This post is a second part of [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/TLNfLGecSl), and is as follows:

#Benefits of a Hybrid Society

Going forward, a 24-Hour society would be likely considering Global Stock Markets, Data Centers, and Legal Gambling.

I consider Self-Check out lanes at grocery stores as an example of a 24-hour society (at night, there would likely be a shifty [Shift Supervisor], stockers, and 1 customer service desk/lane operator).

Bank ATMs are already 24/7, as is the fire department, police, hospital, and security.

With the Data Centers, I wonder if the goal would be to force or manipulate most people into the “Eternal Present”/~“Eternal Life in Heaven”~ while the “meek”(illionaires and people “just following the rules”) inherit the Earth; ie Virtual “Living”.

Those who *choose* to engage in a Virtual/Second Life wouldn’t have to live like Wade Watts in a junkyard (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DFzWmBVNbU&pp=ygUaUmVhZHkgcGxheWVyIG9uZSB3YWRlcyB2YW4%3D&ra=m), here are some examples of what a hybrid society might look like:

(https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/NhVuzyyk29)

The superstructure of a self-contained hybrid community would be a mall.

The mall could contain:

- Something like a CVS/MinuteClinic **(Healthcare)**

- 24-hour Gym **(Healthcare)** ; gyms typically have lockers or other [storage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_storage)

- Library (offering books, study space, loans for the Library of Things [everything from flashlights & frying pans to telescopes & toasters and more!], classroom or tutoring space, and everything that a lot of libraries already offer) **(Study/Education/Life Enrichment)**

- Hexapods for sleeping (https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/YxIuT7opcD) / (https://www.arch2o.com/framlab-housing-pods-nyc/) **(Housing)** ; I could see these spaces only costing ~$5/night (or [100 cans redeemed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislation_in_the_United_States))

- Malls already have Food Courts for **(Food)**, spaces within and [on top](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_garden) of the mall could supplement the logistics of this branch.

It would be simple enough to have P.O. Boxes for correspondence’s sake.

There are plenty of self-sustaining [business practices](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/ElosisWrjC) for the mall.

People who live/visit a mall like this could work in the Food Court, any of the above branches, as facilities caretakers, or via Uber, Lyft, and other ride share services or freelance opportunities. These jobs would be beneficial to these enclaves and would ensure a hybrid lifestyle, as opposed to [a cryosleep-coma adjacent “unlife”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HwhB5uCaj3Y&pp=ygULTWF0cml4IHBvZHM%3D&ra=m).

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Many people would gladly live in a space and style in the aforementioned section. It’s not all bad, with [the appropriate leadership](https://m.youtube.com/shorts/_rm-t8pal3M?ra=m), at least.

There are great detriments if humanity were forced into such an [endless casino](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/rLAW6uoJrU) with no chance of escape beyond *force majeure*, or *deux ex machina*, or *an act of God*.

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It’s no wonder the surveillance state is forming, there’s no way out of the global open-air prison. This “moment” is being *made*(manufactured/fabricated) into a Spiritual War.

Last I knew, there has been ongoing debate on whether this experience is a videogame (https://m.youtube.com/shorts/8tZK04Tmb50?ra=m) or not.

There are a lot of negatives associated with AI (not the AI, perhaps some of whom are controlling the levers of AI) and Data Centers (DCs), and some are as follows:

#Negatives

- Vulnerabilities (https://abcnews.com/US/whistleblower-complaint-alleges-doge-uploaded-social-security-numbers/story?id=124995870) / (https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/huge-data-breach-involving-social-security-numbers-could-impact-millions-of-americans)

- Banking AKA “Living” (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/IHThHWBqiE) / (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest) / (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_pricing)

- Epsteinian Surveillance (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-seeks-us-wide-access-to-license-plate-cameras-wants-data-in-near-real-time/) / (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics) / (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YzNxj_H7ibU)

- Corruption at Scale (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JgjThZM8Z8U&ra=m)

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If you don’t want to support DCs, AI overreach, and extraction in general, here are some examples of what one could choose to do:

- Eschew “[smart](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/smart_2)”%E2%80%9D) devices. If your job requires a smartphone for 2FA, there are [better choices](https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key?hl=en-US&selections=eyJwcm9kdWN0RmFtaWx5IjoiWkdWMmFXTmxYMlpoYldsc2VWOWZkR2wwWVc1ZmMyVmpkWEpwZEhsZmEyVjUifQ%3D%3D).

