On Reality (Video, Notes, and Comments)

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Update

• In Japan
  • Haven’t had time to do much more than film people on the street from my balcony
  • Samsung S8+
• Trying to figure out how to unobtrusively use my phone to take videos as I walk around. No one seems to have a lanyard for a cell phone…
• These videos are being posted on Vid.Me and YouTube
• Also, anything that could be said on the Google Memo has been stated quite well by the article “The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond” (link below)
• And, Black Pidgeon Speaks just uploaded a hilarious video regarding the Chinese tourists busted for Sieg Heiling outside the Reichstag.
  • If only they had been raping children instead, they would have gotten a free pass, just as many refugees have. Link Below.
• On with the show

[TKK Excerpt]
I do believe in an actual objective reality.

• However, do to the mediating force of our senses, we cannot actually apprehend this reality
• However, I feel that a strong basis for postulating its existence can be drawn from the various commonalities of experience.
  • We all apprehend the sun, we can experience its light and warmth directly.
  • We can observe its effects on plants, animals, etc.
  • There is some objective truth which we interpret as the sun

Sadly, it is not just the senses interposing themselves between us and objective reality

• Our minds puts forth a filter which sifts through the sensory input
• This filters prioritizes and interprets phenomenon.
• Now I admit that I find Metaphysics confusing
  • Sadly, for me, Metaphysics is very important in this schema.
  • “being as such”, or rather our conception of it colors our understanding of “reality”

Our metaphysics give rise to our values

• Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that our values derive from the metaphysical interpretation of objective reality.
• Sadly, few people examine the values they hold
• Fewer people look at the metaphysical constructs which give form to those values
  • And yes, Heidegger is also confusing.
• I doubt anyone has looked at pure objective reality freed from the forms given it by our values and metaphysics. 

OK, so if people do not look at their values or examine their metaphysics, how are these values made available to them?

• There are two expressions of socio-cultural values
  • Art
  • Religion
• Now I am using some special definitions for these terms, so I will clarify.
• Art covers  all creative endeavors: music, painting, sculpture, poetry, video
  • One could argue that sex and procreation are also art
  • Art is a primal expression of socio-cultural values
    • Even degraded as it often is in the modern age
    • Early medieval art was ugly because it reflected the Early Christian view that the world was corrupt
    • Likewise many modern artworks are ugly to reflect a similar antipathy to the world as it is.
    • Our liking of a piece of art is often dependent on how it reflects the internalized values we hold.
• Religion covers all ideologies that govern the relationship of the self and not-self.
  • Those things which give us a place in the world
  • Those things which define the I’s relationship to the not-I.
  • So, yes, in this sense, Atheism is Religion
  • So is Science

Below Religion is the manifestation of the Political

• Religion tends to focus on the relationship of the self to the eternal
• Politics is focused on the temporal.
  • One’s conception of the eternal will color one’s perceptions of the temporal.
• However, with the death of god, the center which anchored human society was broken.
• This has created some hybrid ideologies, such as Humanism, Communism, or Fascism.
• This also explains the cultish behavior of various SJWs and Groups like BAMN, Anti-fa, or Wobblies.
• As opiates are synthetic endorphins, so are these ideologies a synthetic “religion”.
• And just like heroin destroys the mind and body, so do these ideologies destroy the mind and soul.
  • But I digress

Now we finally get to Morals, which are the practical application of your values, religious beliefs, and political structures.

• For example, the moral belief that murder is bad derives from a value that holds human life as important, a religious injunction (e.g. Do not murder), and political laws (e.g. the criminalization of homicide).

This whole process can be summed by Chapter 38 of the Tao Teh Ching

• The Tao Teh Ching is my second favorite set of Scripture.
• Translation by Derek Lin from Taoism.net
  • Therefore, the Tao is lost, and then virtue
  • Virtue is lost, and then benevolence
  • Benevolence is lost, and then righteousness
  • Righteousness is lost, and then etiquette
  • Those who have etiquette
  • are a thin shell of loyalty and sincerity
  • And the beginning of chaos
• Modern society operates on a level far from “Reality”
• To be fair, this problem has been around for, at least, the 4th century BCE
  • Even I don’t posit that the Modern Age started that far back.

While I have explained these in a linear fashion, it should be noted that they are actually reciprocal. Things lower provide feedback to those higher. Those parallel feed into each other. It is all actually very dynamic. Religion defines the avenues of science and science validates or invalidates religion. God didn’t die of old age, Science killed him, and into the void flew a multitude of similar, but competing, ideologies.
What benefit does this knowledge/structure/System give us.

• Well we can see what trumps what and what influences what.
• It allows us to analyze our own system of beliefs
• To understand where these beliefs came from.

One of the biggest problems I see with modern social movements is their inability to understand what they are promoting.

• They are generally working at the level of morals with occasional bumps into Politics.
• They do not examine (and many do not even acknowledge) what I have termed the Religious elements.
• They conflate their morals with Values
  • This can be seen by the contradictory impulses that both support and oppose any given value.
  • They say they value equality, but posit unequal treatment of various group
  • They say they value women, but support groups who oppress women
  • They say they value pacifism, but continually vote for warmongers
  • They say they value certain ethnic groups, but promote policies that destroy those same groups.
• A simple analysis of their behavior through the system I have outlined, and an understanding of the hierarchical nature of these items would bring a level of sanity and clarity to our social interactions.

So, to sum up.

• Reality exists, but none of us can actually apprehend it objectively.
• Reality is mediated through a series of layers which reciprocally influence each other.
• Our values are expressed in our art and “religion”.
• The lowest of these is morality.
  • I sneer at the good person, those who can, do, those who can’t console themselves with how moral they are.
  • [Crass Clip]
• Only by examining these layers can we come to understand what we are doing
• Only by understanding what we are doing can we eliminate contradictory impulses
• Only by eliminating contradictory impulses can we succeed in implementing the values we actually hold.
• Further, an understanding of all of this is necessary to apply reason and chart a path to maximize our individual freedom and garner success for our beliefs.
• This illustrates some of what Crowley meant by “A Devil With Unity Would Be A God”.

As a side note:

• The occultist works with Art and Religion to manifest their Values.
• Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. (AC, MTP)

Truth is found in the Rubble of Falsehood
LITLLUW
Earlier blog post on this topic
Google Memo:Google’s Ideological Echo ChamberThe Google Memo: Four Scientists RespondNo, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science
Black Pigeon Speaks:https://vid.me/88Xq8
Derek Lin’s Tao Teh Ching: http://taoism.net/tao/tao-te-ching-online-translation/ (Note: This moved from it’s prior location)
Samples:My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Nervous XiansCrass - Berkertex Bribe
Opening:Kai EngelChant Of Night BladesDeathless: The RenaissanceLicense
Ending:Ami DengA Strange CommunityHukamLicense