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UNFLATTERING
CONCLUSIONS
Aphoristic
Philosophy
Copyright
©
2011
John
O'Loughlin
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CONTENTS
Aphs.
1–131
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1. People
distinguish rather glibly between the privileged and the
under-privileged, as though
there could be only two categories. But
I find it makes more sense to divide the privileged into two categories
standing respectively in between the over-privileged and the
under-privileged,
as one might call the upper- and lower-class extremes, with the
privileged
divisible, in typically middle-class fashion, between those who play
more than
work and those who work more than play, who work to play or play to
work,
without being identifiable, therefore, with those who, as
over-privileged, live
to play and those who, as under-privileged, live to work - the former
effectively playboys and the latter workmen or, in equivalent
terminology, workgirls.
2. Therefore
I shall distinguish the over-privileged from the under-privileged on
the basis
of an upper-class/lower-class dichotomy which could be said to flank,
above and
beneath, the middle-class privileged, who are neither so typified by
play that
they could be described as playboys nor so typified by work that they
could be
described, in like terms, as workgirls,
but come,
somewhat professionally and/or vocationally, somewhere in between the
more and
less than privileged classes.
3. Therefore
the working class are, by logical definition, under-privileged compared
to
their lower-middleclass counterparts, who have more time or inclination
for
play without ceasing to be characterized primarily by work, whereas the
leisure
class are, by contrast, over-privileged compared to their
upper-middleclass
counterparts, who have more time or inclination for work without
ceasing to be
characterized primarily by play.
4. In
fact, between the extremes of a play-only upper class and a work-only
lower
class come the great playing/working middle classes who, in their
professional
and/or vocational responsibilities, are neither so over-privileged nor
so
under-privileged as to be either blessed with play or bereft of play
and
effectively cursed by work.
5. Strictly
speaking, one should contrast psychical (mental) play with physical
(manual)
play and psychical (mental) work with physical (manual) work, allowing
for
distinctions between the psychical play of what is genuinely upper
class, the
physical work of what is genuinely lower class, the psychical play
coupled to
psychical work of what is genuinely upper middle-class, and the
physical work
coupled to physical play of what is genuinely lower middle-class, so
that one
is left in no doubt that there is as much of a psychical/physical
distinction
between upper-class play and lower-middleclass play as there is a
physical/psychical
distinction between lower-class work and upper-middleclass work.
6. The
classes no more play (where applicable) in the same way than they work
(where
applicable) in the same way.
Lower-middleclass play, being largely physical in character,
will differ
not only from upper-class play but from upper-middleclass play, while
upper-middleclass work, being largely psychical in character, will
differ not
only from lower-class work but from lower-middleclass work.
7. I
have long believed and maintained that play appertains to the self and
work to
the not-self, as though in a sort of church/state or male/female
polarity. Yet I now see that one must
distinguish not
only between physical play and psychical play in respect of the lower
middle-class and their upper-middleclass and/or upper-class
counterparts, but
also between physical work and psychical work in respect of the lower
class
and/or lower middleclass and their upper-middleclass counterparts.
8. Therefore
it seems to me that physical play stands to psychical play as anti-self
to self, or being anti-self to being
pro-self, as though in a
diagonally rising bureaucratic-theocratic axial orientation in which
the chief
representatives of physical play were lower middle-class and the chief
representatives of psychical play either upper middle-class or upper
class.
9. Likewise
it seems to me that physical work stands to psychical work as not-self
to anti-notself, or being pro-notself to
being anti-notself, as though in a
diagonally falling
autocratic-democratic axial orientation in which the chief
representatives of
physical work were either lower class or lower middle-class and the
chief
representatives of psychical work upper middle-class.
10. Therefore
whereas the bureaucratic-theocratic axis would signify a diagonal
ascent from
the anti-self sinfulness of physical play to the pro-self gracefulness
of
psychical play, as from lower middle-class to upper middle-class and/or
upper
class, the autocratic-democratic axis would signify a diagonal descent
from the
pro-notself criminality of physical work to
the anti-notself punishingness
of
psychical work, as from working class and/or lower middle-class to
upper
middle-class.
11. Clearly
it makes a lot of difference whether you work or play, whether you
exist in relation
to the not-self, whether physically or psychically, or in relation to
the self,
whether physically or psychically, and if you do both, as in the case
of the
middle classes, then it seems to me that one will have a bias towards
either
work or play of one sort or another, without being exclusively given to
either.
12. Therefore
just as I have described the upper middle-class as being characterized
by a
bias for psychical play at the expense of psychical work without,
however,
being exclusively partial, in upper-class vein, to psychical play, so I
have
described the lower middle-class as being characterized by a bias for
physical
work at the expense of physical play without, however, being
exclusively
partial, in lower-class vein, to physical work.
13. Therefore
it may be inferred that whereas the upper middle-class will be more
partial to
being pro-self than anti-notself, their
lower-middleclass counterparts will be more partial to being pro-notself than anti-self without, however, the one
being
either exclusively pro-self like the upper class or the other
exclusively pro-notself like the lower
class, the classes which correspond,
after all, to what has been described as the over-privileged and the
under-privileged - the former of whom do no work and
the latter of whom have no play, or time for
play.
14. Therefore
being privileged is not to be exclusively pro-self, like the upper
class, but
rather to be either predominantly pro-self and subordinately anti-notself, like the upper middle-class, or
predominantly pro-notself and subordinately
anti-self like the lower
middle-class, who in comparison to their upper-middleclass counterparts
would
be less privileged in respect of a physical approach to play which,
besides
being subordinate to a physical approach to work, appertained rather
more to
the sphere of sin than to that of grace.
15. If,
therefore, one is still privileged in physical play, no matter how
inferior to
psychical play it may happen to be, or how subordinate to physical
work, it
follows that the under-privileged will be such only because they have
no time
or inclination for play but spend the greater part of their lives
working, and
working, moreover, in a physical context such that leaves something to
be
desired even from the standpoint of psychical work, the sort of work
more
congenial to the upper middle-class, who are, as often as not, an
executive
class.
16. When
we take the above findings literally, it would appear that the
bureaucratic-theocratic axis is primarily characterized, on the basis
of both
the lower- and upper-middleclass biases coupled to upper-class
criteria, by
physical work and psychical play, while the autocratic-democratic axis
is
likewise primarily characterized, on the basis of both the lower-class
and
lower-middleclass biases coupled to upper-middleclass criteria, by
physical
work and psychical play.
17. And yet I have
consistently argued, in the past, that
whereas the one axis is commensurate with sin and grace, the other is
no less
commensurate with crime and punishment, meaning that whereas the
bureaucratic-theocratic axis should be divisible between physical play
and
psychical play, its autocratic-democratic counterpart should attest to
a
division between physical work and psychical work.
How, then, are we to reconcile these two
seemingly contradictory conclusions?
18. The answer, it
seems to me, is really quite paradoxical but,
for that reason, nothing new to my work, having been dealt with in more
than
one recent text. For anything
bureaucratic, which should attest to a female hegemony, has to be
qualified in
relation to the existence of theocracy when once we have established
the
existence of a bureaucratic-theocratic axis, and theocracy, being male,
tends
to twist the terms of male/female relations in respect of bureaucracy
towards
itself, so that instead of a relatively criminal emphasis upon physical
work,
as in respect of a predominating lower-middleclass bias for the
not-self, one
finds a sinful emphasis upon physical play which stems from the
graceful attributes
characterizing, in psychically playful fashion, theocracy, so that,
compromised
from above, the bureaucratic mean is twisted towards an emphasis upon
anti-self
behaviour which owes more, in sinful vein, to males than to females.
19. Hence
the bureaucratic-theocratic axis attests to a church-hegemonic
situation in
which theocratic male criteria condition the lower-middleclass reality
of a
bias for physical work at the expense of physical play towards an
emphasis upon
physical play in terms of the sinful paradox, attributable to male
subversion,
of anti-self behaviour, which, from a theocratic standpoint centred in
grace,
is of course something to be repented of in the interests of self and
therefore
the possibility of psychic play.
20. Likewise,
anything democratic, which should attest to a male hegemony, has to be
qualified in relation to the existence of autocracy when once we have
established the existence of an autocratic-democratic axis, and
autocracy,
being female, tends to twist the terms of male/female relations in
respect of
democracy towards itself, so that instead of a graceful emphasis upon
psychical
play, as in respect of a predominating upper-middleclass bias for the
self, one
finds a punishing emphasis upon psychical work which stems from the
criminal
attributes characterizing, in physically working fashion, autocracy, so
that,
compromised from above, the democratic mean is twisted towards an
emphasis upon
anti-notself behaviour which owes more, in
punishing
vein, to females than to males.
21. Hence
the autocratic-democratic axis attests to a state-hegemonic situation
in which
autocratic female criteria condition the upper-middleclass reality of a
bias
for psychical play at the expense of psychical work towards an emphasis
upon
psychical work in terms of the punishing paradox, attributable to
female
subversion, of anti-notself behaviour,
which, from an
autocratic standpoint centred in crime, is of course something to be
wary of in
the interests of not-self and therefore the actuality of physical work.