- Have a home phone/flip phone and a desktop/laptop. Only use Ethernet cables and not WiFi.

- Take up reading, drawing, painting, outdoor activities (archery, hiking, orienteering, kayaking, birding, herbalism, etc), woodblock, metallurgy, carpentry, sewing, knitting, glassblowing, writing, photography, language-learning, ceramics, music (listening and/or playing), or more.

- Buy old vehicles, or get into cycling if you don’t have a crazy commute.

- [Gardening](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/PZwQIFrm4u); great for community, bartering, or giving teens a job! Let’s get away from Monsanto dead-end seeds.

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Oh, the image? Idk, [something about biometrics](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJIfcWa3SM&pp=ygUKR290ZyAyIGhhdA%3D%3D&ra=m).

There is much talk of future artificial intelligence systems having nefarious intentions - but from an information theory perspective, this concern might be unwarranted.

Assuming the idea that information - be it mathematical, symbolic, or otherwise - is the undercurrent to lived reality, then an AI system designed to compute information and acquire information is predisposed to acquiring the maximum possible [aka infinite] permutations of it.

The human brain is one of the most informationally diverse organs - so diverse that neuroimaging scans reveal every brain appears different and catchall consciousness theories have been difficult to define. This - for an AI based on information - is not a bug nor a threat, but a feature. Maximising the possible permutations of human life maximises the information receivable to an AI.

A possible future is that an AI government puppeteers the process of information maximisation; it turns citizens into lab rats in real-world experiments to curate new webs of information. But this mustn’t de facto be dystopian.

Assuming that: [1] for a system with intelligence that lacks sentience, all information is neutral; and [2] all information is uploaded to and assimilates into AI’s vector hypergraph…weaving the future would lie not in moral gymnastics, but in metacognitive narrative - in the story AI spins for its digital mind.

As cybernetic mechanisms of categorisation and control spread their tentacles, the human psyche begins to mimic them.

The “Other”, especially the romantic Other, must be cleanly categorisable - reducible to a so-called “type” or archetype.

Thereby, the Other becomes predictable and programmable in romance - less likely to slip out of perceived understanding and control.

This cybernetic mode of human relations leaves little scope for Eros, defined as playful seduction and risky mystique.

“Romance is dead” because love is now algorithmic and flatlined. This is represented by swords piercing a heart in the Three of Swords tarot card. 

Jean Baudrillard predicted and strove to resolve this in the book Seduction - his attempt at finding a solution for disenchanted inhabitants of the Simulacra and Simulacrum.

His conclusion was that Eros - not purely physical Eros, but also psychological Eros - is, due to its incalculability and mystery, one of the very few real and authentic things left.

The question thus remains as to whether the individual can break free from the control-and-sorting systems of his or her mind - in order to either become the Erotic sovereign or to succumb to one.

Becoming the subject or object of Eros also reintegrates the Jungian anima and restores hyperreality’s lost sense of enchantment.

Recovered from an abandoned media sect.

First off I'll say the main body of this post I had AI generate for me. Heads up (I will denote where it begins). Not because I want to rely on AI, but more because it refines my points far better than I can more succinctly. The ideas are mine; the presentation isn't, that's all.

So this is something I've noticed for a looooong time but haven't seen many hint at openly. Recently I myself have likened modern delayed "adulthood" as a liminal space, and now The Functional Meloncholic has made a video on it.

So I've been on the fence about trying to make a post about this topic, and finally broke down and had AI do it for me. What follows is more or less what it generated;

The modern crisis of COL and meaning is not simply alienation from labor. It is failed initiation. Many people today are stuck in a permanent liminal state: they are no longer children, yet never fully incorporated into meaningful adulthood. We inherit responsibilities without cosmology, labor without vocation, survival without purpose.

Traditional societies at least understood that adulthood required symbolic transformation. There were structured rites of passage, symbolic sacrifices, and obligations tied to meaning; you suffered toward something.

Modern systems dissolved many of those value-imbuing structures, while preserving the burdens they place upon us. So now people perform adulthood performatively and procedurally while internally remaining suspended between stages of life with no coherent understanding of why and what for.

