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The Gnostic Parasite | James Lindsay

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The Hermetic Mythos Repeat This Idea

The goal of the Gnostic subject hood is not to serve but to bend the world to one's will. The thing that you have to destroy is the individual so you can return to the collective whole. Mark says this process of labor reduces man to an animal, a strange labor meaning being have to go to work. It changes for him the life of the species into a means of individual life. So by separating from the whole, believing yourself an individual, you are estranging yourself from who you really are and your goal, just like in her metacism, is to remove the distinctions and get back to what you always were. We'll come back together. Imagine all the people.

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