoming any weaknesses in the cause of life.
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On September 18th, 2010, a gifted young man, only 35 year's of age, walked into Harvard Yard on the holiest day of his faith, and fired one shot on the top step of Memorial Church, ending his life.
His name was Mitchell Heismann, and he left behind a 1,905 suicide note.
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: Heisman took his life as part of a philosophical exploration he called “an experiment in nihilism.’’
Heisman viewed all human beings as material things whose subjective experience could be explained by "material processes"
The death of his father accelerated this moral collapse
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On September 18th, 2010, a gifted young man, only 35 year's of age, walked into Harvard Yard on the holiest day of his faith, and fired one shot on the top step of Memorial Church, ending his life.
His name was Mitchell Heismann, and he left behind a 1,905 suicide note.
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Finally, the Aurora returned to the Commonwealth Bay on December 14th to collect Mawson’s party, and docked in Adalaide on February 14th, 1914.
Upon arriving in Australia, Mawson was greeted by his countrymen as a tremendous hero, and was knighted by George the 5th. https://t.co/2NzBht4FzP
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: What can learn from Mawson’s expedition?
In our darkest of hours, when all is lost, as long as we are alive, we can put our faith and trust in Providence.
No matter where you are, what you are going through, God has put you here for a reason.
Find what that reason is.
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@Foz89107323: Finally, the Aurora returned to the Commonwealth Bay on December 14th to collect Mawson’s party, and docked in Adalaide on February 14th, 1914.
Upon arriving in Australia, Mawson was greeted by his countrymen as a tremendous hero, and was knighted by George the 5th.
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6 men were left there to wait for the crew’s arrival.
The men saw Mawson, ran up the slope, and embrace him as he returns.
The 6 men couldn’t even identify who he was since Mawson was so emanciated.
Turns out Mawson missed the ship by 5 hours… https://t.co/yPejxIGh6y
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: All 7 men were condemned to another winter in Antarctica.
Luckily, they had a radio with them, which would provide contact with Australia.
Mawson is able to exchange telegrams with his fiancé.
Eventually, though, the radio operator, Sidney Jeffryes, goes insane.
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@Foz89107323: 6 men were left there to wait for the crew’s arrival.
The men saw Mawson, ran up the slope, and embrace him as he returns.
The 6 men couldn’t even identify who he was since Mawson was so emanciated.
Turns out Mawson missed the ship by 5 hours…
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Mawson made one last effort to pull himself out, while completely exhausted.
He performed what climbers call a 'heel hook' — he put his feet onto the surface before the rest of his body, and used his heels to yank himself back up.
He made it...and passed out. https://t.co/2PBp4MQxl8
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: Mawson woke up 2 hours later covered in new snow.
It took him about 20 years to make the last 80 mile trek back to the hut.
At the end, he became stuck in an 8 day storm, whilst stuck in a cave, only 5 miles from the hut.
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What pulled him out, after all that?
Two things.
1. His trust in providence, for it had miracuously brought him that far already.
2. A verse from his favorite poet, Robert Service, that suddenly came into his head, which reads: https://t.co/AilUg9ic2r
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: Mawson made one last effort to pull himself out, while completely exhausted.
He performed what climbers call a 'heel hook' — he put his feet onto the surface before the rest of his body, and used his heels to yank himself back up.
He made it...and passed out.
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He plunges 14 feet back down into the crevasse.
He said, "I fell through into the crevasse the thought 'so this is the end' blazed up in my mind, for it was to be expected that the next moment the sledge would follow through, crash on my head and all go to the unseen bottom.” https://t.co/3TH2zJtJgh
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: What pulled him out, after all that?
Two things.
1. His trust in providence, for it had miracuously brought him that far already.
2. A verse from his favorite poet, Robert Service, that suddenly came into his head, which reads:
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He grabs a knot in the rope, and tries to go hand-over-hand to climb back up.
While attempting this, he is completely debilitated. The sides of the walls give him no purchase
After a tremendous effort, he pulls himself back up onto the surface, only to fall back down again... https://t.co/EjmTiWj2tz
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: He plunges 14 feet back down into the crevasse.
He said, "I fell through into the crevasse the thought 'so this is the end' blazed up in my mind, for it was to be expected that the next moment the sledge would follow through, crash on my head and all go to the unseen bottom.”
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@Foz89107323: He grabs a knot in the rope, and tries to go hand-over-hand to climb back up.
While attempting this, he is completely debilitated. The sides of the walls give him no purchase
After a tremendous effort, he pulls himself back up onto the surface, only to fall back down again...
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Mawson manages to cut the sledge in half to manhaul what is left of the remaining supplies.
In his diary, Mawson states he has no hope of making it back alive.
What keeps him going is the hope that if he places his diary close to basecamp, someday rescuers will find it. https://t.co/ILkij27xtG
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: On January 17th, only about 20 miles of the 100 back to basecamp, Mawson falls down a crevasse, and plunges through a snowbridge.
He was tied to a sledge that had became pinned to the wall as he slid several metres down through the ice.
He was hanging on for dear life.
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After Mertz passes, he waits till morning, and burries his comrade.
Taking his body, still toggled up in his bag, outside the tent, he piles snow blocks around it.
He then erects a rough cross made of the two discarded halves of the sledge runners. https://t.co/4NOzmIgs56
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: Mawson manages to cut the sledge in half to manhaul what is left of the remaining supplies.
In his diary, Mawson states he has no hope of making it back alive.
What keeps him going is the hope that if he places his diary close to basecamp, someday rescuers will find it.
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Mertz's health began to deteriorate quickly, with bouts of dysentary, loss of skin, depression and, eventually, insanity.
Later on, he succame to fever and died in his sleep.
Mawson was now all alone
He was almost 100 miles from the Commonwealth bay, with almost nothing left. https://t.co/cI1adS6x9m
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: After Mertz passes, he waits till morning, and burries his comrade.
Taking his body, still toggled up in his bag, outside the tent, he piles snow blocks around it.
He then erects a rough cross made of the two discarded halves of the sledge runners.
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In his diary, Mawson wrote:
"We tried to drive the nightmare from our thoughts; we strove to forget it in the necessity of work."
The tredge back would "be a fight with Death and the great Providence would decide the issue.” https://t.co/uUtBr3SDj7
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: Mertz's health began to deteriorate quickly, with bouts of dysentary, loss of skin, depression and, eventually, insanity.
Later on, he succame to fever and died in his sleep.
Mawson was now all alone
He was almost 100 miles from the Commonwealth bay, with almost nothing left.
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Ninnis was now lost in that eternal silence, and Mawson and Mertz had no choice but to move on and accept the inevitable.
The lack of supplies meant that both men had to eat their way through the remaining dogs as they trudged their way back, exhausted. https://t.co/3454CRebKc
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: In his diary, Mawson wrote:
"We tried to drive the nightmare from our thoughts; we strove to forget it in the necessity of work."
