Power

Detachment creates void. This void is contained between self and subject. Like two lovers who part from each other and develop feelings of nostalgia from the separation. Their emotions taking on an intensity as a need to fill the absence of the other, resulting in an indirect form of closeness, of intimacy, not experienced when they were together. This occurs when we distance our consciousness from a subject. Schopenhauer says that one rarely ever thinks simply about the subject itself, but only its content. For this to succeed, there must be a separation of oneself from the subject in order to create a state of need; restlessness, which is an active condition of ordering. This will inspire greater depth into its nature, a need to peer into it closer. An intimacy of consciousness to subject, influenced by its distance away from our understanding, thus forming new thought processes to develop in order to understand it. So, when we finally face it head on and return to it, reunite with it, we will experience a far greater understanding of it, and it will turn from knowledge, to wisdom, from being to becoming, self to the world.

If we could suppose a natural state of potential, it would be that which is uninhibited. This is than the natural condition of which our potential is cultivated. If we can now imagine how much of this potential is squandered or usurped by the distraction of proving this potential to others; of the interaction instinct of socialization itself, we can imagine how little of ourselves are developed as a consequence, and by how much of ourselves are given to others.

To be free in one’s mind, means to allow a natural state to emerge of which the self finds a clearing to explore and prosper, once distractions have been removed. The nature of individualism, as it relates to the individual and not the individual in society, means to detach oneself from human affairs themselves and retreat into solitude. But it is not enough to simply retreat into a “comfort zone” of oneself, but to take that as the opportunity to flourish in one’s own abilities. To be wound up in a constant state of competition and the need for merit, means to lose the energy of the self which could be used to achieve higher objectives if it was focused into a freedom of being.

The age of superficial meritocracy, places one into a position of constant defense against their own weaknesses, instead of cultivating them into strengths. The need to constantly “prove” oneself, conflict, combat, compete and contest with others, all diminishes our potential to focus those energies into ourselves, toward higher pursuits. To remove oneself from such petty engagements, is as relieving and freeing, as it would be to drop a heavy weight from the shoulders. A mind free from the stress of these exacerbating trifles, will rekindle a clearer and more focused energy to be directed toward an isolated pursuit of fulfillment, and a chance to attain a real identity of power. By isolating ourselves, we isolate our objectives as well, and make of them the entirety of the energy that most give to others, and give them instead to that one centered goal of self-actualization.

There is a distinct duty to create, in spite of our duty to die; the duty to become creators of the world and by the world in spite of ourselves. To know, is to reflect knowledge back into a form of creation as tribute of that knowledge. To learn what our predecessors learned, to understand what was understood by them, is to give back to them by succeeding their memory and creating our own knowledge, building our own legacies, forming our own understanding, building upon the foundations of what came before us. It is not enough to acquire life; it must become life, cycles must repeat.

The feminine naivete is a representation of a vast expanse of nature. It touches upon all that is readily seen and understood. Its simplicity is the cosmic fabric upon which the masculine rests. It opens up the creative and imaginative Will, because it is without reason. Without the encumbrance of reason, will allow the freedom of wisdom to flourish.

Nihilism is used as an absolute affirmation of value based on its total rejection of it. One extreme redirecting to the other, and changing its meaning in the process, producing the intended dissociating effects on the individual psychological state. Nihilism is the guiding undercurrent. Ultimate power, in ultimate nothingness.

Survivalism, is always what ends up being what matters.

Enduring pain and sacrifice of the body, is readily accepted as a worthwhile cost for strength or greatness. Most will never apply this method to their ideas or beliefs; the consciousness demanding a sacrifice of unparalleled bodily proportions.

Awareness in itself, is intrinsic negation of nihilism;
all that remains therein is the fitness of the self to overcome or regress.

We can see how the 18th century American romanticism seeded the growth for the idealism displayed by Chomsky. Henry David Thoreau’s civil disobedience laying the groundwork for this romanticism, because it is ingrained in abstract institutional notions, influencing institutional thinking; conditioning, indoctrination. Institution took on an organic role for Americans because there was no racial identity or culture to guide their instincts. This is why the American mind cannot think beyond its own romantic modern mythologies about race and gender or violence, the institution being their only origin of their culture, and it also explains why they are prone to psychopathic tendencies. Foucault attempts to pull Chomsky away from these illusions with his calculating objectivism, in spite of his Marxist sympathies, and restate obvious realities of human behavior and the need for fulfillment of natural drives, that a modern mind like Chomsky cannot fathom for reasons of trained disassociation and natural naivete.

