{"id":10726,"date":"2026-07-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:59:48","slug":"looking-at-peter-burfeinds-book-2014-gnostic-america-part-10-of-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10726","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Peter Burfeind&#8217;s Book (2014) &#8220;Gnostic America&#8221; (Part 10 of 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4ce46a5127c093690683d4a381a2fba3\"><a>0163 What about the troubadours?&nbsp;&nbsp;What about modern Cultural Studies<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Troubadours sang of courtly love.&nbsp;&nbsp;The knight was in love with the Lady of the Big House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The love was not consummated, at least not according to the songs, because that would violate the repressive norms of the tribal&#8230; er, feudal tradition, as well as the church.&nbsp;&nbsp;So the knight pledged to defend the honor of the Lady.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Lady, in turn, silently pined for the knight.&nbsp;&nbsp;She carried a small token of him everywhere she went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0164 Oh, I can hear the mournful lyrics of unrequited love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0165 The knight is torn between his ego and his Self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His ego is&nbsp;<em>the part of him that swore fealty to the Lord of the Big House<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The knight\u2019s ego has to work to keep order for the Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp;He has to break up the occasional peasant brawls.&nbsp;&nbsp;He has to fight bandits.&nbsp;&nbsp;The peasants, of course, admire him for this.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is the only one who actually does stuff for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Self is&nbsp;<em>the part of him that resonates with the troubadour\u2019s song<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sophia has a word for him.&nbsp;&nbsp;That word is \u201chonor\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;He loves the Lady of the Big House.&nbsp;&nbsp;He yearns to defend her honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0166 Of course, the conflict may resolve in a tragic fashion.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Gnostic message may give way to the elitist model.&nbsp;&nbsp;The knight\u2019s Self may take charge.&nbsp;&nbsp;He may look down on&nbsp;<em>the Lord of the Big House<\/em>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<em>a stooge of royal traditions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0167 Here is the elitist model of this troubadour\u2019s tale:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide16-2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0168 There is comedy in this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The knight as an immaterial Self<\/em>&nbsp;is funny.&nbsp;&nbsp;The fellow has a horse, armor, and sword.&nbsp;&nbsp;He knocks the heads of peasants.&nbsp;&nbsp;He mortally wounds bandits.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet, he defines his person as&nbsp;<em>the Lady\u2019s unrequited love<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Actually, he defines himself in quiet opposition to&nbsp;<em>the Lord of the Big House<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0169 Is that goofy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0170&nbsp;<em>The knight as Self<\/em>&nbsp;mimics&nbsp;<em>the immaterial world contextualizing the material world<\/em>, just as&nbsp;<em>the honor of the Lady of the Big House<\/em>&nbsp;puts&nbsp;<em>the laws and traditions of feudal society<\/em>&nbsp;into perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0171 Yet,&nbsp;<em>the knight as Self<\/em>&nbsp;also puts&nbsp;<em>the Lord of the Big House<\/em>&nbsp;into a normal context.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Big House<\/em>&nbsp;is no longer&nbsp;<em>a human<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is&nbsp;<em>a thing, expressing material concerns<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is&nbsp;<em>a shell of evil matter<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Lord of the Big House<\/em>&nbsp;is merely&nbsp;<em>the puppet of the conditions that he was born into<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is&nbsp;<em>a slave to the feudal world\u2019s reality principles<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0172 Even though all&nbsp;<em>the characters in the troubadour\u2019s musical drama<\/em>&nbsp;are nominally Christian, the Gnostic infiltration affects more than the church.&nbsp;&nbsp;It penetrates the economic and military power structures in feudal society.&nbsp;&nbsp;Since feudal society subsists on loyalty oaths,&nbsp;<em>any knight who adopted Gnosticism<\/em>&nbsp;would be dangerous to his duke or lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0173 Here is a story that ended up as a troubadour\u2019s song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A duke<\/em>&nbsp;returns from a long and treacherous journey, doing the bidding of the king.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The lady of the big house<\/em>&nbsp;offers him a cup, a poisoned chalice.&nbsp;&nbsp;With one sip, the duke slumps on his throne.&nbsp;&nbsp;The duchess cries for help.&nbsp;&nbsp;Who arrives first, but&nbsp;<em>the dedicated knight?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0174 The troubadour sings, \u201cThe king\u2019s work was too much. The duke fell from&nbsp;<em>the overwhelming burdens of this evil and material world<\/em>. The knight claimed his soul mate and they flew to a spiritual union.