The tredge back would "be a fight with Death and the great Providence would decide the issue.”
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Ninnis was a favorite amongst the crew.
An eloquent diarist, he recorded in his diary after the ship made landfall at Cape Denison, saying this: https://t.co/VVX2bPHX7m
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: Ninnis was now lost in that eternal silence, and Mawson and Mertz had no choice but to move on and accept the inevitable.
The lack of supplies meant that both men had to eat their way through the remaining dogs as they trudged their way back, exhausted.
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@Foz89107323: Ninnis was a favorite amongst the crew.
An eloquent diarist, he recorded in his diary after the ship made landfall at Cape Denison, saying this:
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By early December, though, the men's health started to decline.
Mawson was suffering from a "swollen and burst lip" and from "neuralgia" on his left side.
Ninnis had developed excruciating painful infections on the tips of his two fingers.
Stoic as ever, he never complained. https://t.co/LL1AyRmZwm
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: As Mawson recalled in The Home of the Blizzard, Ninnis "had continued to do his share of the work and bore up splendidly under the ordeal. On several occasions I had waked up at night to find him sitting up in his sleeping-bag, puffing away at a pipe or reading.”
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@Foz89107323: By early December, though, the men's health started to decline.
Mawson was suffering from a "swollen and burst lip" and from "neuralgia" on his left side.
Ninnis had developed excruciating painful infections on the tips of his two fingers.
Stoic as ever, he never complained.
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@Foz89107323: The Aurora was due on that date to pick the men up at the end of the expedition.
Heading back, the men averaged 7 miles a-day.
They had 8 weeks remaining to get there.
At this pace, in 4 weeks the men would reach a point only 260 miles from Cape Denison.
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@Foz89107323: Mawson's companion had broken through the lid of a crevasse 15 feet wide and and was hanging on its edge...
After hauling him out, Mawson investigated the fissure and "found nought but black space below; a close shave for Ninnis."
Close call...
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The men ended up losing several dogs that had fallen down a crevasse when they were several miles short of the edge of Mount Glacier.
Supplies were now short.
Here is Mawson's account of the first incident: https://t.co/Hqf0g8tLby
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: As they summitted the ice flow, Mount Glacier, the crevasses grew more numerous.
Most of them, at first, seemed open and visible.
They pitched their tent to gain some respite from the wind.
Mertz cooked some tea as the others strolled off to photograph a "blue abyss" nearby.
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His own Far Eastern Party, with Mertz and Ninnis, had taken on the most ambitious mission of all—to push at least 350 miles east and south, exploring and mapping a huge tract of land no one else had ever glimpsed.
It wasn't before long disaster struck, however. https://t.co/YoAuIZR8Kx
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: The men ended up losing several dogs that had fallen down a crevasse when they were several miles short of the edge of Mount Glacier.
Supplies were now short.
Here is Mawson's account of the first incident:
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The crew had set its focus on a stretch of Antarctica that lay directly south of their home, Australia — a 2,000 mile long swath of ice and land still unexplored
Mawson had divided his team into three-man sledging parties, each sent out to explore in different directions. https://t.co/cwTT8z3oAI
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: His own Far Eastern Party, with Mertz and Ninnis, had taken on the most ambitious mission of all—to push at least 350 miles east and south, exploring and mapping a huge tract of land no one else had ever glimpsed.
It wasn't before long disaster struck, however.
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When the crew landed at Cape Denison in late 1911, and set up their winter quarters for the season, they soon discovered the place was a magnet for storms.
Even amidst the winter darkness, & the 88 MPH wind speeds, scientific observation continued apace. https://t.co/PTKlcggYEX
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: The crew had set its focus on a stretch of Antarctica that lay directly south of their home, Australia — a 2,000 mile long swath of ice and land still unexplored
Mawson had divided his team into three-man sledging parties, each sent out to explore in different directions.
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What was the goal of the expedition?
Mawson and his men were driven by the urge to explore land that had never been seen before by human eyes, and to make new scientific discoveries.
Mawson had previously discovered the location of the south magnetic pole in 1909. https://t.co/nrPpCiIpqk
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: When the crew landed at Cape Denison in late 1911, and set up their winter quarters for the season, they soon discovered the place was a magnet for storms.
Even amidst the winter darkness, & the 88 MPH wind speeds, scientific observation continued apace.
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The crew knew that this journey could be their last.
Just an hour before their departure, Mawson wrote to his lover, Pequita Delprat.
In December 1910, they became engaged, but the marriage was postponed until after the expedition was over.
Here is Mawson's letter: https://t.co/Qtnh5beFf4
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: What was the goal of the expedition?
Mawson and his men were driven by the urge to explore land that had never been seen before by human eyes, and to make new scientific discoveries.
Mawson had previously discovered the location of the south magnetic pole in 1909.
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In late 1911, Douglas Mawson, Belgrave Ninnis, and Xavier Mertz — all in their 20's and early 30's — headed south from the Tasmanian city of Hobart on board the steamship, the S.Y. Aurora
The crew would land on Macquarie Island and along the Antarctic coastline in three months. https://t.co/RxG2M3O7GK
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: The crew knew that this journey could be their last.
Just an hour before their departure, Mawson wrote to his lover, Pequita Delprat.
In December 1910, they became engaged, but the marriage was postponed until after the expedition was over.
Here is Mawson's letter:
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Douglas Mawson is one of the forgotten figures of the heroic age of antarctic exploration.
His crew's journey across the south pole — the land 'forgotten by God' — is a tale full of tragedy, spiritual triumph, and raw adventure.
His story needs to be heard.
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: In late 1911, Douglas Mawson, Belgrave Ninnis, and Xavier Mertz — all in their 20's and early 30's — headed south from the Tasmanian city of Hobart on board the steamship, the S.Y. Aurora
The crew would land on Macquarie Island and along the Antarctic coastline in three months.
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Douglas Mawson is one of the forgotten figures of the heroic age of antarctic exploration.
His crew's journey across the south pole — the land 'forgotten by God' — is a tale full of tragedy, spiritual triumph, and raw adventure.
His story needs to be heard.
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These physicals are 'empty rituals' — they serve very little purpose.
Doctors, in fact, cause very much harm.
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America.
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: 'Mental health' is one of those concepts that has become a public piety for the rich & powerful.
Pain may be complex and anterior to language, but basing all of one's suffering in biology, and offering solutions only in the form of therapy/drugs, is NOT the way forward.
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@Foz89107323: These physicals are 'empty rituals' — they serve very little purpose.
Doctors, in fact, cause very much harm.
