"Without some contradiction, there would be no desire to change lanes; indeed, no desire to drive, to eat, to even live a life. Contradiction is the essential law governing human interactability with the wider world; it powers everything we do and will do."
I was curious through the article if you would address how this interacts with the vision that societal contradiction disappears. How do you see or conceptualize that?
I think I agree with the premise that contradiction is the engine that drives people, but in that case, is it truly correct to desire a society without contradiction? And where exactly do we draw the line between something like individual contradiction to society wide contradiction?
The desire and impetus to seek the abolition of contradiction is a noble goal, for I don't think we can avoid its abolition, just as I think we cannot avoid the Revolution or anything else. It would be crazy to actually achieve it, and indeed be so alien a world as to attempt to describe it, as I did, ventures quickly into the realm of seeming science fiction. But the insanities of the future become the present reality; the Moon was just a pale dot streaking along the night sky, forever out of reach, until we landed on it. Insanities become inanities, that too is a universal truth across history.
As to why I didn't tackle this in the piece itself:
1) you could say I need an editor :p
2) I see myself as nothing else than a fellow mortar layer in the foundation walls of theory. I lay my piece down and wait for others to add or detract from it. Then, I observe the outer piece in inner contemplation, and then move to make further additions and subtractions. This is the duty of all fellow mortar layers, from Marx and his precursors and all those who came after, myself included (if I could be so bold as to be included!)
"Without some contradiction, there would be no desire to change lanes; indeed, no desire to drive, to eat, to even live a life. Contradiction is the essential law governing human interactability with the wider world; it powers everything we do and will do."
I was curious through the article if you would address how this interacts with the vision that societal contradiction disappears. How do you see or conceptualize that?
I think I agree with the premise that contradiction is the engine that drives people, but in that case, is it truly correct to desire a society without contradiction? And where exactly do we draw the line between something like individual contradiction to society wide contradiction?
The desire and impetus to seek the abolition of contradiction is a noble goal, for I don't think we can avoid its abolition, just as I think we cannot avoid the Revolution or anything else. It would be crazy to actually achieve it, and indeed be so alien a world as to attempt to describe it, as I did, ventures quickly into the realm of seeming science fiction. But the insanities of the future become the present reality; the Moon was just a pale dot streaking along the night sky, forever out of reach, until we landed on it. Insanities become inanities, that too is a universal truth across history.
As to why I didn't tackle this in the piece itself:
1) you could say I need an editor :p
2) I see myself as nothing else than a fellow mortar layer in the foundation walls of theory. I lay my piece down and wait for others to add or detract from it. Then, I observe the outer piece in inner contemplation, and then move to make further additions and subtractions. This is the duty of all fellow mortar layers, from Marx and his precursors and all those who came after, myself included (if I could be so bold as to be included!)