Limits Of Existentialism: Absolute Power, Absolute Morality, Physical Reality.

Abstract: Human existence is more absolute than absurd.

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Simplicia: Existentialism, a philosophical and cultural movement. emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice, arguing that individuals must create their own meaning and purpose in life, rather than relying on external sources of meaning or authority. Why does it irritate you?

Tyranosopher: I do agree with much of existentialism, whenever it’s practical and short range, quotes here and there. It’s a huge body of thinking, and much of it is disparate and good. However I condemn it when existentialism turns into metaphysics which talks with as much certainty as the Bible… and engages in what I would call absurdism, libertism, wokism, fakery… Much of the decline of the West is related to the rise of existentialism, a form of nihilism

Simplicia: Libertism? Is that a neologism?

Tyranosopher: Yes, it’s the mood of believing we are free to be whatever we want to be. …because god is dead, existentialists often add. Dotstoievsky was already infected, having one of his heroes declare: “If God is dead everything is permitted”. Well, no, not everything is permitted because there is such a thing as human ethology. Absolute morality exists. Wagner PMC kills children in Ukraine, precisely because doing so is an intrinsic atrocity.

Nietzsche seems to have found Dostoievsky to be pure genius. Political practitioners of libertism were Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Putin. 

Sartre puts it similarly, parroting Dostoevsky: “There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it…” “ Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” in  Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions.

This is all very silly, and much less observant than, say, Sade, who looked at nature as it is, or even Middle Age Catholic theologians debating the problem of “grace”… namely how free we really are… ..

Simplicia: How do we get from existentialism to wokism?

 Tyranosopher: I do agree with much of wokism. However not when it conflicts with realism and reality. That we can create our own reality flies in the face of physical and cultural evidence: one can strive for originality, as a moral principle, but that’s about it. Nietzsche believed that the Will To Power was supreme… But in truth anybody with a modicum of natural adventures knows that the Will To Survive is paramount.

This was a general mood in the Nineteenth Century that will was everything. It gave us Nazism. 

A funny case happened when a party of elite climbers tried to make the first ascent of the Cervin/Cervino/Matterhorn from the west, by using a snow chute. What could go wrong? As they approached the top in a warm afternoon, the gully gave way, and the proud ascensionists went down the entire mountain, which is a mile in elevation above its western glacier, in a dreadful joyride. Unbelievably, the leader emerged from the snow and found his companion strangling from the rope.  When they recovered, the two heroes, undeterred, instead of thanking the appropriate divinity, shook their bloody fists, and threatened the mountain telling it they would be back for another fight…(I once was struck by a rock avalanche some miles to the west, and I quit really big mountain climbing… Because I know will is not everything.) 

Existentialism has a good, localized version, most practiced, and an overreaching version, which is most talked about, and thus influential. 

As a metaphysics, Existentialism focuses on human individual experience, subjectivity, rather than objective reality or universal truths. Erecting themselves from this unreal foundations of make-belief, existentialist thinkers often explore themes such as the meaning of life, the nature of existence, and the experience of anxiety, despair, and death.

Some of the key figures associated with existentialism include Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Albert Camus. Existentialism had a significant impact on literature, art, and popular culture… In politics, it was associated with anti-colonialism, another name for disengagement of Europe with much of the world, as it imploded under the pressure of larger empires.

Simplicia: You are not afraid of sounding crazy and like a paleo-colonialist .

Tyranosopher: Reality is brutal, much of the time. China is replacing Europe in Africa, helping to develop it. Where China goes, GDP goes up. Kamala Harris, US VP went to Africa: she brought songs. Africans despised her: the Chinese bring loans and engineers as the Europeans used to. 

Europeans, having been influenced by Sartre and company too much, say: this is good, we have to leave Africa, we are not into colonialism anymore. However, in most places, the old approach to Africa by Europeans was similar to the present Chinese one, with the detail that the countries were not independent. Neglecting Africa and inviting China and the Russian Private military Corporation Wagner is both racist and strategically idiotic.

Simplicia: Sartre, Camus are long dead, accusing them of present events…. 

