Future planning?

"Future?" by Boris Bobrov

Future planning?
Tuesday – February 17, 2026

Should you plan for the future? Well, to answer the easy part of that question first: you should always plan ahead in the immediate or short term, and that would include everything from paying taxes to not dying of starvation. That's the easy part, but with the heading, "Future planning?", I have in mind a rather more long term question: should you plan ahead for several decades. Well for instance, most people plan for what they're going to do when they decide to retire, but this isn't true either; it's actually the case that most people plan for their retirement rather than what they're going to do once they're retired. But this post isn't about retirement; what I'm getting at is the idea that you for sure will have a life in the far future, and by far I'm referring to life many decades ahead, read my post "When will you die" to get some more ideas on why this question is important.

    See, you're not going to be alive in a hundred year, at least that's not very likely, and most moderns seem unable to contend with the fact of life that it at some point will reach an end. Sure, for most people this is existentially agonizing, especially in a time when meaning has been replaced with sentimentality and mechanic "evolutionism", but nonetheless modern people will have to contend with this at some point, either because they themselves know that their life's coming to and end or because someone they value's life's coming to and end. I guess a more penetrating question would be: why should you plan ahead to a certain demise? Will you be around in the year 2030? Yes, it's very likely that you will be around in the year 2030, depending, of course, on individual circumstances. See, it's alright to want to know stuff about the future, but the fact is that you can't know too much about the future; the future is an unknowable quality, really the closest thing moderns come to pure potentiality or the pure essence of substance, read "The Primordial Body". With all the wisdom and "knowledge" of profane science, it seems quite impossible still for modern men to even have the slightest idea of what the future should be, even though this future was actually always fairly apparent to anyone willing to look, but that just refers back to what I've already mentioned. The fact is that modern men lack the capability to actually penetrate beyond the limits of their own senses, and this is why I quite rightly refer to modern men as animals, because animals only contend with their immediate domain, because this is the only thing that animals are capable of doing, read "Transhumanism". The fact is that you owe no real allegiance to the future, to the unknown without a proper understanding of the metaphysical domain, and this is actually another expression of individualism, read "Collectivism & Individualism series". It's all the more harder for modern men to even feel the slightest regard for the generations that came before him, and more often than not, modern men engage in this kind of cheap and dirty politics of blaming all the current problems with the temporal domain on those who may not defend themselves. But why are the dead so defenseless? Again, because of individualism and the compartmentalization of people into "sovereign" individuals with no past and no future, at least no future beyond themselves. See, what kind of future is that? This is really what I'm getting at: what kind of future is planning ahead for your ultimate and material demise? Is this the only thing that can be considered a future? Again, here we have a very interesting and prominent case of individualism, really the most outwardly aggressive expression of the materialist order: everything began with me and everything ends with me. Indeed, I believe that the most commonly used words in English are "me" and "I", which is also emphasized grammatically by the need to force i, as in I, into the capital form, a true grammatical monstrosity. But this individualization and compartmentalization of society is really just a kind of "atomization" of the societal order into materially useful automatons, and the result is an ever shrinking horizon or limit, until there's nothing left but the material wonders of the animal domain.

    Should you plan ahead then? Well, again of course you should plan ahead, but your planning should not only include yourself, and the fact that your planning almost certainly only includes yourself goes to show how low you have sunken. But this idea of planning ahead only for yourself is such a recent phenomena that I dare only to trace its origins back to the start of the industrial age; before that, the notion of "planning ahead for yourself" was, for the most part, inconceivable for most people. It does get hard though, to understand the world from a purely material and individualistic perspective, and notions such as community and family do start to break down, but at the end of the day, the main purpose of the humanist axiom was to liberate your from this oppression, especially if you're a woman, because who can want to put a child into the world before pursuing a career, something that most "conservatives" like to shout and caper a great deal about, while at the same time defending the disorder that enabled this depravity in the first place.

    Social breakdown, the close of the Kali Yuga, individualism, modern warfare, nationalism, transhumanism, etc, etc,... What kind of future is this, if you only consider the corporeal means of life? This is, of course, no future at all, and indeed you'd be better off joining your nihilistic contemporaries into the abyss of the past, the forgone, and the forgettable – really everything must be forgettable in the true fashion of materialism. Tradition stands for nothing but confusion, oppression, superstition and evil; "progress" and the near future, shrinking though it may be, is everything that you have left, everything that hasn't been stolen from you – yet. Well, that's if you continue on your ways, and the real choice you have is actually to plan ahead for a better future beyond the corporeal, which is a particularly fitting word for this post. That choice is yours, regardless of your aptitudes.

Reginald Drax – February 17, 2026.