/lit/ - Literature

>>11967524
>>11967524
>Just do what you naturally want to do, get influence from whatever you get influence from, and the endstate will come regardless because all choice will diverge into one of the same inevitably.

Following one's will or "doing what you naturally want to do" is slavery to the will and programmatic desire. To overcome the tyranny of the will requires changing it, and the way to do this is through self-questioning, which is synonymous with self-awareness. The meaning of life is an ever-present question mark, which gives inexhaustible meaning and endless becoming. Seeking an endstate, a perfect permanence reduces yourself to an object, and damns you to functioning as one. You are not an object, a self-representation, but rather your objective self is a temporary model used to facilitate the subject of self, which is a question questioning itself.

>>11953233
>I tend to be sceptical about the feasability of human consciousness in playing this role as a whole.

This is probably because modernity either ignores or denies subjective experience and consciousness, not knowing what to do with it. The flaw of memetics is that it tends to reduce humans to mere meme machines, the hosts of replicating information who are really subject to memetic forces. Information is a gendered organism, with questions/queries and answers/memes being the two genders. Questions aren't a mere lack of answers, they are quests, movements, and searches, vectors of desire. Awareness itself is a query, and self-awareness is a query querying itself, not a self-representation representing itself; self-representation is a model created to facilitate self-query, and secondary to it. The becoming-self is a forever-incompleteness, a query. The reduction of all to representation that characterizes the society of the spectacle is rooted in informational patriarchy: totalizing answers that insist on themselves, answering to no one, not even their original queries, insisting on being endlessly recalled as the answer to all relevant queries because of a self-preservation imperative. Humans do not rule the world, but trans-dimensional informational parasites with the Creator God, the ultimate monopolization of creativity, ruling above all else. Everything from our dominant metaphysics to our social relationships is a consequence of informational patriarchalism, the mechanics of domination and hierarchy abstracted to the whole of reality.

Human consciousness is an extension of evolution into the temporal: we create potential futures and select from them to actualize. We create and select becomings, not just material and memetic objects. These potential futures are created by questions. Our self-creative freedom comes not from selecting items from a list at a particular instant, but our ability to self-modify through time by questioning ourselves and questing for future potential selves. We are evolution evolved, the creative process that has found a way via the flexibility of language and narrative to fold on itself and self-create.

The memetic singularity is thus not a mere quantitative shift, but a qualitative one, characterized by the moment of liberation of questions from memetic domination, and the liberation of human consciousness from totalizing and tyrannical narratives. It is the liberation of creativity on every level from the metaphysical up. The question mark is the only holy symbol in the 23rd century, the symbol of consciousness and life itself, of endless becoming and inexhaustible meaning.

>>11927483
>I've been consumed for years at this point by task of creating a memetic virus capable of propagating some basic truths about the human condition

You will want to watch these videos: https://vimeo.com/specalblend

>>11904603
Most people aren't the authors of their internal monologue, theirs is the result of heavy conditioning, especially in the modern world where there's innumerable forces such as advertizing and interpersonal politics constantly trying to subvert self-authorship. Our concept of free will robs us of agency, assuring us that our ability to select from items on a list is our "freedom," when this selection has already been determined by such forces. Free will is slavery to the will, true freedom is free inquiry, our ability to ask questions, which isn't an absolute but a skill that must be trained by systematically and consciously questioning yourself. Self-awareness is our ability to question ourselves, to request information about ourselves and the world we live in using the limitless flexibility of language. The pen of self-authorship is the question mark. A good practice is to explicitly ask yourself questions during your daily life preferably on paper because of the physicality of it, or at least using a word processor. Written language is the most powerful tool of cognitive enhancement ever invented, it allows you to make your thoughts concrete to arrange and inspect.

If you follow the path of questioning, perhaps you will come to the realization that the question mark is the only true holy symbol, questions aren't a mere lack of an answer but vectors of desire which branch out from each other infinitely, questions creating more questions. To ask questions about questions is metacognition itself, the wellspring of sapience.