Feel the tears stream down your face
Feel them
Feel them in tragedy
Feel them in triumph
Feel them caress you like silver lace

Say yes to ignominy
Say yes to tragedy
Say yes to trial and loss
Say yes to the tears
Say yes to life

SAY YES AND VICTORY WILL SEEK YOU OUT!
CRY YES, WITH TEARS, CRY YES TO LIFE!

Ronin

Bowie's knife has become nothing less than the American counterpart of King Arthur's 'Excalibur And its origin is wrapped in multiplied legends as conflicting and fantastic as those that glorify the master weapons of the old world.

-J. Frank Dobie⚜️

My reaction to the comments being enabled:

Initiation of a Modern Mystic

https://youtube.com/shorts/EPopfBLWcHM

Satya Yuga for pussies ngl

Kali yuga niggaz do it better 🫦😈

see what I'm talmbout

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn talks about the utility of the exclusiveness of paradigms.

The whole point of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is to show us that scientific theorization takes place in the context of these structures, these frameworks, that are political to a great extent - namely paradigms - and how this limits our perception and causes us to exclude a lot of data, marginalize a lot of data.

An interesting point, and of course what I'm advocating from Prometheus and Atlas onward, is that we move to a post-paradigmatic science, we move to a science that recognizes that theories are models and tools, they are not objective representations of reality and so it's perfectly fine for us to work with multiple paradigms simultaneously which appear to contradict each other.

Because it's not about coming up with one final paradigm that perfectly mirrors reality, it's about being able to do different things technologically based on different paradigms.

You know like if you want to develop atomic weapons, you use Einsteinian physics. If you want to build Zero Point Energy and use it to power the world, you're going to have to use a different paradigm.

It doesn't mean one paradigm is right and another paradigm is wrong - it means you can do different things with a different toolkit.

All of that having been said, there is this one remark that Kuhn makes in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions where he says that this exclusionary, closed structure of the paradigm is very useful for scientific progress. You put out a very tight theory where all the pieces fit together, and it's a very definitive approach to handling a database, and then you let others challenge it. And it's in the dialectic between one theory and a rival theory that scientific progress takes place.

So that's partly why I did what I did, because the more coherent and cohesive my theory is, the more effective someone else will be and drawing contrasts through elaborating a rival theory or rival hypotheses and dialectically lead to an advance in knowledge.

– Jason Reza Jorjani

This whole quote is juicy af but just to pick on something in particular rn:

"Because it's not about coming up with one final paradigm that perfectly mirrors reality, it's about being able to do different things technologically based on different paradigms."

This is interesting to me because of how common this desire to encompass the totality of reality into one paradigm is.

We always want to be able to answer everything in one simple system that has zero holes or contradictions, and this very apparently is just not the case.

A scientific example of this is the Quantum vs. Newtonian mechanics situation - each paradigm has proven itself as a viable system through experimentation and practical application, yet they remain in contradiction with each other.

How could this be?

Well, each system is merely a paradigm - each is a model of reality based on data points that have been woven together.

So these models are not reality itself - they are merely maps we have drawn up to represent aspects of reality as we have observed them. And even though we have enough data points to make an obviously workable map, this does not mean there aren't more data points out there which, when discovered, would (will) radically alter our existing map beyond recognition.

We must keep in mind that these data points come from a sliver of reality, and our experience with these data points also happens within a sliver of reality.

This is important because the universe is so vast and so complex that we need to remember it is only a mere assumption that things have to operate according to the forms of rationalization and logic that we have been conditioned to believe are absolute.

Some posts around these links related to Quantum/Newtonian:

https://news.1rj.ru/str/esotericdixiedharma/4168
https://news.1rj.ru/str/esotericdixiedharma/4319

The desire for an all-encompassing paradigm is also at the heart of both ideology and religion.

This idea of a one and done system is such an attractive thing because it's orderly and brings with it a sense of certainty and comfort. Everything is covered, not to worry. All under control. Control...

Control? Micromanagement? Wrapping up reality in a nice package, safe and sound, nothing left to wonder about?

Ah, you mean stagnation. You mean stifling creative energy. You mean evolutionary dead end.

We all know safety leads not to growth. That certainty drains away the awe. That comfort brings with it slavery.

It is only through TENSION that evolution can occur. It is through the fire of an evolutionary selection pressure that we are forced to tap into something higher than ourselves.