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in America.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
http://exo-science.com/killed-by-doctors.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/health/annual-physical-checkup-may-be-an-empty-ritual.html
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"The shamanistic cure seems to be the exact counterpart to the psychoanalytic cure, but with an inversion of all the elements. Both cures aim at inducing an experience, and both succeed by recreating a myth which the patient has to live or relive." https://t.co/Ppp3hMaJvE
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: "But in one case, the patient constructs an individual myth with elements drawn from his past; in the other case, the patient receives from the outside a social myth which does not correspond to a former personal state."
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Claude Levi-Strauss once said that the psychoanalysts role is similar to that of the Shaman's.
“In both [the shamanic and the psychoanalytic] cases the purpose is to bring to a conscious level conflicts and resistance which have remained unconscious..." https://t.co/Lpx6erJezy
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: "The shamanistic cure seems to be the exact counterpart to the psychoanalytic cure, but with an inversion of all the elements. Both cures aim at inducing an experience, and both succeed by recreating a myth which the patient has to live or relive."
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@Foz89107323: Claude Levi-Strauss once said that the psychoanalysts role is similar to that of the Shaman's.
“In both [the shamanic and the psychoanalytic] cases the purpose is to bring to a conscious level conflicts and resistance which have remained unconscious..."
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@Foz89107323: The biggest randomized trial of its kind to date (755 participants) recently compared acupuncture with counselling in the treatment of depression. Consistent with previous findings, both counselling and acupuncture showed small to moderate levels of effectiveness.
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@Foz89107323: Before answering this, it's important to recognize that the efficacy of penicillin was settled without the benefit of a randomized control trial, effectively in a single trial.
Literally thousands of trials have been done to test the efficacy of talking therapy.
Conclusion?
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If I imitate you, I learn to desire through you—I want what you want.
In our society, ample attention is given to victims.
The status of victimhood has become a model of desire that we gravitate towards.
Our societal motto is like "I suffer, therefore I am." https://t.co/VVV1L3Zi12
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: Social media has created social contagions in which those that have an unstable identity are quick to self-diagnose themselves with a mental illness to make sense of their suffering, which they don't quite understand.
Does this shed light on the nature of mental illness itself?
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After we meet our basic needs as creatures, which ARE informed by biological drives (thirst, hunger, sex, etc), we enter into the human universe of desire, which is tied to our traditions/cultures.
Culture's provide 'models of desire' that show us what is worth wanting. https://t.co/H3jTP3uXX7
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: If I imitate you, I learn to desire through you—I want what you want.
In our society, ample attention is given to victims.
The status of victimhood has become a model of desire that we gravitate towards.
Our societal motto is like "I suffer, therefore I am."
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@Foz89107323: After we meet our basic needs as creatures, which ARE informed by biological drives (thirst, hunger, sex, etc), we enter into the human universe of desire, which is tied to our traditions/cultures.
Culture's provide 'models of desire' that show us what is worth wanting.
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@Foz89107323: We tend to recognize our feelings first, link them to outward expressions, utterances and actions that we make contemporaneously with those feelings, and then, when we see those same expressions in others, attribute the same feelings to them by a sort of logical analogy.
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The brain is like a receiver of consciousness
When it functions well, the brain 'canalises, and also limits, the life of the mind.'
Francis Schiller saw the brain as 'admirably calculated machinery for regulating, limiting, and restraining the consciousness which it encases.' https://t.co/WfwjLnhnCD
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: As Peat says in Mind and Tissue, sonic and electronic resonances are increasingly recognized as being biologically important too.
Energy structures are related at all levels, from atoms, to the human body, to the cosmos.
The seat of consciousness is the brain's EM fields.
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Field integrated information hypothesis (FIIH) takes integrated information theory, which states that matter itself is conscious and contains information, and combines it with EM theory of consciousness, by claiming that fields give rise to qualitative experience. https://t.co/2azxshtVVI
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: The brain is like a receiver of consciousness
When it functions well, the brain 'canalises, and also limits, the life of the mind.'
Francis Schiller saw the brain as 'admirably calculated machinery for regulating, limiting, and restraining the consciousness which it encases.'
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@Foz89107323: Field integrated information hypothesis (FIIH) takes integrated information theory, which states that matter itself is conscious and contains information, and combines it with EM theory of consciousness, by claiming that fields give rise to qualitative experience.
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@Foz89107323: Can mental illness be blamed on bad genes? Is it outside of our control?
Big Pharma wants you to think there's a material explanation for mental illness because, after all, a material problem requires a material solution (usually in the form of prescription drugs).
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Scientists have also sought to discover a biological origin for anxiety also, which has often been associated with the amygdala — the home of fear.
Joseph LeDoux, who has studied the brain for 30 years, has concluded that the amygdala isn't the root of anxiety, per se. https://t.co/THVGbBSEQx
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: Anxiety, he says, is the "price we pay for an autonoetic consciousness."
In other words, “It is a by-product of our unique ability to envision our future self and especially to anticipate unpleasant, or even catastrophic, scenarios regardless of their likelihood.”
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@Foz89107323: Scientists have also sought to discover a biological origin for anxiety also, which has often been associated with the amygdala — the home of fear.
Joseph LeDoux, who has studied the brain for 30 years, has concluded that the amygdala isn't the root of anxiety, per se.
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@Foz89107323: Diagnoses of Malaria and tuberculosis rest on objective evidence of pathogenic microbes in the patient's body.
Diagnoses of schizophrenia and depression show no clear signs that can be analyzed objectively.
There is no consensus on what schizophrenia is, exactly.
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@Foz89107323: The DSM governs treatment and its evaluation, financial reward, research and project funding, not just for psychiatrists, but for general practitioners, paediatricians, as well as nurses, social workers, psychologists, etc.
It is highly influential.
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@Foz89107323: There is no free marketplace of ideas in the world of psychiatry either.
It's a business dominated by Big Pharma, who control the knowledge pipeline via ghostwriting scientific papers, funding randomized control studies, rewarding academics that publish favorable studies, etc.
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@Foz89107323: This is why it is so fashionable to be 'mentally ill' now.
Apart from the attention that being a victim confers, therapeutic language provides us with the opportunity to 'normalize' what is, and should be, abnormal — even, at times, evil — behavior.
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All those ideals that form of the moral backbone of society — free will, the existence of souls, an interventionist God — are 'useful fictions' in the eyes of thinkers like Yuval Noah Harari.
Subjectivity, consciousness itself, is an illusion that can be manipulated. https://t.co/rIWxjW2GJh
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: Nowadays, our society's relativism is so absolute, that all ideas are viewed as relative to the psychological and social situation of those who affirm them.
It doesn't matter WHAT you believe, but WHO you are, and WHERE you fit within the intersectional hierarchy.
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@Foz89107323: All those ideals that form of the moral backbone of society — free will, the existence of souls, an interventionist God — are 'useful fictions' in the eyes of thinkers like Yuval Noah Harari.
Subjectivity, consciousness itself, is an illusion that can be manipulated.
