THE GREAT PHILOSOPHICAL ANGER - Jersey Flight

Where stupidity reigns there hope dies.

[1] Being is the only reality of the Absolute -- Being is itself the Absolute! That this classification belongs to Concepts or God is a fiction. Only the most abstract, idealistic skeptic, would dare to deny it. Existence is the one premise that is not controversial. 

[2] One cannot do philosophy, one must first consider what kind of being is attempting to engage in philosophy. Let us drive the scale back to its most primitive point in existence. It's not merely that a kind of being is attempting to engage in philosophy, but this being is the product of a history, psychologically conditioned, social, biologically evolved. This being is pressured by the society in which it lives (this being is pressured by the substrate of its own mental images). Man is not free to ponder the bare existence of existence itself, and this is because the defenses and fears of his psyche get in the way.

[3] Social being (which includes every individual) calculates value on a cultural scale. This is a problem because the universe is not a social subset of man's environment. Hence, man's evaluation of reality is tainted by culture. Through the social world value is lost to us/ through the social world value is gained.

[4] We do not believe that men tell the truth. We do not believe that men seek the truth. We believe they seek comfort and power, the way of truth is the way to ruin. Only the strongest thinkers, those who must have reality, even at the cost of life itself, these are the one's who stare the abyss in the face. And though they may stand wounded for this feat, it is only they, who from the darkness, bring back real light, hope that is not predicated on delusion, a hope that can deal with reality as it is. 

[5] To be an intellectual, a professor, what does this mean? It means to exist within a linguistic context which functions as a barrier to the tragedy of reality. The academic cannot bear the sight of his own futility. This doesn't mean that life itself is futile, quality is indeed a material reality, it simply means that the academic is engaged in defending himself from reality. What does this mean? It means he cannot bear the sight of his own insignificance and powerlessness.  However, this is no way negates significance or power. Both are a reality of existence.

[6] Those who have truly pondered what matters (those who can keep the focus of value in sight) can be counted on one hand. Most thinkers fall prey to idealism.

[7] Do you see the intellectual offering up his intellectual form, do you know why he does it? Because (among other things) he is trying to deny the reality of his own death. He is trying to align himself with culture, because this makes him feel better about death. And though there is nothing wrong with aligning oneself with culture, by using culture as an escape, one is always trying to outrun reality, as opposed to confront it with thought.   

[8] All true philosophy is, and must be, about acquiring the strength and intelligence to know when and how to die. This is true because death, in contrast to life, is a kind of negative eternity. Death is the most important decision of life, its calculation, and humane execution, stand as the highest praxis of philosophy. Those who deny it distort the value of life (inflating it where inflation is not warranted) and impose a false, moral idealism on the act of death, declaring it to be the greatest evil.  

[9] All that matters to life is that it can obtain unto quality, without this attribute it cannot justify itself as existence. He that denies this becomes the victim of romanticism, which is to say, he endures tremendous suffering, merely because he asserts life's value in the absence of quality, which amounts to a form of superstition. He that embraces romanticism, fails to terminate existence at the point of anguish, maximum suffering, because he groundlessly presupposes life's absolute value, even in the context of absolute suffering. 

[10] Almost no one judges the speaker on the basis of his content. Most judge on the basis of credentials that are constructed by society. To speak the truth is not enough, one must also be endorsed by culture. This is a defect of culture because it robs culture of truth. A wise thinker must refuse to replicate this same formality in himself. Thinkers should judge on the basis of substance, not mere appearance or presentation.   

[11] He that is wise knows his time is short, and this means he rejects the emphasis of culture where he knows the emphasis of culture departs from the relevance of life.
 
[12] More often than not, men create concepts as an escape from life, thus do they demand that we envelope ourselves within the context of an abstract web, seldom do men pursue concepts as a concrete liberation of life, and this is because abstraction convinces them of transcendence, deceives them into mistaking it for value, even though the idea never actually emancipates them from the material oppression of their systemic being.

[13] If one would be free one must change the oppression of the system into which they are born. This requires nothing less than revolutionary consciousness, which is the most developed form of consciousness. This is true because revolutionary awareness presupposes a comprehension of 1) the raw movement of being, which is existence itself, 2) class structure and 3) the automated, mindlessness of social production, which explains the oppression of the social system. Further, revolutionary consciousness does not exists in a state of paralysis or romantic delusion (social idealism), but has come to the sober understanding that the agent of oppression must actively strive (resist) if he is ever to be a partaker of freedom. Revolutionary consciousness amounts to a systematic comprehension of being, which is to say, it comprehends being within the structure of its social context, understanding how context is shaped by being and how being is shaped by context. Revolutionary consciousness is the rarest achievement of the philosophical life.   

[14] He that believes himself to have attained to the highest awareness of freedom, and yet has no consciousnesses of class structure, is nothing more than an ignorant slave.

[15] Those who want freedom must have the capacity to fight for it. Theory without the concrete act of resistance has no power to realize itself, which is to say, all theory is inescapably determined in the direction of freedom. Those who comprehend freedom must have the courage, and ability, to defend it against those who fear it.

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