/lit/ - Literature

>>19139330
>unironically using the term red scare in 2021 and age of cancel culture
Top cringe, fuck off back to twitter

>>18978573
Strangely enough, this is also a somewhat Gurdjieffian comment. He talks about stuff like this, about how mankind is just the pawn of higher forces passing through it, sometimes more benevolent and sometimes less so. When Ouspensky asks him, “How can war be stopped?”, he says, “War cannot be stopped because it is the result of higher influences passing through mankind. When a huge amount of death and suffering is needed, it is created, and it then ‘feeds’ those forces.” You can see a parallel to the idea of archons and the Demiurge in the Gnostic tractates, as well as simply to demons and Lucifer in the Abrahamic tradition.

So the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and the various elected officials who are stooges for them, would seem to be channels of this bad karma onto humanity, soulless demonically possessed puppets without the chance of redemption in this lifetime, precisely because they are so evil that they have destroyed their soul. Gurdjieff talks about evolutionary and involutionary forces in ISoTM, and points out the disturbing, horrifying chance of “conscious evil.” This is a knowingly malevolent, involutionary force that is deliberately rebellious against the evolutionary desire to return to and unify oneself with the Source of all. He doesn’t focus on it much but simply says it’s another part of the grand cosmic scheme.

In BTTHG, he goes into the nature of these kinds of people more, and calls them “Hasnamusses,” having deliberately crystallized in themselves the essence of evil, to put it poetically.

>There are periods in the life of humanity, which generally coincide with the beginning of the fall of cultures and civilizations, when the masses irretrievably lose their reason and begin to destroy everything that has been created by centuries and millenniums of culture. Such periods of mass madness, often coinciding with geological cataclysms, climatic changes, and similar phenomena of a planetary character, release a very great quantity of the matter of knowledge. This, in its turn, necessitates the work of collecting this matter of knowledge which would otherwise be lost. Thus the work of collecting scattered matter of knowledge frequently coincides with the beginning of the destruction and fall of cultures and civilizations.
>This aspect of the question is clear. The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear. It is even difficult to imagine all the horror of this slavery. We do not understand what people are losing. But in order to understand the cause of this slavery it is enough to see how people live, what constitutes the aim of their existence, the object of their desires, passions, and aspirations, of what they think, of what they talk, what they serve and what they worship.