22. How
paradoxical, therefore, are these contrary approaches to life which
divide
societies - and sometimes the same society - in terms of an overall
male
hegemonic control in the case of the bureaucratic-theocratic axis and
an
overall female hegemonic control in the case of the
autocratic-democratic axis,
the former making for the possibility of the graceful redemption of
sin, as of
physical play in psychical play, the latter making for the actuality of
the
criminal wariness of punishment, as of psychical work from the
standpoint of
physical work.
23. And
yet, no matter how paradoxical, the redemption of sin in grace remains
provisional and subject to the extent to which bureaucracy permits male
criteria to operate at the expense of a context which, by its very
lower-middleclass nature, is more characterized, in respect of a
(feminine)
female hegemony over (masculine or, more correctly, antimasculine)
males, by physical work and thus pro-notself
behaviour the existence of which precludes anything but an anti-self
stance on
the part of sinners, effectively if not literally male, and therefore
renders
their prospects of authentic grace in the psychical play of pro-self
behaviour
virtually non-existent, which is why, after all, the Roman Catholic
Church, the
Church of the bureaucratic-theocratic axis par
excellence, expects sin and forgives it in terms of verbal
absolution for penitential contrition, rather than rejects it outright
in the
name of a genuinely free or, rather, transcendental
theocracy.
24. Likewise,
no matter how paradoxical, the punishment of crime remains provisional
and
subject to the extent to which autocracy permits female criteria to
operate at
the expense of a context which, by its very upper-middleclass nature,
is more
characterized, in respect of a (masculine) male hegemony over (feminine
or,
more correctly, antifeminine) females, by
psychical
play and thus pro-self behaviour the existence of which precludes
anything but
an anti-notself stance on the part of
punishers, effectively
if not literally female, and therefore renders their prospects of
authentic
crime in the physical work of pro-notself
behaviour
virtually non-existent, which is why, after all, the Monarcho-Parliamentary
State, the State of the autocratic-democratic axis par
excellence, expects crime and punishes
it in terms of bourgeois justice, rather than rejects it outright in
the name
of a genuinely free or, rather, republican democracy.
25. No
more than the Roman Catholic Church can do away with sin, can the Monarcho-Parliamentary State do away with crime,
for the
one, though theocratically led, is
hampered by the
need to sinfully counter the overriding reality of bureaucracy as a
female
hegemonic context relatively governed by crime, while the other, though
democratically
led, is hampered by the need to punishingly
counter
the overriding reality of autocracy as a female hegemonic context
absolutely
governed by crime.
26. Neither
society is, or can be, completely free of their respective forms of
conservatism
- bureaucracy in the case of the Roman Catholic Church, autocracy in
the case
of the Monarcho-Parliamentary State, for
the reality
of sin and crime remains such that one can only forgive the one and
punish the
other. Transcending and/or rejecting
them would be an entirely different ball game!
27. And
yet one can see how important sin is to the Catholic Church as a means
of
countering what would otherwise be a criminal bias in respect of
bureaucratically hegemonic females in which physical work took heathenistic precedence over physical play, as
pro-notself behaviour over anti-self
behaviour, and the
church-oriented subversion of bureaucracy had to face the reality of
state
freedom in which not play but work was the physical mean, a mean which
still
obtains in relation to the bureaucratic state and precisely as one
characterized by lower-middleclass and working-class values.
28. Therefore
without sin, which indirectly stems from the graceful mean of theocracy
'On
High' as an overall controlling and guiding element in the
bureaucratic-theocratic equation, the likelihood of a context like
bureaucracy
reverting to a sin-denying criminally hegemonic context typified by
physical
work would be all the greater, and before long one would have an
unashamedly
secular form of republican bureaucracy which was to 'the world' what
its
unashamedly autocratic counterpart in authoritarian monarchy had been -
and in
some societies still was - to 'the netherworld', so to speak, of
despotic
tradition - an unequivocally female hegemonic reality which reduced
everything
to the somatic parameters of physical work, whether in respect
(autocratically)
of slavery or (bureaucratically) of manual labour.
29. The
Catholic Church at least guarantees that physical work takes a
back-seat,
intermittently, to physical play and its hope, by the 'faithful', of
graceful
redemption in and through psychical play, which is especially the
preserve of
theocracy but, most especially, of what I call Social Theocracy, the
theocracy
that would liberate from bureaucracy in the name of 'world overcoming'
and
'otherworldly coming', the sort of 'coming' one would associate with
Messianic
redemption and thus the prospect, no matter how seemingly remote it may
be at
present, of 'Kingdom Come'.
30. One
can see, without undue difficulty, that the bureaucratic-theocratic
axis,
rising diagonally from sin to grace, opens out to the prospect of a
freer and
altogether more genuine theocracy in respect of 'Kingdom Come' and an
effective
end to the bureaucratic 'world'. A
progression from the lower to the higher is not without logical appeal
and
credibility, and those who are lower have more to gain from hope in the
higher
than ever they do from complacency in and resignation to what is
sinfully low.
31. The
descending diagonal of autocracy-democracy, however, presents us with a
contrary dilemma, for that which is higher pertains to what is in back
of the
axis as its starting point and the lower is simply the democratic
alternative
to such an autocratic height, even if that height has to be
paradoxically
associated, in somewhat lower-class vein, with physical work rather
than
psychical work as far as those who are exploited by an autocratic elite
are
concerned.
32. Contrary
to bureaucracy-theocracy, which could be said to progress from the one
to the
other, the autocratic-democratic axis suggests a regression from the
higher to
the lower, and were that regression to continue to its lowest point, a
point
below parliamentary democracy and even liberal republicanism, it would
result
in the unattractive and somewhat problematic dead-end of Social
Democracy,
however one chooses to define this nadir of autocratic-democratic
regression.
33. Clearly,
such a situation would be intolerable to all but a comparatively small
number
of persons who revelled in the resurrection of autocracy in suitably
modified
terms at democracy's expense, and were determined to criminalize the
People in
order to be able to punish them as though in revenge for the
punishments which
the People, under the umbrella of parliamentary democracy, had heaped
upon the
autocratic whilst an autocratic-democratic axis prevailed.
34. Yet
there is something about such an axis which is the reverse of the
bureaucratic-theocratic one; for in spite of the desire to see some
kind of
progress in democracy at the expense of autocracy one can't help but
feel that,
logically considered, autocracy fundamentally 'calls the shots' and is
responsible for conditioning democracy towards a punishing paradox as
though to
put a break on its own criminal proclivities.
For left to itself the democratic context would signify a male
hegemony
over females characterized by relative grace, whereas due to the
conditioning
influence of autocracy 'On High', diagonally back up the said axis, it
is the (antifeminine) female criteria of
punishment which typify
the democratic response to the innate criminality of autocracy.
35. Therefore,
contrary to what was said above, in parallel to the
bureaucratic-theocratic
axis, the autocratic-democratic axis would seem to signify a context in
which
just as grace needs sin in order to counter the relative criminality of
bureaucratically hegemonic females, so crime needs punishment in order
to
counter the relative gracefulness of democratically hegemonic males,
and that,
far from being led by democracy, it is actually autocracy which, in
(diabolic)
female vein, rules democracy in a Monarcho-Parliamentary
society,
a
society
characterized
by the falling diagonal of
autocracy-democracy.
36. Hence
autocracy would be applying a break to democracy and anchoring it to a
punishing retort to crime, since what has emerged at autocracy's
expense has
not risen progressively towards a higher position, but fallen
regressively from
a higher position towards a lower one, a position that, were it to fall
further, could end-up turning upon itself and punishing its own alleged
crime
as the tables were ideologically turned upon the People.
37. Therefore
democracy is held back from Social Democracy by a constitutional
autocracy
which is responsible, in no small degree, for maintaining the punishing
nature
of democracy at its own expense rather than encouraging democracy to
regress
towards punishing itself on trumped-up charges of criminality which
were never
characteristic of democracy or of anything democratic in the first
place.
38. But
if autocracy still effectively 'calls the shots' for democracy's
parliamentary
sake, then it is difficult, to the point of impossible, to regard
democracy as
an ideal and as worthy an outcome to the historical process, as worthy
a goal,
as theocracy, since punishment must rank rather poorly compared to
grace as a
lasting ideal, an ideal which is not merely negatively ranged against
something
else, but positively conceived as an end in itself.
39. To be
sure, one could have a republican democracy typified, in relative
fashion, by
grace in the absence of autocratic conditioning factors which
maintained a
punishing paradox in relation to its own fundamental criminality. But such a republican democracy would only be
sustainable on a less than Social Democratic basis if it was
constrained by
some other factor, like the Catholic Church, from entering into a
regressive
spiral of self-destruction, and that in turn would modify the terms on
which
such a state existed, making it rather less relatively graceful than,
say,
pseudo-punishing in relation to the sinfulness of a hegemonic clerical
bureaucracy which functioned as a safeguard against the Social
Democratic
degeneration of democracy towards a punishing nadir.
