Implected with wild, Apolaustic dreams,
Pirating High Passion, protracting Low Sin,
Blonded in Spirit, gargoyling in girth,
Grounded in greed, gunpowder, and guns,
Erupted one Morn on the Stupor of Ages,
ruptured old Bondings, put paid to old Seekings, imploding the Languor of Imbricate Innocence,
Instant Ensnaring a Crown’s vintage lustings,
forever Entombing the Peasants’ Entrustings,
mocking the Twilight of History, Unsparing ,
in preternatural daylight of dispatch and daring –
Indurate ,Uncaring , debauching , Carousing,
They stormed the fair Main ,not a Sailor
But rousing, not a rood of shore shunning,
not a Soldier outgunning, blitzing with shell,
whilst raising all Hell, run amok on the Plain,
or set-sailed on the main, Captains Courageous,
their Deck Mates Outrageous, all Men all
aboard, with deep Oceans to ford, vast
Tracts to Assay , by rapids that roared,
or mountains that soared, demitting
to Rubble all Stood in their Way.
Streaming due East, first Pirate, then Priest, Skullbones and Deacons both equal high-blest, Royalty arriding their High-rolling Quest, some would go Hither, and some would go There, wherever they anchored, ill-fated Natives beware, full passions prevailing, wild-wind and sea wailing, railing ,assailing, for ever yet More, pitchers of Blood , or hatfuls of Gore, spices, rubies, diamonds, galore, rushing rich for rare ransom, on a far Eastern shore, in foul Murder marauding, cowering peoples all crowding, yielding no valor to valor, and honor to none, hype and horsefeathers flaunting, all Obstruction surmounting, these Hesperian Bandits, of Norsemen, and Hun.
Double-Entered Book-Fudging, double-crossing,
double-judging, two-faced , two-timing, high-talking ,
high-rhyming, Lettering with Patent, Intentions all latent, purveying, Surveying, as sly-wheeling Pirates would dare, past Reason , discretion, caution, or care, no thought for the morrow, no tears for the sorrow, no ardor for Kinship , no benefice to God, nor passion not golden, or yielded to Sod, theirs was the Age, when Empire was Rage, Church freed from old Holdings, Crown and Commerce Enfolding, Great Scholarship Rising, greater Peasants’ Uprisings, Trader, Invader, Crusader new Names, for hoaxing, coaxing , hagridden Games, Chaos, and Tumult, plain Anarchist War, No Booty too distant, nor Bridge Too Far:
Old Faiths harsh Broken, New Oaths loud Spoken.
Old Christ Bespoken, with Gold ,the New Token,
Aquinas to Henry, then Calvins and Luthers,
Old Canons refashioned, new Prizes, new Suitors,
Merchants on Missions , in maelstrom demissions,
conjoined Old Forces , and plotted New Courses,
New Knowledge, new scrolls, new Taxes, new rolls,
High Heavens fresh Charted, deep seas soon parted, Sugar , tobacco, spices, and cotton, hauling and mauling , great Gains Ill-gotten, flush granaries looted, fair orchards uprooted, now ravaged, now savaged, scurvy Bounty of Slaves, Refuse of Beowulf , now Ruling the Waves -
Drake to Pizarro, Cortes, and Raleigh, now racking a nation, now razing a valley , attacking or sacking, impressing, enslaving, by loft of ambition, or crass-lowly craving, ranting and raving, so wantonly knaving, lapping great oceans with vagrant devotions, unresting, arresting, in name of the Queen, inciting, in-fighting, venting foul spleen, Despoiling whole Peoples, callings, and cultures, like so many Vampires, or foraging Vultures, scouring, devouring, ever-raring to brawl, pied Pride of Old Europe presaging its Fall.
(ii)
A whole Globe was dire haunted, Civilizations so taunted, in lands of romance-enchanted, gaudy Markets implanted, all fell to their Sway, far Afric , Cathay, and still They kept coming, chords of Empire still strumming, bare greed in their heads, raw lust in their beds, but Novel Commerce Awaking, set them all shaking, sheer piracy, plunder, now itinerant thunder, rational stock-taking, meant Pruning and Raking, Smith and John Locke soon Altered the Plan, with Industry, Labor, and Rights of Free Man, all richly endowed, virgin fields new ploughed, old tillage deserted, old pillage inverted, old Commons new taxed, old Sires quick-axed, old Mills fresh-built, rills rush-rid of silt, manufacture would fracture the rood and the sod, wracking fair hamlets, by force and by fraud, all dowry invested, no worker was rested, more slaves re-employed, ex-peasants deployed, Pirate and Slaver, now Investor and Saver, with Reason in season, tracks to Rhodes laid out, foretastings of Hastings inset, as an Old Age played out, and a New Order Beset.
There were Laws, there were Orders, many motley Disorders, high juridical pleadings, O such Craft to their Bleedings, Courts, Assizes, learned judges and lawyers , Philosophers, jurists and peerie fretsawyers, Mammon Implodings in Protestant goadings, rich Burghers, poor Rabble , tall Towers of High Babble, Aztec, Inca, and Mayan quick humbled, Irish and Scottish domains soon tumbled, Newton , and Bacon, with New Science all Taken, fox-hunts and witch-hunts, Social Compacts forsaken, Music and dancing, such feasting o’ nights, far from the Fields of grim Slaughter and Blight:
Millenia had come , Millenia had gone , with Tyrants and Pillage of terrible Renown, yet no Tribe(s) on Earth ,so devoid, in Dearth, of Human Emotions, to trespass great Oceans, to brave Clime and Creed, in name but of Greed, unmoved by Need , ungiven to Heed, Sure of their Right, ever-Priming to Fight, to kill and be killed, or whatever they Willed, Free of all Ethic, or Norm Sympathetic, Fairest of Men , yet far Foulest in Deed, Darker in heart , full Craven in breed, Braver than lions, but cowards in Truth, Strangers to Grace, Pity, or Ruth, Genius Abounding, but swaddled in Guile, great Reason unbounding, but riddled with bile : the mines of Potosi, the fields of Bengal, Carolinas, Kentucky, Slaves toiled in Thrall, High Culture Concocted on Corpses , withal: Descartes, Fielding , Cervantes, and more, Contracts, Charters, Constitutions galore:; Hegels and Schlegels, Bach and Beethoven, later Gauguin, Van Gogh, their souls all too cloven; their Truths Self-evident, so Supreme and so Sure: Born Free - save Women, Ethnic , and Poor:
Devolution is Instant, Evolution takes time,
The Vandals disported like Hogs in the Slime,
Blind to true Natures, they but saw Caricatures,
declared Open Season on all Culture heathen,
Beggared splendors of Old, etched in marble or gold,
Vending for shillings , to all Bidders so willing,
Clipping, and stripping, high Templates of Living,
Time-tender Legacies of History and Art,
Crumbled , and tumbled, in Carriage and Cart.
Devoid of Lenity, bereft of its fey Scope,
Derided High Essence ,in crass-vulgar Trope:
mortising tribals like offal, goring locals at will,
All-ranging, Unchanging (why, they’re fain at it still) -
To tears bled in silver, sighs bred of pure gold,
pain of slave-mothers, cries of children just sold -
Hearts hewed in Hardness, abeyant Conscience stayed Cold: Yet were they Afflicted, they Knew it not Then, the Reprieve of Remorse still far from their Ken:
There could now be no barring, their Race would be Run,
Here feathering, there tarring, as sure as Begun:
But Thieves with no Honor, no True Codes to protect,
Warred each other, Pretexting Creed , or by Sect,
so Ism fought Schism, or this Tribe with That,
Ravaged the World , in grim Tit for Tat,
Seizing, besieging , each Other’s Possessions
in dogged , determined, debauching obsessions:
In pretermitting Feuding, almost forgot, the World that lay brooding , Unsure of their Lot, and ever so Slowly,
Unwholesome, Unholy, a Faltering Empire
bared Signs of its Rot:
In burnished Derisions of Antique Circumcisions,
rank in Occlusions of sentient collusions,
scaling absonant Everests in prodigal intrusions,
All Rue expiring in Profligate contusions:
In fever rent hot, unholy Hubris racked tall,
green sod their purlieu, blue sky dusky pall,
hoisted High Banners declaiming Might over All,
Only to Evanesce in Prognosticate Fall:
now, Vain, now Inglorious, down the Gadarene chute, recidivist, reversionary, Voice and Muse quite mute, in macedoine of mayhem , mad metamorphoses,
scourged ruminant lands distal , past desolating seas.
