Personal Note XXX

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

My views on motivation |
Sunday – January 11, 2026

Motivation is to me really an infuriating word, or concept rather, but I do not allow this provocative concept to lead me down the path of rage. The main reason why I dislike, to say the least, the concept of motivation is that it should not take extra effort for you to finish the task that you have sought out. But the more subtle reason why I dislike motivation is of course that motivation is something temporary, fleeting, and always transient: motivation is really a concept that is designed for the modern world. I cannot conceive of such a concept, at any rate I will not attempt to conceive of such a concept, among men of the past, for their lot in life was to complete the task at hand. But individualism and really the social confusion of the modern world has enabled this concept to take root in the minds of most men, and consequently most men lack not only skills but any way of approaching problems in the material domain, in order so that they should secure their own future, and let alone any skills in relation to the metaphysical, something that is completely foreign to most modern men. What this all means is basically this: most modern men are expected to not be well rounded, not even in the material domain, and this lack of knowledge and skills makes them very vulnerable and open to the malign influences of the serpent. If you still don't quite get/understand what I am trying to communicate, think about my proposition this way: if you're attempting to do something, you may feel yourself highly motivated at a certain point, but you have also at another certain point felt how your motivation has faded away from you, and as a result any will or strength to pursue your own destiny has also faded away. Yes, this is by design: you are meant to believe that you are owed something, and while this may sound nice, this essentially means that you enter into an arrangement that will completely remove any autonomy that you could hope to have in this age of the Kali Yuga. This is the point of that dastardly concept of positive rights, to make you unable, really a form of learned, dare I assert enforced, helplessness. As long as you are useful in whatever narrow domain that you allow yourself to become defined by, this is also why individualism is essential, you can carry the water for the materialist order, and it all appears to work out. The modern conception of this is of course the red and the blue pill, but I think that this is still a much too materialist and narrow view of the problem, because after all, becoming aware is not about evolution or becoming something, it's really about ascending to a higher level, and that doesn't require evolution, at least not in the typical way that modern men tend to conceive of the world as moving in a linear fashion towards some kind of inevitable solution to the human condition, what they like to label "progress", really something that can only be conceived of as the final rupture of humanity, the complete departure from the source, or as singularity. After all, let us remember that "progress" is nothing other than spiritual and intellectual decline, and really corruption, and this you are made to embrace? Yes, and for that you need to rely on the ever fleeting feeling of being motivated; in the end you will not succeed, because motivation is really a mind game. I guess I can provide this perhaps oversimplified yet important distinction: if you intend to succeed, even if this is merely material and profane success, you need skills and you need to apply those skills consistently, and within this equation motivation really plays no role; if anything motivation will only serve to bring you down, because motivation gives you the moral excuse to to excuse yourself for every good deed that you have done, and in the end this will bring you down. Think about motivation as the way to keep you as an indentured servant, in what I choose to label a form of metaphysical servitude to the material order: you may never know the answer because you are simply not expert enough, but the expert can never provide enough of an answer, for their views are based on supposed facts that themselves are based on seeming relativism that emanates necessarily—due to the logical contradiction inherent in this way of reasoning—into nothingness.

    Motivation should be thought of as something that exists to drain your energy, a veritable black hole really, and something that really enables cannibalism. From a material point of view, I think the best way of describing motivation would be mathematically, as a function of effort: at first your motivation will be high, but the more effort you put into something, the more you will lose motivation, until conversely another form of motivation, that form that calls on you to rest your effort, tells you to cease you effort and fall into the hands of modernity. Really, motivation is and has always been inversely correlated with effort, and that's because motivation is a false form of contemplation, and in a sense you may think of this false form of contemplation as the propaganda of the serpent. Action is not your enemy, but action requires skillful contemplation, something that most modern men lack, and instead their lack of contemplation leads them to this modern bastardization of contemplation – motivation. No, I reject motivation and if I start to feel motivated I always, if I can, turn to deep contemplation in the form of meditation.

Reginald Drax – January 11, 2026.