Lacewing I am glad that you won't read this ... but if it's not for you, who is it for then?
Your response was determined from the start and immediately upon the first post I made. Therefor, what you have just written is simply the sentiment you had, expanded. It is sentiment more than it is idea (IMO).
However, that appears to be focused on other people's constructs... not your own. You do not appear to be conducting an "exploration", as you say -- rather, it is a platform for declaring your own "rightness" and superiority.
I focus on large constructs that are determining View in our present. It is an ambitious undertaking. I speak in somewhat general terms to these constructs, and each post of mine has taken up a specific element of that. True, people embody these 'constructs' and this viewstructure and true too that I make some fairly bold statements. But your mistake is that you take it personally. You could just as easily have taken it more abstractly. I have the sense, though, that because you do not like the ideas I bring forward, you have worked and do work to shut them down to the degree that you are able. Again, this fits into a common pattern - a reflex - that is clearly seen to operate in our present. Social politics, politically correct attitude and thinking, I am not sure what to call it. Except that it destroys the possibility of examining touchy areas.
The idea of superiority is not one that I shut out of my lexicon or my concept-set. For you it is something like a swear word, in fact (referring to another post here) it is a 'demon-word', for after all we know who thought of themselves as superior, now don't we? In radical liberalism the concept of high and low, above and below, superior and inferior, has no right to exist! And so you excommunicate it from your lexicon. This connects, obviously, to politically correct and determined social conventions (and legal conventions) that attempt to level differences, to equalise all players, to turn superiority and excellence into an affliction. A curious transvaluation, no?
Thus, and again, I suggest that you operate from a set of predicates, and these predicates are ubiquitous. When ideas of this sort become reflexive they are no longer thought-through. And that has been another of my points: with this style of 'thinking', thinking stops. It all reverts and reduces to, and then resolves to,
sentiments. And our larger, surrounding culture has been and is being 'feminized' and in a specific sense emasculated.
So I say that superior attitude, understanding, superior value-sets, superior mind, superior intellection, superior municipal systems, superior law and jurisprudence, effectively superiority as a category is very certainly an ideal I hold to. That to you, and I have the sense to people who 'think' like you, is
intolerable. And that is what
intolerance rises out of. Even dialogue at the most basic level is impossible for you. You will shut down any conversation that challenges your operative system.
I see us as made of all the same stuff (brilliance as well as ignorance), and perhaps, ultimately, there is no separation at all. So perhaps we create these separations -- and identify/proclaim who we think we are. I find it informative to enquire into that.
And here it is, quite clearly expressed. This is
metaphysics (as I define metaphysics). We are 'all the same stuff' and ultimately there is no separation. And yet there is separation, and separation is real, as is distinction, hierarchy, high and low, and all other dichotomies. And many have no brilliance at all, and will never have it. The brilliant are brilliant, and is not to be force-shared by some mommy who feels some unlucky ones just didn't get enough cake.
You have taken a construct, you have absorbed construct, a description, and you do not know
where it originated. You do not know the origin of the ideas that move in you, that determine your metaphysics. I suggest that this is what has to be looked into. And I am fully aware that when one proposes this to the semi-educated of our modernity - who
give the lectures, and do not
get them - that one runs right into their insolence, the snottiness that runs through all your posts.
You said 'Fuck you!' a few posts back, right? What I say is you fuck yourself out of other, distinct, and also necessary dimensions of thinking. What your style of thinking results in is mediocrity. And worse: the cutting off from
superior styles of thinking. You don't see this because you have your head up your ass. Remember this conversation. Five years on. Ten years on. Many of us have been down similar roads. This will come across as intolerably condescending to you but you reason at the level of a child, yet you are clearly not stupid. You're clever.
People who do not show respect to others... people who automatically and unquestionably hold others in contempt... people who wave their hand with dismissal, as if they are a fat king sitting on a throne of their own limited ideas... keep humankind bogged down.
Huar huar haur! And
you know what keeps humanity bogged down, yes? It is more emotional game-playing, and plucking at heart strings. This is a level of sentimentalism that might be best expressed in a Coke commercial. It is trashy and vulgar!
Once again, sentiment and sentimentalism. It begins here and it ends here. 'Respect' is a code-word among the radical liberals. You can be as mercillesly direct and cutting as you need to be in defence of a 'just' cause, while you denigrate in extreme the very being and existence of others who don't see things your way. That is a main tenet, is it not? The critiques I offered to 'artisticsolution'' were direct, they did not mince words, but they were honest and constructive. 'Contempt' is your word, but I suggest it is you who has significant contempt.
I work hard to express my ideas in clear prose and to skilfully weave in irony.
Yours amounts to a strategy to keep the ideas from being discussed. It is
game, as I said early on.
I could comment on the constructs that come through most of the rest of your post. But you'll have to imagine it.
I think that ALL energy makes this world... and supposed divisions are superficial.