The Claret kept flowing, the Pewter warm glowing,
Tippling with Kipling, the Old Raj would run Dry,
Natives revolted, low Sepoys rode high,
The most Brutish of Isles , unable to Answer,
The thrust, the parry, of the Colonial Lancer,
India was going, America was gone;
an Old Era now dying, a New One, Unborn.
The Sleeping had Woken, the Spell all too Broken,
Japan fast tipping, China lay slipping,
Africa Awaking, there was no Mistaking:
The Heathen was stirring, nor smiling , nor purring,
Too Late the Heroes, now turned to Demurring,
The Eyeless were Seeing, the Voiceless could Speak,
The Powerless were potent, the Slaves were Unweak,
The Modern was Failing, the Cement was too weak,
The Ship was not Sailing, it sprung a new Leak:
And so they wreaked War, mass-murdered their Own,
Vengeance as History, hoary Genocides Atoned,
Nazis, their Patsies , mere Pirates of Yore,
Villains and Heroes , one Deciphered no more,
The Euro Man’s Burden, ever the Euro Himself,
best to remit His Plans straight back to the Shelf:
Splitting the Atom, their twisted Psyches as well,
Severed from All kindred, tolled their own Knell,
Atomic Disaster made all Hearts beat faster,
They had the Bomb, Sure that made Them Master:
Little Boy, and Fat Man , reigned from high in the sky,
As America ,its Allies, waited for Innocents to Die,
The Day that they Fell, marked Their Entry to Hell -
Their Sickness, their Cancer, but Karma’s Grim Answer:
From Tyranny to Decadence, then Barbarism again,
Closed their Circle of Darkness, History’s Great Bane:
In Respite, their Cousinage took Utopian lead,
The Slav Tried to Salvage, but could not succeed:
Fought fire with fire , but All would be Scorched,
For the rot went too deep, it could not be torched:
Corralling the Mind, Fencing all Spaces,
Communal Bonds wrought in Iron Embraces,
Emancipatory Urges, Expiring in Purges -
Experiments Expunged, no Repeating such splurges:
Enough of Clergy, liturgy, Covenants, and Arks,
Seeking Safe Haven in the High Litany of Marx:
Tweedledee collapsed, a whole Era had lapsed,
Carnal visions now failed, common Peoples all bailed,
The Wall was no more, they blew Open the Door,
Ignis Fatuus Came down, upon Emperor and Clown,
Leaving a World all Rent at our feet ,
Admitting , at long last, in riven Defeat:
The Modernist Way is a European Root,
Nor yielding to Flower, nor bearing a Fruit
(iii)
Modernist Screeds were plim sole with Greed,
No Ardors remain, when all’s bartered for Gain,
Dissembling in Word, Betraying in Deed,
yielded to Dross, even Vanity’s vain:
Civil society, Nations, UnReal Relations,
devoid of all Eucharistic oblations,
Universal Egoism, once its Full-bred,
Feeds on impeaching anguish and dread,
so we hanker for Anchor, lost in travails,
plunged in Delusion , Unknowing what Ails:
Hobbes, Smith, the Life of Free Man,
so skittish, so British, solitary in Span,
I Check, you Balance, my gun for yours,
competing, Self-seeking, calculating Boors,
Contracting, subtracting, retracting, on Whim,
the Feckless to drown, the Ruthless to swim,
thus huckster, and shyster, Shylock , and Cain,
Compounding Interest , Concocting sheer Gain,
Sold us short in this Hades, then Bought us again –
Philosopher, scientist, lay clergy ,and Pope,
Raised their eyes Skywards, proclaiming new Hope,
Virtue and Vice could now dwell Apart:
Atomise, Criticise, sever Head from Heart,
Descartes was sure, he only could claim
A Mind of his own, with Object and Aim,
Others Existed , perchance , it was true,
But In the Beginning, You only had You:
Embracing the Dual, Kant averred, too,
Reason and Faith, Variant Objects pursue:
And so they ran Wild, Changelings of Thought,
Ridden in Animus , Endemic with Rot –
Now rounding the Pole, now Racing the Moon,
Advancing Apocalypse all the more Soon,
Poaching our Commons, or Patenting Life,
Have Come Full Circle, Their Sins are now Rife:
Their Epoch is Over, their End is come Nigh,
We that once limped , are fain yearning to Fly,
Error, compounded by Evil, too Dear:
But Disaster is past us, Deliverance is Near,
A New Day is dawned, fled forever all Fear:
Ill have we fared, for No One was Spared,
We sipped their raw Physic, slipped under its Spell,
Tried their odd Tuition , not faring too well:
a Credo of Self-love , a Culture of Death,
Taxed Innards of Spirit, Tainted our Breath:
In Subtlest Dimensions, the Real’s ever Dissolving,
In Implicate Orders, all Explicates Resolving,
The Planet’s Abundant , Life, Fulsome, Abounding,
Old Wisdom New-found, is past all Confounding:
The Asperser of Human Existence is MAN,
Instincted to Kill, save for Kinship and Clan,
Antic Affections succeed to Ward Him from greed ,
Where the Familial is Real we may yet-again Seed,
In Compact and Bond, in Mutualities of Need,
In Sequestered Emotions, shared Symbiotics of Creed:
to find Profit in Living, simple Interest in Joy:
Gold is too brittle, woo a suppler Alloy,
Wreak Conquests in Kindred , Wean Empire of Heart –
Whence an old New Journey is His but to Start:
Truth is no libel , our Essence is Tribal,
Nature is Nurture, we Snuggle for Survival:
Now cleaving to Totem, now clung to Taboo
No Progress., no Regress, no Kismet on Cue,
No Aims to Enshrine , nor Chimera pursue:
We Are As We Are, a Program Pre-Set -
Find fit to Elect All that Moderns Forget:
Quondam Canons, Customs, Codes Refining,
Convivial Praxis: look - a New Light is Shining!
No Surrogating pleasure, no pirating such treasure,
Specie’s ill Measure where Opulence is leisure:
Bushman, Aboriginal, pioneering Contentment,
Past Primed the Way: now, Time for Relentment-
No kingdoms to steal, no Nose to the Wheel,
All’s fair Barter for the Heart’s true Weal:
No cause for ressentiment, for rants, or for rages,
Take Counsel from Woman ,at Peace through the Ages,
Living for Giving, not for Profit nor Wages,
Her Good Book’s still Open, come Turn the Pages:
Enough for us All , to be so gently Inclining:
‘Contracts’ all sundered, we are ,susurrate, resigning,
Bask in it, NorseMan: there need be no Repining.
Kranti !
Steve Fleetwood is leaving Lancaster University and starts a new post in University of West of England on April 1st.
His e-mail is: Steve.Fleetwood@uwe.ac.uk.
It is his intention to start a realist workshop in the coming months so, if you live in the south west, watch this space ...
