Rob Robill | Philosopher-fiction writer | The Flame of Heraclitus serial novel | Existential Firestorm essays | Rafinesque's Ancient History (new edition) ๐ฅ
@PAHoyeck Also, Nietzsche thought philosophers are most unwelcome in a declining culture, when the old faith is hollowed out but nothing new is built.
People donโt want to examine their leftover illusions โ the incomplete nihilism of idolatry.
Rafinesqueโs Ancient History, or Annals of Kentucky is now out in a new, modernized edition.
My introduction explores the Heraclitean current running through his work โ flux, catastrophe and the regathering of form.
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Ancient patterns are entraining with AI.
As robots ground these systems in the physical world, they enter the same resonant realm where our minds and oldest idols already move. ๐คโจ
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C.S. Rafinesqueโs 1824 Ancient History, or Annals of Kentucky is soon back in print.
Fantastical on the surface โ lost tribes, elephants along the Ohio โ but underneath runs a vision of flux, catastrophe and the places that endure. New intro. Updates: https://t.co/JrALti40u6
@NIETZSCHESOURCE The fight against yourself can either keep you trapped inside the ideal youโve set up as your own overseer, or pressure you into a different relationship with yourself altogether.
Sensations, feelings, perceptions and the rest arise and vanish. What remains is the sense of a center, an owner, a continuity that persists while those contents change.
This is the subjective experience of the structure of the self: paแนญiccasamuppฤda. Because the relational pattern keeps returning in the same topological arrangement, it appears as though something endures through time.
The โterribleโ truth is Dionysian โ the world as will to power, eternal becoming and creative-destructive flux โ rather than the comforting Apollonian illusion of permanence.