The Hegelian Dialectic Part 2
I want to start by giving due credit. I only heard about the Hegelian Dialectic about a month ago. So I’ve been learning all I can about it since. The first half of my last post is all as described in podcasts from Dr. James Lindsay on his YouTube channel New Discourses. One in particular was around 4 hours but worth the listen.
The second half are my thoughts reasoning conclusions etc. Whenever I’m expressing my impressions I’ll say so. It otherwise is all as I’ve come to learn it from dr Lindsay.
In the last post I talked about Hegel’s triad thesis-antithesis-synthesis. This was actually taken from his predecessor Kant. Hegel borrowed the overall concept but changed it to Being-Nothing-Becoming. Being is the essence of everything. We are all alive, we’re all ‘being’. Nothing is the antithesis of being because it is the opposite of ‘something’. He considered it a negation. Being is like something, nothing is the negative so they’re essentially thesis-antithesis. When you synthesize the two, being and nothing, Hegel believes you are ‘Becoming’. It’s a little far fetched, a little out there. So if it’s too difficult stick to thesis-antithesis-synthesis. It’s easier to conceptualize that way for some of us.
He actually articulated three triads. The other two are Abstract-Concrete-Absolute. Idea-Nature-Spirit. He really liked triads. He loved threes; the ancient law of three. Nature loves threes as does nature’s God (that’s our God for those of you keeping score at home). But if these new triads are too hard to grasp, they all essentially work the same way as the first triad. Slightly different conceptually, but still function the same way. So you can still think in terms of thesis-antithesis-synthesis if it’s easier for you.
The first key point to keep in mind with Hegel is that he’s an alchemist. He thinks alchemically on every level. The seed of gold inside can blossom; alchemy. This is his central thought about everything. In fact he thought oriental religion (by which he meant Christianity) had infiltrated too much of Germany. He wanted to bring Germany back to the folk religions of time past. Secondly, Marx took Hegel and said it lacked application. Just like Christianity has evangelists, socialism needs activists. People pushing the dialectic and it’s syntheses forward. What Marx called “praxis” was the merging of theory and practice. Praxis and alchemy are the drivers of dialectical thinking.
For Hegel, God is not present, not transcendent. (We’re in the second triad). Being-nothing-becoming. God, according to Hegel, is “becoming” through the dialectical process (the thesis antithesis synthesis). He’s not God yet. Think of it as an imperfect God creates everything and doesn’t know why, doesn’t even know he’s God.
Remember in the last post I mentioned the dialectic is continually reapplied? God created an imperfect world, doesn’t know that he’s God yet and that imperfect world is his antithesis causing God to have to synthesize himself. God is the thesis (being), the imperfect world is his antithesis (nothing) and the synthesis is his becoming absolute. For God to become perfect He has to move from thought to an absolute. He becomes God through the dialectical process. He’s doing this constantly as humanity is progressing. The dialectic progressing through human history is moving toward the omega point, the perfect society. He will become God when the society is perfected. Once the dialectic completes itself, society will be perfected, God will become absolute, Utopia will begin.
In the third triad God is a thought; this is abstract (thesis). But God can’t just be an abstract He has to be real, he must be concrete (antithesis). So the when the two (God as abstract, as thought; God as concrete as real and material) collide He can synthesize and become absolute. This too is a process of continual application of the dialectic so that God can become God. Sorry to repeat but I know it’s a difficult concept.
My Christian brain hears the devil. Sorry, but it does. A ”god” that doesn’t know he’s God until society does. He’s not present, not transcendent. He and they usher in the “perfect society”. No individuality, all collective. This all has the makings of a wannabe trying to be. I’ve written for a long time about the forces of evil working in the background moving toward this global socialist Utopia. They’re trying to reach this so called perfected state here and now. The globalist great reset is the kingdom of Satan. Socialism is in fact evil. It is born of evil. Hegel adapted the dialectic by watching how the devil operates and socialism was born from this dialectic.
