UNPACKING SADOMASOCHISM

When all systems of outer authority are corrupt, we must turn to inner authority to save ourselves.

The sovereignty of the individual...indeed the divinity of the individual is the foundation stone of all civilization. If the culture undermines the sovereignty and full potential of the individual, then it is not civilized. People should not have to fight to be themselves, and fight to survive for meager crumbs in a bankrupt sadomasochistic system.

If we can fully unpack the mechanism of sadomasochism we can free ourselves from it, and so set free Eros from the death grip of Thanatos. The sadomasochistic relationship is one in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.  The keystone to unraveling the pathological power pyramid, is the socalled “pleasure” from experiencing the relinquishing of the self-will onto a dominant other that surrogates as a parental figure. When the infantile drive of the pleasure of self-abandonment is overcome by the abject desire for self-determinancy then the pathological power pyramid is undone.  And the pyramid scheme collapses under the sheer joy of cosmic creativity unleashed. To be so clear that clarity becomes the touchstone of one’s existence is the way through the labyrinth of sadomasochistic hell. Existential anxiety lifts on attaining sovereign dignity.

Note that this apparent "enjoyment" of obsequent diversion of the stream of Eros into the will of a dominant other is not so much en-joyment but the relief or absolvement of self-responsibility and annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) or the permanent acquisition and incorporation of an "other territorial entity." iThat is for the submissive there is pleasure inherent in the organism of allowing reality to be dictated to and taken care of by a socalled more responsive, more responsible other. Existential anxiety lifts on sovereign dig-nitty. On the eve of global death by techological suicide there is no one left to rely on but our sovereign Self. That is the beauty of the times, as the individual is stripped bare of all their dependence and reliance on family, guru, government, church and state...everything is seen as seething with corruption...there is no recourse but turning to the resource of the sovereign self

"Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that is, severed from personhood, from relationships, from love. It should not be surprising that it has become attached to Nazi symbolism in recent years. Never before was the relation of masters and slaves so consciously aestheticized. Sade had to make up his theater of punishment and delight from scratch, improvising the decor and costumes and blasphemous rites. Now there is a master scenario available to everyone. The color is black, the material is leather, the seduction is beauty, the justification is honesty, the aim is ecstasy, the fantasy is death."

-Susan Sontag

The Borg is a brute, and the conscious soul is ostracized by the swaggering arrogance of flatland materialistic science caught in a superficial, outmoded view of things. The Borg IS sadomaschicism...it is all about win/lose, top/bottom, and "taking" in order to "use." What the Hindbrain cannot conceive in its limited scope is that when we "use" we are "used," and so we lose, for we expend energy in "taking." We are used by that which we attempt to use because we are attached to that which we are taking and from whom we are taking it from. Whereas if we are creative we "gain" energy in creating, and then we have more to "share," and giving gives us energy. 

We begin to break free of the mechanism of sadomaschicism once we stop abusing ourselves and allowing ourselves to "used and taken" from by sadistic predators and parasites. It is our tendency to devalue ourselves and treat ourselves as a slave and victim to the incorporated dictatorship that keeps us fate bound within the power pyramid paradigm, without the energy, creativity or resources to break free. Turning abuse into fertilizer has always been my principle motif.

The only way to beat the  sadomasochism of the power-over dynamic is to get out of the dynamic by leaving the relationship or situation. You cannot ask for rationality, logic, fairness, equity, parity, empathy or magnanimity from Hindbrain social structures that are bent on preserving "advantage" for the few at the top, and "disadvantage" for the many at the bottom. The reason why you cannot argue or persuade those in authority to adopt more HUman and humane values and behaviors is because power-over is unnatural and unhealthy under Universal Law, and so if one was to rectify the imbalance of power, one would have to point out the fundamental legal and spiritual crime of pathological power and usury. As long as the bottom dogs submit to negative rule by the Hindbrain tactics of dominators they are diminishing the use and expression of their Wholebrain, through which they could emancipate themselves from the clutches of the sadomasochistic behavior of Homo sapiens commericialus.

Those still caught up in the old world live in fear and scarcity, they do not know that the world of peace, plenty, grace and goodness is around the corner. Thus the Borg is winding up the screws of commerce tighter and tighter, undercutting the potential of everyone to break free into the regenerous socioeconomy of the Wholebrain HUman. The old-worlders are toxic and uninspiring to relate to...they steal energy from you in their condemnation, lack of faith, their taking and limits based being. The spiritually retarded human species is sick, its systems are sick, we are killing the planet. Who knows if this revolution is survivable by whom, within the radioactive background. On the verge of global death by techological suicide there is no one left to rely on but our sovereign Self. Only each individual evolving to the transcultural, sovereign state can save us now. 

It matters no more, but where one stands ethically, devotionally within the cosmos divine.

The psychological burden of subjugation is demoralizing and disheartening, and weighs heavily on the body, mind and soul of those who regularly submit to outer authority. You need to be conscious to experience pleasure or pain, and yet being constantly dominated upon essentially puts to sleep the deeper brainstem reticular formation structures which keep the cortex awake and fuel the motivational drive. Thus the subordinate is made less than fully conscious by the painkilling endorphins and numbing chemistry that allows the bottom dog to underplay his will and thus survive by serving the top dog, while avoiding the aggression of the more proactive operative. The slave relinquishes the responsibility of self-determination for the false security of dependency.

Playing to lose is a masochistic survival strategy of those who make a living serving more dominant, competitive types. And yet playing to win is essential to supplying the motivation drive for effective creative output. However competition need not be about winners and losers, dominatrix and submissives. Beyond the Borg power pyramid all individuals can thrive by striving to improve the quality of their work by their willingness to push boundaries, honing innovation skills, trusting  instincts, and problem-solving. Throwing off the mind-dumbing, skull-numbing sadomaschicistic power-trance will allow all of humanity to flourish through Wholebrain creativity and cosmic consciousness, and reap the rewards of their own unlimited genius.

Due to the short-term, linear, compartmentalized, exploitative thinking of the Hindbrain...the Borg cannot fail to act sadomasochistically in everything it does, thinks or feels. The pleasure derived from submitting to orthodoxia of cruel and dangerous authorities that we literally pay to kill us, is the bliss derived from self-harm. Self-injury behavior is something that is more common than many people think...in fact it is ubiquitous in master/slave and codependent relationships, and at its heart is the relinquishment of self-responsibility ie: infantialism or the loss of the core Self.

Stockholm syndrome, or capture–bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward abusive figures of authority. It is expressed during cases of violence, aggression and torture, but it can also be institutionalized and infested into the very structure, law and order of the culture. That is what we have now. We are so lost in the sadomasochistic trance of power abuse that has reached grossly outrageous  and epic proportions in the international arena that the colossal farce of "might is right" is being exposed once and for all. We may indeed be on the verge of an unprecedented outbreak of peace. The pleasure derived from sovereign embodiment far exceeds the blissful anesthetization and stupor derived from self-oppression and subjugation to evil. 

To ascend to the mystic or true HUman we must unpack and transcend the sadomasochistic nature of the Homo commericialus species.