Meaning without reality

The discontent of adopting the modern invention of the rational subject as you self image leads you to seek your completion in the other, something like the Master-slave dialectic. The rise of coherentism has done away with the requirement to touchbase with reality, but its lack of intuitive appeals seems to give rise to anxieties about foundations that may lie outside your coherentist web of reality, a belief that intensifies with the discontent of modern progress of your self and others.

The prime urge driving Hindu orientalism and Hindutva fascination with the Muslims is 'Get Out' style envy of what they've decided to let go but are now attempting to relive. What is rather lazily explained by the liberal as insecurity or obsession is best described as misenchantment. As the western orientalist began to self identify as composed of pure rationality, they felt an immense discontent and began an anxious projection, seeking re-enchantment in the orient to escape their self imposed reign of quantity, like a videogame simulation of meaning, or an affair for an unhappy spouse. "I felt terrible seven time," as lamented by Jordan Peele.

Both the Vietnam and Iraq War saw a proliferation of returning soldiers writing war novels for the American literary scene, recreating the dynamics in which orientalist myths gained their evergreen roots. From instrumentalization of nature into instrumentalization of other men as bestial extensions of nature. What Westworld is to the man in black. Suspension of disbelief allows experience of meaning without requiring belief in its reality, and is the brainhack to protect against nihilism for early totemists all the way down to the hyper-reality enthusiasts of our times amusing themselves to death. The postmodernists believe in perpetual fictionalization to confer meaning without acknowledging reality.

For a rebellion to not end up devaluing itself, Parasitic ideas need the underlying idea to hold, like a virus starving after sucking the host dry. The instrumentalizing itself is a means seeking an end like 'the mastery of nature'. But like the exponential growth a tech unicorn is expected to maintain forever, the mastery of nature pretty soon start hitting hard limits, at which points the meaning must transfer to mastery of other humans to keep the spirit of instrumentalization alive, just like tech unicorns engage in shady book practices to keep the stock prices or valuation from collapsing. The ultimate purpose of Westworld's park is revealed to be the instrumentalization of the guests by learning about their behavior, not hosts. When the service is free, you're the product.

The post-Hindu subject can no longer see himself reflected in the fictional self images of perennialism and syncretism constructed by past generations, and begins to draw his passions form the well of collectivism and the kshatriya archetype, but his cause isn't supplied by tradition or by Abrahamic religions (Dayanand Saraswati). This was pure western constructs, Nationalism and Fascism. There's also emergence of attempts to form a new orthodoxy in revival of the term 'Sanatana Dharma'. Mastery of universalist narratives is now reduced to mastery of other humans.

Meera Nanda critiques the 'Strategic essentialism' of Spivak for supplying theoretical justification for the Hindu right to construct new meanings out of thin air and thereby weakening the left, echoing Chomsky's attack on the postmodern school and the impact of their relativist posturing on the actual political and social causes in the rest of the world.