Month: Oct 2021

Sacred Cows: Disinterest and Impartiality

Kevin Nebula Art and Culture, Critique, Interpretation, Opinion, Philosophy , , , ,

An editor somewhere all the time:

…our standing has an enviable reputation for disinterest and impartiality in our reporting…

Whoever believes in that anymore, that one can be ‘disinterested’ when engaging in something, anything? Its almost as though we are talking about a cognisant corpse whose ‘blood runs cold’ while making judgements. The inner core temperature of humans is 98.F, not exactly cold. Yes its a metaphor but it also hides the unconscious thought that, being civilised we are all rational calculating machines in every situation. This is something we have learned over millennia of cultivation, self-cultivation. The true animal inside us now only exists in an archaic hall of mirrors cropping up in our dreams, or sometimes ‘real’ life. In our early evolutionary existence we had very different emotions than we have today, though they’re part of us, a phylogenetic inheritance that we can only deny and censor.

Isn’t it more like this:

Does nature not remain silent about almost everything, even about our bodies, banishing and enclosing us within a proud, illusory consciousness, far away from the twists and turns of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream and the complicated tremblings of the nerve-fibres? Nature has thrown away the key, and woe betide fateful curiosity should it ever succeed in peering through a crack in the chamber of consciousness, out and down into the depths, and thus gain an intimation of the fact that humanity, in the indifference of its ignorance, rests on the pitiless, the greedy, the insatiable, the murderous.

Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense’

These antique, archaic remnants are no less the foundation of all humanity, but are the foundations of all civilisations. The greedy acquisitions, the double-crossing, the murders and appropriations of land, resources, people, the air we breathe. Yes, even the air that we breathe, it is the one resource that we can’t quantify no matter our pride; or because of our pride, we can’t give any value to it because we just don’t see it as stuff. This self-interest is also at the heart of our morality, we are social creatures of reputation with nay a disinterested bone in our body.

Sacred Cows

Kevin Nebula Interpretation, Opinion, Philosophy, Writing , , , , ,

The sword that benefits from the pen is mightier. And vice versa. For the most part, history is a result of the pen benefiting from the sword. So that’s another myth (sacred cow) demolished.

A proper understanding (feeling) of chronology, it’s literal position in comprehension, is necessary in understanding all history, including your own. Especially your own. For modern day idols, see sacred cows. Every culture has them, especially post-god-is-dead cultures. In the west our pampered post-culture has the sacred cow of ‘guilt-free democracy’. Basically freedom-without-responsibility. We vote for them but we’re not responsible for them.

The search for Being, history foretells this, has lead to colonialism, slavery and the own goal of climate change. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Unfortunately we are stuck with the complete misreading of the runes of history. The so-called ‘last man’, bloated with the facts of history (all practical understanding) though without interpretation, walks around as though blind. Thus, climate change is a clear example of this blindness through misunderstanding: a correct reading of history would enable the understanding of how our use of resources changes the chemistry of our environment. Denile of this is still very active. Follow the money, follow the psychology of ‘progress and technology’, even science.

It’s very Heraclitian: science and technology, both take and give, but not necessarily in equal volume. Imbalance is our natural condition, just scratch the surface.

What next? Has this question even been conceived yet?

Aphorisms – The Unlearning of your Life

Kevin Nebula Aphorisms, Art and Culture, Interpretation, Philosophy, Writing , , ,

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Nietzsche: ‘I fear we shall never be rid of God as long as we believe in grammar.’
Extrapolate…

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The language of love, of beauty, of perfection, the language of the one, of God. We tell ourselves little myths every time we speak.

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No two things are the same, indeed there is no ‘thing’. No straight line, anywhere. Grammar mythologizes origins, it is guilty of our consciousness and the first tool of repression used against our genuine emotions.

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The free spirit unlearns life as it has been told to him previously. It gets to the point when language is of no more use in describing what is real as it can only point to a mythical past. What then?

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What then? Understand that you have an overriding will to power, not a will of the appetites, these must be overcome by the higher will, not cause and effect, but your own quantum of will, your own quantum of power. Enact.

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Free will is a myth of grammar, as is determinism. Freedom is only relative to your power, your whole being is defined by your higher will to gather power. It is of secondary nature that you will to live.

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From Plato onward we ‘have a woeful history: man looks for a principal, from a standpoint of which he will be able to condemn man – he invents a world in order to slander and throw mud at this world: …he snatches..at nothing and construes this nothing as “God”..
Nietzsche.

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…’the history of philosophy (truth) is a secret raging against the prerequisites of life, against the feeling of the value of life, against the championship of life. The philosophers have never hesitated to affirm a world provided it contradicted this world and supplied them with a handle with which to calumniate this world. Up to the present it has been the great school of slander.’
Nietzsche.

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So, to know thyself means to be able to unlearn your past life and, essentially, to understand that man, as you are, is to be surpassed by the higher man who beautifully combines his animal nature with his hard won intellect that enables him to create authentically in his own history.

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We must extrapolate the latter point even more….

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…Mankind has no action, no endeavour, big or small, that doesn’t come down to: good or bad. Any subject, any movement. Everything is a moral question, especially logic and reason.

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Because morality underpins all our actions, history itself is a morality tale. The vast corpus of morality is the expression of nay saying. The higher man, the free spirit is an example of yea saying. Transcend good and evil.

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The more you say ‘yes’ the freer you are. Bob Marley sang, “no chains around my feet but I’m not free”: this is applicable to all peoples everywhere. Your historical culture weighs you down.

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It is the philosopher’s disposition that he has a categorical imperative and nothing more.