“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Hell's Main Idea: Flipped Gnosticism

 Whereas the current fascist state of affairs is paranoid-Gnostic, seeking the pure spirit of total violence against the others(s) and producing the usual toxic antisemitic and racist memes, Hell proposes by contrast a flipped Gnosticism that describes this fascist situation: we are poor mortal bodies trapped in a universe of ideas. Phenomenologically “our” body and its biosphere are the most distant things in the universe. 

There is a LOT on this. I am going to come out and say it: it's great. 

The idea of “only two genders” (the proposed new MAGA law) is an artifact of the yin-yang New Age “pagan” Christian (pretending to be fundamentalist, or maybe this is the essence of fundamentalism) universe. Literally an artifact, a stupid meme, made by artificers who do things like copying presidential decrees found on Google. 




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