THE FEW AND THE MANY

1. Truth is not for all, but only for some - namely the metaphysical, who stand to the physical (to name but one alternative category of persons) as the subjective Few to the subjective Many, the cultural individuals to the natural (philistine) collectivity. Such people are genuinely (in transcendentalism) religious, and they stand at a noumenal (time/space) remove from the physical in what amounts to an upper-class mode of subjectivity.

2. Knowledge is not for all, but only for some - namely the physical, who stand to the metaphysical as the subjective Many to the subjective Few, the natural collectivity to the cultural individuals. Such people are genuinely (in capitalism) economic, and they stand at a phenomenal (mass/volume) remove from the metaphysical in what amounts to a lower-class mode of subjectivity.

3. Strength is not for all, but only for some - namely the chemical, who stand to the metachemical (to name but one alternative category of persons) as the objective Many to the objective Few, the civilized collectivity to the barbarous individuals. Such people are genuinely (in parliamentarianism) political, and they stand at a phenomenal (volume/mass) remove from the metachemical in what amounts to a lower-class mode of objectivity.

4. Beauty is not for all, but only for some - namely the metachemical, who stand to the chemical as the objective Few to the objective Many, the barbarous individuals to the civilized collectivity. Such people are genuinely (in cosmology) scientific, and they stand at a noumenal (space/time) remove from the chemical in what amounts to an upper-class mode of objectivity.

5. Truth and beauty are for the Few, but for opposite kinds of noumenal persons - namely the metaphysical and the metachemical, the cultural and the barbarous, the subjective and the objective, the philosophical and the poetical, the soulful and the wilful.

6. Knowledge and strength are for the Many, but for opposite kinds of phenomenal persons - namely the physical and the chemical, the natural and the civilized, the subjective and the objective, the fictional and the theatrical, the intellectual and the spiritual.

7. One can no more expect all noumenal people to live by truth than to live by beauty, or vice versa.

8. One can no more expect all phenomenal people to live by knowledge than to live by strength, or vice versa.

9. So long as there are distinctions between the Few and the Many (as there will be in any viable and, in the broadest sense, civilized society), there will be distinctions between beauty and strength on the one hand, that of female objectivity, and between knowledge and truth on the other hand, that of male subjectivity.

10. And, invariably, there will be like-distinctions between science, politics, economics, and religion, as between fire, water, vegetation, and air.

11. The metaphysical Few understand the truth and live to transcend it in joy, which is heavenly.

12. The physical Many do not and (frankly) cannot understand the truth (of genuine religion), and therefore religion for them has to be conceived in terms of knowledge and, through that, the attainment of pleasure, which is earthly.

13. The chemical Many do not and (frankly) cannot understand the truth, and therefore religion for them has to be conceived in terms of strength and, through that, the attainment of pride, which is purgatorial.

14. The metachemical Few do not and (frankly) cannot understand the truth, and therefore religion for them has to be conceived in terms of beauty and, through that, the attainment of love, which is hellish.

15. The metachemical Few are thrice removed from the possibility of truth. The chemical Many are twice removed from the possibility of truth. The physical Many are once removed from the possibility of truth.

16. Only the metaphysical Few can live in truth, for they are as gods compared to or contrasted with everyone else.