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The Cosmic Jest: The Joke’s On Us
“ Washington is being taken over by Comics.” – Salman Rushdie
The world is increasingly understood as a comic story, involving superheroes and supervillains. Confusingly, they are often one and the same. Donald Trump is the superhero for conservatives and the supervillain for liberals. Heroes and villains are now shapeshifters. They no longer reflect a common narrative. Their heroism or villainy depends on where you stand in the culture wars.
Next time you go to watch a superhero movie, imagine what it would be like if the superhero kept “flickering” into his opposite – the supervillain. Would you be able to follow the story? Whom would you be rooting for? Wouldn’t the plot be all over the place? You wouldn’t understand anyone’s motivation. The story would be pure chaos.
Or imagine you were in a cinema where half of the audience were booing and hissing one character while the other half were cheering and applauding the same character.
What happens when one group of people worship the Devil and call him God, while everyone else just calls him the Devil? That’s what Abrahamism is all about. The Gnostics said that Jehovah was the Demiurge (aka Satan).
A conventional narrative is not meant to be like a sports event. You are not meant to have two sets of supporters rooting for different characters, and having opposite views of heroism and villainy.
Why do so many people love superhero movies? It’s because superheroes can resolve problems, evidently what no one can do in real life. Superheroes are the human fantasy of bringing the worldwide mess to an end. They are the new generation of the old gods.
Humanity now has a comic-book mentality, with a comic-book understanding of reality, revolving around bizarre conspiracies and aliens. Many right wingers believe that shapeshifting, pan-dimensional, extraterrestrial lizards are running the world! Is that a comic-book idea, or something that reflects reality? Isn’t it incredible that billions of people now seem genuinely unsure of the answer?
Salman Rushdie said, “We are being ruled by grotesques.” We certainly are. Politicians are monstrous caricatures. They are not real people. One reason why Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination was that his rivals actually seemed like robots. They were so constrained by fear of saying the wrong thing that they could barely say anything at all. At no time were they authentic. Their humanity disappeared and they became machines. Trump, by contrast, reveled in saying the “wrong” thing, and did so with so much glee and enthusiasm that he seemed exactly the same as his rancid, deplorable base, who therefore flocked to him as if he were the Messiah.
People now exist in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance because they are permanently presented with two opposite narratives, which make sense of reality in opposite ways. People try to reduce the cognitive dissonance by hanging out only with their own kind, their own tribe. They seek out the echo chamber of their own beliefs. They wallow in “indignation porn”. Being indignant turns them on.
Who's laughing now?
The world is increasingly understood as a comic story, involving superheroes and supervillains. Confusingly, they are often one and the same. Donald Trump is the superhero for conservatives and the supervillain for liberals. Heroes and villains are now shapeshifters. They no longer reflect a common narrative. Their heroism or villainy depends on where you stand in the culture wars.
Next time you go to watch a superhero movie, imagine what it would be like if the superhero kept “flickering” into his opposite – the supervillain. Would you be able to follow the story? Whom would you be rooting for? Wouldn’t the plot be all over the place? You wouldn’t understand anyone’s motivation. The story would be pure chaos.
Or imagine you were in a cinema where half of the audience were booing and hissing one character while the other half were cheering and applauding the same character.
What happens when one group of people worship the Devil and call him God, while everyone else just calls him the Devil? That’s what Abrahamism is all about. The Gnostics said that Jehovah was the Demiurge (aka Satan).
A conventional narrative is not meant to be like a sports event. You are not meant to have two sets of supporters rooting for different characters, and having opposite views of heroism and villainy.
Why do so many people love superhero movies? It’s because superheroes can resolve problems, evidently what no one can do in real life. Superheroes are the human fantasy of bringing the worldwide mess to an end. They are the new generation of the old gods.
Humanity now has a comic-book mentality, with a comic-book understanding of reality, revolving around bizarre conspiracies and aliens. Many right wingers believe that shapeshifting, pan-dimensional, extraterrestrial lizards are running the world! Is that a comic-book idea, or something that reflects reality? Isn’t it incredible that billions of people now seem genuinely unsure of the answer?
Salman Rushdie said, “We are being ruled by grotesques.” We certainly are. Politicians are monstrous caricatures. They are not real people. One reason why Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination was that his rivals actually seemed like robots. They were so constrained by fear of saying the wrong thing that they could barely say anything at all. At no time were they authentic. Their humanity disappeared and they became machines. Trump, by contrast, reveled in saying the “wrong” thing, and did so with so much glee and enthusiasm that he seemed exactly the same as his rancid, deplorable base, who therefore flocked to him as if he were the Messiah.
