PART IV – Chapter 1: The Credit-Ego

There is no truth that is not war against theology. . .

Nick Land, “Shamanic Nietzsche”

Theology has primarily been an institutional apparatus for capturing herds and singularities. It is not necessarily evil, except in the ways that orthodoxy promotes suppression in the name of what Deleuze called state philosophy. The problem of evil is directly tied to the deification of states by the priestly castes, a republic formed through an alliance between Empire and Christ, an anti-Christ as the demagogue of Christian immorality and wickedness. The double thought necessary to be doubleminded; to repeat the words without hearing them, only to repeat them again in one’s destiny. If the Word is Truth, then theology ends up being the suppression of undesired words and truths — undesired by the State which has taken over the role of leading the people by a reformed moralism that is merely a simulation for the war-machine. An artificial heaven for vampiric Christians. Credit-ego.

The credit-ego is the beneficiary of an illusion of a dream, the prefabricated world of ideology, which is only possible through a symbolic declaration of allegiance to the powers-that-be: patriotheism, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalist realism, white supremacy, imperialism, other cryptodualisms, etc. (all forms of kyriarchy which must be carefully defined). State philosophy is hierarchy to the n-th degree, founded on the Absolute Reason of the Self over and against his others. In this sense, state philosophy is not merely disembodied reason — in fact it is embodied, specifically in the credit-ego’s material form which gains through the practitioning of the status quo. The fact that it presents itself as true, disembodied, purely abstract reason is a mere after effect of the reification of the normative body/consciousness of the credit-ego. The credit received is the ego of state philosophy, the white-picket fence of the suburbs laid over ancestral lands of genocided peoples and the cookie-cutter individuals who occupy the land, the magic trick hiding the infernal libido of an oppressed planet via a simulation of freedom. All that is asked in return is that one do their duty — clean their room, remain civil, and defend the rights of “all men”; and let it be known exactly who this men of ‘Man’ are — in the eyes of (a dead, idolatrous) God.

The basis for capitalism’s credit-ego is a programmatic covering and forgetting regarding the infernal, unpayable debts of society. In The Big Lie of civilization (i.e. Empire & ‘Man’), a selected group of bodies are offered the opportunity to right their debt to society, to maintain good credit with the status quo. This is not only a status one is expected to maintain and protect themselves, but it is something that one is born into via a naturalized (though obfuscated) caste system. This includes class, race, gender, ideological allegiance, etc., all of which serve as reified justifications for why one should support the pursuit of credit and identify themselves with it (a form of bad faith). Most importantly, credit itself is often mistaken as the cause rather than the effect of wealth and privileges, forming a (false) belief that one can merely earn “the good life” by paying their dues and living as a proper citizen. 

What this program of Empire covers up is two-fold: both the violence/coercion at the heart of capitalist-state society AND the non-duality of the divine libido/body-without-organs. By criminalizing and punishing debt and rewarding the credit-ego, Empire forges a host it can infect with ‘Man’, a body it can organize into a limited, reactive cog operating on predetermined desire loops to generate energy in the building of its aionic pyramid scheme. This, fortunately, is where the concepts of debt and fugitivity come in. Through a re-cognition of debt and its unfathomability, we can strike an alliance with the (n)One — the keeper of infinite debts — and participate in a consensual regimen of debt accumulation, threshold expansion, aionic hacking, and the branding of duty to all sentient beings/the (n)One/Zion-I. It is in this conspiracy, this plan of the undercommons, this infernal eruption of the divine libido that “inhabits the crazy, nonsensical, ranting language of the other” (Jack Halberstam, “The Wild Beyond”, The Undercommons) where a counter-Kin-dom, a soulful transmodernism, and the resistance will and always has emerged.

An infernal theology of the undercommons/lumpenproletariat against a state theocracy of ‘Man’/credit-egos.

In the forthcoming sections, I will discuss “1. ‘Man2’ and the Reification of Biological Difference”, “2. The World Does Not Owe a Debt to Western Society / Western Society Wants You to Pay”, and “3. Credit and Empire”.