The modern mind is an artificial mind, trapped in its own raw nature.

Self-knowledge is only a beginning point of power and self.

There are those who lack the most, who will feel that they possess the most; conjuring a metaphysical substitute identity. Likewise, those who become aware of thier lacking, do not overcome it, but merely find themselves placed into a predisposed condition of potential. The feeling of "angst" is the positive attraction that pulls them into a direction of power, because this self-knowledge, in its infancy, is a bundle of emotions and feelings which must metamorphose into a concrete actualization. This is the raw separation of the instability of self-awareness between persons. Like a helpless newborn; self-knowledge undergoes the same frailty of life, thrust into the unknown, subjected to the illusions of the mind and survival. The individual is faced with a challenge to face who they are.

Self-Knowledge for Moderns degenerates, is an idealization, and sanctification of self.
The mind of the individual is deified, and declared the substitution of the one-god as 'creator of reality', i.e., all is subjective implies that all minds are equally feeble, and also equally powerful, able to create their own private reality, acknowledging the other only as a fellow god, or version of the one-god, creator of worlds.

American individualism = through the Messianic intervention of money - saviour - the individual can create, as a god, his own private reality.
Marxists opportunists fall into the category of demanding equal distribution of this messianic power of the saviour - all have equal right over the saviour - Protestantism finding its commonality with Judaism.
All must be saved, or none will be saved - all deserve all - God = Lover, universal, undiscriminating, with no strings attached - universal love.

Self-knowledge is, or ought to be, 'positive' - the 'negative' is projected as an otherness, leaving the self 'purified' innocent, and therefore deserving of salvation/money.
Even in free-will, responsibility, the blame is projected externally upon a god, or a abstract absolute - a universe a whole, i.e., absolute order.
The American individual has no past, and may not even be invested in a future, so he/she has no future...and is absolute present/presence.... a state of creating its own world, uninhibited neither by precedent (past) nor by consequences (future) - liberated within the universal oneness which it reflects.
An individual in contact with the divine - absolute order- in the perpetual present.

Narcissism is the outcome of this projection of negativity and preservation of positivity - self-flattery, self-deceit, self-purification, self-sanctification, self-idealization.
Self must be perfect, otherwise how can it be loved?
All or Nothing.  
The individual repeats the same mistakes because he never learns; always blaming otherness for the negative; always claiming innocence, a lack of participation in its own fate, if it is negative; always claiming it, when it is positive.
Everything is inevitable, when it is a mistake, and a product of its own superior spiritual and/or cognitive understanding - its piety -when it is correct - after the fact all is inevitable.

In the extreme cases of this psychosis, all is 'good', positive, good or bad - this is how they understand 'beyond good & evil - so error is never admitted - all is part of a universal plan, and the only way it could have ever been. Fatalism.

The idea of inspiration, which is the spiritual force of creativity, is connected to this idea of "not trying". Meaning, to allow nature to be what it is, and if there is quality inside oneself it will be determined, based on how capable and intelligent one is to respond to flux.

Power struggles are innate in nature. Those who make power about dominance over others, subverts this process into resentment. For most, power must be defined only as "dominance", because they have no dominion over themselves and so must impose it and actualize it in others. Any fixation on "otherness", is an indication of a self-lacking; an absence of power. Those who have mastery over themselves know when to pull back from themselves and to mitigate thier affinities towards resentment. This cultivates strength.

Only inferior spirits, nomads of the self, have a desire to change the world, or change nature; seeking a surrogate self, a "reparation" to thier accursed internal void.

All that power can be understood as, or defined as, is a perpetual self-overcoming; a perpetual attaining of existence. One merges thier consciousness with existence and 'adheres' into themselves the suffering of it, solidifying it into thier being, making it resilient. This will allow a better relationship of the dying process to flourish, which is what reveals beauty, and the possibility of glory in the inevitable transition to death.

