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Grizzly » Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:22 pm wrote:^^^
Really? "No explosives traces" what so ever, eh?" Wow.
However: a growing count of humans are increasingly rebuking the current iterations of tribal social constructs, and do not subscribe to any single (increasingly contrived, compromised and hijacked) social group. More are realizing that so much of what passes for "consensus" is sheer bullshit.
Belligerent Savant » Sun Apr 16, 2023 12:19 pm wrote:From page 96 of Kubrickon:In Charles Upton's 2018 book, Dugin Against Dugin, Upton describes a kind of magical "creative visualization" that either rejects an object metaphysical order entirely, or is blind to the need to conform to order as "the precondition for any spiritually-based action" (Upton, p. 160). Either God is dead or He's irrelevant, or else He is the competition. The postmodernist Mage gets to intone the word of the new Aeon, reality be damned.
Upton argues that magical thinking of this sort has become "a central praxis in a post-structuralist world." The notion that belief is a tool, he continues, "that the use of words is not primarily to express truth but rather to make things happen, is obviously also an integral part not only of the craft of magic but of the practice of politics-- right, left or center, green, red or blue in today's world" (ibid). Grammar magic and spellcraft-- in the beginning was the word, and the word was a command (let there be light).
This is also a good description of computing and the function of code. It is not quite "first build it, then pray," but rather that prayer is an essential component in the building of (the ritual of entering) the virtual realms. Computer code doesn't actually describe or express anything real, but it's becoming more and more efficient at causing things to happen (html code, CGI, and so on). Insofar as it can be made operational, it brings about changes in what we recognize as "reality"-- and how we recognize it.
If we are living in a "post-truth" world, it is because belief has become a tool to generate artificial realities rather than a conduit to understanding objective reality. This latter is accordingly rendered obsolete, along with God and Patriarchy. Truth then becomes nothing more than whatever people can be persuaded to believe. (Such as that an untested form of genetic hacking via experimental nano-technological implants is a safe and necessary cure to a virus that has never even been successfully isolated.)
There is a curious void at the center of this circle. Belief in magic is necessary to make magic effective. Magic is a tool, or a method, for manipulating perception that can thereby "restructure reality." Yet a reality that can be restructured by human whim throws into doubt the very possibility of objective reality. This ideology is self-confirming but also self-contradicting. It depends on affirming the belief that there is no objective, eternal reality, that there is no higher spiritual principle outside of the temporary and the subjective.
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