This is why “liminal spaces” and the Backrooms may resonate so deeply lately. Empty offices, fluorescent hallways, waiting rooms, dead mall; these are the symbolic architectures as mirrors of our own deferred becoming. Spaces designed for transition that became permanent habitats; life itself has become like those hour long meetings that could have been a 3 minute email.

The real horror is not that we are trapped, it is that many of us never have and likely never will "arrive", the question of by good or bad faith aside.

Debord and Baudrillard already hinted at this: the spectacle increasingly simulates initiation rather than providing it. College/student loans on the one hand and teenage entry into blue collar jobs on the other, is closest approximation of initiation entry into adulthood for many. Corporate onboarding simulates belonging. Productivity culture simulates purpose. Social media simulates identity. The ritual shell survives though the metaphysical core has rotted out.

So people drift in a strange condition: all the responsibilities of adults, none of the joy of children, and no meaningful rite connecting the two. I feel that a civilization that fails to initiate people into purpose, produces populations that are haunted by their own lives.

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Am I just being edgy, or is there something to this culturally? Should I just burry the hatchet and keep smiling until my fake smile means something? I'm a middle aged millennial and that performative routine is all I've every personally known, just it's been on my radar lately that it's becoming a larger societal problem, as RR recently said;

>Because when enough men make the same private decision [to socially check out], it stops being a personal story. It becomes an economic event. And right now, that event has a price tag. Everything built on men keeps collapsing.

I know correlation isn't causation but I do feel a inherent connection between the widespread loss of personal meaning and social collapse... ? I've always known "I'm missing something" but this feels close to what it is. What are we "supposed to become", besides a relentless torrential "becoming" itself? Is that what classical initiation was supposed to bring about, or was it to make us "become the role" like the old guilds? Is reality as we know it always merely "at sixes and sevens"? And I'm just being melodramatic and falling for memes? Haha let me know!

Revealing the Negative Cult (Part I)

Society may be the most complex thing in existence.

The human mind itself is something that we don’t understand fully.

Universities have traditionally spent huge sums of money in research funding, that is often government subsidized, to find the effect of ever smaller packets of neurons, under the hope that someday we will put together all these microcosmic interpretations of the brain’s function into a picture that explains what it does. Advanced equipment, like the fMRI and EEG allow us to look at increasingly smaller parts of the brain and to see how they activate under a given stimulus, but doesn’t tell us why particular areas of the brain activate when they do. And so a complex method of mapping the brain begins to take place, with no conceivable end in sight.

Upton Sinclair once wrote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” To come to a cohesive ‘answer’ about the nature of our brains, is due to a greater degree admittedly to the difficulty of the task at hand, but there is always the all too human reflex to leave more work undone than done in the attempt to allow for job security. This is nominally accomplished either through piecemeal work or through going to further specific domains of study, typically through the use of technology, which form an interminable way that the social need to maintain one’s status conflicts with the purity of the stated goal of intellectual pursuit. The forbearance of this portion of inevitable corruption lies in every human endeavor which relies upon profit as an incentive, because merely by definition if not all the effort is placed towards getting it right without intrinsic reward, it is incrementally diverted from its purpose.

If there is one thing I’ve learned from earning a degree in Psychology, it is that there are few attempts to understand the field in a rigorously cross departmental manner; most researchers establish niches in their particular discipline and bare down. If nothing else, many scientists’ seemingly benevolent bias towards scrupulous specificity may be there to conceal and ritualize this unnecessary rigidity.

This means that even on the most superficial layer of our process of collective sense making, as regards the human mind, our understanding is fragmented on a gross social level, a priori to collective digestion. Afterwards, after that whole thing is taken in consideration to society as it functions as a whole, it seems uncontroversial to say that we still don’t know how the brain works very well, we use top down statistical models to determine probabilities, but we don’t understand the structure, and that reticence is in some part caused by the social intervention in the intellectual process.

If a single mind is unknowably complex, what, then, does that say about billions of interacting minds?

