POSTPOST:

One of the principal themes in K---- D---- H-- W---- is that of the finite life of the individual mind-body, set against the grandiose backdrop of the Multiverse. More specifically and politically, the theme at work is that we are stuck with the bodies that we have, that they are not only restrictions upon our Minds, but also that we are born into them for certain karmic reasons which establish them as our moral burden, as individuals. On some level, the Life of the Mind transcends these mortal restrictions, so at our most fundamental level of psychological awareness we all have the power to decide which chains to wear, and the nature of the chain reflects the decisions of the Soul. This pertains also to such features such as “beauty and brains”, and, given the immediacy of intuition, it functions as a reaffirmation of the Platonic approach to attraction. First impressions cease to be superficial prejudices, produced out of social “conditioning”, but rather they become the very measure of genuine depth and the possibility of transcendence; while “getting to know someone” is an attempt made by the conscious ego to reduce the Other to some expression of the sovereign Self, genuine Encounter with the Unknown is always produced through some sort of “Love [or, more generally, Recognition] at First Sight”. People become the embodiments of Gods and Goddesses in ordinary Life, though they seldom know this and far less often approve of the observation. Be that as it may, to love remains more valuable than being loved, especially by one’s self, and so the ultimate identity is defined more by how one perceives Others than how one WISHES to be perceived BY Them, and more is to be learned by studying how people TRULY see one’s self than by how one wishes to be seen, the latter of which amounts to nothing more than persona and convention, the most tragic outcome of whose overvaluation is the mutilation, denigration, and destruction of the Body. Within a psychosocial context, this presents some bold attacks upon the post-structural ideology of gender identity, though it remains well-meaning towards the ideology’s representatives. If the physical body is one’s own cross to bear, so to speak, then one acts in destructive bad faith if one tries to “escape” its strictures by appealing to an abstract and disembodied conception of “gender as a social construct”. It involves the internal contradiction of at once blaming “Society”, in the abstract, for one’s feelings of alienation, while at the same time making an appeal to Society’s liberal and philosophical traditions in an attempt to alter one’s social standing in the most superficial and conformist manner, pinning the blame upon those who “conform” to those conditions for which they accept responsibility. In this sense, the use of mythological archetypes, most notably expressed as Ancient Egyptian Deities, might be my only recourse in cutting through the pretensions of millennials who avail themselves liberally of abstract thought but abstain from any philosophical inquiry. “Society”, in my World, is NOT the antagonist who has to be overcome by manipulation, outwitted and brought thus to the negotiating table, in an attempt to restore some semblance of a lost autonomy. In K---- D---- H-- W----, that autonomy remains to be attained, as in olden days, outside of This World, to be EARNED in the Next World, which in itself has fallen into disrepair upon a level that mortals struggle to conceive. This form of transcendence is not simply an archaic and regressive alternative to the secular advent of deconstruction; it is a Living, Breathing Cultural Universal, representing the final stages of Moral Development. “Society” is not the enemy but the helper, serving as a stepping stone, as in Kierkegaard’s books, to the properly Religious (“Spiritual”) Domain. Yet Society is more than a series of moral dictates. The Body is the limitation, and its laws are those of the Suffering, Moral World. Yet Society is one’s first source of transcendence, supplying the Mind with Dreams of Another Life, instilling both the desire and the hope for fulfillment. To reject Society in the pursuit of one’s desires is self-defeating; to work with Society is to discover one’s Self.

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