Andy Nowicki hits the nail on the head, as far as I am concerned, concerning the Ukraine crisis and other allegedly dichotomous political phenomena. In truth, however—much as the likes of Bush or Dugin might lecture us to the contrary—one only makes a difference that counts by refusing affiliation and remaining independent. For in casting one’s vote for or otherwise throwing one’s weight behind one side—be it the yin or the yang—of a binary, duopolic, Manichean paradigm, one is in fact not only selling one’s soul (which is to say, serving a master who is not God), or supporting evil in order to oppose what one takes to be a greater evil… no, one is not merely guilty of these betrayals ; one is also in a sense propping up the other side, the side one recognizes as being the worse of the two factions. For in a world ruled by a duopoly, each side of the yin-yang spectrum parasitically feeds off the other for its own sustenance. One side could not be what it is without the active contrivance of its supposed opposite, and vice versa. Both yin and yang are fortified by the other’s scorn, contempt, and hostility; each digs in all the more when it perceives itself being threatened, and by digging in, thereby causes the other side to feel threatened, which in turn enhances the other side’s sense of righteous hysteria, leading to a never-ending cycle of rationalized provocations and self-justified aggressions. To participate in the struggle, on one side or the other, is thus to perpetuate the struggle, and in so doing, to lend the struggle a kind of legitimacy it doesn’t deserve.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:39:45 +0000
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