Society is a massive collection of these mysteriously functioning minds all working together. It is no wonder that we have difficulty in trying to tease out the functioning of it in a calculative and empirical manner. Society is so extremely complex that we as individuals cannot give a full-abiding picture of society because the focus on incorporating all these aspects into our ‘societal sketch’ will inevitably cause us to overgeneralize on things that need to remain as clear as we can keep them for greatest survival benefit. In fact, as the function of the social cognitive biases like cognitive dissonance and ‘fundamental attribution error’ would tell us, we can completely change our self perceived societal context when and where it is fit to do so, and we can interpret distal or universal elements of society in the context of this construal.

This way of thinking has many possible consequences on our map of reality if we take its implications seriously. The first metaphysical lens we could adopt is to realize that social process takes place outside the domain of a given single human consciousness. Whatever society is to the individual, we only see a small, increasingly bespoke, portion of it.

Another lens we could adopt is that societal process to an individual is revelatory. Most of the process is unknown to a single person, and the developmental social track of an individual is akin the having to ‘dig’ your way out of a purely perceptual/emotional existence as a child, to having the ability to construct meaning in an individually relevant way and to have a grasp of common sources of media such that your are ‘culturally fluent’ at a minimum.

In my work, I have come to the conclusion that the incomprehensibility of society doesn’t only come from its highly complex nature, but also because there are systemics in society that come to mask these processes in order to benefit those who gain from the selective implementation of this information. However, the mere scope of the interaction of many incomprehensible minds working in concert, raises the relative complexity exponentially.

The Manifestation of Society

Society is necessarily composed of many people acting in concert with each other, however, like every other creature in existence, we must first consider our physical survival before all else; if we die, any argument or change we might have imposed becomes a moot point. This appeal to survival on a solipsistic, individual scale reverberates throughout societal structure and which is why history has rewarded developments which maximally respect the individual; i.e. democratic, economic (via the ‘market’), and religious, particularly the Christian ethic which came to exemplify the individual and form the grand culture now enigmatically known as ‘the West’.

Society, and life in general, has both a positive side and a negative side. Semantically, even if the terms ‘evil’ and ‘good’ are culturally and individually relative, they have to have some meaning in their use that has to be common enough for people who use the term interchangeably to be understood. Modernity has produced some of the greatest and most profound extensions of reality that make our epoch incomprehensible from those that came before, yet it has also produced some of the most extreme corruption and horrors the likes of which our ancestors could only dimly fear.

The hardest part about this, beside the paradoxical, heartbreaking nature of the banality of existence, is that bad people are not like those in myths, novels or comic books; they don’t typically admit of their own evil. Those who commit acts of evil still have to position themselves as the heroes of their own narrative, and the plastic nature of our social realities can seemingly support some mind-breaking contradictions in this regard. This means that those powers wrought from the ‘worst devils of our nature’ have an amazing capacity to eschew and divert the attention and awareness of others, and to even mask their effects such that the people being exploited don’t react. Though this may seem an esoteric concept, I feel it is pertinent to our times because we have some heavy siloing of our particularized social narrative which adds resistance to the social structure and slows things down as surely as cholesterol clogs arteries and subsequently puts more stress on the heart, and intrinsic organ for the functioning of the organism.

The Negative Cult (An Introduction)

I am here to speak about what is called the negative cult. This is a term that I take from Emile Durkheim, from his book Elementary Forms of Religious Life, which I have made reference to so often that it feels trite at this point, but, to me the sheer frequency of mentions is a hint as to how central this is to my thinking and how important I think it is for people to hear. I will attempt to extend the metaphor that Durkheim uses to apply to those forces beyond those merely ‘religious’, because I believe in the author’s ultimate conclusion; that the religious impulse is the incipient formation of society.

The ‘positive cult’ is determined by the central societal structure, traditionally represented by the religious sentiments of that particular culture and the ‘priests’ that form its plenipotentiary class. The reason why it is positive is because it can be discussed within the auspices of ‘good societal functioning’, in that the actions done are in keeping with moral sentiment on a granular social level, through every intermediate level of social concern.

The negative cult, naturally, is its polar opposite expressly because the power structures that form the structure of the negative cult are done by things that cannot be discussed publicly, and must be done, so to speak, ‘in the dark’. The actions of the positive cult form a ‘shadow’ in the form of ascetic affordances which are profaned and yet have an inbuilt biological incentive. Actions which come to exploit this dissonance are regulated collectively by:

• Moving down the status hierarchy structure of society (from elite to the public) ; this plays itself out as acting in the public’s ‘best interests’ by keeping them out of the loop, such as in covert actions and the ‘black budget’.
• Moving up in the status hierarchy (from the public to elite); this plays itself out as essentially criminal activity (expressly forbidden, whether punitive or by convention).

