We all have this sure and certain idea regarding ‘who we are’, and ‘what life is all about’, and this notion that we have - no matter how ridiculously unsupported it might be - is so sure and certain that...
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The rational identity assumes a framework (a context) and then it makes tautologically true statements within this framework. It conceives, and then enacts, tautological actions. Any action that the rational identity takes within this defined context is always going to...
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There is a state of mind in which everything becomes all about ‘gaining rather than losing’. This is - needless to say - a state of mind that we’re all very familiar with. It's perfectly legitimate to be concerned with...
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The knowledge needed to play a game is the same thing as that game; the information that we need to have in order to operate within the simulation is that simulation. Whatever comes out of the system is that very...
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To submit to the Machine is to submit to a living death. The Machine has no depth (or no nuance) to it – it’s all just ‘action for the sake of action’, ‘control for the sake of control’, ‘making rules...
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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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