Of course dealing with one's mortality is something else because one does not have any known means of controlling it. One is, beyond doubt, going to break down and die one way or another. And that fact is an enormous foiling of desire. This fact doesn't even have regard for one's needs.
So confronted with all this we find human beings constantly and seriously involved in the attempt to hierarchically control other people, in both the form of individuals and groups; and in fantasies of trying to out-maneuver mortality and death -- that is, one tries to give it a face that is agreeable to one's desires in the form of imagining that the appeased gods and goddesses are on one's side, or, if one is a non-believer, to get as much power and control as one can before death finally denies ones needs. These occupations can create some fearfully grotesque and dangerous human stunting as history, including the world today, amply evinces.
The political paradigm is obviously a growth rooted in all of this.
This is not to say that there has been no genuine human effort to go beyond the human tendency to get swamped in static and degenerative puerility. But this effort in the form of political revolt or spiritual philosophy, which I will address in another article, has never succeeded in replacing the political paradigm as civilization's primary social ordering principle.
My primary concern at this point is to articulate the position that the political paradigm has always been and remains, in spite of many cultural changes, innately hostile to and incommensurate with the development of evolving, creative, individual human consciousness and freedom. We need new social ordering paradigms and principles.
The shattering of the political paradigm - ultimately the shattering of the monolithic pyramid that has haunted history - for the benefit of all individual human beings is the only real road before us.
As will become clear, I am not proposing any form of materialist or spiritual philosophy, but nor am I denying the reality of both material and non-material existence. What I am proposing will be articulated in detail in the coming articles.
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