Culte' de hegemon in a Ramen World; How Economic logic can defy less informed desperate hopes for opinionated self defensive cultural hegemony. Ramen wins because it is fast and cheap. There is a new adult all day high school programme called "Civics" available at any Public College available to any refugee, assylum seeker or citizen for free. The Bible along with other perennial guides on immutable tenets shields oneself from this fragmentation with Tenets as derived from "Tenet" and that is the one word I have for you. Tenet, by the way is an excellent movie. The probability of death of one man is an opportunity for another man to have life if the first man in the nexus is Jesus as all human death is not only probable it is 100% certain. As it says in the Kingdom of Heaven, "..You shall certainly die..and Death is always certain." But, the intent to kill is what the script discloses and the probability of death brings opportunity to obfuscates the murder. The movie highlights the nexus between public and private authority, public and private power locked in a relationship of orders and disorders with money often being the motive for private powers to risk the ultra vires ramifications of dealing in weapons of death that threaten human life or WW3 just to satisfy maybe one man's ego or expectations of class association while disclosing an inexperience with the French Afrique, North African or the Saudi sons of princes who can carry the weight and the stature of the most distinguished forums. Yes; I am certain. The movie confirms the importance of the knowledge of oneself and ones surroundings. Lastly, Leviticus is never certain of wrong or right in the evidence but always certain in what is appropriate. It may not be appropriate for Saab to have closed with non payments from North American client customers such as GM who ordered several chassis, causing Saab to rethink their passenger vehicle business. It may not be appropriate for the man you save from drowning to resent the ability and strength it took to save him while he wonders if your ability indicates that you have an ancestry against which his ancestry is diametrically opposed forever; David and he is Mephibosheth. If it involves, Leviticus, he is right and you are wrong. Prayer is cheating. The respectful greeting to a coffee customer is infidelity. His wife is dead if you have a bible in your pocket and you are the customer buying the coffee. Click here.

If you have seen the master named Egypt, you have seen the servants.

I am only pretending to be a grade 4 Graduate like you. But, this is what I've learned. This is what I have to say. How long can the world lose billions of dollars in economic opportunity on the North American emotional dissonance? How long can a West Indian granny run the world in her fear that her sons who finished at the University of America will have more social authority than she will and that he has left them or will be leaving them in terms of class hierarchy, going up to a higher level of class and what is wrong with granny so that she would fear anything like this?

Sometimes, it is better with the devil you know Cherry. Please send me your wedding photo. Joe couldn't say how many angles there are in a polygon or what is the total sum of all the angles. But, he can really world that political lexicon of terms to sucker punch any beltway newbie. I think he is kind of the ideal puppet. We know the answer. Add water and life will come again. Add money and the economy will spring back up again. We will implement the income support and Joe can explain it to the North American peoples. It would help now that he has a dignifying script. He can never make a mistake, following a script provided for him by the Vermont Massachusetts led Dept of Homelands Securitization, for one year before he is impeached since no one but a God could abuse the Constitution like him. The question is what would I do if everyone in the world was a reconstituted Native with various kinds of skin tones and with some kind of culture or what decisions would I make if everyone around me in the whole entire the world was white or everyone was black? The Americans feel less Hegemony or no Hegemony because the low value placed on American human life is significantly, comparatively low. Napoleon was, therefore, a new world Aboriginal who became an Aboriginal Hegemony vandal as born in Haiti when his ancestry had no knowledge of Egypt or the reality of an African Egypt. Lord Christopher Columbus or Lord Graven Smythe Escovet gave the natives books displaying the world as white, it seems, accidentally, with ships, Chariots, horse and rider, tables and chairs. The Sphinx with a black nose like his is not likely to have arrived at his consciousness before he was brought to Europe. He may have been a carrier of the 1430 dna. Is this about civil rights?; no. It's about economic logic and the effort to understand a Hegemony neutral aboriginal whose only agenda is power as he had no culture that, competitively, gave him any victory in his total and utter defeat when facing the barrel of the gun. He was naked, proudly the man on day one at this Western Hemispheric Appocolypto. See Last Samurai for an idea of the gun. However, the Asian had a culture with written language and an identifiable way of dress, foods and drinks, ways of sitting and eating; not just on chairs. They had buildings and houses, music and dance when the Guyjin came. When the Guyjin came to you, you had not even shit in your ass. So, the resentment is profound in these people and persistently killing the Catholics, the Puritan or other Protestants who were trying to teach them in a Self Preservation and Hegemony battle although you needed him to help you, show you but you resented him as you have no culture to defend in terms of Hegemony except piracy now maybe; something about anything can be bought. Today, your son or daughter is who you resent for believing in and following what you told them to work hard at Jefferson Washington ROTC High School. Subconsciously, you say you see them as the different, an other. Today, the culture has grown and there is much to defend like being undereducated but authoritative in some kind of logical conflagration installed in you by the colonial government. Just give him your bank statement and account. You don't have enough education to know that a savings account is not an investment that goes down or up.

