TrueLife - Emerging from the Spectacle: Awakening from Media Illusion and Reclaiming Human Presence

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

One on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingSupport the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. Use Promocode TRUELIFE for Get 25% off monthly or 30% off the annual plan For the first yearhttps://www.district216.com/We’ve lived too long inside the performance — mistaking simulation for life, and spectacle for truth. In this episode, George Monty explores what it means to emerge from the machine of distraction, to see reality again with unmediated eyes.Drawing on the ideas of Guy Debord, Marshall McLuhan, and spiritual traditions from East and West, this episode investigates how to dissolve the trance of digital culture and rediscover what it means to be fully alive.Music by Mystic Crookhttps://mysticcrock.bandcamp.com/album/zigzag-24-bitTranscript:https://app.podscribe.ai/episode/61247203Speaker 0 (0s): <inaudible> Speaker 1 (13s): There you are. They looking for you? Come in. I got to show you something. Are you ready to see some of the blow your mind right now? But you got to believe a little bit. If you're like me, you're probably humble and poor, but you know what? That's the precondition for Exxon station. Take my hand. Speaker 0 (35s): <inaudible> Speaker 1 (43s): One cannot abstractly contrast the Spectacle to actual social activity, such a division is itself divided to Spectacle which inverts the real is. In fact, produced lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the Spectacle while simultaneously absorbing the spectacular order giving It positive cohesiveness. I like to think that in the beginning there was the word, the word was made flesh. And in this time of digitization, the flesh is being made into the word. Objective reality is present on both sides to every notion fixed to this way has no other basis than its passage into the opposite. Speaker 0 (1m 36s): So you are not a coverup artist and you are a liar, not a snitch Speaker 1 (1m 42s): Reality rises up within the spectrum. And the spectacle is real. This reciprocal alienation is the essence and the support of the existing society Speaker 0 (1m 54s): Time evolves. And that comes to a place where it renews again, because there was the first day of purification time. Then there was a renewal time. We are getting very close to this time Speaker 1 (2m 18s): In a world, which really is topsy turvy. The truth is, but a moment of the false, the concept of Spectacle unifies and explains a great diversity of a parent phenomena. The diversity and the contracts are appearances of a socially organized appearance. The general truth of which must itself be recognized considered in its own terms. The Spectacle is affirmation of appearance, an affirmation of all human life, namely social life as mere appearance. What the critique, which reaches the true of the Spectacle exposes It as the visible negation of life as a negation of life, which has become visible to describe the Spectacle its formation it's functioned. And the forest has, which tend to dissolve It. One must artificially distinguish certain and separate elements when analyzing the Spectacle one speaks to some extent, the language of the spectacular itself in the sense that one moves through the methological to terrain of the very society, which expresses itself in the Spectacle. But the spectacle is nothing other than a sense of the total practice of a social economic formation. Speaker 0 (3m 56s): We were told we would see a marathon come in and go in a sense, America is dying from within because they feel that the instructions on how to live on earth Speaker 1 (4m 15s): It's use of time. It is the historical movement in which we are caught the social economic formation. Speaker 0 (4m 25s): What are the instructions on how to live on earth? You are a cover up artist and you are a lot. Speaker 1 (4m 31s): There's not a snitch. What a better description for the Spectacle the life you live, the things that you see, the park, the community that you live in, the government, the town, the place where you work, it's a social economic formation in which you play a major role in what are you doing? And at any time you can choose to increase your role or decrease your role in that social economic formation. Changing the way you think about that environment can fundamentally change your appearance. It can change the way you interact with the world, both on the social front and the economic fun. If you can learn to see the Spectacle as a social economic formation, you can begin to see the world like it truly is the Spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable, yet inaccessible. It says nothing more than that, which appears as good as that, which is good. Appears the attitude, which it demands in principle is passive acceptance, which in fact, it already obtained by its manner of Appearing without reply, by as a monopoly of appearance, the basic pathological character of the Spectacle flows. It flows from the simple fact that it's means our simultaneously it's in ends. It's means are simultaneously it's in its means you are simultaneously it's in, it is the sun, which Never sets over the empire of modern pacivity. It covers the entire surface of the world and faiths in the sleep in its own glory. The society which rests on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially spectacular. It is fundamentally spectacular list in the spectacle, which is the image of the ruling economy. The goal is nothing development, everything the Spectacle aims at nothing other than itself, as the indispensable decoration of the objects produce today as the general expos, a day of the rationality of the system, as we get advanced economic sector, which directly shapes a growing multitude of image objects, the Spectacle is the main production present day society. The Spectacle subjugates living men to itself, to the extent that they could condom has totally subjugated them. It is no more than the economy developing for itself. It is the true reflection of the production of things and the false objectification of the producer's. The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization, the obvious degradation of being into having the present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of Having into appearing from which all actual Having must draw. It's a immediate prestige and it's the ultimate function at the same time. All individual reality has become social reality directly dependent on social power and shaped by It. It is allowed to appear only to the extent that it is not being in to Having Having into appearing, allowing to appear only to the extent that it is not. Speaker 0 (8m 44s): So if you're not spiritually connected to the earth and understand this spiritual reality of how to live on earth slightly, you will not make it.  One on One Video call W/George <...