Between Plenum and Vacuum,
we Sway, Wave to Wave,,
Lost in Perpetual Splay,
of the Undivided Mind –
with neither Spirit to Seek,
nor even Hope to Find
Thin Vestures draped in corybantic Surmise,
Cloak our coy Deeps, moot all Implications,
that the Sensual Self , Ever- Ready , Supplies,
drunk with Delusion , and Self-Deceiving Lies,
faltering in Leaps , Conjecturing in Cries,
Carapacing Alarm with glib Simplifications,,
To old Screeds faithful, yet in Apostasy belies -
In Clear Apprehension of Each Unfolding Act,
In lorn Soliloquies of numb , nagging Fear,
reeling in rolls of dismay and shock,
deriding both the Fiction and Fact,
that the Real , Enfolding, relentless suspends,
even as Will , and sweet Fancy , Unbends,
in Eternal Motion of the still Gloating Sphere :
we Glean, in spite of Disingenuous Youth
The Sober Elixir of Superannuating Truth:
Suscipient in starkness , we are neither Here, nor There:
dwelling but Withal in near-Distal Spaces,
near enough neither to Heaven nor to Hell,
Waxing and waning, nor Big nor too Small,
in Omnifutuent Traces that neither Show nor will Tell,
Where We are Not Now , and Cannot Be When,
by rack of Space reft and by rift of Time bent,
Quintessentially Quiescent, Unreservedly Rent,
Are Predestined, perforce, Never to Appear:
Fond , foolish Absences, Coquetting Without,
Like Gay Children abounding, in Song and in Shout:
As In Quotidian Dreams, the dark Genii surround
Mocking the Blitz of the Here and the Now,
Which , in Silences Strung , now high and low hung,
Make Ricocheting Motion of Reason, Emotion,
in Reverberating Streams of Syncopating Sound:
Careening , rollicking , peripatetic, Holes,
Vertiginous Voids brimmed with Coruscating Ire
Circumambient, bound ,within the Twin Poles,
in Celestial Swarms of all-Animating Fire:
in the Stupefying , spinning, vortices Of Creation,
Near-petrified , sleepless, in dark Dread of Cessation,
Derelict with Grief, and the Impounding Wrench
of the dissipating Doles of Declaiming Desire:
as Sublime Reliquaries of a Lenity Unbound,
Like frolicking Caesars, we are yet Merry Crowned ,
Though far Fulsome, Forgotten , and Forever Unfound
[Rajani Kanth March 24, 2007}
IT IS HIGH TIME, IN THIS LATE ERA, THE HIGH NOON OF MODERNISM, TO ARTICULATE A TRUE COSMOLOGY FOR THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES REPLACING THAT TENDENTIOUS LEGACY OF MISOGYNY AND MISANTHROPY BEQUEATHED US BY THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT , NAMELY, MODERNISM.
IN THAT VEIN, I OFFER THE FOLLOWING THESES FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, NOT FOR ‘DEBATE’ OR ‘ARGUMENT’ , WHICH IS THE FRUITLESS MODERNIST WAY, BUT FOR SOBRIETOUS REFLECTION.
THERE IS NO GOD’S EYE VIEW OF THE WORLD: SO ALL IS COUCHED HERE IN THE IN THE IMPLICIT BELIEF IN THE SUCHNESS OF THINGS , IN THE INHERENT MAY-BE NESS OF PHENOMENA, AND IN THEIR INEFFABLE MANY-SIDEDNESS ,METHODOLOGICAL TENETS OF ANCIENT JAIN PHILOSOPHY, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C. WHICH , LIKE SO MUCH THAT IS UNKNOWN TO MODERNIST AUDIENCES, IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S FOREMOST SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS.
1. WE ARE, CONTRARY TO THE PRECEPTS OF J/C IDEOLOGY, SELF-REALISED, AND SELF-REALISING, ANIMALS AT ALL TIMES, NOTIONS OF PROGRESS AND REGRESS, THEREBY, CARRY NO VALENCY [EXCEPT AS ARBITRARY CONSTRUCTIONS]
2. NATURE HAS PROGRAMMED US IN MANY WAYS: SO LIFE ON EARTH, IN ITS COSMIC SENSE, IS BEYOND ANTHROPIC NOTIONS OF GOOD AND EVIL NO MATTER HOW INESCAPABLE SUCH JUDGMENTS MIGHT APPEAR TO BE.
THEOREM#: MEN ARE ENDOWED WITH THE INSTINCT TO KILL, WOMEN WITH THE INSTINCT TO NURTURE, REGARDLESS OF CULTURALLY MEDIATED ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES .
MEN AND WOMEN CONSTITUTE THEREFORE TWO DISTINCT SUB-SPECIES OCCUPYING DIFFERING ONTIC AND EPISTEMIC SPACES.
THEIR RESPECTIVE “CLUSTER OF TRAITS “ I TITLE THE PARADIGM OF MACULINITY AND THE PARADIGM OF FEMININITY.
3. AS HOMINIDS, WE ARE ENDOWED WITH NO SPECIAL TILT TOWARD EITHER EQUITY OR JUSTICE; RECALL THAT NATURE , PROVERBIALLY, IS RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW; AND SO ARE WE.
4. OUR SPECIES-BEING IS TRANS-HUMAN, ITS WHAT WE SHARE WITH THE GENUS OF HOMINIDS.
5. THE ‘MEANING OF LIFE’ , IF ONE EXISTS AT ALL, MIGHT SIMPLY BE TO BE, NOT TO BECOME: AND LIFE IS ONLY “SOLITARY, NASTY, BRUTISH AND SHORT” - UNDER UNIQUELY MODERNIST ONTOLOGY ,EPISTEMOLOGY, AND PRACTICES..
6.MODERNISM , WAS FIRST ERECTED IN EUROPE, WHENCE ITS SYNONYMITY WITH EUROCENTRISM, ON THE METAPHYSICAL TRIAD OF: A) A NEAR BLIND FAITH IN SCIENCE B) A SELF-SERVING AND TRIUMPHALIST, BELIEF IN PROGRESS C) A PHILOSOPHY OF RAMPANT MATERIALISM [A FOURTH ADJUNCT WOULD BE THE READY DEPLOYMENT OF STATIST VIOLENCE TO ACHIEVE POLICY ENDS;TO CITE EVEN JS MILL ,IT’S OK TO ‘FORCE PEOPLE TO BE FREE’].
7.MODERNIST CIVIL SOCIETY IS A FATEFUL INNOVATION SET APART FROM THE TWO PRIOR UNIVERSAL ARCHETYPES: THE HOARY NATURAL SOCIETY OF TRIBE, IMBUED WITH THE COOPERATIVE PARADIGM OF FEMININITY, AND THE MASCULINIST SOCIAL FRAME OF EMPIRE RUN THROUGH WITH THE ETERNAL DIALECTIC OF WAR.
IT APPEARS EPISTEMICALLY WHEN MASCULINIST GREED OVERCOMES PURELY MASCULINIST DRIVES FOR POWER AND DOMINATION, SUBVERTING,IN PROCESS, THE COMPLEX OF FEMININE HOSPITALITIES IMPLICIT IN FAMILIAL/TRIBAL SOCIETY
8. MODERNISM CONSTRUCTS A RABID , MASCULINIST, “POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERESTS” – THE FOUNT OF ALL ‘SOCIAL CONTRACT’ NOTIONS - EXTINGUISHING WHEREVER POSSIBLE OUR PRIMAL, FEMININE, “MORAL SOCIETY OF AFFECTIONS”.
THEOREM# A; IT IS THIS GRATUITOUS RAVAGEMENT OF THE BENEFICE OF KINSHIP AND AFFINITY THAT LIES AT THE BASE, AND IS THE ROOT CAUSE, OF ALL OUR MODERNIST ALIENATIONS.
AT ITS VERY ZENITH, THIS PATH LEADS US ONLY OUR CONTEMPORARY REALITY OF A CASINO ECONOMY, A VIDEO CULTURE, AND A TECHNO-FASCIST POLITY.
THEOREM#B: ANTHROPIC SOCIETY IS BASED ON RECIPROCAL AFFECTIVE TIES, NOT ‘SOCIAL CONTRACTS’.
