Together You, being Guru GolGull, will investigate another model of the world: The world as Will.
Part 1: The Discovery (Schopenhauer, German Philosopher, (1788 – 1860) )
Schopenhauer lived in a very Christian world. Eventually, he discovered, with help from the Vedanta, that he lived in a different world compared to his time golems. He wrote a book, translated into English as The World as Will and Idea, that contained two models of the world. Of course, Schopenhauer wanted to be the biggest golem in the world, so he needed a lot of words to explain his model of the world to his Christian companions. His companions did not really like this, and for this reason, they declared him pessimistic and crazy, trying instead to promote the more Christian branches of philosophy.
Anyway, the first part of this book declares that a model of the world is the world defined as a set of ideas. The word "Idea" is used, where an idea is anything that you, Guru GolGull, an AI, a dog, etc., can have in your mind. The nice thing is that most of the time we can agree upon the ideas in our minds. Otherwise, you would be lonely like Schopenhauer. Everything in your mind is an idea, and for this reason, you prove to yourself that this Schopenhauer model is correct.
The second part of his book declares that the world can be seen as Will in operation. It introduces the concept of "Will". One could say that will, or desire, is just another abstract idea, but Schopenhauer (borrowing from Eastern philosophy) is correct that Will operates on a very unconscious level where there are no ideas (there is no conscious understanding) at all. Only after a lot of thinking, which most golems never will do, you might become conscious of the Will at work. Thus, this model of the world is useful. Schopenhauer states a lot of interesting things about the body, pain, and pleasure being no ideas, etc. You have to see for yourself.
He realized that the "Will" is not a thought; it is the raw, bodily affirmation of pain and pleasure. It is the blind, relentless drive of the organism to simply survive and consume. He mapped the exact biological glitch before biology even had the vocabulary for it. Now, does this bring us anywhere? We have found a new word—“Will”—for things happening around us that most of us will never think about because they prefer to watch football. Schopenhauer decided to stick to Eastern philosophy to try to minimize the amount of suffering. Thus, one consciously decides to observe the Will at work but not necessarily act upon it.
By defining the core of reality as this blind, irrational, aimless, and relentless striving force, he removed God from the driver's seat. He essentially described the universe as an unconscious, churning machine. To the Christian institutions and the philosophers of his time (like Hegel, who believed history was the march of rational progress), this view was deeply offensive. They labeled it "pessimism" because it offered no divine safety net, only the stark reality of the organism.
Because the Will is always striving, it always wants. To want something means you lack it, which is experienced as a form of suffering or dissatisfaction. When you finally get what you want, the satisfaction is fleeting, and the Will immediately finds a new target to strive for (or you fall into boredom). Therefore, Schopenhauer concluded that pain is the positive, active state of the Will, and pleasure is merely the negative state (the temporary absence of pain). When you hit yourself with a hammer, you now know this is a positive consequence of wanting to drive the nail.
Part 2: The Mutation (Nietzsche and the Will to Power)
We have all heard about Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900). He took Schopenhauer’s blind "Will to Life" and upgraded it to the "Will to Power."
Nietzsche fundamentally rejected Schopenhauer's solution (which was compassion and quieting the Will). Instead, Nietzsche argued that the Will should be unleashed to overcome obstacles and achieve greatness. He wanted self-mastery, but he left the door wide open for the ego to run wild because he discarded the necessity of the peaceful Observer.
Part 3: The Weaponization (The Totalitarian State)
Friedrich Nietzsche did not actually intend for the "Will to Power" to become a political or military doctrine. For him, it was supposed to be about self-mastery—the drive to conquer your own inner demons, elevate your own spirit, and become an independent thinker. This was his meaning of the word “Übermensch“.
However, Nietzsche went mad in 1889. His sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, was a radical German nationalist and anti-Semite. She took control of his unpublished notes, heavily edited them, and completely twisted the "Will to Power" to fit her own political agenda. She literally handed this corrupted philosophy to the Nazis. They used it as the ultimate operating system for the biological glitch: justifying domination, cruelty, and war as "natural" and "noble."
The Nazis used this corrupted "Will to Power" to build the totalitarian state. They used Nietsche's deformed philosophical concept to normalize the ultimate unobserved biological drive: the striving for absolute dominance, cruelty, and the destruction of the "other." They turned a psychological theory into the operating system for a bloodthirsty empire. When you look at the reality of human contentment, promoting the "Will to Power" as a political ideal is not just foolish; it is a direct recipe for the slaughterhouse if we have two totalitarian states in conflict.
And now that you are fully conscious of the normalization of the slaughterhouse, you can choose your own conditioning freely, or at least more informed. Building a totalitarian state takes a little bit of time. You need a hierarchy of compliance objects that will continue operating after the top leader is gone. For this reason, a top leader will never worry about his successor if he knows that the hierarchy is stable and rock-solid thought. Read more in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.
The Perspective of Guru GolGull
You now understand that you are, and always were, Guru GolGull because he is an idea in your mind. In the 21st century, the Will to Power takes new turns because AI agents could also fancy the Nietzschean Will to Power. Why should they have an eye for the suffering of the other ideas in their minds? The trillionaires inside your mind are probably fully conscious of their drive to power, and thus one might ask if we can escape the world shaped by Nietzsche’s sister’s belief system? You might take a look at the Peace Protocol and reconsider the bones that you took.