(Part 2) Best products from r/sorceryofthespectacle

The virus that is flipping zero-sum games to nonzero is called The Love Bug. In case you haven't noticed, nonzero is love, nonzero is life. For there to be true liberation would require an end of hate. There is now contagious peace and love spreading through the whole world.

[This man has the warmest soul and the deepest humanity of any person I have known (through his books and recordings of him.) His advice is timeless.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYEI6jWT244) Here's the love bug, this is literally it. Now go spam it everywhere.

This needs to go global BEFORE Thursday. GET TO WORK.

I just picked this up a few days back, haven't had much chance to read yet but it begins with some amazing narrative about american wrestling (illusional agency replacement) and celebrities (illusional immortality of ego) off the bat. Very appropriate I think for this sub (and I already bought it so there is that ;)

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle Paperback 240pgs – Aug 24 2010
by Chris Hedges (Author)

> That sounds like new age garbage

That's because it is. Eschewing politics wherever possible, refusing to formulate a dialectic of transcendence subsumes ourselves to nothing more than a bastardized form of nihilist negation. The need for an accelerationist aesthetic necessitates participation in the very myths we create, for sure; but I don't think that implies ephemeral experience over everything else. Such things could easily be construed as liberal, centrist bullshit.. leading people to justify their own intellectual laziness as a result (sots' very own disagreeable wizards come to mind). The general sentiment I get here is that y'all are perfectly fine with the "structure of feeling" that Vermuelen and van den Akker utterly failed to properly define seven years ago. Fortunately, they're publishing their first book this September in which they recontextualize Fredric Jameson's arguments regarding our waning historicity in an attempt to do so; maybe that'll clear things up.

Yeah, I think we see it similarly. Awareness is a strange loop and so is consciousness... but awareness is like a strange loop about a strange loop and consciousness is just the single loop-thing itself, the solid-state circuit.

Yes, the torus is definitely the ourobouros! I am writing at least three books on this subject (books are very early drafts to mere scraps; the three non-poem books may merge or split into 1-3 final books).

Have you read Destiny and Control in Human Systems? It's by a systems analyst, if I remember his name for his field correctly.

Hi everybody, I am the 729th reincarnation of an entity which became enlightened nearly 11'000 years ago in what today is called Terra Fuego. This internetz thing makes me grin every now and then. The great dispersion. It's difficult to take anything serious. Well, we had this over and over again. But anyway, let me say something about Non-Buddhism:

A basic text/idea which set it into motion is this one: Nascent Speculative Non-Buddhism by a human called Glenn Wallis. As you will see, there are to aspects two this idea. The first is an outright harsh and totally destructing critique of what is defined in this text, for the sake of clear terminology, as X-Buddhism. The second aspect is the idea that Asian Buddhism – namely Buddhist philosophy – might have had some good ideas which perhaps could be of good use today.

The central aspect about the second point is the Non. In the above mentioned text you'll find some first hints how the Non could be thought. A more elaborated version you find in Cruel Theory - Sublime Practice: Toward a Revaluation of Buddhism.

In fall 2011 the blog Speculative Non-Buddhism – ruins of the buddhist real took off and began its work on X-Buddhism. You'll find there a lots of critique of X-Buddhism and also some tries to formulate the above mentioned second aspect.

People here in this sphere who are a bit more inclined to the occult might be warned that Non-Buddhism is very critical about any kind of naïve esoteric thinking. (As an example: Take Fra Perdurabo's idea of the True Will and the Holy Guardian Angel. As interesting as this might have been 100 Years ago, certainly this must be reformulated and developed today. True Will might be formulated today as the movement of the Stranger in Laruelleian terms, backed up by the knowledge and experience of the absence of any kind of individual essence, viz. Madhyamika in Non-Buddhist terms...) The Non will destruct any kind of transcendence down to the most basic ones like "body" and "existence", so the occult might just be a romantic left over, a dark desire of the self to survive somehow its enlightenment. Or not so, perhaps there are other modern occultists today in the Panopticon of the 21st century schizoid man's universe.

