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 proud declaration of "man is the world of man" slowly turns to gloom. The rise of coherentism has done away with the requirement to touchbase with reality, but its lack of intuitive appeal seems to give rise to fresh anxieties about foundations that may lie outside your coherentist web of reality, a fear that intensifies with witnessing the failure of the modern progress for your individual and collective self.

The prime urge driving Hindu orientalism and Hindutva fascination with the Muslims is 'Get Out' style envy of what they've decided to let out of sight but can't let out of mind. What is explained away 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.

Disco 2000 had a great song 'Common People' which speaks of the phenomenon of poverty tourism in England.

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 in search of 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 keeping practices to keep the stock prices or valuation from collapsing. In flattening of Gaza and displacement of its people from the air conditioned war rooms using remote controlled drones and weapons, this nightmare finds its actualization. The reality is not a requirement or an obstacle to this new meaning, and must be standby to bend to push of a button, with no skin in the maaya/leela.

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.

Relativism and perennialism

Identity without history

European and Aryans

Invented traditions

Naple' speech of Mussolini:

We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality. It is a reality in the sense that it is a stimulus, is hope, is faith, is courage. Our myth is the nation, our myth is the greatness of the nation! And to this myth, this greatness, which we want to translate into a total reality, we subordinate everything else. For us the nation is not just territory, but something spiritual.

Hebrew as invented language

As the final step of FOMO and appetite for consumptiom, the man finally makes himself the static object, the passive consumer, the train station, representing a lifelessness while the illusions take a life of their own. The phenomenon detached from noumenon comes alive and the consciousness is reduced to the function of passive consumption, not imaginative or artful expression.

Movie hero's and capitalist and NPC

It relies on slow formation of beliefs through persistence of addiction. The basic function of communication, availability and critical updates (call and sms phase) slowly begins to be reimagined and repurposed for other needs (apps phase). In the eyes of the fetishizing consumer, the commodity (device) is imagined as infinite utility, and begins to get an identity of its own, more human than human. Like an intoxicant, its function goes from getting rid of the occasional boredom to keeping you constanly entertained. Your daily life pales in comparison to dancing pixels on a 6x4 screen. You're no longer scrolling in leisure time made available by a life well lived, you're trying to maximize the scrolling windows to extract more and more dopamine. At this point, the enshittification begins. The drugs are now required

Productivity and the myth of the perfect man optimized by technology, and with information in real time at his fingertips.

Mastery without gratitude leads in two direction: