It had to Happen...And You Had to React
SOFCast weekly Newsletter - Newsletter 06, November 2022
Change isn't necessarily for the better...
I wrote this draft as 40 odd billion dollars of Musk took hold of the main operating wing of the Murican’ global psychological operations wing. My initial views seem probably correct at this point.
The online right has a habit of blowing their load faster than an excited 14-year-old at the eternal carrot of owning the libs.
Nevertheless enjoyed the temporary new energy Musk blew into twatter. Gives a taste of what it could be. Without a doubt, the celebration was pre-emptive, as I suspected. In the medium to long term, things could get worse. Still, never look a gifthorse in the mouth as they say, one should always be grateful each time the left is forced to watch the forces of mockery and spite spread their fiery wings. Yet I suspect this will be short-lived and broadly, in the end, a disappointment. Things tend to peter out these days. They are their own form of propaganda, there’s not much under the hood.
I adhere to the Hyattian principle that one of this species' most deeply held and flawed assumptions is that change is for the better. It is one of those untested subconscious streams everyone carries around. We are all brought up as progressives, after all. I apply this aphorism to everything as a sense check, particularly mass politics, and it has rarely failed me. Indeed, it may be true sometimes and on an individual level it can be very positive. On a level of large-scale political movements as abstraction, not so much.
Despite this, these days the best things are birthed in some roaring foment of psychological schizoid chaos. Who truly knows what frightening forms will emerge from the abyss if this continues….
Interesting times are ahead on that platform.
Another day, another dollar....
Recently been subjected to some corporate propaganda, specifically by a HR "professional" for a portion of the last week. ESG. Although everyone says it's merely greenwashing or downplays its significance, I disagree. I took away several things:
ESG focus is being accelerated even this year. increasingly, there will be forced compliance as larger corporations (i.e. those very close to the government in the West) refuse to do business with small or mid-sized vendors who do not enforce ESG compliance. I have seen many question posed as this enforcement gathers pace.
Corporate entities have now essentially been empowered to enforce environmental and social regulations dictated by hard-left progressive governments. This is soft compliance, that basically says that if you want income, you had better do what we say.
It is designed primarily to disempower young white men and promote minorities and women. Maybe not even so much white women. It is definitely the case that race remains an important feature of our thing. I see this as its primary goal; if the government wants, they'll screw the environment up where convenient. However, with "diversity" hiring, it boils down to this - women will be promoted, immigrants will be promoted, and there's nothing you can do about it. And if you get promoted, you will become one of the enforcers.
You likely won’t be promoted unless you’re a “middle class striver faggot”. And likely you will remain in the engine room, shovelling coal so incompetents at the top can thrive.
I made the simple suggestion that you shouldn’t do this for them. and while still thriving, find ways around this boring, gay life.
So trying to figure out what to do for me, and some interesting things came up during my analysis. I made a twatter thread here that young men may want to consider.
One thing is for sure, they consider you the enemy. I'm not saying give it all up, but be aware that you won't succeed in that environment even if you do - the battle has already been lost. Boomer men and older X'ers have betrayed you.
You'll need all your wit or to cut out your tongue and remove your balls to survive.
The choice is an easy one for me.
The old issue, overcomplicated...
Sitting at the airport, I thought I'd quickly go through the old "free will" arguments, which ties in with our developing thing. In particular, it is crucial to understand how powering down the reified self works.
As an aside, I'm starting to see that many readers here are all quality people who are starting to get it. I have e-mails indicating people are beginning to see what the nature of the game is. That's encouraging.
Every year or so, there are outbursts of warring factions i notice try to parse it all out. And the usual global flood of tears that ensues from highly sensitive posters.
The idea behind synthesising much of this on a platform and substack is that I want you to see all these truths experientially without wasting years and years of life like I did with mystical horseshit. If you wish to have religion and magical energy blowing out your asses when Hitler returns, that's ok with me, but this isn't that. This is work: mostly unsexy and unexotic.
