Redefining the Left and
the Right. We have established an axial compass which
stretches from northwest to southeast on state-hegemonic/church-subordinate
terms and from southwest to northeast on church-hegemonic/state-subordinate
terms, thereby supporting the thesis of two separate and indeed opposite types
of society, no less incompatible, in fact, than Great Britain and the Republic
of Ireland, or the UK and Eire. At each
point of the inter-axial compass we have paired hegemonic positions with their
upended gender subordinate complements, whether as metachemistry with
antimetaphysics at the northwest point or as physics with antichemistry at the
southeast point, or, across the axial divide, as chemistry with
antiphysics at the southwest point or as metaphysics with antimetachemistry at
the northeast point. We have also
maintained that antithetical links tend to be formed between the same gender
polarities, whether between metachemistry and antichemistry on primary
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate terms or between antimetaphysics and physics
on secondary state-hegemonic/church-subordinate terms or, across the axial
divide, between metaphysics and antiphysics on primary
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate terms or between antimetachemistry and
chemistry on secondary church-hegemonic/state-subordinate terms. These pairings have also been discussed, on
such a polar basis, in relation to terms like upper class and
anti-classless vis-à-vis anti-lower class and middle class where
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate criteria are concerned and,
conversely, to such terms as classless and anti-upperclass vis-à-vis
anti-middleclass and lower class in the context
of church-hegemonic/state-subordinate criteria, as well as in relation to
distinctions between, say, space and antitime vis-à-vis antivolume and mass or,
conversely, time and antispace vis-à-vis antimass and volume. We have even resorted, in Bunyanesque
vein, to such terminological distinctions as Vanity Fair and Anti-Celestial
City vis-à-vis Anti-Slough of
Despond and Mr Worldly Wise or, from the contrary axial standpoint, Celestial
City and Anti-Vanity Fair vis-à-vis
Anti-Mr Worldly Wise and Slough of Despond. One of my favourites was noumenal objectivity
and noumenal anti-subjectivity vis-à-vis phenomenal anti-objectivity and
phenomenal subjectivity on the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis, but of
noumenal subjectivity and noumenal anti-objectivity vis-à-vis phenomenal
anti-subjectivity and phenomenal objectivity on the
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis, where we had ascertained that the
noumenal anti-subjective and phenomenal anti-subjective positions were contrary
to noumenal subjectivity and phenomenal subjectivity respectively, while their
anti-objective counterparts were contrary to noumenal objectivity if noumenal
and to phenomenal objectivity if phenomenal, not to anything else. In such fashion one could link autocracy and
antitheocracy with antibureaucracy and democracy on the one (axial) hand, but
theocracy and anti-autocracy with antidemocracy and bureaucracy on the other
(axial) hand, thus establishing a polar antithesis between autocracy and
antibureaucracy on primary state-hegemonic/church-subordinate terms and between
antitheocracy and democracy on secondary state-hegemonic/church-subordinate
terms, with a similar, if axially contrary, antithesis between theocracy and
antidemocracy on primary church-hegemonic/state-subordinate terms and between
anti-autocracy and bureaucracy on secondary church-hegemonic/state-subordinate
terms. So where does all this leave us
with respect to such definitions as Left and Right, whether extreme
(noumenal) or moderate (phenomenal), ethereal or corporeal? It leaves us, I believe, with a fundamental
dichotomy between sensuality and sensibility, left and right, female and male,
objectivity and subjectivity, outer sanity and inner sanity, soma and psyche,
since a definite distinction exists between a perception of the Left as sensual
and in some sense anti-Christian and of the Right as sensible and if not
Christian then of a disposition that favours religion and male-hegemonic values
generally. Hence if we follow our axial
parameters and attach such distinctions to each of the polar pairings we shall
find that, contrary to accepted wisdom or what convention may have led people
to suppose, metachemistry and chemistry, corresponding to noumenal and
phenomenal modes of female hegemony, are of the left, if
in objectively disparate ways, whereas metaphysics and physics, being
respectively noumenal and phenomenal modes of male hegemony, are of the right,
if in subjectively disparate ways.
For if metachemistry is autocratic upper-class and chemistry
bureaucratic lower-class, then metachemistry is extreme left in its noumenal
objectivity and chemistry merely moderate left in its phenomenal
objectivity. Conversely, if metaphysics
is theocratic classless and physics democratic middle-class, then metaphysics is extreme right in its noumenal subjectivity and physics merely
moderate right in its phenomenal subjectivity.
