I thank you for providing me this sacred image of my god, whose name I did not know prior, Polyphony so that I may also worship her more devotedly and delusionally
Great article. I think everyone should make their own tarot deck with their own archetypes. Definitely helps conceptualize deeper concepts which can't be easily communicated with words.
‘Cancerous Gods’ is a *potent* way to visualise Exclusionary Ideals, and the hurt they cause.
Henotheism also sounds human-brain friendly, awesome work 🤩
My tentative Pantheon:
- Clarity (#1)
- Fractal Generosity (#2)
- Longevity (#2)
& 3 Children of Clarity
- Courage (#3)
- Efficiency (#3)
- Non-attachment/Surrender (#3)
Without any of these, I think my worldview collapses 🤔 hope I’m not missing anything 😮💨
I think this setup can also include many other Gods such as Scenius, Eros, Polyphony & Post-rationality at tier #4. Too many to list though. But still useful archetypes to consider day to day.
I’d love for someone to poke holes in this foundation, help me find Clarity 😉
I started trying to work through the first question you posed at the end ("What gods do you worship?") and I'm finding it difficult to actually figure that out, even with the heuristic that attention = worship. I eat food everyday and think about food pretty often, so is Food one of my gods? Or is that better conceptualized as some higher concept like Self-Sustenance or Consumption or Hedonism (or Dionysus?)? We all have our own pantheons, but maybe imagining and giving life to that pantheon takes a lot of collective wisdom. If I'm some average Greek citizen, I'm probably not naming new gods, I'm probably picking and choosing who to worship and fear from the existing pantheon, whether that be the main ones or minor figures. So I wonder how that pantheon got built in the first place and what it would look like to have an equally rich pantheon for today that includes all the modern gods too
Good question! I think modern people have enough meta-awareness to figure out their pantheon but it takes some prompting.
“Food” is a bit broad. It’s probably something more specific. You can figure it out by the type of food and what other habits & moods it’s associated with.
If it’s paleo/keto and it’s combined with intermittent fasting, then it might be whatever god people like Tim Ferriss and Joe Rogan represent (some of these gods are latent patterns that haven’t yet been named. If it’s salads and green juice etc and you also do yoga then it might be the wellness god. If it’s potato chips and ice cream while you lie in bed watching Netflix, then it might be the god of Goblin Mode.
Maybe a better question for figuring out what types of gods you worship is to ask “If the people who know me were to each make a ‘type of guy’ meme about me, which ones would they make?
Another question is: “What forces in the world am I making stronger through my behavior?”
From Federico Campagna: Differently from economic, political, ethical and religious forces – each of which aims at the production of a specific telos, to the exclusion of all other goals and forces – Technic, which they would like to use as a means, tends to constituting itself as a planetary apparatus that is increasingly free from the conflictual fractioning to which such forces attempt to reduce it; that is, Technic aims not to a specific and exclusive goal, but to the limitless increase in the ability to pursue goals, which is also the limitless ability to satisfy needs. It is thus inevitable that, in the conflictual situation in which those forces find themselves – that is, the situation where these are guided by the will to prevail on their adversaries through the strengthening of the instruments at their disposal, whose efficacy is determined by their technological and rational-scientific character – it is inevitable that such forces eventually renounce to their specific goals, exactly to avoid slowing down, limiting and weakening the limitless strengthening of their instrument – the scientific-technologic apparatus through which they intend to pursue their goal.24 In Spengler we saw Technic as the Faustian drive towards infinite uprooting and predation, in Jünger it was the force capable of mutating humans into the universal ‘type’ of the Worker, in Heidegger we observed it as the enframing that reveals the world as a stockpiling of standing-reserve ready to be mobilized for production and finally in Severino we encountered Technic also as a ‘destiny’ of the world and of everything that populates it. In other words, we began to see Technic as a powerful cosmogonic force, capable of taking over the very status of reality, and transform it according to its own principles. Yet, this conception of Technic is far from being the only one available. At the polar opposite to the intellectual approaches discussed so far, we find for example thinkers in the lineage of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, whose understanding of the essence of technology fundamentally challenges the distinction between ‘matter’ and ‘form’. In his texts Du mode d’existence des objets techniques 25 and L’individuation psychique et collective,26 Simondon presents technology essentially as a function lying at the core of what he calls the process of ‘individuation’. According to Simondon, a thing (any thing, from a crystal to a single person to large social groups) is never stably individuated as ‘that’ thing, but it is in a continuous process of actualization of its original, overflowing potential. As the process of individuation unfolds, we witness the procession of a long series of ‘individuals’, each defined by the specific limits of its interaction with what constitute its surrounding at that particular stage.….Clic
I thank you for providing me this sacred image of my god, whose name I did not know prior, Polyphony so that I may also worship her more devotedly and delusionally
You’re welcome 💗
Great article. I think everyone should make their own tarot deck with their own archetypes. Definitely helps conceptualize deeper concepts which can't be easily communicated with words.
