The Queen of the World
Public opinion, above all else, determines what humans think and what they decide. Our behavior emanates from the sense we get of the ego of the other person. It’s the approach/avoid dynamic that has underwritten the whole of human history and that we (A&C) believe can now, in all probability, be subsumed by a physical science.
In principle, and assuming society has achieved and disseminated a superintelligent conversation engine, all approach/avoidance situations, we think, can be made safe for everybody. The result of universal safety, assuming the right principles and orderings have been emplaced, can only be something benign and brilliantly creative. That something would be the rediscovered or reworked “Garden of Eden.”
The reworking of public opinion can’t be contemplated without the willingness to solve problems, to “unravel involved matters” (A.E. Waite’s characterization of the Third Tarot Trump). For too long the Empress has worked as the clandestine and highly negative Queen of Involved Matters. She has worked through gossip. With the positive advent of conversation theory, humanity will find itself in the position to replace instinctive gossip, which has always worked as the go-to method for female society to settle and enjoy truth and trustworthiness, with nutrition and fecundity of a much higher sort, with something foretelling a festival rejoicement. It will find itself in possession of public nutrition, easily given and easily received, and of a liberal and universal metabolism, free of oxidative stress and stiffness, the source of all healing and of all enthusiasm.
The refugium peccatorum is the distasteful Catholic idea here. Eve is responsible for the expulsion of humanity from the Garden of Eden, but the Virgin Mary can intercede and limit the damage Eve caused. The Queen of the World, simultaneously Mary and Eve, is also linked both to the Hellenic Cytherea (the Island of Aphrodite) and to the Socratic Dialectic of the Ternary, the thesis-antithesis-synthesis repeated everywhere in Hegel’s Logic. This logic is what the world itself repeats continually as it expresses its subconscious psychological ideas and notions. We believe by combining conversation theory with engineered superintelligence humanity is now in a position gradually and stepwise find the Intercession of the Virgin to have become both germane to its needs and entirely useful to its means.
