Welcome to the second lecture on the philosophy of the CCIU, where we delve a little deeper into a few of the fundamental texts written by the CCIU during their short run. So first, I'm going to return to Lemurian Time War once again. As stated in the previous lecture, this, as I see it, is by far the most important CCIU text. And I will reiterate that embedded within its writings are the majority of the clues needed for an understanding of the CCIU's aims. With that said, such a proposition as overarching aims has to be taken with a pinch of salt when talking about the CCRU. Let's return to this concept of the OGU, or the One God Universe. As stated, this is something that really appears again in CCRU texts, but I mean to say it doesn't appear in this form.
the OGU can be taken as the earliest articulation of what the CCRU mean when they talk about well whether cryptically or not control and control mechanisms and the human security system on page 37 of CCRU writings it says in OGU fiction is safely contained by a metaphysical frame prophylactically delimiting all contact between the fiction and what is outside it the magical function of words and signs is both condemned as evil and declared to be illusory facilitating a monopoly upon the magical power of language for ogu which of course denies that its own mythos exerts any magical influence presenting it as simply representation of truth
now for anyone paying attention in the previous lecture this is clearly influenced by kantianism However, it's applying Kantianism as its base framework, that is, critique is taken here as the underlying system, but it's understanding that system as something which has been mutated into a framework of control. Arguably, perhaps mutated would be the incorrect word, as land, and I imagine most of the CCRU, would see Kantianism already as a system of control, or at least the innocence lock-in for man as a system of control. The metaphysical frame, which contains fiction, is one thoroughly supported or bolstered and potentially created by the representational faculties of man.
In confusing representation with the real, man creates a binary framework to apply the categories of fact and fiction. Representation is fact, and anything which doesn't fit into it or cannot be representation or phenomena is a fiction. The entire framework of metaphysical truth, then, is largely rationalised. rationalist this is sort of the default position and as such that which is outside of man the new manner is taken not as something with potential to affect the representational world of man but it's simply taken as fantasy in this manner this is why the new manner is taken on so much by the ccriu and this is why the outside is such a problem for the academy because this rationalist mode of viewing things in which representation is fact and which fiction is anything on the outside
is the incorrect way to see because what we're talking about here is the possibility of communication between the inside and the outside and therefore the potentiality for hyperstition and for fictions to enter into the realm of fact now this all may seem like a repetition of the Kantian framework itself. That is, it may seem as if when talking of the OGU, we're talking of the spatiotemporal constraints within man's synthesis, but we're talking about something that is within that mode of existence, and also something that utilizes it. To continue from Lemurian Time War, anti-OGU agents can use fiction as a covert line of communication and a secret weapon. Those whose intentions then are to escape or exit the OGU, to escape this Kantian trap, to escape the human
security system, utilize fiction as a means of doing so, or at the very least utilize fiction as a means of getting close to doing so, to preparing to do so, to working out how it might be possible, to believe they're doing so. The OGU can be seen as a secondary layer of control after the Kantian framework has been accepted. The OGU is the framework of language, semantics, sign, symbols and knowledge, lock-ins. It's the framework which doesn't merely allow or disallow discussion, but forms what discussion can even be. Once again from Lemurian Time War on page 38. Whereas hyperstitional agitation feeds, produces a positive unbelief,
a provisionalizing of any reality frame in the name of pragmatic engagement rather than epistemological hesitation. OGU feeds on belief. The hesitation that's written off here is one of rationality and reason, one which halts when one's internal intuition locks into the outside. However momentarily, epistemological hesitation is what holds the doors of the exit shut. hyperstition the process in which fictions become real or fact is as stated a positive unbelief not so much a creation as a revelation if representation is a false framework with regards to truth in the first place then what's left is to reveal what is hidden and that means destroying or deconstructing that which hides the real and that which hides the real is representation
and what bolsters the belief that the real is representation itself is belief. That is to say, belief that the representation is synonymous with the real, the reason that is believed is belief itself. That is to say, the entirety of man's synthesis is a belief system which is perpetually held together by continual epistemological programming. To clarify, let's turn back to Lemurian Time or on page 38 once again. In order to work, the story that runs reality has to be believed, which is also to say that the existence of a control program determining reality must not be suspected. Once you begin to suspect your reality is created in some way, or formed,
or controlled, or synthesized in some manner, or that the notion of reality itself is relative, then all of a sudden a question of control arises. Why is reality as it is, and how can we have it otherwise. What Captain Mission in the Ghost Lemus of Madagascar finds is creatures who are entirely detached from any form of OGU and any form of human-centered synthesis, of any form of an inside. The CCRU here begins to hyperstitialize their own text, mentioning on page 40 the attempts of Burroughs himself to escape control or escape time. William Burroughs attempts this via his 1950s cut-up methods of writing, his cut-up technique. William Burroughs himself states that
the word lines keep you in time. This can be taken two ways, both in time, as within the Kantian synthesis, as in the inside, but also in time, as in rhythmically in time with the controlled repetitions of culture and linearly ordered words. The first potential escape route comes to fruition here, but it's via an understanding of virility and infection. William Burroughs understood language as a virus. He says the word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. My basis theory is that the written word was literally a virus that made the spoken word possible. The virus came from outer space. Whether William Burroughs was Kant savvy or not I do not know. What we can say is that when
Burroughs is writing of outer space here he isn't talking about the stereotypical outer space which is home to a load of cheap aliens. He's talking of the outer space, the outside of space from which the lemurs enter into our reality. He's speaking of the outside. Language has achieved complete stability with its host. The host itself no longer separates language and reality. That which cannot be explained by some form of language is shrugged off, ignored, or simply subsumed into a niche subculture and shunned. Language is the secondary factor of striation regarding representation. Phenomena slash representation presents you with an illusory picture of reality which is inherently unquestioned. The language virus then seeks to articulate that reality,
reason and explain it. Language itself is sympathetic to the aims of synthesis, that is, it's linear, hence why Burroughs' method is one of cutting up. It is one in which he cuts up both time and space so that the language, and to a lesser extent synthesis, no longer hold dominion over those who read or perceive. On page 42 of CCRU writings, it states, control needs time, control needs human time, control needs your shit, piss, pain, orgasm, death. This sentence might seem dramatic if not somewhat infantile but actually it's articulating more for control methods which are indebted to time secondary effects of time which control man in numerous ways pain orgasm and death most notably are three forms slash events of existence which are beholden to time
in their inner workings time of the inside man is controlled only by that which is reverent of time all the burdens hurdles and pitfalls of man's existence can only happen on a linear framework existentialism melts in the face of the non-linear what is the trolley problem if the problem itself can be sliced in two on page 43 of ccriu writings it states power operates most effectively not by persuading the conscious mind but by delimiting in advance what it is possible to experience it's the cruel joke against man a delimitation and containment of the possibilities of consciousness in the face of knowing about the framework of limitation itself the knowledge that one is
within a cage the knowledge of how one is within a cage but also the knowledge that one can never exit the cage and that piece of knowledge is inbuilt in the understanding of the cage itself if you understand the lock you understand you can't unlock it the aim of the ccriu in part is to break the lock open by any means necessary. We will eventually look at these methods of exit, but for now there are further areas of impenetrability to explore within the cage itself, because within the cage are more and more cages, more and more epistemological, ideological, socio-political and familial locks, which keep man within constraints. I'll see you in 2.1.