9.PATRIARCHY ,AN ANTHROPIC UNIVERSAL, REPEATEDLY UNSEATS ALL OUR NAÏVE PLANS FOR AMELIORATION. THE BEST ONE CAN DO HERE HAS ALREADY BEEN ACHIEVED HISTORICALLY BY TRIBAL SOCIETY, TO IMPRISON MEN’S MURDEROUS IMPULSES WITHIN THE HEALING MATRIX OF NATURAL AFFINITY/KINSHIP. [IN EFFECT , THE ANTHROPIC UTOPIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN BOTH IMMANENT AND PRE-ACHIEVED; IT IS IN NO NEED OF THE CARICATURE OF MODERNIST INVENTION]
10. MODERNIST UTOPIANISM, MORE TO MARX, WHICH HAS MARTYRED MILIONS , IS AT BEST A PLAINTIVE PROTEST AT OUR UNINSPIRING ANTHROPIC FATE, AT WORST THE DEVIOUS PLAN OF DANGEROUS MADMEN SEEKING , AS EVER, ABSOLUTE POWER.
11. INDEED, ALL MODERNIST AGENDAS, LEFT OR RIGHT, NEED TO BE CATEGORICALY REJECTED AS SPECIOUS.
THEOREM#A:MEN , IN THEIR COLLECTIVE ASPECT, ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED WITH POWER , AND MODERNIST PATRIARCHS, DEVOID OF MANY “NATURAL STABILISERS” , LEAST OF ALL.
THEOREM#B: INDEED, ALL MODERNIST PATHS, LEFT OR RIGHT, LEAD ONLY TO SWIFT AND SURE PERDITION.
12. .MODERNIST IDEOLOGIES ARE BOTH BANAL AND DESTRUCTIVE: THEY HOLD ALOFT THE BARREN /DISSEMBLING /TENDENTIOUS SLOGANS OF EQUALITY AND FREEDOM THE BETTER ONLY TO ENSNARE US INTO SERVING THE GREATER GLORY/GREED OF THE RULING ORDERS.
13. MODERNIST NATION-STATES[BELLUM OMNIA CONTRA OMNES], MUCH AS CIVIL SOCIETY, ARE IMPOSED , INAUTHENTIC ENTITIES, UNIQUELY EUROPEAN IN PROVENANCE, AND DEVOID OF ANTHROPIC MEANING , THAT SERVE ONLY TO DECEIVE AND/OR ALIENATE SUBJECT ORDERS.:THEY NEITHER CORRESPOND TO, NOR SERVE, OUR REAL ANTHROPIC NEEDS/NATURES.
14.CIVIL SOCIETY – THE DOMAIN OF ALL OUR ANTI-SOCIAL DRIVES AND THE HIGH ICON OF LIBERALS – IS ITSELF HELD TOGETHER ONLY BY SHEER FORCE , ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY, AND PROPAGANDA .
THEOREM#: ECONOMICS IS BUT THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE HEGEMONIC IDEOLOGY OF CIVIL SOCIETY, I.E. MODERNISM. IT IS A PROGRAM THAT UNIQUELY PROMOTES THE MODERNIST AGENDA, NOT THE SCIENCE IT PRETENDS TO BE.
15. DEMOCRACY , AS A VOTING RULE, IS THE PREFERRED INTERNAL TOOL FOR RULING STRATA, WHEN IN A STATE OF EQUIPOISE, TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES, WHEREVER POSSIBLE, WITHOUT BLOODSHED.
AS SUCH, IT IS FAR FROM BEING A MODERNIST INVENTION.
BUT IT IS A PATENT FRAUD AS FAR AS SUBJECT PEOPLES IN CIVIL SOCIETY ARE CONCERNED, AND FUNCTIONS MERELY AN IDEOLOGICAL INSTRUMENT OF MASS-DECEPTION..
THEOREM:TRIBAL FORMATIONS AIM AT, AND ACHIEVE, CONSENSUAL, AND HENCE CONVIVIAL, MODES OF EXISTENCE BEYOND THE IMAGINATION OF MODERNISM.
16 MODERNIST INSTITUTIONS THAT RULE THE GLOBE TODAY ARE UNIQUELY GERMANIC IN ORIGIN: GERMAN PROTESTANTISM WEDDED TO ANGLO-SAXON MERCANTILISM:
AS WEBER UNDERSTOOD, PROTESTANT THEOLOGY AND CAPITALIST IDEOLOGY ARE NEAR-IDENTICAL AND HOMOLOGOUS.
17. INDEED, AS AN ASIDE, NORTHERN EUROPE FIRST ANNEXED THE LEGAL /COMMERCIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF SOUTHERN EUROPE WHICH WAS PART OF A PAN-MEDITERRANEAN CIVILISATION [RENAISSANCE], IN TURN FERTILISED BY EGYPTIAN/INDIAN/AND CHINESE IDEAS,; AND NEXT GARNERED THE IDEATIONAL/MATERIAL RESOURCES OF THE COLONISED NON-EUROPEANS [ VIZ., ENLIGHTENMENT/INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION]:.
THE NORTH PRODUCED LITTLE , BUT KNEW HOW TO APPROPRIATE; TO THIS DAY THAT BASIC PATTERN , OF A GLOBE UNDER THE DOMINATION OF ANGLO-SAXON INSTITUTIONAL HEGEMONY., HAS NOT YET ALTERED.
18. THE ONLY INSTRUMENTS THAT NORTHERN EUROPE TRULY PERFECTED ABOVE ALL OTHER ANTHROPIC SPECIES ARE THE MECHANISMS MATERIAL OF WAGING WAR, AND THE MEANS IDEOLOGICAL OF DEFRAUDING PEOPLES, I.E CANNON AND CHICANERY. TO THIS DAY THAT REMAINS THE BASIS OF THEIR NEAR TOTAL HEGEMONY.
19. AS HOMINIDS , I.E. AS MAMMALS, IT IS NOT LIBERTY AND EQUALITY WE SEEK BUT CARE, RECIPROCITY, CONSIDERATION, NURTURANCE, AND WARMTH.
CONTRA MARX, OUR SPECIES-BEING IS NOT EXPRESSED IN LABOR [THAT REGRETTABLY IS A UNIQUELY PROTESTANT NOTION] BUT IN PLAY AND CONVIVIALITY, ALBEIT WITHIN THE FRAME OF SOCIETAL AND CULTURAL NORMS. IT IS THIS ‘SYMPATHY OF LIFE’ THAT MODERNISM DESTROYS.
20. THE LIFE-OR-DEATH STRUGGLES THAT BESTRIDE THE WORLD TODAY ARE NOW INEVITABLY BETWEEN THE MAMMALS AND THE REPTILES [I.E. BETWEEN CIVILISATION AND MODERNISM].
21. DARWIN PUBLISHED FAR TOO LATE FOR MARX TO RENOUNCE HIS INESCAPABLE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY CARRYING IDEALISTIC, DELUSIONAL , AND FANTASTIC NOTIONS OF ‘HUMAN PERFECTIBILITY’. UNLESS GOD PERCHANCE, IS AN APE, WE ARE NOT MOLDED IN HIS/HER/ITS IMAGE.
22. MODERNISM IS THE ULTIMATE IRON CAGE WITHIN A BELL JAR: THERE HAS BEEN NO SOCIETAL ORDER ON THIS PLANET THAT DEMANDS MORE INCESSANT LABORS FROM THE MANY AND YIELDS US LESS LEISURE AND CONVIVIALITY THAN MODERNIST CIVIL SOCIETY.
THEOREM#:UNIVERSAL EGOISM [HEGEL] BREEDS ONLY UNIVERSAL DISCONTENT [EVEN DESPAIR]
23. WITHIN MODERNISM, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MEANINGUL ‘SOCIAL SCIENCE’ DIVORCED FROM THE ETERNAL AGENDAS OF DOMINATION AND RESISTANCE. , I.E. THE PERPETUAL MASCULINIST STRUGGLES BETWEEN WHAT MANNHEIM TERMED IDEOLOGY AND UTOPIA.
