Let’s watch “Battlestar Galactica” or “Star Wars” together
and immediately we are met with an image that denies humanity, for humanity did
not evolve, but has existed forever. “A long time ago in a galaxy far away.”[1]
Instead it has suffered tremendous turns of fate. These are Christian concepts no doubt. Can we both accept the evidence of evolution
and enjoy “Star Wars” as simply a moral allegory (I puke a little in my mouth
at the thought)?
My body is a vestige of eternity, in a poetic sense, that
what made it has been handed down throughout myriad differentiations but by
continual selection and repetition. At
some profound level, I am a single-celled organism. How did organic life begin,
I have to ask myself, and I do not know.
How did what is non-organic give life to the organic?
But even this is a diversion, a reinscription of the anxiety
of nothingness and a clinging to some unique quality that differentiates us
from the whole of what is.
Whereas, we are quite unique, albeit meaningless. What we know now we will never know again,
yet our pretensions to knowledge will leave this past moment powerless to be
anything other than ignorance.
[1]
Yes, I said denies humanity, for although humans may have existed since time
immemorial, they are no longer mammals part of a natural universe, but a form
transhistorical. Therefore, they are no
animal, but Godhead.
1 comment:
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