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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 11:09:36 GMT
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Post by Jinxtengu on May 10, 2020 11:53:17 GMT
This is not ascii art, but It's funny because it's Pewdiepie related.. well maybe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Above,_So_Below_(film) "The first trailer of the film was revealed on April 24, 2014.[9] YouTuber PewDiePie and his wife Marzia Bisognin promoted the film by embarking on a quest into the catacombs, where they would be scared in a variety of ways.[1"
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 11:59:28 GMT
Heh, what would people do just to get attention (and $$$)... If you want to experience the Paris Catacombs, I recommend playing the first Deus Ex!
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Post by Jinxtengu on May 21, 2020 6:31:35 GMT
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What constitutes the pyramid head in your opinion?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2020 11:44:18 GMT
The circumflex is a conglomeration of mean judgement, an apogee of human stupidity and the source of all that ails us.
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Post by Jinxtengu on May 22, 2020 8:43:55 GMT
"mean" judgement? as in the "average" of total judgement or something else, and also whose judgement? judgement based on what? and what constitutes human stupidity? People can only construct reality from the ideas they are fed or encounter, so I feel it is unfair to rail against anyone for ignorance. Everyone makes perfect "sense" when you evaluate them in relation to the long chain of circumstances that has led to their eventual formation as a person, whole or otherwise, in essence it is the idea at the core of social psychology; the fundamental attribution error, the problem of observing the person external from their situation. I believe what ails many, at least in the case of most of the people I've encountered, those who were truly ailed, is the being prevented from becoming individual agents. I'd say the blame for this lays squarely on the shoulders of the older generation, who systematically prevent their offspring from becoming fully individuated beings. The individual, prevented from becoming themselves and diverted from their true path, always knows this on some deeper level, and this subconscious knowledge of "unwholeness" forms a wellspring of resentment and repressed creative energy. These people become embittered and relish narratives of destruction, because ultimately it is self destruction that they crave, having internalized their own failings and projecting them upon the world. But such people are mere shadows doomed to wither under the illumination of real inspiration. Their power is quite illusory. People are only trapped by their inability to see outside themselves, which when you think about it, is not much at all really. The mountain for many, is in reality just a molehill that can be easily stepped over.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 10:44:19 GMT
I can elaborate on that of course. A few words won't do it justice. However, I think I've pretty much described it all in the "Real cause of dementia" thread already.
Mediocrity has the status of religion in our society of housewives and beer gobblers. As you go higher up the pyramid, the only difference is that those who are at the top learned to deceive themselves even more compared to those at the bottom or in the middle. And the very peak consists of those who continue to do everything so that the religion (or doctrine) persists indefinitely.
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Post by Jinxtengu on May 25, 2020 8:45:12 GMT
No need to elaborate, I think I know where you're coming from. You kind of remind me of my past self, but in saying that, don't think I'm claiming any superiority over you.
You must realize, that the mediocrity you speak of is propagated at a societal level, and is spread cross culturally. I think that using that term "mediocrity" creates unnecessary divisions in that context, and only adds to the toxic cultural reducionism that we see happening atm. The mediocrity really is the system in and of itself, a system which self perpetuates a worldview of individuals as merely components of that system, dehumanising all of humanity in the process. Western industrialized society is completely psychologically dependent on the mass media, as it is only through media consumption that individuals may enter into full participation within society, see De Fleur and Ball Rokeach's dependency theory. The mass media literally and profoundly constructs the nature of reality for the individual and thus for the masses, it also programs thought patterns and delineates the limits of human thinking, restricting them to to those levels deemed to benefit the social organism. The transnational class, which to a large extent represents the international banking sector along with mutually connected global-corporations, actually sets the narrative, pulling the strings at the highest levels by choosing what groups and individuals get access to that capital, and of course it is only those groups and individuals who align themselves, consciously or otherwise with the interests of these groups, serving to strengthen and propagate their mutually reinforcing narratives. I would argue that these narratives promote "strange absolutes" to form within the self, which serves some function to further enmesh/entangle individuals with their established worldview, but that is another topic entirely. All I'm saying it that the society of "beer gobblers" is part of a larger problem. People are just people. They are capable of good or bad it just depends on their situation and socialization. Western society largely endorses the bad, since it promotes psychopathy, seen most predominately at it's highest levels, which are defined by a culture of predation. All the fuckness in society is merely a predictable (and planned) outcome of such systems; ie it is only a symptom of the madness that grips the world at large. Russia is probably playing catch-up with the west in all this, since this global race to the bottom creates an inevitable arms race towards more and more restrictive forms of societal control. In a system like this, the worst fascist tendencies simply become inevitable. I would argue that the current global situation can be fairly accurately described and mapped by systems theory, as a closed loop, inherently unstable, and therefore needing to be revitalized periodically though some form of large-scale social disruption. I would strongly suggest letting go of all "absolute" notions as I believe this is perhaps the best way to resist this now international sickness. Spreading an awareness of the interconnectedness of all things and rejecting the absolute are probably the best ways to prevent some form of global catharsis in the form of nuclear war or worse. Technology has moved too far too fast and is being used by people who barely grasp the full implications of what they are really doing. Sometimes I worry that in considering the deepest implications of the pyramid head, one in effect starts to wear that mask with the resulted blindedness that follows. One cannot deny the power of the symbol, the pyramid being the ultimate symbol of it's most stable "directed" form. Of course society must transition to a model with power dispersed throughout itself, which represents the only balanced model, not veering too far towards either catharsis or entropy. I should state again that it is on symbology that the universe is truly based; the only thing that is immortal and divine is that which represents the symbol in it's most complete form. But what I crave isn't power, only silence. We should really get back to the topic of Ascii art, which is how this started.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 9:29:53 GMT
I hear you. Humanity attempts to prove that it's defective by design. Society is moving towards global sadomasochism which will eventually become the ultimate standard of living, and anyone not willing to play the game would fall out of it completely.
...But I agree, let's get back to the ASCII art, this discussion belongs to other threads.
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Post by Jinxtengu on May 27, 2020 5:27:13 GMT
I do not believe that outcome is inevitable, even though it may appear so at present. If we accept that outcome as inevitable, what you call "global sadomasochism", it will only make that more likely to occur via the mechanism of self fulfilling prophecy. The most important thing is to try and get some broader perspective from whats going on and avoid getting drawn into the various narratives being played out atm.
If we look at things more broadly, stripping away all the political baggage, we are looking at personal narratives behaving like "strange attractors" from mathematics. The constituents of the various social movements have in a sense, become subordinate to the group itself, or rather the group narrative. It's not their fault but they are in effect zombified, or rather memeoids/memefied, trapped by narrative structures that are paradoxical and unsolvable in the purely logical sense, but also diametrically opposed to the structures held by the other groups, hence why these groups are interacting in the same way as "strange attractors", they are all flawed by the same sort of absolutism, all of them unable to concede any other perspective.
I think several solutions are available at present (rather than a final solution). Whats really needed most right now are objective perspectives, that have not yet been contaminated by social media trends, that way it's possible to see though the populist politics and leads us towards possible solutions that don't involve mass murder. But yes ASCII Art.
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