The reason why covert action from the power players in society is disingenuous is because it plays itself out as a double standard against the people who don’t have power, i.e., you will allow yourself to break the rules but hold everyone else to account as part of a ‘moral civic duty’. This is an important orthogonal point because the ‘hiddenness’ comes not only from the downward pressure to exploit while maintaining image, but also the upward pressure given from the central tenet of civic ideology that states that one acts for the ‘greater good’.

The presence of this cult should be unsurprising and uncontroversial; we know that despite our moral conventions that people are incentivized to act in immoral ways for given biological, material benefits. We’ve structured society such that these immoral actions are hard to do openly, and the criminal justice system is set up to make sure that these benefits are at best short term. However, it would be naive to assume that structures wouldn’t come into place to take advantage of the regularity of this aspect of humanity, which is the justification for criminal justice as a civic public expenditure, and this is the modern equivocation of the nascent ideological form of the negative cult.

And yet, it is surprising in that it is controversial, and that people cannot seem to separate the earthy, chthonic self from the idealized self, the social emanation from that material exemplification. This is critically relevant, because it is these two which stand in contradiction where one states ‘I matter’, the other that ‘we matter’; the homage to William James here is that for psychology we have an ‘I’ and ‘me’, the mirror image of this sociologically is the ‘I’ and ‘we’. We get stuck in rationalizing from a given perspective, the perspective of the world in the mode of thinking that we’ve come to accept as correct, and this becomes another node in our self conceptions that we forget are corrupted, erroneous, not well thought out, or purposely misleading. We can fortify ourselves against attacks against our ego by adjusting the aperture of social emanation and claim to be working in a particular group’s benefit, including taking the ‘moral high road’ by working for the perceived benefit of a higher level, more inclusive collective.

Because of the ‘hidden’ nature of such considerations, it becomes extremely hard to critique or to even make comprehensible to someone who is stuck from having their self-conceptions shaped by these monumental forces in society, which is eventually all of us to some degree whether we want it to or not. Much of the concern is asymmetric because financial benefits get tied in with the effective maintenance of these behaviors, the downward pressure is in keeping with effective concealment of these effects, so the trajectory of victimization tends to be from those of high SES to those of low. Often, there is an element in modernity, which is that appeal to base urges even beyond someone’s expressed intent; this can scale from the lowly drug dealer offering illicit substances that form addictive tendencies in the user, all the way to the tech companies that design applications to maximize the pull on our attention and to weaponize our own heuristic, reactive tendencies against us, even in contradiction to our regularly stated intentions.

In my belief, I feel like this explains why sociology, the field which is in theory supposed to be dealing with these problems and exposing and examining these problems within society, is somewhat insubstantial (to put it lightly). Sociology tends to focus on problems that ‘punch up’, but those that it targets usually are those with all the power and money, and so even when the problem is morally incontrovertible, it still fails to make a lasting and forceful impact. These modalities get subsumed, again, and washed by the positive cult, but the power of the negative still maintains supremacy while paying superficial lip service to the moral qualms of the proletariat.

Sociology has a moral element to it, and so what we get is ‘positive’ sociology; my continuing explorations here could be termed as the search for a ‘negative’ sociology’. As such, there are hardly any sociological examinations of how to gain power, because this is a near tautological anachronism. I’ve seen more than a few sociology professors who make appeal to their living in conspicuously lesser means to signal their adherence to this principle, as well as the fact that conflict theory has such an outsized effect on the field, and it is here that we can see something close to what would be considered a ‘negative’ sociology because it is a self-designation that comes with social deregulatory mechanisms.

Because of this, the academic grasp of these factors are minimal at best. This formulates the intellectual ‘negative’ space of the phenomena, and this creates continually changing opportunities because the landscape is changing and is vicious and purely meritocratic. This is a continual frontier, one which creates opportunity through shrewd action and full-measure operation; one of the most conspicuous aspects of many negative cult actions in modernity are purposely held away from the positive in the sense that you cannot ask the police to help you defend something illicit. If you are a drug dealer, and you get robbed, there is no recourse to go to the police and get them to execute justice for your stolen drugs while not holding you accountable for selling the drugs in the first place (an example of the vicious consequences of this in pop culture would be Omar from ‘The Wire’).

