SANITY
AND INSANITY
1. To love the organic unnature
of beauty; to take pride in the organic supernature
of strength; to take pleasure in the organic nature of knowledge; to be joyful
in the organic subnature of truth.
2. Conversely, to hate the inorganic unnature of ugliness; to feel humiliated by the inorganic supernature of weakness; to feel pain in the inorganic
nature of ignorance; to feel woe in the inorganic subnature
of falsity (delusion).
3. For Nature is a combination of metachemical unnature, chemical supernature, physical nature, or nature per se, and
metaphysical subnature, whether in relation to the
negativity of inorganic primacy or to the positivity
of organic supremacy.
4. One's own Nature, human nature, is made up of
such a combination in varying ratios, depending on both the gender and class
(build) of the individual, with particular reference to organic supremacy,
which guarantees one a positive norm as a matter of metachemical,
chemical, physical, or metaphysical course.
5. Thus one is naturally disposed to the love of
beauty, the pride of strength, the pleasure in knowledge, the joy in truth, and
therefore inclined to a hatred of ugliness, a humility in weakness, a pain in
ignorance, and a woe in falsity, since these things are contrary to the rule of
organic supremacy, being attributes of inorganic primacy.
6. It seems to me that a love of ugliness, a
pride in weakness, a pleasure in ignorance, and a joy in falsehood would be antinatural, as, from a converse point of view, would be a
hatred of beauty, a humility in strength, a pain in knowledge, and a woe in
truth.
7. For if it is natural to love beauty and to
hate ugliness, then it must be antinatural to hate
beauty and to love ugliness; and if it is natural to take pride in strength and
to feel humiliated by weakness, then it must be antinatural
to take pride in weakness and to feel humiliated by strength; and if it is
natural to take pleasure in knowledge and to feel pain in ignorance, then it
must be antinatural to take pleasure in ignorance and
to feel pain in knowledge; and if it is natural to feel joy in truth and to
feel woe in falsity, then it must be antinatural to
feel joy in falsity and to feel woe in truth.
8. For that which is antinatural is contrary to Nature, whether the Nature be metachemical and unnatural, chemical and supernatural,
physical and natural per
se, or metaphysical and subnatural. And being antinatural
is commensurate, in this context, with insanity, since sanity is only possible
on the basis of living in harmony with Nature, whether in general terms or with
reference to a bias for one particular element due to both gender and class
factors.
9. One can thus distinguish the negative Nature,
as it were, of inorganic primacy from the positive Nature, in all its elemental
manifestations, of organic supremacy, deeming Antinature
to be that which is contrary to Nature insofar as it subverts the mean ... of
regarding organic supremacy positively and inorganic primacy negatively.
10. By twisting things so that organic supremacy
is regarded negatively and inorganic primacy positively, Antinature,
to repeat, is commensurate with insanity, since it causes people to love
ugliness and to hate beauty, to take pride in weakness and to be humbled by
strength, to take pleasure in ignorance and to feel pain in knowledge, or to
feel joy in falsity and to feel woe in truth, all of which are contrary to
Nature, and hence to sanity.
11. What, then, is the cause of this insanity
which stems from an anti-natural perspective?
Being organic, and therefore essentially positive, but having too much
to do with that which is inorganic and fundamentally negative, whether because
the society and/or civilization in which one lives is heavily inorganic or
because one is personally drawn towards the inorganic, or both.
12. In consequence of which one ends up, as an
organic entity having a capacity for positivity,
loving ugliness, taking pride in weakness, taking pleasure in ignorance, and
feeling joy in falsity, all of which are contrary to the natural norms and therefore
symptomatic of insanity.
13. For if one loves
ugliness, one can only hate beauty; and if one takes a pride in weakness, one
can only be humbled by strength; and if one takes pleasure in ignorance, one
can only feel pain in knowledge; and if one feels joy in falsity, one can only
feel woe in truth. Contrary, in every
case, to Nature and to the sanity that accrues to being in harmony, as an
organic entity, with the organic.
14. This twisted estimation of things which is antinatural is pretty much the abnormal mean in societies
which are too heavily biased towards the inorganic, whether traditionally in
relation to cosmic and/or geologic primacy or, more contemporaneously, in
relation to urban and technological factors which especially characterize and
condition the lives of those who are obliged or choose to live with them.
15. For a society which is extensively and/or
intensively urbanized and technologized will
inevitably produce individuals who are so given to artificial manifestations of
inorganic primacy as to be effectively insane in the extents to which
anti-natural estimates condition their thoughts and feelings to the detriment
of organic harmony. Western society -
and countries like