Let’s dig in…
Free will and the Reee-ified Self - Like Two Peas in a Pod
People really overcomplicate this whole thing. What we’re discussing here is immediately obvious. I've seen it come up repeatedly, replete with the usual hurt feelings or unpleasant academese explanations about the super will or premium will and all kinds of pseudo-physical explanations that no one can or probably ever will verify. And yet, as a matter of experience, nothing is confusing about this. All of this is easily verifiable.
Elephants
Did you think of something else?
Here at the airport, my biological matrices, which are not separate from the world but an indistinguishable part of it, constantly interact with evolutionarily selected iconography around me for survival purposes. On the level of the atomic, there is a constantly interacting soup of consciousness and matter. What's going on has no essence of "I". Almost all of these interactions, including my focus or self-consciousness, are directed as required by the flux of experience.
Your flight is about to board, please go to the gate...
Did I’ness direct the other person to say that? Did I’ness direct my ears to hear this sound vibration, or to neurologically interpret meaning from the sound? Would i be able to not hear the meaning? Absolutely not. Where is the self-directed I'ness here? Can you find it? One of the first things you should do in meditation, is to let sound arise and relax against it. You note, along with all other phenomena, that these things simply arise spontaneously, moment by moment, in your consciousness. You don’t need to sit down and calculate the meaning, even though in some weird way, it often feels that way since we are unable to relax against the sound arising.
You thought of an elephant. You had no choice. Everything is like this. Nothing in your field of experience is self-created or self-directed in an ultimate sense. We are wandering energetic forces of nature interacting pre-determined ways with the pre-determined causal chain of reality around us.
Because we lack any agency over what happens or what arises, even to almost ridiculous agree, the arising of our reactions themselves - naturally, we have no free will either. As it is commonly understood.
Not in the way western philosophy has viewed it for centuries. It is not so much a comment i’m making here on having free will or not having free will - it is a comment on how utterly non-sensical the idea of free will is when you simply notice what is going on in your experience.
I know that is unpalatable to many who are filled with hatred on hearing this. And yet, this is the whole point. Why this reaction? Did you choose this reaction? Think about al the mind states that led to this moment, why you are now reading this, to your reaction on imbibing their meaning.
Unless we're a monk or other, we are stuck in this mind state of:
The feeling of self-directing all experience and all actions. This is associated with contraction and tension when experiencing “outside” phenomena. We experience tension as we are not able to relax into spontaneous arising. This feeling, is the feeling of selfdom.
To us, this self feels like it exists outside of causal space and time; free will is something we also have, since we are the thing directing our experience.
Thus the self is eternal and unaffected by the physical jewniverse, and free-will is its mechanism of action.
As I have made clear in all my work in different ways - the great paradox, or perhaps irony, is that a belief in free will (or operating as if its true) is a severely limiting one.
In the scope of the organism's ability to apply actual choice to different situations - selfdom is quite literally operating in a complete state of ignorance. You're literally on autopilot - and thus, you are limited.
Free will is will limiting.
I don't dispute that for someone ignorant of his mental processes, the way we act feels like we act with volition. It's not really accurate, though.
So don't take life so hard. Free yourself. Energise yourself. Pursue knowledge for joy. Let go of the energetic burden of reified seldom.
Complicated Theories: Female Trait
When you meditate, this is one of the things you're meant to notice about your psychology. It's not about flying dragons, sinister greys and devas or other crap people go on with.
This is why people are bad meditators. Meditation is about noticing mental processes, not spooky solar dragon energy blowing out of your arse.
It’s akshually pretty simple - If you're assailed by thoughts, sensations, and environmental influences during mediation and can’t stop any of it, how on earth do you possess any semblance of free will? In normal life, instead of noticing things come up, we are simply lived by those same things we notice during meditation. We grab a hold of any old nonsense and run with it, thinking it’s us.
This is one of the most essential things you should notice about the nature of your mind.
In fact - no one really believed in free will, as far as I can tell, until relatively recently. Not true free will as we've been acculturated to understand it.
It’s really Augustine, who comes during the formation of Christianity with massive cope arguments - don't think any differently - this is where it comes from.