THEOREM: INDEED, MODERNIST SOCIAL SCIENCE IS SIMPLY THE SECULAR VERSION OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY, AND IS EQUALLY PROTESTANT AND MONOTHEISTIC.
24 . FURTHER, THIS MODUS OF SCIENCE, IS NEITHER A NECESSARY NOR A SUFFICIENT CONDITON FOR EMANCIPATION FROM MODERNIST GRIDS.
THEOREM: ANTHROPIC OPPRESSIONS ARE FIRST FELT AND THEN POSSIBLY ACTED UPON; THEY DO NOT REQUIRE TO BE THEORISED, EXCEPT AS AN EFFETE EXERCISE.
25. NEWTONIAN, REDUCTIONIST, MATERIALIST PHILOSOPHY UNDERGIRDING MODERNIST SCIENCE, IS BOTH FALSE AND OBSOLETE.
MATTER IS NOT DEAD AND INERT BUT CONSCIOUS, SELF-AWARE, AND ARTICULATE. WE OURSELVES ARE LIVING TESTIMONY TO THAT.
INDEED, WE HAVE MOVED , WITHIN EUROPEAN THINKING, FROM DETERMINISTIC PHYSICS [1600-1925] TO INDETERMINIST PHYSICS [1925-1995], TO SELF-DETERMINISTIC PHYSICS[1995-?]
REGRETTABLY, MOST MODERNIST SCIENCE/IDEOLOGY, LEFT OR RIGHT, IS STILL TRAPPED SOMEWHAT IMMATURELY IN PHASE ONE OF THIS DRAMATIC EVOLUTION.
26. MODERNIST SCIENCE HAS LONG MONOPOLISED A SPECIES OF INSTRUMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; BUT THERE ARE , AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, GREAT COMPETING TRADITIONS, RUTHLESSLY SUPPRESSED BY MODERNISM, THAT ARE NOW , ALBEIT SLOWLY, REVIVING GLOBALLY.
ASIDE FROM REASON, THE HUMAN APE IS PRE-GIVEN BOTH INSTINCT AND INTUITION, EVEN UPON RARE OCCASION, REVELATION [ THE LATTER TAPS INTO A RESERVOIR OF WHAT JUNG CALLED, AFTER VEDIC PHILOSOPHY, THE “COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS”, A SPECIES OF QUANTUM INTERCONNECTEDNESS, AND MODERNISTS BARELY KNOW THE POWER OF THE LATTER FOR HAVING NEGLECTED/DISPARAGED THESE AVENUES FOR CENTURIES].
27. THE FUNDAMENTAL HOMINID CONDITION IS AUTONOMY AND SELF-REGULATION , NOT “LIBERTY AND FREEDOM”, WHICH ARE MERE MODERNIST DISSEMBLINGS:
THEOREM#:BOTH CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM, THE TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE OF MODERNIST DISCOURSE, DENY THIS NATURAL CONDITION, AND SO ARE, SOONER OR LATER, PREFIGURED TO PERISH.
28. THE ONLY MEANINGFUL’FREEDOMS” ARE NOT FREEDOMS AT ALL BUT VITAL ANTHROPIC NECESSITIES: FREEDOM FROM WANT, FEAR, AND INDIGNITY - AND NO MODERNIST FORMATION HAS EVER BEEN ABLE, EVEN IF/WHEN WILLING, TO GUARANTEE THAT.
29 CIVILISATION, IN THE SENSE OF THE PACIFICATION OF ANTHROPIC EXISTENCE, IS EFFECTED BY NEAR INVISIBLE GENDER STRUGGLES NOT CLASS STRUGGLES, WHICH ARE MASCULINIST STRUGGLES PRIMARILY , IF NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ABOUT POWER.
THEOREM#A: WOMEN , VIA THEIR PARADIGM OF FEMINIITY, ARE THE TRUSTEES ETERNAL OF ANTHROPIC CIVILISATION.
THEOREM#B : STATED SIMPLY, WOMEN BUILD INESCAPABLY , AND INCESSANTLY , IN THIS AREA AND MEN EQUALLY INVARIABLY, AND UNINTERRUPTEDLY , DESTROY.
30. ASIDE FROM GENDER, AND INTER-TRIBALIST TENSIONS, CHANGE ARISES WITHIN ANTHROPIC SOCIETY ALSO THROUGH THE CONTINUOUS DIALECTIC OF RANDOM INDIVIDUAL DEVIANCE PITTED AGAINST THE NORMS OF GROUP CONFORMITY [SIMILAR , HOMOLOGOUSLY, TO UNEXPECTED ‘MUTATIONS’ IN DARWINIAN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY]
31.THEOREM#: IT APPEARS ALMOST A NATURAL FACT THAT MICRO/INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR IS ‘FREE’[I.E. RELATIVELY UNPREDICTABLE] WHILST MACRO/GROUP BEHAVIOR IS MORE CONSTRAINED [PREDICTABLE].
32. BEING HERD ANIMALS, WE FOLLOW TOTEMIC CHARISMA ,QUITE NATURALLY, AND CAN BE LED/MISLED , WILLY-NILLY, AS SUCH LEADERSHIP CHOOSES. [ANTHROPIC POLITICS IS NOT NECESSARILY ‘RATIONAL’].
THEOREM#: CHARISMATIC LEADERS, THEREBY , ARE OFT THE CHARACTERISTIC TOOLS OF RADICAL, OVERARCHING ANTHROPIC CHANGE.
33. YET, DESPITE THESE ILLS/OPPRESSIONS OF ANTHROPIC EXISTENCE , THERE APPEARS TO BE A NATURAL SHREWDNESS [LIKELY A ‘SURVIVAL’ INSTINCT] TO THE SPECIES THAT ASSERTS ITSELF , IF ONLY IN THE LAST INSTANCE , USUALLY FORESTALLING THE EVER CUMULATING DOOMSDAY PLANS OF OUR TOTEMIC LEADERS.
34. ANTHROPIC CULTURE IS PARTICULARISTIC AND EMPHASIZES UNIQUENESS AND DIFFERENCE; MODERNISM STANDARDISES , UNIVERSALIZES, AND HOMOGENISES, ONLY AS PRELUDE TO CONQUEST
AND CONTROL.
35. THE PROVENANCE OF WHAT PASSES FOR MORALITY AND ETHICS LIES IN THE NATURAL ANTHROPIC SPECIES-NEED TO REAR THE VULNERABLE NEW-BORN SAFELY AND SECURELY IN THE TORRID WAR ZONES THAT MASCULINITY CREATES SPONTANEOUSLY.
36.GIVEN THE NATURAL ROLE OF WOMEN AS THE VERY FIRST NATURAL CARE-GIVERS OF CHILDREN , THEY BECOME , IN EFFECT, THE ORIGINAL BEARERS OF ALL HUMAN CIVILITY .
THEOREM: INDEED WOMEN AND CHILDREN FORM THE FUNDAMENTAL , CONSTITUENT, ANTHROPIC UNITS.
37. WOMEN, WORKERS, TRADITIONAL/TRIBAL SOCIETIES ALL LIVE IN AN IMPLICIT OR EXPLICIT MORAL ECONOMY AND, IN VARYING DEGREE, FORM THE NATURAL OPPOSITION TO MODERNISM. THEY DEFINE, NOW AS EVER, ITS ENDURING NATURAL LIMITS. ONE MIGHT SAY THAT MODERNISM HAS FUNCTIONED,SINCE ABOUT THE 16TH CENTURY AS THE COLORED MAN’S, WOMEN’S, TRBALS’, AND WORKERS’ ANATHEMA.
38. WE FLOURISH MOST NATURALLY IN PACKS AND HERDS, I.E. IN FAMILIES AND TRIBES [ OUR NATURAL STATE ], AND INEVITABLY, AND TRANSPARENTLY, ROT AND DECAY IN CIVIL SOCIETY , SUCCUMBING TO ANOMIE AND/OR ANGST, OR WORSE.