But, of course, nothing left or right, whether extreme or moderate, can
exist without a subordinate gender complement, whether in sensuality
(objectivity) or in sensibility (subjectivity), and therefore we have to
address such a complement if each point of the axial compass is to be paired
off with representatives of both gender positions and thus accord with
axial relativity and indeed polar interdependence. Therefore the male complement to the unequivocal
female hegemony at the northwest point of the axial compass is of an extreme
anti-rightwing disposition which is subordinate to extreme left-wing criteria
(overlooking the hype of Devil the Mother as God and, hence, as Extreme Right),
as antitheocracy to autocracy and anti-classlessness to upper classfulness, and
this contrasts with the female complement to the equivocal male hegemony at the
southeast point of the axial compass which is of a moderate anti-leftwing
disposition subordinate to moderate right-wing criteria, as antibureaucracy to
democracy and anti-lowerclassfulness to middleclassfulness. Turning, on the other hand, from
state-hegemonic/church-subordinate to church-hegemonic/state-subordinate
criteria, we shall find that the female complement to the unequivocal male
hegemony at the northeast point of the axial compass is of an extreme
anti-leftwing disposition which is subordinate to extreme right-wing criteria
(as properly germane to God the Father), as anti-autocracy to theocracy and
anti-upperclassfulness to classlessness, and this contrasts with the male
complement to the equivocal female hegemony at the southwest point of the axial
compass which is of a moderate anti-rightwing disposition subordinate to
moderate left-wing criteria, as antidemocracy to bureaucracy and
anti-middleclassfulness to lowerclassfulness.
Hence a primary state-hegemonic/church-subordinate polar antithesis,
female-wise, on the one axis between Extreme Left and moderate anti-left is
juxtaposed with a secondary state-hegemonic/church-subordinate polar
antithesis, male-wise, between Extreme Anti-Right and moderate right, since
that which is Extreme Left in the one case can only form a polar antithesis
with moderate anti-left elements at the expense of the moderate right, its
axial and gender hegemonic antithesis, while that which is Extreme Anti-Right
in the other case can only form a polar antithesis with moderate right-wing
elements in view of the irrelevance of the moderate anti-left to its gender
position, whereas a primary church-hegemonic/state-subordinate polar
antithesis, male-wise, on the other axis between Extreme Right and moderate
anti-right is juxtaposed with a secondary church-hegemonic/state-subordinate
polar antithesis, female-wise, between Extreme Anti-Left and moderate left,
since that which is Extreme Right in the one case can only form a polar
antithesis with moderate anti-right elements at the expense of the moderate
left, its axial and gender hegemonic antithesis, while that which is Extreme
Anti-Left in the other case can only form a polar antithesis with moderate
left-wing elements in view of the irrelevance of the moderate anti-right to its
gender position. Yet even here we have
to distinguish between worldly and post-worldly forms of both left and right,
whether moderate or extreme, corporeal or ethereal, since that which is genuine
in a worldly age, namely the phenomenal points of the axial compass, will be
pseudo in a post-worldly age (such as the present), whereas that which is
pseudo in a worldly age, namely the noumenal points of the axial compass, will
be genuine in a post-worldly age when, if not netherworldly and
anti-otherworldly criteria (as arguably in the case of America), otherworldly
and anti-netherworldly criteria will obtain, to the detriment of anything
pseudo-noumenal and in the interests, certainly in the
otherworldly/anti-netherworldly case, of the salvation and counter-damnation of
the pseudo-worldly, with specific reference to its alpha and anti-omega,
lower-class and anti-middleclass, manifestations, as properly germane to the
southwest point of the axial compass.
Therefore we should really speak of the salvation of the pseudo-moderate
anti-right by the Extreme Right and of the counter-damnation of the
pseudo-moderate left by the Extreme Anti-Left … where the elevation of
antiphysical to metaphysical and of chemical to antimetachemical elements are
concerned, and contrast this with the possible damnation of the Extreme Left to
the pseudo-moderate anti-left and of the counter-salvation of the Extreme
Anti-Right to the pseudo-moderate right … where the collapse of
metachemical to antichemical and of antimetaphysical to physical elements are
concerned, in the event of a more genuine, and therefore properly
extreme-right, order of theocracy coming to pass, in conjunction with a
subordinate order of anti-autocracy, at the northeast point of the axial
compass in response to a majority mandate for religious sovereignty in
countries, like Eire, with a catholic or, more correctly in this post-worldly
age, lapsed Catholic majority, the pseudo-moderate standings of which portend
the more genuine extremism of the noumenal heights to which they would, in the
event of ‘democratic’ endorsement, be saved and/or counter-damned, as described
in these and other writings pertaining to the development of ‘Kingdom Come’ in
relation to Social Theocracy and the fuller evolution of the northeast
point of the compass in question, the only logical outcome to which would
be the downfall of its northwest point as those at the southwest point
were delivered from the evil and pseudo-folly, crime and pseudo-sin, which
typifies that extreme immoral and extreme anti-moral northwest point in respect
of both metachemistry and antimetaphysics, the Extreme Left and the Extreme
Anti-Right. Only the triumph of the
Extreme Right and the Extreme Anti-Left over the pseudo-moderate anti-right and
the pseudo-moderate left will bring about the downfall of all that is of the
Devil and Antigod, and precisely into the judgemental clutches of
pseudo-antiwoman and pseudo-man, who can be expected to make it over in their
own image in the interests of their own future entitlements to axial conversion
and, following southwest point make-over in pseudo-womanly and pseudo-antimanly
terms, due salvation and counter-damnation to God and the Antidevil, to an
Eternity of Extreme Right righteousness and an Anti-Infinity of Extreme
Anti-Left counter-justice, the pseudo-justice of that which, in
antimetachemistry, is forever subordinate to the metaphysical
righteousness of God in ‘Kingdom Come’.