40. For
democracy stems, in the main, from autocracy, specifically from the
sort of
free autocracy that rebelled against bureaucratic church control in the
Middle Ages,
and it is difficult to dissociate democracy from the punishment of
crime in
consequence, and even harder to square it, in state hegemonic terms,
with the
sort of church hegemonic traditions which characterize a
bureaucratic-theocratic axial orientation, so that any move towards
Social
Democracy in the face of such traditions would sooner or later rebound
on the
peoples or countries concerned, as has happened in a number of former
communist
states.
41. For
the free autocratic-democratic state hegemonic realities of countries
like
Britain, and in particular England, are almost unique to a White
Anglo-Saxon
Protestant (WASP) culture and not at all commensurate with Western
civilization
in general, least of all where the Roman Catholic Church still holds
sway. Therefore the adoption of such an
axis by
countries which, for one reason or another, have come under the
influence of
Britain could - and has - proved extremely problematic, especially
when, as has
been more usually the case, only the Social Democratic offshoot of it
has been
developed, and then with consequences which those more familiar with
the
autocratic-democratic axis have been careful all along to preclude, and
precisely by preventing Social Democracy from coming to pass in the
first
place!
42. Yet
even in relation to the less unsavoury manifestations of Social
Democracy that
are alleged to exist and, indeed, to typify the Continent by those in
Britain
anxious not to tread the path of further European integration, it is
apparent
that any form of Social Democracy can be used as an excuse by English
reactionaries to distance themselves, and by implication Britain, from
the centro-complexifying tendencies
currently at large in the
European Union.
43. Yet
is the Continent really as Social Democratic as some in Britain, mainly
Conservatives, would have people believe?
One can understand the qualms which the term 'Social Democracy'
evokes
in many British minds, notwithstanding the British failure and
subsequent
reluctance to establish Social Democracy within the parliamentary
framework. But frankly there is a lot of
difference between those parts of the Continent which come under Social
Democratic influence in view of their Protestant republican standing
and those
parts, doubtless far more prevalent in number, which are still governed
or
conditioned by criteria owing more, in French or Latin vein, to the
Roman
Catholic Church and to an avoidance of Social Democracy in all but
peripheral
or diplomatic terms.
44. Frankly,
it is hard to square the European Union with countries like Germany
which,
though clearly influential, are themselves not entirely Social
Democratic but
often conditioned by criteria owing more to the Roman Catholic Church
in all
but the heartlands of Protestantism where, as in North Germany, Social
Democracy would doubtless be more relevant, if within a broadly
pluralistic
framework commensurate with democracy as a whole.
45. No,
much as one can understand why there will be those in Britain who will
use any
excuse to distance themselves from Europe and the prospect of greater
European
integration, we cannot credit them with much justification in relation
to
Europe as a whole, the greater part of which is typified not by Social
Democracy but by the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on
politics,
whether openly or covertly, and the reluctance which many Britons
naturally
feel, in their Protestant sympathies and loyalties, to be drawn into
closer
association with what to them has always been a foreign threat to
native
culture, to the sort of autocratic-democratic culture which stems, in
large
part, from the twin influences of first Henry VIII and then Oliver
Cromwell in
respect of autocratic and democratic independence of church hegemonic
control,
and which led Britain, bit by bit, to withdraw from European
rationalism into a
worldview governed by empirical objectivity, a worldview rooted,
female-wise,
in fact rather than centred, male-wise, in truth.
46. Therefore
Britain, under English state-hegemonic control, will continue to back
away from
Europe and to oppose or at the very least slow the process of greater
European
integration in the interests of its own political traditions which, as
we have
seen, are not simply democratic but of a democratic order which is
ruled and
controlled, in no small degree, by freely autocratic criteria stemming
from
'above' which are deeply intertwined, in constitutional vein, with
parliament
and a democratic process which is not merely anti-social democratic
but, more
to the point, at axial variance with the bureaucratic-theocratic
traditions
more typifying not only the greater part of the European Continent but
Britain's nearest neighbour, the Republic of Ireland.
47. Anti-Social
Democratic sentiment is merely a ruse, ill-founded in relation to the
Continent
generally, which British conservatives use to oppose greater
integration with a
civilization which, in contrast to Britain, is and has long been more
bureaucratic-theocratic in axial character, and thus never entirely
independent
- communist aberrations aside - of the subjective influence of the
Roman
Catholic Church.
48. They
may speak in the name of the British people, but what they are actually
defending is a system in which the Many punish the Few through their
elected
representatives and the sorts of bills or prospective if not
proscriptive
parliamentary legislation which the non-elected representatives of the
monarchy
to parliament may well find problematic or downright unacceptable, but
in which
the Few still hold sway as the 'ideal', a perverse ideal, it may be, of
somatic
freedom of wilful impression, but an ideal of sorts which renders
autocracy
institutionally unassailable from democratic opposition, whether Social
Democratic or otherwise.
49. And
institutionally unassailable too, it must be said, from theocratic or,
rather,
bureaucratic opposition, from the bureaucratic alternative to
autocratic
freedom of impression which, while nominally free in its own sphere of
impressive influence, is paradoxically bound to the overarching
theocratic freedom
of expression which seeks to forgive sin in the interests of grace,
even when
the resulting grace leaves something to be desired from what I, as a
self-proclaimed Messiah, would call a Social Theocratic standpoint.
50. In
contrary fashion, the democratic parliament is bound to the
constitutional
monarchy, as oath-sworn subjects of the reigning monarch, and not in a
position
to act independently of the monarchy, independently, that is, in
respect of
republican or social democratic tendencies and intentions which fly in
the face
of constitutional approval, not least in respect of the House of Lords,
which,
as hinted above, is the non-elected body representing the monarch to
parliament, just as parliament represents the People to the monarchy in
the guise
of their elected representatives in the House of Commons - Lords and
Commons
being, despite obfuscations adduced by partisan parliamentarians of a
pompous
disposition, class opposites, and even antagonists, somewhat along the
lines of
nobles and plebeians.
51. Therefore
the British will fly from Continental pressures into the arms of their
reigning
monarch, the free autocracy which, despite constitutional ties to
parliament,
both noble and plebeian, is free in the sense of independent of
bureaucratic constraints
emanating from the Roman Catholic Church which, ever led by theocracy,
enjoins
the 'faithful' to penitential contrition in the interests of grace, and
thus
precludes that outright criminality which, I have to say, typifies the
sort of
autocratic state stemming from Henry VIII which concocted its own
subordinate
church in the form of the Anglican Church, a church I have previously
characterized as pseudo-graceful in relation to the genuine crime of
the freely
autocratic state, to which the punishment of the parliamentary state
pays heed
even at the cost of a pseudo-sinful subordinate church corollary in the
guise
of Puritanism, as also noted in a previous text.
52. Be
that as it may, the reigning fulcrum of things British is not
democratic and
parliamentary but autocratic and monarchic, and therefore the British
exemplify
a fatality, as subjects of a monarchy, towards the autocratic which
flies in
the face of their more bureaucratically-prone Continental counterparts,
whose
democracy is never very far from either bureaucracy or theocracy, and
rarely,
if ever, genuinely Social Democratic in consequence!
53. And
yet in fleeing from the Continent, the British only rush into the arms
of a more
active and contemporary form of autocracy, the pluralistic autocracy of
the
United States of America, which has the ability, in its cultural and
financial
allure, to overshadow the British monarchy and to provide an additional
excuse
why Britain should not accept further European integration.
54. For
it seems to many British people - and not without justification - that
they
have more in common with America, some of which was once a British
colony, than
ever they do with the Continent, bearing in mind its largely Catholic
traditions and the fact, by contrast, that America was founded by
Puritans
escaping Anglican persecution who would henceforward give to the
American
nation a profoundly Protestant stamp, the sort of stamp which enables
America
to boast of its democratic credentials even when its actions betray, as
they so
often do, an autocratic bias commensurate with the culture, as I like
to phrase
it, of perpendicular triangularity, the
sort of trianguarlity which, with its
fries, burgers and coke, or
jazz, blues and so-called soul, or gridiron, baseball and basketball,
or even
electric chair, gas chamber and lethal injection, is quintessentially
autocratic in respect of a metachemical
hegemony in
which freedom is superficially conceived in terms of will and a sort of
pro-notself somatic licence that makes a
god out of fire and
worships God in terms, necessarily fundamentalist, of the Old
Testament,
thereby drawing closer to Judaism and even, in some respects, to
Hinduism, with
its polytheistic (sic) fundamentalism anterior even to Jewish
monotheism (sic).
55. Certainly
the Jewish and Indian influences are even more characteristic of
America than
of Britain, though Britain has its own fatality towards the older forms
of
cosmic fundamentalism which owes not a little to its free autocratic
traditions
and overlaps with Anglicanism, the rather more Creator-oriented form of
Protestantism which looks down from a pseudo-graceful patrician nose,
as it
were, upon the pseudo-sinful Puritans and their rather plebeian bias
for the
New Testament which in overall terms is no less subordinate to
parliamentary
freedom of expression than Anglicanism to such freedom of royalist
impression
as characterizes the monarchy and its non-executive arm in parliament.