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The CIA would also help steer the culture in a liberationist direction using these methods.
David Mcgowan wrote a whole book on the CIA's involvement with the 60's counter-culture.
Many artists like Frank Zappa & Jim Morrison had ties to the military-industrial-complex https://t.co/SB2WBA2y61
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: Serial killers like Charles Manson, Whitey Bulger, Ted Kazcynski, and others were some of the guinea pigs exposed to the harsh MK-Ultra experiments.
The serial killer phenomenon served a political purpose also — convince the population to give up their freedoms for 'safety'.
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@Foz89107323: The CIA would also help steer the culture in a liberationist direction using these methods.
David Mcgowan wrote a whole book on the CIA's involvement with the 60's counter-culture.
Many artists like Frank Zappa & Jim Morrison had ties to the military-industrial-complex
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US army psychoanalysts like Martin Bergmann believed that small town America, with its repressive sexual mores, was a breeding ground for 'fascist tendencies'.
After Truman declared a mental health crisis in 1946, America would attack these psychological forces within. https://t.co/2gikjqo4tt
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: In order to liberate Americans from religion, the family, and authority, the US government would make a concerted effort to fashion a 'new man' that would reflect our country's 'democratic values'.
Karl and Will Menninger trained an army of hundreds of psychiatrists for this.
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@Foz89107323: US army psychoanalysts like Martin Bergmann believed that small town America, with its repressive sexual mores, was a breeding ground for 'fascist tendencies'.
After Truman declared a mental health crisis in 1946, America would attack these psychological forces within.
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@Foz89107323: How has the therapeutic narrative gained so much ground? Who was behind it?
After world war 2, the pre-war bureaucracy that had been built by Woodrow Wilson teamed up with the post-war psychoanalytic school, in an institutional effort to rid america of 'fascism'.
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Frederick the wise, for example, saved Martin Luther from the Church's prosecution, and supported his ideas in an attempt to combat the church's authority.
The Reformation, which still influences us to this day, was a result of converging interests, not the pursuit of truth. https://t.co/M2ipK7x9NH
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: Nowadays, power is dispersed amongst NGO's, philanthropists, international organizations, the media, bureaucracies, banks, and corporations.
Within this vast oligarchic structure, each group has a vested interest in maximizing profit by creating docile consumers.
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@Foz89107323: Frederick the wise, for example, saved Martin Luther from the Church's prosecution, and supported his ideas in an attempt to combat the church's authority.
The Reformation, which still influences us to this day, was a result of converging interests, not the pursuit of truth.
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Larry Siedentop has written extensively about the origin of this idea of the 'individual'
In his book, he argues that the concept predates the enlightenment, and can be traced back to our religious past, and the idea that we are all made in the image of God, with a unique soul. https://t.co/sTwSFWRGNL
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: Why is this so important? It illustrates a key point — how we view the world, how we percieve ourselves, and what we choose to value, is dependent on tradition.
Certain traditions win out over others because of converging interests, and power rivalries between opposing groups.
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@Foz89107323: Larry Siedentop has written extensively about the origin of this idea of the 'individual'
In his book, he argues that the concept predates the enlightenment, and can be traced back to our religious past, and the idea that we are all made in the image of God, with a unique soul.
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The idea that there is some workspace within the brain, some 'cartesian theatre', that a therapist can probe in order to locate negative thought-patterns, which can then be brought to light for treatment, is an illusion.
The idea of a self is a western illusion, with a history. https://t.co/oVoCj30VlS
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: Our modern notion of the self is, as Charles Taylor said, "constituted by a certain sense of inwardness."
We think that our thoughts, feelings, and emotions originate inside us.
There is an inside world, a subjective one, and an external world, an 'objective' one.
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As modernity has progressed, a decline in faith, community, and familial attachments has led us to believe we are the authors of our own destinies.
Many therapists reinforce this fundamental belief, that there is an 'inner CEO' in all of us, waiting to be realized. https://t.co/43OGz74wkI
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: The idea that there is some workspace within the brain, some 'cartesian theatre', that a therapist can probe in order to locate negative thought-patterns, which can then be brought to light for treatment, is an illusion.
The idea of a self is a western illusion, with a history.
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Ernst Junger put it perfectly:
“Man's relation to pain changes with every significant shift in fundamental belief. This relation is in no way set; rather, it eludes our knowledge, and yet is the best benchmark by which to discern a race.” https://t.co/NCPziDHf0t
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: As modernity has progressed, a decline in faith, community, and familial attachments has led us to believe we are the authors of our own destinies.
Many therapists reinforce this fundamental belief, that there is an 'inner CEO' in all of us, waiting to be realized.
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In Elain Scurry's book, The Body in Pain, she argues that pain is outside of language, almost untransmittable.
Pain brings us to state of mind that is "anterior to language", to the sounds and cries a human being makes before it understands anything at all. https://t.co/81BbEaXIOH
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: Ernst Junger put it perfectly:
“Man's relation to pain changes with every significant shift in fundamental belief. This relation is in no way set; rather, it eludes our knowledge, and yet is the best benchmark by which to discern a race.”
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Yes and no. Every age presents new ways to heal and understand pain.
We've gone from prayer to painkillers, confession to therapy.
The medieval age looked at madness as a sign of demon posession. Today, we see it as a product of bad genes. https://t.co/g2U0TFKhG6
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: In Elain Scurry's book, The Body in Pain, she argues that pain is outside of language, almost untransmittable.
Pain brings us to state of mind that is "anterior to language", to the sounds and cries a human being makes before it understands anything at all.
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@Foz89107323: Yes and no. Every age presents new ways to heal and understand pain.
We've gone from prayer to painkillers, confession to therapy.
The medieval age looked at madness as a sign of demon posession. Today, we see it as a product of bad genes.
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@Foz89107323: For most of us, "reality" is the proximal world of our immediate experience. We tend to be indifferent to, or impatient with, analysis of our experience which refer to events that are happening from afar
The cause of my behaviors stem from family, job, and community, right?
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The Yellow Vest protests fizzled out because they had no money, no financial backing.
All these woke ideas like CRT and transgenderism have only entered the mainstream because they are backed by the billionaire class and NGOs.
@AntelopeHill 's book illustrates this perfectly. https://t.co/uU1FdxZPeA
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: Who is responsible for breaking down the family? You guessed it — the Rockefellers.
Thanks to the powers of the purse, John Rockefeller created the 'population council' in the early 50's, which would fund the research that came up with the pill and the IUD.
Follow the money.
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@Foz89107323: The Yellow Vest protests fizzled out because they had no money, no financial backing.
All these woke ideas like CRT and transgenderism have only entered the mainstream because they are backed by the billionaire class and NGOs.
@AntelopeHill 's book illustrates this perfectly.
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@Foz89107323: In a crowd, we can let loose, and discharge.