There is no possibility of identity without the acumen of why one suffers. Suffering without understanding, produces the angst and spiritual impoverishment that plagues modern minds. In degenerate spirits, it produces resentment.

Cultivating an understanding of suffering first begins with accepting suffering, in itself, as a cosmic meaningless burden of existence. Then, contrasting that meaninglessness against the ability to create meaning, thus harmonizing life and death. The mind merging with flux must do so as a ship anchored in a storm.

Nihilism is the challenge. Those who become aware of their mortality along with the emptiness of the artificial social systems to offer meaning to it, stand at a spiritual crossroad. They can choose to create meaning and value themselves, ascend, or abdicate this duty, descend, and resign themselves to chance and accept nihilism as the absolute value.

Cynicism is the awareness of the truth of man-made contrivances and existential absurdity, coupled with the inability to overcome it, the inability to cultivate strength, and so cynics will create a nihilistic value system, based of justifying their own inferiority, while giving credence to their marginally sagacious perception.

All we have to do is look at our current culture. The “hero worship” is in the form of imbecile wage slaves and careerists. All the incessant worship of medical personal for example, speaks to the modern idiocy of the meaning of “heroism” and their inability to understand or think or value anything unless it is part of their system of institutionalized accolades and material success.

Awareness of self-worth is not power in itself, it is yet another form of potential for power, that is subject to entropy, and it will decay and fade away, or it will be nurtured and strengthened by ones will to give it purpose.

Most base individuals believe superiority or power is about having authority or victory over others. When all it is, is a spiritually driven survival strategy of increasing resilience to suffering; a tempering process that is meant to prepare oneself for death.

Those who desire power, lack it. Those who wish to wield it over others, need to aquire it vicariously through them. Those who wish only to strive towards power, gain the most of it, while never needing it, or exercising it, for the constant influx of it into them by thier striving, insures a spirit sated in itself with all the power of the world.

Thinking of power without its descriptions, returns the mind back to the body; the spirit back to its being.

Power turned against oneself is power handed over to the inferior. The inversion of hierarchy. When power is given a "morality", then self-destructive repercussions are the result. That which is weak, base, degenerate then becomes powerful.

Power, founded on moral codes - especially Abrahamic ethics - is a power bound by collectives; power, defined by herd psychologies; power, that can only expand by lowering itself to accommodate and seduce feminine needs and desires; power, that proudly announces its potency by exposing its humble impotence, remaining eternally dependent on the fickle loyalties of those it pretends to stand above.

Notions of what constitutes quality or greatness, or some height of expression, seems to normally be apprehensive in nature; such is the malady of intellect. The true elemental force of a thing has no place within human fear, but rather a surrendering of self to its influence over the spirit. There is no rationalism in creativity. There can be no thought in action. Much of what most imagine about what is “great” or “beautiful” cannot be something ‘tolerable’ in nature.

-The ultimate duty we have is to endure Time. Time is the fundamental test of consciousness and it is through and by the experience of time that we experience dying, and it is by conceptualizing this experience that we come to know ourselves.

-What determines the degree of power is how willing one is able to embrace individual accountability for themselves. Moreover, the inclination to fulfill a duty of oneself will give one's will, the energy to strive for something great. There must be an acceptance, an embrace of oneself as having a responsibility to become something, to attain a use-value in themselves, in order to facilitate a state of power in the first place. The distinctions between individuals come from this embrace of self-duty; that there must be a latent recognition of a willing towards an objective to designate a will towards something at all. It is all too plain how easily differences in power are determined merely by those who flail in the disorder of their own need for a purpose, for a duty, being too weak to accept it, as opposed to those who accept the rule of this need over them, and take it as an order from a commander to carry out a successful mission of themselves. If there could be any ultimate reward for this accountability it would be to eventually make peace with it which is what wisdom is.

-Those most competent in their perception will come to some abstraction of what the ideal is or could be regardless of whether they grasp its meaning as a mode of perception. Rather those who merely give themselves over to it in illusory faith, have not put forth any effort to achieve something real, despite, ironically believing they have because they find eternal value in uncertainty and have made a 'sacrifice' of knowledge. The one who strives the earnest towards the knowledge of the ideal through a perennial labor of truth, in fact, give themselves over to the ideal with even more faith and devotion than the former, and with an even deeper desire to transcend this life for a higher one.

