Don’t look behind that Curtain!

The event of Modernity is represented by the plot culmination of The Wizard of Oz: The moment that the Feminine Mystique is comprehended in its reality: The all and power Oz, the great wizard that holds the good society together is a fraud. The myth of the evil witch is destroyed upon arrival but then there is another bad witch that pronounces the struggle and the good witch helps expose the sham, thereby ushers in post-modernity. We first find the hierarchical power structure, then individual truths and relativity itself actually go into the reestablishmeant of modernity as a unitive effort of a now common whole of pluralist truths in progress, just like The Emerald City was before with all the “guilds” and various sorts, sizes, colors and shapes of people, when Dorothy arrives, all the different people who were other wise living happily except for the shadow of the wicked witch(-es) who now appears Becuase Dorothy kills her sister when she arrives. Now that witch is gone, and everyone has their own truth (again), another specter will arise: the struggle-fantasy of the white man-woman oppression ends with the man remaining in the Fantasy Emerald City and the woman returning to her black-and-white world, of which the real figures of life were represented in the fantastic struggle.

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Presently we are involved in the consolidation of a one world. This is to say, the overdetermining manner of consciousness is involved with its function of the reconciliation of difference. What such a function rejects, though, is the notice which brings to understanding that such difference and reconciliation was and is already already occurring at all times.

In reality, the current struggle always must remain paramount. The involvement with that activity is called justice.

The difference involved with the attempt to get justice for the group that is oppressed in a present condition of difference Always takes precedence over the past or historical situation. This is to say that what we learn from history informs the present struggle. Yet what we don’t learn from history, the lesson of history that should otherwise commandeer or correct the present situation for eternity, or for a kind of utopia, is that some group will always be oppressed. This is to say, in the overcoming or correction of a presented condition of oppression, another oppressive situation arises that needs to be corrected. The present situation towards justice always has to take place towards a limited ideal based in a utopian frame. The idea that there is no actual “utopia” is really a statement of empty set, because if we actually ever believed that that was true then there would be no reason to make any efforts whatsoever to address a present injustice.

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The two situations that I present here exist at all times. While they may be ideological, and indeed we can find all sorts of ideological structures which will support various meanings of oppression and freedom, even that cognition itself exists within a utopian condition of oppression.

Hence the two routes. Hence the non-philosophical unilateral duality.

Due to the imperative of the present moment, which is characterized presently by an effort of reconciliation, this as opposed to “destruction” or “Deconstruction” — which is to say as a historical motion of consciousness — One is not allowed to speak of facts in a general sense, because the problem of difference has not been sufficiently reconciled into the One reality. For, if there indeed was a One Reality wherein everyone had sufficient recourse to a personal idea of freedom, happiness, or whatever sort of “good” conceptions and recourses of self in a world, then we could speak of facts, say, the “fact of the human being”, because then no one would have a recourse to an offense that the very idea of a “true fact” elicits by its very nature. This is the theological mandate of the current postmodern religious paradigm: I can only speak of “facts” under particular ethical headings.

So, in order to speak of truth and facts, As things in themselves that are actually facts and actually true things, a partition in reckoning must be erected.

There is a reason why most religions have an esoteric arm of the system of belief: Because the general real tenants of ethics and morality that the particular religious ideology pro pounds and supposes upon, understood intuitively by the congregants of that belief, do not allow a recourse to exposing the potential falsity of whatever theological structure: Ideology is mythologically self-referential (correlational). Indeed the congregants rely upon the cosmological maxim in order to go about their (our) daily lives. They (we) exist, in fact, in the absolute true world of either/or mentality, of essential choice despite what theoretical ideas might come out of them, because any theory I would come up with to describe how there may or may not be choice, whether it be evolutionarily, discursively, biologically, neurologically, socially, is a theory that is relying upon me/someone choosing to do things.

This fact of an ethically absolute true world thus does not contain all that exists, but neither does “another description” negate the “first world”; indeed other things can be known and talked about which do not answer to the “absolute true (first-ethical) world” that is the relative universe of subjective views and opinion. Much like the difference between quantum physics and classical physics, there is two absolutely true universes which do not reconcile to a further one knowledge in practice.

This is how it must be only now, but also never. As well as only in possibility.