An Analysis of the
Church-hegemonic/State-subordinate Sports Dichotomy in Eire. In what
I like to think of as the church-hegemonic/state-subordinate axial distinction
- southwest to northeast - between Gaelic football and hurling, the former
would seem symptomatic of all that, rock 'n' roll-like, is sensually loose or
centrifugal or extrovert, and the latter of all that, in the best traditions of
Irish folk music, is sensibly tight or centripetal or introvert ... or is it?
Well, yes, up to a point, I guess you could say it is. But even if hurling is morally superior to Gaelic football, it is
merely symptomatic of the Irish Catholic status quo, with priests and bibles
and churches and all the rest of it. It is good but - and here's the rub from a
Social Theocratic standpoint - not good enough to pass muster in supra-Western
- and therefore properly global - terms. There is a strong suggestion of the
point over the bar having its idealism vitiated by the materialism of the
hurley, as though the all-too-extrapolative Christian paradigm of bound
metaphysical soma in the Crucified, postulated as resurrected to the northeast
point of the intercardinal axial compass, were being
held in check by some free metachemical agent at its northwest, akin to what I
have in the past called Devil the Mother hyped as God (the Father) in typically
paradoxical Catholic fashion. In other words, such subjectivity as transpires,
wine or even stout-like, in the idealistic point between the uprights over the
crossbar is compromised by a whiskey-like factor in back of everything
Christian that precludes its ever attaining to anything like true transcendence
(for which, in any case, a metaphysically free psychic repudiation of all
metachemical free soma is a prerequisite) and ensures that hurling, for all its
idealistic pretensions at the northeast point of our intercardinal
axial compass, remains firmly in the grip of northwest materialism as the
rugby, so to speak, of Irish sport, with implications rather more Christian
than heathen, to be sure, but nonetheless characteristic of what is un- in not
anti-people. Frankly, I have little time for this! I am neither in favour of
the RC elite, who represent the paradoxes of traditional values, nor of what
they would call the sinful Catholic masses whose passion is for Gaelic
football. What I do favour, as a self-professed Social Theocrat, is the
salvation and counter-damnation (according to gender) of the latter to a
position akin to that of the former, the RC elite, except that it would not be
in relation to hurling but to an indoor transmutation of Gaelic which would
enable 'the last' to be 'first', and in a completely new way such that the RC
tradition was never able to achieve. Such is the logic of revolution, and I
firmly believe in the desirability of a democratically-engineered Social
Theocratic revolution such that takes noumenal sensibility to altogether new
heights of idealism - heights that are actually open to transcendentalism and
precisely because transcendentalism is the lead string in what would amount to
a true Father whose 'Son' was in no degree a mere extrapolation from Devil the
Mother hyped as God but, transcending Western criteria, the logical corollary,
in metaphysical bound soma, of a freely psychic metaphysical precondition, the
state-subordinate idealism to a church-hegemonic transcendentalism which would
be free, for ever more, of all fundamentalist and materialist subversion or
vitiation, and therefore properly universal within a global framework, as
alluded to above.