-Power should not be exercised over others, but over oneself. Time strips off parts of ourselves, bit by bit, thrusting them into the cosmic river, and it is these parts which we recognize as our objectives. The world reflects the self, it is its 'representation' as Schopenhauer says, so we cannot 'conquer' the world unless we conquer ourselves. Therefore, to have power is to pursue these parts of ourselves which we inevitably lose and that flow away from us, and to retain their essence fortifying our spirits; to give them to others would be a squandering of this fleeting value of them that is afforded to us in such a brief moment in time.

-The truth of ideas would have to begin by removing them from their connection to the world of humanity. Only through pathways of raw nature would we ever experience or understand the purity of anything once its human contrivances have been cast off.

Time = duration through space, i.e., endurance to change, to interactivity, to flux, to existence.
To preserve and conserve your inherited order and add to its symmetry and proportionality and to its spatial effect, i.e., its power, is what is appreciated via appearance. On a subconscious level.
We call it beauty. We call it power. We call it health.

When Dostoevsky says that to be conscious is a sickness he is referring to the agony of truth. Truth and the brutality of nature that it reveals to us infects the spirit and produces this state of melancholia. The need to "repress" these feelings beneath social pretense only exacerbates the despondency because then it creates a sense of self-indignity. To know the truth and then to suppress it leads to an interminable spiritual conflict in oneself that at times, cannot be reconciled. This is the difference between "destroyers" and "creators". Being aware of truth is only half the battle, it doesn't end there. The ability to direct its affects to an objective must be the next challenge. The ones who "destroy" are the ones who lack the ability to harness the suffering of truth into a focal point of expression; I.e the Creative Genius, and instead they will be helplessly crushed under the weight of its influence over them, or they will submit to total resentment/nihilism and project thier inferiority onto the world. The creators transmute this awareness into a self, a will to power. And once an identity has been forged from this suffering, individual qualities can grow from it which transform into self-actualized creations and extensions in the world. Those who create, use what truth reveals to them, in the same way the body uses nutrients to become healthier.

How much romanticism and passion is attributed to the ideal of Love. Would not then, the ideal of Rage be the product of its success? To affirm the negative is to actualize the positive. The adversary to ourselves and our creations, what destroys them, threatens them, even thrust them, untethered into the void, so real power, real awareness, has a fighting chance to manifest.

Power appears as "evil" as a primal reaction to what imposes forms of dominance or what violates moralistic convictions. Nature is "cruel". The mind resorts to using supernatural perceptions and ideas of understanding when it feels overwhelmed with trauma, when all it is, is manifestations of conflict seeking order; wills seeking rule. The Left is in control because they are primitive and use force to get what they want, and in a time of over-domestication, over-socialization, feminization, force and violence works, and has a greater effect of reward to those who use it to subjugate. It's that's simple.

Nice.

This is what power of indifference is.

This is also what’s funny about envious and vindictive minds. They believe an Aristocratic spirit is about obnoxiously believing oneself more superior than others; this is how they understand superiority, in the light of another who has it, because they don't have it. It is a temperament, an attitude, a way of being that exudes its own motives for the welfare of its own quality. They think only in terms of social validation, that power must be approved by the herd, when it sustains itself, and more, grows and thrives when it is left alone to bask in the sun. Power seeks its own values, not those of others, as those without power do.

The Conquering spirit thinks themselves to be Aristocratic through their indifference to the real/body with the ability to command/seduce thousands. But they come to learn deep down that despite their defeats or victories they will not only remain as they were but begin to lose themselves within the inevitable mixing that occurs.

Those who seek public approval or use popularity to evaluate themselves, ideas, those who sell ideas or themselves to others, will always lower themselves to the public's lowest-common-denominator.

Indifference is the consequence of overcoming, surpassing...of power.
But mind is dependent on body and can never completely attain indifference - it always needs.

Satyr wrote:

Those who seek public approval or use popularity to evaluate themselves, ideas, those who sell ideas or themselves to others, will always lower themselves to the public's lowest-common-denominator.

Indifference is the consequence of overcoming, surpassing...of power.
But mind is dependent on body and can never completely attain indifference - it always needs.

As if the mind, itself, doesn’t need to experience?