A  cautious perspective  reveals that   our fundamental temperament  is not an  individual or collective consciousness or any semblance of what we would call a mind.  We are savagely  unreasonable, scarier than Rosseau could  fetishize.  We are not engineered to be benign enthusiasts of nature.  We are Nature which appears to be Aggression.   If another inhabitant of this solar orbit only loses millions before we pause in its extinction, it is rare, and lucky. 

Primates have proven themselves the preeminent predators. There are hundreds of violent primate species whose engineering is 99.5% identical to ours.  Were they designed for matriculation at our finest universes or like W are they just misfortunate sideroads to progress.  My guess is that the monkey and W are closer in worldview to us  than we would like to believe.



We have no model or boundary to understand the limits of our own barbarity for the child from birth raised "free" is an unknown quantity.  Yet that true freedom comprised all of us for at least ten months.


It is a powerful memory.



Countless  species like bees, grazers or fish, have profited  from action as a group so to curb our own berserk, amoral impulses, our homo sapiens species has likewise developed mirroring media and labor disciplines to channel and structure our shameless depravity. 
 
And then hounded by an opportunistic howling organic soup which outweighs  the fragile lever on our own inhuman relish, we  anthropomorphize gods, dogs, cars, statues, ad infin. in order to concoct  a cuddly neighborhood.  We were born feral and whatever remains of that personality, after the layered behavioural modification of society, grinds out the compulsions underneath each of our personae.  Just ask Quentin.

Intellectual primates like Hegel and Marx hoped that history was Spirit moving through time, a fraudulent guess in our relative dimension where there are no complete theories or definite explanations.

Grasping religionists like W in desperation struggle with themselves,their children, others, and with their motives, for to their disgust they were born as base as the mantis, shark, or the greatest meateater.

Truth to Neitzsche is a changing multifaceted continuum. He despises thinkers who form resolute structural convictions without allowing for change.  In a world of eternal return and mutation, convictions will come and go.  "Convictions have no rights of citizenship, as is said with good reason."

There have been been as many grand theories as men throughout the ages, and Friedrich is not about to add to the heap.  Truth is an individual search which will necessarily find its own appropriate prospect.  Zarathustra  warns his followers not to adopt his teachings but to

"Go away from  me and resist Zarathustra!  And even better: be ashamed of him: Perhaps he has decieved you,

Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves: and only when you have denied me will I return to you,

You had not sought yourselves; and you found me.  Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to so little."

(1983)

Tamara lay on the ground and the spirit of God came upon her brother Amara and he took her.  Tamara felt the breath and was in  Heaven.  Then the winds of Yahweh came upon Amalek and he lay with Tamara and she was happy for she felt the spirit of the Lord inside her.  Then Haru the Strong saw Tamara and the Lord spoke to him and he took her and Tamara was happy but Haru felt the spirit leave him and he was ashamed.  Then his skin flaked and he was lepered.  The spirit of God then came upon Tamara and she slew him.

(October 1985)