39. THEOREM#:BEING NATURAL CREATURES , THE MORE WE DWELL APART FROM NATURE THE MORE PATHOLOGIES WE ADOPT AND ASSIMILATE ON A CONTINUING BASIS.
40. CONTRARY TO MANY VIEWS, IT IS NOT THE PLANET THAT IS ENDANGERED BY MODERNISM: WE ARE.
INDEED, IF MODERNISM LASTS MUCH LONGER, IT IS WE WHO WILL BE GONE, NOT THE PLANET.
IN FACT, IN TERMS OF SPECIES’ “RISE AND FALL” WE MAY WELL BE AT THE CRITICAL MARGINS TODAY.
41 FREUD WAS , PROTOTYPICALLY TRAPPED WITHIN THE DIALECTIC OF CIVIL SOCIETY, AND IN UNIQELY MODERNIST FASHION, WHOLLY WRONG: OUR MANIFEST DISCONTENT IS NOT WITH CIVILISATION BUT, AU CONTRAIRE, WITH THE PATHETIC DEARTH OF IT IN MODERNIST SOCIETY
42. RELIGIOSITY , FAR FROM BEING A SOP OR AN OPIATE, IS SIMPLY THE COLLECTIVE INTUITION OF A LARGER COSMOLOGY THAN AFFORDED BY THE BLEAKNESS OF THE ANTHROPIC PROSPECT, I.E. IT IS THE ULTIMATE SEARCH FOR TRANSCENDENCE INTRINSIC TO OUR ANTHROPIC NATURES. IT’S TRUTH VALUE, CASE BY CASE, IS AN OPEN ISSUE NOT A CLOSED ONE.
THEOREM: RELGION IS THE SPONTANEOUS METAPHYSICS OF THE SPECIES, AND ALSO ITS NATURAL ETHICS.
43. MODERNISM FEARS RELIGION , NOT FOR ITS REACTIONARY DELUSIONARY LEANINGS, BUT FOR THE EXACT OPPOSITE: ITS REVOLUTIONARY/REVELATORY POTENTIAL.
EX:THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION WAS UNIQUELY MODERNIST, I.E. REACTIONARY, SEEKING TO DULL THE MORAL/ETHICAL FORCE OF HOARY FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANITY, AN IMPEDIMENT TO ITS OWN MATERIALIST, MISANTHROPIC AGENDAS.
44. THE MEANING OF ANTHROPIC ALIENATION – A UNIQUELY MODERNIST CONDITION- AND , MORE IMPORTANTLY, ITS ANTIDOTE , MUST NOW BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR:
WE NEED a) TO RELINK WITH OUR INTERNAL MAMMALIAN/HOMINID NATURES [I.E. ADOPT/IMMERSE OURSELVES WITHIN THE AFFECTIVE VALUES OF KINSHIP, REAL OR ERSATZ], AND b) REALIGN OURSELVES WITH /WITHIN THE RHYTHMS OF EXTERNAL NATURE.
45. IF/WHEN WE DO, REJECTING THE BANE OF EUROCENTRIC COSMOLOGIES, THEN IT STILL IS, DESPITE ITS INHERENTLY ENIGMATIC NATURE, BOTH A BOUNTEOUS, AND SELF-FULFILLING UNIVERSE, AS THE BUSHMEN AND THE ABORIGINALS, AND LEGIONS OF NATIVE CULTURES, HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN.
BEYOND EUROCENTRISM: THE NEXT FRONTIER
BREAKING WITH THE ENLIGHTENMENT, AND ITS DELUSIONAL MODES OF DISCOURSE, INVOLVES NECESSARILY RETURNING TO OUR ORGANIC ROOTS IN ANTHROPIC SOCIETY RENT BY MODERNIST REVOLUTIONS.
WE NEED THEREFORE TO RECONFIGURE OUR PLACEMENT IN THE UNIVERSE, BOTH SOCIAL AND NATURAL, AND RECLAIM OUR NATURAL STATE OF AUTONOMY AND SELF-REGULATION.
I OFFER YOU NOW AN UNRAVELMENT OF MODERNISM IN FAVOR OF THE REAL ORGANA OF ANTHROPIC EXISTENCE.
1: IN ITS MOST BASIC SENSE POLITICS, EN GENERALE, IS SIMPLY THE RELATIONS BETWEEN COMPETING ORDERS OF MEN.;
a) MORE SPECIFICALLY, IT REFERS TO THE MODALITIES OF MASCULINITY AS EXPRESSED IN THE ‘PUBLIC’ DOMAIN WHOSE VERY ILLIMITABLE EXTENSION IS AN INDEX OF THE ATROPHY OF THE “DOMESTIC ECONOMY OF AFFECTIONS” i.e., CONVIVIAL RELATIONS..
2: ECONOMICS, ON THE OTHER HAND, REFERS TO THE MOMENTA OF THE MATERIAL LIFE AND TAKES TWO GENERAL FORMS:
a)ONE, THE EFFORTS INVESTED IN GARNERING A CONVENTIONAL SUBSISTENCE WHICH IS ORIGINALLY A ‘FEMININE’, NON-MODERNIST ACTIVITY INVOLVING VARIOUS RECIPROCITIES WITH/WITHIN BOTH NATURAL AND COMMUNITARIAN RESOURCES;
b)AND THE OTHER, THE UNIQUELY MALE-DRIVEN SEARCH FOR ‘COMMAND OVER RESOURCES’, I.E. A ‘SURPLUS’, POTENTIAL OR ACTUAL, INVOLVING ASYMMETRICAL AND ADVERSARIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN DISPARATE CADRES OF MEN, IN OVERLORDSHIP OVER ‘OTHER’ MEN AND WOMEN, OTHER SPECIES, AND NATURE:
c)IT IS THIS LATTER THRUST [PEAKING UNDER MODERNISM BUT FAR FROM UNIQUE TO IT] THAT MERGES CONCORDANTLY WITH THE MASCULINIST POLITICS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
3: THE ‘SOCIAL’ IS SIMPLY THE MATRIX OF FAMILIAL RELATIONS CENTRED AROUND THE MODALITIES OF CHILD-REARING, AND CHILD-CARE, AND IS THEREFORE, AGAIN, A UNIQUELY FEMININE SITE OF PRAXIS.
THEOREM:WOMEN AND CHILDREN FORM THE IRREDUCIBLE FAMILIAL UNITS OF ANTHROPIC SOCIETY., UPON WHICH MEN IMPINGE AND INTRUDE AS ITINERANTS ONLY.
a)THE ORDINARY ANTHROPIC STATE IS ONE OF TRIBALISM – THE ANTHROPIC VERSION OF MAMMALIAN HERDS – WHICH IS AN EXTENSION OF THE FAMILIAL/KIN PRINCIPLE.
b)IN ESSENCE, HUMANS EXIST AS BOTH PACK AND HERD ANIMALS .MODERNISM BREAKS THE TRIBAL TIE, BY INVENTION OF THE NOVEL DOMAIN OF ‘CIVIL SOCIETY” – NOT AN ANTHROPIC SOCIETY AT ALL – WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE HOME OF THE ARID, MASCULINIST PARADIGM SHORN OF ALL AFFECTIVE AFFINITIES.
4: CULTURE IS A HEIRARCHICAL ORDERING OF VALUES, TASTES AND PREFERENCES WHOSE TONE, FORM, AND CONTENT ARE SET BY THE HISTORICALLY SPECIFIC GENDER BALANCE OF IDEOLOGIES AND PRACTICES EXTANT IN A GIVEN ECOSYSTEM AT A GIVEN MOMENT OF EVOLUTION.
THE WIDE DIVERGENCE IN THE CULTURES OF PATRIARCHY ARE ACCOUNTED FOR BY THIS, AMONGST OTHER FACTORS.