You act like you are the coolest, sophisticated up town ranking, pretending you have a E- Trade account so you feel sophisticated with everyone watching you read the website and the sample account portal on your laptop. But you don't know anything like that black banker whose teeth you tried to burn out with dirty wine, dirty oil and cement in the sugar jar. You say, "How can he be a high school graduate or any kind of graduate with a nose like his or mine and wouldn't I disfigure my own nose when graduating from school because the story book says....I should look like....and I need to be accepted?" Yet, you bought a new engine four times on a leased vehicle like a total idiot. The engine is covered under the lease. Warren filed a formal Criminal harassment charge against Cheryl for this pestering and contention. The local authorities have his emailed report sent from his email. You gave him all you have; so proud, beautiful and naked. Thank you. But, you might leave that Puritan for any other culture that offers you more mechanical power and instant availability. You had an itch and now you are working late with Mr. Nada Nafamila from Brownstown who is a carrier of Covid and can see it in your eyes when he pulled up to your drive thru. The wash room was locked After 6:00 pm unusually. Your husband called to ask you to bring back some burger meals but you cannot be found. After some chocolate, you would almost give the world to stay in, stay accepted as some kind of love and acceptance or chocolate junkie. But, do not put your trust in men. Men will fail you. Know thyself and only you can ultimately defend your self. An open bottle of green tea oil offered as help to you may actually be death; one drop of that Jade Fox oil with drain cleaner and your throat is gone or your hair is gone. It is nothing personal but you are culturally hegemonically impartial; a jack of all cultures and a master of none except your own Jambalaya Kumbaya kind of way that grows more definitive over time; not just soups but Ackee and saltfish. Look at you!; so proud except you have not understood that a special Ackee dish is not your nation but a symbol of a national culture. You appreciate the dish but what about the people that cook it. You need to see your wife and your children as your nation. Appreciate them before you tell people anything about how this is how you do your breakfast etc. Your culture will always be a kind of cultural Frankenstein or nicely quilted cultural rag doll borrowing different elements and words from various other cultures and certainly with no depth and missing the point of family value if you fail to respect the value of your children's and your family's lives. Even the Africans had clothing from Africa; money in Ghana and Nigeria. You did not even really understand being naked or the washing of your hands. You just cultural mud, waiting to be molded. So, you need to at least respect human value; your own and others. Let me tell you something right now. You needed him to teach you because the world of packaged food and bottled drinks was not going away and you would have to know how to buy them, count your change, read the price and the eviction notice to get off of Boscobel beach. It became an Aboriginal family problem in Mandeville with the Jamaboriginal nation divided against itself when the children go to the Guyjin school and then the guttural fears of extermination, separation and rejection emerge in the aboriginal household; that maybe the children will find no use for them as it is evident that the space station, much like packaged food is not going away and it would be best if the aboriginal understood this since a living aboriginal space station applicant is better than a dead aboriginal graduate who cannot apply as his family has stolen all his clothing and graduation documents precisely six months after graduation day in a fool hardy aboriginal last stand on the global Hegemony battlefield where there is only one winner; universal human cooperation. They don't see how they would be losing when you have to under stand you have less white black aboriginal Hegemony with one less aboriginal around. This Goat Island or Haitian aboriginal man did not have any knowledge of Egypt. So, He was certainly not the first French person in history to visit Egypt. But, he was certainly the first human being to vandalize the Sphinx; a world historical monument. It is a tremendous response to the sight of a monument with a big black nose. The American people must value American lives with the highest premium to feel American Hegemony as commensurate with Chinese or German Hegemony( German Hegemony is American Hegemony) where every Chinese or German person has the same amount of income support right across the population diversity spectrum regardless of gender. Lipton cup a coup on supermarket shelves in Germany or Russia or a GM running on a Toyota platform is not enough. Culte' de hegemon in a Ramen World; How Economic logic can defy less informed desperate hopes for opinionated self defensive cultural hegemony. Ramen wins because it is fast and cheap. Click here.