56. Whether
perpendicular triangularity is cosmic, and
characterized in stellar-solar-Venusian
vein by
Jehovah, Satan, and Allah of Middle Eastern conservatism, or natural,
and
characterized in tree blossom-fruit-berry vein by Saul, David, and
Mohammed of
Middle Eastern liberalism, or human, and characterized in
eyes-ears-heart vein
by the so-called Risen Virgin, the so-called Father, and the so-called
Sacred
Heart of the Risen Christ of Catholic decadence, or superficially cyborg, and characterized in
camera-microphone-pacemaker
vein by what most typifies contemporary American civilization in terms
of a
secular mode of synthetic artificiality, it is ever that in which Devil
the
Mother rules the roost at the expense of what in other texts I have
defined as
the Antison of Antigod
(not
to be confused with the Devil!) and Antidevil
the Antimother - the antimetachemical
manifestation of soma which stands somewhat sensibly aloof from the
freer
manifestations of soma characterizing the metachemical
and antimetaphysical positions more
typifying the
sensual bias of perpendicular triangularity
as that
in which the fundamentalism and/or materialism of a noumenally
objective female hegemony is 'top dog' and able to prosecute free will
at the
expense of bound soul, whether in relation to itself or in relation to
the noumenally subjective 'fall guy' of an
antitranscendentalist
and/or anti-idealist gender-inverted disposition.
57. That
this 'top dog', which is commensurate with Devil the Mother at
successive
devolutionary stages which are either most freely somatic in cosmic metachemical sensuality, more (relative to most)
freely
somatic in natural metachemical
sensuality, less
(relative to least) freely somatic in human metachemical
sensuality, or least freely somatic in cyborg
metachemical sensuality, has been
scripturally identified,
in respect more especially of a cosmic and/or natural 'first mover',
with God
... I am only too well aware. But while
that is perhaps, if regrettably, only to be expected from a primitive
and even
light-bewitched environmental standpoint, it is nonetheless as far
removed from
what God is as it's possible to be or, rather, get!
58. For
God has nothing to do with metachemical
sensuality,
whether cosmic, natural, human, or cyborg,
and
everything to do with metaphysical sensibility, whether at a least
evolved
manifestation of it in Saturn or some Saturn-like ringed (haloed)
planet in the
correlative mode of cosmic sensibility, at a less (relative to least)
evolved
manifestation of it in winged seed-pods on trees, or certain taller
trees, in
the correlative mode of natural sensibility, at a more (relative to
most)
evolved manifestation of it in transcendental meditation in the
correlative
mode of human sensibility, or (to anticipate the future) at a most
evolved -
and therefore arguably per
se
- manifestation of it in the synthetically artificial transcendentalism
of the
correlative mode of cyborg sensibility, as
one ranges
from a least freely psychic manifestation of metaphysical sensibility
to its
most freely psychic manifestation via less (relative to least) and more
(relative to most) freely psychic manifestations of such godly
sensibility, a
sensibility of ultimate egotistical taking that has one motive and one
motive
alone, and that is to transcend ego in soul and achieve a heavenly
redemption
of the self in the supreme beingfulness of
timeless
bliss.
59. Therefore
the idea that God somehow has something to do with creating the world
and all
the planets and everything in the Galaxy and even the Universe (to use
a term
that takes a godly, or universal, actuality into a realm where, even
when it
exists, it is vastly overshadowed by what pertains, stellar-wise, to
Devil the
Mother and thus to metachemical sensuality
as more
typifying what is, in fact, the polyversal
nature of
the cosmos in general) is so pathetically far from the truth of what
God is and
how He evolves through successive life stages or actualities (from
cosmic and
natural to human and cyborg) as to be a
crime against
religion and, hence, God. It is the
original crime that the Jews not least did to religion by putting a
cosmically
sensual first mover in the role of God and extrapolating the false and
pernicious notion of Creation from that root cause, so that everything
refers
back and is subordinated to the stellar Lie, including, needless to
say, the
solar 'fallen angel' which, as Satan or Lucifer, became 'fall guy' for
denigration as the Devil.
60. People
who have bothered to read my texts will know that I am as contrary to
that Lie
as it is supra-humanly possible to be, and that wherever perpendicular triangularity exists, no matter in what stage of
devolution, there, too, exists the Lie of the original crime against
Truth or
at least, with due respect to the comparative paucity or fragility of
truth in
terms of cosmic and/or natural modes of metaphysical sensibility ever
compromised by an objective predominance in the Cosmos and Nature as a
whole,
to the possibility of Truth.
61. So,
of course, the Lie exists not only in relation to Hinduism and Judaism,
its
polytheistic (sic) and monotheistic (sic) manifestations, but, by
extrapolation, in all forms of Christian fundamentalism and
post-Christian
materialism, of which the American variety is not the least salient in
the
contemporary world.
62. And
in all cases the lie of this original crime against the possibility of
truth,
which sensually pegs metaphysics to an antimetaphysical
inversion of itself in secondary free soma as 'fall guy for slag' which
I have
described as the Antison of Antigod,
effectively places a taboo on what I have elsewhere in my texts called
an anti-cupidian thrust from the sensuality
of time (sequential) to
the sensibility of space (spaced), so that, disowning the
god-over-devil
delusion of the original crime, one opts for salvation or, at any rate,
deliverance from metaphysical sensuality to metaphysical sensibility,
as from
the Antison of Antigod
to
God the Father, secondary free soma to primary free psyche, and thus
for the
possibility of Heaven the Holy Soul as the salvation, or redemption, of
God as
and when ego is eclipsed by soul in respect of the divine consciousness
having
opted to merge itself into the bound will and bound spirit of the
metaphysically sensible not-selves of the Son of God and the Holy
Spirit of Heaven,
viz. lungs and breath at the human stage of metaphysical evolution
(though the
actual context of 'Kingdom Come' would be rather more synthetically
artificial
and therefore sensibly cyborg in
character), only to
recoil from the threat of self-annihilation posed by the out-breath of
holy
spirit ... to self more profoundly ... as holy soul.
63. That
(to jump over the cosmic and natural stages of godly behaviour in
respect of
objectively-compromised metaphysical sensibility), is what happens on
the human
level, a necessarily upper-class (divine) male level of religious
devotion not
characteristic of either the Middle East or the West traditionally, and
therefore if not beyond both, then certainly above and posterior or
contrary to
whatever worshipful subversion or negation of God has elsewhere
prevailed.
64. But
in England, where the Church, necessarily false in its want of
bureaucratic-theocratic axial orientation, is either Puritan and
subordinate to
the parliamentary state or Anglican and subordinate to the monarchic
state,
both of which more typify the autocratic-democratic axis, state values,
not
surprisingly, have tended to eclipse religious ones, and therefore
Britain,
under English control, has tended to recoil from anything genuinely
religious in
the interests of state freedom, the sort of freedom which, when it
doesn't take
a democratic turn, is manifestly autocratic in character and apt to
defer, in
consequence, to the more actively autocratic forms of secularity
typifying
contemporary America as the secular form of perpendicular triangularity
par
excellence.
65. In
such fashion is Britain's native reluctance to be drawn further into
Europe
granted an additional incentive to distance itself from what its
conservative
spokesmen like to regard as a Social Democratic threat to British
liberal
democratic interests, but what is really a bureaucratic-theocratic
threat to an
axis that, with the exception of America, is almost uniquely British
and
ill-qualified, in consequence of its empirical bent, to take a road
that may
well lead, eventually, to the enhanced rationalistic subjectivity - or,
in
plain parlance, truth - of 'Kingdom Come'.
66. Therefore
Britain uses America as an excuse to maintain its distance,
psychologically and
socially, from Europe, including Eire (which is usually ignored as
though it,
together with its uniquely metaphysical culture, didn't exist), and so
long as
Britain is typified by an autocratic conditioning and control of
democracy it
is difficult to the point of impossible to see any alternative
behaviour on the
part of Britain, which, even without American influence, would be at
cultural
loggerheads with most of Europe.
67. Unfortunately,
such autocratic-democratic opposition to Europe as Britain displays in
any case
is reinforced by the democratic autocracy, the dualistic autocracy of
America,
and thus further complicated, rendering Britain even more reactionary
and
partial to criteria having more to do with perpendicular triangularity
than even with its own inverted triangularity,
never
mind
the
non-triangular
self-oriented axial orientations of church
hegemonic
societies, in which psyche counts for more than soma.
68. Therefore,
the only solution to the problem of Britain or, more correctly, the
United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from a European
standpoint,
including that of Eire, is the development of a civilization which is
not only
commensurate with 'Kingdom Come' but which regards such an aspiration
in the
concrete terms, initially, of a Gaelic federation ... of Ireland,
Scotland,
Wales, and the Isle of Man, as described in previous texts, which is
conceived
not only with a view to developing a new and better religion than
Christianity,
but with a view to achieving a united Ireland on the basis of a
federation of
Ireland and Scotland and the Celtic, or Gaelic, countries in general,
so that
Irish unity is premised upon a new union in the British Isles which has
the
effect, bit by bit, country by country, of dismantling the United
Kingdom,
democratically and peaceably, and undermining the need or desirability
of
monarchy in proportion as a presidentially
executive
'godkingship' is, so to speak,
bureaucratically
established in what becomes, following Judgement, or the paradoxical
utilization of the state to a religiously sovereign end, a federation
... of
Ireland, Scotland, etc., and the basis of both British opposition to
the
Continent and British fascination with America is proportionately
undermined,
if not entirely eradicated.