Tyranosopher: Yes, but those “existentialists” set-up the anti-European mood. Watch the Camus “hero” kill an Arab, just because he got a sun stroke. Yes, let’s give the Nobel for this Noble act. 

Like most European existentialists philosophers, Sartre, Camus and their parrots were “anti-colonialist”… And they didn’t even know what it was supposed to mean. De Gaulle, who was president, and some French socialist ministers of the Fourth French Republic admitted that they were anti-colonialist… Because they didn’t like Africa and a hospital every 100 kms cost too much. At least they were authentic. De Gaulle was honest when he said he didn’t like mosques. Well, I don’t like much of Islam, same as Catholicism, but I like mosques… And cathedrals or churches…

Camus finally saw the danger and that the FNL in Algeria would behave as it did. But then he died in a car crash. A high level KGB officer said it was an assassination, the car had been sabotaged, because the USSR very much wanted Algeria to be controlled by their own thing, the FNL, a terrorist organization… Remember the invasion of Ukraine?

Simplicia: You are giving me vertigo. I know what you are going to say next, the Americans were on it too.

Tyranosopher: Of course. You can see it with the Ukraine war: the US is basically tying up Europe in long term military contracts which will last several decades. European independence is not something the US like. AUKUS, the betrayal of the submarine contract by Biden, was a way to de-fang France  militarily, at least in the Pacific, and industrially.

Algeria + France, as a sort of Mediterranean Brazil, what Camus wanted, would have been, and used to be, more powerful than one more terrorist dictatorship in Africa anxious to sell its fossil fuels while France concentrates on luxury products.  

The existentialist movement has sweetened the bitter pill of ex-European colonies (Russia, USA) and China taking over, in a deal with Western plutocrats. 

What is called the “culture wars” where, for example, biological XY men pretend to be XX women so they can become wealthy and famous are often direct attacks against reality, and the sense of how to ascertain reality.

This attack against reality has finally been understood by much of US public opinion, starting a bit with Obama, and more with Trump, and now full blast with Biden. This is why the US is re-industrializing. Macron wants the same in France.

Simplicia: Existentialism gave wokism, fakery, the illusion that we could be whatever we dreamed to be, and thus Europe lost her grip on reality, and so does the US.

Tyranosopher: In case of high intensity warfare, France could hold two days, and the USA, a week, before running out of crucial ammunition. Putin and Xi know this. By comparison, and Putin didn’t know this, Ukraine had roughly a year of stock, for artillery and tanks’ shells or anti-aircraft rockets (SA 300 and Buk)…  

Europe and the US persuaded themselves that the genocidal Putin of 1999 could become a sheep if they just imagined him to be a sheep. They had to imagine Putin to be a sheep. This is a direct meta-psychological consequence of Camus:”Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.” 

This is all absurd. Camus’ absurdism helps us to swallow this. After all the universe is absurd, says Camus, so why not having an absurd Europe too? Absurd in all ways? Non-absurdism would instead insist that democracies be better armed than their opponents. 

Absurdism, pretending that the universe is absurd, makes We The People tolerant of the Absurd. For example taxes in France are the highest, but we are told that’s out of justice, redistribution. So how come the wealthiest man, and the wealthiest woman (unrelated) are French? And that’s no accident: families dominate the French stock exchange. Why, how? Because, as in the US, billionaires’ advocates write the French taxation laws, and redistribute money from the Middle Class to the possessing classes…. 

If the universe is absurd, absurd protests are how to be universal. Hence the protest against France working more: 23 million workers there, 17 million paid retirees… In their absurdities, the protesters don’t see that, the less they work, the less power they have… 

Simplicia: Are we done with the far-out stuff?

Tyranosopher: Not quite. The information space is like the universe in physics, and for the exact same reason: it is curved and even twisted (precise math for both; spacetime in General Relativity has zero torsion). Camus is standing at a point in this information universe. So when Camus played God and claimed he knows the whole thing, and it’s absurd, he didn’t realize there was this curvature and torsion, and he can’t say anything beyond what is called the exponential radius….

Simplicai: Amen. As Plato said at the entrance of his Academia: “Nobody who doesn’t know mathematics should enter here”.