People now exist in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance because they are permanently presented with two opposite narratives, which make sense of reality in opposite ways. People try to reduce the cognitive dissonance by hanging out only with their own kind, their own tribe. They seek out the echo chamber of their own beliefs. They wallow in “indignation porn”. Being indignant turns them on.
Who's laughing now?
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May 2, 2023
Good book
The joke is indeed on us. Who is laughing, you ask? Well, all the psycopaths, narcissists, conmen, charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, tricksters, manipulators, cult leaders, and all the deranged material that somehow got to the top of our society. Who will laugh at the end of the day? All the intelligent, creative, rational, meritorious good people when we put these psychopaths to where they truly belong - The freakshow. Or jail.
Interestingly enough, the author provides a supportive stage for just exactly such persona - Morgue, the cult leader of Hyperianism. A deranged, narcissitic psychopath of the first degree who escaped a horror freakshow, abuses drugs, plagiarized the works of Mike Hockney and Dr. Thomas Stark, stole their system of Ontological Mathematics and labelled it as the core of his sick woke cult - Hyperianism - shutting the mouths of anyone who dares to speak against him or his cult, inviting SWAT team on his two ex-moderators, calling the PI as Nazis, blocking their website so that everyone will come to him for the material and not the source and grifts millions of dollars from his gullible braindead Hyperian worshippers of his cult of personality under the claims that he needa money for a roof over his head when he lives in a millionaire lifestyle house in Hollywoods while his dumb followers cannot pay the rent and yet he claims he liberates mankind and raises the consciousness while all he is doing is stealing the works of others and saying how much he disagrees with everyone so that everyone will assume he is enlightened. The author of course was at the time in cahoots with Morgue and even supported the deranged mythos that he is 1/36 and was initiated by the Illuminati as well as being a "Watcher" to attract weak-minded people to the movement.
Not only that but the author gives stage to another psychopath who works with Morgue. Susan Mitchell. A self-proclaimed psychologist who didnt even know who is Carl Jung and is responsible for grooming and brainwashing cultists in Hyperianism as well as responsible for a fake inquiry to the FBI regarding 2 former members of Morgue (also known by the name Corey Rebhahn).
Other than that, the book presents interesting information about Ontological Mathematics and Meritocracy while still going in circles around everything.
The joke is indeed on us. Who is laughing, you ask? Well, all the psycopaths, narcissists, conmen, charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, tricksters, manipulators, cult leaders, and all the deranged material that somehow got to the top of our society. Who will laugh at the end of the day? All the intelligent, creative, rational, meritorious good people when we put these psychopaths to where they truly belong - The freakshow. Or jail.
Interestingly enough, the author provides a supportive stage for just exactly such persona - Morgue, the cult leader of Hyperianism. A deranged, narcissitic psychopath of the first degree who escaped a horror freakshow, abuses drugs, plagiarized the works of Mike Hockney and Dr. Thomas Stark, stole their system of Ontological Mathematics and labelled it as the core of his sick woke cult - Hyperianism - shutting the mouths of anyone who dares to speak against him or his cult, inviting SWAT team on his two ex-moderators, calling the PI as Nazis, blocking their website so that everyone will come to him for the material and not the source and grifts millions of dollars from his gullible braindead Hyperian worshippers of his cult of personality under the claims that he needa money for a roof over his head when he lives in a millionaire lifestyle house in Hollywoods while his dumb followers cannot pay the rent and yet he claims he liberates mankind and raises the consciousness while all he is doing is stealing the works of others and saying how much he disagrees with everyone so that everyone will assume he is enlightened. The author of course was at the time in cahoots with Morgue and even supported the deranged mythos that he is 1/36 and was initiated by the Illuminati as well as being a "Watcher" to attract weak-minded people to the movement.
Not only that but the author gives stage to another psychopath who works with Morgue. Susan Mitchell. A self-proclaimed psychologist who didnt even know who is Carl Jung and is responsible for grooming and brainwashing cultists in Hyperianism as well as responsible for a fake inquiry to the FBI regarding 2 former members of Morgue (also known by the name Corey Rebhahn).
Other than that, the book presents interesting information about Ontological Mathematics and Meritocracy while still going in circles around everything.
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