Culte' de hegemon in a Ramen World; How Economic logic can defy less informed desperate hopes for opinionated self defensive cultural hegemony. Ramen wins because it is fast and cheap.

There is a new adult all day high school programme called "Civics" available at any Public College available to any refugee, assylum seeker or citizen for free. The Bible along with other perennial guides on immutable tenets shields oneself from this fragmentation with Tenets as derived from "Tenet" and that is the one word I have for you. Tenet, by the way is an excellent movie. The probability of death of one man is an opportunity for another man to have life if the first man in the nexus is Jesus as all human death is not only probable it is 100% certain. As it says in the Kingdom of Heaven, "..You shall certainly die..and Death is always certain." But, the intent to kill is what the script discloses and the probability of death brings opportunity to obfuscates the murder. The movie highlights the nexus between public and private authority, public and private power locked in a relationship of orders and disorders with money often being the motive for private powers to risk the ultra vires ramifications of dealing in weapons of death that threaten human life or WW3 just to satisfy maybe one man's ego or expectations of class association while disclosing an inexperience with the French Afrique, North African or the Saudi sons of princes who can carry the weight and the stature of the most distinguished forums. Yes; I am certain. The movie confirms the importance of the knowledge of oneself and ones surroundings. Lastly, Leviticus is never certain of wrong or right in the evidence but always certain in what is appropriate. It may not be appropriate for Saab to have closed with non payments from North American client customers such as GM who ordered several chassis, causing Saab to rethink their passenger vehicle business. It may not be appropriate for the man you save from drowning to resent the ability and strength it took to save him while he wonders if your ability indicates that you have an ancestry against which his ancestry is diametrically opposed forever; David and he is Mephibosheth. If it involves, Leviticus, he is right and you are wrong. Prayer is cheating. The respectful greeting to a coffee customer is infidelity. His wife is dead if you have a bible in your pocket and you are the customer buying the coffee.

