Return to the Real

By Gordon Quinn

The book presented in front of you is an intellectual inquiry into how the society of today should develop and finally be sent on a way of progress for the whole of humanity. It is a radical thought presented both philosophically and in a plain language. It is a must read for any that wish for a better world for all, an inqury into the obstacles that are present now and will be for the time being.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gordon Quinn
• Release date: Feb 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9789612766696

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Return to the Real

An intellectual inquiry into a passage from a modern to a conscient man

By Gordon Quinn

This book is dedicated to the world.

Copyright 2013 by Gordon Quinn

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QUINN,Gordon

Return to the real : an intellectual inquiry into a passage from a modern to a conscient man / Gordon Quinn. - 1st ed. - Skofja Loka (EU) : self-published, 2013

ISBN:

978-961-276-669-6

265862912

All Rights Reserved. Publishing at Smashwords.

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Contents

Foreword

For those that haven’t thought of the difference

Are we there yet?

Scientific fair

Scientific despair

Futurological congress

Human is right

Humans need obligations

On nature

On human

On security

Real vs. Virtual

Virtual vs. Symbolic

Real vs. Symbolic

On gradation

It is our future we cling to

Hope of the future

Demystifying myths

Middlemen

Vacuum

Changing the rules themselves

Structuring society

The Leisure class

No way can I learn it without some leisure time

No time for friends

Law of the excluded

The paradox of a man of society

The sense

Logic

A man of words and a man of silence

The story of Cain

Killing with a definite blow

On the length of penises

I want to be happy

Foreword

Here is where the author uses a few pages to present a suitable preview of the book and provide a kind of explanation of why the book is as it is. It should be noted by the reader that the work that is in front of them is not written by some academic. Its theme is also not researched in depth, however that is just the quality of the book presented in front of you. What the work also is, is a deeply imbedded thought in the author’s perception of the world and why it is as it is. The main theme of the book could also be called the honesty of a modern day man of mind. The author then tries with all his might to instill the honesty of his own self and of the selves of those who create his environment. This work should then serve as a kind of propedeutic. It has mainly to do with ideas and its involvement not with something that could be called absolute truth. The author himself believes there is no such truth in the universe, but if it is, it is that the Universe really exists. This is also why no matter how many doubts the author has with his own reality and the reality of the world that surrounds him, the book was at last written. Because man is an egotistic animal and the author belongs fully to just that kind of animal kingdom, the book can serve as an apology for the weaknesses of man and as a jumping point for the improvement of the whole of a mankind. The author is fully conscient of the fact that what is being depicted here many won’t like in the least, as the philosophy here presented is in contrast to the modern day Western politics, culture and educational system. I can then say that the other theme presented in the work in front of you is its strong anti-cultural stance. The author also believes in the real power of a human being to change his surroundings with his own mind and body, and he believes that even when there doesn’t exist any calamities that fester human beings in the whole, there will still be reason for the creativity and the products of culture that abound us nowadays.

The method used throughout the book is, for reasons that will soon be known to the reader, called the paternalistic method or the paternalistic approach. The author fully believes that what always mattered was always something of content and was not dishonest in the way of saying it or in the formation of it. I know then that what is presented here may deeply hurt those that will first be able to get through the book and then secondly understand the book in the way that will be explicated soon afterward. This is also why I seriously intend that the work be taken propedeutically. I believe the work is of enough importance that those of will and intellect will be able to expand on and take seriously the theme presented throughout the work. The writer therefore tried to revert the Pareto rule, by which 80 percent of the content is followed by 20 percent of the explanation. I know I didn’t fully succeed. It may be something of a fact that any work can start with concise presentation but then just lose it a bit and it is this we aimed not to do. I hope the work will be if not pleasurable then interesting enough for all, enough so as to be read from the beginning to the end. Rest assured, any repetition only occurs when it is absolutely necessary. I can then easily say that this is the first kind of book that I would have put under the genre of philofiction. I liken it to the merger of philosophical essay and science fiction. I believe the work to be original enough that it could spur new works that could be put under such a label. Whether the reader will not agree with the cases that were used to demonstrate some of the ideas used in the book, he should have in mind that not everything may be wholly true but I sincerely believe that the core of it is clothed in the Truth. The work then wishes for the academic or intellectual world to distance themselves from their own respective labors and try to stick together for once. What the author would truly wish then is for the reduction of useless labor and stress that we are all integrated in. The author not only believes that what is written here is one serious version of the development of the human species but also that there can’t be a much better one. If someone doesn’t agree, let him write a book about it. The themes explicated may be rough or crude but they are not thought naively. Even though what is searched for is much different from the norm today it is not to be overlooked. Earning and spending should be closely connected to the status of a conscient man.

