Vitologia, a philosophy for the future: Empire and Talent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- The truest form of "democracy" is empire since the ultimate will of the people is to delegate out their core mental function to fake heroes and their parasitical hosts. There is only one alternative: talent.
I am very interested in your process. Are these ideas the synthesis of a life of thought, or are they lectures you are translating? How do you come up with the sentences, because each one is so well crafted. Is your talent simply for connecting the dots, or do you have higher structures like concept-mapping which informs a dedicated ontology behind the scenes? Following you to the end here, I would guess it is just natural talent, which would refuse as baseless an attempt at rigorous definition. In a way, you are arguing for the necessity of metaphor and intuition, albeit informed by experience, over knowledge-creation as limited by model-making!
Precisely. The basis of vitologia is my philosophical diary, which I started when I was 13 years old. I took all my life experiences real time and tried to interpret these incorporating the opinion of others as well as my own intuition and general concepts derived from extensive reading. All ideas described here were born from these processed and organized life experiences. So vitologia is a unique synthesis of all these.
No, I do not use any other sources, the lectures and ideas here are wholly original and do not follow any other logic other than the sequence of topics as I thought about them.
Yes, my aim is to transcend simplistic "objective" models and emphasize the power of intuition based on unique processing of life experience; except that this intuition should take into account the opinion and ideas of all that one is exposed to in order to maximize one's perspective.
The fundamental idea behind this procedure is that reality is always changing, it is variable and of infinite complexity. Therefore general, objective, absolute truths cannot fully guide us. These latter are extended local experiences with limited validity outside their original domain, which is determined by the unique circumstances in which they were born. In fact, their extended validity with an imaginary infinite domain is an illusion constituting a virtual world. The original circumstances behind some of these general ideas were surely different from our situation here and now. So they should be considered carefully, but not accepted mechanically.
@@lajoszsommd1526 I see, fascinating and laudable! One question I have regards mechanical denial. When it comes to psychology, then some refusing attitudes towards religious scriptures will tend to support an outlook of more individuality like yours. I think they are much more deeply embedded into our psychology, and therefore regard them as integral components to understanding ourselves. In a mix of our worldviews, I extend this vision to the gods and prophets and interpret them as overcoming both themselves and the limits of the world at that time. However their devotional aspect indicates an integration of some cultural forces which I consider factor into a true appreciation of our species in the world. Of course, I mean that once we have history, it fits into our biological tendencies to activate the entrained potentials. And not inherent truth. However the cultural embedding may be mindblowingly deep, and culture provides the symbols to appreciate this. Therefore there is merit to religion, and there are pitfalls for disbelief like a lack of sensittivity for their cultural objects. The non-cultural pitfalls are biological so to speak, lack of spirituality rather than religious punishment. My difficult challenge is always looking for a unifying vision where these biological tendencies produced great results only to have them changed and squandered by organized religion.
@@PanthaAhimsa Tradition and local culture has a lot of value in building a community. Therefore any local cultural manifestation including religious tradition, local worldview, specific philosophy all remain important. However, one must realize that all these are meant to remain local and relative to a given community with a specific angle and local life experience. One may respect these traditional ideas and even get deeply attached to them, this is only natural. However, the minute one extends these valuable local traditions to an imagined absolute and permanent universality, the tradition becomes EXCLUSIVE and this generates rivalry, conflict and violence. I may belong to this tradition, but I do not regard our tradition to be exclusive and universal. Since reality is infinitely complex there is infinite room for local uniqueness and any unique synthesis is possible. It is like a man who traveled much of the world and understood and even incorporated lots of local viewpoints: he is unlikely to cling to one exclusive local perspective. Spirituality is all important. But let it not be based on rigid fixations and exclusivity. Reality always changes, rigidity is unnatural. Why is rigidity so prevalent nevertheless? Because of mental inertia that is preferred my the masses. It is easier to eat easy-to-digest food, it is easy to appreciate the current vogue trends, it is easy to mechanically adopt ready-made simplistic worldviews. Mental inertia is the ultimate curse for mankind.
@@lajoszsommd1526 I see. We certainly agree that the content of religion should reflect the needs and wishes of the people who practice it, rather than those of the preachers. However my point was that elements of religion are already worldwide, like Abrahamic Faith or Yoga, and so because there is no winding back the clock, we thinkers also have to interact with spiritual narratives on a global level. Does this make sense?
@@lajoszsommd1526 consider a Jewish person in the middle ages is travelling far from home and meets another: they would use hands and feet and Bible to make the connection. So there are non-local aspects to religious identity which bring people together. Now in our globalized world we should expect more interaction. You address the needs for spirituality to contain itself to the locality, however I am highlighting the natural expansiveness of human consciousness when it comes to symbolic resonance. In this case I see us as needing more integration so that one or the other group does not do exactly what you caution against.