Moving forward, nevertheless, Kroker says that to "Know your self" is still an attainable goal but that self recognition is not so much about knowing the self but about becoming aware and "...discovering anew the shock of the real." It is about walking out of the "cave" of the electronic cage of virtual reality and into the real (if not the natural) world. Yet, as the ancients say, the knowledge of self is a process of training of the spirit as an athlete trains the body for competition. It begins with awareness and awareness begins with the acceptance of ignorance and, in the postmodern, the shock of the real. So let it be that man leaves the illusions of the simulacrum, the "cave", and of virtual reality so that he may begin to pursue knowledge without assuming to know and hopefully realise a new humanity not filled only with the "hope" of catastrophe and holocaust but improvement within the human condition. They merge into a unique and indivisible struggle of all groups against subordination and marginalisation. The UDHR and the OHCHR help to summarize the purposefulness of this successful merger that conforms to, as Habermas says, the meaningfulness of human life. Through a new common sense which changes the identity of the different groups, the interests of all groups are articulated equivalently, where the free development of each is the condition for the free develop ment of all. In the present, there is also an attempt to depolitise economic, social, and political decisions, making them the responsibility of experts, restricting the subversive nature of the democratic struggle. This is seen in the anti-egalitar ian, hier archical, neo-liberal defence of the free market economy, challenging the attempt to eclipse a "universal", epistemological discourse by the dis courses of the resis tance of marginal populations which provide the foundations for what Laclau and Mouffe have called the "democratic revolution". /// This will thereby enshrine, by expert decision as garnered by international and domestic observation, a new socioeconomic preservation of North American markets in spite of the Varying opinions of leading and marginal voices that may have very little sympathy for the market above and beyond the governing sway of current opinion in either of the groups. The truth is that, in spite of the ongoing anthropological studies going on at the White House into unwavering criminal and maliciously motivated figures in U.S. history, the global and U.S. Economy that calls for a regular income support covering all citizens is too important. This has been the case since 1910. As such, all market participants are universally protected in the provision of a universal Unconditional Minimum income support for all Nominal participant buyers known as global citizens using the global internet like a global catalogue of Shoes, gadgets, frocks and things in a new anti depression economy, an anti deficit, anti recession economy, anti lock economy that works like anti lock brakes in your vehicle using two key economic principles; the minimum 30% sales tax and the universal unconditional minimum income support.

Laclau and Mouffe provide a greater sense of the new specific ity of the political, where ideas of a ruling class are no longer the dominant or hegemonic ideology and have been replaced by a "...field of stylistic and discursive heterogeneity without a norm." This is an important consideration as the way in which political decisions are made and conflicts are resolved have begun to reflect social heterogeneity through the inclusion of new and once marginalised voices in the political process.  This is the result of transformations in social relations which have provided the framework necessary for the questioning of subordinate relations and the demanding of new rights,  Leading to the politicization of social relations and a new logic of equivalence which extends itself from workers struggles to struggles of women, racial, sexual, and regional minorities as they merge into a unique and indivisible struggle of all groups against subordination and marginalisation. Through a new common sense which changes the identity of the different groups, the interests of all groups are articulated equivalently, where the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. In the present, there is also an attempt to depoliticise economic, social, and political decisions, making them the responsibility of experts, restricting the subversive nature of the democratic struggle.  This is seen in the anti-egalitarian, hierarchical, neo-liberal defence of the free market economy, challenging the attempt to eclipse a "universal", epistemological discourse by the dis courses of the resistance of marginal populations which provide the foundations for what Laclau and Mouffe have called the "democratic revolution".