It is this pressure that ultimately causes the transformation INTO something higher - that or extinction.

And this pressure itself comes out of Dionysian Chaos, out of a primordial type of chaos, from that unknown dimension that is at once the seed of life and the yawning void of obliteration.

This region should be understood as a dynamic tension, and if you are one of Dixie's Chosen, this is where you live. In the crucible of endlessly expanding PROMETHEAN FLVMES you make your home.

Not in ideology. Not in religion.

It is the tension and the great beyond. The wind and the spray and the shining of the sun.

🌊 🏄‍♂️ ☀️

This is the case because all systems and all paradigms are by nature limited and constraining - that is, they are constraining IF we lock ourselves within their walls and forget their purpose as TOOLS for NAVIGATING reality, for CREATING reality.

The issue is that the vast majority of people DO forget, in fact, they never knew. They are born into a system, and that's that - reality for them is that system. Even those who think they change systems are usually only swapping out components within the greater system of restrictive will and limited thought.

So what it's about is dynamism, it's about surfing the wave, it's about CREATION.

We do not get creation with closed systems - or rather, you may get it for a time, but it will wear itself out and eventually turn in on itself in decay.

When it collapses it will take you with it if you're grafted to the walls.

Take Newtonian physics and materialism, for example. Yielded us a lot of things, we subdued the world with it, evolved our way of life, all types of stuff.

But what's happening now? You got nihilism and skyrocketing mental illnesses of all fucking varieties. You got pollution and desecration of the earth. You have a society that is a literal untermensch generation machine.

The paradigm birthing all of this is a sinking ship but I'd argue its only sinking because we ran it ragged. It's not a bad ship, it's wonderful for its purposes, we just have demanded more from it than its intended use.

The fault there is on us and our attachment to it. Our undying belief in it AS reality - we have forgotten the paradigm is a model.

We mistake the map for the terrain while stumbling THROUGH the terrain. Then we wonder why we break our leg and fuck ourselves up - it's because we are essentially walking blind.

It's not a sustainable way to operate and will likely spell extinction for our species (or some form of catastropic series of events) if we continue with this stubborn fixation on rigid paradigms no matter what they are.

This is not about doing away with all grounding agents or throwing people to the wind in some willy nilly chaotic ecstasy just for the sake of it.

It's about coming to a fuller understanding about how these things work, how reality actually is and functions, and figuring out how to leverage that towards our individual and collective benefit.

We want to evolve consciousness, power, and quality of life. We want to attain greatness. We want the highest expression of the Good and the Beautiful - something that is infinitely unfolding in the form of divine dance and tantric theater.

This will never come from a singular system, not in a sustainable way. Those who believe so are brainwashed and doomed.

They may be smart people, and they may be good-hearted people, and they may be brave people, but they are not free people, not in this way, and they are ultimately people who are pieces to be moved on a great chess board.

Dynamism is needed.
Genuinely critical thought is needed.
Radically creative will is needed.
A proper aristos is needed.

New systems and new paradigms are needed. As we come across new data points (which is literally always happening), new maps are obviously needed. The terrain is harsh and unforgiving - Nature cares not for sentimental fixations on obsolete frameworks.

And so we create. Create or die. This is the way of an unfolding universe. Ride the wave or be crushed by it.

In the way of Plato, we create. Philosophers mold the minds of men and in this way direct the trajectory of the species. It always has been and always will be.

The noble lie is what else but a system, a paradigm? Is it Real capital R? Is it absolute? Of course not.

Yet it doesn't have to be and isn't meant to be - all dharmas are empty. The Philosopher knows the utility of the paradigm and wields it deftly. It is only the intellectual pleb that mistakes the finger for the moon.

The noble lie is useful, it is skillful in the context of the Buddhist concept of upaya. It serves a vital role in the flourishing of humanity and the process of evolution.

It creates stability within Flux and brings form from formlessness. It is beautiful, it is Apollonian splendor.

So we birth new systems of thought and with them new ways of experiencing reality. We fabricate new structures in the collective consciousness of man.

We put them forth, and the next man tears them down, building upon their ruins - Up Up Up. A link in the chain.

Thus, knowledge is selflessly advanced in the dialectical process. Iron sharpens iron. The often violent and terrible tension serves a higher aim than that which is perceptible to the blind.

New ideologies, new religions - new humans.

We RISE