The Psycho-Physiological Rendering Network
Sometimes, one involved in the thing I am, must subject themselves to the cosmic cesspit of the average human experience. This serves as an excellent data set for correct diagnoses and development of prescriptions. Even if one has to hold their nose, it is often worth it. It’s from this foment, this week's newsletter arose.
For the first time in human history, we can see how things work within us with instrumentation. Data enters the body, and its rendering networks shape our experience - the output. Our emotions and the feeling of what is happening.
In general, people are solely focused on using language to justify the validity of their feeling or emotional states to themselves. I understand clearly now that emotional states are secondary to physiology and belief systems. The networks that render our experience of what is. Language, as it is typically used, is also a mere outcome.
Absurdly, no one focuses on these apparatus that render our emotions - primarily the autonomic nervous system and the body. What I now call the psycho-physiological rendering network. As a result, people progress with their problems only by happenstance, if any is made at all.
A gym habit, for example, is widely lauded by individuals online as the prime act of biological transmutation. Undoubtedly it is beneficial. Yet, the real point, the way to self-understanding and the ability to change and self-define, is still missed.
More often than not, the very thing that provided initial relief to overbearing subjective states destroys the person - because the psycho-physiological rendering network remains the same, more or less. So, there needs to be a proper understanding of the rendering network if progress is to be made. Gym work is really just the "tip of the spear".
Part of our rendering network is our psychology - obviously. Who we are at our base is primarily defined by the metaphysical beliefs we hold about ourselves. From these often unconscious metaphysical beliefs extend all our downstream behavioural patterns.
For example, have you ever met someone who constantly refers to themselves as "unloveable" or "not worthy of love? It always seems surprising to you that despite them always saying this often as an off-handed self-deprecation, this belief nevertheless shapes all their romantic and familial interactions or lack thereof. And no amount of explaining this to them makes a difference. And you observe that this unconscious psychological pattern, something they probably learned as a child to defend themselves from a parent, defines their experience of love itself to this day.
This is an example of a metaphysical belief about the self. People tend to view themselves in such ways and, due to language, believe these to be immutable traits. This is because they're focused on the rendered experience. They're not focused on the network that generates the experience. It's understandable that no matter how they try, they can't change this.
We all know that ideas about the self can become very ingrained.
I've known one "alpha man" with an impressive physique, for which he has to do very little. He still retains severe self-limiting metaphysical beliefs about himself, probably inculcated during childhood. I believe it was resultant of an overbearing father. He struggles with intense feelings of inadequacy and alcoholism and is severely depressed very often.
Again, how can you change a destructive self-belief if you don't know how the rendering network functions?
We tend not to understand how experience arises. We mistake words and concepts for reality. Worse yet, we think as if our words and concepts shape our experience rather than result from impressions rendered by our nervous systems. Furthermore, our nervous systems are in terrible states these days. Ergo, the outcomes of the species are neurotic and ridiculous.
We utterly mistake the map for the territory.
There is good news, however: this state can be fixed and changed over time as the individual sees fit.
A Few Words of Clarification
With this in mind, people sometimes ask why I blast statue head and solar esoteric product accounts. When you view it from the context I provide above, their easy solutions and panaceas, whether they be a supplement, diet, mindset thing, crypto telegram group, whatever it is - they're nothing but worthless affirmations, temporary boosts to your ego or brief product-based bouts of self-esteem.
The producer markets themselves as the overman with all the answers and everyone else as the normie. All the while, there is nothing more ordinary, trite, cynical, and time-tested than this TV infomercial strategy for selling junk to idiots.
Inevitably, the boosts are temporary for the reasons discussed above. Still, the purchaser is in such pain (albeit - unnoticed) that they don't mind: they'll even pay for temporary relief.
For me, this makes product-optimizing accounts the most despicable accounts. Because nothing changes, the desperate individual very often may worsen because of a "technique" or "solution". All the while, feckless scumbag fills his coffers.
This is why I consistently drill down that you need to work. It needs to be self-work. And only you can do this.
But no one does; like any stock-standard Redditor or normie, the many, even when "incredibly based", vie for easy answers and mere platitudes ahead of self-transcendence. They fool themselves with their "special right-wing vocabulary" into thinking they're different from anyone else on this monkey-infested mudball called Earth (not my words, I wish they were).