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This will thereby enshrine, by expert decision as garnered by international and domestic observation, a new socioeconomic preservation of North American markets in spite of the Varying opinions of leading and marginal voices that may have very little sympathy for the market above and beyond the governing sway of current opinion in either of the groups. As such, all market participants are universally protected in the provision of a universal Unconditional Minimum income support for all Nominal participant buyers known as global citizens using the global internet like a global catalogue of Shoes, gadgets, frocks, Bibles, rubber gloves, tampons and things in a new anti-depression economy, an anti-deficit, anti recession economy, anti-lock economy that works like anti-lock brakes in your vehicle using two key economic principles; the minimum 30% sales tax and the universal unconditional minimum income support. Then we can all go on vacation every day to Zanzibar or the Gambia; beautiful.   Nevertheless, the Machiavellian Princess( Angela Merkel ) must hone her virtu to win the new game of the politics of inclusion; a new politics of the present(as Laclau and Mouffe demonstrate) which is not "zero sum" and which gives the subordinated the hope for improvement in the human condition while Rousseau assures us that the pursuit of the knowledge of self is still a worthy and spiri tually fulfilling enterprise. Aren't we all prophets, princes, priests and kings? The Machiavellian Princess provides ongoing assurance for those who still seek confirmation of a countervailing European Hegemony of some kind in a ramen noodles world where the Toyota Corolla GR is more ubiquitous and present anywhere in the world than any model of Peugeot as the John Cabot genome is involved in a self efacing global civil war as waged between White/ Black North American Aboriginal Hegemony vs. European Hegemony; that are not synonymous. North American Aboriginal Hegemony is entitled to be creative and find it's own way and voice but all various cultural Hegemonies are subordinated to a greater culturally impartial but not "morality free" capitalist agenda that needs markets of average people of all kinds where ever they may be who are well funded to buy the machine made goods. Yet, the market to sell cars is truly global while only the Asian manufacturers see this whole heartedly with the Germans. Peugeot is sold and marketed in tiny Peru Mais pas dedans tres grande Quebec. Peru has four Peugeot dealerships. There are none in a country such as Danada where French is the only official language while English is widely spoken and every citizen has a universal unconditional minimum income support of $80,000.00 per year with a a 29% sales tax The English Monarch remains on the coin in Danada as the reigning Authority for which we are grateful. Her Hegemony is evident and the country, with a non English language, is much like Hong Kong once but happily enjoying English Hegemony ironically in a Toyota Ramen and Jamen world. The emotion of Hegemony is like a hot air balloon. You own GM and it feels great running on a Toyota chassis. The Cadillac has Brembo German brakes and also the GM Yukon/ Hyundai with its Hyundai chassis and ergonomics. So long as you see GM Yukon in the side, you feel your Black/White Amerindian Hegemony. But, how can you really feel hegemony if there were no American people? If the American people die twice as fast as an Asian, then this punctures the hot air Hegemony balloon and your hegmonic emotions float away like hot air released from Seti's Pyramid. There is a Capitalist neutrality in all human value if its just that we are gestating global consumers Ina global economy, buying shoes on an Alaskan website for delivery to Tottenham but eventually every king needs to know how many people are willing to fight for him, defend him. See Sun Szu and this is the ultimate Hegemony discussion if you have anything worth defending or maybe it's just Pirate chattel or American. They, the American, dies twice as fast since they have less Minimum income support per capita than the Norwegian, the German, the French,the Japanese or the Chinese for example. They feel less Hegemony or no Hegemony because the low value placed on American human life is significantly, comparatively low. Napoleon was, therefore, a new world Aboriginal who became an Aboriginal Hegemony vandal as born in Haiti when his ancestry had no knowledge of Egypt or the reality of an African Egypt. Lord Christopher Columbus or Lord Graven Smythe Escovet gave the natives books displaying the world as white, it seems, accidentally, with ships, Chariots, horse and rider, tables and chairs. The Sphinx with a black nose like his is not likely to have arrived before he was brought to Europe. He may have been a carrier of the 1430 dna. Is this about civil rights?; no. It's about economic logic and the effort to understand a Hegemony neutral aboriginal whose only agenda is power as he had no culture that, competitively, gave him any victory in his total and utter defeat when facing the barrel of the gun. See last Samurai for an idea of the gun. However, the Asian had a culture with written language and an identifiable way of dress, foods and drinks, ways of sitting and eating; not just on chairs. They had buildings and houses, music and dance when the guyjin came. So, the resentment is profound in these people and persistently killing the Puritan or other Protestants who were trying to teach them was a self preservation and Hegemony battle although you needed him. You needed him to teach you because the world of packaged food and bottled drinks was not going away and you would have to know how to buy them, count your change, read the price and the eviction notice to get off of Boscobel beach. It became an Aboriginal family problem in Mandeville with the Jamaboriginal nation divided against itself when the children go to the Guyjin school and then the guttural fears of extermination, separation and rejection emerge in the aboriginal household; that maybe the children will find no use for them as it is evident that the space station, much like packaged food is not going away and it would be best if the aboriginal understood this since a living aboriginal space station applicant is better than a dead aboriginal graduate who cannot apply as his family has stolen all his clothing and graduation documents precisely six months after graduation day in a fool hardy aboriginal last stand on the global Hegemony battlefield where there is only one winner; universal human cooperation. They don't see how they would be losing when you have to under stand you have less white black aboriginal Hegemony with one less aboriginal of some kind around. We see who you are when you choose resistance in a regurgitation of ancestral hurts from 4 or 5 generations ago; resistance of the constitution and deregulation over constitutional enforcement and fulfillment; that keeps us safe at night; not corruption nor deregulation. Is this about civil rights? No.

