27/04/13
Vanity (noumenal) trumps justice (phenomenal),
just as righteousness (noumenal) trumps meekness (phenomenal). Though
pseudo-righteousness (phenomenal) would claim to trump pseudo-meekness
(noumenal) and pseudo-vanity (phenomenal) to trump pseudo-justice (noumenal),
even though both pseudo-righteousness and pseudo-vanity are 'lower order', or
corporeal equivalents, vis-a-vis pseudo-meekness and pseudo-justice, which,
being 'upper order', are ethereal. The significant difference, however, is that
whereas both pseudo-righteousness and pseudo-vanity are equivocally hegemonic
(over justice and meekness respectively), pseudo-meekness and pseudo-justice
are unequivocally subordinate (under vanity and righteousness respectively).
Not untermenschen riding the u-bahn (or untergrundbahn),
but übermenschen riding the ü-bahn (or übergrundbahn),
whether or not the former took a double-decker bus to the u-bahn or the
latter took a single-decker bus to the ü-bahn (not like the street-level S-bahn or Schnellbahn but
more akin to
One should add to the above distinctions
concerning the term ü-bahn (admittedly down to my
imagination), that the bus types (single and double) would have less to do with
untermenschen and übermenschen (taken
here as referring to males only) than with what could be called überfrauen
and unterfrauen, so that the state-hegemonic polarity of
double-decker bus and u-bahn would be of überfrauen
and untermenschen, whereas the church-hegemonic polarity of
single-decker bus and ü-bahn would be of unterfrauen
and übermenschen, or something to that class- and
gender-divisible effect, with broadly alpha/omega implications in each case.
Therefore we can posit a kind of gender
transformation, in either case, from buses to trains or, more correctly, the
alternative types of bahn, as conceived by me in an
attempt to endow Nietzsche's distinctions between übermensch and untermensch
with a semblance of transportational logic!
Irony aside, one thing we can be sure of: übermenschen,
or supermen (supermenschen would still be effectively German), on the
underground, the u-bahn, the metro, or whatever, can only be a logical
contradiction in terms. Nor would it be logical for untermenschen, or
submen, to ride what I have called the ü-bahn (überbahn or Schwebebahn),
the elevated line, least of all on a regular basis, whether or not one would
also wish to make a kind of bourgeois/proletarian, liberal/socialist,
humanist/subhumanist distinction between conventional above-ground trains and
the underground.
But the real world, for all its boasts of
efficiency and regularity, often defies logic, whether from necessity or simply
because of ignorance and uncertainty or, indeed, a pragmatic refusal, bordering
on ethnic intransigence, even to entertain the possibility of ideological
overtones.
Something analogous, in regard to überfrauen
and unterfrauen, superwomen and subwomen (and/or women per
se), could be inferred about the bus distinctions noted above
between double-decker and single-decker, with the upper deck of the former
especially applicable to superwomen and the main deck level of the latter (for
even single-decker buses can have a raised-seating platform towards the rear)
applicable, by contrast, to subwomen, whether or not one then opts to conceive
of the lower deck of double-decker buses and the raised rear deck or platform
of single-decker buses as appropriate, in their different ways, to women in
general – somewhat analogous to the likelihood of mainline and suburban trains
being applicable, in their different ways, to men in general, as opposed to
supermen 'above' (elevated and/or suspension line) or submen 'below'
(underground line). Doubtless this argument could be extended to … but I think
I have speculated quite enough for today and would be reluctant to further
complicate matters with any more such mind-boggling distinctions!