Tyranosopher: yes, it’s more true than ever, because math has progressed enormously. As aforesaid, one must use concepts extracted from the mathematics of differentiable manifolds to inform on the information space… Otherwise one misses a very important point all the existentialist philosophers, let alone all religious fanatics, have missed so far: one can’t speak beyond one’s event horizon. 

Still the beauty of a philosophy, any philosophy, even Aztec philosophy, is that, even when it’s mostly wrong, it can be crucially right here and there. It’s for us readers and successors, to pick up the diamonds in the raw, and the rough.

Patrice Ayme

 

Camus, feeling god-like, said that the universe is indifferent. But we are not indifferent to the universe. Life is from, and part of, the universe and not indifferent. So the universe is not indifferent. Let me present you a Camus devouring crocodile, and see if Camus feels the universe is indifferent as he is being devoured.

The point? Camus’ global metaphysic, that the universe is absurd, and indifferent, is false. The worms who devoured Camus’ corpse were not indifferent to him. We, humanity, come complete with metaphysics, and that’s our human ethology. And yes we can, and already have, transmited the attached morality to AI.

Why angry against obviously false metaphysics? Because that’s what the horrendous superstitions are made off, and they held humanity back.

Wars, Peace, Love And Hate: Not So Easy. Ignorance is the Real Enemy.

Masters of war, you can buy all, but a soul!… So say the Masters of Peace, and Love.

They admonish, puff their chests.

Their goodness is obvious to see,

Their glory immense: they, and their sponsors, make sure of that.
Nobels are given to them, universal applause,
And they crisscross the globe,
In their private jets, five star hotels, they are celebrities

Lauded by the powers that be,

Who also from the peace of established order not just profit…

But Thrive…

Too much peace, has allowed those Masters of Hypocrisy to prosper.

Should they even exist?
We hear them all, and we sneer at their self-flagellating admirers.
We sneer at the hypocrisy,
Of the Masters of Peace, Love…

But that’s how they live, why they live, how they earn their prerogatives.

Their main job is to lie about how they arose.
Or should we sneer more at the ignorance of their followers?
Where was Peace, when the Nazis prepared to kill millions? In plain sight, for all to see? The US plutocratic media, the famed New York Times, didn’t peep a word all could see. They deliberately hid what their “peace” profited from.
What was pacifism doing, When infamy was sharpening the laws it uses as claws?
Where would the Masters of Peace and Love be,
Without the wars,
Which made their present wanton exploitation of resources possible?
Where would the Masters of Ignorance rule?
Certainly not in the Americas, Wealthiest in the world.
Certainly not in Australia, or the Pacific.
And, if they are Jews, Jewish,
Descendants thereof, however secular,
They would not even exist,
If ten million Germans had not been killed.
Because France took measures to forcefully oppose Hitler,
As early as 1933,
And opposed Hitler’s ally Stalin, and fascist Mussolini, Hirohito,
So one hundred million died:
It was too little, too late, because the USA perfidiously,
Stayed out, until after the longest time,

Knowing all too well, that only thus the American Century would come.
Thanks to the Masters of Peace.
France went to war, alone, with a little help from Britain,
To spare billions of lives, and civilization.

Britain didn’t surrender, the fascists mistrusted each other,

And finally the US consented to lend, lease, then kidnap victory.
Yet, war for civilization doesn’t always win.
Theodosius Thessalonica decree, 380-381 CE: from then on, Apostates could be killed at will,

The mass murderous Catholic Inquisition was born, the State would die from it.
We still live with Theodosius, it’s called Sharia,
A direct descendant,
And civilization nearly collapsed,
When the Roman State deflated, so did demography.
Arbogast, the Franks, the Western Army,
Secularism, were destroyed at the Frigidus Battle,
which threw the spell, the hurricane, divine wind of the evil sort,
Of killing in the name of “God”,
To this day, more than 16 centuries later.

The valor of blonde Franks was not enough to destroy Theodosius’ Goths, Huns, and Alans, when the divine wind blew in their face. When the world turned wrong, the wind rose as a hurricane, the forces of secularism lost to the barbarian army of the mass murdering Catholic tyrant [1].