This Goat Island or Haitian aboriginal man did not have in any knowledge of Egypt; no initiation with a big nosed Black King or any real big black Guerilla when relying on the books handed to him although he was black himself. Yet, black is not African. It is aboriginal. He calls Egypt a hoax. So, He was certainly not the first French person in history to visit Egypt. But, he was certainly the first human being to vandalize the Sphinx; a world historical monument. It is a tremendous response to the sight of a monument with a big black nose. The American people must value American lives with the highest premium to feel American Hegemony as commensurate with Chinese or German Hegemony( German Hegemony is American Hegemony) where every Chinese or German person has the same amount of income support right across the population diversity spectrum regardless of gender. Lipton cup a coup on supermarket shelves in Germany or Russia or a GM running on a Toyota platform is not enough. The article Jihad v. McWorld published in Atlantic magazine in 1992 was truly about hegemony. With universal human value being the absolute goal, any cultural Hegemony is sidelined by the more important economic agendas such as safety, durability, reliability and dependability. As such Toyota and Ramen are serving the most intrinsic human need that we will have life and life more abundantly, giving life the Hegemony over death. Get your blue grass banjo and drive to the Jamboree in your life saving Toyotas.

The English are quite similar as the Aston Martin brand provides great hegmonic oomph. But, the English people also have the lowest levels of income support per capita with their various Scottish, English, Belizean, Singaporean, Scottish, West Indian, Jamaican, Belizean, Gambian and Danadian populations combined. This means they die faster and have to tread the waters of joblessness as occasioned by the Automation realities longer than any German, Russian, Swiss or Dutch population and hence, the sense of English Hegemony dissipates like hot air from a cut manifold. It's hard to maintain any integrity in industrial or national Hegemony when the pirate is his own nation, a beast of no nation and no matter how much you pay him for his works he will "pirate" the company off to any bidder for his own personal gain; for a $100......00 leaving his computer unlocked or the factory back door open. The pirate obfuscates the hegemony agenda as he is engaged in trying to show you anything can be bought. The universal unconditional minimum income support will be most helpful as the US population and it's economy is held in limbo as a ship adrift by a leadership class that is having an argument with an economic equation that is as difficult as a grade 7 math problem; that investment in economic supply must be matched and balanced with a similar investment in demand; that if supply is automated and essentially as certain as a mechanized consistent dishwasher for example that unemployed all the dishwashers, that could run nonstop and wash all the dishes in a hotel without human intervention, then demand for goods must be just as sure and capable of nonstop activity as enabled by what is referred to as a universal unconditional minimum income support.

Epictetus informs us least about the present conditions. While providing us with proverbial and ecclesiastical writings, he works within a paradigm of divine reason and absolute concepts of truth; both of which have been discluded in the Postmodern discourse. Moreover, he does not provide any insight into the end of grand narratives, the decentering of the humanist subject, micropolitics, simulacrum, or any of the other characteristics of postmodernism.   The ancient concept of self in relation to the postmodern concept of self is one of great contrast.  In many senses, the postmodern concept appears to be a fulfilment of the ancients warnings and fears of what would happen to men who lack the knowledge of self.  To answer this question, I used Alcibiades, Epictetus, Jameson, and Kroker.   

