SuperEgo "Represses*"...Ego "Seeks"
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Guilt:Pride
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On Byung-Chul Han's "The Expulsion of the Other"
So, beginning with Byung-Chul Han's, "The Terror of the Same". Roughly, if I were to simplify the the central argument of the book, it's about the opposition between two tendencies, or two kinds of logic. One: the logic of the Same, imposition of the Same, the hegemony of the Same. And the other tendency, one that "regards the Other", where the Same, the logic of the Same, is being criticized and where the tendency to assimilate everything into one and the Same world view, one and the Same frame of mind, that excludes what doesn't fit in. It expels what doesn't fit in it.
And one way to exclude, that doesn't look like excluding, is when we misrepresent something that we are apparently including, but we are including a mere image of it, a judgment (caricature/ strawman) of it that is effectively a way of excluding it. Here you might remember there is an old interview with Slavoj Zizek in which Zizek says, "You know, I'm very popular, I'm famous and popular, but I'm popular for being a funny philosopher, funny speaker, and making a lot of dirty jokes, and my image as a clown is a way of repressing me, is a way of dismissing me." So, that's a really good example of how a way of representing someone despite their popularity can be a way of excluding them from serious conversation, from serious engagement.
Left-Right Foot - Lives in the Newspaper "Now"
*Invert Repression/Suppression in non-dominant hemisphere during current awake/asleep hemispheric dominance periods and transference of memories from short to long-term storage (REM sleep).
"The Terror of the Same" = The terror of White Supremacy.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats reject it and endorse diversity. Why they will WIN.
You want White Democrats to feel guilty. You think White Democrats SHOULD feel guilty. For being "race traitors".
You don't understand why White Democrats would embrace diversity. And so you came up with this "guilt pride" nonsense to explain why White Democrats would become "race traitors".
Except we don't feel guilty. I know I surely do not feel guilty. I feel guilty over bad things (or mistakes) I did or made. Not bad things done by other people. Especially long dead ones.
And one way to exclude, that doesn't look like excluding, is when we misrepresent something that we are apparently including, but we are including a mere image of it, a judgment (caricature/ strawman) of it that is effectively a way of excluding it.
DeleteDuh... Republican whie supremacist. I SOOOOO proud that I exchanged MY white supremacy for moral supremacy. I'm SOOOOO much more moral than them. I CONFESS MY SINS!
Instead of confessing your sins every Sunday, you confess them every 2 years at the ballot box. @@
ReplyDelete...and then you feel sooooo proud of yourself for 2 more years!
ReplyDeleteGuilt serves to relieve "Anxiety". So long as you don't break the PC rules, you've NOTHING to fear. But every once in a while, it pays to "virtue signal" (just in case the Big Other doesn't know). And keep the "N-word" holy, or the Big Other will DEFINITELY know!
ReplyDeleteAnd be careful! Your liturgical calendar is filling up fast. Maybe after the MLK Day, and Juneteenth holy-days, we can have one for Caesar Chavez?
DeleteBut you'll probably need some for Black Women, first. Intersectionality being what it is.
DeleteThink of all the future opportunities you'll get for relieving your feelings of guilt/anxiety! Every too years is just too far in-between! And the PRIDE you'll feel after each confession? Priceless! too bad its' so short-lived!
DeleteI'm sooo glad I don't believe in the Big Other and the "bending arc of history/justice". It must be soooo demanding for you!
Delete"misrepresent" is NewSpeak for accurately represent.
ReplyDeleteThe Strawman stuffer Royale would know!
DeleteYour "guilt pride" is the misrepresentation and strawman.
ReplyDeleteSays the hysteric to his analyst.
DeleteYou tried to pay off your debt with Civil Rights legislation. Then you tried to pay it off with affirmative action. Then you began offering "reparations" and DEI mandates.
DeleteThe debt is "eternal" Derv. it can't ever be paid off.
The things you mentioned aren't "payoffs". Those are efforts to achieve a greater degree of equality and fairness. I imagine you strongly oppose all of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm not hysterical. Sounds to me like you are. Very hysterical about the diminishment of your White privilege.
Nope. They're reparations for your racism that can never be repaid. Your black martyr, MLK, Jr., demands eternal tribute. And his heir apparent, BHO, must eternally be obeyed.
Delete"Drop out, Joe Biden!"
" Yes massah!"
"Worship the Kamala!"
"JOYFULLY, massah!"
:The CBC is your conscience"
"always massah"
"rig the election to elect Kamala"
"we're on it, massah!"
...and so you will perform eternal injustices against the present and future to supplicate the martyrs of injustices of the past
DeleteRetribution or Clemency? Which would your martyr seek? And which do your party leaders seek?
DeleteThe "injustices" are being performed against White Supremacy. Why you are so hysterical.
ReplyDeleteMerely curing your hysteria. You obviously are not very familiar with the Oedipus story... or the tragedy in every attempt to righting past wrongs inexorably resulting in further tragedy. Evening the score is merely eye for eye acts of revenge. Soon everyone becomes blind.
DeleteBut keep poking. The sticks soon to be in another's hand.
The virtues oppose themselves "wisdom:justice" such that every excess of wisdom simultaenously results in an excess of injustice.
DeleteMeden agan!
Pascal, "Pensees" (294) excerpt:
DeleteNothing, according to reason alone, is just in itself; all changes with time. Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. It is the mystical foundation of its authority;[115] whoever carries it back to first principles destroys it. Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just, obeys a justice which is imaginary, and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more. He who will examine its motive will find it so feeble and so trifling that if he be not accustomed to contemplate the wonders of human imagination, he will marvel that one century has gained for it so much pomp and reverence. The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice. We must, it is said, get back to the natural and fundamental laws of the State, which an unjust custom has abolished. It is a game certain to result in the loss of all; nothing will be just on the balance. Yet people readily lend their ear to such arguments. They shake off the yoke as soon as they recognise it; and the great profit by their ruin, and by that of these curious investigators of accepted customs. But from a contrary mistake[Pg 85] men sometimes think they can justly do everything which is not without an example. That is why the wisest of legislators[116] said that it was necessary to deceive men for their own good; and another, a good politician, Cum veritatem qua liberetur ignoret, expedit quod fallatur.[117] We must not see the fact of usurpation; law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable. We must make it regarded as authoritative, eternal, and conceal its origin, if we do not wish that it should soon come to an end.