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Astran:
When you finish your book, put it on the shelf under a heavy weight. Don't look at it for a year. Let it 'mature'. Then read it cover to cover, and you'll probably find tons of things that you're glad never saw the light of day. I wrote some 300+ pages of an unfinished fiction novel, and ended up leaving it for some time. When I re-read it, wow, did a lot of it suck ass.
Good advice. But you know, I have been writing essays and songs for about 4 years now. I know that method, and it works.
But you see, these new "ideas" of mine
are the result of looking back towards some unflattering work of mine. Surely enough, I will put off the finished work for at least 6 months and then re-examine it to see if it sustains the fury and heaviness that I really want to inflict.
Astran:
What exactly do you propose to do about the, shall we say, 'minimal standards' of the masses? Do you subscribe to the idea that war is a cleanser? Or do you think it possible to shock people out of their lethargy so that they begin to actually think about what they are doing, begin to try and achieve some sort of self awareness other than being part of the web of mass culture and mass feeling?
War is a cleanser,
however, the kind of war we might need is not a war in a sense "Bush is going after Iraq" type of war. It is more of a
raising the standards above the skies, way to the sun, where only select few are able to reach. Sure, it
is like this today, but it is built with the wrong conscious and intentions behind it: it allows the
rich and the self-seeking to reach the stars; we simply have to change the system to allow
only intellectual and creative thinkers to climb that high.
This is the cleaning method. It is simple: are you intelligent, are you able to
create instead of just siphon from the world's ideas and call them "opinions"? Are you spirited? Do you have the willingness? - these standards will keep down all the current land-crawlers, the retards, the idlers, and all those "good citizens." To be a "good citizen" is to receive what you deserve - you have an "opinion" on things?
Good! Who does not? But it is your most profound thought, your most latent spiritedness that will help you ascend to a higher status. To simply be "born" is still a mistake, even today! Every child is born
as a mistake: first, to gratify the breeders in the acting of conceiving a child, and second, to escape the world and busy themselves with the child. Their child is a mere puppet to them. Every individual
is a mere puppet, first for his family, and then for the world. All puppets will remain puppets, no matter how ambitious they are, and for that, they
must be kept from ascending to a status where they are able to influence the world's direction. You are simply born, but you have to be born
again, born out of
yourself for your
own control, born to obey
yourself and command your will. All of education should focus on determining who belongs to the subhuman and who belongs to the human species - and each shall be treated differently after they had been defined. The
few humans will have the ability to climb, while the other-humanly will have the ability to live their lives as happily as they want, but without the single power or voice to make a single difference. They will
not have a single Yes or No to utter, because they are merely puppets and clones of each other - they are subhuman, unable to determine anything, lack all will, all spiritedness, and all needed passion to create and lead.
The first standards to rise are the standards of education -
all of education. Failures, idleness, uncreativity, and puppetness
will fall because of these standards - these stands must be made as sharp and unforgiving prejudices against all such subhumans. And after all, if you are unable to ascend with your own wings, why should you ascend in the first place? You will be made to fall! And whether you like it or not, that is something beyond
your control.
Astran:
Do you feel anger towards those you deem subhuman because they live their lives in a bubble of self interest, or because their self interest has the potential to affect your world? Or is it that you resent the fact that morons ( and there are a lot of them ) have essentially the same status as yourself, that their opinions have the same right to be heard as your own? Or that they can shout louder and with more voices than you?
I feel no anger. With all honesty, I am not a person who hates, dislikes, or feels "anger" towards others. It is people who feel angry, dislike, and hate, and they believe it is
natural to feel these. I feel
rage, not towards people, but towards myself...for being unable to overcome the hatred and anger of these people: my "love" to them still keeps me enchained with pitying ideas, with compassion. But as we know it, before we make this change we desire...compassion and pity will be the last thing on our minds, and the
ascension of the world shall be the first. And really, it seems to me it is few combinations of each of those things you listed - but my overall feeling is: how can it be that we let the wrong type of people climb? And why! It is out of our "control"?
Nothing is out of our control - it is we who simply desire to integrate ourselves to the order of the social life, the social standards, to play the game of "living" that seems to have grown so popular. It is
we that still feel compassion and pity towards these people and towards ourselves as well, we let ourselves be drowned by the trampling herds, by their protests, by their Yes's and No's, by their opinions, by their "freedoms." When do
we simply turn away from such lacking, from this social integration which tries to erase all identities and equalize
us, the
unequal, the
different, the inferior and the superior!
Astran:
Finally, I would like to comment on the general slant of your posts. I get the feeling that you would like to see the rule of the philosopher-king of Plato, someone who could separate the wheat from the chaff.
