Touching base with the implacable material facticity of Gnon recalls your earlier infatuation with Death as that to which “error cannot adhere.” “Making It With Death” within which “all dreams are soluble.”

So where could you possibly go post NRx? In a word: “nonduality.” Not death as blank extinction – simply “ego death.” The dying to our illusory skin-encapsulated separate self-sense.

Psychedelics/anesthetics have taken us there for precious fleeting epiphanies and now it seems a growing number of folk are residing there permanently. The burgeoning sophistication of brain imaging tech has now identified a neuro-materialist substrate for non-dual realization, and developing “psychotechnologies” (eg the (in)famous Persinger “God helmet”) point the way to its attainment becoming ever more convenient and commonplace –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fox9ALDqiNU&list=UUMSnyxnteEx7IOPIFkfh3og

Posted before, but this guy gives it to us straight (“you’re all mummers”) –

Will you not grace them with the Title Communist, which they could never earn?

Do you think the Giants of the Past would grace these creatures with “Comrade”?

Stop calling them Communists. It’s a insult to the memory of Stalin, Mao, Trotsky, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot not to mention their tens of millions of brave conquering soldiers, and over 100 million slaves worked to death for the workers triumph.

These aren’t communists. They’re Pinkies. Not even Pinkos. Pinkos went to jail [rarely enough]. Pinkos had their screenplay credits redacted. That’s still more than these wankers.

They don’t deserve to be called Communists.

I remember the Communists, and these creatures Sir are not Communists.

I’m not so pessimistic about this guy. Maybe not him in particular, but tech geeks like him. He has programming chops, all (decent) coders fully grok the first law of Gnon: some resource limitations cannot be overcome with the tools at hand, regardless of purity of intention or degree of cleverness. Many progressives never get even that far.

Guys like this just need to learn, and then to fully grok, that lots of good human qualities are limited resources too (and worse, very unevenly distributed). His argument about entitlement rests this being wrong, but he only addresses it with a lame Bulver argument. After you grok the cosmic horror of HBD, it takes pretty serious cognitive dissonance to avoid thinking about how to optmise the allocation of the necessary sacrifices to Gnon. I’m sure he’s been on plenty of software projects where perfectly admirable and useful features had to be cut because they weren’t achievable with the resources at hand.

The real issue is how the coming results about ‘human resources limitations’ get communicated: reaching these guys is good, spooking the horses is bad.