Let us take a moment for a warning here. The reader should be warned that what the work is trying to say is not something to be achieved abruptly but to be slowly integrated in the world of today. The reader must not think, and would be quite wrong to, in fact, that what we want to change is the whole of the system part by part, in one quick revolutionary act. The only revolution that the author supports is that there would be more physical work even for those who work with words or threats. What is being shown here then is something that is a part of a process in which humanity is already involved in. The author had nothing to do with it. This is also why what is presented here is not something wholly fictitious. What is a kind of fiction then is only the exact following of either the words here written or the propositions that are made throughout. What is presented here is a schematic, not a plan. What I would like to get rid of is the stupidity of a society that is throwing away sound goods on an enormous scale and is able to manipulate people into buying vast amounts of worthlessness for huge sums of money. What I am saying then, and what cannot be overemphasized, is that money is something real and it is contemporary societal participants who are half-educated at most that believe that that is not so. Even money is losing its value (as people lose faith in it), which can only be the fault of a conspicuous amount of leisure on the part of the leading (intellectual) class. As we see it then the world will at the same time become more efficient, thanks to the following on the proper understanding of the structural building blocks which are the Real, Virtual, Symbolic (or in the case of language content, represented content, new content (body of content)). The author believes that the time has finally come when we will be able to affirm that that culture and the tradition for that matter is something of a fiction and should be treated as such. It is then something made wholly of mind matter rather than of something concrete or that it is something that carries some content. What it is is something that is to be put into the annals of history. It is history we are too obsessed with. This could only happen in the life of something like a society which is a fiction in its own right; for the individual it would mean certain death.

What the author believes and is helping him with is a crude delineation of structures that the world is made of. The author believes there is no story without a few building blocks. It is then rather something of a tool than something that is to be taken too seriously. As an attentive reader will be able to see, the author is a kind of Hegelian. What is most Hegel-like in the work shown here is that the work itself is a thing of the mind and for that reason total in itself. It is limited and for that reason it can be untrue in a way. Everything that has a limit is untrue. For that reason everything meaningful that is told is rather something of a process than a fact. What life is, albeit a short one, is infinity in every moment for the one who lives it. That is why the shock and the hurt of losing it is greatest. As we think about Hegel right know we can propose a kind of reading of him. This proposition will be rather set in a question form. Is it possible that what Hegel also meant when he was talking of the travelling that a conscientness makes, is that at any given moment, there in actuality exist all of the stages of that travel that this here mentioned conscientness makes? Is it something strange then that the world is as diverse as it is? Is it something of a surprise then that the change is so hard to come? Can’t we see that the man of intellect is no better than an imbecile in many ways? It is just that not one thing is perfect without some other. It is true then that the virtual (notice: lat. virtus, eng. virtue;) we will talk about in extent is something that is and should be hidden if it is to work efficiently. It is something in the range of the sublime of ideology Zizek likes to talk about. It is this point of endlessness or being unlimited that is the core of the virtual. What happens on the virtual plane is a transformation of a subject to a moving subject thus becoming object; which in turn is equal to the formula used in the language sector of content, represented content (form) and body transformation. That is the prime quality of any kind of being, that is what the subject that can see life as something of value sees in it and appreciates and it is that which connects a human being with God, that which anthropomorphizes God.