The ancient concept of self found in Plato and Epictetus is that of a divinely rational and spiritual being which lives in conflict with his physical nature.  These theorists teach us that if a man is to live a just or right life, self knowledge is a necessity, enabling him to take care of him self.  They also demonstrate that deception of self can only occur, leading to mistakes in life, when one is ignorant and possesses the conceit of knowledge.  A man ignorant of his own needs will fall into error and lead a life of misery. As a result, the admittance and embrace of one's ignorance is the first step one must take to acquire self knowledge.  Unless we are convicted that we do not know anything, we will continue to make errors out of a state of false knowledge.  Upon recognition of our ignorance, we can begin to inquire and to examine ourselves and our true nature.  Essentially, knowledge of the self should bring man into acquaintance with vir tue.   It is through the acquisition of virtue that a man will know how to take care of himself and others, pursuing a path of human develop ment that will lead to improvement as opposed to corruption. We are enshrining grand narratives and only Testing and tearing down old narratives that do not accurately resonate the saving, enlightening truth. Moses spoke Egyptian; not the English enunciated in the Hollywood movie productions. These narratives are torn down and reworked for saving, enlightening truth.

Both Plato and Epictetus see human development as the improvement of one's soul and not as the improvement of things which one may possess.  As a result, they both express the necessity for men to make contact with that which is divine.  Plato says that a man who knows that he does not know, entrusts his affairs to a superior being which for him is God as he places faith in his divine oracle.  Although these theorists concepts of God are not the same, they both place man under the charge of the divine.  For Epictetus, man is under the charge of reason which is that part of the divine imparted to men in creation.  In their writings, there is an evident relation ship between human develop ment and self knowledge.  Man and mankind can develop so that they either improve upon their condition or become corrupted.  The course of human development which one takes is dependent upon the extent of the knowledge of self which one acquires.  The knowledge of the things of this world without the knowledge of self, will result in a man pursuing knowledge to satisfy his desire for riches, power, and wealth, leading to debauchery as opposed to betterment.  

If human development is simply motivated by the desire to find ways to acquire more comforts, wealth, riches, and might, it will lead to misery as men are ignorant and become increasingly ignorant through their pursuit.  As Plato said, it is "...not he who has riches, but he who has wisdom that is delivered from his misery." As a result, the soul will develop in accordance with its materialistic or its spiritual goals.

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In a negative manifestation of the Ancient's concept of self, Postmodern man lives in plato's "cave" of delirium, false consciousness, virtual reality, depraved emotion, and fragmented existence as Jameson and Kroker demonstrate.

Jameson tells us that man, as the centred subject, has been dissolved by seeking increasing efficiency, developing a postmodern world of organisational bureaucracy.  He possesses a decentered psyche and no longer experiences alienation and anxiety in addition to other human emotions but is a fragmented being where, although there is no longer a self present to do the feel ing, one can experience intensities; "...free floating and impersonal and (which ) tend to be dominated by a peculiar kind of euphoria."  These intensities are fed by man's new appetite for a world transformed into images of itself and never ending spectacles. The appetite is satiated by the universal unconditional minimum income support that enables the unquenchable way to pay.   Postmodern society is the society of the "cave" where mental space is that of a degraded "objective spirit" and where cultural production only represents society's ideas and stereotypes about the past.  The dim fire light of Plato's cave makes it difficult to not only see and know oneself but to emerge from one's hovel and look upon the "putative real world" illuminated by the elucidat ing sun.  All that postmodern man sees is a trace of his mental images of the past and of reality upon the confining walls of the society of the simulac rum which has colonised his unconscious  thought through media and advertising. However, travel and real, lived  experiences provide the way out of the cave's limiting images. Are you afraid to travel overseas Joe?  

Assuming to know, we have become self deceived, as the ancients warned.  And by seeking to improve things as opposed to the self, we have come upon the "...ultimate contemporary fetishisation of the human body...acquiring a glossy skin, a stereoscopic illu sion."  Through seeking to relentlessly improve things and not the soul, we have crushed human life altogether through technology; that alienated power which turns back on us and against us and seems to "...Constitute the massive dystopian horizon of our collective as well as our individual praxis." The ancients warned us that if human improvement is motivated only by the attainment of comforts, it would lead to misery.  And without the knowledge of self, there is nothing left "...but that which is deplorable and reprehensible...". We fulfil our addiction to images of the past, stereotypes, or texts, removing any "...practical sense of the future and of the collective project, thereby abandoning the thinking of future change to fantasies of sheer catastrophe and inexplicable cataclysm, from visions of "terrorism" on the social level to those of cancer on the personal." As we glorify  and shape ourselves for the "Almighty" commodity, "having" has become more important than being(Debord) and all we can look forward to is imaginary tranquillity at the price of real happiness(Rousseau). He will eat with his wife and ten of his children and raise them to be good citizens.

