Madness: a form of love

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 physica l 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 ...

Racism, at least in its more extreme forms if they ever were again to come to the boil, is undoubtedly a great stymie to the kind of multi-plural, tolerant, exotic and global humanity most of us would like to see today. The intense hatred directed at people who are perceived as 'racist' nowadays (even if it is only of the mildest sort, such as merely using a non-P.C. word), however, in its sheer nastiness reveals that it can only be the product of a fundamental self-hatred. Such tribalism runs deep in all of us - it is how we evolved, a type of 'kin selection' - and It is as if these self-proclaimed 'social justice warriors' are so angry that they are not allowed or able to express their own fundamental racial prejudices that they attack anyone who does from sheer unbridled, unmitigated envy. In their resorting to such malicious attacks, they are appealing to their victims lowest instincts - simply to change their utterances out of social or physical intimidatio...