Wherever I go there I am. But this is only a problem for those who
have not learned to live with themselves, it was a problem for sages and
saints and spiritual reformers because they all lived in lands of
fiction. There is a way to press beyond insecurities, more importantly,
beyond defenses! One must be capable of entering into pain, "the dark
night of the soul," is here a metaphor for psychological suffering.
We
of the earth are born through a succession, this succession determines
much of our ability, where we are lacking, there we cannot comprehend.
We must learn to transcend the error of what has been passed down, to
presuppose it as healthy and normative is to be impaired by it. The
beginning of wisdom, in this sense, is self-negation, species negation;
the wise have always made progress through negation.
Culture
presses down hard on the presuppositions of the mind, it deludes man
about the movement and form of his life. Through culture he comes to
adopt many useless and strange rituals, though they give him pleasure
because they fill him with feelings of safety and purpose.
If
one cannot think dangerous thoughts, thoughts that are subconsciously
forbidden, then one is doing thought wrong. Of course, there are things
we don't want to know, no, this is false! There is knowledge we don't
want to live in! There is great power in stepping outside the frailty of
the body through the form of thought, to glance back at it as a
spectacle... but then thought must return to transcend the limitations
it comprehended. This is the way forward, it is the path toward a higher
intelligence.
Men want to speak to each
other through culture, and this means, in so many respects, they are not
free. Man is a frightening animal because he's a
Delusion-Producing-Machine. Men are capable of committing great horrors
against each other, they even build cages and force each other inside!
And this is considered a form of intelligence(?) No advanced species
would, or could, function this way, for sure it would go extinct,
negating itself through its own ignorant decrees.
Those
that step outside the body will incur to themselves great sorrow, a
sorrow so great that one will sweat psychological drops of blood.
Beware, thought has the power to undo life! (To consider this a great
evil only proves that one is deceived about the nature of life, this
means their presuppositions, regarding the value of life, are
automated). Whether life is worth living or driven toward negation
hinges on life's circumstances, there is no romanticism in it. But
because this is uncomfortable, men cling to delusion, man is a
Delusion-Clinging-Machine!
Humans damage
other humans because this makes them feel powerful and morally superior.
(Some just take a sick pleasure in it). No society can afford to
tolerate those who seek to subvert it. To be against society is to be
against the longevity and quality of existence.
Many
children have been crushed by authoritarian mothers and authoritarian
fathers. In these archaic systems the child cannot win, all of the
pathology of the mother and father are poured out onto the child. This
often destroys the child's internal psychological world, and when an
entire social system is founded on this pathology, the society itself
becomes sick, violent, apathetic, irrational, superstitious, above all,
nihilistic! Child development is the lifeblood of healthy social
systems, without it the future is always shattered by the trauma of the
past.
Come with me now those who can; does thou have quality, then thou shalt live, does thou have poverty, then thou shalt die.
(Poverty here is taken in the broadest philosophical sense). Against
this logic man asserts his intense emotion, a false romanticism
regarding the value of life, he perseveres despite the impossibility of
overcoming his suffering. (Here one wants to call me a nihilist, but I
am no such thing, I am just the opposite!) Those cast into a system
remain the subject of that system, but thought has the power to get a
grip on the gears that drive the system and thereby change the system.
(Power always resides at the level of determinism). Where this fails,
where life falls by the wayside in sorrow, it also falls into negation,
or if not, it merely prolongs its suffering.
Hear
me clearly, I am no advocate of suicide, I am an advocate of quality!
The difference is that I refuse to project against life; where life is
crushed by the brutality of a system, there it is justified in
self-negation. But beware, my beloved, are you truly qualified to make
this distinction? If the mind lapses into sorrow, if the nervous system
goes into a solemn hibernation (what we might call, a clouded winter of
depression) the calculation being emotive, as opposed to rational,
concrete, one commits negation apart from objectivity, and this is an
error and mistake. The quality of material circumstances are the thing
that matters, human relationships, or the potential thereof, are the
things that matter.
Analogy of the danger of thought: Through the fog I ascended a mountain, I could not see the forms around me, but I could feel myself rising, when the fog cleared I realized I had climbed too high, I could not get back down, my final step was a leap off the great height.
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