"It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite....The crowd he needs is the dense crowd, in which body is pressed to body...
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@Foz89107323: Our sense of self is grounded in action.
The child takes immense "pleasure at being the cause."
When this desire for control is denied to a child, experiments have shown that they experience rage, a refusal to engage, and a withdrawing from the world entirely.
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God made the world by dividing—night from day, heaven from earth, the sea from dry land, etc.
Before each cell replicates, the chromosome pairs divide and are actively drawn apart, later re-forming to make a new cell.
All difference, all separation, is creative love. https://t.co/Rl3I246pAe
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: Man, created in the image of God, is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Nature may seem like it is bending towards destruction, towards the technological abolition of man, but our fall is a blessed one.
Had Adam not fallen, Christ would never have risen.
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@Foz89107323: God made the world by dividing—night from day, heaven from earth, the sea from dry land, etc.
Before each cell replicates, the chromosome pairs divide and are actively drawn apart, later re-forming to make a new cell.
All difference, all separation, is creative love.
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@Foz89107323: The nervous system is formed by a process of elimination, of saying "no", like the cell membrane.
Consciousness is formed, like a sculpture out of marble, by discarding that which is unimportant.
Matter does not produce consciousness, it limits it.
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@Foz89107323: This opposition between higher life and lower life can be mapped onto the conflict between atlantic people's and the Eurasianists. The former desire comfort in the crowd (Nietzsche's Last Men). The lattern yearn for space—the freedom to expand one's powers with blood and soil.
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@Foz89107323: As he says in Anti-Tech revolution:
"The world-system is approaching a condition in which it will be dominated by a relatively small number of extremely powerful global self-prop systems.
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@Foz89107323: Ted knew, however, that we were all in a prison.
Industrial system has made our lives unfulfilling, forcing us to think and act in ways that are contrary to our nature.
We are all like that rabbit, trapped in an iron cage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_cage
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One summer in the 50's, both boys had been spending time suburb outside Chicago, where their father caught a baby rabbit. He put it on display in the backyard in a little cage made out of wood and wire. https://t.co/EQyIGfqzxx
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: A crowd of local kids, David among them, gathered round, jostling to get a better view.
Suddenly there was a cry from the back: "Oh, oh, let it go!" The boys turn round to find Ted looking distressed and panicked at the sight of the rabbit visibly trembling in its box.
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It was Ted's brother, David Kaczynski, after all, who recognized Ted's handwriting and message in his manifesto, and turned him over to the FBI.
Ted felt like his brother was motivated by sibling rivalry, and wanted to give him life in prison, instead of death—what Ted wanted. https://t.co/j5Y61GkLui
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: One summer in the 50's, both boys had been spending time suburb outside Chicago, where their father caught a baby rabbit. He put it on display in the backyard in a little cage made out of wood and wire.
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Ted Kaczynski understood the logical outcome of uncontrolled mimetic rivalry between equals—mutual destruction. This might have something to do with his relationship with his brother, that some have called a modern version of Cain and Abel story. https://t.co/d7Zgh9M8LJ
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: It was Ted's brother, David Kaczynski, after all, who recognized Ted's handwriting and message in his manifesto, and turned him over to the FBI.
Ted felt like his brother was motivated by sibling rivalry, and wanted to give him life in prison, instead of death—what Ted wanted.
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A plague, like terrorism, is a symptom of the loss of differences.
“It is no accident that terrorist acts often take place in trains and planes. Terror is inherent to all reciprocity", in all exchanges between two equal parties with little differences. https://t.co/8ubj13Uh2X
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: Ted Kaczynski understood the logical outcome of uncontrolled mimetic rivalry between equals—mutual destruction. This might have something to do with his relationship with his brother, that some have called a modern version of Cain and Abel story.
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@Foz89107323: A plague, like terrorism, is a symptom of the loss of differences.
“It is no accident that terrorist acts often take place in trains and planes. Terror is inherent to all reciprocity", in all exchanges between two equal parties with little differences.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example, the Russians did not back down for political reasons, "only for technological reasons", as Girard said, "because they knew that they would lose an atomic war." https://t.co/AuSN6vCENl
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: An even more glaring example of technology's power over us comes from the Korean War, when Macarthur advocated for the use of Nuclear bombs in order to secure victory. The president and the Pentagon questioned the stretegic soundness of this decision.
So what did they do?
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As Ted recognized, ever since the industrial revolution, and especially after world war 2 and the invention of the atomic bomb, technology has grown at such a rapid pace that we are unnable to recognize the apocalpytic implications of our own creations. https://t.co/MMsLDK6S8F
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: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example, the Russians did not back down for political reasons, "only for technological reasons", as Girard said, "because they knew that they would lose an atomic war."
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The mail system only works because every single person along the chain acts like a mindless automaton. All Ted had to do was write an address and they just "obeyed". Ted knew what he was doing was immoral, but how moral is a system that creates mindless workers? https://t.co/PpJ9gy3uOC
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: As Ted recognized, ever since the industrial revolution, and especially after world war 2 and the invention of the atomic bomb, technology has grown at such a rapid pace that we are unnable to recognize the apocalpytic implications of our own creations.
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These cruel experiments, along with his views on technology, motivated Ted to go life off the grid in Montana, where from 1978 to 1995 he would mail bombs that resulted in the deaths of 3 and the injury of 23 others.
Ted's method of killing was symbolic. https://t.co/Tx0m1d64aO
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: The mail system only works because every single person along the chain acts like a mindless automaton. All Ted had to do was write an address and they just "obeyed". Ted knew what he was doing was immoral, but how moral is a system that creates mindless workers?
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@Foz89107323: These cruel experiments, along with his views on technology, motivated Ted to go life off the grid in Montana, where from 1978 to 1995 he would mail bombs that resulted in the deaths of 3 and the injury of 23 others.
Ted's method of killing was symbolic.
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@Foz89107323: These experiments were led by famed psychologist Henry A. Murray, a Harvard professor who was secretly employed by the CIA.
These behavioral modification experiments were part of project MK Ultra, a CIA led mind-control program .
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The difference between us and them is that they don't want to reverse the decline, they want to accelerate it, so they can weaponize the singularity without any resistance.
Has anyone tried to authenticially resist it? Yes.
A man by the name of Ted Kaczynski. https://t.co/QqGtJUAxMJ
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: Ted Kaczynski, the 'Unabomber', was a professor, not unlike Harari.
Uncle Ted, a prodigy from an early age, had an IQ of 167, and always had a rebellious streak.
He recieved the name unabomber by sending bombs to universities and airports. But he had a deeper motive.
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@Foz89107323: The difference between us and them is that they don't want to reverse the decline, they want to accelerate it, so they can weaponize the singularity without any resistance.
Has anyone tried to authenticially resist it? Yes.