69. For
so long as Britain remains autocratically-democratically intact, it
will not,
whatever it says, be able to escape the implications of its state
freedom and
enter into partnership with those who would be capable of subordinating
the
State to the Church in what, with 'Kingdom Come', would be a
Social-Theocratic
development beyond bureaucratic-theocratic tradition and thus be the
People's
counterpart and ideological alternative to anything Social Democratic,
which
would be as hell on earth to the heavenly kingdom in which a
religiously
sovereign People - destined for ongoing cyborgization
out of a post-human(ist) urban precondition
- held
sway for all eternity.
70. Therefore
it is not just for the sake of a united Ireland that I have conceived
of a
Gaelic federation, or even - though this is crucial - for the sake of
ending
the Catholic/Protestant distrust and antagonism which has
schismatically
bedevilled Christendom these past centuries, and ending it on the
honourable
basis of a religion which transcends both Protestantism and
Catholicism
alike without being simply a rehash of anything Eastern, but with the
corollary
of the democratic dismantlement of the United Kingdom as Ireland, both
North
and South, opts to put its differences behind it and join with Scotland
and, hopefully,
the Isle of Man and even Wales in the formation of a federation which
will both
enable the Celts to escape the autocratic-democratic clutches of
England (the
autocratic control of democracy always more characteristic of England
than of
anywhere else in the British Isles), and lead to the rejection of
monarchy in
England as its justification becomes increasingly tenuous in the
absence of
some or all of the Celtic countries, now federated, with good reason,
along
ideologically homogeneous lines.
71. Thus,
left to itself, England would have little choice, sooner or later, but
to
reject monarchism in favour of a republic, albeit a republic that was
likely to
form closer ties with the Roman Catholic Church and in which a newly
disestablished Anglican Church would effectively draw closer to Rome
and cease
to live in the shadow of autocratic freedom, such bureaucratic freedom
or,
rather, paradoxical binding (to theocracy) as then obtained serving
both to
restrain democracy from the pitfalls of Social Democracy and to offer
hope of
theocratic redemption as and when the People drew closer to a
bureaucratic-theocratic mean as the necessary precondition of Social
Theocracy,
whether in relation to our prospective Gaelic federation or, certain
pro-Celtic
parts of a devolved England notwithstanding, to the European Union in
general,
towards which England would inexorably be drawn as the obstacles to
closer
European integration 'withered away' in proportion to the decline and
fall of
autocracy - as much to be desired in respect of loosening, if not
severing,
ties with America as in forging closer ties with Europe.
72. For
as long as Britain remains characterized by a constitutional monarchy
presiding
over a parliamentary democracy, there is no prospect of that country
escaping
the malign influence of American autocracy and no likelihood of its
accepting
closer European integration. Therefore
it is crucial to progress both within these Isles and vis-à-vis Europe
as a
whole that Social Theocracy should democratically come to pass in Eire
as a
precondition of a Gaelic federation ... of Ireland, Scotland, etc., so
that the
way is prepared for the eventual dismantlement of the United Kingdom
and an end
to its autocratic subversion of the Gaels, whom England, having first
divided,
then contrived to rule in its own perverse interests.
73. For
democracy and autocracy hang together as two aspects of the same
church-defying
system, a system which, in Britain, resists true progress in the
interests of
an autocratically-based status quo from which democracy is a regression
diagonally down an axis that allows for the punishment of crime but
does not
call the reality and right to existence of crime into question, least
of all in
respect of the freely autocratic state!
74. Only
those who, esteeming neither Henry VIII nor Cromwell, do not subscribe
to this
moral and social aberration to anything like an English extent can be
expected
to join with the more overly bureaucratic-theocratic people of Eire in
a
struggle to liberate these islands of that very aberration which even
now makes
Britain a recalcitrant problem to her continental partners in the
European
Union and keeps her deferential to the United States, anxious, it may
be, to
resist Social Democracy but in no position to accept Social Theocracy
and
return from the state-hegemonic perversions of not-self to the
church-hegemonic
conversions to self.
75. As
noted earlier, whereas the autocratic-democratic axis which diagonally
descends
from crime to punishment is more about physical work and psychical work
as
manifestations of pro-notself and anti-notself behaviour, the bureaucratic-theocratic
axis which
diagonally ascends from sin to grace is more about physical play and
psychical
play as manifestations of anti-self and pro-self behaviour.
76. Therefore
the state-hegemonic realities of autocracy and democracy, ever ruled by
(diabolic) female criteria in respect of crime and punishment,
condition
society to place an emphasis upon work at the expense of play, and
generally
tend to produce a work ethos which, in typically female fashion, is
rather more
of a curse than a blessing, particularly if and when Social Democratic
criteria
were to ensue upon liberal criteria and manual labour was resurrected
as an
'ideal' in respect primarily of the blue-collar urban proletariat who
become
the pseudo-democratic equivalent to the slaves of free autocracies,
except that
their rulers are a pseudo-autocratic sensual elite all too ready to
accuse them
of anti-people crimes and to punish them through enforced labour.
77. Naturally,
the latter tends not to happen - at least on a grand scale - in
long-established autocratic-democratic societies, who would have too
much to
lose from being displaced by Social Democratic usurpers who, in
pseudo-autocratic fashion, punish the Many rather than the Few and
brand the
Many with crimes that traditionally would have been reserved, where
applicable,
for the Few. But it has happened in
countries which weren't even properly autocratic-democratic to begin
with, and
which paid the price of their naiveté at the hands of British-educated
and/or
influenced bourgeois malcontents and rebels whose political ambitions
were
greater than their political wisdom.
78. And
in relation to one form or another of Social Democracy not a few other
countries became more autocratic than they might otherwise have been,
even
Social Autocratic, and simply reacted against radical democrats in a
more
blatantly criminal manner, punishing as 'crime' that which was really
the
refutation of crime but not, on that account, the solution to it. For there is no solution to crime that comes
from a punishing extrapolation from crime, but simply a perpetuation of
crime
and punishment on other, and usually inverted, terms.
79. The
only way to defeat crime is not through punishment, which crime itself
legitimizes, but through a turning away from both crime and punishment,
autocracy and democracy, in favour of bureaucracy and theocracy, sin
and grace,
with a view to the rejection of sin in grace and an end to both man and
the
world in consequence, a world-overcoming which has but one end in mind,
and
that is the otherworldly acceptance of 'Kingdom Come' as the necessary
outcome
to evolutionary progress, to progress conceived in relation, quite
correctly, to
a diagonal rise from bureaucracy to theocracy which has the capacity to
culminate, through revolutionary transvaluation,
in
Social
Theocracy.
80. For
the church-hegemonic realities of bureaucracy and theocracy, ever led
by (divine)
male criteria in respect of sin and grace, condition society to place
an
emphasis upon play at the expense of work, and generally tend to
produce a play
ethos which, in typically male fashion, is rather more of a blessing
than a
curse, particularly if and when Social Theocratic criteria were to
ensue upon
liberal criteria and psychical play was resurrected as an ideal in
respect
primarily of the white-collar urban proletariat who would then become
the more
genuinely theocratic successors to the priests of liberal theocracy who
would
have verbally forgiven sin, but not encouraged grace in respect of
transcendental meditation.
81. Therefore
from being sinners in Roman Catholicism the People would become
graceful in
Social Theocracy, graceful to the extent of a synthetically artificial
approach
to transcendentalism which was not only beyond transcendental
meditation but
genuinely otherworldly in relation to 'Kingdom Come' and the
'resurrection of
the dead' which, in relation to the Afterlife, was the eternal purpose
and
justification of such a Kingdom.
82. Whereas
Social Democracy criminalizes the People and punishes them through
physical
work, thereby resurrecting the hell of pro-notself
behaviour at the expense of the anti-notself
behaviour typifying the psychically-oriented 'world' of the
democratically
punishing, Social Theocracy would be determined to gracefully ennoble
the
People and deliver them from sin through psychical play, which is the
mode of
play according with pro-self behaviour in contrast to any anti-self
behaviour
typifying the physically-oriented 'world' of the bureaucratically
sinful.
83. Far
from reducing life in Social Democratic fashion to the
lowest-common-denominator of physical work, Social Theocracy would be
determined to elevate life to the highest-uncommon-denominator of
psychical
play, thereby reflecting that it issues, in evolutionary vein, from a
diagonally rising axis of bureaucracy-theocracy rather than from a
diagonally
falling axis of autocracy-democracy which was always going to be more
devolutionary in respect of hegemonic female criteria.
84. Such
a theocratic/democratic distinction between the two types of left-wing
People's
ideology has been characterized, if rather politically, in terms of
white- and
blue-collar proletarians; though this is of course only one of a number
of
alternative approaches to the problem, not the least of which would be
to
underline the ethnic division between Catholics and Protestants, or the
tribal
division between Celts and Anglo-Saxons, or even the topographical
division at
the back of everything else between
highlanders and lowlanders, the airy and the earthy.
