Existential Intentionality in Society: A Timeline Intervention of the Social Contract:

by Brian Taylor

Overview

Are we living in a time of great change?

We seem to be. In 2020, we can look to the streets of any major city, we can see the desire for change is real. We're making it real by lifting our voices to an undeniable volume and taking action that can't be ignored. We revolt currently for much the same reasons as we have historically, the powers that be exert control by ways and means we find abusive or offensive.

The Authors of any Social Contract have traditionally come from religion, government, academia: Kings and philosophers, Priests and Lords. (All men, until recently...) It used to be easier to rule a society, but since the Enlightenment, and really the invention of the printing press, information and knowledge became something for everyone to appreciate. The industrial revolution lead to still further advancements becoming possible, in science and in life.

When communications reach the speeds of electricity and the spread of broadcast media, we have achieved what becomes known as Hyperreality, named by Philosopher Jean Baudrillard. Philosopher Guy Debord referred to hyperreality as "the Spectacle" in his book and film Society of the Spectacle. Where Debord said that the Society of the Spectacle was any society, like America, that defined its social contract by or within hyperreality, Baudrillard believed it was already too late, the Matrix had become real. The programmed are now doing the programming, But, despite anyone's theorizing, it seems that we are real, and the Spectacle is still an image, an ideal.

Hyperreality is not all social contract, or at least, not all social contract is worth thinking about. For instance, you know that particular brand of jeans isn't going to make you any sexier, you're not going to get to excited with the manufacturer when your mirror disappoints you. But what if instead of being convinced to buy a particular pair of jeans you were being asked to deny science, or encourage racism, or compete for limited resources?

Guy Debord and even Jean Baudrillard, who lived until 2007 and got to see the internet become the next domain of hyperreality, saw the natural conclusion of the spectacle of hyperreality to become one of pure Image. The fake that would be realer than real, standing in for the real, accepted as real. Neither men could know that we, via the ever-quickening pace of technological advancement and the willingness to embrace it, would become the Amalgam Intellect. We have a cell phone in every pocket, a willingness to be virtuous in our actions and the opportunity to share every secret, expose every lie and correct every injustice, together, simultaneously, in high-definition surround sound. This ability and the realization of it, that shift, that change, that feeling in your gut and in your heart, is a developing awareness of of your personal responsibility to the true democratization of society, your role as co-author of the spectacle. Helping you define that role is the goal of Existential Intentionality.

Using the Amalgam Intellect to rewrite the Social Contract is already happening, it will continue with or without our awareness and organization. Existential Intentionality in Society wishes to create a movement that makes public its desire to change the social contract. Not much has changed in the last few hundred years. There are still Kings and slaves, rich and poor. There are still problems that could be solved and aren't, simply because there is no profit to be had by enacting the solution. Hyperreality has not cured or compounded the problems we face, but it has put a giant spotlight on them and broadcast them into every psyche.


A timeline intervention is the examination of an individual's personal development in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Everyone goes through similar problems as they grow up and then older. Societies age and change, develop or not, just like people. A group, just like an individual, won't change until it decides it needs to and I think, maybe in 2020, we're deciding we need to change. I would like to have a conversation about the things that should change. That's why Existential Intentionality isn't only this simple introductory book, nor our website exint.org where membership is free, it's an idea, a philsophy, a movement. It isn't going to be solved with one answer, but it might be solved with one suggestion:

Grow away from taking part in an intentionality of fear, competition, distinction, persecution. Work toward the substantiation of an intentionality of love, caring, cooperation and solidarity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666202892
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/24/2020
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	906,459
Product dimensions:	3.90(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Brian Taylor is an author, filmmaker and musician.
Founder of Existential Intentionality in Society
Certified Practitioner of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

All Brian Taylor's creative work attempts to use logic and reason to examine his acute humanity, with virtue as his goal.

In this objective honesty, no facet of existence, no act nor thought, can be overlooked. All rabbits must be chased down all holes. Pulling no punches, holding little sacred, he tackles even the most controversial topics of the day: politics, society, religion, war, the economy, nationalism, culture, conspiracy, corporatism, the future, the individual, himself and you.

Brian Taylor is particularly concerned with the hyper-manipulation of modernity toward the apparent goal of overall systemic failure. He seeks the best possible choosing in a world where his choices are made for him, and poorly. His Anti-Social Engineering provides a way to combat the forces that work against our abilities and freedoms as individuals.

Brian has been creating content and blasting it into hyperreality since the 1990s.