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[Here, of course, I must place my own mea culpa.
What I am doing surely seems to be a fixation. Look at this blog. Who in their right mind would blog on a short theological treatise written by a now forgotten Dutch theologian?
I certainly operate within the parameters of my own dispositions. I cannot claim a truly free conscience. I always feel the call of a multitude of causes. But these causes are magical. They do not seek sovereign power. They seek the laughter of the festival. Lighten up. Have some fun. Do not be so intense.
These multitudinous causes should not be confused with religious causes, even though they may be accounted for by some religious institution. They are play filled, like Disney’s Magic Kingdom. They do not hold the possibility of grasping sovereign power. Perhaps, someday there will be a word for these phantasmagorical beings, a word that differs from the term “religion”.
The Sovereign does not need to maintain order in Disney’s Kingdom. Unless, of course, a sovereigninfra religion motivates it to do so.
My play – my joy – is running around the landscape that Peirce discovered a century ago. His joy – his madness – was to clear that field. He called it “semiotics”. I call it “postmodern scholasticism”.
At the same time, I wonder whether I will see the joy of freedom crushed, like a bird in a fist, as it has so many times before. Look at American Television in 2013. It pretends to be our friend, while, at the same time, condescends and manipulates. In fact, people on television claim to speak for me. They tell me what I should think in order to me to be their friend.
The instruments of pro-objects occupy seats of sovereign power. The television, that new way of talking, tells us “what we want to hear”. I have a sickening feeling, culled from history, about where this will lead. The Final Option (perhaps, the inevitable consequence of of a Single Payer Healthcare System) will be only one example of a Final Impenitence on a scale that dwarfs the individual as well as our imagination.
This topic, I suspect, Schoonenberg will tentatively approach. Stay tuned.
And so I conclude my blogs on section 5, chapter 1, entitled: “Sin Unto Death – Mortal Sin – Venial Sin”.]