>>87039549>Do you think it's possible to act and do human things without them imposing some kind of value?No; or rather, such a world would be inconceivable - or perhaps hell. The gnostic view of an absurd and matterless cosmic prison where there is no need for or indeed even possibility of righteousness - most especially with regards to their neighbors.
Mid 20th century continentals of all stripes were often deeply concerned with the idea of intermediating structures that involve themselves in the experience of a subject with an object.
Some framed it in existential terms, that a more 'pure', 'authentic' or altogether qualitatively superior state of being could be attained if (and only if) all forms of 'intermediation' were banished.
Others were more pragmatically political in their cant, seeing certain intermediating structures as tools of their enemies in the game of hegemony, and thus targets for destruction.
All of them of course were deriving significant inspiration from Nietzsche, who rendered inveighing against the impostures of 16th century modernism and its descendants into a form of art.
Ironically however, most, if not all, failed to tread as far as the man himself did in the first place - willfully diverted themselves even, in deference to the social pressures of the day.
The posture of the post-modernist was to be overturning or overcoming modernism; but the crucial fact was that they retained modernist standards of epistemology; and so, the same conclusions were reached in any case ('nobody can know nothin'); which suited most just fine, since tactical deployment of such sorts of cognito-hazards was copacetic to their political objectives vis-a-vis destroying rival structures.
The words you can speak are like sieves; some things can be caught by them, while other things pass unnoticed. Like apertures; where certain forms go through, yet aught else gets shorn off. Like sapling trellises; in one case it helps guide, in another case it traps like straight jackets.
The whole idea of ideology is the idea of fungible genius; the idea of an extra-personal artilection that can do all necessary and sufficient thinking for you.
But of course, all law is an expression of the law giver; rule by man is rule by man; and rule by law is also rule by man, with a few steps of occultation. Man who creates the system; man who interprets the system; man who enforces the system.
To paraphrase Aristotle, he who is unable to grasp ideology, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
The whole precis of the modernists was in essence a denial of such facts; the idea that man could, in a manner of fashion, tug himself by his own bootstraps, and thus fling himself through the air. That an 'unpositioned position' for rendering Truth was not only possible, but also the *only* means of truth. Those in the occident have been living in the fallout of this grand historic imposture ever since.