I’ve been meaning to do this!
I shed tears reading this 🥹.
‘Cancerous Gods’ is a *potent* way to visualise Exclusionary Ideals, and the hurt they cause.
Henotheism also sounds human-brain friendly, awesome work 🤩
My tentative Pantheon:
- Clarity (#1)
- Fractal Generosity (#2)
- Longevity (#2)
& 3 Children of Clarity
- Courage (#3)
- Efficiency (#3)
- Non-attachment/Surrender (#3)
Without any of these, I think my worldview collapses 🤔 hope I’m not missing anything 😮💨
I think this setup can also include many other Gods such as Scenius, Eros, Polyphony & Post-rationality at tier #4. Too many to list though. But still useful archetypes to consider day to day.
I’d love for someone to poke holes in this foundation, help me find Clarity 😉
I started trying to work through the first question you posed at the end ("What gods do you worship?") and I'm finding it difficult to actually figure that out, even with the heuristic that attention = worship. I eat food everyday and think about food pretty often, so is Food one of my gods? Or is that better conceptualized as some higher concept like Self-Sustenance or Consumption or Hedonism (or Dionysus?)? We all have our own pantheons, but maybe imagining and giving life to that pantheon takes a lot of collective wisdom. If I'm some average Greek citizen, I'm probably not naming new gods, I'm probably picking and choosing who to worship and fear from the existing pantheon, whether that be the main ones or minor figures. So I wonder how that pantheon got built in the first place and what it would look like to have an equally rich pantheon for today that includes all the modern gods too
Good question! I think modern people have enough meta-awareness to figure out their pantheon but it takes some prompting.
“Food” is a bit broad. It’s probably something more specific. You can figure it out by the type of food and what other habits & moods it’s associated with.
If it’s paleo/keto and it’s combined with intermittent fasting, then it might be whatever god people like Tim Ferriss and Joe Rogan represent (some of these gods are latent patterns that haven’t yet been named. If it’s salads and green juice etc and you also do yoga then it might be the wellness god. If it’s potato chips and ice cream while you lie in bed watching Netflix, then it might be the god of Goblin Mode.
Maybe a better question for figuring out what types of gods you worship is to ask “If the people who know me were to each make a ‘type of guy’ meme about me, which ones would they make?
Another question is: “What forces in the world am I making stronger through my behavior?”
I really like your description of polyphony, by the way
From Federico Campagna: Differently from economic, political, ethical and religious forces – each of which aims at the production of a specific telos, to the exclusion of all other goals and forces – Technic, which they would like to use as a means, tends to constituting itself as a planetary apparatus that is increasingly free from the conflictual fractioning to which such forces attempt to reduce it; that is, Technic aims not to a specific and exclusive goal, but to the limitless increase in the ability to pursue goals, which is also the limitless ability to satisfy needs. It is thus inevitable that, in the conflictual situation in which those forces find themselves – that is, the situation where these are guided by the will to prevail on their adversaries through the strengthening of the instruments at their disposal, whose efficacy is determined by their technological and rational-scientific character – it is inevitable that such forces eventually renounce to their specific goals, exactly to avoid slowing down, limiting and weakening the limitless strengthening of their instrument – the scientific-technologic apparatus through which they intend to pursue their goal.24 In Spengler we saw Technic as the Faustian drive towards infinite uprooting and predation, in Jünger it was the force capable of mutating humans into the universal ‘type’ of the Worker, in Heidegger we observed it as the enframing that reveals the world as a stockpiling of standing-reserve ready to be mobilized for production and finally in Severino we encountered Technic also as a ‘destiny’ of the world and of everything that populates it. In other words, we began to see Technic as a powerful cosmogonic force, capable of taking over the very status of reality, and transform it according to its own principles. Yet, this conception of Technic is far from being the only one available. At the polar opposite to the intellectual approaches discussed so far, we find for example thinkers in the lineage of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, whose understanding of the essence of technology fundamentally challenges the distinction between ‘matter’ and ‘form’. In his texts Du mode d’existence des objets techniques 25 and L’individuation psychique et collective,26 Simondon presents technology essentially as a function lying at the core of what he calls the process of ‘individuation’. According to Simondon, a thing (any thing, from a crystal to a single person to large social groups) is never stably individuated as ‘that’ thing, but it is in a continuous process of actualization of its original, overflowing potential. As the process of individuation unfolds, we witness the procession of a long series of ‘individuals’, each defined by the specific limits of its interaction with what constitute its surrounding at that particular stage.….Clic