Fragment 220, Word count: 525.

Tags: power, hive-mind, culture, self-possession, orientation-lens, ideality, creativity, illusion, metaphysics.

Cultural Illusions and Hive-Mind

All cultural complexes in the veil of supremacist illusions (Fragment 219, December 23, 2025, The Veil of Illusions (Word Count: 2,841)) also bind a plurality of people together within a false conceptual orientation-lens, so constituting a human-style hive-mind. Hive-mind is present to an individual as the common sense of a community, unrecognized as carrying a number of elaborate illusions structured within it and effectively directing attention away from certain crucial features of existence as subjective teleological ideality, and in this way blocking access to personal self-possession. As such, The Veil of Illusions is a critique of power, a critique, from the point of view of an inquisitive philosophical innocence, of the cultural placement of a superego into the interior orientation-lens of each individual. It is a critique of the power derived from such a placement, which includes both political coercive power based on the threat of violence and the financial and ownership power of capitalism.

The False Conceptual Orientation-Lens

Each of our four supremacist illusions establishes power by setting up a specific superego as the mechanism of its supremacy. The superego is an individual’s orientation up for guidance and direction from some authoritative voice or force. Masculine supremacy sets up the strongest, most actively violent persons as superego icons. Disembodied supremacy sets up as superego icons charismatic persons asserting their uniquely privileged knowledge of the ways and will of powerful disembodied spirits. Collective supremacy sets up as superego icons certain persons asserting themselves and their power as especially authentic expressions of the collective. Trophy supremacy sets up as superego icons persons with the most property or the best property.

From time out of mind the culture has been poisoned by the patriarchal culture of hierarchical human parasitism. Building on the universal childhood experience of the power of a parent, the legacy of cultural fixations on patriarchy and the projection of patriarchy onto the cosmos at large has left us assuming that, even if the cosmos is not really personified on the grand scale, there must be some other transcendence from-on-high, maybe the genius of great men or the accumulated wisdom of heroic ancestors, sanctifying the hierarchical order of wealth, power, and celebrity, a transcendent source that would be revealed by a really determined search, which we do not know how to do. That is the illusion of generalized superego. Any culture or ideology which replaces one superego with another, which offers updated replacement superegos, is exploiting the vulnerability derived from generalized superego. There should be no primary orientation toward any high voice of authority.

The View of a Metaphysics of Original Creation

The power of original creation is metaphysically anomalous. Since the power of original, improvisational, effective creativity obviously does exist as subjective teleological ideality, then the world and its contents are not utterly pre-determined and not eternally fixed or stable. Essentialism fails. It is malign and abusive for any agent to act to limit or alienate anyone’s self-awareness as creative power. No external supremacy could ever truly negate the transcendent metaphysical anomaly that is personal subjectivity, constantly reconstructing a suppositional temporality as a navigable opening for somewhat free creative improvisation.

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