Proservation — The Generators Worldframe
Why intuitions of preservation must be overcome to stop the forces of ossification
Every generation gets dragged back to the held priors of what once was, the unrelenting force of history thrashing its bystanders crest-to-trough for all of eternity, each time as one cycle starts another begins. Generation-after-generation the echoes of this tyrant reverberates through the ethereal pages of history, while never repeating itself twice, it’s chime undeniably rhymes. In the midst of this inhaling, all-encompassing force the logical conclusion thus becomes to excavate all of history, determining what best to preserve that stood most resilient to the test of time.
As scintillating as a premise this is, it’s a false intuition predicated on fear of losing one’s civilizational heritage that’s held man hostage for generations. We’re not damned by those who came before us whether through their folly or glory, paradoxically, we’re one part whole, one part many running on the fumes of borrowed blood. One must then ask why have we surrendered our individual autonomy by defining ourselves in servitude to those that came before?
Ossification
The auspices of prosperity brings about an ossifying force demanding each generations upbringing be serenaded in vivid memories of joy, becoming the cultures imperative to continue recreating this collective euphoric memory, imprinting an expectation of their lived experience onto the next generation. Consequently, any undercurrent of cultural change provokes fear, led by the reproductive urge that the next generation will absolve their collective psycho-social imperative, thus stripping themselves of their ancestral rites and heritage becoming a species of a different kin.
Institutions are then formed under the intuition to preserve both culture and prosperity, thus creating tradition, a collective process for recreating these expectations irrespective of circumstance, ensuring the cultures existence into perpetuity. While the premise of the institution was noble by invoking notions of infinity, the bitter reality is that decisions were made at the behest of unknown unknowns by few key decision makers, with their success falsely equivocated to the traditional process. Only the leaders that intuited correctly do we remember, thus cultures incorrectly try animating their actions onto theirs under the intuition of preservation and ultimately fear.
Adherence to tradition, the cultures table-of-values becomes the incontestable source of truth, thus deviance is punished as a threat to the survival of the entire collective. The folly of the premise is that incontestable feats of greatness— responsible for value generating prosperity, are defined by their intrinsic uncertainty, pushing further past the boundaries of possibility by affirming the chaos of the unknown.
Unfortunately the dynamic of culture centers around either continually defining the collective cultural memory or harkening back to stricter adherence of custom and law, in an attempt for returning to former historical glories. Intuitions of preservation emerges out of a cultures inability to generate new stories, choosing to be defined rather than described by their ancestral heritage. Consequently cultures become a figment under the shadow of their once great heroes, unable to define themselves under the accomplishments made of their own generations volition.
Periods of great turmoil provoke dialogues of historical restoration, an entitlement of expectation proportional to the drift between the state-of-affairs and the collective cultural memory, demonstrating the preference to operate in prior particulars, rather than rising to the demands of circumstance, especially if necessitating both a transvaluation and or eradication of prior expectations.
Remnants of this assumption manifests in the judicial process that establishes an assumption that precedent— the invocation of behavior is to be the best method for informing future action, thus pattern establishes preceding behavior into continuity; what once was must define what will be. Justice is contingent on restoring a prior state of order, implying the reactionary counter of proportional justice must be capped to a denominator value representing the total immutable quantity of justice— law & order. One could then posit a world without the will of man would be perfectly just, as the global state of justice could remain unperturbed. Justice as an immutable finite value was one of the first affirmations of a zero sum world view enforcing a recursive loop towards intuitions of preservation.
It’s these same intuitions that implode cultures, the inability to recognize their own contemporary impotency by foregoing what made their ancestors once great, as cultures prefer to die in the pool of their own arrogance rather then admit defeat of the cultural memory and build anew on fresh foundations. Once defeated, the collective memory of these cultures gets overwritten by their conquerors, losing recollection of any golden eras creating a new expectation that justifies masochistic servitude in service to their conquerors, rife in unprovoked suffering as a necessity to participation in the culture.
Cultures with surviving, intact legacies become paralyzed by their own successes and consequently expectations, thus it certainly implies under this cultural behavioral framework, downfalls and capitulations are needed for necessitating new periods of sustained growth, succinctly demonstrated with the Renaissance emerging out of the Black Plague eradicating over 30% of the population. It seems that generative philosophies only emerge after civilizations bottom out as the peak becomes defined by preservation.
