In my reductive Three Peoples theory the big problem is People of the Creative Self that experience themselves as creative but just don't have the chops.
The problem is made very obvious in Curtis Yarvin's three layer theory in "The Clear Pill," because he calls his creatives "Gentry." And the educated Gentry are manipulated by the ruling class using "anthems" that cater to the Gentry appetite for "ambition, honor, and vanity."
See, if the Gentry were really creative they wouldn't care about "ambition, honor, and vanity." The true path of creativity has nothing to do with ambition, honor, and vanity because the true path of creativity is the Hero's journey into the unconscious and the terrifying border between Order and Chaos.
So my analysis of the People of the Creative Self finds itself asking the question: what happens to your creative life if you don't have the chops for the Hero's journey?
Isn't it obvious? The Hero's journey turns into the Ego's journey, and what the Ego likes is ambition, honor and vanity: hey kids, look at me! I'm a creative!
So, here we have the obvious set-up. There are tons of educated people out there, all educated to believe that they must have some great creative destiny ahead of them: writing the great novel; becoming a famous architect; changing the world as an activiste. That is what the education at the university today is meant to do: give the educated youth the sense that they are part of a great creative enterprise, just by going along to get along.
Only it is all a lie. But why?
In my analysis of our current situation it all dove-tails. See, the point is that, as Nietzsche pointed out, for the modern educated class, God is Dead. He means, I argue, that for the educated Gentry, starting at about 1800, the God of the Axial Age no longer answered the age old question of the "meaning of life, the universe, and everything." Or, as Nicholas Wade writes, the only way a god dies is when people stop believing in him.
So the educated Gentry from Nietzsche's time to ours has been involved in the process of decadence, nihilism, and eternal recurrence, in a whirlpool of religious transvaluation of all values. That is what happens when a god dies, according to Nietzsche.
But. The vast majority of us really have no stomach for this. We are like Falstaff that wishes "t'were bedtime, Hal, and all well."
But it isn't. Never was, and never will be.
See, my analysis of the world is that the primary thing going on is that our educated Gentry, that experiences itself as educated and evolved and born to rule over the deplorables and victims, is not up to the job.
The last thing it will do is throw up its hands and give up. So it lives a lie, pretending that its present self-serving hegemony of religion, culture, and politics over the rest of us is in fact the most enlightened era in history.
What happens when you can't measure up to the present? Chaps like Ken Wilber explain that you regress to a previous ideological phase that doesn't challenge you. In other words, in the Yarvin three-layer theory, the educated Gentry, while pretending to be creative and evolved, actually regresses into a rigid ideological framework such as is usually provided by an Axial Age religion where God sets up the world and issues his divine law to live by.
That's the point of my People of the Responsible Self. They don't have the conceit to believe that they are creating the world. They accept that a God created it all and that the way to live life is to live it according to God's divine law.
And that is how the progressives experience the world. They are the demi-gods that are born to rule, because they are special and because they care about the victims and want to bend the arc of history towards justice.
But if our progressive friends are not in fact creatively inventing the future but all signing on to a rigid fixed system, what are they?
Exactly. They are reactionaries, going back the the past, to the day before God had Died. But they can't do that; you can never run history backwards. So they conjure up fanciful narratives to persuade themselves that they really are the wave of the future.
Wait! Who was that guy that came up with the notion that the progressives are in fact the functionaries organizing a Great Reaction back to the past?
Thus, when I say that socialism is a return to slavery, I do not say that the socialists are cynically saying to themselves, hey let's go back to the past and institute a rigid hierarchical system like back in the old days. I am just saying that when you cannot deal with the true process of the Hero's journey and regress instead to the Ego's journey, you do all kinds of reactionary things while fervently believing you are inventing the future.
While thinking you are the most creative folk since time began you are in fact inventing a system of the most appalling rigidity and subordination.
I would say that if you are doing that you are not a Creative. Not at all. You are just a stuck-up Commoner, a very ordinary person that thinks they are really special.
