At any rate, the question of the war machine as the active movement of life in its immanent trajectory (or at least inspiring it) I think there may be a complementary reading where we have in the machine an actualizing movement of what is beyond or before life, a patience or breathlessness of the spirit, which then recommences being in violence and the absolute synchronicity of battle, the war of all against all. War is beyond good and evil; in many ways its necessary because it forces weak elements to become exhausted, to give in, to open up, to disappear. I wonder about it’s persistent use as a metaphor in philosophy particularly, a domain apparently obsessed with metaphysical exhaustion and existential transfiguration.

In other words, the philosophical question isn’t really ever synchrony but lives within a diachrony; I think Nietzsche points to this in his analyses of culture. We become corrupt because we are exhausted. Events are tied together, they communicate but the medium through which they communicate is ambiguous, even unique and subjective. Where are the law-givers of tomorrow? The question of exhaustion raises a pretty strong question or even objection to the post-human project (i.e., wouldn’t we then just need a post-post-human order to correct for these mistakes, aren’t we just doing the same transcendental thing again.) We are approaching an asymptote of informational complexity in terms of culture and knowledge about reality. We will create A.I. out of a desperate need to catalogue too much information. Consciousness itself, I want to say, is an exhaustion from over-stimulation, of being a multiplicity there are too many counties heard from to intelligibly consider them all serially; i.e., thinking is about selective forgetting. And this mechanism of forgetting is the most complex mechanism of them all, because it is the one which leads to corruption, even of our faith itself.