Cults of "Innocence"

The column shape creates illusions.
Come closer to feel the marble.
I more than once slipped on the way up; on stones polished by millions of barbarous sandals, and my own wet with sweat. Tyche was with me on that day.

There’s no reason to come here, at all, if you are not seeking distractions. This is a sanitarium of modern sickness, and I but an amateur practitioner of empathy.

I always keep the holidays, warped as they may be.
A yearly change of pace, spent with wine and fine dining in makeshift symposiums.

May your gods be kind to you.

If all are innocent, then who is the guilty one?
If all are victims, then who is the victimizer?
The ones that deny them this comforting status.
This is the evil aggressor of harmless innocence.

The guilt ridden tribes have discovered ways to rid themselves of their shame. They’ve embraced it and redefined it into a new, occult, kind of pride only the initiated can enjoy.

How does that saying go…

Identity is a reflection of self upon other.
We discover ourselves as the negation of other.
"I am what I am not"

Gradually we learn how to not lose ourselves in the other, and to perceive ourselves as a variation.
This is why empathy is often mistaken for sympathy, and rarely as antipathy, when, in fact it is not.
Empathy is to sympathy/antipathy, what subjectivity is to objectivity.
When we learn how to differentiate our projections of ourselves, from the other, we can gradually distinguish the variance which distinguishes the other from ourselves.
But this is difficult, not only because ti requires a strong imagination but it also requires the elimination of the ego from our analysis.

The ego is the source of nihilism - a defensive reaction to self-awareness. Ego is the vulnerable, insecure awakening to one’s self, because it exposes us to how we relate and compare with other.
Nietzsche diagnosed nihilism as a modern disease, but he never traced it to its source.
What does the ego do to protect itself from other?
It projects its noumena, its mental constructs, its abstractions, into reality so as to ‘correct’ it. It projects absolutes, because reality does not provide them to it.
In the mind is where it seeks shelter from a threatening and indifferent cosmos, and to validate itself it seeks companions, followers, fellow believers that will support its escape and to share in the maintenance of the esoteric alternate reality.
A community of egos pooling their resources to project a shared idea/ideal.

The greatest absolute is God who is a perfect antidote to the hard reality of finite existence and eternal death
Were human beings eternal it would not be necessary to invent him because death could never be experienced

The greater absolute is the concept ‘one’, also called ‘whole’.
Its advantage is that ti is completely abstract - an idea.
God is anthropomorphic, and this can be divisive and have an emotional impact.

‘One’ taken literally and not as what it is - a representative symbol and an abstraction - is the secular form of the Abrahamic one-god.
Both imply the absent absolute.

Abstraction in the form of language can explain reality but it should never be its replacement or substitute
The only truly knowable absolute thing about the Universe is that it is all that exists and it is all that needs to be accepted
Absolutes that are unfalsifiable [ God ] may bring psychological comfort but accepting reality as it is is far more preferable

Nietzsche predicted apocalypse because of the rejection of God but that was not because of nihilism
All of human history has had mass belief of different manifestations but war still existed despite this

Existence is open ended, so it cannot be referred to as complete, whole.
Man can only conceptualize it by reducing it to a thing, a singularity…an idea.

What does not exist is, by definition, non-existent.
All we can say about existence is from the inside, and from the inside there are no complete, wholes, unless we arbitrarily posit boundaries that cut away a part of existence to convert it, as it is done by the mind, into a singular thing.
Language can only represent these abstractions.

All we can say abot existence is that ti is dynamic - interactive, i.e., energy.
What has a pattern is translated into kinds of matter/energy; what lacks a pattern - is chaotic - cannot be translated so it is conceived as darkness.

We conceptualise existence in order to understand it but the conceptualisation and the actuality are not the same
This is not a problem as long as we understand the distinction and do not start equating the map with the territory

All language is an abstraction and the things that it describes are entirely separate entities in and of themselves
Existence is hard to truly describe because we are only an infinitesimal part of it that is merely passing through

A human brain cannot understand the absolute scale of existence because it is simply beyond comprehension
So saying that it is open ended is probably the best way to conceptualise it from our very limited perspective

Yes…and because an organic brain has to reduce the phenomenon to a level it can process.
A dynamic cosmos - energy - has to be conceptually “frozen” and simplified/generalized into a representation of it - an idea/ideal.
All language is representational art.

Heraclitus

All is flux, nothing is stationary.
All is in flux - interactive.