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0175 If I were the duke\u2019s cousin, ruling a neighboring fiefdom, what would I think upon hearing the troubadour\u2019s song?&nbsp;&nbsp;My cousin was a person, not&nbsp;<em>some puppet of his royal conditioning<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was in fine health.&nbsp;&nbsp;The king\u2019s duties did not kill him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0176 Once the Self<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;puts&nbsp;<em>the superego [causes] the ego(id<sup>real<\/sup>)<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into&nbsp;<em>the box of actuality<\/em>&nbsp;and projects that immanent causality onto others, then the Self<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;has no constraints<sub>1b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural laws and traditional social norms<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;are no longer relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is&nbsp;<em>the logic behind Burfeind\u2019s observation that Gnostic theory never applies to the theoretician<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The damned actuality<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;of the elite Self<sub>3a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;has been packaged and sent to the Other<sub>2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Self<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;is now contextualized by Sophia<sub>2c<\/sub>, personified by the Lady of the Big House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0177 Now, consider today\u2019s Cultural Studies.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here is a typical presentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The behaviors of subject A<\/em>&nbsp;are determined by&nbsp;<em>social tradition A\u2019<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The (super-ego related) A\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;causes&nbsp;<em>the (ego-related) material concerns of A<\/em>, explaining&nbsp;<em>why objections to (the Self-promoting) policy B&nbsp;<\/em>are<em>&nbsp;merely artifacts of now-rejected cultural conditioning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0177 How does this match the troubadour\u2019s song?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Cultural Studies person<\/em>&nbsp;replaces&nbsp;<em>the knight as a Gnostic elite<sub>3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A fantasy-rich organizational objective, policy B<\/em>, replaces&nbsp;<em>the unattainable Lady of the Big House<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Policy B<\/em>&nbsp;puts&nbsp;<em>the natural laws and pre-\u201cscientific\u201d social norms<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;of subject A<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;into perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The concerns and behaviors of subject A<\/em>&nbsp;go into&nbsp;<em>the slot formerly reserved for the Lord of the Big House<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, subject A<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;has no idea what is going to happen to him on the basis of Policy B.&nbsp;&nbsp;Neither did the Lord of the Big House once the knight and his lady became Self-actualized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Folk theories based on the reality principle<\/em>&nbsp;replace id<sup>real<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gnostic scientific theories<\/em>&nbsp;replace id<sup>fantasy<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0178 Finally,&nbsp;<em>coming together through purely cultural accounts<\/em>&nbsp;replaces&nbsp;<em>the spiritual union of lover and beloved<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cultural studies propose that biological differences are irrelevant compared to cultural conditioning. This happens to be true in the case of race. But, race is&nbsp;<em>the rare exception<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, all cultural conditioning compares to racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0179 (Needless to say,&nbsp;<em>no faction of Christianity<\/em>&nbsp;has ever declared&nbsp;<em>belonging to a race<\/em>&nbsp;to be sinful.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is discussed in a&nbsp;<em>Primer on An Infrasovereign Religion<\/em>, number 8 in the series.&nbsp;&nbsp;Biology is not a moral decision.&nbsp;&nbsp;Biology sets&nbsp;<em>the stage for moral decisions<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0180 The resulting model looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide17-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0181 So, let me say this plainly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a cultural studies agent (whether in academics or on television) states that opposition to policy B is due to racism, this is a code for&nbsp;<em>a projection of \u2018the damned ego-actuality of the accuser\u2019 onto \u2018those who operate according to the reality principle\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elite Gnostic is really posturing, \u201cI am not like the ones I accuse. Plus, I cannot defend policy B on grounds of the reality principle.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, my support of policy B is&nbsp;<em>a signal that I am above the reality principle.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>I am<em>&nbsp;an expert compared to the dunces who oppose policy B<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0163 What about the troubadours?&nbsp;&nbsp;What about modern Cultural Studies? Troubadours sang of courtly love.&nbsp;&nbsp;The knight was in love with the Lady of the Big House. 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