As imperative heroes are for a culture’s story, it’s equally imperative that cultures define themselves by the outputs of their contemporary generation to overcome the ossifying intuition of preservation. The question then emerges, can a culture channel a generating force in the midst of prosperity that can overcome the ossification of preservation? How can one live and operate as an individual outside the force of cultural ossification?
Proservation
The unadulterated natural world presents unbounded beauty but in the midst of its presence man is left with two options; either mesmerize himself in the spoils of the untouched earth by preserving all residues of creation or imagine more perfect manifestations by invoking nature as an open canvas to generate from.
This impasse presents itself not just in nature but in all divinations, an emergent emotion fueled both by the fear of this beautiful presence slipping past you and greed demanding ownership of all that your eyes may feast on, overpowering ones will to generate. Instead of forging something great in that same vein, man chooses to take what’s in front of him both through fear and greed, at times falsely justified as a cultural memory.
It is at this junction that the act of proservation breaks away and separates itself from preservation.
It’s at this fork where man stops bewildering himself at the dizzying proportions of the universe by erecting great structures out from the earth, enabling his imagination to wonder about in his own creations, not just that of the created universe. Paradoxically, as infinite as the open earth might seem, the cathedrals upward focal point of the spiraling dome draws man’s conscious inward, a testament of the will overpowering the fear of acquiescing to the chaos of the external world.
Counterintuitively, the best way for a culture to preserve its physical existence into perpetuity is through mystically overcoming chaos, continually, not through a tabular process of tradition attempting to ossify the legacy of the psycho-collective spirit. Survival of the embodied experience proliferates best when the expectation of being externally serenaded is overcome by insourcing continuity to volition. The will must always overpower and overcome circumstance, life ought never be left to chance.
Proservation centrifuges all of history and tradition through a forward pursuit of the transcendent divine, not with intent of eradicating the past but rather for eternal glory. Intrinsically, this increases the possibility to malform the collective cultural memory, but without continual leaps of faith taken, that culture will inevitably vanish, getting replaced by hungrier, more adventurous risk-taking cultures.
It is the proserver in the action of pro-servation whom intends to serve the generations to come rather than the action of pre-servation that serves the generations that have gone.
Generative Culture
At any moment a generative culture must possess the capacity to eat its own storyline, its own heroes and or its meta narratives to meet the demands of the situation and reign supreme in the eternal struggle of survival. Otherwise hungrier cultures will prey on the fear that legacy cultures have in losing the continuity of their heritage, those with less to lose seem to be able to come out victorious on long enough time horizons. Thus conflict seems to favor the revolutionaries, the ones attempting to fork a new storyline leading their action with passion towards manifesting their vision.
Legacy cultures with deep historical tapestries are presented the greatest opportunities for glory, greater than that of any revolutionaries, contingent on whether they can muster the wherewithal to sacrifice its most cardinal values, rising to the urgency of circumstance in order to reign victorious in existential conflicts against revolutionary assailants whom have no fear of a collective memory to lose.
However, logic and invocation of one’s will should be the only contingency for action, there should not have to emerge historical circumstance for action to take root. Until internal satiety in periods of prosperity cannot be overcome, this cycle will not be stopped. There must never be a dull moment of satiating acquiescence, one great accomplishment should fuel the next ones ad infinitum. This force of overcoming ought come solely from within, never necessitating external provocations.
A generative culture orients itself around proservation, rather than passively existing by letting the subconscious lead on autopilot, the conscious is never forsaken thus denying the possibility of enabling circumstance to ever dictate action. The frame of proservation oriented around survival applied to the environment, would ask the question, what must be done to maximize the proliferation of life on earth? Atmospheric particulate concentrations would be defined as inputs waiting to yield the preferable output of maximal biological proliferation, devoid of bias to prior instantiations, deeply contrasting contemporary environmentalism that prefers the frame of preservation that dogmatically demands atmospheric particulate concentrations return to pre-industrial era levels as an incontestable truth.
