Confinement
A
certain modernity was gradually constituted by buckling the human
realm on itself. The entire system wanted to function in enclosure.
For the first time since man exists a cultural system claims to be
closed in absolute autonomy. It wants to function and progress in
self-sufficiency and to be by auto-creation. This means that from now
on man wants to be the creator of the whole 'hot source' of all his
spiritual energy. With his total sense locked up in immanence and in
total finiteness. Forgetting his inescapable entropy. Forgetting his
'cold well'. Forgetting his accumulators yet not completely
discharged but in danger of getting so and of reducing to nothing his
claims of autonomy.
Absurdity
comes from enclosure.
When the schizoid existence remains without
bond
with the total being, without
bond
with the total reason, without
bond
with the total Sense. All that is left is a broken being where absurdity fills up the interstices. All that is left is the impossible task to gather the pieces of the burst reason.
The
anthropocentric
schizoid disorder by which modernity comes to itself wants to buckle
its autonomy in total enclosure. For the first time since man exists,
the human-producing system functions by giving itself its 'hot
source', that is by warming up the hot source of his sense and
of his significances and also by reloading continually his
semantic accumulators. The 'hot source' and the 'cold well' of the
living sense are locked up in absolute finiteness. The total sense is
thus produced exclusively from immanence
inside an enclosure.
But at the same time it has to endorse the 'cold well' of the
production of its semantic entropy. Rise of absurdity, bizarre,
disenchantment, despair…
Of
course, even in its extreme enclosure our modernity does not cease
taking part, often more unconsciously than consciously, with some
'transcendence'. Without this subterfuge it could not survive a long
time without succumbing to asphyxiation. Thus the rupture with the
'hot source' is never totally consumed. And especially the
accumulators are never completely discharged.
Why
do civilizations die?
The reason should not be different from that which governs the dead of
any live system. You can state in a very simple way. A
living being dies when it is locked up and, being caught in its
enclosure, succumbs to its entropy.
The
allegory
of the Cave
emphasizes the basic essentials. Authentic humanity cannot mix up its
'oïkos' with a cave. When being enclosed, the spiritual energy
of authentic humanity can only succumb to entropy and be degraded.
Alas we live in the illusion of an infinitely growing opening that we
grant to ourselves. See our 'freedom'. Without regulation, without
constraint, without a home… just a tramp! By buckling us on our
enclosed possibilities we buckle ourselves into absurdity. You have to open
the human space on the infinity of God. Only then a large space for hope opens. Here the impossible Devil
of Maxwell
must yield his place to the Angel of grace.
By
which miracle the human realm buckled on itself wouldn't he succumb
to its entropy? Our modernity lives in the illusion of such a
miracle. Obnubilated by our huge possibilities we believe that
humanity can be by itself and for itself its own 'hot source'. Why
man, producer of tools, producer of texture, producer of text,
wouldn't he also be producer of what comes to him from elsewhere, by
grace?
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