Always Already
Oct. 5th, 2012 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7You are currently in a dialectic. You feel that you are caught between two poles, that you are against one of the poles, that you are one of the poles. But this isnot the whole of it. Everything you are and think and do exists in the process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
We can describe anything as a dichotomy, but to do so places us within the realm and rules of the particular dialectic at hand. The more you talk about Freedom and Liberty, the more you show yourself as having accepted the definitions and the mode of resolution which has been laid down, for you.
If Freedom and Restriction are your dichotomy, then what is the larger system in which they exist? From which they take their meaning?
To say that these things are only ever the fantasy of a deluded mind, or that they are the secret truth which has been hidden from us by controlling overlords, to subscribe to either view is to buy the dichotomy and ignore the dialectic.
You're still locked in the pattern, ignoring its edges.
We can describe anything as a dichotomy, but to do so places us within the realm and rules of the particular dialectic at hand. The more you talk about Freedom and Liberty, the more you show yourself as having accepted the definitions and the mode of resolution which has been laid down, for you.
If Freedom and Restriction are your dichotomy, then what is the larger system in which they exist? From which they take their meaning?
To say that these things are only ever the fantasy of a deluded mind, or that they are the secret truth which has been hidden from us by controlling overlords, to subscribe to either view is to buy the dichotomy and ignore the dialectic.
You're still locked in the pattern, ignoring its edges.
