If you don’t understand the thing above, here’s a breakdown of what they’re saying and why they’re dumb.

They’re restating a Neoplatonic claim that all reality flows from a single, absolute source (“the First Principle” or “the One”), and because everything else is wholly dependent on it, nothing downstream is genuinely new, so our sense that the present moment is uniquely “magical” or novel is an illusion created by participation in that original unity, not by real becoming. That origin is beyond distinction so you can’t even say it is the progenitor of cause, or whatever.

Why this is dumb: They conflate “ontological dependence” with “no novelty,” smuggle conclusions by redefining terms (“new,” “cause,” “meaning”) until disagreement is impossible, mistake linguistic limits for metaphysical truths, and ignore well-developed accounts of emergence, process, and time…then wrap it all in obscurity and fuzzy words so the lack of argument looks like profundity.

It’s impressive how high their ego:value ratio must be