Very good observation on your part. But I must say: no, it is not my attention to have a Philosopher-King. Plato's idea sounds generous, but it does not take into consideration the movement of time - all greatness dies, like I already said. A system must be built to allow greatness to greatness at all times, and dismay all other parasites. The Philosopher-King is a one time hero, what after him? How is it secured that only such people will arrive to the state of king? Plato, as it seems to me, had himself in mind when he invented his ideas - he had himself
as the Philosopher-King. He wanted to rule, and I will say this: his lust for ruling really reached its pinnacle when Socrates was put to death - he wanted to overrule, or as it is more consisted with Plato, he secretly wanted
revenge against the majority – the Philopher-King
is his revenge against the majority. I must say: the majority are worthy of such revenge, they deserve it. But the problem still comes before us: how do we sustain any rule if the environment constantly changes, as with technology and medical science, which directly affect the lusts of the majority? We have to at least slow down the social evolution, but it is my desire to bring to halt. Are we not satisfied with what we have yet? Do we still demand more, more perfection, more easiness…rather, this is the lust of idlers and the subhuman! We, we others ought to be content with what we have so far…and believe me, we have too much. With a changing atmosphere, we cannot set a certain foundation. Look at the United State’s constitution, for example, which has gone so many revisions that it is not really the foundation that it once were. Can there be a such thing as “constitution” or “morality” or “law” while life morphs? If not, how can we built a constitution in which only the great ascends? Such a constitution is bound to falter with time…and all of our work, therefore, is futile. Because of this moprhing, there simply cannot exist any real set foundations - everything shifts, and everything is subjected to change. Sure, humanity changes, but it only changes in such radical ways when it cowers to science. A science like a beast - out of control and is
controling humanity. It is limiting humanity with the limitations of "natural laws." Everything else is overlooked and underestimated. Our "life" today is a life so controlled and lacking, uncreative and idle, and we have our sciences to thank...
Astran:
The 'freezing' of scientific or other progress. . . surely that is the sort of thing that should be avoided? After all, many of the thinkers and doers are involved in technological development.
That is a good point. What is the purpose of Science? To make life easier, to make it grow more idle, to make look simpler and stupider. The degeneration of humanity is science. What? Science is meant to “preserve” the species? What species are we speaking about? The subhuman? Or the human? The subhuman will not stop until it obtains perfect health and perfect conditions: some even long for immortality, and thus they have their “God.” The others, the
humans, they are not as in love with appearances and disguises as these humans: they are not so in love with the simplicity of science. So you will die at age 50 instead of 90? Do you really want to live to your 90’s? Do you want to even live to your 60’s? It seems to me that the creative and productive life does not fear death, because it does not fear itself – when one experiences
thought, when one experiences
life in its full glory, when one satisfies his lusts and experiments with desires…what is there left to do? Rather, death is nothing more than the wonderful slumber that awaits the creative minds. But this same death is the haunting specter that plunges the subhuman into vivid extremes: they have created their metaphysics out of it, and then their immortality of the soul, indeed, while creating a “soul,” then they brought their filthy Heaven and their dispassionate God – all of these are the works of fear and wanting. Each of them is a symptom of a life that had degenerated. They exclaim to me of “faith” as if faith was nothing more than “denial.” Such empty rhetoric they utter so readily!
Astran:
Look at Hitler, since you mentioned him earlier. He had the potential of being the greatest ruler of the 20th century, and indeed, in the beginning, he did great things. The German economic recovery after WW1, the repudiation of the unfair Treaty of Versialles, the recovery of lost German territory, the unification of Germans in a single country come to mind. Yet he too fell to the world. I don't mean the Allies, but worldly things. Greed for territory he didn't really need. Hate for the Jews, a people that didn't matter anymore.
Hitler is subhuman. I commend him, however for his passion and his apathy. His fanaticism intrigues me – all of life
is fanaticism, and all of us, human and subhuman, desire fanaticism and extremes – every social construct and social status, everything “entertaining” to us is necessarily extreme and fanatic, and only then do we deem it “good.” But his fanaticism slowly grew into deep shallowness and blindness, and he too, it seems to me, began to lust for power, and more power, infinitely. And this is the error of every greatness: when it begins to lust for
more. Whatever this “more” is, it is the end of greatness and the beginning of subhumanity, the beginning of a desire that cannot be fulfilled: all “more” wants” more,” infinitely and without direction, without restriction, without anything to guide it but this “more.” Science is a
more. Happiness, as the majority knows it, is a
more. And with that I will throw in power, and even religion. They are the sickness of wanting more. More of what? More of infinity. And infinity is futility.
And look now:
How futile is man today? How superflous! That we are able to discuss him and dissect him so easily - he is
that simple, that
empty, lacking all the complex limits that the human brain
is able to push and destroy. This rather
pathetic man is what we have to show for our species? Shame on us!
...and notice, when we speak of
our species, not many dare speak of themselves - they
lack selves - what they speak of is the "high peaks of humanity," the "great" scientists, the "great" philosophers. These "great" people are not great - they are mere
humans, it is the other
subhuman that does not recognize itself, and thus believes it is "great" when a thing ascends above it: instead, they ought to feel ashamed for being of so much lacking that these humans appear "great" to them. They are
only great because the majority are herd-like, sick, lusting, and dispirited.
...most people do not know what "greatness" is - how might they recognize it when they see it?
They don't - they, again, simply follow the herd, and call "great" whatever has been called "great" for the past.