More on the
Relationship between Culture and Civility in both Noumenal
and Phenomenal Contexts. One has to distinguish, whether people like
it or not, between genuine culture and pseudo-civility, the respective
attributes of metaphysics and antimetachemistry at
the northeast point of the intercardinal axial
compass, and pseudo-culture and genuine civility, the respective attributes of
physics and antichemistry at the southeast point of
the said compass. For not only are these pairings distinct from each
other, but they appertain to two diametrically antithetical axes, the
church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axis that also embraces, at its southwest
point, chemistry and antiphysics, or pseudo-barbarity
and genuine philistinism, and the state-hegemonic/church-subordinate axis that
also embraces, at its northwest point, metachemistry
and antimetaphysics, barbarity and
pseudo-philistinism. That said, it should be evident that a polarity
between philistinism and culture on the one hand, and pseudo-barbarity and
pseudo-civility on the other should not be confounded with the polarity between
barbarity and civility on the one hand, and pseudo-philistinism and
pseudo-culture on the other. The polarities of each axis are as distinct
as their respective components, and that is why they rarely or never see
eye-to-eye, as it were, across the axial divide but remain symptomatic of
ethnic incompatibility and rivalry. But pseudo-culture and civility (the
genuine article) are no less guilty of hyping the pseudo-cultural element to
the standing of genuine culture than they are of hyping Man to the standing of
God. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your standpoint, there is
all the axial difference in the world - and even above it - between these two
superficially parallel but diametrically incompatible elements.
Pseudo-culture is not and never has been or ever will be genuinely cultural,
but the worldly opponent of such culture that puts commercial considerations
above the truth or, at the very least, the artist's endeavour to be as sincere
and honest in his pursuance of self-enlightenment, of self-discovery, as he
possibly can be. No one who has been published in book form on the basis
of commercial expedience or in relation to commercial sense is or ever can be a
genuine artist, a purveyor of genuine culture. Books are illustrative of
pseudo-culture in the pocket of civility and are axially beholden to
pseudo-philistinism in the pocket (hegemonically
speaking) of barbarity, which usually takes the form of a garish
illustration. They are no more expressive of genuine culture (coupled to
pseudo-civility) than Man is expressive of God. And by 'God' I do not
mean Devil the Mother hyped as God (in metachemistry),
but the genuine metaphysical article, which is God the Father in metaphysical
free psyche and the Son of God in metaphysical bound soma. The Son of
Man, which is the more prevalent take on humanism, is not even on the
physically free-psychic level of Man the Father, an almost unheard of term.
But he is still hyped nonetheless, like the bullshit that passes for truth but
is really the strength co-opted knowledge of physics when it is not, like antimetaphysics, the illusory servant of metachemical ugliness, serving merely to blurb-up the
garish presentation of a compendium of knowledge whose typographical
presentation is merely printerly and, therefore,
germane to the antichemical subversion of
pseudo-culture by civility.