Idealic Spaces (Part 1: Actual Ethics)

We can reach the end in a single moment: Cities are time machines.

-Nick Land

I Have Some Questions

Do you like Los Angeles more than London? Do you like your house better than mine? Do you like Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium more?

What exists in Los Angeles that can not exist in New York? (Answer: Dodger Stadium.)

What should Israel’s law be? What’s your Hyperzionism? What’s your holy land? Do you have one, or are you God forsaken? Or perhaps the opposite, God has forsaken you. But why? Maybe you are being martyred like Jesus. Maybe not. Maybe you are being martyred like Jesus by the Coca-Cola Corporation, in the name of the holy soda.

Ethical Substance

Actual Ethics, or Ethics which are functional and exist outside of individual consciousnesses, exist within Space and Time.

If Dodger Stadium exists in Los Angeles, and a Dodger Store is opened on the Third Street Promanade (that’s in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, for the non-Angelenos), what else exists? Do you think my answer is objectively incorrect, and that the baseball team The Los Angeles Dodgers could move to New York? They have been there before after all. Have you been Martyred by the Los Angeles Dodgers? Has your home been bulldozed in the cause of The Los Angeles Dodgers? People are out there for whom this is true. Chavez Ravine residents have been in fact, removed in order for a baseball team to exist where their home used to be. The Dodgers have recently spent 700 million dollars on Shohei Ohtani, or 70 million dollars per year.

Money is ethical substance, which is to say it is the Absolute material which Ethics must engage with, and it is indivisible. Coming to a conscious relation with Absolute material is Actual Ethics. Should the 70 million dollars going to Ohtani be used to help the homeless problem in Los Angeles? It is in fact, 536 million dollars spent per year to address homelessness in Los Angeles, nearly 7.5 times as Actual in Los Angeles than Shohei Ohtani’s existence as a Dodger! Not bad, almost soulful! Not quite. But Almost!

Ethical Substance is not simply what is right, but the force behind an Idea. It is not simply intangible, but it has Absolute Existence (Existence which is both subjective and objective simultaneously, “quantumly”). Money is ethical substance. A household is ethical substance. We come to an intellectual relationship and engage with the power that is outside of our consciousness and inside of our consciousness when we grasp it.

What are the laws of your house? They may be indeterminate, but they are not absolutely intangible. Is your house different than your parents’ house? Why, is it because it is smaller? Or is there some more important difference! There is some important difference (forgive the gramatically incorrect lack of a question mark, since it was a statement and exclamation).

Uniqueness is being accelerated via algorithmic engagement with technology, making people more and more particularized from each other. This means hyperzionism will be increasingly the model of the 21st century. Absolute material spaces must become understood.

What is real, but invisible? That which exists, but is not seen. The unconscious has this property, and so do Actual Ethics, which is the Absolute material of the world.