the Destruction Is Temporal edition

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Issue EIGHT

1. With the advance of technology that has destroyed a species-wide commonality of basic factual information, it is no longer enough to be a philosopher, to interpret the world. To do anything of value in 2025 that is not ultimately onanistic, one must alter it.

2. The process of “knowing” has evolved. To accumulate knowledge, one must presume the existence of a self, if only as storage unit. As we are unknowable to ourselves, and certainly to one another, a static receptacle or personality is a delusion. We are cyclical, in perpetual flux, there is no “object” or objectivity, there is no “subject” or subjectivity, there is merely experience, which is altered by its own contemplation, and therefore ever-changing.

3. We gain mass, in the literal sense of the weight of certain elements on the atomic level, and in the metaphorical sense of our own regard, in being perceived by others. We cannot control the perceptions of others, and so our own weight is unquantifiable, and as others are perceived while perceiving, they too are altered. “Weight” itself is a construction, solidity a fallacy, conceptualization random and randomly changing. There is only action.

4. Action is ultimately either creation or destruction.

5. Destruction as a creative force is temporal, not formative, and so ultimately slides into nihilism.

6. Creation is a series of inhalations and exhalations, an action that meets at the center of flux to spark inspiration, always either filling or emptying, always simultaneously birth and death. Art is transitory, meaningless and also the only source of meaning.

7. Theology is the attempt to explain creation without having the neurology to comprehend it, or the experience of its opposite to report back to the rest of the species for analysis, and therefore the perfect airless vacuum.

8. All religions are political systems of control. All political systems are created by man. Divinity as interpreted by man is a tautology void of existential worth. No political ideology has ever been put into practice as stated, immediately corrupted by men regardless of first principals or aspirations. Theologically mandated behavior is both contradictory and impossible to adhere to, which is its point. Individual shame at the inability to adhere to man’s pretense of interpreting divine dictate is a foundational control mechanism.
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9. Communism, what it purports to be and how it manifests in practice, is just another religion. Democracy is an unreachable objective, the Republic is always the soon-to-be empire. Freedom has never explained what its possessor is actually free of. At least the capitalist system does not pretend to be anything other than the protection of wealth as concentrated in the few, and the worship of the celebrity of money. MAGA, in its joyful celebration of anti-thought, unresolved contradiction, repudiation of skepticism or analysis, and embrace of pure liquid stupidity, is perhaps the religion we have been carving into stone for millennia, and at this kinked-hose moment in the human continuum, quite possibly the one we deserve.