# We are all thought

All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. It is founded on thought. It is based on thought.

Buddha, The Dhammapada

# Ascenção de Prometheus (Robert Anton Wilson, 1983)

Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.

A Mitiko começou a ler seu exemplar em português, presente de um amigo nosso, e resolvi que é uma boa oportunidade para voltar a lê-lo em paralelo. Não muito afeita a leituras, ela deve abandonar ou postergar este projeto indefinidamente, mas devo continuar minha leitura para preencher os recortes que faltam deste esotérico e maravilhoso livro sobre nossa consciência dos mapas mentais.

In the 1970s, I simply did not recognize the extent to which the 1960s “youth revolution” had terrified our ruling Elite, or that they would try to prevent future upsurges of radical Utopianism by deliberately “dumbing down” the educational system.

As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.

When we say A is B, we are saying that A is only what it appears within our field of study or our area of specialization. This is saying too much. When we say A can be considered as B, or modeled by B, we are saying exactly as much as we have a right to say, and no more.

(...) whatever you think you should see, you will see — unless it is physically impossible in this universe. All experience is a muddle, until we make a model to explain it.

On the other hand, the software is more “real” in the sense that you can smash the hardware back to dust (“kill” the computer) and the software still exists, and can “materialize” or “manifest” again in a different computer.

Imprints (software frozen into hardware) are the non-negotiable aspects of our individuality.

Each successive imprint complicates the software which programs our experience and which we experience as "reality.

Clockwise, the Sanguinary type (friendly strength) was identified with the Lion archetype and the element, fire. The Lion, because of the dignity of these big cats, represents “good” strength, and the fire represents power. The Phlegmatic type (friendly weakness) was identified with the Angel archetype and the element water: these people are “too sensitive to fight” and “go with the flow.” The Choleric types were identified with the Bull archetype (truculent suspicion, paranoia) and the element, earth, standing for sluggish pseudo “stupidity.” (This is the traditional stance of defeated races dealing with their conquerors.) The Bilius types (hostile strength) were identified with the Eagle archetype (symbol of Imperial Rome, the German royal family, etc.) and the element air, air probably means sky, because these types seem “high and mighty.”

These symbols go back a long way; Cabalists find them in the Old Testament (where, indeed, the lion-angel-bull-eagle appear in Ezekiel). They are found constantly in Catholic art, associated with the four evangelists (Matthew-angel, Mark-lion, Luke-bull, John-eagle)* and run all through the design of Tarot card decks, medieval and modern.

The evangel of Jesus, as Nietzsche saw it, was the sublimated Will to Power, the path of conscious evolution to Superhumanity. The dysangel, the bad news, created by St. Paul was traditional Sklavmoral — “Slaves, obey your masters,” but nourish your resentment with the firm belief that you are “good,” and they are “evil,” and you will eventually have the pleasure of watching them bum in hell forever. In Nietzsche’s analysis, all Marx added to this was the idea of burning and punishing the Master Class here and now instead of waiting for “God” to attend to the matter post mortem.

# Intruso (Garth Davis, 2023)

Assisti por recomendação do meu amigo, então sentia que haveria uma reviravolta. Só que ela não chega e o filme estica e você começa a duvidar sobre o que é o filme. Quando finalmente surge a reviravolta as peças se encaixam em dois relacionamentos que servem de espelhos da alma de cada um, o que é triste e doentio. Melancolia sobre o amor na carona de temas recentes. O nome no Brasil não é muito bom. Chamaria de Amor Rival.

# Meio Grávida (Tyler Spindel, 2025)

Piadas ágeis em formato dinâmico me fizeram relevar a linguagem mais recente do cinema, desse pessoal jovem. É engraçado. Assisti dublado e não me arrependo. Filme para não pensar muito. O jeito que a heroína usa a barriga é visceral.

# Casamentos Cruzados (Nicholas Stoller, 2025)

Eu gosto tanto de Will Ferrell quanto de Reese Whiterspoon, mas dessa vez eles estão em um roteiro fraco, infantil. Tenta ser sobre sentimentos maduros, mas acaba sendo só pela carência de cada um em não se encaixar mais no que seria uma família, seja tradicional sulista ou pai viúvo. A química entre os dois nunca funciona.