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Triessentialism: My Post-Objectivist, Re-Modernist Philosophy


							
							

There are three types of thing: physical, logical, and emotional.

There are three types of stuff: power, truth, and reasons.

There are three rule-sets: differentiation, interaction, and sequence.

There are three essences: What, How, and Why.

Nothing else can even be imagined by humans. Everything is constructed from these three.


I've always been fascinated with logic. I still remember reading about Boolean logic in a childrens' science encyclopedia, and thinking it was the most sublime thing ever. In high school, learning Pascal, and then C++, allowed me to interact with logic on a far deeper level than ever before. It was the perfect thing, the gorgeous and spiritual thing, the unsullied thing. I wanted everything to be as perfect as logic. But the people around me were illogical, and it turned out even I was illogical, ending up writing stories on my computer until all hours instead of doing my college classwork. It was as if my decisions had already been made for me, despite me wanting to do what was right. I fell out of college and landed a job as a dishwasher.

I applied my skills of logic to my own emotions, observing where they came from and what they made me do. I found interesting patterns, and found some solutions to my negative emotions. But one realization in late 2000 or early 2001 changed my life: logic and emotion are two entirely different types of things, in the same way the physical is completely different from logic. You can't freeze an equation into a plasma, or melt anger into a solid. They are made of different "stuff", to use a physical metaphor. And I couldn't think of any concept which didn't refer to something made of one of these three things: power, truth, or reasons.

I started applying this "three-thing" to everything I could think of, and found it was a key to understanding anything.


I applied the "three-thing" to the famous six questions of journalism, and they collapsed down to three categories:

  • "What happened?" Answered by a physical event, such as a wedding, or a car wreck.

  • "How did it happen?" This asks for the process, the logical interactions which led to the event.

  • "Why did it happen?" This asks for an emotional cause: "What was the motivation?" If it was an unmotivated event, in which something happened without someone deciding to do it, this is answered by the "how" above.

  • "When did it happen?" This is a specific place, which is a physical attribute.

  • "Where did it happen?" This is a specific time, which is also a physical attribute.

  • "Who was involved?" This asks for which person, answered by the physical fact of a specific person

  • "Who would do such a thing?" This is a completely different question which asks for an emotional answer, a variant of "Why?"

I could now logically determine what kind of answer is requested by any question.


I applied the "three-thing" to the cultural dichotomy of Man, and found a trichotomy instead:

  • Men are from Mars: men instinctively think in terms of concrete actions and choices, and see other people as physical beings. For men, the physical reality is the basic foundation of all.

  • Women are from Venus: women think in terms of changing impressions and reactions, and see other people as emotional beings. For women, the emotional reality is foundational, and the physical is an expression of that.

  • Aspies are from Vulcan: People on the autism spectrum, like me, instinctively reach for logic when we don't understand something or want to solve a problem. I yearned to meet more people like me, people focused on logic and thought, and I found them on the Internet. (Oh, how the times have changed...) For me, logic and truth are the foundation.

I now had a basic map for dealing with people.


I applied the "three-thing" to ontology, the study of what types of things exist.

I asked myself what the difference was between being "right" in the sense of having the correct answer and being "right" as in choosing morally. I realized I already had a built-in map in my mind of the opposites of things: right/wrong, correct/incorrect, and so on, but I had simply not sought to articulate or formalize it before:

  • Moral: right/wrong

  • Logical: true/false

  • Philosophical: wise/foolish

  • Physical: changing/static

  • Scientific: accurate/inaccurate

  • Emotional: good/bad

  • Psychological: thriving/perishing


I have since applied this to other philosophies, to value systems and economics, to psychology and the editing of the subconscious, to physics, to political tribalism and the Libertarian view of taxation, to Trinitarian theology, to music theory, and even (after watching Pixar's Ratatouille) to food theory. In each case, I've found answers readily available through Triessential analysis. I've seen rhetorical triads in anything about which people speak rhetorically, and they're usually Triessential. I have come to believe that this three-way categorization is how the human brain recognizes and categorizes the world, subconsciously or consciously.