What we are looking for in the high-tech society can be best shown if we would say that many works of the past should be rewritten and/or expanded on. These are the tactics that add and reduce on some of the most respected works to create something wholly new. That which is not or is still true in these here mentioned works is something that we should be warned about. For what is searched for in our own essay is also the simplification of what has been going on for a long time, namely the search for the base of what is to be looked for afterwards, and mostly the practical view of it all in the modern society. This here simplification has nothing to do with a crude or rather oversimplified version of it all, but it is rather a look for the answers, a look in the future as it were. This future meant here is of course to be based on the present and the way we want it changed. Most simply put, it has to do with the cleaning of waste. The tool that is to be used then mostly lies in the statistics which may never tell the whole truth but are still underused when it comes to automating some of the conducts that are happening in the society on an everyday basis. Only the automaton cannot be corrupted in the world of man.

It is this book then that tells of the journey of a modern man to a conscient one with the help of technology, human rights and all of us. It is then this journey on which there is much to be lost for an individual but even more to be gained in the life of society as a whole. What is to be gained is not more limits but rather that we are to lose them on a whole basis. We are to gain a stronger monopolistic body to get an even stronger competition of minds in it. What we wish for is man’s own rule over himself and not a rule of a state over man. We wish for a kind of anarchy not in the ruling class as it is today but among the people below. It must be noted that the author proposes what he does as something to be done step by step, like a building that gets created stone by stone. What is presented in this book is not to change the world as it is in the whole but the building blocks that this world is made of. As this is a long-term solution there will for a long time exist parts for which we can expect no part to integrate in the near future. The solutions that are found in the work here will be especially appreciated by those who think life is too short for anyone to be waiting in a line. It is a work that shows how afoul the world we live in is and how the author believes it can be helped. Let the reader expect neither too much nor too little, and try to pursue to the end and I can assure them that they will not depart without new insights or whole new worlds that are to be explored in their due time.

For those that haven’t thought of the difference

I am to allow myself one little excurse in what follows. I am a man in the second quarter of my lifetime and thus can still be called young by most. A reader may ask himself ‘just who does he think he is, daring to talk of such things publicly?’ The reader may rest assured that I am only one more of the many unhappy souls living on this Earth, thus happy for my own unhappiness, as otherwise the book would have been a real hard thing to start. I am or rather I was a man of a wide cultural thirst for the things written, filmed, taped or done in any creative way. I was a man that was interested in the works of philosophy, art and the work done in the field of humanities in general. A man of language I could be called.

It is here I would like to illustrate the difference between the We used throughout the essay and the first person that is being used much more rarely overall. It is here then I like to address the reader in the first person singular as it is the only way that the book could be written. The first person plural used in the book is to me as wide a cultural referencing as there could be. The first person plural we talk about is a merger of my own experiences with those that could only be got in the field of culture or with other people that abound me. It is here then that the collective unconsciousness is best to be evoked. As the work was not written in one night the tone of saying may change during the whole. It is then that the work, I will admit, becomes even more eclectic than a man could wish for. It is then not only a wide spectrum of thoughts or a philosophical thought that abides in me but also a portrait of the kind of type of person I am in reality. A reader should be warned there is no possibility that he could see the real me through the words of this work only. As we all know, there is no real me. What is written here then is only one, if a bit of a crude version, of what we people of society are in a contemporary world. Not only that but I believe much of the things depicted here in this work have always been true for humankind and will always be true no matter how technologically advanced we may become. A man prides himself in having something to show to others. Here I cannot say I could pride myself in creating the work as it is. Rather, I hate the mask we have all put on. Therefore, I have tried to create a work of honesty rather than truth. I believe we would all be better off if we just stopped lying no matter how much hurt those lies may bring. The reader will be able to judge that after he has read the work. It is then that I may not be as the work depicts me as being. But one way or another we don’t think that matters. Those that believe that a man is a base for his thoughts or that the two should match know little of the freedom of thought. Little do they know that a man, or any being for that matter, is in truth a chameleon. There are few that haven’t learned that in the world of today some things are better kept secret. And even fewer can say that men of high esteem are less dishonest the more learned they are. It is just that the ladder is climbed on the bodies of secrets or else we would all become mere mortals pretty soon. This should be enough for now, for more you will have to try harder.

Are we there yet?

It seems there are many young and old alike in the studies of humanities for just the reason of furthering either personal or social progress. There is definitely progress to be made at least in the fields of science, human rights and the enlargement of the leisure class. When looking at these three points, firstly we are to argue to where each of the fields extends globally and what we mean by the progress itself. Secondly, where are there ways for improvement if there