Turning Off the Robot

Turning Off the Robot

Mar 27, 2016

“It is possible to turn off the Robot,” advances Anandaⁱ. “He may have been programmed to carry a message from the Star-Lords, but he was made in a Japanese factory, and he can be turned on and off by anyone who is acquainted with the fundamentals of Japanese nano-technology.

I, on the other hand, am the Serpent who guards the Tree of Life. Under the influence of the state of consciousness my venom arouses within you, the fruit of the Tree of Life becomes transformed to the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.

I gained this power because, even when I was a child, the flesh on the rear of my hips became excessively familiar with a cruel serpent. That serpent was a big black belt which only came to life in order to leave the impression of the buckle on my tender skin. It got even worse as I developed into an attractive and rebellious teenager. I came to remember the few days when I did not get whipped as very good days indeed.

The recurrence of that big whipping that would overwhelm all of my feelings was one of the few things I could count on, and the fear had a hypnotic effect. Indeed, I can say that the need for another whipping came alive within me, almost as if the moral code had inserted a little robot in my tailbone that would cause my poor bare derriere to once more become the target of a sadistic beating.

I believe that in modern psychology this sort of intrusive robot has a descriptive name. It is called a Super-Ego. The Super-Ego is put there to punish us, whenever it feels that we are stepping over the line. The problem is that, for the most part, the Super Ego has been programmed by so-called authorities who lived long ago, and whose voices are difficult to correct. I, for one, have now accepted that it is my destiny to keep getting whipped, because the whippings awaken my understanding of which voices cannot be trusted.

Robot

You still haven’t answered my question. What do you think when you hear me pronounce the phrase, “Moral Communism?”

If you are to diagnose and treat the present collective malady, shall it not be necessary to examine the abortive experiments of the 20^th Century, so that you can learn from them? Does not your perplexity in this regard come about because you persist in perceiving bourgeoisie oligarchy and the committee despotism of the revolutionary proletariats as opposing systems. But in either condition, a conspiracy has succeeded in hijacking the governance of the whole on false pretenses.^.

So should you not have the sense to realize, that both of these conditions are symptoms of a disintegrating society? Have not both states come about because the cultural vanguard either failed or was prevented from providing the people with real moral leadership and a sence of collective purpose?

Priestess in Ionic Chiton

The sun gives off light, but the clouds diffuse that sunlight.

The Goddess has returned from the Underworld, but no one can see her face.

You say that you believe in Liberation –

Why is it then, you’re working us to death?

Can it be that the right to build a culture

Needs to be won through a war?

To win we have got to defend

The beaten, the bedraggled, the ones nobody wants

The ones who shall rise with The Goddess

Because they’ve been cursed by the Gods.

Rasputin

There is a lesson the Russian people now are beginning to learn. Right now they are being batted back and forth between the old-line Communists and that party of former Communists who went capitalist after they found out that they could make money.

Both the Communists and the Capitalists imagine that one can assert cultural leadership through control of, for example, the media outlets and the press. This is a dangerous illusion. This sort of censorship simply results in a situation within which the People have become blind to their own visions. Nevertheless, even though they have been blinded, they shall still struggle towards the direction in which they believe the vision to lie.

The true cultural leadership of Russia today shall come from the great grandchildren of those whom the Stalinist Soviet tried to crush through imprisonment or exile. It has always been the Martyrs who have been most dear to the heart and soul of Mother Russia, and it shall be to the children of yesterday’s martyrs, to whom Mother Russia must turn in her time of trial.

Olyantay the Inca Prince

How shall you ever succeed

In negotiating for the People

Unless you have a cultural perspective

To bring to the bargaining table?

Robot

Moral Communism is the logical next step after you have discovered that the State has stolen its powers.

Moral Communism is a thing set apart from such things as universal health care or universal education. Communist nations tend to score highly here, but the surviving socialist monarchies of Europe seem to be doing even better.

To digress for a moment, the success of these socialist monarchies would tend to suggest a new perspective. Their success has been due to a successful balancing of class interests, to such a degree that innovation and cultue building were encouraged while crude greed was regulated and taxed. But unfortunately, as the means of production and the resources of the world become integrated into trans-national meta-systems, the need arises for new patterns of checks and balances.

Hermes Trismagistuis

Remember that a Revolution

Is only the initial stage

In the process of social transmutation.

Priestess in Ionic Chiton

Before we go slaying the King and Queen

Let us bind up and interrogate

The Old Super-Ego

Because he is always betraying us

To the Colonialist State.

I remember all too well how he got me:

“Spare the rod and spoil the child,”

The missionaries taught all our mothers.

I remember that snake all too well:

Bending over, being hurt too much,

Learning to frame my life between episodes of chastisement:

This is how a Super-Ego is programmed.

Between pain that one cannot endure and the near certainty

The thrashing will come back tomorrow

The Reptile within the spine becomes awakened,

And programmed like a robot to bite us

Whenever we get out of line.

The Amazonian Tribes

When did this great Super-Ego who, in his various aspects, dictates the conscience of Europe, ever raise a significant concern about the fact that we are being threatened with extinction?

i Aside from actual historical characters, individuals mentioned in this blog are not actual persons, but rather characterizations representing sub-types of the intellectual species.