{"id":1516,"date":"2015-01-22T01:17:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:00:02","slug":"beneath-the-veil-of-strange-verses-by-jeremiah-l-alberg-2013-4d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Veil of Strange Verses by Jeremiah L. Alberg 2013 4D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to contemplate the effects of passing to our own times from the timeless realm of evolutionary history, to unconstrained complexity from constrained complexity, to our comedic and unreasonable conundrum from biological adaptation, to mimesis<sup>unconstrained<\/sup> from mimesis<sup>constrained<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>When individuals today mimic (the desires of) Nietzsche, playing the role of Zarathustra, the ultimate \u201cgolden calf\u201d (a Socratic Dionysian visionary exclusively worthy of imitation), they (competitively) pursue the opportunity to gain the status of \u201cthe one who sacrifices for the \u2018object\u2019 that we all relate to\u201d.\u00a0 In doing so, they heroically parody the more ancient than \u201cancient\u201d adaptive aspiration, characterizing our distant ancestors, to sacrifice everything for the sake of the \u201cobject that brings us into relation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We may call the resulting social construction, in all its manifestations, \u201cmodern art\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When people today mimic (the desires of) Rousseau, playing the role of the theoretical man, the social scientist who is well aware of the ridiculousness of sacrifice, they (competitively) pursue the opportunity to gain the status of \u201cthe one who sacrifices for the \u2018object\u2019 that we all relate to\u201d. 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