5: AND CIVILISATION I.E.,THE PACIFICATION OF ANTHROPIC EXISTENCE, IS THE EXTENT TO [AND INTENSITY WITH] WHICH ESSENTIALLY FEMININE HOSPITALITIES, AS CONCEIVED WITHIN THE FAMILIAL MOMENT , ARE EXTENDED IN EVOLUTION – WITH, BY, AND THROUGH THE CONSENT OF THE RULING PATRIARCHS WHO ARE EVER THE FINAL ARBITERS OF POWER - IN A GIVEN CULTURE, TO THE FULL RANGE OF ANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES AND POSSIBILITIES.
a)STATED DIFFERENTLY,,
THEOREM#A; ‘CIVILISATION’ IS SIMPLY THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE ‘FEMININE PRINCIPLE TRUMPS INHERENT MASCULINIST PROCLIVITIES;
b)AS SUCH, THEOREM#B: GENDER STRUGGLES, NOT CLASS STRUGGLES, ARE THE TRUE DETERMINANT OF THIS ‘CIVILISING’ PROCESS.
6: WOMEN ARE, PERENNIALLY, NOT MERELY THE PRIME BEARERS OF CONVIVIALITY, BUT THROUGH THEIR AFFECTIVE ACTIVITIES ESSENTIALLY FOUND (AND ARE THE PROGENITORS OF_) THE AFFECTIVE SOCIETY, AND BECOME THE GUARANTORS, EVEN IN PATRIARCHICAL EMPIRES, OF WHAT WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND AS THE PRE-REQUISITES OF CIVILISATION.
7. RELIGION IS NOT FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS, DESPITE INFILTRATION INTO ITS DISCOURSE BY RULING ORDERS WHO SEEK TO MANIPULATE IT, BUT IS OUR ORIGINAL PARADIGM OF ANTHROPIC AWARENESS OF THE UNIVERSE.
IT NEEDS ONLY THE ON-GOING ENRICHMENT OF NON-MODERNIST SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, AS AVAILABLE IN ALL PRE-MODERNIST FRAMES, TO ARRIVE AT PROFUNDITY.
IT CAN SERVE AS OPIATE, BUT IS MORE OFTEN, AN AMPHETAMINE.
THEOREM; RELIGION IS UNIQUELY PRE-MODERNIST [THE BULK OF IT IS NON-EUROPEAN AS WELL; THE ONLY HEARTFELT RELIGION MODERNIST EUROPE HAS BEQEATHED US IS THE WORSHIP OF MAMMON] IN PROVENANCE; ITS LATE SURROGATES WITHIN MODERNISM ARE BUT DESPERATE, REACTIVE EFFORTS TO COUNTER/RESIST MODERNIST INHOSPITALITIES.
8 IN EUROPEAN HISTORY, CHURCH AND STATE FOUGHT IT OUT BECAUSE CATHOLIC IDEOLOGY WAS RESISTANT TO THE NEEDS OF CAPITAL ACCUMULATION.
THEOREM#A:THERE IS NO NEED FOR US TO UNIVERSALISE, PERMANENTLY, A PASSING FOOTNOTE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY.
THEOREM#B: THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION MODERNISED , I.E SUBVERTED, THE ANTI-MATERIALIST IMPORT OF CLASSICAL CHRISTIANITY.
IN EASTERN /TRADITIONAL FORMATIONS, RELIGION PROVIDED , AS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE , BOTH A CODE OF PROPRIETY AND CONDUCT AND A REPOSITORY OF ANTHROPIC KNOWLEDGE,
IN ANCIENT INDIAN CIVILISATION, FOR EXAMPLE, SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY, ARE VIRTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE.
THEOREM#A:THIS INTEGRATION OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE IS EQUALLY TRUE OF ALL TRIBAL AND TRADITIONAL FORMATIONS. MODERNISM VIRTUALLY INVENTS/CONCOCTS THE SELF-DIVISIVE SOCIETY, PAR EXCELLENCE , PERMANENTLY AT WAR WITH ITSELF.
BESIDES, TO ASK WHY WE ARE HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE IS THE VERY FIRST ANTHROPIC QUERY, AND IS THE LOCUS CLASSICUS OF THE RELIGIOUS IMPULSE: MODERNIST SCIENCE HAS LITTLE TO OFFER HERE AND HAS NO MONOPOLY ON ANSWERS TO SUCH QUERIES.
THEOREM#B:WE MUST NOT IMPOSE MODERNIST DIVISIVE GRIDS ON SUCH ORGANICALLY INTEGRATED SYSTEMS. MODERNIST KNOWLEDGE, WHERE IT IS NOT BLATANTLY COUNTER-FACTUAL, IS PURCHASED AT THE DEAR AND DIRE COST OF TRADITIONAL WISDOMS.
9. FORMAL EQUALITY , THE DISSEMBLING SLOGAN OF MODERNISM, IS FAR FROM BEING AN ANTHROPIC VIRTUE, AND IS ABSENT AS A SERIOUS DEMAND, IN ALL NON-MODERNIST FORMATIONS.
AS AN IDEOLOGY , MODERNIST EQUALITY IS ARGUABLY THE ALIEN, INDIVIDUALIST ANTIDOTE TO CARING, CIVILITY, AND CORESPECIVE BEHAVIORS.
THEOREM: ANTHROPIC HEIRARCHIES BASED ON TRUSTEESHIP ARE ANTHROPIC UNIVERSALS AND ARE NOT INFERIOR TO ABSTRACT, BARREN, AND, MORE TO THE POINT, FICTITIOUS MODERNIST EQUALITIES WHICH LEAVE US COLD , SEPARATE, ISOLATE, AND UNCARED FOR.
10. LIBERTY, IN ITS MODERNIST USAGE, IS SIMILARLY A NEGATIVE, ANTI-SOCIAL IDEOLOGY BORN AGAIN OF A REACTIONARY CORPORATISM .
SUBSTANTIVELY UNDERSTOOD, IT IS EMPHATICALLY NOT A MODERNIST INVENTION, NOR EVEN A MODERNIST CONDITION, EXCEPT IN ITS CHARACTERISTICALLY ANTI-SOCIAL, CORPORATIST, AND ALIEN FORM.
UNDER EUROPEAN CONDITIONS, LIBERTARIAN SLOGANEERING DEVOLVED FROM THE NEED OF EMERGENT INDUSTRIAL OLIGARCHIES TO BE FREE OF CUSTOMARY ,TRADITIONAL RESTRAINTS THAT CURBED THEIR MANIFESTS OF EXPROPRIATION.
AND IN ITS INDIVIDUALIST VARIANT, AS PERVADES SUBJECT ORDERS, IT PRIVILEGES ONLY A HOBBESIAN ESTRANGEMENT FROM OTHERS, WHICH IS NO GREAT BOON.
INDEED, SUCH ASOCIAL LIBERTIES WOULD SPELL AND HAVE SO SPELT THE MORAL FAILURE [COLLAPSE] OF SOCIETY AT THE VERY MOMENT OF THEIR SUCCESS.
THEOREM: MODERNISM INVENTED NEITHER INDIVIDUALS NOR INDIVIDUALISM, EXCEPT IN THEIR ASOCIAL, MISANTHROPIC, AND PERVERSE FORMS.
11 PUTATIVE DEMOCRACY, REDUCING ONLY TO A FORMAL VOTING RULE, IS NOT A VIRTUE, EITHER, AND IS AGAIN A TENDENTIOUS TOOL OF MODERNISM, BEING AN ARTIFICE ORIGINALLY TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES PEACEABLY WITHIN THE RULING STRATA.
MAJORITY RULE, ITS CONCOMITANT, IS BOTH DIVISIVE AND CORROSIVE AND BREEDS ONLY ANGER AND DISCONTENT.
