Any one of us can turn into a machine at the drop of a hat, and this can happen at any time. It can happen quite without warning – one moment you're human being, the next you're a mechanoid, a...
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We can never obsess about the real, only the unreal. We obsess about the unreal all the time, in fact - that's how we try to make it real! ‘Obsessing about the unreal’ is just about all we ever do....
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Within the prolific but monotone hyperreality that we have inadvertently and unknowingly created for ourselves, all that exists are ‘strategic manoeuvres. It is simply not possible to engage in any activity that is not a strategic manoeuvre - which is...
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As we go about our daily life we do something that is truly absurd and we never realise that we're doing it. What we're doing - without realising it - is that we're assigning meaning to everything we come across....
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Anything we do that is purposeful is part of this simulation. Our purposeful activity both perpetuates the simulation and is the simulation and this is a very peculiar thing to consider. For a start, we probably won't acknowledge that there...
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Our everyday type of ‘consciousness’ (so-called consciousness) is a prison. This sounds like hyperbole, but it isn't - this is a very straightforward statement and it's not some kind of loose poetic metaphor. Our everyday consciousness functions exactly as a...
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If we are to live in the Known World - the world that is made up of known things - then we have to do something first, something we all know how to do instinctively but which we can’t allow...
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A game is where the true ‘value’ is reflected (or displaced) somewhere else, onto some sort of screen or baffle, where it can function as a very potent (a hypnotically potent) lure. There is nothing actually there however which is,...
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Thought is like a kind of ‘extraneous module’ (or ‘optional add-on’) that interprets all the incoming information for us in a very particular way; we can picture it as a kind of 'implanted microchip' or 'information-processing box' that everything gets...
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When we move into ‘control mode’ then we cut ourselves off from reality. We cut ourselves off from reality every time. We cut ourselves off from what would guide our controlling, so to speak, and so the whole exercise becomes...
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We glorify the endless reverberations of the Nullity. Or we rather we glorify one half of the endless reverberations of the Nullity whilst demonising the other half, the counterpart half, the complementary half. Thus, in society we glorify success and...
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The Manufactured Reality is always a long drawn-out exercise in tedium and futility. There's nothing else it can be - it is either a long drawn-out exercise in tedium and futility that we can see as such or it is...
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When the system of thought sets us futile or meaningless tasks (as it does do) and compels us to engage (and believe) in them, there is - in a superficial sense – an actual point to what it is doing....
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When we interact with the world it is almost always via our internal map, almost always via our ‘neat and tidy logical understanding of the way things are’. Every time we interact with the world in a purposeful way (which...
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Limits excite us. Limits excite us whilst freedom - on the other hand - frightens the hell out of us. We might say that we love being free (or that we greatly value freedom as an ideal) but really its...
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The very big problem with purposeful behaviour is that just as long as we are engaging in it, we will never encounter unstructured space. Goal-orientated behaviour will only ever take us to our goal, obviously enough! We don't want it...
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Our basic delusion, we might say, is that we see ‘the good thing’ as existing outside of us, and as being - as a result - something that we need to deliberately acquire. This requires both a theory (or map)...
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Only thought says what things are! Nothing else does, nothing else is interested in doing so. This is a good thing to remember because it shows us that we live in a world that is made up of thought’s definitions....
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