terminal 0
unfinished
NEFX - "Cultural Reliance's Disingenuity" In culture there is a nearly pavlovian reliance upon an old and inter-contextual system as codified “necessary” and “perennial” by brutal state-established territorial configuration and force of old habit, and it leads to an inability to gather and engage necessary intelligence for the meting of justice due to the grinding compromise of procedure enforced by that system; which engagement therewith cannot but either erode any true Light principle in the participant, however initially well-intentioned, or totally drown the power and reach of their efforts in the conflicting whirlwind of compromise through which the most major and far-reaching societal decisions are made. And indeed, the structuring of the system according to this compromise, coupled with its supposed essentiality to freedom merely qua alternative to a culturally recognized institution of tyranny, masks its essential tyranny up until the point at which it by various pretexts shifts to that very brazen tyranny it once reviled. In fact, this is quite often its purpose, especially for all the particular ways along its evolution by which the Blightgeist’s coordinators may extract the most resources and frenzy in their vain quest for total being (which they conceive of as being-at-expense). Moreover, participation within the upper echelons of this system becomes a matter of procedure as corners of progress are cut in order to meet procedural requirements for other avenues of progress. The technical engagement therewith through formal ceremony and public presentation, and the culturally conditioned acceptance of such half-measures as sufficient, allows for only nominal progress, under which it is widely accepted that nothing better can be done or hoped for. The tragedy of upheaval is that those with the most means to bring it about are those for whom such means have distorted the perspective necessary to effectively do so; to say nothing of their general perception by the general population they are meant to serve as adequate servers, when they seem then assimilated into the enemy that is the system or out of touch with the population’s needs. Ideal measures also lose to more immediately viable but less helpful measures because the risk of losing the latter has a greater cost (at least in the short term) than the former measure. Furthermore, even success of retaliatory justice within this system strengthens the tentacles of the system itself for agents of both Erosion and Saturation alike to leverage in the future, strengthens the entanglement of procedure and compromise, and leads to a general failure or ineffectualness that agents of Erosion can then point to as proof of the invalidity of Lightform qua Saturation (which some of the more shepherded among them may not recognize as being purely Saturation rather than Lightform) — especially where the consequences of this ineffectualness can be pointed to as consequences of the core (Lightform) effort or intention itself. Meanwhile, followers of The Blightgeist’s Saturation see the crumbs of Light given them as not only merely sufficient according to immediately visible (and culturally presented) alternatives, but as proving the necessity of depending on the structure of The Blightgeist itself, either not seeing or not caring that such things unabated inevitably sink into the tentacles of Erosion. Yet still systems of nominal freedom borne of Blightgeistian Thoughtforms deliberately cloak their ultimate aims in complex and largely impenetrable webs of intent, content, and procedure, in order to create a boundary acceptable by their subjects within which to slowly encroach upon the subjects’ being. Such a system’s permanency is not guaranteed, followed, or intended to last, and will be slowly eroded and replaced in the name of the very set of principles it was erected to serve. But the Agent of Erosion can rely on the system for an argumentum ab auctoritate and thereby manipulate its subjects into devotion to it by its intoxicating surface appeal to the ensurement of the subjects’ well-being, which is only superficial and conceived of by comparison with the ensured circumstances of perceived outside “lessers”; which conception is a debased addictive behavior of Erosive Thought. In many cases the justification of maintaining a class of “lessers” is not explicitly stated as such, in wording or even intent. For if it were (at least before the 11th hour of The Blightgeist’s perceived eventual culmination), Erosion’s most fervent servants would realize that they in a way are the ultimate expendables in this ploy.