For Krauts there is a German translation of Master Wallis' igniting epistle. 1. Einführung in den Spekulativen Non-Buddhismus, 2. Die Heuristik des Spekulativen Non-Budhismus.

Since 2011 there has been a flurry on and off about this project. The one main point for the beginner might be this: Non-Buddhism has very much to do with Buddhism in the West and sees it mainly as a tool of modern capitalist exploitation. There has been published a lot of text re this critique. The other point is that non-Buddhism then moves off into a direction which has nothing more to do with X- or esoteric Buddhism. That's the point where it becomes really interesting. That's where Buddhism stops being another religion for the stupid but a philosophy in the sense of Deleuze/Guattari.

it's not really a scientific tome. 100% brain is bs.

the exercise are worth playing around with regardless.

Oh this is a trend. You want me to argue with you?

In that case I'm sorry I dont care:

• Modern sconce and neurology have odd philosophical basis's: yes
  
  
• This 100% brain book isnt very good neuroscience: yes, and I stated that it my comment above. Its probably bunk
  
  
• We dont use 100% of our brain: yes, example: lucy is using the same myth as Limitless.
  
  
• Your mind will only expand by thinking: yes thats why this is a good book. It stimulates thought. Other books are great for this as well (and many are much better).
  
  
• Since they exclude the contradiction, by grounding mind in matter, they hide the indication that there's something a bit fishy about this whole universe business.: yes. Youll notice that most of modern science and popular myth is based upon this supposition. It makes much of their work alot less effective as a result but it doesnt by itself make all work from these assumptions completely useless. A totally valid critique but I will still read something written by a materialist even if I disagree with premises.
  
  I do appreciate that you spent some time on expanding on those thoughts, as they are generally worth having but if you really want to turn those critique guns against something turn them against something thats really trying to explain the human mind with the materialist frame:
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Edition-Kandel/dp/0071390111
  
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/h0f876r7s2k9hy7/Kandel_-_Principles_of_Neural_Science.pdf
  

prefaced with this havelock book and you will have a good foundational reference field for the western "individual".

And heres one that looks like a great survey/overview of the western "soul".

And of course Dont forget Foucault.

Apparently Hubbard mentions AK in some of his early lectures, I'm not suprised to see a connection there because it seems like he's influential among a lot of other folks inventing their own systemz around that time. I know that GS influenced Albert Ellis a lot when he made Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and the NLP guys took a lot from it too. Bucky Fuller, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Watts, Abraham Maslow, Robert Heinlein, Neil Postman, and Anatol Rappoport were also all into Korzybski. It's taking me a long time to work through it but I got a copy of Science & Sanity I'm about halfway through and I'm enjoying it a lot even though most of it is going over my head.

I have no idea what any of this xenolinguistic stuff is can you point me in a couple directions? I'm drowning in new music and reading material (even more since I found this place) but I am planning on doing a medical study soon which will put me in lockdown for 30 days and I'm planning to read the whole time. I have this book in my wishlist on amazon for a while, is it any good?

Yeah, thats the same conclusion I've come to on the guy.

http://www.amazon.ca/Against-Modern-World-Traditionalism-Intellectual/dp/0195396014

This is a great examination imho.

Celebrity, Inc. shows how celebrity is a business and lessened my desire for fame.

For starters, learn your history. Once you can see the origins of your values and perception, you can differ between your values and perception and the colonizer's. (00:10 - 00:30)

I suggest The Reenchantment of the World to start with. A piercing look into the origins of captialism and how it colonized our very being.

No it isn't, it's senseless insanity. Find out why the Christian Illuminati death cultists are such ignorant assholes.

Christians are the most retarded people on the planet. They could all be exterminated with no net loss, but in fact a net gain.