Texting Today's Tokens 1.18.07 Thursday
TEXTING TODAY'S TOKENS
Thursday, January 18, 2007
The Psychotrip:
SHAMED NATION
AFTER:
-The Hanged Man
Opening of Symbolic Portal in TokenSpace
- Sulphuric City -- Whiff of Hell
Heroes only survived
(For how long, Time will tell)
I. DESCENT INTO, REBIRTH FROM
THE WATERS
-Katrina Embryo -- Birth of a child conceived during great hurricane announced on CNN Headline news under this title, with great fanfare.
(Diagnosis of unconscious situation.: flashback to dead bodies floating on the streets of New Orlean's 9th ward, under the 17th street canal on Lake Ponchetrain. Motive to reverse the image of death, which is all-pervasive on every cable news channel 24/7, to one of Rebirth -- to bring a message of Hope; a ray of light to penetrate the darkness. This is an example of reversing reality by overlaying tokens with split-off, idealized text ("Washed in the Jordan (MSM) River"). They have to talk America in some manner or another, just like children have to grow up in some conditions or other.
The psychosemiotic mechanism at work is Reaction-Formation (Freud). Classically, "No! No! I don't hate (Him -- an abusive old man with a whip, say)... I LOVE HIM" -- uttered on occasion when the urge-to-kill wells up from inside. This (mental analogue of catching a fart before releasin) reverses what would be an unpleasant token- manifestation, raining down condemnation and punishment, by couching the Unmentionable (unconscious thought) in the Unimpeachably Group-positive Mentionable. This satisfies the pleasure-principle ruling acceptable* group communication. The text for what everybody has to live with, "at the end of day" has got to be PC. (And the end of THIS day* may be the "end of days"; Wolf Blitzer said it only recently.)
The effect of this mechanism is to reverse cathexis of instinctual defiance, rebellion, and desire to kill the Punishing Authority ("Father", as in "Almighty God", aka the Phantom Poisonous Placenta), at the conscious "responsible" level; so that expression of what would have been Hate, if it hadn't been abused, is turned back at the PC level of "language-for-others" into feigned expression of Love. Libido has been converted into Thanatos -- then back again, by this spinning and splitting of the tokens of ego/group communication bond. How we think of ourselves is partly determined by the feed-back from others, who have only our external manifestations to use as data (at first). Therefore, the manifestations of One fall ineluctably under judgments applicable to all, as use of group-language by any is subject to judgments of "ought to be" which apply to all (including the user). This is based on the hypothesis of a common TokenSpace of communicating consciousnesses.
This is domain is what Kant called The Moral. Following the theory of the Oedipus Complex, we have merged Freud and the Great German in common territory. The Philosopher advances the Categorical Imperative: Thou shalt obey The Law, as such (over inclinations, congruent or non-congruent with what can be generalized for all). Will to do so is the Good Will, a condition of an act of moral credit. Inner respect toward it is used by Kant as a datum" from which "the existence of God" can be inferred. The Psychoanalyst observes: Kant converts the (his) prototypal) Germanic inner discipline of consciousness-under-thought (REASON*) into a "square" of this as "ego-ideal",or "super-ego." Kant's Categorical Imperative is the "dass Ich", the next step, in conscious Praexis after Descartes' "I think...". This is fine. the two thinkers fit together like hand-in-glove. Or, in alternate glyphology: when the right hand one of two " 4 " shapes ( 4 4 ) is turned upside down, over, then rejoined with the other to make an enclosed square with two half-square ends.
Through this "SQUARE" (model ) of framing sign-use, Kant can be seen as defining the Moral Plane of the Conscious Totality Under Sign-Use (CTUS*), Freud as defining -- uncovering what the historical process of ego-formation has brought about in Europe. As a local psychohistorical group, it has been a Father God-Almighty dominated culture, in fact*, whatever one's reaction.
The common link is "LAW". Moral, and Psychological. That which is authoritative, itself. Kant, seeing it as Reason (apodeictic truth) sees each reason as the completion of moral consciousness -- what others are owed, defined in the same terms as what others owe oneself. This is the only rational imperative that can overlay conditional imperative (predicting ''ought" on an "if"). At the moral level, in fact, Freud must give way to Kant as providing the rational over-ride of the Id by the ultimate fair Super-ago agency. (However, the human Id has a lot left to say about how it all works out.)
With LAW* as the axis, immediately a portal is opened to Rome, from which the concept of Empire Law as we know it, backed up by Zeus began. And perhaps it is time to broach some issues of bitter dispute in antiquity, such as the dialectic of law and grace introduced by Christianity. The trail today, however, leads from ROME to the VATICAN to CHRIST - (....skip forward ...=> analysis of the 0 a.d. Jerusalem "2nd Adam" influence entering planetary TokenSpace in the Zodiacal Age Pisces, on the Big Calendar Wheel ( MARDUK's circle) moving now into AQUARIUS.
