CYCLE FIFTEEN

1. One can do negatively or positively, competitively or co-operatively, and those who do negatively do such on the basis of materialism in metachemical primacy, whereas those who do positively do such on the basis of fundamentalism in metachemical supremacy.

2. One can give negatively or positively, competitively or co-operatively, and those who give negatively do such on the basis of realism in chemical primacy, whereas those who give positively do such on the basis of nonconformism in chemical supremacy.

3. One can take negatively or positively, competitively or co-operatively, and those who take negatively do such on the basis of naturalism in physical primacy, whereas those who take positively do such on the basis of humanism in physical supremacy.

4. One can be negatively or positively, competitively or co-operatively, and those who tend to be negatively are such on the basis of idealism in metaphysical primacy, whereas those who tend to be positively are such on the basis of transcendentalism in metaphysical supremacy.

5. An age or society in which primacy has eclipsed supremacy as the prevailing mean will be one in which competition, founded upon negative values, takes precedence over co-operation, and success is judged on the basis of competitive ascendancy, especially in relation to materialism and realism.

6. Even before the slide from sensual supremacy to sensual primacy, and the corresponding hegemony of materialism over idealism and of realism over naturalism, societies in which sensible primacy had become the mean would have demonstrated, in contrary terms, a competitive bias, whether with regard to idealism over materialism or, down below in the phenomenal realm, to naturalism over realism.

7. It is not inconceivable, but indeed all too plausible, that the degeneration of sensibly-biased societies from supremacy to primacy played a part in the Protestant Reformation and consequent entrenchment of sensual supremacy.

8. Be that as it may, the contemporary emphasis, in the Anglo-American West, on sensual primacy is indicative of a society in which competition will be rather more objective than subjective, with corresponding materialist and realist hegemonies.

9. Competitiveness thrives on negative values like hatred, humility, pain, and woe, and these are precisely the most characteristic values of societies in which primacy has eclipsed supremacy in consequence of the ongoing entrenchment of inorganic factors at the organic's expense.

10. Hence competition is something to regret from an organic and therefore supreme standpoint which, due to its positive nature, will prefer co-operation. No supreme taking, much less supreme being, can be cultivated in societies which are in the grip of primacy, whether in sensibility or, worse again from a male point-of-view, in sensuality.

11. Even primal being, that characteristic of inorganic godliness, will be subject to a subordinate position to primal doing in sensual contexts, while primal taking will likewise be subordinate to primal giving in those societies which are characterized by a sensual bias overall.

12. Hence the rule of metachemical primacy over metaphysical primacy in the noumenal case of sensual competitiveness, and the rule, or rather governance, of chemical primacy over physical primacy in the phenomenal case of sensual competitiveness.

13. Which is equivalent to the rule of ugliness and hatred over falsity and woe in the one case, and of weakness and humility over ignorance and pain in the other case.

14. Societies in which sensible primacy had eclipsed sensible supremacy would more signify the lead of ugliness and hatred by falsity and woe in the noumenal case, and the lead or, rather, representation of weakness and humility by ignorance and pain in the phenomenal case.

15. Either way, we would not be able to speak of the hegemony of positive values, neither objectively in sensuality, where beauty and love would rule over truth and joy and, down below, strength and pride have the upper hand over knowledge and pleasure, nor subjectively in sensibility, where truth and joy would have the upper hand over beauty and love, and knowledge and pleasure likewise have the upper hand over strength and pride.

16. Societies which have 'gone to the dogs' of primacy are ill-equipped to foster positive values, whether in relation to doing, giving, taking, or to being. Only negative values thrive in them, whether in relation to materialism, realism, naturalism, or to idealism. Everything fundamentalist, nonconformist, humanist, and transcendentalist will be subject to ridicule from the standpoint of a competitive edge.