War is good. Sometimes.

Sometimes it is even crucial. And no cruciality was ever won without war. There are many types of war, but the attitude and neurohormones don’t change.

This is what the Masters of Peace don’t want you to remember: 

No war-like effort, no real progress.

Even Islam knows this: Jihad, a war-like effort, is a moral command.

No Revolution, No Evolution.

And no evolution doesn’t just mean no progress, it means global death.

Love is good. Most of the time. Yet, not always. Come on, you Masters of Peace. What is this peace you rest on, but for the product of war?The product of countless wars? Wars of most determined good against the most absolute evil. Don’t deny the heroes who built the ground you stand on, and the furious angels who cleared the air.

Newer and better values always replaced or threatened old oligarchies which were not compatible with them, and rested on their opposite. Newer and better peace was always born out of war. Yes, now we have to fight a virus which looks like a crown. Another war. 

Come on you, Masters of Stasis. You want to stay still, while the universe moves below your feet, you claim.

The world will always move below our feet. It always did, and always will. The world moved when Rome was at her apex, and move away, until Rome collapsed, from mot having moved with it.

The world will move under your own weight, if for no other reason that you are so incredibly heavy, and the heavier, the more you gorge yourself with the planet. You look at the planet, you arrogant monkeys, go play some music on exotic islands where the natives serve you, and they don’t even wear chains, so anxious they are to debase themselves for you: they are perfectly tame from Peace and Love. Here is the president, he is brown, and he serves the pharmaceuticals, the health industry mafia, as Kenyan boys of old did with the white masters. Shameful, wan’t it? And you loved him, because he made you feel so right, overlooking reality, while gorging yourself more than ever, amazed by your “liberalism” (something supposed to mean you are good).

Come on, Masters of Love. You speak of peace, because that addiction to nothingness prevents you from making war on ignorance. Come on, Masters of Woke! What are you waking up to exactly? More drugs for your addicted minds? The war worth most fighting for, is also the love most worth having, the war against ignorance. As from it alone can genuine love spring forth. 

War and love you shan’t condone or condemn, just on the color of their skin. One needs to dig deeper. Instead, of their origin and future descendants, portends and moods, true lovers shall enquire. And hope what you may, more than ever. Wisdom from contemplation always, is the only peace worth having, on which tomorrow’s wars, peace and loves will be refined. 

Masters of creation out of volition, warring and loving, over the Earth, and soon across the Galaxy, forces that shall go, and always justify, multiverses of better hopes, we shall forge more of what we were born for, and with: limitless appreciation for expanding cognition, especially when they combine to satisfy the most basic wants, which the wise have long learned to corral, and ignore the rest. 

Patrice Ayme

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[1] The bishop of Milan excommunicated Roman emperor Theodosius for mass murder… Rather ironical… Considering nobody did as much for Catholic terror than Theodosius I…

Maximum Enlightenment From Struggling For Life

Metanoia, Self Enlightenment At Most Basic Mental, From Going Survivalist Primitive. To get reacquainted with rigorous thinking, nothing like rigorous conditions:

The healthy can get to metanoia in a hurry by running across a mountain range full of wild beasts and rushing streams, alone, nearly naked, unsupported, living off the land. Works every time.

Paul DeFatta I guess our not-so-distant ancestors were a hell of a lot more enlightened than we are, at least by this reckoning.

Metanoia: change in one’s way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion.

“what he demanded of people was metanoia, repentance, a complete change of heart“. Meta, beyond, here indicating “change” plus noein “to have mental perception,” from noos “mind, thought”. 

Our “primitive” ancestors were forced to spend much of the day chasing after prey, or running away from predators, day in, day out. They are to think hard about which plants to ingest, for which disease, and how to prepare poison for the warheads. Our ancestors’ lives were full of strong emotions, the roots of the sturdiest thoughts. 