I've seen books written with Triessential underpinnings, such as Arnold Kling's "The Three Languages of Politics" focusing on their differences and reconciliation, and Simon Sinek's "Start With Why" focusing on the sequential nature of motivation. I've seen how Triessentialism is the answer to Objectivism's missteps, and accounts for postmodernism's criticisms of modernism in meaningful ways. I've even seen it explain the rise of drag queen story hour at libraries.

Now I want to start producing content based on Triessentialism. I want to write a book, start a podcast, generate a wiki, do something to get this worldview out there and being talked about. I also want to talk about these concepts in a place I can refer back to, and analyze new things I haven't yet applied it to. So I finally made this post, partly to organize my own thoughts and brainstorm, but also to get reactions from smart and interesting people.

Ask me to elaborate on anything, or to analyze anything. Ask me to react to something. I'll do my best to apply Triessentialism so you can see how it functions.

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Thank you for your thorough explanation. I don't think the lengths of your posts were inappropriate (I at least read them all without becoming bored, if that means anything to you.) I'm also not sure there needs to be much back-and-forth here, either, as you consider there might need to be at the very beginning of your writing: it seems as though you have been sufficiently thorough in your explanation of your idealized conception of sex relations to the extent that I have no further questions to ask you, at least on that topic. However, I have some further questions about your other beliefs.

  1. You mention a belief in God. Although I appreciated the lengths of your earlier posts, can you explain somewhat briefly how you justify a belief in God in the first place, and how your spirituality plays into your beliefs? I suppose I can imagine how traditional Christian doctrines would actually quite firmly support what you are mostly already saying here but if you could be specific that would be very interesting. I'm not exactly interested in having a theological discussion and if you believe in God I doubt either of our points regarding its existence or lack-thereof will be particularly convincing to one another, so I wouldn't mind if you kept your response to this point relative short and more explanatory rather than persuasive. I enjoyed the persuasive nature of your other posts though just to be clear, so I would not be opposed to you continuing that persuasive approach when addressing my points/questions beyond this one.

  2. In your bio you mention an endorsement of anti-semitism and also being a (libert)Aryan. Can you explain how your conception of race relations relates to your beliefs? Similar to the previous point, I can assume how Aryan supremacism based on HBD might quite naturally play into your beliefs. But if having the most socially productive organ of society sit in the captain's chair is how you are orienting your idealized conception of society, how do you approach the fact that most IQ studies list east asian and jewish IQs as superior to those possessed by the traditionally 'Aryan' races? Should east asian and/or at least ethnically jewish men, assuming they are religiously Christian, be the ones we try and promote to the highest decision making positions in our society?

  3. Also in your bio you mention 'natural femininity replacement.' By this do you just mean 'replacing' the set of currently acceptable female gender roles with those that existed before the 1960s? Or is this some other thing that perhaps you think I might be interested in hearing about from you more in depth, considering I've been very interested in hearing about your elaborations on your other beliefs?

  4. You mention a lot of theory as to why it would be better if men and women reverted back to some more traditional conception of gender roles/sexual relations, but do you have any proposed praxis as to go about achieving (and preserving) this reversion? For example, if women came to wrongfully desire equality in our present world, and they hold some meaningful measure of political power now, is there really any feasible way they could be convinced they are wrong about this? Are women too far gone as a demographic, and it would be more-so a task of red-pilling all men and then having them seize back what is rightfully theirs? If, as you say in your posts, more and more people are beginning to have thoughts such as yours regarding the 'proper' conception of gender roles, is it just a matter of waiting until society self-corrects?

  5. Perhaps most importantly out of any of these five points/questions: Indeed, as you mention toward the end of your post, I would like to hear your best attempt at a defense/endorsement of pedophilia as you might be so inclined to write. I'm less interested in hearing your defense of fascism as I have heard steel-manned arguments for fascism by nominally intelligent people many times before, and in the typical way for most political ideologies, the argument was somewhat convincing and somewhat not. If you really think you'd have something new to bring to the table regarding an argument for fascism feel free to describe it, but if your beliefs are more or less the steel-manned position already held by most neofascists, then feel free to skip that particular elaboration.