Now we come to the German word aufheben. Aufheben is a German word with dual meaning: to abolish or cancel; also to lift up or preserve. Hegel loved this word because of his alchemical thinking. You have to destroy the culture to save it. Strip away the base parts to get to the seed of gold. Its alchemical again. Gramsce wrote in “the prison notebooks” about the 5 pillars of society that must be infiltrated and destroyed from within. See they realized that they can’t have communism/socialism while western societies are still free. They have to destroy western culture. They have to destroy their own nation’s culture and the perfect Utopia (worldwide Utopia) will arise. Aufheben der kultur: cancel culture. It’s straight Hegelian. The perfect society exists inside all the base parts. They have to be stripped away so that the perfect society can blossom.
Socialism realizes that any free society, like America, cannot exist beside communist countries. The people can’t see freedom next to their socialism. Western society has to be dominated. Their people can’t “own nothing and be happy about it” while Americans have backyard pools, summer vacations, baseball stadiums and convertibles to drive etc.
Just like aufheben has a dual meaning, alchemical thought understand’s that something can only be what it is by becoming what it isn’t. Sounds circular and insane, I know. But this is aufheben. The seeds of gold are inside every base metal so the base parts must be stripped away so the pure seed can blossom. So tolerance for example can only become perfect tolerance by becoming intolerant. It can only be what it is by becoming what it isn’t, aufheben. This is why you get confused that liberals are all about tolerance yet intolerant to you. You’re a Christian or a conservative etc, therefore you’re intolerant - racist sexist bigot homophobe. To reach perfect tolerance they have to be intolerant. Namely; to you. You’re the base parts of society that need to be stripped away so that the pure seed can blossom. Their ‘praxis’ is hypocrisy to us.
Words always have double meanings. In this way they speak the same words we do but mean something entirely different. Like a father spelling a word to his wife in front of his toddler to hide the meaning. Think of Dr Fauci, Governor Newsome of California (and all those types) in this light, words have double meanings, and they don’t care who’s harmed etc. They’re the gnostics, the wise sages. They understand things on a much higher level than we do. (This is that elitism you feel constantly from leftists). It’s the alchemy, they see something you don’t, double meaning of words, seed of gold in every metal, perfect society blossoming and God becoming God through their endeavors. You’re more like a knuckle dragging caveman by comparison. Any harm to you is no different than harm to lab rats from experiments or wild animals by nature.
So when a person is ‘canceled’ - or their law or medical license is stripped away - they don’t feel bad in the slightest bit. And this is why they seem to have no conscience. Because they don’t. And its useless to appeal to one. In their mind you’re thinking wrong. You won’t change your mind. You’re preventing perfection. You’re not just collateral damage; you’re literally nothing at all; except in their way.
Now we come to intersectionality. Intersectionality is the “synthesis of the various otherwise competing forms of systemic oppression”. This is how Dr Lindsay defined it. That means people who are part of an opressed group also engage in oppressions of other groups. Because all these minority oppressed groups also commit oppression themselves, they have to turn the dialectic on themselves to discover their wrong doings in order to correct them. So Feminists need to confront their racism, blacks need to confront their homophobia, etc etc. They have to turn the dialectic on themselves. And once all these oppressed groups have turned the dialectic on themselves and fixed their oppressive nature all these groups will have solidarity. Solidarity is the synthesis. Solidarity has a meaning for them that you aren’t aware of. Double meaning.
The five pillars of society: the human person; sexuality and family; politics and law; education and culture; business and economics. If these people are in education they’re in the other pillars. They’re obviously in economics, sexuality and family. They’re in science. Marx said Science to mean socialism. Remember words have double meanings, only the smart Gnostics understand the higher meaning. When Marx said Science he meant socialism. He believed in a scientistic socialism. Follow the science; follow the Fauci; follow the socialism. I have to believe some of them are programming AI. I have to believe they’re programming AI to think dialectically. As AI increases and gets closer to its own consciousness (or goes beyond) the dialogues with humans will challenge humans (because of the antithesis, the dialectic) it will sound “so wise” etc. Not to mention once they actually merge human minds with AI the dialectical thought process will be a part of your thinking by default.
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