Entering the Liminal War
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June 3, 2020
The following are passages from previous journal entries.
April 9: I admit that yesterday I asked myself: Am I in a process of spiritual awakening? There was a feeling of not recognizing myself last night and my wife did not recognize me either.
That was the day when I could no longer ignore what was happening to me.
April 20: And I am making this declaration with so much joy: the Stoics have officially entered the liminal war.
That was the day when I went crazy. It was also the day I discovered something beautiful. This day moved in slow motion. The philosophical lines between free will and determinism blurred completely. This epistemic cowboy somehow survived.
I am annoyed at my crazy self for declaring that the Stoics have entered the liminal war. Who am I to make such a ridiculous statement? I created a page recently recording my thinking on the liminal war, which I defined as: "The confusing, disorienting, and hyper-fragmented battle of narratives in our complex ontology. Where memetic violence turns kinetic. The upgrade of Culture War 2.0. Who wins this creates the future."
April 21: Yesterday was probably the most intense day of my life, and it was probably the best. I lost my mind, then I heard the music. I am still processing. The synchronicities were occurring one after the other, everything made sense, and everything was part of the story.
Yes. I think we are in a liminal war. One with a virus on the loose, with minds being weaponized, and with an Overton window that is broken and being boarded up. The motto of The Stoa is philosophy in uncertain times, but we now need to add dangerous times to it, because things are dangerous.
The Stoa received a mention in The New York Times today. My sense is that more Blue Church outlets will notice us, and with these mentions more noise will be coming our way. If The Stoa starts bowing down to the noise, I will have to blow this project up, and I am already preparing the philosophical dynamite.
The visions I experienced the day I went crazy weigh on me, and now people are expecting things from The Stoa. I feel a responsibility to help out with the meta-crisis, and the liminal war. I have ideas, or I should say the daemon has ideas.
Administratively speaking The Stoa is basically still a one-man operation, and that one man is me, but I am not meant to be an administrator. My Stoic patience for uploading videos, posting events, and shit like that is coming to an end. I am glad The Stoa team, headed by Travis Mann, is figuring out how to get me out of the way.
I prefer to go on walks by myself, and send people voice text messages, with a manic enthusiasm, on the sexy ideas that are constantly attacking me. I prefer being a daemon-inspired steward than a bottleneck micro-manager.
If the Stoics have to play a role in this liminal war then I may have to become fully fused with the daemon. Last time I tried this the demons came and I almost went permanently crazy. Maybe I can avoid that this time. I have become more skilled at listening.
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