All in Digressions
To seek wisdom is to discover mankind. To think of what lies beyond the flesh is the defining activity of living an optimal life — for the metaphysical begins just outside of the skin. It is within the cathedral of the body that the intersections between biology and society can be explored.
There is no use of residing in heaven if, while on earth, the will to seek wisdom is absent. After all, is the body not a cathedral? As above, so below remains the transpositional decree of on earth, as it is in heaven.
We are surrounded by utopias — or so-called perfect sites which can never be significant places. The perfect presentation of these unreal spaces fills us with an uncanny dread concerning the attrition of our lives. These places are therefore like mirrors, for they are placeless places that are indicators of our existence which lacks being.
The envier does not want to correct an injustice, for to do so involves presenting oneself with courage by confronting an opponent. The envier seeks to remain invisible. By doing so their envy remains unseen.
It is of utmost importance that the philosopher avoids hubris, and takes all opponents seriously, for darkness always appears to reveal a hidden thing. To refuse to engage with an angel of light in a duel to the finish is to invite total death. We must accept the dialectic relationship between friend and foe.
All repressed creativity seeks an outlet. Without an outlet, creativity festers as a pathogen within our beings. The poetic creativity that remains unconscious manifests as a psycho-spiritual disease that we remain blind to.
Dangerously, humanity has abandoned their role as regulators of technological unconcealment by becoming mere participants in the unconcealment of the fires of technology by abandoning their role as poietic creators of technological instruments that aid in the advancement of species.
The neglect of mentors. What a disservice one does to a pupil when they neglect to encourage and foster the development of a superior nature, once identified in a lost aristocrat.
Those who hide are not necessarily evil. The noble philosopher is often forced into an occultic mode of being to escape the prosecution of the mob.
One indication of a noble will usurping the suite of behaviors informed by the persona, is increased disgust sensitivity. Disgust spurs on all impulses to purge and eradicate pathogens of spirit.
One challenge all philosophers must overcome is how to coexist with the profanum vulgus — the common masses — which often serve as the collective embodiment of social demands intended to extinguish self-actualization. In our apocalyptic paradigm, philosophers must determine how to fulfill their super-predatory strivings all while living and working with others.
To avoid slaying the dragon of alienation is to doom oneself to an abbreviated existence characterized by ones adherence to social demands and biological functions in a unconscious manner.
In our reclamation of the symbolic, we must be careful to maintain our productive and poietic capacity to create symbols. In this creative mode, truth can be unrevealed, preparing us for life and love within an apocalyptic paradigm
With out difference and nuance, all that is heralded as beautiful is in actuality dead, cold, and static. To live life is to love life. Heaven can wait.
That of which we gather from without stays with us beyond the grave — gather wisdom. Although there may be some machinations of the psyche that are perhaps untouchable, the philosopher must continue to seek and excavate.
Curiosity is often a murderer of organisms. Alas, what is most untrue is often most useful. It is not necessary to take a thing literally in order to take it seriously.
The zeitgeist of any given populous is, in many instances, the creation of the intelligentsia which seeks to embed and exploit vain strivings into the hearts of minds of a population only for the benefit of elitists — often under the guise of advocacy for the greater good.
Digressions is a rebellion against the demands of the crowd. The author of The Davidian was recently propositioned with the suggestion to add visuals in order to make the site more “engaging” — this activated a strong and visceral response of disgust which prompted an investigation of the self as to why this was the case.
Here is where (when) linear time and existential time position themselves as opponents. Despair can usher the thinker to a continent of reason and logic. In this land the life of the mind is not a sickness unto death.
To be wise is to declare war on all those who seek to usher in a future which no longer exists.