85. No
one set of terminological referents is wholly satisfactory, since there
are
always a number of factors at large which have to be accounted for, and
although I have often made mention of urban proletarians in recent
texts, and
even identified them with a largely atheistic disposition vis-à-vis the
'old
gods' of the Christian and even pre-Christian pantheon, I have not been
so
politically reductionist as to exclude the
underlying
influence of their religious traditions which render even the most
seemingly
secular of proletarians accountable to some denominational persuasion,
whether
Catholic or Protestant, or what have you, which enables us to
distinguish
church-hegemonic societies from church-subordinate societies and,
correlatively, state-subordinate societies from state-hegemonic
societies, with
those in the former contexts bureaucratic-theocratic and those in the
latter
ones autocratic-democratic.
86. No
more than the proletariat, whether white- or blue-collar, came to pass
in a
void that had no basis in tradition, does tradition cease to apply in
even the
most radical of proletarians, whether we conceive of that tradition
primarily
in religious or ethnic or racial, or whatever terms.
We are the sum of all past generations, and
we carry our inheritance, for better or worse, with us at all times.
87. He
who tries to reduce life to a blank page upon which any claim can be
written so
long as it appears to lead to a desired end is guilty of confusing
literature
with life! Life is ever more complicated
and comprehensively exacting than literature, and when literature is
mature
enough to realize as much, it ceases to criminally strive to dominate
life from
the narrow standpoint of selected fact, but comes rather gracefully to
understand it in the interests of truth, which is ever the refutation
of fact
and the beginning of life of a higher and deeper order, an inner order
which
owes more to self than to not-self, and thus to psyche than to soma.
88. Thus
(to repeat) far from reducing life, in Social Democratic fashion, to
the
lowest-common-ideological-denominator of physical work, Social
Theocracy,
stemming from a contrary and more self-oriented axis, will strive to
elevate
life to the highest-uncommon-ideological-denominator of psychical play,
thereby
freeing proletarianism from the clutches
of humanism
as transcendentalist criteria increasingly prevail in the interests of
graceful
redemption.
89. Frankly
I have not in the past tended to identify the urban proletariat with
humanism
but, rather, conceived of them in post-human(ist)
terms
as
that
which,
in the synthetic artificiality of its urban
characteristics, was closest to a cyborg
actuality
and futurity without being consciously aware of or committed to such a
destiny,
and precisely because it still languished, whether officially or
unofficially,
under the humanistic influence of both the capitalistic bourgeoisie and
their
socialistic offshoots along the autocratic-democratic axis whose
ideological
persuasion is such as to dissuade people from thinking in theocratic
terms,
least of all in relation to the doctrine that man is something that
should be
overcome ... in the interests of God.
90. In
fact, so much is this narrowly humanistic approach to the proletariat
still
taken for granted in England, that mention of someone's being left-wing
automatically confers a radical democratic association upon that person
whether
in parliamentary or, more usually, extra-parliamentary terms. For the autocratic-democratic axis leads
nowhere else but down, down towards a Social Democratic nadir, and such
a
nadir, no matter how radically conceived, is still couched - and in the
nature
of things democratic can only be couched - in humanistic terms, with a
consequence that proletarianism itself is
reduced, in
Marxist vein, to a narrowly humanistic conception as a logical
extrapolation
from bourgeois humanism.
91. And
yet even English proletarians, quite apart from the large numbers of
urbanized
people in England who are not English, are more usually post-humanist
in their
synthetic artificiality and refusal to identify too closely with
criteria that
would reduce life to the rule of man and the persistence of mere
physical
criteria, not least in respect of work.
There is ever a shadow bureaucratic-theocratic axis at play in
England,
especially where Catholics are concerned, and such an axis points
upwards,
towards the godly transcendence of 'the world', with particular
reference to
that aspect of it which, in paradoxically vegetative fashion, is more
characterized by sin than by (watery) punishment and thus by nominally
hegemonic women than by nominally hegemonic men, albeit the women are
still
subject to criteria extrapolated from a theocratic hegemony
characterized, in
(divine) male vein, by airy grace, and have their not-self affirming
chemical
mean antiphysically subverted in
consequence.
92. Therefore
to conceive of left-wing progress solely in democratic terms, which in
any case
are doubtfully progressive, is the mark of a humanistic limitation,
reminiscent
of Sartre, which owes nothing to bureaucracy-theocracy and much if not
everything to autocracy-democracy, and such a conception can only
appear
woefully misguided from a genuinely progressive standpoint, in which
the Nietzschean notion that man is
something that should be
overcome is given a transcendentalist twist commensurate with the
acceptance of
a radically new approach to the metaphysical sensibility of godliness,
as of
God, and the concomitant possibility of divine grace, a possibility to
which
the post-human(ist) urban proletariat
should be
capable of responding as and when they are made aware of their true
destiny and
come, with judgement, to a decision, democratically mandated, as to
whether
they wish to remain subordinate to humanistic, not to mention
nonconformist,
criteria or elect for the cyborg
transcendentalism of
'Kingdom Come', in which they would have rights proportionate to
religious
sovereignty and be able, within an increasingly cyborg-oriented
framework,
to
develop
self
and/or constrain not-self in the interests of
salvation, which is, above all, deliverance from ego to soul with a
view to the
achievement of heavenly bliss.
93. Of
course, I have never conceived of 'Kingdom Come' solely in relation to
transcendentalism, to godliness; for much as that may constitute the
top tier
of our projected triadic Beyond it would have less applicability to the
middle
and bottom tiers, to tiers primarily reserved for people of Anglican
and
Puritan descent who, released from the governing clutches of
fundamentalist and
humanist elites within their respective churches, would revert to a
sort of
secondary mode of transcendentalism tempered, in representative vein,
by
transmuted humanist and nonconformist criteria in respect of
'vegetative' and
'watery' shortfalls from an airy per se, as discussed in a number of
earlier
texts.
94. I shall
not repeat myself all over again, but the reader should have some idea,
by now,
as to what I am getting at, as to the fact that I am alluding to Irish
or
Celtic Protestants vis-à-vis their Catholic counterparts within the
triadic
Beyond, which would have to be served by an antibureaucratic
administrative aside responsible for safeguarding the religiously
sovereign
interests and rights of the People in relation, primarily, to
transcendentalism, and thus to the lead of genuinely godly criteria,
which would
be committed, in synthetically artificial fashion, to the salvation of
God in
Heaven, as of the metaphysical ego in the metaphysical soul, or truth
in joy.
95. Therefore
'Kingdom Come' is conceived within a pluralistic framework which takes
what is
there to be taken from the pluralistic status quo of
multi-denominational proletarianism and
moulds it to a Social Transcendentalist
mean itself subdivided into various tiers and, as the reader may
recall,
subsections relative to both gender and class (of male).
In overall terms, the triadic Beyond may be
proletarian, or conceived with respect to the urban majority of any
given
society, but there is a sort of class hierarchy between blue- and
white-collar
proletarians at every level, as between chemical females in the bottom
subsection of all tiers, physical males in the middle subsection of all
tiers,
and metaphysical males in the top subsection of all tiers, as different
approaches to transcendentalism, both in relation to any given
elemental
position and as filtered through humanist (in the case of physical
males) or
nonconformist (in the case of females) shortfalls from it which would
nevertheless be expected to defer to the overall lead of
transcendentalism, as
germane to metaphysics and thus to the metaphysical elites, with
particular
reference to the transcendentalist per
se in the top tier of the triadic Beyond.
96. To
me, a proletarian hierarchy arranged on something approximating to the
above
description is not classless, even if the comparative absence of
bourgeois,
clerical, and feudal criteria relative to plutocrats, meritocrats,
and aristocrats would qualify the triadic Beyond, ever characterized by
a
theocratic utilization of technocracy to a graceful end, for some such
recognition in classical Marxist or Social Democratic estimations.
97. I,
however, do not think like a classical Marxist or anything else
democratically
left-wing, and therefore I am not prepared to consider anything to be
genuinely
classless until there is nothing but what most pertains to
transcendentalism,
and therefore to God and Heaven, left of what remains to 'Kingdom Come'
when
once it becomes truly godly and heavenly, as it should do eventually,
after
many decades if not centuries (within the overall framework of
eternity) of
fine-tuning, so to speak, the triadic Beyond and administrative aside
towards a
more totalitarian end, a goal set not on earth centres but in space
centres
some distance above the earth where transcendentalism would peak in
respect of
the attainment of the Beyond to its maximum grace and holiness, its
maximum
truth and joy in the timeless bliss of eternity.
98. Therefore
classlessness when once all pluralism has been overcome in the
interests of a
divine oneness, a divine unity of God and Heaven, as the culmination
point of
'Kingdom Come' when once the Beyond ceases to be triadic, or even duadic, but becomes blissfully monadic,
blissfully at one
with itself in relation to God and Heaven, or, more correctly, to the
transcendence of God in Heaven.
99. Therefore
eternal classlessness as the outcome, the culmination, of 'Kingdom
Come', and
only comparatively germane to our projected triadic Beyond as the
starting
point, in proletarian transcendentalism (as post-humanism would have
become by
then), of what lies beyond the class-bound world of both bourgeois
humanism and
clerical nonconformism and/or feudal
fundamentalism,
not to mention their secular counterparts in naturalism, realism and
materialism, to which the idealism of the administrative aside to the
triadic
Beyond would appear no less classless than anything properly
transcendentalist.
