Preview of "Anarcho-Tantric Hedonism: Addendum" (Sect. 13: Essential Differentiation and the Intrinsic Sin of Global Homogeneity)

In the wake of a lack of new (or, rather, published content), I have decided to give you all a preview of what I've been working on as of late (neglecting a scholarship essay worth $3000 in the process). 

It's been 7 months since I wrote the first draft of Anarcho-Tantric Hedonism: A Treatise, and since, I've had plenty of new ideas stewing in my brain which are now finding expression in an upcoming Addendum treatise. 

Enjoy Section 13, my fellow counterculturalists:

The homeless man of the Pacific Northwest, in a climatological respect, is in worse straits than the homeless man residing in Los Angeles where, despite the occasional rainstorm, the climate is fair enough year-round to facilitate a satisfactory sustainment of the physical body. In respect to social forces and the rate of violent crime for a myriad of mingled and networked reasons, however, the homeless man of the Pacific Northwest is (speaking generally despite the thesis of this particular section) in a better place. In particular I make reference from perspective in my own life, imagining myself homeless on the streets of Powell River, where, despite being satisfactorily fed and clothed, the climate would permit little in the way of bearable living through the winter months. Los Angeles, in a statistical context due to the sheer amount of intermingled lives forced into social co-dependency, would be more likely to house psychopaths with an itch to kill and eyes likely to see the homeless as easier prey than the named and average middle-class white male residing at a physical address, easily located via ZIP codes and other documents of social reality.

The modern world, although on local levels making attempts to address such problems, is of an intrinsic inability to solve them due to its rootedness in conceptual generalization in all fields of thought and action. Coupled with this, globalization represents a trend of attempting to economically homogenize the planet as a whole despite organic circumstance and existentially essential differences which, unallowed to develop in themselves both on collective and individual levels, has lead to the deprivation of something requisite within each of us, represented on a collective level by the economic deprivation of sustainable existence for certain 'kinds' of people known in the dangerously general sense as the 'lower class.'

All of the above is an illustration for the sake of analogy; although truth is represented, the whole truth regarding such issues as homelessness is infinitely more complicated in all respects; from climate to food availability to psychology to appearances to social context in all forms, the world is networked in such a way as to make even my generalization for the sake of description nearly completely null and void, thus proving my point.

Nature in itself is made up of what is similar-but-different; not necessarily inevitable, but inevitable only in the sense that it is.

If we imagine the globe as a wheel representing the colour spectrum (fig. 1), we can clearly see what nature is in its different-sameness; each colour, although different than the next, fades into one another as it is. This isn't to assert that this occurrence was ever a philosophical inevitability, but regardless of such speculation, it is inevitable as it is what it is. From space, too, the same phenomenon can be witnessed. Although the paints added to the Earth by each of our individual personalities, cultural mind-models, political standings, and spiritual beliefs are an invisible paint only available at ground-level, they are still as consequential as the fading of deep jungle flora into desert, and the upwards jut of ocean into land. For the sake of expediency and economy-of-line, we will refer to this different-sameness as the 'natural fade.'

Fig. 1

The requirements of life in the desert are radically different than the requirements of life in the rainforest or the requirements of life in the Arctic. Modern nation-states are a chunky and inefficient expression of the natural fade which, instead of blue sliding into pink and slowly into purple, or Algerians fading into Libyans and slowly into Egyptians, opt for an arbitrary line at an arbitrary point designed and calculated with obsessively microcosmic accuracy.

This obsessive microcosmic accuracy represents an antithesis to the natural fade in which it is not top down or bottom up, but a mutuality between the two with neither taking exclusive reign. It is the compartmentalization of preexisting generalizations into smaller generalizations based on certain areas in certain spaces at certain times. The globalization of economy, although by implication leading to an overall reduction in terribly catastrophic world warfare due to economic interdependence (for example: the Golden Arches theory of Conflict Prevention states that no two countries with a McDonald's have fought a war with one another since the introduction of the franchise into each respective nation), has led to an all-pervasive generality which threatens to homogenize the entirety of the world as if attempting to erase every colour from the spectrum and expand it all into a solid red (which, by analogy, may very well occur in blood as individuals, races, and cultures of all different colours, in both physical as well as spiritual terms, are violently squeezed out of existence as they are not red enough to appease the oppressive artists painting in stiff brush).

What is being illustrated throughout this section is one of two things: the essential differences of populations and as such, cultures, economies, laws, and customs, as well as the way in which these differences are not static or binary blocks of area or thought, but connected and interdependent fades into one another in the same way that a lake flows through a river, down a waterfall, and into the greater scheme of global ocean.

Prior to the age of satellite imagery and the internet, ones experience and point of view within the world were understandably limited and fragmentary, thus leading many to draw lines around what they knew and saw in order to properly orient themselves and give grounding to their consciousness on all levels. This illusory fragmentation, represented in the form of a 'worldview' walled-off from a dauntingly greater terra incognita, stuck around despite the advent of global and somewhat universal awareness, just as often expanding its borders as manning the walls and preparing to fight the now encroaching 'everything-else' outside.

In this day and age, it is often encouraged that one expand their borders and worldviews beyond their traditional outposts. It is unlikely, in modern generations, to find walls built in defence (as their parents and grandparents had done before). Instead, many employ the haranguing and lonely border guard of scientific objectivism to question all immigrants and tourists into their developed sense of reality, denying entry to any who cannot properly satisfy its interrogation.

Although this is a step forward from previous states of mind, it still exists within binary borders which do not completely accept the existence of the natural fade. In fact, it is simply as was stated above; microcosmically reduced generalizations in a blocked and neatly ordered spectrum all revolving around an objective centre (fig. 2).

 Fig. 2

Granted, there is an element of fade, but it is not a progressive flow, and is instead a logical continuity, almost a chain of causality between colours. Some borders are blurred, which in analogy could represent the slow and inevitable disintegration of humanity into proper unity over time, however others stand clear and concise against their neighbours as if there is a relation, but the water in their particular cup cannot be trusted to the ocean.