FROM
CHAOS TO
1. Chaos, anarchy, and other crude
manifestations of barbarism/philistinism, or undue naturalism, can have no
place in a society unequivocally orientated towards the maximum of positive, or
supreme, being. Rather are they symptoms
of pre-worldly societies whose primitivity
necessarily fell short of culture/civilization.
2. With culture/civilization and a positive
commitment, institutionally upheld, to sensibility, one enters the world, which
is to say, those societies given, in greater or lesser degree, to a sensible
alternative to sensuality, and thus to the possibility of knowing right from
wrong.
3. Prior to the world of partial, or humanistic,
adherence to culture/civilization, there was only the chaos and/or anarchy of
unequivocally barbarous/philistine societies, which did not distinguish between
right and wrong but effectively lived in the wrong as if it were right, knowing
no better.
4. To call such
societies paradisiacal would indeed be to debase the concept of paradise, and
to wrongly identify chaos with it!
5. In reality, nothing
could be further from paradise than the sort of primitive pre-worldly societies
based in the irrational and altogether unconstitutional rule of chaos!
6. If things proceed from alpha to omega, as
from chaos to order, anarchy to polity, chance to determinism, freedom to
binding, then they do so via the world and the transmutation of chaos in line
with the development, on an alternative basis, of culture and civilization.
7. It may even be that barbarism and
philistinism are transmutations of chaos commensurate with the acceptance of
culture and civilization, and are only properly recognizable as such in
relation to the latter.
8. Thus if barbarism and philistinism are only
recognizable as such from the standpoints of culture and civilization, the
cultural rejection of nature and the civil rejection of barbarity, the latter
will have to have come officially to pass before the former can be evaluated
and condemned for their opposition to sensibility from an overly sensual base,
whether barbarous or natural.
9. But worldly culture and civilization, as we
have seen, will continue to be subject to periodic or intermittent outbreaks of
barbarism and philistinism, to greater or lesser extents depending on the
nature of the particular culture/civilization complex and the individuals of
which it is composed.
10. Only in a post-worldly culture/civilization
complex, commensurate with 'Kingdom Come', would the development of cultural/civilized
stability and continuity be substantially different from the worldly past, and
then because such an omega-oriented society was sufficiently God-directed as to
have post-human aspirations and the desire and capacity, in consequence, to engineer,
at both alpha and omega levels, the artificial transmutation of life towards a
much less relativistic end.
11. And such societies would come, in the course
of cyborg-to-post-human time, to resemble genuine
paradises which, in their stability and positivity,
were as far removed from the chaotic anarchy or anarchic chaos of primitive
societies as to be their complete antitheses.
12. They would even become antithetical to the
Cosmos itself, as they gravitated, under technological and moral guidance, from
being 'paradises on earth' to being 'paradises in Heaven', which is to say, set
in space centres at a discreet remove from earthly gravity and, by implication,
gravitas.
13. One can speak, it seems to me, of devolution
from alpha chaos in the Cosmos (Hell) to unequivocal barbarism/naturalism in
the pre-world, and from worldly relativity in cultural/civilized opposition to
barbarity/philistinism to unequivocal post-worldly evolution towards omega
paradise in the Universe (Heaven), or space as a setting for that which,
equivalent to omega points, was antithetical to the Cosmos, and therefore
properly universal.
14. One can contrast the convolutional
nature of devolution from cosmic chaos with the involutional
nature of evolution towards universal paradise, as one would contrast the
centrifugal with the centripetal, whether objectively or subjectively, in
relation to straight lines or to curves.
15. Were paradise to slide back into chaos, the
omega into the alpha, it would indeed be a grim joke and unfortunate irony of
life, but I do not believe that it would or could, since it is something at the
furthest possible remove from chaos, like an old person on the point of death
from a baby on the point of birth. The
old person does not turn into the baby, or vice versa.
16. The circle of life
has gaps in it, both with regard to the furthest point of devolution vis-à-vis
the hindmost point of evolution, and the furthermost point of evolution
vis-à-vis the hinderleast point, so to speak, of
devolution.
17. Such gaps can only be bridged by revolution,
since that removes what exists to either side of itself, and in the context of
the Cosmos/Universe such a procedure could only be counter-revolutionary and
therefore morally impermissible and unjustifiable.
18. A revolution that leads from devolution to an
evolutionary alternative to it which yet co-exists with the
barbarous/philistine consequences of devolution is one thing; a
counter-revolution that reverses what has been gained by culture/civilization
at the expense of barbarism/philistinism or which strives, cold-bloodedly, to
return from omega to the alpha beginnings of things again, descending from the
heights of reason and morality to the depths, the alpha-most beginnings, of
unreason and immorality would be the product of insanity and corruption, and
could never, under any circumstances, be encouraged or condoned.
19. One can only suppose the chances of that
happening in a highly advanced culture/civilization complex to be extremely
remote, given the rule of morality and preponderance, under evolutionary
involution, of paradisiacal reason.
20. For that which is
most rational or logical is most wise, and contrasts, absolutely, with that
which, having no reason or logic at all, is most irrational and illogical, and
avowedly most evil. God's
utmost logicality contrasts, absolutely, with the Devil's utmost illogicality, as the most evolved philosopher with the
least devolved poet, or paradise with chaos.