A man by the name of Ted Kaczynski.
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@Foz89107323: Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing—will "blurr the lines between the physical, digital, and…
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@Foz89107323: Some have made connections with Klaus Schwab and the Nazi's.
Schwab's father, Eugen Shwab, was managing director of a swiss company called Escher-Wyss AG.
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@Foz89107323: From Heisman's perspective, biblical morality paved the way for human rights. Human rights, by viewing humans equally, relaxed natural selection. Once natural evolution stops working as intended, technological evolution took over.
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@Foz89107323: The logic of the anthroprocene—maximum information/data flow—is moving towards the creation of an AI-powered God powered by a worldwide sensorium (the internet of things).
Here is a quote by Mitchell Heisman, who wrote a long paper about nihilism before committing suicide.
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@Foz89107323: Harari's account of humanity begins to make more sense in light of his next book, HOMO DEUS, where he discusses the future of technology.
Here is a clip where Harari talks about the coming revolution in biotech, where technologies like Neuralink will monitor 'under the skin' https://twitter.com/Foz89107323/status/1533560950304956416/video/1
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@Foz89107323: To put in perspective what we've lost since the Covid regime overtook the west, here is a quote from The Truth About Covid-19, detailing all the rights that were thrown out the window during the events of 2020.
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@Foz89107323: In his book Logos Rising, Catholic philosopher E. Michael Jones writes on Harari:
"the things he considers
real are fictions, and the things he considers fictions are real."
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"The surface of abstract ideas likewise starts to become brittle, and the depth of the substance, which was always present, shines dimly through the cracks and crevices.” https://t.co/WphTETNm1E
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: Like Prince Prospero and his masqueraders who hide from the red death outside their castle,Yuval Noah Harari and the Great Reset elites are hiding from the cold indifference—the nihilism—that lurks behind their conformist adherence to the pursuit of pleasure at all costs.
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Ernst Junger put it correctly in his book, On Pain:
“We find ourselves in a situation of wanderers traversing along endlessly over a frozen sea, whose surface begins to break up into great sheets of ice due to a change in climate. https://t.co/o1WhCvYz3w
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: "The surface of abstract ideas likewise starts to become brittle, and the depth of the substance, which was always present, shines dimly through the cracks and crevices.”
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We are also ignorant of the land we are standing on. We think it is our's to keep, but nature's cold indifference—its hidden spirits—lie in waiting to upset our ambitions right when we think we are safest at the 'end of history'.
Makes me think of haunting New England Forests. https://t.co/uIDH8srrvs
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: Ernst Junger put it correctly in his book, On Pain:
“We find ourselves in a situation of wanderers traversing along endlessly over a frozen sea, whose surface begins to break up into great sheets of ice due to a change in climate.
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Us Americans are like Sinbad the Seafarer, who discovered that this 'new world'—this land of greatness—is actually the back of a giant fish. The heat of Sinbad's pride—his celebratory fire—upsets the big fish, causing him to dive deep, drowning Sinbad. https://t.co/SutNCHrDjD
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: We are also ignorant of the land we are standing on. We think it is our's to keep, but nature's cold indifference—its hidden spirits—lie in waiting to upset our ambitions right when we think we are safest at the 'end of history'.
Makes me think of haunting New England Forests.
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In liquid modernity, we now have urban sprawl, industrial zones and subdivisions, country inns and trendy bars, an homogenous landscape, rendered everywhere the same by a proliferation of franchises.
Our pleasure dome lies in ceaseless turmoil upon the earth. https://t.co/lLpfH5Hn2Y
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: Us Americans are like Sinbad the Seafarer, who discovered that this 'new world'—this land of greatness—is actually the back of a giant fish. The heat of Sinbad's pride—his celebratory fire—upsets the big fish, causing him to dive deep, drowning Sinbad.
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This 'liquid modernity', of globalized homogenity, is the civilization of the de-territorialized sea-people (atlanticism/thallasocracy).
It opposes the people of land, of tradition and particularism—the Eurasianists.
History = conflict between sea and land https://t.co/ExkwklEQhr
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: In liquid modernity, we now have urban sprawl, industrial zones and subdivisions, country inns and trendy bars, an homogenous landscape, rendered everywhere the same by a proliferation of franchises.
Our pleasure dome lies in ceaseless turmoil upon the earth.
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@Foz89107323: This 'liquid modernity', of globalized homogenity, is the civilization of the de-territorialized sea-people (atlanticism/thallasocracy).
It opposes the people of land, of tradition and particularism—the Eurasianists.
History = conflict between sea and land
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Every world event over the past 20 years has been used to increase the surveillance powers of both the public and private sphere.
9/11 with the Patriot Act
Covid with track & tracing & microchip technology
January 6th with 'misinformation' targeting algorithms https://t.co/H6295pkWRX
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: We are all counted people now, that watch and monitor each other as our devices bypass our awareness. Our locations, words, memories, shopping habits, entertainment preferences, and political beliefs are translated into numbers, then stored, sold, and traded by Big Data/Gov.
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@Foz89107323: Every world event over the past 20 years has been used to increase the surveillance powers of both the public and private sphere.
9/11 with the Patriot Act
Covid with track & tracing & microchip technology
January 6th with 'misinformation' targeting algorithms
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@Foz89107323: As real world progress & innovation wanes, one can imagine a dystopia where—due to a scarcity of labor from automation, and a lack of property ownership from an extreme housing crisis—the whole world plugs into metaverse-like matrix to participate in the "high value" economy.
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@Foz89107323: A total digital revolution would mean human vegetation, the end of desire—the absent of any meaningful speech
Life uploaded into the digital hive mind would mean the total consummation of the natural order, or the death of death, as Maistre said.
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Obsessing over the hive mind's signals, the elites—or laptop class—have totally seceded from reality, from the body. As Christopher Lasch noticed, they live in the hyppereal world of images.
Their lifeless stares have no depth, they see nothing but their own reflection. https://t.co/uZqzPdiR0x
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: They introduced mask mandates so we would all become faceless like them.
The face, as Agamben said, is the foundation of politics, because it is the site on which everything individuals say and communicate is founded. Without it, we only have an 'exchange of messages.'
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@Foz89107323: Obsessing over the hive mind's signals, the elites—or laptop class—have totally seceded from reality, from the body. As Christopher Lasch noticed, they live in the hyppereal world of images.
Their lifeless stares have no depth, they see nothing but their own reflection.
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@Foz89107323: These men were "predisposed and socialised to admire the idea of non-coerced cooperation mediated though a moral framework—often with a strong element of shame."
Middle class people must signal to others they're trustworthy cooperators by repressing their anti-social instincts.
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@Foz89107323: The use of shame rather than guilt contributes to violence.
The life's work of professor Gilligan led him to the conclusion that the fundamental cause of most human violence is the wish to 'eliminate feelings of shame and humiliation and replace it with pride.'
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@Foz89107323: Because of social media's technomancy, everybody thinks they are the main character in their own stories now. But this has only made us all more alike. Receiving likes, sharing infographics, going to live-streamed protests, etc—has turned us into NPC's with no inwardness.
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A moral subject is one who is subject to "power". He feels himself observed, threatened, and, in general, kept in awe (respect coupled with fear) by an internal judge.
To have an inner monologue is to be internally divided, always be in dialogue with this internal judge. https://t.co/dEnA6ygZML
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: The modern person, however, is not subject to anything but himself. He is a project, endlessly reinventing himself in a narcissistic hall of mirrors.
Absent a relationship with others, he yearns for recognition, but cannot find it, leading to a crisis of gratification.
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In David Reisman's book, the Lonely Crowd, he talks about how a society of high growth is composed of individuals whose conformity is insured by their tendency to acquire early in life an internalized set of goals (tradition). https://t.co/JMMaVyG8Kp
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: A moral subject is one who is subject to "power". He feels himself observed, threatened, and, in general, kept in awe (respect coupled with fear) by an internal judge.
To have an inner monologue is to be internally divided, always be in dialogue with this internal judge.
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…generated in the galactic uproar of connection and communication.”
Reducing us to the lowest common denominator of sameness, for the sake of maximum informational flow, we would lose our inner self, symptoms of which already include a weakened inner monologue. https://t.co/jGzRJj5cj1
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: In David Reisman's book, the Lonely Crowd, he talks about how a society of high growth is composed of individuals whose conformity is insured by their tendency to acquire early in life an internalized set of goals (tradition).
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@Foz89107323: …generated in the galactic uproar of connection and communication.”
Reducing us to the lowest common denominator of sameness, for the sake of maximum informational flow, we would lose our inner self, symptoms of which already include a weakened inner monologue.
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@Foz89107323: Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have even made the Ten Commandments obsolete, offering instead the One Commandment: “Don’t be evil.”
The nihilism of organized religion pales in comparison to this statement, which is meant soley to benefit Google and nobody else.
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@Foz89107323: In 2006, Time declared Its Person of the Year to be You, Me, and Everyone who contributes content to new-media aggregators like MySpace, Google, Youtube, etc.
But is this new media space democratic, does it truly represent our wants and needs?
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The next centralization of power came after the first world war, with the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment of a League of nations. The escalation towards extremes alluded to by Girard, lead to a second world war, and the creation of the United Nations. https://t.co/WsDkWxwYnV
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: "Progress" since the English constitution has just been a regression towards what Girard calls "Undifferentiation". Everything has become the same; we are all twins in a sibling rivalry that is edging closer and closer towards absolute war, & the leveling of all distinctions.
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The Articles of Confederation was the second foundation of a liberal government after the Dutch invasion of 1688 voided the English constitution. The 1787 constitution, like the previous two liberal creations, made an appeal to the "people" in order to centralize power. https://t.co/n0LMa1BiM1
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: The next centralization of power came after the first world war, with the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment of a League of nations. The escalation towards extremes alluded to by Girard, lead to a second world war, and the creation of the United Nations.
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@Foz89107323: The Articles of Confederation was the second foundation of a liberal government after the Dutch invasion of 1688 voided the English constitution. The 1787 constitution, like the previous two liberal creations, made an appeal to the "people" in order to centralize power.
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@Foz89107323: Everything is political now, & the state controls so much of our lives, because in democracies bureaucracies take on a life of their own, Cthulhu always swims left.
All the "current things", every talking point, is just learned helplessness in a world where we control nothing.
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Our digital panopticon is different from the Big Brother of old.
As Byung Chul Han writes, "Big Brother now wears a friendly face."
He outsources his operations to us, encouraging 'users' to communicate and consume, in order to achieve the maximum flow of data and capital. https://t.co/lqNwtkGNCM
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: The Gulag Archipelago utilized disciplinary power to surveil the individual in order to control his behavior. Big Data giants find it far more efficient to put that surveillance power 'in our hands', so we can exploit ourselves endlessly pursuing digital-connection and 'freedom'.
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@Foz89107323: Our digital panopticon is different from the Big Brother of old.
As Byung Chul Han writes, "Big Brother now wears a friendly face."
He outsources his operations to us, encouraging 'users' to communicate and consume, in order to achieve the maximum flow of data and capital.
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The privatization of stress—saying that all our problems, be they political or personal, are rooted in our biochemistry—is less fact and more like propaganda.
This propaganda is powerful because many of us are strongly influenced by pleasure and pain. https://t.co/mIwiYHHB93
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: The introduction of opioids led to an epidemic, resulting in many deaths, because a material problem was proposed with a material solution.
A solution that many of us bought into, at the cost of our own health and wellbeing, because many of us want to escape our pain.
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@Foz89107323: The privatization of stress—saying that all our problems, be they political or personal, are rooted in our biochemistry—is less fact and more like propaganda.
This propaganda is powerful because many of us are strongly influenced by pleasure and pain.
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Harari, like Jeremy Bentham (architect of the panopticon), believes that:
"On the biological level, both our expectations and our happiness are determined by our biochemistry, rather than by our economic, social or political situation." https://t.co/cs5m3nl53h
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: He even revives Bentham, saying: "Jeremy Bentham similarly maintained that nature gave dominion over man to two masters – pleasure and pain – and they alone determine everything we do, say and think."
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@Foz89107323: Harari, like Jeremy Bentham (architect of the panopticon), believes that:
"On the biological level, both our expectations and our happiness are determined by our biochemistry, rather than by our economic, social or political situation."
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@Foz89107323: Davies writes:
"Neurological, physiological and behavioural monitoring devices are clamped together with meditation practices and pop existentialism. The philosophical deficit in the science of happiness is dealt with by importing ideas from Buddhism and new age religions."
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@Foz89107323: In other words, it doesn't matter what you believe, since the "the mind is", in the words of the Devil from Paradise Lost, "its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
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@Foz89107323: As he says, "Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins."
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How are Ted Kazinski's ideas the polar opposite of Yuval Noah Harari's—the man at the philosophical helm of the great reset?
Both utilize evolutionary theory but arrive at very different conclusions regarding the industrial revolution and its consequences.