Through virtual reality, postmodern man can buy imaginary tranquillity.  he has become "...crash bodies always on the hunt for a new techno-thrill.", not self knowledge.  he has come to a point where he has been born into the "cave" or electronic cage of virtual reality.  He has "..always lived virtually...(where he)...have never had direct knowledge of a (natural) world outside the electronic frontier."  These observations give credence to the ancients exhortations, albeit, in a negative sense.

The self, as Kroker demonstrates, has become virtual such that it is purely aesthetic, disappearing into the "...electronic vortex of the floating self (and) is finally liberated of (fixed) identity, of determinate gender, of (localised) history, and of (bodily) subjectivity...which means the triumph of illusion...(while)...the virtual self...vanishes down the electronic highway from nothing to nowhere."

Postmodern man is the willing practitioner of this new world of the floating self, spasm, and of organs without bodies as he accepts and pursues the material promises of this world which purport maximum information, wealth and mobility, but which, in fact, give us little

understanding and (lead to) alienated masses harmoniously dependent on elite command centres that, although they are elite in the White Aboriginals world as arriving at the Office of the Presidency of North American companies or the nation itself, they may carry an under facility in terms of personal educational breadth and the problem solving lexicon necessitated by an existing world of laws, rules and contracts that they may tend to resent as contract may be the paper shackles that painfully remind the North American black and white of his North American Slavic origins. In resenting slavery, you may be resenting contract as the mechanism of slavery, thereby resenting the laws and the lawyers quite potentially who, if they understand these paper shackles as the mechanisms that once enslaved people, then they may be related to the people who once enslaved others. But, understanding the mechanisms of law is the best way for the disgruntled free men to prevent any illegal unofficial slavery from happening again to you or anyone when the spectre of unscrupulous men continues in our world and not every thief is a contract writing lawyer. On the contrary, he may be just a thief; right Joe? It is because of the thief who never bought a home but only hopes to occupy and steal and covet the 19 or so homes of others where a lawyer is actually appreciated in the defence of your ownership in your little American dream. It's only a three bed home and who wants to steal your little American dream of home ownership when he could buy his own; cash?  

This new virtual experience has given us a techno-skin with all day wifi enabled wearable bio-tech reading personal oxygen levels, heart 💖 rate, your favorite cereals and blood pressure on the way and this has opened up a whole range of human experiences, adding and replacing them with thrills and intensities as Jameson concurs.  We have come to a historical place where technology is the latest and most grisly manifestation of Nietzsche's will to power, leaving the self as a torn and fragmented victim. The Bible along with other perennial guides on immutable tenets shields oneself from this fragmentation; tenets as derived from "Tenet" and that is the one word I have for you. Know it well, that you will know the truth and the truth might set you free. Nevertheless, Kroker says that to "Know your self" is still an attainable goal but that self recognition is not so much about knowing the self but about becoming aware and "...discovering anew the shock of the real."  It is about walking out of the "cave" of the electronic cage of virtual reality and into the real (if not the natural) world.  Yet, as the ancients say, the knowledge of self is a process of training of the spirit as an athlete trains the body for competition.  It begins with awareness and awareness begins with the acceptance of ignorance and, in the postmodern, the shock of the real.  So let it be that man leaves the illusions of the simulacrum, the "cave", and of virtual reality so that he may begin to pursue knowledge without assuming to know and hopefully realise a new humanity not filled only with the "hope" of catastrophe and holocaust but improvement within the human condition.

By Warren A. Lyon, Fleet Street Journal.

This article is based in the author's fourth Year Political Science Essay written at the University of Western, Ontario, 1994.