Prof Sam Vaknin
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Internet: Heavenly Narcissism Factory (Convo with Guy Sengstock)
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1:52:44Now PlayingNEW CHANNEL Nothingness: Antidote to Narcissism
The Internet is the Kingdom of Heaven for narcissists and spawns narcissism. It caters to our deepest emotional-psychological needs and cravings. This is an irreversible process.
Psychologists preassume universal human nature
There is affinity between humans and computers (naturally): Turing universal machines
Narcissist fallen, inauthentic “One” (=they) condition
Choice between world and self: mutually exclusive
Individuation is a rejection of the world at the service of the self
False self (narcissism) is a rejection of the self in favor of the world: true ego death, no self
Will is an illusion, akin to time, grandiose attempt to negate mortality. Thinking is a subspecies of Nietzschean Will, not the Heideggerian Turn. It is also Will’s precursor and necessary though insufficient condition: Will needs the World.
Malignant egalitarianism as ressentiment. Last man turns revenge against himself and the Ubermensch leads humanity to its essence. Age of Spartacus: revolt of inferior slaves against elites with the aid of technology and democracy gone awry (both intended originally to prevent true empowerment via objectification, thanatic simulacra, spectacle, reification, fetishism, and fantasy).
They went awry owing to rogue members of the elites, traitors and because it evolved into a Platonic narcissistic religion.
Sartre bad faith and inauthentic life: alloplastic defenses, external locus of control, abrogating personal responsibility, Cleckley’s rejection of life.
Nihilism debased, like narcissism. It is dissent: heresy in the Middle Ages, skepticism in Russia, anti-reincarnation in Buddha (a true nihilist himself).
Internet and social media infantile and ahistorical which Nietzsche would have lauded. He advocated dissociation, child-beast ahistoricity.
My work on chronon influenced by the temporality of Dasein (coming from the past go realize future potentials in the present).
Being is no-thing. Death is the arbiter among potential futures: defines life. Death of the planet forces us to alter choices.
Cyberspace as a Medieval heaven, afterlife, paracosm (kingdom). It is digital Platonism. Not appearances, but ideal forms: hence silos and vehemence.
Meaning, morality forms of pareidolia.
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The Circling Institute
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Coaching with Guy: guysengstock@gmail.com
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