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| Filename: FpDC4XsWYAAoSSQ.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 16, 2023 12:21 AM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
toons other 60%
anime 36%
toons other 60%
anime 36%
swastika 68%
| Filename: FUhNbq5WUAAyCf_.jpg | Source tweet: Jun 5, 2022 9:26 PM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
star of david 50%
logos_flags_graphics 37%
star of david 50%
logos_flags_graphics 37%
| Filename: FuAhHRiWYAcjucJ.jpg | Source tweet: Apr 18, 2023 3:52 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
happy merchant 41%
happy merchant 41%
star of david 88%
swastika 67%
| Filename: Flr1x_fWAAYaPK9.png | Source tweet: Jan 5, 2023 5:25 AM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
star of david 95%
star of david 95%
swastika 67%
star of david 56%
| Filename: Fo-RmoAXoAIXOps.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 15, 2023 2:07 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
etc 78%
etc 78%
runes_algiz 67%
| Filename: Fs5gJyhWYAIIji_.jpg | Source tweet: Apr 4, 2023 8:55 PM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
logos_flags_graphics 88%
logos_flags_graphics 88%
swastika 66%
| Filename: FUhN0ZHWYAEVSEs.jpg | Source tweet: Jun 5, 2022 9:27 PM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 99%
art_other 99%
stars and bars 85%
stars and bars 77%
| Filename: FpH7JboWIAAQ03f.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 16, 2023 11:05 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
us flag 83%
us flag 83%
| Filename: FpDC69SXgAE3UdT.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 16, 2023 12:21 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 67%
toons other 32%
pepe 67%
toons other 32%
pepe 83%
| Filename: FrNofc1XoAIj8d9.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 14, 2023 10:12 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 87%
pepe 87%
pepe 95%
| Filename: FtIkFU_XoBUR2DR.png | Source tweet: Apr 7, 2023 7:07 PM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 92%
pepe 92%
pepe 91%
pepe 90%
pepe 89%
pepe 85%
pepe 74%
pepe 64%
pepe 62%
pepe 55%
| Filename: FtIjaWxXoBAjcML.jpg | Source tweet: Apr 7, 2023 7:04 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
toons other 99%
toons other 99%
pepe 94%
| Filename: FtIh3OCXoC0g9bR.png | Source tweet: Apr 7, 2023 6:57 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 99%
pepe 99%
| Filename: FviFAZQWwAEx7ht.png | Source tweet: May 7, 2023 2:32 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 99%
pepe 99%
gadsden snake 99%
| Filename: FpnThJjWIAAj_Du.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 23, 2023 1:20 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 93%
art_other 93%
| Filename: FmO8px7WAAI_cGO.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 12, 2023 1:02 AM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
totenkopf 66%
totenkopf 66%
militarized 57%
| Filename: FouCcwsWIAEE02W.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 11, 2023 10:27 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 99%
art_other 99%
hitler 65%
| Filename: FrhromAWIAcNtNm.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 18, 2023 7:39 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
militarized 67%
| Filename: FkTQPY9X0AIepZD.jpg | Source tweet: Dec 19, 2022 12:34 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
logos_flags_graphics 97%
logos_flags_graphics 97%
| Filename: Flr2D15XwAAB51C.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 5, 2023 5:26 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
runes_algiz 64%
runes_algiz 64%
militarized 61%
| Filename: FyiyPQVXoAIgPcV.jpg | Source tweet: Jun 14, 2023 12:37 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 99%
art_other 99%
| Filename: Flr2F_XXEAEztIO.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 5, 2023 5:26 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 94%
pepe 94%
pepe 93%
| Filename: Ftg0anoXoAMUngA.jpg | Source tweet: Apr 12, 2023 12:09 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 57%
toons other 31%
art_other 57%
toons other 31%
skull mask 90%
| Filename: FskBiNhWcAIFwTl.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 31, 2023 4:49 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
militarized 96%
militarized 96%
| Filename: FpDC1iyX0AI--h8.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 16, 2023 12:20 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
gadsden snake 92%
gadsden snake 92%
| Filename: FrhrXjDXwAMcXy-.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 18, 2023 7:37 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
anime 76%
anime 76%
| Filename: FrHcMTrXoCMtvy-.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 13, 2023 5:23 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
swastika 60%
etc 26%
swastika 60%
etc 26%
stars and bars 88%
| Filename: Fqzf8A0WcAcikNq.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 9, 2023 8:25 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
us flag 92%
us flag 92%
| Filename: FmO8d-WWIAA3d7e.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 12, 2023 1:01 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
gigachad 93%
gigachad 93%
proud boys 87%
| Filename: FrNob2DXsAAbnVi.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 14, 2023 10:12 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
mspaint style 95%
mspaint style 95%
threep 87%
| Filename: FrhrZGvWYAYOTU4.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 18, 2023 7:38 PM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 95%
art_other 95%
runes_algiz 58%
| Filename: Fv3AhE-WcAAwzF_.jpg | Source tweet: May 11, 2023 4:05 PM |
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Object Detector 20221101171408
(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
toons other 97%
toons other 97%
hitler 57%
| Filename: FrhrkryXgAIAqIY.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 18, 2023 7:38 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
toons other 49%
art_other 42%
toons other 49%
art_other 42%
| Filename: FkTQQiYXEAAY0E1.jpg | Source tweet: Dec 19, 2022 12:34 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
mjolnir 56%
mjolnir 56%
joker 72%
gigachad 62%
| Filename: FouCea0XwAA4x2n.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 11, 2023 10:27 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
joker 38%
face 28%
joker 38%
face 28%
| Filename: Frhrn0KWwAIapdy.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 18, 2023 7:39 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 99%
art_other 99%
| Filename: FngINKRWYAAhMEl.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 27, 2023 7:21 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
map 99%
map 99%
| Filename: FvJldPfXsAAWx2U.jpg | Source tweet: May 2, 2023 8:23 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
logos_flags_graphics 90%
logos_flags_graphics 90%
| Filename: FsZss_DXwA8gqn9.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 29, 2023 4:42 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
toons other 72%
toons other 72%
pepe 80%
| Filename: Flr14o1XwAAQqFv.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 5, 2023 5:25 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
skull 100%
skull 100%
| Filename: FngIM0HWQAAp8Y6.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 27, 2023 7:21 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
pepe 80%
pepe 80%
| Filename: FrhrXHqWwAAVR1i.jpg | Source tweet: Mar 18, 2023 7:37 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
art_other 92%
art_other 92%
| Filename: Ftg0iG2WwAEzDKd.jpg | Source tweet: Apr 12, 2023 12:09 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
hitler 28%
hitler 28%
| Filename: Fod4O3FWAAAr3Od.jpg | Source tweet: Feb 8, 2023 7:08 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
aegishjalmur 51%
art_other 39%
aegishjalmur 51%
art_other 39%
star of david 73%
| Filename: FmO8d-sXoAAe1Jc.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 12, 2023 1:01 AM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
star of david 95%
star of david 95%
patriot front 74%
| Filename: FtIjGlTXoCM6U7d.jpg | Source tweet: Apr 7, 2023 7:02 PM |
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(everything)
Classifier 20221028131014
happy merchant 27%
happy merchant 27%
| Filename: FnLKc2qWACws7Nq.jpg | Source tweet: Jan 23, 2023 5:39 PM |
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(everything)