On The Connection Between Politics and Individuation

I do see political awareness as extremely closely entwined with individuation. It is only by becoming aware of the relationships of subjugation and domination in which one is intimately entwined that one attains to a true moral conception of one's significance and capacity for action, not to mention one's true existential, epicurean, and honorific state, i.e. the true prognosis of threats to spiritual and especially physical survival, which re-engage our basic awareness, fear, and capacity to control within certain limits our own mortality, a long with the ability for pleasure and self-determination through sovereignty and satisfaction of the will. In a world in which most basic appetites are already taken care of, the political realm assumes essential significance to give continued, undeniable and urgent meaning to life in light of the struggle for dignity which it brings to the fore. Without it, life has little or no apparent aim, and many of us sink silently into state of utter purgatory, senseless torpor and excruciating angst. Sexuality is meaningless and totally unfulfilling without the manly sovereignty and potency which inspires admiration and longing in the female. Politics is merely a fuller consciousness of human relationship as such, as well as of the self which itself is fundamentally inseparable and almost completely unintelligible apart from the (largely social) Darwinian furnace in which it was forged. Politics is, if not necessarily the whole itself, at least the whole part, in light of which every other single incipient impulse must be judged.