The Big Argument

Diogenes Tells Alexander the Great to Get Out of His Light

This is my 162nd post. (The number is totally arbitrary by the way, no gematria bullshit here.) I can finally give a good summary of my thinking and set out on the next part of my project. If you read through the previous posts, you'll see fragments of this one scattered throughout.

There are two big forces that shape the world of man: the sun and time. These are the hero and villain of almost every movie, TV show, or book you consume. The third and forth forces are matter (the female earth) and information.

The basis of Western civilization is  bad farming and war. The gods of Western Civilization are Time, a Slave Earth, and Ambivalent Information. The false sun: money is the bastard child of Time and the slave Earth. Almost all the philosophy and science in the west are the grandchildren of these malevolent gods and their demonic servants on this planet.

There are a few notable examples that are retained in our cultural history. The madman philosopher Diogenes is one of them. Diogenes thought Plato was a fraud. Diogenes was a student of Socrates who famously lived in a barrel and scorned all comforts of civilization. By contrast, Plato and Aristotle sought the courts of kings and emperors.

The life of Diogenes is a sort of performance art philosophy book where a man plugs into the source of goodness: the sun. He lives as an animal human (instead of a human animal) drawing the simple conclusion that the world and nature provides. We really do live in an Endless Summer or we never left the Garden of Eden.

What would art and philosophy look like if we rebased western thinking on new, good and benevolent gods and benevolent systems of farming and living?