Through all these absurd means, they have the fleeting sensation of being unique, "unlike other humans".
The monkeys screech, "I'm a phiwosophwa", "I'm a Aryan" - I'm this or whatever - taking the above to its proper extension, who the fuck cares what you think you are? We're almost entirely forged from liquid cope.
Very few people know what they are. No one is self-defined because no one knows how experience is being defined for them. In reality, we're the sum of cope habits rendered into reality by blown-out, dysfunctional nervous systems.
So with this wisdom in mind, I've subjected myself, perhaps a little too much, to an endless torrent of utterly pointless, misguided drivel by an assortment of malcontented lunatics and attention harvesters on Twitter. This offers fertile ground to expound certain "psycho-physiological truths".
So I'll try to keep it schnappy.
Nietzsche & Russian Fatalism
I again came across the below Nietzsche quote on Kyle Mamounis' insta feed. Kyle incidentally shares my fanatical distaste for goofy esoteric twitter marketers and insta gurus.
I recommend you listen to his podcast with Leo Wik. Leo does an excellent job with sardonic renditions of prominent seed oil, ball sunning and ethot-huny crystal-in-snatch cat lady accounts. As well as offering some much-needed dogma-destruction in the health grift scene. And in a way, that's what I seek to achieve in my autistic field:
"If anything at all must be adduced against being sick and being weak, it is that man's really remedial instinct, his fighting instinct wears out. One cannot get rid of anything, one cannot get over anything, one cannot repel anything—everything hurts. Men and things obtrude too closely; experiences strike one too deeply; memory becomes a festering wound. Against all this, the sick person has only one great remedy: I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without revolt which is exemplified by a Russian soldier who, finding a campaign too strenuous, finally lies down in the snow. No longer to accept anything at all, no longer to take anything, no longer to absorb anything—to cease reacting altogether. This fatalism is not always merely the courage to die; it can also preserve life under the most perilous conditions by reducing the metabolism, slowing it down, as a kind of will to hibernate. Carrying this logic a few steps further, we arrive at the fakir who sleeps for weeks in a grave. Because one would use oneself up too quickly if one reacted in any way, one does not react at all any more: this is the logic. Nothing burns one up faster than the affects of ressentiment. Anger, pathological vulnerability, impotent lust for revenge, thirst for revenge, poison-mixing in any sense—no reaction could be more disadvantageous for the exhausted: such effects involve a rapid consumption of nervous energy, a pathological increase of harmful excretions…" (Ecce Homo)
Here, Nietzsche wonderfully describes an overstimulated nervous system that, for all intents and purposes, has completely shat itself.
Now, this may seem obvious, and it is. But I love the description and the malaise; I've never heard it put so well. Let's drill down into why Nietzsche is such a genius.
"If anything at all must be adduced against being sick and being weak, it is that man's really remedial instinct, his fighting instinct wears out. One cannot get rid of anything, one cannot get over anything, one cannot repel anything—everything hurts."
I've elaborated much on sympathovagal balance. This term refers to the ratio between parasympathetic and sympathetic drives. These days, for almost everyone, both systems tend to get blown out with chronic stress and environmental hyper-stimulation, creating a situation where sympathetic units are more active than parasympathetic units. This is a state of sympathetic hyperactivity.
As my readers all know, the symptoms of this hyperactivity are apparent in all of us to varying degrees unless consciously managed. Suppression of the immune system, vascular constriction, inflammation etc, can lead to a state in which the most normal stimuli cause extreme anxiety reactions.
In such a situation, one is rendered entirely useless. The brakes have not been applied, or worse yet, are completely worn out - so the car is out of control and unable to be stopped, inevitably crashing. In this state, everything hurts - maybe the fibromyalgia roasties are on to something after all?
"Men and things obtrude too closely; experiences strike one too deeply; memory becomes a festering wound."
