PARADOXICAL CO-EXISTENCE

1. The more basic the life-form the freer the lifestyle. Or, in human terms, the simpler the person the freer the persona - even to the extent of a female-like repudiation of the more genuine forms of ego and soul.

2. Freedom as an inability to come properly to terms with binding, with morality as enhanced self-respect (subjective/primary) for males and diminished not-self respect (objective/secondary) for females, is a mark of backwardness - a symptom, in short, of philistinism (male) and barbarism (female).

3. To be free from external invasion and oppression is one thing; to be free from morality and overly dedicated, instead, to an immoral lifestyle is quite another, and it is in this latter respect that freedom can be condemned.

4. However, one cannot exclude freedom - more usually interpreted in terms of different modes of sensuality - from society or human life, as if it were symptomatic of an anomaly or aberration subject to human control and, ultimately, elimination.

5. Freedom and binding are two sides of a larger picture, and that picture is human life in the totality of its sensual/sensible options, torn between conflicting gender interests and predilections.

6. A society that was too bound would be no less problematic than the one that was too free, since extremes are equally or, at any rate, unequally detrimental to human well-being, as in the one case there would be too little sensuality in consequence of too great an emphasis on sensibility, whereas in the other case there would be too little sensibility in consequence of too great an emphasis on sensuality.

7. Seeing as sensuality is the basis (if indirectly) of sensibility, it would be foolish or unrealistic to attempt eliminating it in the interests of sensibility, just as it would be unrealistic to cultivate sensuality to the total exclusion of sensibility.

8. A cultural and civilized society, conceived as two sides of the same omega-oriented sensible coin, will always emphasize the moral desirability of sensibility at the expense of sensuality, but will leave people to their own devices as to how sensible they wish to be.

9. Some people will always be more sensible than others and some people more sensual than others - even in the best or worst of societies.

10. People are an amalgam, by and large, of freedom and binding, even if some are more free than bound and others, evidently more sophisticated and genetically advanced, more bound than free.

11. Pop music, which includes rock, is generally of 'the free', and serious music, which includes classical, of 'the bound', not least of all in relation to the utilization, in one guise or another, of music scores.

12. Politically, freedom tends to be identified with left-wing movements and binding with right-wing ones - the former libertarian and the latter conservative.

13. Although freedom can overhaul binding, as when the former is artificial and the latter 'naturalistic', making for a 'modern' vis-à-vis 'traditional' distinction, the ne plus ultra of things is not freedom but binding, and therefore freedom can itself be overhauled on a similarly artificial basis.

14. Thus within equivalent epochal or civilized parameters, the relationship of freedom to binding is akin to alpha and omega, heathenistic libertarianism vis-à-vis Christian conservatism.

15. It is on this basis that one can envisage the overhauling, democratically and peacefully, of republicanism by and in 'Kingdom Come', as a new and higher form of sensible religion returns to the world to replace the Christian tradition and outmanoeuvre its heathenistic adversary, dedicated, as it generally is, to all things free.

16. For until contemporary freedom has been overhauled by a new order of binding in 'Kingdom Come', the paradoxical co-existence of traditional binding and modern freedom will continue to bedevil attempts to establish culture and civilization in the vanguard of evolving life, leaving the 'last word' with the contemporary forms of barbarism and philistinism, to the detriment of human - and, in particular, male - self-respect.