Darkness struck, a gut-punched theft, Sun ripped away, her health bereft. I roar at the void. This ain't just fate, a cosmic scam I spit my hate. The games rigged tight, shadows deal, blood on their hands, I'll never kneel. Yet in the rage, a crack ignites, occulted sparks cut through the nights. The scars my key, hermetic and stark. To see, to rise, I hunt in the dark, fumbling, fear. Hears through ruins maze, lights my war cry, born from the blaze.

The poem is Angels with Rifles. The track, I Am Sorrow, I Am Lust by Codex Serafini. Check out the entire song at the end of the cast. Is everybody in? Is everybody in? There you are. Been looking for you. Come here, I gotta show you something.

Are you ready to see someone blow your mind right now? your mind right now but you've got to believe a little bit if you're like me you're probably humble and poor but you know what that's the precondition for exaltation take my hand the ceremony is about to see you can't abstractly contrast this spectacle to actual social activity such a division is itself divided the spectacle which in converts the real is in fact produced. Lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle while simultaneously absorbing the spectacular order, giving it positive cohesiveness.

I'd like to think that in the beginning, there was the word. The word was made flesh. And in this time of digitization, the flesh is being made into the word. Objective reality is present on both sides. Every notion fixed this way has no other basis than its passage into the opposite. Mr. Sengis, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar. But not a snitch. Reality rises up within the spectacle, and the spectacle is real.

This reciprocal alienation is the essence and the support of the existing society. Time evolves and comes to a place where it renews again. There is first a purification time, then there's renewal time. We are getting very close to this time now. In a world, which really is topsy-turvy, the true is but a moment of the false. The concept of spectacle unifies and explains. A great diversity of apparent phenomena. The diversity and the contrasts are appearances of a socially organized appearance,

the general truth of which must itself be recognized, considered in its own terms. The spectacle is affirmation of appearance, an affirmation of all human life, namely social life, as mere appearance. But the critique which reaches the truth of the spectacle exposes it as the visible negation of life, as a negation of life which has become visible. To describe the spectacle, its formation, its functions, and the forces which tend to dissolve it,

one must artificially distinguish certain inseparable elements. When analyzing the spectacle, one speaks to some extent, the language of the spectacular itself in the sense that one moves through the methodological terrain of the very society which expresses itself in the spectacle. But the spectacle is nothing other than the sense of the total practice of a social economic formation. We were told we would see America come and go. And in a sense, America is dying from within because they forgot the instructions on how to live on earth.

It's use of time. It is the historical movement in which we are caught. The social, economic formation. They forgot the instructions on how to live on earth. You are a cover-up artist and you are a liar. But not a snitch! What better description for the space? spectacle, the life you live, the things that you see, the part, the community that you live in, the government, the town, the place where you work, it's a social economic formation in which

you play a major role. And what are you doing? And anytime you can choose to increase your role or decrease your role in that social economic formation, changing the way you think about that environment can fundamentally change your appearance. It can change the way you interact with the world, both on the social front and the economic front. If you can learn to see the spectacle as a social economic formation, then you can begin to see the world like it truly is. The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable, yet inaccessible. It says nothing more than that which appears is good, that which is good appears. The attitude which it demands in principle is passive acceptance,

which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its monopoly of appearance. The basic tautological character of the spectacle flows. It flows from the simple fact that its means are simultaneously its ends. Its means are simultaneously its ends. Its means are simultaneously its ends. It is the sun which never sets over the empire of modern passivity. It covers the entire surface of the world and bathes endlessly in its own glory. The society which rests on modern industry is not accidentally or superficially spectacular.

It is fundamentally spectacular. In The Spectacle, which is the image of the ruling economy, the goal is nothing. Development, everything. The spectacle aims at nothing other than itself. As the indispensable decoration of the objects produced today, as the general expose

of the rationality, of the system as the advanced economic sector which directly shapes a growing multitude of image objects. The spectacle is the main production of present-day society. The spectacle subjugates living men to itself, to the extent that the economy has totally subjugated them. It is no more than the economy developing for itself. It is the true reflection of the production of things and the false objectification of the producers. The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization,

the obvious degradation of being into having. The present phase of total occupation of social life by the end of the end up. accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual having must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function. At the same time, all individual reality has become social reality, directly dependent on social power and shaped by it. it is allowed to appear only to the extent that it is not being into having, having into appearing, allowing to appear only to the extent that it is not. If you're not spiritually connected to the earth and understand the spiritual reality of how to live on earth,

It's likely you will not make it.