/lit/ - Literature

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But isn't the "I" also a part of reality? Your framework is part of this very means of thinking, the divided cartesian body and mind which views being as a property of thought. Such a perception can never have being, it exists after the fact as a fulcrum to shift the very knowledge upon which it relies. The catastrophe of being is thus written into the formula, and all knowledge forms a Katechon of laws without which our being has no constitution.

It is the triumph over death, that which persists is our material form gained through perfection of physical laws. The abstract form of life allows for being in the negative, by means of extraction - it even relies upon this. Opposed to the soul, the modern human refines the prima materia of his being: that which will be left behind at the end of all things.

Know thyself; as long as you never come to know thyself. Dominion created in form exists beyond the realm of truth, justice, or even victory. Where the enemy cannot be overwhelmed one need only persist. It is in death that all laws of man find their meaning - what sovereignty remains after he is finally gone? And it is this law which counsels the precarious relation of being and death in the modern era.

We have learned to live without need of the body, we even torture it in order to increase the technical load it must bear as its share of being. What sovereignty remains then? Power necessitates this formless life, lost to princes man has only the increased force of the beast in his centaur genealogy. And faced with technological devastation he comes to choose the beasts that will survive fallout, endless wars, the laws of automatons. Where Paris chooses Aphrodite, modern man accepts the judgement that will survive the mills of heaven.

We are ground slowly, but completely. It could never be otherwise. Failing in the triumph over morality its laws can only be brought to exhaustion, dragged down into technical applications. The world is adapted to its dead form, and the strange death of the individual invokes a law wherein the fate of the world rests in one man. Reality can be made to conform to anything: the complete lie or its own simple machinations. If there is any universal lesson to be learned in the modern world, that is it. Fate divides the line of reality and perception, even unites them in unexpected ways.

Kant put blinders on to increase the possible meaning to be extracted from the known world. The pessimist materialists imprison themselves as a means of extension of this effect. They see more, but it is less real. And there is no "I" in such a formulation. They exist as the Kantian limit to Nietzsche's Ubermensch - subjectivity a crude morality for them, they seek out the idols which are self-destroying.