Your Journey to the Alt-Right.

[luka]

Doing a programming course hoping you beat the cull is not intelligence, it's craven and cowardly and only recommends you for a place against the wall and the firing squad

 

[constant escape]

But what do you want ? What's the end game? What are you aiming at?

I want to better calibrate the world historical spirit to the rhythm of the cosmos, I suppose. Or at least enough of the world historical spirit. In the interest of ensuring our passage onward.

 

[luka]

The world historical spirit if it exists is not synonymous with the needs of the powerful

 

[constant escape]

Doing a programming course hoping you beat the cull is not intelligence, it's craven and cowardly and only recommends you for a place against the wall and the firing squad

Yeah I wouldn't say its intelligence, but I would say its the kind of reading-the-room that neoliberalism strives for, no? Taking steps toward the forefront, and thus pushing the standards further.

 

[luka]

and the jobs they need us to fill

 

[constant escape]

The world historical spirit if it exists is not synonymous with the needs of the powerful

...I don't think I'd disagree, but I also didn't intend to convey that.

 

[luka]

our job our task our role as avatars of the world historical spirit is to say No

 

[constant escape]

Part of the task, yeah. What I refer to as the braking mechanism. In the distribution of interpretations, some need to be yay and others need to be nay, and the optimal balance (not that it is binary) depends on the situation.

 

[luka]

We have to resist. We have to pull the thing in another direction. We have our own needs and desires and ideals and visions

 

[constant escape]

Like how a bunch of ants push on some huge crumb from various directions, and their net direction leads to the ant hill.

 

[luka]

No, no, no, no, no. The essence of who we are is no.

 

[constant escape]

Well I do think it is possible to be more in touch with the net direction, rather than each perspective being equally arbitrary.

 

[WashYourHands]

Like how a bunch of ants push on some huge crumb from various directions, and their net direction leads to the ant hill.

You should try dogging.

 

[luka]

The net direction has no inherent value

 

[luka]

And there is no moral or pragmatic reason to align yourself with it,

 

[luka]

We don't have to fall in line. Better to kill than to fall in line.

 

[constant escape]

And that kind of becoming-in-touch marks a kind of individual psychic progress/enlightenment.

The net direction has no inherent value

I agree, the only value exists in the fragmented/atomized individual perspectives.

 

[constant escape]

But to perhaps push the metaphor too far, there will be some ants who happen to be moving more in alignment with the net direction.

 

[constant escape]

Its a facile metaphor, sure, but I think there is some low resolution point to take away.

 

[luka]

Sure, sure. Some take to programming naturally. In olden days some were natural knights comfortable with, uh, riding a horse, carrying a lance.

To quote me, the secret of survival is this, make yourself useful