You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding by Timothy Morton
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You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding by Timothy Morton
The First Transmission Scream of Timotheodoradorno
Read on SubstackIt's a wondrous text in its own right, the kind of thing that you'll want to read whether or not you read my book:
Retipped Arrows of Desire (Vala Redux) by Andy Wilson
My review of Tim Morton's Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology, from the recently published Vala #5, journal of The Blake Society. You can download Vala #5 here.
Read on SubstackI've always had trouble understanding this concept. But now I understand why I have trouble understanding this concept.
It's because I'm so aware of it.
I'm not only aware of secondary gain, I'm aware of tertiary, quaternary, quinary gain. It is an uncanny Doctor House ability that makes me not fun in certain situations, and very good at reading poems.
What does it mean?
Something that seems unpleasant might be pleasant at a deeper level. Think drug addiction. The death drive.
It's like a set of gears. The higher gears contain the lower ones. The point of psychoanalysis is deconstructing the higher gears into the lower ones and figuring out how the lower ones might be interfering with the higher ones.
It's on the side of mercy, via the paradoxical pathway of murder.
Because of being a survivor (read my new book) of really heavy stuff (really heavy) I see not only people's secondary gain but all the way to their quinary gain. It's how I sussed out Trump immediately.
It's how Trump operates. It's where he lives. He doesn't get the higher levels at all. Everyone is out to get everyone. The world as Trump and Trump representation. Even famous sonofabitch Roy Cohn didn't realize Trump was lower than him. He got caught into his own game and in the movie he weeps as Trump gives him a paltry child's birthday cake with sparklers at the dining room in Mar a Lago as he dies of AIDS.
Musk has no idea what he's let himself in for. He's like a five year old child using a one year old child as his ersatz father because his real father was cruel. He's like the idiot in a horror movie, sadistic in his own way but really advanced compared with Alien.
So I have had trouble understanding the concept because I see the tertiary gain within the secondary gain. Look at these examples Google found:
"A patient may receive medical treatment and also gain benefits like paid time off or extra attention from family."
Okay, I get that one. And yet, I don't: when I first read it, I thought it was saying that the patient enjoys NOT being healed because this also gets them even more time off and attention.
But then:
"A person may work hard to achieve financial security, but sacrifice relationships with loved ones to repay debt."
Tertiary gain: they ENJOY sacrificing those relationships. They love destroying themselves like that.
And now:
"A person may continue to smoke cigarettes despite knowing it causes cancer to avoid feeling bad about themselves."
Tertiary gain: they LOVE feeling bad about themselves. They get off on poisoning themselves with cigarettes.
And the final one was really hard for me to get:
"A person with chronic pain may not like spending time with their partner's friends, but their partner doesn't pressure them to go to social events when they're in pain."
Tertiary gain: the person LOVES hurting their partner like that.
Quaternary gain: the person LOVES being kept in a prison by the partner.
Quinary gain: murder-suicide for all!
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...Prometheus (the Alien prequel) is a 100% undiluted Christian Ecology film.
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Naturally the director of the film doesn't know what he's talking about compared with me lololol
I've trying to figure this film out, compulsively, since 2012. I can't tell you the sense of relief as it finally slotted into place. I had to create Christian ecology to figure it out. There's no way I could've done this 12 years ago.
I must confess I hated what I saw as the bleak anthropocentric nihilism of the film. Good news. It doesn't really exist.
I'm going to be writing and lecturing about this for ages.
As a survivor I see art as weird potentially dangerous beings that I have to figure out. Interpretation is a compulsion not a choice, like for Doctor House.
Twelve years. It took twelve years.
"And the worms ate into his brain"
government of the brain worms, by the brain worms, and for the brain worms by Jeff Tiedrich
what could possibly go wrong?
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I forgave my father two years ago. It was a sensation, forgiveness. A totally strange, totally wonderful, totally recognizable sensation, despite my never having felt it before. It's not just a formal act. It has a feel to it.
I found this in my mail today.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. considers the power of love that Jesus revealed at his death:
Few words in the New Testament more clearly and solemnly express the magnanimity of Jesus’ spirit than that sublime utterance from the cross, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” [Luke 23:34]. This is love at its best.…
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of revenge. [Humanity] has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: “Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, [people] continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
Jesus eloquently affirmed from the cross a higher law. He knew that the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with [forceful] love.
What a magnificent lesson! Generations will rise and fall; [people] will continue to worship the god of revenge and bow before the altar of retaliation; but ever and again this noble lesson of Calvary will be a nagging reminder that only goodness can drive out evil and only love can conquer hate.
It was such an honor and the Q&A explored such good things.