100. It
could be argued, in church/state vein, that the chemical mean
(compromised by antiphysical factors) of
worldly sin and pseudo-punishment
is thus divisible between the nonconformism
of a
hegemonic church and the realism of a subordinate state in which meritocratic criteria appertaining to
bureaucracy obtain,
whereas the metaphysical mean (compromised by antimetachemical
factors) of otherworldly grace and pseudo-crime is likewise divisible
between
the transcendentalism of a hegemonic church and the idealism of a
subordinate
state in which technocratic criteria appertaining to theocracy obtain.
101. Conversely,
it could be argued, in state/church vein, that the metachemical
mean (compromised by antimetaphysical
factors) of netherworldly crime and
pseudo-grace is thus divisible
between the materialism of a hegemonic state and the fundamentalism of
a
subordinate church in which aristocratic criteria appertaining to
autocracy
obtain, whereas the physical mean (compromised by antichemical
factors) of worldly punishment and pseudo-sin is likewise divisible
between the
naturalism of a hegemonic state and the humanism of a subordinate
church in
which plutocratic criteria appertaining to democracy obtain.
102. Therefore
it can be maintained that no less than meritocratic
realism will be subordinate to nonconformism
in
chemical bureaucracy, so technocratic idealism will be subordinate to
transcendentalism in metaphysical theocracy, as church hegemonic
criteria take
precedence over the State.
103. Likewise
it can be maintained that no less than aristocratic fundamentalism will
be
subordinate to materialism in metachemical
autocracy,
so plutocratic humanism will be subordinate to naturalism in physical
democracy, as state hegemonic criteria take precedence over the Church.
104. Therefore
while the bureaucratic-theocratic axis will primarily be characterized
by nonconformism and transcendentalism, as
by genuine sin and
grace, and only secondarily by realism and idealism, as by
pseudo-punishment
and pseudo-crime, the autocratic-democratic axis will primarily be
characterized by materialism and naturalism, as by genuine crime and
punishment, and only secondarily by fundamentalism and humanism, as by
pseudo-grace and pseudo-sin.
105. Either
way, the rising diagonal will pass from the nonconformism
of anti-self behaviour to the transcendentalism of pro-self behaviour
in church
hegemonic terms, with the subordinate state characterized by anti-notself and pro-notself
behaviours of a pseudo order, as though in a pseudo-punishing and
pseudo-criminal retort to the hegemonic existences of genuine sin and
grace.
106. Contrariwise
the falling diagonal will pass from the materialism of pro-notself
behaviour to the naturalism of anti-notself
behaviour
in state hegemonic terms, with the subordinate church characterized by
pro-self
and anti-self behaviours of a pseudo order, as though in a
pseudo-graceful and
pseudo-sinful retort to the hegemonic existences of genuine crime and
punishment.
107. Reduced
to its primary components, the rising diagonal of bureaucracy-theocracy
will
proceed from the nonconformism of
anti-self behaviour
to the transcendentalism of pro-self behaviour, while the falling
diagonal of
autocracy-democracy will proceed or, more correctly, recede from the
materialism of pro-notself behaviour to the
naturalism of anti-notself behaviour, so
that an
ecclesiastic/secular dichotomy may be inferred as distinguishing the
two axes -
the rising axis in which the self takes precedence over the not-self
and the
falling axis in which, by contrast, the not-self takes precedence over
the
self.
108. One
could illustrate this dichotomy by citing a motor-racing analogue
between
sidecar-motorbikes in respect of anti-self and superbikes
in respect of the self, the former arguably bureaucratic, the latter
their
theocratic counterparts in what amounts to a more self-oriented
context, or a
context simply closer to self, much as we determined, in an earlier
text, that
vests were closer to self than muscle shirts, whereas the
autocratic-democratic
axis rather calls for a distinction between formula one-type racing
cars and
saloon-car races, the former arguably pro-notself
in
their objective bodily orientation, the latter no-less arguably anti-notself in respect of a more subjective, or
roofed-in,
bodily orientation which would accord with a democratic as opposed to
an
autocratic disposition, one paralleled, we argued, by tee-shirts as
opposed to
rugby shirts.
109. Be
that as it may, the concrete-track and therefore quintessentially
proletarian
distinction between sidecar bikes and superbikes
on
the one hand, and racing cars and saloon cars on the other is such that
calls
to mind our original dichotomy between psyche and soma, self and
not-self, mind
and body, sin and grace in respect of the rising axis of
bureaucracy-theocracy
and crime and punishment in respect of the falling axis of
autocracy-democracy,
and in such contrasts we may detect the underlying influence of either
church
hegemonic societies and traditions, as in the case of bikes, or state
hegemonic
societies and traditions, as in the case of cars, with slang
implications which
contrast 'cunts' and 'bums' in relation,
primarily,
to 'fucking' and 'snogging' (church
hegemonic)
self-oriented norms with their rather more not-self oriented 'prick'
and 'jerk'
counterparts for whom 'sodding' and
'frigging' are
the more appropriate (state hegemonic) verbal expletives or
descriptions.
110. There was a time, to be sure, when I would have
questioned the applicability of such expletives or verbal definitions
right
across the political/religious board, as it were, from state to church,
maintaining that only the state-oriented actualities warranted such
qualifications or denigrations. But time has left such
philosophical uncertainty in the lurch; for I have been able, in recent
texts,
to show that church hegemonic societies can be primarily distinguished
from
state hegemonic ones in terms of reference to either 'fucking' or 'snogging' in the one case, that of the
bureaucratic-theocratic axis, or 'frigging' or 'sodding'
in
the
other
case,
that of the autocratic-democratic axis, and that just
as the
bureaucratic church/state is typified by 'cunts',
whether
'fucking'
or
'sodding', and the theocratic
church/state by 'bums', whether 'snogging'
or
'frigging', the former in each context church hegemonic and the latter
their
subordinate state corollaries, so the autocratic state/church is
typified by
'jerks', whether 'frigging' or 'snogging',
and the
democratic state/church by 'pricks', whether 'sodding'
or
'fucking',
the
former
in each context state hegemonic and the latter
their
subordinate church corollaries.
111. Therefore
there is no excuse for not applying such verbal expletives where
applicable;
for the church is as subject to 'fucking' and/or 'snogging'
actualities
as
the
state
to 'frigging' and/or 'sodding'
ones, albeit one must carefully distinguish the application of
church-oriented
terms like 'fucking' and 'snogging' to 'cunts' and 'bums' from their application to
'pricks' and
'jerks' where, far from being germane to genuine sin and grace in
respect of
bureaucracy and theocracy, they pertain to pseudo-sin and pseudo-grace
in
respect of democracy and autocracy or, more correctly, to Puritan and
Anglican
church-subordinate definitions relative to parliamentary and monarchic
state
hegemonies.
112. Conversely
one must carefully distinguish the application of state-oriented terms
like
'frigging' and 'sodding' to 'jerks' and
'pricks' from
their application to 'bums' and 'cunts'
where, far
from being germane to genuine crime and punishment in respect of
autocracy and
democracy, they pertain to pseudo-crime and pseudo-punishment in
respect of
theocracy and bureaucracy or, more correctly, to Centrist and
Republican
state-subordinate definitions relative, if I may be so bold, to Social
Transcendentalist and Roman Catholic church hegemonies, the former of
course
appertaining to what would supersede Roman Catholicism in the event of
a
majority mandate for religious sovereignty which had been conducted
within the
republican context towards a Centrist end in which the service of a
more
genuine theocracy would be the principal concern, as germane, I have
argued, to
'Kingdom Come', a theocracy not intermediate between man and God in
terms of a transcendentalized humanism,
nor even pertaining to the
humanized transcendentalism of the practitioners of transcendental
meditation,
but rather indicative of a post-human(ist)
or,
rather, cyborg-oriented transcendentalism
which would
- space centre mortuaries notwithstanding - effectively 'resurrect the
dead' in
terms of a synthetically artificial approach to afterlife-type
experience which
was beyond anything Buddhist in character and certainly able to
transcend the
ego more effectively in the interests of the soul, that raison
d'être of true religious experience,
even if lesser concerns and commitments would continue to be honoured
for quite
some time in respect of the overall pluralism of our projected triadic
Beyond,
which would have to deal not only with Catholics and
Protestants
but also with males and females, as already described.
113. However
that may be, the application of terms like 'snogging'
to
the
theocratic
church
and 'frigging' to the theocratic or, rather,
technocratic state, is logically sustainable and not something I would
now
consider irrelevant or impertinent, even if one must carefully
distinguish 'snogging' in relation to
'bums' from 'snogging'
in relation to 'jerks' and, conversely, 'frigging' in relation to
'jerks' from
'frigging' in relation to 'bums', so that there is no confusion between
the
genuine expression and pseudo-impression, genuine grace and
pseudo-crime, in
respect of 'bums' and the genuine impression and pseudo-expression,
genuine
crime and pseudo-grace, of their upper-class, or noumenal,
counterparts,
who,
as
'jerks',
are rather more metachemical,
in
terms of free soma, than metaphysical, in terms of free psyche.
