Will to Consciousness

The single principle of all that exists: To raise its consciousness. Life is the will to consciousness. Everything one does is an opportunity to a) lower one's consciousness, b) stay in one's consciousness, or c) raise one's consciousness. All problems and their nature are merely a result of the choice of one of the above. Problems may appear insoluble because one is not raising one's consciousness, or the parties involved are stuck in the same consciousness. In the long run, consciousness MUST be raised.

Note 179

If one knows that there is in reality no free will, then liberalism's elevation of the individual is but another form of social control, based on the illusion of free will.

Note 178

God: to search for the structure of all structures, the form in all forms.

Note 176

There is an inherent instability within democracy in one country as centrifugal forces pull it apart.

Therefore seperate nations, institutionally constituted as states at war with each other, is the neccessary complement.

Global or regional cooperation forces countries to break apart.

This drives the push to either conservative conflicts, or progressive conflicts.

Progressive conflicts lead to smaller entities and the expansion of individual freedoms.

Conservative conflicts lead to preservation of existing orders and stability.

Progressive conflicts come at a cost of inherent and prolonged instability and death, because a new basis for a new social contract has to be found, as a foundation for order.

In other words, a modification of the modern conception of state will result, as another intermediate equilibrium that balances the internal values, and the external relations, of order-providing entities.

What is the principal contradiction? Generally, that between the individual and the collective.

In this case, individual identities revolving around markets, and social collectives up to the national level. Collective identities revolving around state and global institutions, including global markets. A reordering of these relationships in a Socially Darwinistic way may be what true war (a state of nature) is about.

Note 175

We are all god, but in a less than perfect structural form.

We confuse teleology with history. Teleology is the perfection of structure at each point in time, not a perfecting of structure across time. So god is the end point of teleology.

Note 174

Structures are like gods. Like gods, they are arbitrary and necessary.

Content is the loss of form in its expression. It is so easy to imagine a different one, like countries without borders. And I would be restructured too, as an extension, a sensemaking of the structures of life. So the gods are not worshipped, but practiced.

They are not an object, but a part of me, in the same way that walls, doorways and arches structure a room. I become the room, and find others too, who have become their rooms, and so can create more rooms.

Are we gods then? No, we are reliant on them, they give us form, and we give them content. In that content we infer our content to fill our form, the empty reflection.

Trilemma of Personal Identity

I am 3 things. A mirror, the one viewing the mirror, and the one whose image is reflected in the mirror.

One can only pick 2. This is the trilemma of personal identity. Is this a false trilemma? Is the world in the mirror the same as the world outside the mirror, which we can't see?

The first two make me an idealist. The first and last make me a materialist. The last two make me a dualist.