Rarely, though, if ever, have I heard a defense of pedophilia from an intelligent and well-spoken person. At least, I haven't heard such a defense of the type of pedophilia that wasn't pederasty. So more than anything I'm fascinated by the prospect of hearing what you have to say about that in general, 'why it would be good,' how it would be justified, how it would be spiritually and morally uplifting -- and how it plays into any conception of a political program beyond the premise that i.e. it would be spiritually or morally uplifting, which even if true seems like insufficient basis for any sort of political program beyond the scope of 'social movement.' Thanks again in advance for taking the time to thoughtfully share your perspectives.

Sorry, I've been busy, but here are at least some partial answers so far to your questions:

You mention a belief in God.

Actually, I did not, or at least I did not intend to. "Closer to God" is poetic language about man attaining capabilities closer to that of an idealized God, that is, omnipotence and perfection. About the subject of religion itself, I am undecided. (I do not really believe in any religion "deep in my bones" and likely never will barring some dramatic psychological experience, having been an atheist since a young age for that reason, but given that I conceive of religion primarily as a psychosocial-spiritual technology in any case, I do not wholly discount the utility of adopting it, hence my indecision.)

In any case, as it is a Jewish creation, no pedofascism of mine will ever promote as the ideal any sort of vanilla or non-Aryanized Christianity. Aryanized Christianity, preferably incorporating a mix of traditional European paganism for racial hygiene's sake (Shall the traditional Germanic or Anglo Gods be archangels of an Aryanized Christian God? Perhaps.) might be an option, though again I'm undecided. (Obviously such Aryanization would be to a degree a fiction (whether it would be any more than the original or any other religion is for your judgment), but the same is true of for example the Mormons and they seem to be doing just fine. Plus, it only takes one generation to go from self-conscious promotion to genuine belief. (And of course should that ever happen this paragraph is obviously then a complete fabrication by our enemies. ;) Don't lose faith!))

(And for the record I do think the modern overall rather nihilistic ideological milieu of society is what created my faithlessness, given that I was only 5-10 years ahead of most young people also converting to atheism or at least vague agnosticism or whatever, that this is a social deficit that can be corrected, and that I would have much preferred being born in a more spiritually invigorated time in which even I could have accessed the technology of faith through greater social support.)

In your bio you mention an endorsement of anti-semitism and also being a (libert)Aryan. Can you explain how your conception of race relations relates to your beliefs?

This is complex and the main solid point I can offer is that any truly Aryan reich must interact with other races only from a standpoint of complete and absolute dignity, honor, and pride. There must be no guilt, no apologies, no cucking, no saviorism nor defeatism, no negative valence directed or allowed towards the Aryan race ever. The self-hatred must end and assertive self-advocacy must be the default.

Other than that, it is a complex issue and would have to be negotiated according to the unique and ever-changing circumstances of the present. Perhaps some races (particularly Yamato Japanese, who are, per Hitler among others, designated Honoraryans) would be our allies with their own racial reichs and perhaps some would be our conquest (and though none should ever accept it voluntarily, there is always the possibility of ending up as their conquest, which is already far too realized of a reality for many Aryans). Relationships between races, when allowed to develop organically, are much like relationships between people in that way.

I will say that the possession by Aryans of non-Aryan feminine property should by no means be prohibited (of course inbreeding is a matter to be policed separately). How this will be acquired depends. However, any Aryan reich must have a primarily Aryan residency, like 99%+ (non-Aryan feminine property not being counted here though as feminine properties would not have citizenship status separate from their owners), with some non-Aryan guests perhaps being allowed at times for various reasons to various degrees, for diplomacy's sake or perhaps just because they've earned it through honorable conduct.

Anyway sorry for the short post. I will answer more including more from #2 when I have time. Thank you for your understanding.

Looking forward to your further answers and elaborations.