STRUGGLING SPORADIC SWITCHING BETWEEN WRITINGS STYLES IN REACTION TO GENAI
I have used this term “civil religion,” and I have been told that some readers are not knowledgeable of terminology used in my writings, and that my writings for some would not be where a beginner would turn to. This criticism has affected how I would like to write lately, but just for encouragement, I was the exact same. I threw myself into the writings of people since the 1500s, and I would buy books with the English of those times and not just adapted, but adopted certain styles and words, and I used to not be so aware I was doing that.
I have had to put a muzzle on my writings, e.g., I much prefer using certain archaic terms over their moderns; something simple like amidst vs amid, but when other people read it, they perceive it as archaic. Like, “oh, some stuffy professor probably wrote this.” Modern writing is boring to me, and I have tried to fit in. It advocates for uniformity and simplicity. The mind doesn’t work “simply” and “linear!” Theosophy is a mental discipline. Reading Theosophy is a mental exercise. Be excited to try and understand what this or that reader is trying to get me to contemplate on. I wrote about this in The Classical Paths to Wisdom (Yoga) pivotal to Theosophical Study.
I am not focused on appealing to a “small niche group.” The history and knowledge I cover is what breaks the camel’s back. I am trying to get people to understand, that the ancient philosophers were trying to raise up an army and entire peoples into these philosophical truths and principles, whereas in our times, we see as an individualist thing. I see it as a civilizational thing. You have forfeited this to modern philosophers like Curtis Yarvin. You have given all your energy to these modern vampire influencers. News talk about Trump constantly for the entire decade, non-stop and yet the society and politicians are still in a state of stagnation when it comes to defeating him. We talk and are consumed by everything he does, that his enemies are adopting his ways as satire to cope.
This vampirism is sucking our creativity. We need to create again, and we need thousands of people to awaken to substantive creativity. Not just some Youtuber or Podcaster weirdo gaming the algorithm system.
No AI can do this. AI only mimics and trains itself to mimic human thinking. So, the idea that “writing” and “blogging” is dead is true on surface-level observation, because these were technically affected by AI systems in the search engines and systems that killed “organic reach” and transitioned everything to a play-to-play system. All of these GenAI principles become eventually anti-educational. The approach to my writing style has been affected by GenAI. Like, sometimes I am seriously hesitant to use one of my favorite symbols — the “em dash.” I am at the point, where I don’t care. Every theosophist knows the flare of those em dashes for pauses in the long-winded sentence style come from too much Victorian era reading. My writings are partially a reaction to GenAI.
How do I learn to create something Gen AI cannot produce, but only mimic — and imperfectly? Professors are stating that they do come together to study what is AI generated writing from students. I have done the same. I have also learned that the AI just does things what a WIKI how article or some past blog advice would provide in learning how to write. Why do I need GenAI to help me with writing a three-sentence introduction! Just splice three sentences from the introduction you already created for the introduction or reword the first two sentences of your first paragraph, which should contain your thesis or argument anyway. The AI on these apps are unnecessary. The AI will not create anything better than what you could already first create if you take your time, so there is no use in using it. Writing is also a science, and humans can improve in writing, and learn from other humans.
This is very important, because people like Balaji Srinivasan and others are using their riches in tech to bring about a color-coded apartheid systems in their imagined worlds; and what they themselves term “tech Zionism.” They see their AI systems as the new prophetic tradition, particularly biased against “liberals” so this is not something simply living “off the grid” will hide you from. It is having consequences on our political, social and economic systems.
Over time, I have acquired this rebellious attitude against modern styles of writing, and in learning about all of these philosophers and literary writers, they all have their styles; and when we study them, we study their styles, not just what they are saying. I wrote in Introduction to the Pre-Socratic Sages, Part II: All the Wise Sages about the approaches to writing and teaching that these classical philosophers resorted to for their readers and audiences to shift their perception to understand the relation of the machinations of the brain, thinking and physics in the world and in connection with the elements in reality and symbolically. Blavatsky wrote with the same intention. The Bible was written in the same manner. The Qur’an (manuscript version reveal this) was definitely written in this same manner to inspire contemplation of high metaphysics.
Having a style protects my writing. It is a personal signature. I want to write clear for the reader, but I also want to personally stylize it, and I am struggling with what to do there. Those are my limitations, and I am learning new things to help my readers and potentially future audiences. My classes this quarter are forcing us to be in the role of podium presenters to our peers, and you can’t AI yourself giving presentations.
All this makes writing fun for me, and I like to write. It is a protection against generative artificial intelligence, and I think more writers ought to continue rebelling. I want to read your bombastic and theatrical style of writing. Elaborate and complex narrative styles ought to be on the ascendant, and do not submit them to AI. It will study you and copy it. I want to read your long-winded Edwardian era sentences. I want to see you throw in some fun archaic English. Stretch each other’s minds and build that reading stamina.
The American Minervan 
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