As elaborated by Ottavni et al. in a study on the Nervous System and the subjective reporting of "Rumination":
"Vagal withdrawal during rumination was greater for women than men. Larger decreases in the high frequency component of HRV (heart rate variability) were associated with higher levels of anger-in, depression.… BRS (baroreflex sensitivity) reactivity was negatively related to trait anxiety. BEI (baroreflex effectiveness) reactivity was positively related to anger-in, hostility, anxiety, and depression. Lower BEI and BRS recovery were associated with lower social desirability and higher anger-out, anxiety, and depression. Findings suggest that the autonomic dysregulation that characterizes rumination plays a role in the relationships between personality and cardiovascular health"
This is self-explanatory. This study also invites us to consider why the latest science shows HRV as an essential measurement of ANS balance. Dysfunction of the ANS can often represent itself as a self-reported tendency towards rumination in the organism. This study defined rumination as the inability to let go of memories and their associated emotional arousal. Individuals would obsessively think over situations in which negative emotions were associated.
Many spiteful incels (often myself) can perhaps relate to this to the lower social desirability effect also. As Nietzsche says, "Men and things obtrude too closely".
"Against all this the sick person has only one great remedy: I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without revolt which is exemplified by a Russian soldier who, finding a campaign too strenuous, finally lies down in the snow. No longer to accept anything at all, no longer to take anything, no longer to absorb anything—to cease reacting altogether. This fatalism is not always merely the courage to die; it can also preserve life under the most perilous conditions by reducing the metabolism, slowing it down, as a kind of will to hibernate"
In my book and several YouTube videos, I outlined the phenomena of neurasthenia through the lens of Japan.
One of the references for that short book was an absolute gem of a study by Tanaka et al. Their passage on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in Japan reminded me of what Nietzsche is describing here.
The study says:
"CFS is a disease characterized by chronic, profound, disabling, and unexplained fatigue. Fatigue-related alterations of autonomic nervous system activities have been reported in adults with CFS. Decreased parasympathetic nerve activity and increased sympathetic activity have also been observed in patients with CFS. Yamaguti et al. reported that the sympathetic hyperactivity level of patients with CFS was dependent on the severity of symptoms as evaluated by a performance status test. Not only adults with CFS but also children and adolescents with CFS have been observed to have sympathetic hyperactivity based on decreased parasympathetic nerve activity"
Nietzsche also references the metabolism. As Ray Peater's will know, metabolism is correlated strongly with thyroid function. A study by Muller et al. does well to outline how metabolic and thyroid processes are impacted by SNS dominance. This is very enlightening when juxtaposed with the initial Japanese CFS study and Nietzche's statement:
"TH regulates the expression of target genes directly through TR binding to specific TREs, as well as nongenomic modification of cell signalling. New evidence highlights the coordinated roles of central and peripheral regulation of TH in modulating metabolic pathways. TH interacts with the SNS in a synergistic and complementary fashion to maintain homeostasis."
Muller et al.
One could postulate that metabolism often slows due to sympathetic hyperactivity induced by extreme overstimulation and poor physiological posturing. I don't doubt it all; poor physiological habits lead to poor metabolism and thyroid function over time.
Fatalism, low metabolism, "hibernation". Nietzsche is describing to a T what these studies outline. I am always shocked at the insight of this guy, who had none of the benefits of material science as we do.
"Nothing burns one up faster than the affects of ressentiment. Anger, pathological vulnerability, impotent lust for revenge, thirst for revenge, poison-mixing in any sense—no reaction could be more disadvantageous for the exhausted: such effects involve a rapid consumption of nervous energy, a pathological increase of harmful excretions…"
I don't need to elaborate on the above with sCiEnCe TM - given my readers are intelligent, they've already put the pieces together.
This is where I'd like to explain a concept given to me by a mentor; this is the idea of brain freeze.
Nietzsche is describing the feeble state of someone in a state of SNS dominance. He is saying that not only does this cause one to act like a complete loser but once what little energy is there is consumed by these pathetic traits, like resentment, it also leads to harmful excretions.
In previous blog posts, we've gone through many psychological and health impacts of this blown-out, low-energy body state. And thus, will not elaborate here. These harmful excretions.
In our own lives, we are also prone to this. In some ways, Nietzsche describes a state of mind that is extremely passive, consumed, or frozen. I've spoken before about the nature of tension in the body which is also downstream of SNS regulation.
Therefore, tension, resulting from a blown-out nervous system, almost freezes our ability to react energetically and flexibly to a given situation.
The brain is frozen into place; it is stunned, unable to remain detached and to observe. Frozen in space. Like a shell-shock victim.