The problem is made very obvious in Curtis Yarvin's three layer theory in "The Clear Pill," because he calls his creatives "Gentry." And the educated Gentry are manipulated by the ruling class using "anthems" that cater to the Gentry appetite for "ambition, honor, and vanity."
See, if the Gentry were really creative they wouldn't care about "ambition, honor, and vanity." The true path of creativity has nothing to do with ambition, honor, and vanity because the true path of creativity is the Hero's journey into the unconscious and the terrifying border between Order and Chaos.
So my analysis of the People of the Creative Self finds itself asking the question: what happens to your creative life if you don't have the chops for the Hero's journey?
Isn't it obvious? The Hero's journey turns into the Ego's journey, and what the Ego likes is ambition, honor and vanity: hey kids, look at me! I'm a creative!
So, here we have the obvious set-up. There are tons of educated people out there, all educated to believe that they must have some great creative destiny ahead of them: writing the great novel; becoming a famous architect; changing the world as an activiste. That is what the education at the university today is meant to do: give the educated youth the sense that they are part of a great creative enterprise, just by going along to get along.
Only it is all a lie. But why?
In my analysis of our current situation it all dove-tails. See, the point is that, as Nietzsche pointed out, for the modern educated class, God is Dead. He means, I argue, that for the educated Gentry, starting at about 1800, the God of the Axial Age no longer answered the age old question of the "meaning of life, the universe, and everything." Or, as Nicholas Wade writes, the only way a god dies is when people stop believing in him.
So the educated Gentry from Nietzsche's time to ours has been involved in the process of decadence, nihilism, and eternal recurrence, in a whirlpool of religious transvaluation of all values. That is what happens when a god dies, according to Nietzsche.
But. The vast majority of us really have no stomach for this. We are like Falstaff that wishes "t'were bedtime, Hal, and all well."
But it isn't. Never was, and never will be.
See, my analysis of the world is that the primary thing going on is that our educated Gentry, that experiences itself as educated and evolved and born to rule over the deplorables and victims, is not up to the job.
The last thing it will do is throw up its hands and give up. So it lives a lie, pretending that its present self-serving hegemony of religion, culture, and politics over the rest of us is in fact the most enlightened era in history.
What happens when you can't measure up to the present? Chaps like Ken Wilber explain that you regress to a previous ideological phase that doesn't challenge you. In other words, in the Yarvin three-layer theory, the educated Gentry, while pretending to be creative and evolved, actually regresses into a rigid ideological framework such as is usually provided by an Axial Age religion where God sets up the world and issues his divine law to live by.
That's the point of my People of the Responsible Self. They don't have the conceit to believe that they are creating the world. They accept that a God created it all and that the way to live life is to live it according to God's divine law.
And that is how the progressives experience the world. They are the demi-gods that are born to rule, because they are special and because they care about the victims and want to bend the arc of history towards justice.
But if our progressive friends are not in fact creatively inventing the future but all signing on to a rigid fixed system, what are they?
Exactly. They are reactionaries, going back the the past, to the day before God had Died. But they can't do that; you can never run history backwards. So they conjure up fanciful narratives to persuade themselves that they really are the wave of the future.
Wait! Who was that guy that came up with the notion that the progressives are in fact the functionaries organizing a Great Reaction back to the past?
Thus, when I say that socialism is a return to slavery, I do not say that the socialists are cynically saying to themselves, hey let's go back to the past and institute a rigid hierarchical system like back in the old days. I am just saying that when you cannot deal with the true process of the Hero's journey and regress instead to the Ego's journey, you do all kinds of reactionary things while fervently believing you are inventing the future.
While thinking you are the most creative folk since time began you are in fact inventing a system of the most appalling rigidity and subordination.
I would say that if you are doing that you are not a Creative. Not at all. You are just a stuck-up Commoner, a very ordinary person that thinks they are really special.
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