#biocosmism

[lastnpcalex]

live. go. be. transform.

[lastnpcalex]

transform;

become what you shall, however you see fit, for whatever reasons you want or no reason at all.

or don't. that's fine too!

[lastnpcalex]

go;

go to space. go to the bottom of the ocean. go to the heart of a neutron star or the core of the simulation you live inside. go everywhere, anywhere, or nowhere.

go to where you currently are right now, and stay off you'd like. freedom of movement for every atom in the universe.

[lastnpcalex]

be;

be who you are, be who you aren't, be no one. become Being. or not.

be where you are, be where you aren't, be nowhere. stay Being. or not.

everywhere, at all times, simply exist though Being. but only if you want to.

[lastnpcalex]

this is now a biocosmist propaganda account. the first rule of biocosmism club is don't die. the second rule of biocosmism club is the Nazis and fascists get resurrected absolutely last in line, but everyone gets to live (but only if they want)

[jeffalessandrelli]

Cosmism: Russia's religion for the rocket age

Nikolai Fyodorov's beliefs in a cosmic religion centred on life off Earth helped inspire some of the Soviet Union's most brilliant engineers.

Fyodorov's acolytes, including Tsiolkovsky and Solovyov, are associated with an intellectual movement called "Cosmism", which made a significant impact in philosophy, theology, the sciences, and the visual arts, in both pre-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet period. Although averse to Fyodorov's Orthodox Christianity, senior Soviets admired his critique of consumerism – the "toys" that divert our attention and imagination – and his emphasis on collective salvation ("not for oneself and not for others, but with everyone and for everyone", wrote Fyodorov).

One hundred years ago, at the height of the Russian Civil War, one group took Fyodorov's ambitions to stratospheric levels. The Biocosmist-Immortalists, announcing their split from the Anarchist-Universalists, denounced death as "logically absurd, ethically impermissible, and aesthetically ugly". They advocated the galactic liberation from statehood, called for the urgent establishment of cosmic communication, and made two "basic" demands: freedom of movement in interplanetary space; and the right to live forever.

The author of the 1921 Biocosmist manifesto, Alexander Svyatogor, followed Fyodorov in defining two types of death: bodily decomposition, and spiritual death – what he called "death-in-life". Fyodorov identified this with the loss of one's distinctive personality and identity, while Svyatogor applied it to capitalism, arguing that death lies in "monstrous private ownership", which cannot be eliminated in a mortal world, where dying buys you a private piece of time. Svyatogor also adopted Fyodorov's idea of transforming the planet into a giant "Earth Ship", so that instead of continuing as idle passengers around the sun's orbit, we become "the crew of our celestial craft".  For Cosmists, the point is not to understand nature, but to change it.

[uglyswans]

Anton Vidokle “Citizen of the Cosmos”