Akeley an official taxidermist for US universities and great fighter of ferocious animals. He found himself in a bare hand fight with a superficially wounded small female leopard he had accidentally hurt. The resentful beast missed his throat, and got his arm instead. He succeeded to stuff his right hand in her throat while preventing her clawing (circa 1900, colorized picture)

Modern humans, by contrast, and especially their leaders and leading classes, live sheltered lives, where nothing much happens ever, fostering sheltered, snowflake thinking: melting under the harsh light of truth is the best which can happen to such meek hallucinations, which their masters are keen to have them embrace wholeheartedly. Said masters are even more sheltered, protected from authentic thinking, and it’s this very lack of authenticity and veracity which enable them to rule We The People… by infusing common people by these absurdities. They even call this philosophy of denial of reality “Absurdism”, and from this “Absurdism”, they have mightily profited… 

Some of them, intellectual leaders much appreciated by the ruling elite, whined that life was absurd: yes, right, when not used as per the owner’s manual, the correct, natural modus vitae. But the philosophy of “The Absurd”, absurdly went on, because the masters indulged… thanks to it.

Modern life is about not thinking, because that’s what please the masters most. Where is all what the human brain is made to solve? Are we reduced to playing with boards, pushing colored pieces, as if we were 2 years old? Where is the fighting off lions, torn limbs, excruciating pain, the glory of tearing enemies apart, and the exhaustion after the savage struggle, finding water in a far-away oasis?

The archetype of the thinker nowadays is sitting, chin on a fist, Rodin style. As if thinking were what happens when nothing is going on. But prehistoric men had to think ultra fast and perfectly, standing on their legs, or even flying through the air. Dearth of instantaneous precision meant ingestion by enemies.

Civilization has reached a stage, a tottering over the abyss, when shallow thinking, protected thinking, is over, one way or another. The masses are vaguely conscious of this, so they tolerate Great Thunberg. Snowflake thinking, or is that SNOWFAKE THINKING, has indeed culminated in those snowflakes, the ultimate expression of Politically Correct thinking.

Unreal thinking has led self-described “liberal”, “progressive”, American citizens to laud Obama… for making the US the greatest producer of fossil fuels, ever… while the biosphere is dying from it. (Obama is a personal friend, I don’t hate him, he is just thoroughly confused by gred and opportunity.);

The United Nations’ refugee agency has found that the dozens of camps in Oakland, California, a mile across from Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco fortress, are worse than the worst in Mexico City. Even the pro-plutocratic New York Times concurred and wrote a large article on this nightmare.

While the quasi billionaire “representative” (all too much!) Nancy Pelosi, head of the US Congress, is busy impeaching the impeachment she brought against The One she pretends to hate, shallow thinking is forcing US mothers living under tarps in the rain, in the mud, among rats, while the glorious Politically Correct NIMBYs in the hills, next door are busy howling their hatred against the president. They are just covering up, with pseudo-leftism, their interdiction they enforced, for decades, to build affordable housing. Instead, covering up some more their desire for slaves, they proclaim the abominable refugee camps to be “sanctuary cities”. Meanwhile all of them are half an hour away from nuclear annihilation, due to a potential short circuit in the nuclear doomsday machines which they forgot to disconnect.

And the sea are rising and the Sixth Mass Extinction gathering momentum, with 500 ppm of CO2 equivalent human generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  

All this happened, because We The People don’t know how to think anymore. 

Time for Metanoia! All should strip, deny themselves modern comforts, run across mountain ranges to fend off snow, mosquitoes, bears, lions, thirst, hunger and high waters… to find what they are really about, who they are, and what civilization means.  

Patrice Ayme

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P/S 1: Aside from sheer greed (making money out of it), this is why extreme sports have an enduring appeal: they foster the most radical enlightenment. 

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P/S 2: Those driving the planet, those taking the decisions, or influencing them, from influencers on Youtube to “French Theory” (Sartre, Camus, etc…) to racist philosophers such as Saint Louis, Luther, Herder, Hegel, Marx, and countless lesser ones, even more influential, were the ones thinking they were so wise, and are still all too often viewed that way, while being so removed from reality, that the biosphere is at stake… And this is why, precisely, they have been so influential: they submit us to evil power (pluto-kratia)…