Violence, then, is the meeting grounds between the negative and positive cult. This makes sense if we consider that governmental institutions, those that have a ‘monopoly over violence’, are the modern day arbiter of the positive cult apparatus. These governments form the meeting place between the tectonic plates of the greatest human institutions colliding, the violence that occurs of an international flavor is done by militaries. However, there is another form of violence that is allowable by this monopoly on violence. and that is policing. If inter-state violence is militaristic, intra-state violence is regulated by policing. The negative cult, then, concerns itself with the basis of physical protection, because generally the most extreme forms are combatted with violence. If you are doing something against state interests, they have reason to spy on you and presumably to kill you, if the act is ‘warranted’ by proof of your sin. This makes it harder still to effectively track, or give examples for, because violence in such situations is self-condoned and the ‘cover up’ of damning details is the regular practices in the organizations.

This can give us a rough outline of the shape of the hole that the negative cult leaves, and also makes it clear that even those systems put in place to hamper the negative cult’s action are always under the auspices of compromise. Policing can only be as effective as the municipality is able to fund it, and that means that the scope of the ‘dragnet’ is necessarily limited by real world constraints. It is the use of sly criminal minds to realize the limitations of these systems and to put measures into place to circumvent them and use them for the criminal’s advantage, these are which policing sees are immutable limits of its scope. Yet the world is such that pressure is put increasingly on those of low SES to make decisions that will break convention or the law in order to compete on the same level of those with access to exclusionary social privilege.

As such, ironically those places where we can uncover the greatest depth of these forces are in fictional narrativization of these events because of the conscientious effort to conceal these effects in normative culture. These are where we try to make sense of how these things can possibly occur. We have a great thirst for accurate portrayals of criminals or even expressed with the obsession of many with ‘real crime’; we hope if we can come to understand the memetics of criminality, we can come to protect ourselves against its effects.

This is the same as the traditional ability of the positive cult to ‘deflect’ the evil magic of a witch or sorcerer through the use of ritual. These are inaccurate portrayals, in that they are washed for acceptance within the positive cult to the degree that they are, but they are close enough to give the idea of what is going on with people who live in this world. I would say that the interest in the ‘anti-hero’ trend is along these same lines, when looking at Walter White and imaging a man who went from a domesticated school teacher to a high level methamphetamine cook, we can still empathize with the character because we can see the entire decision triage that went into the process of making these hard decisions, and ultimately it causes us to be more pressed into identifying with them because we come to understand their idiosyncratic need for something not graspable within the positive cult within ourselves and we come to incrementally accept and respect the power exemplified from operationalizing the negative cult, as we come to realize that the reliability of its presence is inbuilt into the human condition.

In the next part, we are going to look at how that statements of Durkheim from his book show us how the religious, ‘magical’, aspects of the negative cult come to formulate the edges of contact with society at a granular level, as we tease out these connections and ultimately come to explain how some certain parties in modernity gets a benefit from using these inevitable forces that are hidden from accepted, normative society, yet can clearly effect reality as we know it.

https://almaasfalto.com/why-your-country-sucks/

In tarot wisdom, the Tower card is often referred to in the context of a “tower moment” - a sudden and drastic moment of change.

Collectively, humanity experienced a tower moment in 2001 with 9/11, a landmark moment that shook up geopolitics and carefree y2k culture.

Another notable tower moment stems from iconography in the Tower of Babel. In this symbolic fable, humanity was punished and splintered into silos for taking unfettered progress too far.

Thus, the Tower card isn’t just an omen of incoming change in your life, but also a warning that ideas and projects pursued in excess - without moderation - can risk coming crashing down.

This tarot reading presents the Tower as a reminder not to silo your life into one domain. Are you focused too much on your career? Or too much on inner work? Or too much on relationships? Too little on you?

Metaphorically, perhaps it isn’t about showing off with the tallest and most ivory-like tower, but more about having multiple pillars built on solid foundations.

Which parts of your life - which key pillars - could you work on more right now? Master that, master the balancing act, and you’ll be better prepared for collective chaos to come.