War is the father of all, and rules over all.
Εν-Εργο…energy. At work, in the process of. In a state of turmoil, agitation.

There are no innocent in war.
To be alive is an agressive act. To take up space - possibilities - is to deny it to another. An act of appropriation.

The Cult of Innocence is the Western Shrine of “Privilege”.

Those who are “Privileged”, can do no harm, are never responsible for harm, and always viewed positively, “untouchable”. This is the perception and ideal of the Liberal-Left. They want to be the “Chosen Ones”, and they want the power of control, allowing in or expelling who they want. This is also what “Power” leads to, as a conclusion, to them. Thus power is a means to an end, that end, is becoming ‘untouchable’, all positive, no negative. It’s obviously a delusion, schizophrenia, as you say. It’s an ignorance and intellectual blind-spot, a Neurosis.

I believe this is the reference to modern-day political “sickness”, cultural disease, or “western decay”. The more delusional the mass of population becomes, a crash becomes inevitable. These factors are being perpetuated and strengthened in children, in the public schooling systems, and the partisan atmosphere. Impartiality is a moot-point. Nobody really cares or wants impartiality. Reason and rationality are luxuries that few can afford.

To claim innocence is to claim ignorance, and ignorance is not innocence.

To act is to accept the responsibility of your actions - the repercussions and the consequences, whether you’re aware or not; whether you’ve judged accurately and expect them or not.
Intent can be self-deceiving. In fact, it almost always is.

Doesn’t the hypocrite always come bringing great gifts and declaring his good intentions towards you?
Does he not pretend innocence and claim to be on your side?

Does the liar not tell you he is your friend?

The bigger the lie, the bigger the seductive promises he offers.

I missed this video, just found it tonight, it’s between Tim Pool and Twitter Executives, concerning banning, deplatforming, and censorship concerning “rule-breaking” on public platforms (cyberspace), in this case, “misgendering” transexuals.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTXqrS9l5E[/youtube]

When god was prematurely declared dead, he resurrected as abstraction.
He became an idea/ideal. His words an ideology.
It was renamed, ‘one’, or ‘absolute’, to preserve the innocence of the believers.
His will be done…on earth as it is in heaven - hard, cruel, unyielding determinism.
The chosen have been chosen for the task of suffering - universal ideal victims, against which all victims shall be compared, henceforth.

Who shall be strong enough to live up to their standard; enduring hatred in their profound innocence?

Cults of Innocence impose a rule on thoughts and behaviours.
If you do not identify with one of the victim protective classes you are not permitted to feel pride.
Pride must prove itself worthy, through humility before the collective…not before reality.
We get an underserve arrogance, in relation to reality, and a feigned humility before the in-group.
This si distinct within the triad of Abrahamism: Judaism/Christianity/Islam.

Anything that does not show the appropriate degree of deference to this collective victimhood, is a ‘fascist’ a ‘nazi’ or some other label associated with vileness and evil.
The idea of ‘evil’ has been renamed, after Nietzsche influence eon the nihilistic zeitgeist.
Abrahamism has become abstracted to evade his critique of one of tis branches - i.e., Christianity - and Beyond Good and Evil forced nihilists to adopt new labels to express the same ideas.
A general repackaging has occurred.
Even Christianity is currently being reinvented using new names for the same concepts.
This is clear in the Marxist denial of Christianity, and in the justification of Determinism, as a form of fatalism, that has simply replaced the one-god with ana abstract concept of universe, or oneness, defined as absolute order.

Adaptation at work.
The threat is selectively integrated into the adapted new form, by transforming it into a form that can be integrated into the same dogma, with the substitution of words.
The threat is presumed to be eliminated by integrating it through relabeling.

Cults of Innocence are rooted in good/evil dichotomies, even if they personally and consciously deny any such prejudices.
The innocent are always the ‘good’, bridging into the world some form of salvation; the ‘evil’ are the ones who deny this offering, or expose the underlying motives and strategies.

Be weary of the gift giver and the salvation peddler.

Parasites emerge in the darkness, when they feel safe.
When they infest a host, they imitate its internal - esoteric - processes, seemingly belonging to the host they infest.

Parasite-memes stand forth as belonging to the elite when they feel safe; when they fear that this will draw unwanted consequences they return to their other, ideological, identity.
From genetic to memetic identifiers, depending on what aids them in disappearing or as belonging to the group that dominates within the host they infest.