TRADITIONAL FORMATIONS PURSUE A FAR MORE EFFECTIVE AND SATISFACTORY MODE OF PARTICIPATION: CONSENSUS-BUILDING WHICH TAKES AEONS TO ACHIEVE BUT WHICH LEAVES NONE BEHIND.
THEOREM#A: HOMINIDS SEEK AUTONOMY,WHICH IS COMMUNITARIAN AND CULTURAL IN THE EXTREME, AND NOT ABSTRACT FREEDOMS.
THEOREM#B:MODERNISM DESTROYS ALL AUTONOMIES IN FAVOR OF DEPENDENCIES, BASED ON EITHER MARKET OR STATE.
12.THE ANTHROPIC FAMILY IS AN EXEMPLARY, PEDAGOGICAL MODEL OF A NATURAL AND TRADITIONAL INSTITUTION; IT IS NOT BASED ON EQUALITY, FREEDOM, OR DEMOCRACY - AND YET OFFERS THE HUMAN ANIMAL ALL THE NURTURANCE VITALLY NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL.
NOW IMAGINE , IN CONTEXT, THE MADNESS OF THE HIGH MODERNIST MARX AND ENGELS WHO HOPED, ASTONISHINGLY, IN SOME OF THEIR WILDER FANTASIES, TO ‘ABOLISH THE FAMILY’.
THEOREM:IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THAT ECONOMICS HAS NO UNDERSTANDING OF ANTHROPIC NEEDS, MODERNISM HAS NO UNDERSTANDING OF OUR SPECIES-BEING OR OUR REAL, FLESH AND BLOOD STATE OF BEING.
WHILST KNOWING BETTER, DESPITE ITS LONG-STANDING PHYSICS-ENVY, MODERNISM TENDENTIOUSLY LIKENS US TO FREE-FENDING ATOMS, I.E.,STANDARD, HOMOGENEOUS AND, ABOVE ALL, MANIPULABLE ENTITIES.
12: THE ESCAPE FROM ALIENATION, IS GIVEN BY DELINKING, BE IT INDIVIDUALLY, AS GROUPS, AND/OR AS COMMUNITIES, EPISTEMICALLY AND ONTICALLY, FROM THE VARIEGATED LOGICS OF MODERNISM ,SO WE CAN RECONSTRUCT OUR LIVES FREE FROM MODERNIST DELUSIONS/PRACTICES.
THIS DOES NOT INVOLVE , AT LEAST DIRECTLY, ANY NEED TO SEIZE THE WINTER PALACE, OR CONFRONT POWER VIOLENTLY, WHICH IS THE ETERNAL MASCULINIST TEMPTATION.
IN EFFECT, MODERNISM IS SELF-SUBVERTING; MINUS OUR WILFUL CONSENT TO ITS EPISTEMES, ITS HEGEMONY CEASES TO BE.
13 MORE EXPLICITLY, TO BE WHOLE, WE NEED TO BRING OUR LIVES AND LABORS UNDER SELF-DIRECTION AND INFUSE ALL OUR INHERITED, ARID , AND BARREN ,MODERNIST ROLES, WHICH CONFER NO BENEDICTION, WITH REAL MEANING. SO NEXT TIME YOU SAY ‘HAVE A NICE DAY’ IN THAT ROUTINE , DISEMBODIED ALL-AMERICAN WAY: MEAN IT, AND YOU MIGHT EVEN SURPRISE YOURSELF,
14. THEOREM#A:MODERNISM FAILS TO SURVIVE SCRUTINY WHEN CONFRONTED SERIOUSLY WITH ITS OWN MYTHS.
TO CHALLENGE MODERNISM WE NEED TO QUIZ/QUERY THE FORMAL RATIONALITY OF THE SYSTEM WITH SUBSTANTIVE RATIONALITY, FORMAL JUSTICE WITH SUBSTANTIVE JUSTICE, FORMAL EDUCATION WITH REAL EDUCATION, AND SO ON, IN OUR DAILY LIVES.
THEOREM#B:BY DEMANDING THE IMPOSSIBLE, AS ABOVE, ALBEIT IN A ROUTINE WAY,WE EXPOSE CONVINCINGLY THE HOLLOW CHARADES OF MODERNISM.
15 LIFE , JUST POSSIBLY, IS MEANT TO BE LIVED, NOT THEORISED.
THEOREM: THERE IS NO NEED FOR A SOCIAL SCIENCE, ONLY SOCIAL EMPATHY.
IN EFFECT, THE MOST PERVASIVE TRANSCENDENT ANTHROPIC NEED IS TO HUDDLE. EVEN WITHIN MASCULINIST PATRIARCHY,WE ARE HEAT SEEKING, NOT LIGHT SEEKING ANIMALS.
16 THEOREM:TO TAME/CONTAIN THE MURDEROUS PREDATIONS OF MASCULINITY IS THE PERMANENT CHALLENGE FOR ANTHROPIC CIVILISATION:
IT CAN ONLY BE SO CALMED WITHIN THE MATRIX OF KINSHIP, OR THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF AFFECTIONS. THIS IS WHAT TRIBAL, I.E FAMILIAL, SOCIETY ACHIEVES SUPER-ABUNDANTLY. IT IS THE REAL ANTHROPIC PARADISE WE MODERNIST SUBJECTS HAVE LOST.
17 THE CURRENT EPOCHAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE MAMMALS AND THE REPTILES WILL NOT BE WON BY MODERNISM SINCE NATURE MAY NOT BE SUPPLANTED FOR LONG BY THE ARTIFICE OF CULTURE.
18.THE WORLD OVER, RELIGION, WHICH STANDS TODAY FOR AN ANTI-MODERNIST, TRANSCENDENT ETHICS, IS IN REVOLT AGAINST MODERNIST TYRANNY. ITS POWER TO MOBILISE IS SIMPLY INEXHAUSTIBLE..
19. IN THE END, AND WE ARE FAIRLY CLOSE TO THAT CLIMACTERIC, THE SPONTANEOUS MORAL ECONOMY CONSTITUTED BY WOMEN, WORKERS STILL CLOSE TO THEIR PEASANT ROOTS, AND TRADITIONAL CULTURES ,WILL BOTH SURVIVE AND TRIUMPH.
20.WE CUSTODIANS OF ABSTRACT WORDS CAN ASSIST THEIR STRUGGLES., BUT ONLY IF WE SO CHOOSE
THEOREM#A: WE ARE THE PLANET – AND DO NOT DWELL APART FROM IT - AND THE PLANET, THROUGH US, IS FIGHTING BACK.
THEOREM#B: PLANETS LIKELY SURVIVE, BUT RECALCITRANT SPECIES DONT.
THEREIN LIES OUR WARNING. NATURE, EVENTUALLY, REPAIRS ALL TRESPASSES AGAINST HER WEAL.
21.THE CHALLENGE FOR SENTIENT/THINKING BEINGS IS TO INTRUDE THE SYMPATHY OF LIFE INTO ALL OUR NOSTRUMS, AND ENGAGE MODERNISM CRITICALLY IN ALL DOMAINS, IN PARTICULAR SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND EVERYDAY LIVING. INDEED, A SIMPLE SLOGAN SUFFICES TO DEFINE THIS POSTURE AS FROM THE NON-EUROCENTRED TO THE EUROCENTRIC: “YOU ARE NOT THE STANDARD; WE ARE NOT ON TRIAL”
22 BUT THE REAL CHALLENGE OF EUROCENTRISM IS TO RECLAIM OUR ANTHROPIC NATURES ONCE MORE : AND STRIP THE IMPOSED , DELUSORY, MATERIAL VEILS WITHIN WHICH WE SADLY BUT DAILY HIDE OUR TRUE ANTHROPIC AFFINITIES FROM BOTH OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER.
Both paper were presented at:
SPECIAL EVENT AT THE ASSA, CHICAGO
4 JANUARY, 2007
The Challenge of Eurocentrism: A Global Review of Parameters
Festschrift Celebration of the Life and Work of Rajani Kannepalli Kanth
