One indication of a noble will usurping the suite of behaviors informed by the persona, is increased disgust sensitivity. Disgust spurs on all impulses to purge and eradicate pathogens of spirit.
One indication of a noble will usurping the suite of behaviors informed by the persona, is increased disgust sensitivity. Disgust spurs on all impulses to purge and eradicate pathogens of spirit.
One challenge all philosophers must overcome is how to coexist with the profanum vulgus — the common masses — which often serve as the collective embodiment of social demands intended to extinguish self-actualization. In our apocalyptic paradigm, philosophers must determine how to fulfill their super-predatory strivings all while living and working with others.
To avoid slaying the dragon of alienation is to doom oneself to an abbreviated existence characterized by ones adherence to social demands and biological functions in a unconscious manner.
If the former self was considered to be king, the king has now fallen ill to the truth — the truth being that the throne upon which this former self has reigned will be usurped by another contender.
In our reclamation of the symbolic, we must be careful to maintain our productive and poietic capacity to create symbols. In this creative mode, truth can be unrevealed, preparing us for life and love within an apocalyptic paradigm
When we consider the essence of our primordial being, and we look back to the garden from which we have been expelled — a more robust nature beckons to be resurrected and activated. Reconditioning man to once again live in the garden is a hard task requiring a noble will.
Possibility is not an external ontic, but is man himself. The being-which-is-there is possibility as a mode of being. As man moves in the world, so is he. As man loves another in the world, so is he.
We discover that our subconscious is composed of sophisticated daemons, which are not merely disembodied entities, but are strivings that ensure our fitness and survival.
Man mistakenly believes he is alive due to his residence in and fellowship with the crowd. The existence of man amongst the crowd is deceptive in the sense that such existence always affords man security and certainty.
Authenticity can not exist without a true self. This true self is the source of all spontaneous and creative energies. Such capacity always ascends from an inner authority and a palpitating inward life.
With out difference and nuance, all that is heralded as beautiful is in actuality dead, cold, and static. To live life is to love life. Heaven can wait.
Decadent society and the collapse of civilization has awakened man from a deep slumber. The long latency phase imposed upon man by heavenly environments, through the installation of stifling morality, has divorced humanity from all primordial impulses.
That of which we gather from without stays with us beyond the grave — gather wisdom. Although there may be some machinations of the psyche that are perhaps untouchable, the philosopher must continue to seek and excavate.
Curiosity is often a murderer of organisms. Alas, what is most untrue is often most useful. It is not necessary to take a thing literally in order to take it seriously.
Mendacity is often a siren who seduces with pleasant deceptions. In our ecology of disinformation, truth is nothing more than what is agreed to be truthful, creating a shared language which is uplifting and optimistic in tone and tenor only. The philosopher cannot alter the nature of Truth in an effort to make it more palatable.
The zeitgeist of any given populous is, in many instances, the creation of the intelligentsia which seeks to embed and exploit vain strivings into the hearts of minds of a population only for the benefit of elitists — often under the guise of advocacy for the greater good.
Exalting the form of man over man himself leads to a pathology of contradiction which causes man to behave as a double-minded hedonist — sick of himself in a body which has been granted long life on earth and eternal life in heaven. A new responsibility must be adhered to as we manage an abundance of time.
The default reaction to thinking on the condition of modern man is sadness and unease. The existential angst of asking if one is more than their vital, biological, and social functions causes most to retreat.
Digressions is a rebellion against the demands of the crowd. The author of The Davidian was recently propositioned with the suggestion to add visuals in order to make the site more “engaging” — this activated a strong and visceral response of disgust which prompted an investigation of the self as to why this was the case.
Here is where (when) linear time and existential time position themselves as opponents. Despair can usher the thinker to a continent of reason and logic. In this land the life of the mind is not a sickness unto death.