Understanding Culture and Civility. One way or the other culture and civility are always on the sensible side of life, as of our axial divide, and barbarity and philistinism, if not naturalism in one form or another, on its sensual side, the side which combines either metachemistry and antimetaphysics at the northwest point of the axial compass or, alternatively, chemistry and antiphysics at its southwest point. Culture and civility always appertain, by contrast, to either the southeast or the northeast points of the compass in question, though, once inter-class axial factors are taken into account, the point at which metaphysics is unequivocally hegemonic over antimetachemistry will be the only point at which culture can be genuine and civility, by contrast, somewhat pseudo in view of its subordinate status on both church and state terms. The southeast point of the axial compass provides us, on the other hand, with the subversion of physics by antichemistry acting under the rule of metachemistry over antimetaphysics ‘back up’ what is, as a rule, a state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis, and therefore with a shift of emphasis from free psyche to bound soma in typically state-oriented and female-dominated vein, so that the paradoxical outcome has less to do with genuine culture than with pseudo-culture – and hence pseudo-righteousness – in subordination to genuine civility, wherein justice has her throne, even if such a position will normally co-exist with pseudo-righteousness to the exclusion, sensibly, of state-absolutist criteria of an overly social democratic nature.