The Paradoxical Justification of Axial Stability. Life is ever paradoxical, and axial subversion is not the least of the paradoxes which afflict life and render the Many subject to the overall control of the Few in the interests of axial continuity and stability, such freedom - and therefore supremacy - as hegemonically obtains always being primarily characteristic of the respective noumenal positions and rarely if ever of their phenomenal counterparts whose equivocal freedoms are systematically subverted by a combination of opposite gender pressures designed to render them subject to an emphasis on binding - and therefore primacy - in what, for them, should constitute secondary church-hegemonic or state-hegemonic standings, depending on the axis, vis-à-vis their nominally subservient 'upended' gender companions.