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The Mental Mask

or

Birth of the Many-One

by Ramon dos Santos

1 This is the age of Identities.
Of lifestyle, logos and intentions.
This is not the age of ideologies or a belief in something outside the Self.

1.1 In the past century Man has fought himself a path from the ideological to the conceptual.
And from the conceptual into the virtual.
Now, at the beginning of a new millennium, the only logical next step for man is to venture into the Mental.

2 As the universe expanded through time, so did man’s brain.
On scale, the human brain expanded with the speed of light.

2.1 During the last century, while the universe kept expanding at its steady pace, reality has exploded into multiple Big-Bangs of facts, images, recorded time and space.

2.2 The Big-Bang was not a moment, or the beginning of time. The Big-Bang is a continuous proces. It is time.

2.3 The phrase Big-Bang unwillingly gives it away: the universe is a highly explosive chemical symphony, heading for the Big-Silence.

3 With every picture taken, with every sound recorded, reality doubles.
For even if this picture is one of the smallest detail, the humblest grain of sand, we cannot think this grain free from its surroundings, and thus not disconnected from the reality it represents.
3.1 So with every picture taken of a reality of which already pictures have been taken, reality quadruples. This gigantic multiplication of realities has already long ago reached its perceptional limit. And so it became fashionable not to think.

3.2 The more we copy reality in art or thought, the less reliable she becomes.

3.3 Perception is a parasite of the senses.
As reality doubles, so does perception.

4 Perception defines who we are. Or who we think we are. Or who other people think we are. If perception doubles, so does our identity. We are no longer One. We have never been just One. “Being oneself” is either a technical, psychological and philosofical impossibility or just a plain lie.

5 On occasions, in history, it became fashionable to be smart.
To think and act accordingly. We now live in a time in which the fashion is to be stupid. To not think and act accordingly.

5.1 Swooshtika.

5.2 In the shadow of Nike’s proud and boisturous JUST DO IT! slogan, three other words, essential to this philosophy of action, are in hiding.
Those words are: don’t think comma.

6 A true philosopher, cannot be a person.

6.1 A true philosopher questions the manifestations of reality. And thus, a true philosopher does not think with his mind.
For his mind is full of fixed ideas that do not represent reality, but a mental mask blocking the true philosopher’s view and thoughts.

6.2 A true philosopher therefore, like a true artist, thinks with his eyes and genitals.

7 I can be anyone I choose to be. In fact I am many. I can say fart and kill and tender things on the side and see no conflict in their assembly.

7.1 The moment I became many-one, I went big time into the Now.

8 As morality is tightly connected to the notion of identity and perception, it changes as the latter two change. The fact that we are more than one identity suggests that we also have more than one morality. This cannot be. For a moral is always on its own. Therefore, once we recognize our other identities and let them grow, we have to abandon every notion of morality.
8.1 This is how we will learn to understand the universe. For there are no conflicts in the universe. There are no opposites, and no ‘forces’ or counterforces. There is no morality in a supernova.
The true universe is what is not. The vacuüm. The stuff we are, mainly, made of.
Only the tiniest percentage of the space we occupy with our bodies is not one hundred percent vacuüm.

8.2 Imagine two bottles. One is filled with wine. The other only carries the tiniest - actually invisible - drop of wine.
When the question is aked: “Which one of these two is a bottle of wine?” everyone will give the obvious and correct anwser.
Yet, when the same question concerns the so-called reality that surrounds us, we always choose for illusion.

8.3 In making art we learn to recognize the vacuüm as the main substance of reality.

8.4 This recognition leads to the inevitable conclusion that there has never been, nor ever will be, a Big-Bang. We were never on our marks, ready and set to go.

8.5 We were always Now and Many-one and Everywhere in the Nothingness of All.

9 Beauty is the gravity of all art. Beauty is the visual equivalent of silence, which is the vacuüm of being.

9.1 The centrepoint of all my compositions is silence, caged- and protected by a wall of sound.

10 You cannot think about writing and write at the same time. You cannot make music and think about making music at the same time. The writing is the thinking. The music is the thought.

10.1 All art is recorded thinking.

10.2 All art is pain, in search for its cause.