Ironically, the brain is severely reactive in some way, conserving its little energy for lashing out at anything that should try to move it, resentful at anything showing power. This is the psycho-physiological foundation of resentment towards life itself. In my opinion - the origin is not ideological or philosophical - these things are downstream justifications of low energy, fibrotic state. I find it difficult to take almost any philosophy seriously for this reason.
Frozen Brains, Chronic Fight-or-Flight
Think of the last time someone asked you a loaded question or said something that set you in a fight-or-flight response. When your brain froze.
What was the nature of the question?
How did you rate your ability to remain calm and detached?
Would the individuals Nietzsche describes here be able to remain calm and attached in that situation? How would they react?
Are they in a constant, chronic state of brain freeze?
How often are you in a brain freeze state?
In fact, what Nietzsche is describing is a severe case of brain freeze. A chronic fight-or-flight response. A state of inadequate, limited psychic energy. What is there is thrown into either coping asceticism or flights of hysterical rage and resentment, followed by burnout.
Nietzsche is describing the very nature of the herd man. The dysfunctional state of our rendering networks and the endpoint of this humanity-wide physiological decay.
We now have answers. Authentic, simple and elegant solutions for this ailment.
Thinking on How This Fits
I have been thinking about my affiliations recently. Although I'm in the right-wing sphere because I despise commies who ceaselessly try to fuck with my freedom, I wonder where this - or my small contribution sits.
What am I doing? There's nothing overtly "political" here, at least in a contemporary political sense. Hardly anyone reads it. And this work is equally applicable to anyone, "right or left" in truth. I can only see the problems discussed here as universal the more I work with people.
Only a few people have used this work faithfully for as long as required to make a fundamental change in them.
This is an important truth, and I now know why people like Chris Hyatt always said that 99% of people don't really desire change or overcoming and are worthless. They want words to feel special. A label to feel special. A new vocabulary that "defines them". One they can use to impress others.
This is why they do the work for a short while, realize it's laborious or monotonous, and move on to the next EsOtErIc ObSesSiOn.
Monitoring new clients, even having had fantastic results that completely changed their day-to-day experience initially, they seem almost too lazy to utilize tools in a steadfast critical manner to dig themselves out - 25 minutes a day for 40 days seems too much. How can you help when people are like this?
My experience is either that or someone who reads my blogs and reproduces it in their own content. This is okay, but they never attribute or even offer a shoutout. V strange tbh.
There have been several incarnations of my blog so far. The thing is, I can see who has viewed my post - as WordPress shows you where a reader is sitting - leaving me to triangulate who read it. Further evidenced by the eerily similar content they release, suddenly coming out at the same time as my blog, including takes I know only I have. Once or twice you could attribute it to coincidence.
So rather than subject myself to lameness, thievery and skulduggery, I thought I may as well go mainstream and make a squillion shekels. Leave these plagiarising insaneoids to "own the libs". Go on my merry way and enjoy the decline that I believe to be inevitable, anyway.
Then I came across this quote. And as always with Nietzsche, the competing drives were at once resolved.
Maybe 2 or 3 people take the work on and make something worthwhile. That's good enough for me since who knows what that might lead to. Anyone rw adjacent who is dissatisfied with the gay clown world as I am can use these simple tools to make great benefits glorious physiologies.
Until next time
References:
1. Frontier studies on fatigue, autonomic nerve dysfunction, and sleep-rhythm disorder
Masaaki Tanaka, Seiki Tajima, Kei Mizuno, Akira Ishii, Yukuo Konishi, Teruhisa Miike, and Yasuyoshi Watanabe
J Physiol Sci. 2015; 65(6): 483–498.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4621713/
2. Thyroid Hormone Regulation of Metabolism
Rashmi Mullur, Yan-Yun Liu, and Gregory A. Brent
Physiol Rev. 2014 Apr; 94(2): 355–382.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4044302/
3. The autonomic phenotype of rumination
Cristina Ottaviani 1, David Shapiro, Dmitry M Davydov, Iris B Goldstein, Paul J Mills
Int J Psychophysiol. 2009 Jun;72(3):267-75.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19272312/
Bingo!
Some relevant stuff on muscles, called feldenkrais. https://youtube.com/@TaroIwamoto
This goes more into the polyvagal theory of ans. https://youtube.com/@IreneLyon