Structuring contradictions in thought have been offered up to replace structuring repression.

Concepts convey meaning in their relation or relative positioning with respect to one another. In this way is the immateriality of the concept made discernible, through the creation of friction that is obtained by placing at right angles contradictory propositions.

This friction can be generative of smoke, but Russell warned that this kind of ‘smoke from the hill’ is not to be taken as an indication of a real fire.

Rather the intention is only to remind us that attributes we give to phenomena in order to understand them should not be confused as really belonging to those phenomena, and that it’s possible to be further separated from knowing the nature of a thing if we rely excessively on structuring contradictions or supports in order to understand them. This is how thought exercises can be used as aids in governance and guidance.

Yet, when you claim you are for the preservation of Buddhist values that are mere expressions or iterations among many, and this in defense of actions that bring degradation to the spirit itself, all of this is legible in the end, upon crystallization. Not only this, it is revealing of a declining, desperate spirit to go the familiar and more expedient route of structuring repression than that of structuring contradictions in thought.

The continued reification or idolatry of outmoded concepts rests not on indifference but on the active marshalling of collective velleities.

The existence of a collective new sensibility is discoverable on the basis of coincidences. As intransitive verb, coincide is defined as “to occupy the same relative position or the same area in space.” To make coincide, to fabricate synchronicity, to engineer events so that they are considered in relation to each other.   

Today that conceptualization is largely self-evident and has even been passed over by those who have sought to rearrange these definitional lines, though perhaps less haphazardly.

Where a shared experience of past loss binds a collective more strongly, this is owing to the gathering up of the weakest impulses. While resistance of weak lines should fall off upon abstraction, thus effecting a restoration of indeterminacy with respect to their origin or their fate, they can also be used to fabricate collective demand. The trompe l’oeil demonstrates that conceptual space can effect a real pull where one is inclined to believe in it, further aided by the appeal to familiarity through intuitive definitions.

In this way do collective soul lines cohere in response to a shared memory of loss as experienced by the collective.

From another perspective, access to this awareness of a collective past by any successor or non-successor only requires the suspension of judgement regarding the past from a privileged perspective of present understanding, it is said. Here awareness is contra consanguinity, contra continuity or progress of said past as that which is to be re-instantiated along blood lines, to be claimed or else suffered in a genetically traceable and predetermined way.

According to Lacan’s literary analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, ritual sacrifice is made to answer for insufficient mourning under conditions of collective madness. But if Freudian analysis was ill-suited to diagnose Hamlet’s condition, as Lacan maintained, this wouldn’t have been because sacrifice was determined as too savage. Rather it could be that Hamlet represented a certain sensibility that prevented him from directly mourning his own death. Perhaps by the time of Freud’s bourgeois patients this condition of modesty no longer obtained. It’s worth considering what shifts could account for these two sensibilities in terms of how one either successfully wields or else is left to fall on his own sword. There is also the related question of whether self-sacrifice is considered sufficient these days to keep the trains running on time, or whether there remains a positively mournful cast within the smallest of sovereign spaces unless a primitive ritual aspect is staged.

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