0333 Now, I will detail the association, starting with the second column, the virtual nested form in secondness.

Remember: In the Gnostic formulation, the Establishment level is evil.

0334 By sublimating all the difficult parts of the assessment, Marxist theory reduces economic and political planning to both capitalism and mindless rationality.

Capitalism and mindless rationality put market exchange into a normal context.  Consequently, the actuality of market exchange is both evil and stupid. Market exchange is evil because it tends to focus on material concerns. Market exchange is stupid because it is contextualized by an undead ruthless thing (capital) and mindless rationality.

0335 Yaltabaoth is the builder god. The builder god establishes physical and cultural cause and effects.  The Establishment denotes the corresponding social norms.

0336 Initially, I would think that both would correspond to the content level of the organization tier. They do not. Instead, they correspond to the Real of the organization tier.  They correspond to the situation level of market exchange.

0337 Market exchange is so difficult to consider.

0338 One analogy is the jungle.

Every animal is looking for food. There is no awareness of how the food got there. Where do the plants come from? They are like factories that turn light energy from the sun into chemical potential energy. Animals look for plants that they can eat. They have no idea of what the plants are doing. Can I call this lack of awareness, the “grazing fetish”?

Then, there are the animals that eat other animals. The eater is not aware of how the eaten got there. Ah, this must be the carnivore’s fetish.

0339 The evil builder god that is ‘the jungle’, then, manifests itself as a complex web of exchange that determines whether every living form lives or dies.

0340 Maybe, there are lesser gods, like the archons, determining processes in each living form that helps it to survive. Maybe, there are “social” norms, allowing animals and plants to mix their genes and reproduce. Every species has its own Establishment.  Each species follows its own fetishes.

The foundation of each species rests in the requirements of sexual reproduction.  The rule is simple. The rule is mindless. Genetic material is the equivalent of capital in the jungle. Assessment is the continuation of the species.

0341 So, market exchange is like the jungle. It is unpredictable, wondrous, horrifying, teeming with life, and exploding with fetishes.

Yaltabaoth and the Establishment construct and maintain something immaterial: relationships. These relationships are among beings with material concerns.

0342 For a moment, let me flash back to how the Gnostic origin myth images the first singularity.

Once the small river valleys of Iran came in contact with Ubaid explorers and missionaries, they adopted speech-alone talk. Each locale began to explore the cognitive spaces opened by speech-alone talk.

Each locale finally produced enough know-how (labor specialization) and know-who (social specialization) to determine the forms of those within the civilization. The princes and priests enforced the basic rules allowing market exchange. Or, so they claimed. The basic rules actually reinforced themselves through successful market activity.

0343 Various technical clans produced. Various bureaucrats (if one can call them that) managed. Various anointed ones arranged services.  The market worked as long as everyone followed the simple rules.  The local skeptic called the rules: fetishes.

0344 The entire society flourished with the generation of surplus value. More children lived than died. The population increased. The various roles within the civilization became more fixed. More land was put into cultivation. More traders were sent out. More warriors were recruited.

0345 Yaltabaoth and the Establishment were builder gods.  They were honored because of the material advantages of unconstrained complexity.  They constructed society from nothing.  

The only thing that can be created out of nothing is not a thing. It is a relationship.

0346 Do I have that correct?

Obviously not, because the builder gods were already working with things: people.

0347 What did the builder gods produce from these things that the things did not already have in themselves?

Relationships.

0348 Here is my association with Marx’s surplus value.

Surplus value is not the difference between the price of a commodity and the worker’s effort expended to produce that item. It is the value of the relationships that hold people in an organization. Without surplus value, the organization cannot hold itself together.

0349 Why are Yaltabaoth and the Establishment evil?

They build immaterial relationships based on material concerns. These relationships are inherently simple. They may be regarded as fetishes.  Relationships ground transactions.  Would I exchange goods with someone that I do not know?  Of course, I would not.

0350 Immaterial relationships build a web that sustains the egos of the participants.

The ego accounts for the Self. The ego is responsible for the Self. The ego acts in the name of the Self.

0351 The ego cages the Self.  The ego will not release the Self until the builder gods fail.  The builder gods fail when the cognitive spaces, opened by their efforts, no longer yield surplus value.  Without surplus value, relationships fail.

0352 Type 2 Gnosticism views the organization tier as an evil matrix that must be regulated and ultimately, destroyed.

Marxist theory concerning capitalism, commodity fetish and surplus value coheres to type 2 Gnosticism.