no symmetry

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 16 21:50:16 CDT 2003


Just for the record, pro, I think Masters should be
paired with Slaves, and Gods should be paired with
Morals, but it might just be my unconscious need 
for symmetry peeking through again. Maybe that's
what the problem is, eh? How about: No Symmetry?

respectfully

NO, I think that the diagram makes perfect sense if you replace God with
I. 
The fundamental will of the spirit needs to feel itself Master. 
You should not waste your time reading Pro because his will to mastery
requires an emptying resolve for ignorance, for arbitrary occlusion...a
defensive stand against much that is knowable. The spirit wills itself
to let itself be deceived on occasion, perhaps with a mischievous
suspicion that things are not thus and so, but rather only allowed to
pass as such...a satisfaction in the arbitrariness of all 
manifestations of power. And she delete his posts because all of them
are invested with an unscrupulous readiness to deceive other spirits and
dissemble before them, tearing off masks to reveal only more masks. The
lack of a moral code permits a violence and a cruelty that goes beyond
the delight in masquerade and in the deception of others. It turns on
the thinker himself and unmasks his thoughts as a cunning will to power.



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