114. Likewise
one must carefully distinguish 'fucking' in relation to 'cunts'
from 'fucking' in relation to 'pricks' and, conversely, 'sodding'
in relation to 'pricks' from 'sodding' in
relation to
'cunts', so that there is no confusion
between the
genuine impression and pseudo-expression, genuine sin and
pseudo-punishment, in
respect of 'cunts' and the genuine
expression and
pseudo-impression, genuine punishment and pseudo-sin, of their
lower-class, or
phenomenal, counterparts, who, as 'pricks', are rather more physical,
in terms
of free psyche, than chemical, in terms of free soma; albeit such free
psyche
is no less tempered by female criteria in regard to punishment than the
free
soma of chemistry by male criteria in regard to sin, as already
described in
relation to the paradoxical hegemonic influences of autocratic crime in
the one
case and theocratic grace in the other.
115. For
the autocratic-democratic and/or aristocratic-plutocratic axis is, of
course,
based in the free soma of not-self, for which impression is always more
genuine, in state-hegemonic vein, than expression, whereas the
bureaucratic-democratic and/or meritocratic-technocratic
axis
is
centred
in
the free psyche of self, for which expression is always
more
genuine, in church-hegemonic vein, than impression.
116. Thus
we contrast the genuine crime of metachemical
impression with the pseudo-grace of metachemical
pseudo-expression in respect of autocratic state freedom and
aristocratic
church binding, the free will of 'frigg***
jerks' and
the bound soul of 'snogg*** jerks', whose
pseudo-grace, being fundamentally evil, is bound to crime.
117. Thus
we contrast the genuine grace of metaphysical expression with the
pseudo-crime
of metaphysical pseudo-impression in respect of theocratic church
freedom and
technocratic state binding, the free soul of 'snogg***
bums'
and
the
bound
will of 'frigg*** bums',
whose
pseudo-crime, being idealistically wise, is bound to grace.
118. Thus
we contrast the genuine punishment of physical expression with the
pseudo-sin
of physical pseudo-impression in respect of democratic state freedom
and
plutocratic church binding, the free ego of 'sodd***
pricks'
and
the
bound
spirit of 'fuck*** pricks', whose pseudo-sin, being humanistically good (modest), is bound to
punishment.
119. Thus
we contrast the genuine sin of chemical impression with the
pseudo-punishment
of chemical pseudo-expression in respect of bureaucratic church freedom
and meritocratic state binding, the free
spirit of 'fuck*** cunts' and the bound
ego of 'sodd***
cunts', whose pseudo-punishment, being
realistically
foolish, is bound to sin.
120. One
can no more expect a hegemonic state in relation to
bureaucracy-theocracy than
a hegemonic church in relation to autocracy-democracy.
On the contrary, only a
subordinate state in respect of meritocracy-technocracy in the one
case, and a
subordinate church in respect of aristocracy-plutocracy in the other
case.
121. In regard
to the state-hegemonic materialism/church-subordinate fundamentalism of
autocracy/aristocracy, the 'cowpuss' of metachemical impression in relation to the free
will of 'frigg*** jerks' would contrast
with the 'cowgas' of metachemical
pseudo-expression in relation to the bound soul of 'snogg***
jerks'.
122. In
regard to the church-hegemonic transcendentalism/state-subordinate
idealism of
theocracy/technocracy, the 'bullgas' of
metaphysical
expression in relation to the free soul of 'snogg***
bums'
would
contrast
with
the 'bullpuss' of
metaphysical pseudo-impression in relation to the bound will of 'frigg*** bums'.
123. In
regard to the state-hegemonic naturalism/church-subordinate humanism of
democracy/plutocracy, the 'bullshit' of physical expression in relation
to the
free ego of 'sodd*** pricks' would contrast
with the
'bullpiss' of physical pseudo-impression in
relation
to the bound spirit of 'fuck*** pricks'.
124. In
regard to the church-hegemonic nonconformism/state-subordinate
realism
of
bureaucracy/meritocracy,
the
'cowpiss'
of
chemical impression in relation to the free spirit of 'fuck*** cunts' would contrast with the 'cowshit'
of chemical pseudo-expression in relation to the bound ego of 'sodd*** cunts'.
125. My
intention in composing the above notes has not been to shock or wound
but to
outline, in the most comprehensively exacting terms, the distinctions
between
the four main elemental contexts, and to show that no one type of
terminology
is applicable to each and every context, that each context has to be
treated on
its own merits, whether in terms of state hegemonic and church
subordinate
criteria or, conversely, of church hegemonic and state subordinate
criteria.
126. Those
who can understand and level with this are capable of truth or, at the
very
least, of respecting truth. Those who
can't understand it but shy away from it in shock or disbelief will be
incapable of truth and could not be expected to respect it in
consequence -
something for which one must have the necessary width and depth of mind
as
occasioned by a bias for freedom conceived in psychic as opposed to
somatic
terms.
127. I
have no doubt that those who are instrumental in upholding both
autocratic-democratic state hegemonies and aristocratic-plutocratic
church
subordinations to such hegemonies, being materialistically and
naturalistically
genuine in not-self or fundamentalistically
and humanistically false to self, will be
incapable of
appreciating or respecting such conclusions and would be likely, in
defence of
vested interests or the status quo, to ignore or reject them.
128. On
the other hand, I am quietly optimistic that those who are instrumental
in
upholding both bureaucratic-theocratic church hegemonies and meritocratic-technocratic state subordinations
to such
hegemonies, being nonconformistically and transcendentalistically true to self or
realistically and
idealistically false in not-self, will be capable of appreciating and
respecting such conclusions and would be likely, in the interests of
genuine
progress, to accept and further them.
129. Therefore
the judgement, to all intents and purposes, has already been made; for
it is as
unlikely that those who uphold a hegemonic state would encourage a vote
for
religious sovereignty as it is that those who are habituated to a
hegemonic
church would seek to extend political sovereignty at its expense or,
more to
the point, oppose the concept and promise of religious sovereignty,
which is
what would alone guarantee, in the event of a majority mandate, the
legitimacy
and institutional development of 'Kingdom Come' as a context
characterized by
such sovereignty and by the rights that would accrue to it, including
the right
to expand godliness and heavenliness independently not only of cosmic
impedimenta, whether genuinely godly/heavenly or (more usually)
otherwise, but
also of natural and human impedimenta, thereby bringing metaphysical
sensibility to a peak of evolution not only at the expense of earlier
stages of
its evolution in relation to the Cosmos, nature, or man, but at the
expense of
everything less than or contrary to such sensibility, which includes,
aside
from the physical, such sensually hegemonic factors as typify, in free
will
and/or spirit, both metachemical and
chemical
realities.
130. For,
ultimately, we who strive for 'Kingdom Come' are concerned less with
free will,
free spirit, or free ego than with bound will, bound spirit, free ego,
and,
above all, free soul, which can only be truly free when everything else
is
subordinated to its lead, not least in the metaphysically sensible
context
itself, which requires that such free ego as truthfully exists in
relation to
God the Father should subordinate itself to the timeless joy (bliss) of
free
soul in Heaven the Holy Soul via the bound will of the Son of God and
the bound
spirit of the Holy Spirit of Heaven, whose truthful approach to beauty
and
joyful approach to love in bound soma should ensure that the
correlative beauty
and love of Antidevil the Antimother
and Antihell the Unclear Spirit will
permit of a beautiful
approach to truth on the part of the Antidaughter
of
the Antidevil and a loving approach to joy
on the
part of the Unclear Soul of Antihell as
the secondary
free psychic complements to the primary psychic freedom of truth and
joy which
proclaims the lead of God and Heaven for all eternity in what,
increasingly,
will be synthetically artificial contexts of transcendentalism and antifundamentalism which will tower above what
remains of
humanism, duly modified, and antinonconformism
until
such time as, with the dawn of a more perfect totalitarianism, nothing
but God
in Heaven remains to proclaim the Blissful Oneness not merely of a Beingfulness Supreme but of the Most Supreme Beingfulness there could ever be - the Beingfulness
of Ultimate Universality.
131. For
there is no more merely one mode of supreme being than one mode of
primal
being, or antibeing, but stages of supreme being which evolve with
metaphysical
sensibility from cosmic heaven to cyborg heaven via natural and human
heavens,
as from the least universal supreme being of Heaven the Holy Soul in
the Cosmos
to the most universal supreme being of Heaven the Holy Soul in the Cyborg via the less (relative to least)
universal supreme
being of Heaven the Holy Soul in nature and the more (relative to most)
universal supreme being of Heaven the Holy Soul in humankind, as beingful supremacy evolves through successive
stages of
heavenly unfolding towards a synthetically artificial peak which is not
compromised by polyversal primacy
(analytic naturalness),
impersonal primacy (synthetic naturalness), or personal supremacy
(analytic
artificiality) to anything like the same extent as before, but is able
to
assert its own universal supremacy - a value always characterizing the
metaphysically sensible - independently of either polyversally
powerful, impersonally glorious, or personally formal obstacles to
universal
contentment. In such circumstances, supreme being would be truly supreme!
LONDON
2003
(Revised
2011)