How do we handle the pathic power that we call libido?
For full introduction to this question see section everything is history and time is a god with four faces in the text process and event, which is a commentary on the gathas.
All this requires a new and deepened understanding of time in itself as
a phenomenon.It is interestingly enough probably a voyage -- as Lee
Smolin observes in the bookTime Reborn(2013) -- that hardly even has
begun, since all the boy-pharaohs and pillar-saints of the past three
millennia have preferred to dwell on infantile phantasms such as
eternity and immortality, rather than on pragmatically tangible
engineering matters such as time and space. This ironically means that
we must commence the necessary re-write of philosophy’s and theology’s
history with one massiveback to go. We must start over.The simple
fact is that if we are to carry out informationalism’s Exodology, we
must not only have a sense of where we are going -- that is to say which
libidinal objective we set for our own age before the barred absolute,
while this protects us against our collective mortido -- we must first
of all know where we are and how we got here. And to do this we must
delve deeper into history than we have ever done before. Thanks, dear
Syntheos, for there being machines to aid us in this too. Welcome to the
brave new world of data anthropology.
I can only write this from the memetic horizon I’m embedded in. And from there, what I see is that there is a clear connection between the concept of prāṇa and pathic power. Especially, the trancendental view that this force, is will-to-power, that must be divided to a will-to-transcedence, and an will-to-intelligence. None of these wills are individual but rather relational, and have two diffrent libidinal objectives. The dividing line is approximatly Menopause, before and after Menopause, women contribute through giving birth to children before, which is the future, and through intelligence after, which is the past. Even if this turns out to be incorrect, it still stands that to understand time in itself as a phenomenon is to understand the dynamics of libidinal objectives throught a lifetime. Women’s will in itself is simply will-to-reproduction, throught the lifetime, the activities are the same, even if she gain more experience and therefore more wisdom regarding her activites, and yet have less energy with old age. And so we see clearly that energy and wisdom is one continium, when you are young you have superior pathic energy, yet not necessary the wisdom to handle it well.
Paradigm shift shock is the chaos that awaits when a newEveryone simply
information-technological paradigm breaks through. It takes time for the
constant Man to adapt to the variable Technology. The first millennium
after permanent settlement was established was for instance the
bloodiest period in human history, since the participants in question
still lacked a metanarrative about connectedness that could serve as a
foundation for a long-term, strategic collaboration.
helped themselves to anything they could as soon as the opportunity
presented itself. One reasoned short-sightedly and selfishly. No actor
invested in any form of future. It was not until organized religion
arrived and built joint temples on the shamanic borderland between the
river valleys -- from which it preached the new grand narrative of the
shared root-of-the-phallus -- that fairly long periods of peace could be
maintained, and trade and growth could flourish.And there is no reason
to believe that the present paradigm shift from industrialism to
informationalism, and from capitalism to attentionalism (seeThe
Netocrats), will be the least bit easier than previous ones.
Particularly since our entire world is shifting paradigms simultaneously
this time. While no one seems to understand what is underway while it is
underway, since the dominant actors are strapped into their old
political, industrial and academic models that have become completely
irrelevant. They are acting in a new world while they are thinking in an
old one.
This is exactly my experience, and the hope is that the shared root-of-the-phallus (will-to-intelligence) shall open up for strategic collaboration. However, it’s important to push back on this a litte bit, the claim that everyone simply
helped themselves to anything they could as soon as the opportunity
presented itself. Is true but with qualifications, some people did not possess the skills required to act effectivly in the sexual chaos that transpired there.
It is time to not only go back to history, but also to re-write historyAnd this new
as though it had a new Hegelian necessity about it.
necessity to which the root-of-the-phallus points is the
informationalist paradigm, with its shift from a religion based on
magic -- via pathetic attempts to no religion at all -- to a religion
based on technology.Everything is history and since it concerns aThe old Zoroastrian dream that the truth (asha) one day shall defeat
paradigm shift, the new paradigm can only be understood if it receives
its own new history. We once again visit history to understand
ourselves, but this time we do so with social-technological and
data-anthropological glasses. If religion has stopped being magical and
instead has become technological, the phallic hope will no longer be
based on a faith, but actually on what Hegel calls absolute knowledge.
the lie (druj) in a battle of near-cosmic proportions comes true, when
the free and open algorithm plays its hand. Welcome to the information
society and the development of its necessary stories about itself.
The key then is to create a religion based upon the “free and open algorithm”. It’s now clear that the libidinal objective’s are (1): matrix, or naive nihilism; (2) mamilla, or cynical nihilism; (3) root-of-the-phallus, or ironical nihilism; (4) the-phallus-in-itself, or affermative nihilism. These are the diffrent libidinal objectives you can go for, with the free and open algorithm. When we thus speak of the fragmentation into four, we are talking about the male perspective.
Physics and Chemistry (the animal expression yet unconscious)
Metaphysics and Subphysics (the category in the needs system that pertains to
mechanical expression, for instance: the craving for food, drink, sleep
and protection, but also for sex, power and aggression)Biology and Psychology (linguistic and thereby uniquely human of the drive
system's four expressions, a more or less compulsive searching for
something that basically is unattainable, since the objective of desire
always withdraws and changes its guise)Culture and God (to exceed the limits for the present existence)
What are the unique lessions of this then? It’s we have THE ANIMAL EXPRESSION as SACRED, but it’s understood as PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY. Yet the full picture is more complex because even though there is thus an healthy RIGHT HEMISPHERIC EXPRESSION, we haven’t yet to see an healthy LEFT HEMISPHERIC EXPRESSION. Because all the old expressions are either CYNICAL (the nihilist pretends against
better judgment that there are objective values) or IRONIC (the nihilist builds their own internal and subjective values in opposition to the surrounding world’s falsely objective values).
What remains is thus the complete death of God (understood here as objective values): the nihilist interprets the absence of objective values as a liberating possibility to create their own values and convince the environment of these created values’ excellence. Then the insight is, nobody knows or have special forsight into the informationalist paradigm’s future. One such clarification then is that if you value X then Y follows.