As imperative the conscious will is to a generative culture, it needs to be coupled with the assumption that life is not a zero-sum game, affirming value can be generated and past calamities need not retribution for the sake historical restoration, otherwise the culture will subject itself to the ossifying spectre of the collective cultural memory. Cultures defined by zero-sum worldviews will leverage notions of historical restoration, channeling the emotions of revenge and envy to manifest change out of their current predicament under the purview of righting an unjust calamity against their ancestors. When Jesus proclaimed to turn the other cheek in the New Testament, what was functionally spoken is that life does not have to be a zero-sum game. For cultures to be truly great they need to overcome the emotions of envy and revenge, defining visions of the future in positive affirmations not historical restorations.
However, any generative worldview that absolves itself from intuitions of preservation, will confront mans fundamental nature in seeking comfort in known prior successes, validated by caloric surplus, a notion far too visceral for the subconsciously led to pontificate. Eye-for-eye, tooth-for-tooth prevented radical leaps of faith, but that eternal cycle needs to be broken for cultures to scale higher zeniths.
The Generators Worldframe
The generator does not affirm world-views, views that of whom are passive instantiations, but rather generates world-frames, frames that of which are an extension of his will usurping any innuendo of passivity or circumstance.
Loss is solely an expectation from the fading memory either of the individual or collective variety, thus the generator can choose to stand outside these narratives by invoking action as the instantiator of unbound new opportunities.
The generator must be able to stand steadfast outside the forces of history, especially in circumstances of degenerating turmoil, both of the real or perceived variety by embracing chaos as an exponential catalyst for greatness. Doom cannot exist in the generators conscious, by absolving the internal state of satiety, the generator waits not for conflict to find him but manically seeks the eternal as fleeting of a pursuit it may be. The will of the generator outshines the shadows of his prior successes, never ossifying himself to the fantasies of his once great deeds by justifying action only in sobriety of the present, in preparation for the chaos of the undetermined future.
The generator must believe that at any moment, if all human knowledge would be lost that it can be progenerated once more rather than regenerated. Regeneration implies a finite value, there’s no reason to believe that knowledge accumulation would be capped at it’s prior instantiation once more.
In this same vein the true philosopher does not cite texts as ossified instantiations but continually integrates knowledge as a part of larger worldframe, a world model extending from their integrated self.
The illusion of wisdom presented by sophists is the technical mastery of knowledge, contingent on referencing a body of knowledge outside themselves disconnected from a continually integrated world model. The acquisition of knowledge is of little value if one can’t generate new permutations to it. The true philosopher can stand outside of time, space and history and ponder about the great questions without aid from those before, not that we should ignore the great contributions, but neither should we surrender ourselves to it as an unparalleled magnanimous abstract.
One can possess the greatest philosophy to ever exist, but if one is unable to regenerate it without reference to this original father-text, then what value is it of? All one can do possessing the greatest philosophy is cling onto the text like a rabid dog, thus demonstrating the necessity of generative acts.
The generator manifests perfection in his heart and mind, shamed not when the world is compelled otherwise but steadfast in believing the world will soon be serenaded in this vision coming neither from envy or resentment but for eternal glory.
Conclusions
Comfort is the great calamity of success, it does not seem that any culture in all of human history has ever solved this conundrum. The satiety stemming from caloric surplus, transferred into vivid cultural memories, becoming a cultural expectation is an undeniable predicament. Collectively it might not be possible to contend with this dynamic but individually one can certainly overcome satiety with strong enough willpower.
The alternative then is to build, much easier said then done when doubt stomps to close the door of hope.
Why build then? Why build now? Why build higher and greater? Why build if it’ll wither away into the abyss of the unknown. Why build if posterity will choose to trample over it. Why build if we’re only here for a short time?
Because man must build.
When you’re deeply entranced with what you’re building, all else in the universe dilates. One is insatiably possessed until the internal sea of despair is crossed, the grand chasm to be overcome in order to manifest. When your back is against the all, you keep on building. When there’s nothing left to build, build ever more maniacally. A colossus, a parable, an obelisk, a vision, the mind is left to wander with only it’s imagination.
The fear of loss can only be overcome with love of generation.
The time to generate is now.
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