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Osho’s and Finn’s Ideals Compared at Core By Bodhangkur 1. Comparing Osho’s New Man A
charismatic metaphor for an allegedly “integrated, spontaneous, guilt-free,
aware” adult who has transcended conditioning. Finn’s Perfect Unit A
procedural emergent whose optimal functioning arises from maximal
confinement—i.e., from being fully determined by its internal structure
and constraints. Thus Finn’s minim: Meaning: ·
A procedure bound perfectly to its design (its
constraints) ·
Functions at maximum efficiency ·
Experiences its regulation as freedom (no
friction) ·
Because it never contradicts its own instruction
set. In Finn’s
system, freedom = absence of internal contradiction, not absence of
constraint. 2. The Central Contradiction: Osho Denies Confinement
While Requiring It Osho: Claims
the New Man is: ·
Unrepressed ·
Unconditioned ·
Beyond morality ·
Spontaneous ·
Integrated ·
Free But the architecture he describes requires: ·
continuous self-surveillance ·
intense awareness discipline ·
emotion filtering ·
impulse regulation ·
rejection of social scripts ·
sustained non-reactivity This is systemic
confinement. The New
Man must run thousands of constraints smoothly, invisibly. A perfect
slave: ·
fully obedient to its own structure ·
fully aligned internally ·
no wasted motion ·
no contradictions ·
no guilt loops ·
no noise ·
therefore free Osho’s
ideal is only coherent when interpreted through Finn’s logic, not his
own. 3. Why Finn’s Perfect Unit Is the Real Version of
Osho’s New Man The Perfect Unit (Procedure Monism): ·
operates purely according to its constraints ·
does not anticipate the future ·
adapts by iteration ·
has no inherited guilt or metaphysical burden ·
acts with total immediacy ·
has no “borrowed morality” because it has no
stored scripts ·
therefore
inherently spontaneous ·
therefore
internally undivided ·
therefore “free” in Finn’s sense: frictionless
operation This is
the structural description Osho tries to give metaphorically. The
difference is: 4. But Finn’s Perfect Unit Is Never an Adult This is
the crucial insight. Osho
imagines the New Man as a mature, self-designed being who has overcome
conditioning. But
Finn’s logic shows: The only
emergent that meets Osho’s criteria is the newborn baby. Why? 1. The baby has zero borrowed morality. It has
internal programs, not inherited doctrines. 2. The baby lives without repression. It cannot
repress; it has no secondary inhibitory networks. 3. The baby is fully spontaneous. No
internalised rule-set. No guilt. No shame. No
self-narrative. 4. The baby has no inner division. It cannot
yet split into “watcher vs watched,” It is a single
procedural stream, pure output of its own constraints. 5. The baby accepts life unconditionally. Life-affirmation
is not a choice; it is default survival drive. 6. The baby is maximally confined. It is
utterly bound to its constraints—neurological, metabolic, environmental. It is the
perfect slave, and therefore the freest being in Finn’s sense. 7. The baby’s world is unpredictable and random. The
infant’s interface cannot predict anything. This is
exactly the procedural condition Osho tries to romanticize. Thus: The only
true New Man is the newborn. Everything
else is an adult pretending to be one. 5. The Final Comparison (Table)
Osho’s
adult New Man is an advertising sketch. The Final Sentence Osho’s New Man is the newborn baby rebranded as
an adult ideal; Finn’s Perfect Unit is what the baby already is—maximally
confined, frictionlessly free, fully present, and procedurally perfect. |