The Diagonal

Sacrament of the Robocop Nutrient: The Shrinking Metaphysic of the Fun-Factory and the Plasticine Future Human

The Green Gerber Robocop Nutrient (GGRN) is now to nutrition what the generic plastic pellet is to 3D print manufacturing. 

All ‘processed foodstuffs’ are now custom-engineered Aristotelian ‘accidents’ imparted to one underlying Aristotelian ‘substrate.’

In effect, ALL is now being stripped-down to these elemental Aristotelian categories – elemental substance and chosen accident. 

The substance is ‘the given,’ which (pace ‘Empiricists’) is no ‘myth’ but the one bona fide primordium. 

The accident is whatever we choose – or what’s Chosen for us to ‘choose’ – in giving ‘character’ to the primordium.

Unchosen substance and chosen, or Chosen, accident. 

In future the bona fide free will be Choosing. All others will have their (illusory) ‘choosing’ Chosen for them, by whoever or whatever is hegemonic.

At our next (not yet ‘final’) stage of productive development, the three remaining primordia (substances) will be:

(1) Nutrient-Stuff
(2) Moldable Plastics, Resins, and Metals
(3) Consciousness-Endowed Bodies

The accident-suites that we choose for each substance will in turn be instantiated via these corresponding processes:

(1′) Artificial Foodstuff-Synthesis
(2′) 3D Printing
(3′) Transhuman Biohacking / Engineering 

AI will of course supercharge and accelerate all three processes – even enabling reversal, to say nothing of recombinations and (even ‘eternal’) recurrences. 

How ’boutique’ or otherwise the accident-suites in all of these cases become will both ride on and partly determine how free we become – that is, on how much we ‘choose’ and how much we Choose.

There also will come a time when these twinned triads, (1) through (3) and (1′) through (3′), become twinned monads. 

Though it remains as yet too early to tell in definitive detail what these paired monads will look like, we can hazard an ‘educated guess’ … 

Nutient-Stuff (1) will merge with the Moldable (2). (‘Edible Underwear’ as prototype.) 

The Human (3) likewise will merge with the Moldable (2). (‘Genesis P. Orridge’ as protype.)

By transitivity of identity (1=2 . 3=2 -> 1=3), these developments jointly suggest that a form of cannibalism will come to characterize our nutrional practice as well. (‘Soylent Green’ as prototype.)

Thus will the Christian Sacrament (‘Corpus Christi’) and the ‘Christian Aristotle’ (Aquinas) prove to have been the twinned prophet and prophesy of Humanity’s basic material future. 

That in which all accidents will be instantiated. 

What remains to be developed are the particulars of the production process that will correspond to the merger of (1), (2), and (3) – 
that is, the particulars of the merger of (1′), (2′), and (3′).

The challenge thus posed is, however, a trivial matter. Literally so. For the ‘matter’ in question, now further antidifferentiated into pure Aristotelian substrate, will in its homogeneity be all the more readily molded.

We may call the resulting world of production, in simultaneous homage to the teacher of Aristotle and the Mattel Corporation, …

The Playto Fun-Factory.  

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