"Whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice, the spoils are carried along in the procession. They are called cultural treasures, and a historical materialist views them with cautious detachment. For without exception the cultural treasures he surveys have an origin which he cannot contemplate without horror. They owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it is transmitted from one owner to another. A historical materialist therefore dissociates himself from it as far as possible. He regards it as his task to brush history against the grain." – from Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations, Ed. Hannah Arendt, Trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969), pp. 256–57.

When your philosopher friend responds to your new year's wish that the coming quarter century might be an improvement over the one that just came to an end.

Not as hopeless as it may seem, though Walter Benjamin is quite the enigma.

#BeBeyondBelonging #BeTheBang

#BeBeyondBelonging

Be Beyond

Be

#BeTheBang

#HashHow related to

#BeTheBang and #NothingMatters are:

#MatterIsMeaningManifesting

#MonadologyAsMereologyOfMeaning

#IterativeIntegrity

#TimeCollapsesAsItPasses

and

#ReasonChasesIntuition

Anyway, time for some head meds and bed.

Today I was wanting to update my website with a blog post attempting to explain some key #hashorisms like #NothingMatters, #WorshipAtTheAltarOfEnough, and #BeTheBang.

Turns out, I did that last one here.

Stable bipolar hypomania grants an intellectual and creative acuity lacking in other states.

We have a #hashorism, #BeTheBang, that gestures at a metaphysical model for reality that is at once: the expansive and expanding universe, its iotal start, and all states in between -- a scintillating form approximately imagined through manipulation of the frame of time. I saw a vision of it once...

Some of the shifts in perspective and understanding I have had thanks to bipolar elevation. It can be a dangerous state but it has also helped me to see reality in ways that have made life easier if not easy. Not so easy to explain.

#BeTheBang

China's President ‘turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s request to name his unborn child’ The President reportedly said the honour would be ‘too much responsibility’

Yuck.

No matter how power-hungry or powerful: “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

Same goes for their splendid machines.

#BeTheBang

Today’s addition had to do with isandisnot thinking as an alternative and how this kind of thinking gives rise to a pulsating form of understanding.

As we used to say on the dead bird site, #BeTheBang

Recognizing that the point and the infinite line are a unified thing realized differently.

#MadSky #BeTheBang

And yes, Mutan, we will set you and Anjali up here soon. No need for abuse, please and thank you. If you could let me sleep tonight without toxic bipolar meds I’d be very glad

#PluralGang