Re-examining Philistinism and Culture in relation to Barbarity and Civility. I have said it before and I shall say it again: philistinism is the precondition, for the redeemed phenomenally sensual, of culture, even though there are those who, as noumenally sensible, properly – and eternally – appertain to culture and are not, exceptions to the rule notwithstanding, to be thought of in terms of their co-gender antithesis. But if one is avowedly philistine one is not, by definition, natural … in the sense of overly heathen or uncatholic by nature … and therefore one stands, as a self-confessed sinner, at a Christian remove from those who would indulge their naturalistic appetites without shame in consequence of a heathenistic disposition from want of axial interrelativity. One also stands axially apart from those who, antimetaphysically subordinate to the noumenally sensual, are no better than pseudo-philistine in their state-hegemonic/church-subordinate want of genuine sinfulness under duress of a somatic emphasis in pseudo-folly, just as, from the opposite class standpoint, the cultural stand axially apart from those who, physically hegemonic over the phenomenally antisensual, are no more than pseudo-cultural in their parliamentary/puritan want of genuine grace by dint of a somatic emphasis upon pseudo-wisdom, their pseudo-wisdom and pseudo-grace subordinate, in secondary state-hegemonic/church-subordinate vein, to the just, whose antichemical dispositions, as antiwomen, are polar to the metachemical freedoms (of soma) which keep them at a civilized disadvantage to the barbarous ‘privileges’ of their upper-class co-gender antithesis, not least in respect of state-hegemonic materialism. No, if the philistine must be axially distinguished from the pseudo-philistine and the cultured from the pseudo-cultured, then so too must each of these be distinguished from their female counterparts, whether as pseudo-barbarous from pseudo-civil on church-hegemonic/state-subordinate terms or, across the axial divide, as barbarous from civil on state-hegemonic/church-subordinate terms, and both alike from the naturalistic want of philistinism, whether genuine or pseudo, that typifies an absence of culture as an antithetical co-gender position to a philistine precondition (although in practice the cultural must precede the philistine for the philistine to arise out of nature). For when philistinism is absent there is only naturalism, and such naturalism is the fruit of heathenistic licence, which is rooted in barbarism and the rule of barbarism, whether chemically pseudo or metachemically genuine, over both antiphysical and antimetaphysical male positions. Verily, nothing short of male hegemonies in sensibility can transmute naturalism into philistinism and permit of salvation to culture, obliging barbarism to transmute, via philistinism, towards barbarity as the 'constitutional' precondition of civility, the female counterpart to culture, whether, according to axis, in genuine or pseudo terms. For while the male church-hegemonic/state-subordinate will be saved from philistinism to culture and their female counterparts counter-damned from pseudo-barbarity to pseudo-civility, the male state-hegemonic/church-subordinate will only be counter-saved from pseudo-philistinism to pseudo-culture if their female counterparts are first damned from barbarity to civility, an eventuality unlikely to transpire to any significant extent if those in the former categories have not been sufficiently saved and counter-damned from their bound-psychic anti-omegaworldly sins and alphaworldly pseudo-crimes, not to mention correlatively free-somatic follies and pseudo-evils, to no longer provide a livelihood to those in the latter categories who would avail of their respective shortcomings to enhance their own freely somatic evil and pseudo-foolish, not to mention correlatively bound-psychic criminal and pseudo-sinful, dispositions, and do so, moreover, with the connivance, if not financial backing, of their good and pseudo-wise, if not punishing and pseudo-graceful, antitheses within the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis, the latter of whom already exist at a civil and pseudo-cultural remove from all that is not damned or counter-saved in relation to themselves.