Tuesday, October 29, 2019
I don't fear the deepest instinct, I consider it sacred, and it needs to be unblocked
Both Nietzsche and Burke
wrote of the fear of the instincts and passions when unmediated by
reason or morality. Burke feared the deepest instincts if
unmediated by traditional religious morality, but Nietzsche wanted to
give the instincts and passions more free Dionysian reign.
I think of the deepest
passion and deepest instinct as the activating will to Godhood within
material life, which I call the “Super-Id,” or “Tirips.” It
is the combined instincts seeking to evolve in the material world to
supermaterial Godhood, activating within life toward supreme success
in survival and reproduction, while also engaged in the ups and downs
of outside natural selection and genetic evolution.
The activating Super-Id,
or Tirips, is not chaotic or Dionysian and not religiously ascetic,
and it is not over-controlling in the paths taken among several
determined paths, like a boulder rolling down a mountain.
So I don't fear the
deepest instinct, I consider it sacred, and it needs to be unblocked.
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