Master Satyr, the Seer who, like the Oracle of Delphi, sees to the core, has sent forth some things, let's examine them:
And so, the linguistic trap has been sprung...using the 'damsel in distress' ploy, to expose 'Karen' Mary Land's learned postmodern semiotic cage - postmodern tropes, her proverbial pit.
This makes sense to me. And it is clear that it must be seen in a much larger context and certainly not just referring to Iambiguous. It is true that the constructs of our 'cultural certainties' get shattered, have gotten shattered, but the postmodern strategy, though it seems coherent, though it seems a 'proper response', can do nothing for us. And thus, and I have said this, Iambiguous not only constructs a 'pit' but
describes the pit that he is in. (See Kafka
The Burrow). He describes what happened to him and where he resides.
A sustaining value system, indeed an *interpretive model* about Nation, about self, certainly about God and the false-idea of God standing behind a nation's objectives -- all of this crashed and burned. Like
castles made of sand.
In no sense am I unsympathetic, in no sense do I dismiss these processes (the breakdown of belief) as invalid. But they must all be brought out into the open.
That is if we are really interested in understanding Our Present.
She is the bait....and there is no desire to exit the "hole" she has placed herself within - the whole, as it were: complete, absolute, indivisible, immutable.
This is a fair assessment. No countervailing argument, offered by anyone, can get far enough down into the depth of that *pit*. All discourse, all alternative views, but especially any specific decisiveness, any personal value-decisions, are rendered essentially false. One is stuck. One is immobilized. All one can do is scream histrionically about the condition one finds oneself in.
"Show me how it is not so!" and all recommendations, all possibilities are shot down. They were all shot down from the start, before the *conversation* began.
She wants to pull the world into it, with her. Resentiment masked as altruistic benevolence. Her "fractured fragmentation" is her mind/body dissonance crying out - a state of utterly comforting confusion.
There is some truth in this. It is inevitable that some people, after strongly affecting circumstances, create an personality or an existential position that is immutable. Their *argument*, then, is one designed to cause other people to see in the same way.
The line
Resentiment masked as altruistic benevolence I would modify, or in any case elaborate on. If we are talking about war and its effects, in the Ameerican context, we are dealing with a very serious thing. In Vietnam the public saw the war. Thereafter *they* deliberately hide the visuals so people do not know what actually happens.
I would not dismiss Iambiguous' concerns for black, brown, and yellow people (he often returns to this) if only because the Civul Rights Movement has been so central to the experience of a couple of generations. I have no reason not to take his 'benevolence' seriously.
Iambiguous has never really asked me to comment on these things, and because I made mention that race and ethnicity have relevance to all people in the entire world, I rubbed a nerve which is a particularly painful one for him. "How should black brown and red people feel about what you think?" he has said. But he does not want to hear what I might say (and also what people are saying -- like Renaud Camus in France).
Chaos is what she worships.
Chaos is where Iambiguous is situated. His existential position. There, nothing can be constructed because it is the place where everything has fallen down. It is a place of ruin. And so the metaphor of Men Among the Ruins becomes relevant. What happened? How did these things come about? (I mean in the Nation certainly but then in our own souls, apparently).
Chaos - properly defined - is where all becomes uniformly the same; all becomes equally and simultaneously possible - metaphysical parity. She, like those who trained her, worship this theoretical nil.
'Chaos' as a will to attack and take down hierarchy has been an important consideration for me. This attack on established hierarchy (Robert Bork deals on it in his book) is a sort of 'mood' that infected the mind and heart of a generation. They had some good reasons though! The hierarchies of power who 'determine a world' and the way it is run. Unfortunately, there are hierarchies that took centuries to construct. Along comes the 'angry child' and 'the spoiled child' and starts ripping things to shreds.
But what interests me is the
psychology of empowered ressentiment. When one turns, in essence, against one's very self. Isn't this what happened, at least in some sense, after WW2? Isn't this what Jonathan Bowden refers to?
The European Grammar of Self-Intolerance?
She is a self-castrated - self-circumcized, self-lobotomized - no-thing who has willfully swallowed her own severed testicles, and they've now settled in her lower stomach/womb, like two ovaries.....from where Tikkun Olam will be re-born.
A pithy comment not without a few barbs! These are contentious ideas given the Culture Wars and 'attacks on masculinity' and 'the patriarchy'. I tie these trends back to self-destructive. self-hating, self-undermining moods and activism. Marxian critique
easily becomes an intense militant praxis. Indeed it has. But it literally takes decompression sessions and deprogramming to be able to see what has happened.
In my own little world the entire question of Masculine Authority came to the fore in my family, but I have a more *traditional* wife who can more easily understand these issues. How men define themselves as men, though, is crucial.
The gender dysphoria is not health, not 'good', and reveals a core annihilation of identification in 'real' and 'tangible' categories. See Camille Paglia and her ideas about sexual decadence.
She is a divine bride birthing the coming no-thingness - 'healing the world from its multiplicity and diversity. All must become a social construct....humanity = god....humanity creator of reality.
This points to the inner, psychological domain that has become so powerful in our present. It is like a cresting wave. The self is undermined. One's own culture and nation are undermined. What can one identify with then? Or to whom does one fall victim? Because surely Power will take advantage of the absent self.
Gnosticism - Queerness. No difference exists...all is the same....or ought to become so when the world is 'healed' and 'saved' from its 'fallen state.'
I hear some James Lindsay notes (references to Gnosticism). He goes a bit too far here, in my option. I see the point though. And it is one that could be talked about a good deal.
What Master Satyr is referring to here is much larger than mere Iambiguous though. He is referring to those with power to mold and reform the world and larger structures. There is an intellectually-based movement opposed to these machinations.
'Objectivist' is the proverbial 'evil', Satan....Nazis....nature. Anything that contradicts this oneness - this final uniform nothingness of her projected dreams - including herself: we are all "sinners".....we are all "fallen."
It sure does look like that! So any decision, and value-choice, any exercise of power to take decisions, to make choices as to how children will be educated, in what values, and importantly how men (i.e. in the sense of the masculine) has the rôle of thinking, pondering, discussing, but also choosing -- doing this one is naturally associated with Nazism/slash/Hitler.
Any resistance to this oneness, in nil, identifies you as her nemesis - as Satanic, as an evil Nazi - negation of her negation; anyone that affirms life and existence is her enemy.
As contradictory and paradoxical as any of the Abrahamic scriptures defining good/evil. Controlled opposition. Divinity uses us all to manufacture its creation - demiurgeous.
There is good material here, topical material.
