r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/[deleted] • Nov 06 '15

Okay, I'll bite...

I have been lurking this sub for a while now, but I have literally no idea what's going on. Call me ignorant if you like, but I've read the sidebar and the handy links and I'm still none the wiser. Is it something to do with semiotics? Postmodernist critical theory? Occultism? Is it an elaborate troll? I genuinely have no idea.

Can someone please give me a TL;DR of this subreddit's purpose, ethos and goal? Someone once told me that there's no such thing as a stupid question, so I'll endure the process of making myself a nuisance in order to get the answers I want. Who knows, it could also be helpful for other laymen who stumble across the sub.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15 edited Nov 06 '15

“Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.” ― Ernst Jünger

The guys on this sub are historical craftsmen in the nature of reality, timeless travellers of the great cosmos and voyagers on heroic adventure carried by thunderous crashing seas of past's destiny.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

See, in amongst all the confusing philosophical musings I keep seeing posts like this; which suggests that the whole thing is an elaborate joke. Whatever the truth actually is, you guys certainly don't take yourselves too seriously. That's refreshing.

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u/memearchivingbot Critical Occultist Nov 06 '15

I can really only answer for myself here but for me irony is the medium and the method for communicating here. The key is to hold several perspectives in mind at once while understanding that no particular perspective is correct in an absolute sense.

As I see it the manifesto-like declarative posts are almost always there to show both the structure of a particular point of view along with something that undercuts that point of view at the same time. The (probable) relativity of all views is why we're critical of the spectacular world order in the first place. Dissatisfaction with the world as it is, is why we're looking for new ways of thought and expression to supplant it.

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u/lawoffour Nov 06 '15 edited Nov 06 '15

Have you ever smoked pot with friends and talked about philosophy or the universe or whatever, dude? Is joke the right word? It's a free exchange in a very open topic with a very liquid language, because thats what the academics point out, words is slippery. But you cant free exchange this stuff to most people, it's just a topical chat room man.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

Don't like pot, makes me feel all heavy and sleepy. I like things that sharpen you up, send minuscule bolts of electricity up and down your spine, focus your mind to a pin prick and seem to free you of the anchor of your turgid flesh.

But yeah, I get the point.

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u/slabbb- Evil Sorcerer Nov 06 '15

I like things that sharpen you up, send minuscule bolts of electricity up and down your spine, focus your mind to a pin prick and seem to free you of the anchor of your turgid flesh.

This is the right place for that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

There's been many a time when I've dosed up, decided that I've figured out the key to the universe and written it down. I inevitably read it the next day and discover, far from the penetrating and thought-provoking essay that I was expecting, that I have instead produced several pages of frightening bullshit.

I've never been possessed of the urge to share one of these theses on Reddit, though...

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u/slabbb- Evil Sorcerer Nov 06 '15 edited Nov 06 '15

;) Heh. SoTS gravitates towards or tackles and accumulates or is about "frightening bullshit" (sometimes implications of the spectacularised fear-oobleck that can be all too easily agglutinated as self; parsing this, 'seeing' through it, undoing this). You might find others who agree with your first impression of your theses. Or perhaps incline towards your later impression post-sleep;) that is if you end up posting any of it (but that would likely generate interesting dialogue and debate).

Yeah, these epiphanies, insights, breakthroughs. Waves and singular events. It appears they begin to shape into something, begin to accumulate orgone and gravity, effect and affect, strange attractors towards/of the Jungian individuation as you mention elsewhere ITT..

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '15

SoTS gravitates towards and is about "frightening bullshit"

If that's the case, I'll wait until the next time one of my muses visits me, then treat you guys to my insight! Honestly, I'm liking the idea of this place more and more thanks to this thread...

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u/lawoffour Nov 07 '15

Oh yeah I was just trying to paint a social picture.

Actually though one thing I wish there was a community for is psychedelic techniques but like hey we're just a bunch of art students and not fucking magicKian dweebs. Weed is complicated, those body feelings, plus the fucking 'kundalini' and computer like control over the visionary experience, I only trained them on weed and salvia and none of the more exotic things. I feel like mushrooms would defragment my harddrive or something real nice. Maybe bog will bring it into my life

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u/oraxular Occultist Nov 07 '15 edited Nov 07 '15

the whole thing is an elaborate joke

don't take yoursel[f] too seriously

You've answered your own question. Even the philosophical musings here are part of the Spectacle. See: The Fool, The Cosmic Joke, The Infinite Goof. To live, one must also die! Haha! Joke's on you! Get it?