But as we've seen, it is an entirely incoherent belief. It makes no sense as a concept. It's completely absurd, and no amount of Denent or over-intellectualised cope can fix this because everything they talk about is subject to the same shortcomings or forces.
All you have to do is notice.
Take 5 minutes and test it for yourself. Even if there is some autistic QuAnTuM EnTaNgLeMeNt free will (something I heard) - whatever the that means - it doesn't matter, does it, because whatever you are - the delusion of how you misconceive yourself is not that.
As a "consciously re-orienting" being, you don't call the shots here like this Augustinian concept says you do. Or the popular way we understand ourselves in the world, free will and ultimately controlling universally seperate selfdom.
Augustine, of course, and many other religious scholars, rightly needed to find a way to justify why evil happens in the world when God was thought to be pure goodness. Obviously, this requires a self, and a soul, with its own inherent physical and causal independence - otherwise, it is God "doing evil", right?
These kinds of philosophical gymnastics are understandable from the perspective of theology. Reality is what it is, though. I'm being mean to Augustine, but it outlines the root of the essential delusion and problem.
Although it happens in many cultures and times, it's not his fault. I believe it is an innate tendency in man, and I put it down to a bio-chemical and perhaps a neurological "wiring problem", as Hyatt described it.
This gels with my experiences in meditation and Buddhism. My first experiences of selflessness - that is to say, noticing it experientially - took many years. Admittedly I had teachers who could have been better and had missed the point of what they were up to. I believe that this process can be sped up outside the traditional frameworks that insist we require 6 gorillion lifetimes cleaning latrines before wer’'e entitled to an insight.
Or worse yet, all you need to do is repeatedly chant an entity's name, and that's enough. You'll enter some fantastical realm. All you need to do is ignore this life and chant some shit.
It’s pretty strange, when you think about it…
What is fantastic about this realisation - is how utterly bizarre reality really is.
It's this enormous, personably impersonal force unfolding constantly. Apparently, it's forgotten about itself. Occasionally one of us gets suspicious and wants to see what's up.
It's unfolding in barely comprehensible ways. There's plenty of space for horror, joy, beauty and ugliness. All these things are here in the experience of mankind. When I think about it and grok it, it almost causes tears to stream from my eyes. on a deeper level, a Donald Hoffman type level - what the fuck even is that meant to be?
Subjectively speaking, you appear to have choices, yes - options. Choices and options are nevertheless important. They take on more importance once you grok it.
When you power down the self, it almost grants you greater scope because you realise that everything that arises is devoid of self. And being empty of self, you can choose many more directions than you thought possible. Your computer like behaviour loosens up. But I can’t deny, it is nevertheless contingent on impersonal and seemingly contingent on prior intertwined, causal states. Or at least on our level of perception, that’s how it seems.
Understanding free will and your lack thereof is the first step to liberation. Free will is necessarily tied up with the illusion of reified self. Powering down the self is the ultimate relaxation technique since you don't sperg out about things you really have no control over, and ironically, it introduces more scope to choose.
So make good choices, take up some great hobbies, have a great mission, find a good woman if you can and discard ones who are not, make some great friends and enjoy the inextricably impossible ride.
Thanks to my readers, as usual. I'm getting 50 or so reads per newsletter which i’m pretty happy with. That's a lot of people, in my world, given the obscurity of the topic (despite it shaping everything). Most things are explicitly political or purely intellectual in these circles. This work isn't per se; instead, it's focused on the individual physiological functionality as a prime unit. And yet, with your new control of physiology, you could apply it to the military, politics, or even working in a faggoty corporate setting.
I appreciate all the contact and support, I don’t have all the answers and am happy with other theories and perspectives, I’m always learning. I am also actively discouraged by prominent people online, so your retweets and recommendations to others are always greatly appreciated, i’m always trying to find stragglers who are interested in being more. We're working toward a greater goal here than which set of chimps with hats gets into power next year, however funny and absurd the stage play is.
This is it.
Until next week
- A