“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Sunday, June 14, 2015
All that we do is lie to ourselves
So the conclusion to be drawn from all this is that the category of the real is ultimately a purely formal category. It's not a category of some formless content disturbing order, it's a pure structural gap. It's an entirely non-substantial category. It's...If we may put it in these terms, it's a difference, but a pure difference. A pure difference in the sense that it's a difference which is paradoxically prior to what it is the difference between. So it's not simplythat we have two terms and there is a difference between the two terms. Paradoxically, the two positive terms appear afterwards as attempts to dominate, cover up the tension etc. of this difference.
-Slavoj Zizek, "The Reality of the Virtual"
The lesson of this is ontological lesson: is: one cannot coincide with itself, pure difference, because of this pure difference as a secondary effect the multitude explodes.
-Slavoj Zizek, "The Reality of the Virtual"
Then may we not sum up the argument in a word and say truly: If one is not, then nothing is?
Certainly.
Let thus much be said; and further let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Alas! Alack! For good or ill The world is no tea party. When issues press, voices get shrill And indignation hearty. This may distress the sensitive And rouse self-righteous ire But Life's duress oft tends to give Each ass a kiss of fire.
The best way to defeat a fool? Shower her with ridicule! We've learned the tactic from the Left Who of all else seem quite bereft. Insults, curses, shouts and threats Won't pay a penny of our debts, Relieve us of our social ills, Or pay for all the latest pills. So when an ass steps up to rule us 'Tis best to say, "You do not fool us, "Your King parades without a stitch And so do you. You got so rich Pretending that for us you cared. If I were you, I'd not have dared. For all the tea leaves do portend That you shall get it in the end.
Are you kidding" When it comes to human perception and human understanding EVERYTHING is "subjective." We make up all sorts of high-faluting terms, and polysyllabic names to make ourselves look "smart" to the common herd, but at root ALL is FABRICATION.
"Reason is but the slave of Passion," and ever more shall be so.
When it comes to human perception and human understanding EVERYTHING is "subjective."
And once, when it came to Divine Perception and G_dlike Understanding, the "Christian" G_d became "Subjectively Itself"... Self-Limitted... Jesus... Incarnate and then made Passion His slave.... or so some believe. ;)
10 comments:
____________ The Fittest ____________
The cockroach, like the horseshoe crab,
Is said to be successful
By Darwinists, 'cause we don't grab
The crab and vermin's stressful.
~ FT
_____ The Ass’s Lament _____
Alas! Alack! For good or ill
The world is no tea party.
When issues press, voices get shrill
And indignation hearty.
This may distress the sensitive
And rouse self-righteous ire
But Life's duress oft tends to give
Each ass a kiss of fire.
~ Kassandra Kaputski
____________ An Rx ____________
The best way to defeat a fool?
Shower her with ridicule!
We've learned the tactic from the Left
Who of all else seem quite bereft.
Insults, curses, shouts and threats
Won't pay a penny of our debts,
Relieve us of our social ills,
Or pay for all the latest pills.
So when an ass steps up to rule us
'Tis best to say, "You do not fool us,
"Your King parades without a stitch
And so do you. You got so rich
Pretending that for us you cared.
If I were you, I'd not have dared.
For all the tea leaves do portend
That you shall get it in the end.
~ La contessa, Vendetta Sanguini
Let's try not descend to their level of subjectivity, FT. ;)
Are you kidding" When it comes to human perception and human understanding EVERYTHING is "subjective." We make up all sorts of high-faluting terms, and polysyllabic names to make ourselves look "smart" to the common herd, but at root ALL is FABRICATION.
"Reason is but the slave of Passion," and ever more shall be so.
When it comes to human perception and human understanding EVERYTHING is "subjective."
And once, when it came to Divine Perception and G_dlike Understanding, the "Christian" G_d became "Subjectively Itself"... Self-Limitted... Jesus... Incarnate and then made Passion His slave.... or so some believe. ;)
...other Rejoice that it may have been the End of Subjectivity.
...and that from now on, He will always Be with us.
...and through this "Subjective Act," He has forever borne away the sins of mankind.
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