II. UNFLAVORED Kool Aid Drinking
-Death by Water Intoxication -- Woman dies from over-intake of water on Radio talk show context stunt; Nintnedo Wii prize for winner. (diag.: fanasy level: acting out defense against fear of water; drowning. Economic level: see "They Shoot Horses, Don't They")
III. WHY DIDN'T SHAWN ESCAPE?
Thursday, January 18, 2007
The Psychotrip:
SHAMED NATION
AFTER:
-The Hanged Man
Opening of Symbolic Portal in TokenSpace
- Sulphuric City -- Whiff of Hell
Heroes only survived
(For how long, Time will tell)
I. DESCENT INTO, REBIRTH FROM
THE WATERS
-Katrina Embryo -- Birth of a child conceived during great hurricane announced on CNN Headline news under this title, with great fanfare.
(Diagnosis of unconscious situation.: flashback to dead bodies floating on the streets of New Orlean's 9th ward, under the 17th street canal on Lake Ponchetrain. Motive to reverse the image of death, which is all-pervasive on every cable news channel 24/7, to one of Rebirth -- to bring a message of Hope; a ray of light to penetrate the darkness. This is an example of reversing reality by overlaying tokens with split-off, idealized text ("Washed in the Jordan (MSM) River"). They have to talk America in some manner or another, just like children have to grow up in some conditions or other.
The psychosemiotic mechanism at work is Reaction-Formation (Freud). Classically, "No! No! I don't hate (Him -- an abusive old man with a whip, say)... I LOVE HIM" -- uttered on occasion when the urge-to-kill wells up from inside. This (mental analogue of catching a fart before releasin) reverses what would be an unpleasant token- manifestation, raining down condemnation and punishment, by couching the Unmentionable (unconscious thought) in the Unimpeachably Group-positive Mentionable. This satisfies the pleasure-principle ruling acceptable* group communication. The text for what everybody has to live with, "at the end of day" has got to be PC. (And the end of THIS day* may be the "end of days"; Wolf Blitzer said it only recently.)
The effect of this mechanism is to reverse cathexis of instinctual defiance, rebellion, and desire to kill the Punishing Authority ("Father", as in "Almighty God", aka the Phantom Poisonous Placenta), at the conscious "responsible" level; so that expression of what would have been Hate, if it hadn't been abused, is turned back at the PC level of "language-for-others" into feigned expression of Love. Libido has been converted into Thanatos -- then back again, by this spinning and splitting of the tokens of ego/group communication bond. How we think of ourselves is partly determined by the feed-back from others, who have only our external manifestations to use as data (at first). Therefore, the manifestations of One fall ineluctably under judgments applicable to all, as use of group-language by any is subject to judgments of "ought to be" which apply to all (including the user). This is based on the hypothesis of a common TokenSpace of communicating consciousnesses.
This is domain is what Kant called The Moral. Following the theory of the Oedipus Complex, we have merged Freud and the Great German in common territory. The Philosopher advances the Categorical Imperative: Thou shalt obey The Law, as such (over inclinations, congruent or non-congruent with what can be generalized for all). Will to do so is the Good Will, a condition of an act of moral credit. Inner respect toward it is used by Kant as a datum" from which "the existence of God" can be inferred. The Psychoanalyst observes: Kant converts the (his) prototypal) Germanic inner discipline of consciousness-under-thought (REASON*) into a "square" of this as "ego-ideal",or "super-ego." Kant's Categorical Imperative is the "dass Ich", the next step, in conscious Praexis after Descartes' "I think...". This is fine. the two thinkers fit together like hand-in-glove. Or, in alternate glyphology: when the right hand one of two " 4 " shapes ( 4 4 ) is turned upside down, over, then rejoined with the other to make an enclosed square with two half-square ends.
Through this "SQUARE" (model ) of framing sign-use, Kant can be seen as defining the Moral Plane of the Conscious Totality Under Sign-Use (CTUS*), Freud as defining -- uncovering what the historical process of ego-formation has brought about in Europe. As a local psychohistorical group, it has been a Father God-Almighty dominated culture, in fact*, whatever one's reaction.
The common link is "LAW". Moral, and Psychological. That which is authoritative, itself. Kant, seeing it as Reason (apodeictic truth) sees each reason as the completion of moral consciousness -- what others are owed, defined in the same terms as what others owe oneself. This is the only rational imperative that can overlay conditional imperative (predicting ''ought" on an "if"). At the moral level, in fact, Freud must give way to Kant as providing the rational over-ride of the Id by the ultimate fair Super-ago agency. (However, the human Id has a lot left to say about how it all works out.)
With LAW* as the axis, immediately a portal is opened to Rome, from which the concept of Empire Law as we know it, backed up by Zeus began. And perhaps it is time to broach some issues of bitter dispute in antiquity, such as the dialectic of law and grace introduced by Christianity. The trail today, however, leads from ROME to the VATICAN to CHRIST - (....skip forward ...=> analysis of the 0 a.d. Jerusalem "2nd Adam" influence entering planetary TokenSpace in the Zodiacal Age Pisces, on the Big Calendar Wheel ( MARDUK's circle) moving now into AQUARIUS.
II. UNFLAVORED Kool Aid Drinking
-Death by Water Intoxication -- Woman dies from over-intake of water on Radio talk show context stunt; Nintnedo Wii prize for winner. (diag.: fanasy level: acting out defense against fear of water; drowning. Economic level: see "They Shoot Horses, Don't They")
III. WHY DIDN'T SHAWN ESCAPE?
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