In HUMAN ALL TOO HUMAN (SHAMANIC DOUBLING)

I note that Nietzsche speaks about an imperious inner force that makes one sick whenever one does not follow one's inner task. One has to get back in tune with it, otherwise one gets sick. One must burden oneself more heavily in order NOT to succumb. This inner knowledge is fundamental to human development. How different is the contemporary philosophy of popping a pill for what ails you.

 Lonely henceforth and badly mistrustful of myself, I then took sides, not without indignation, against myself and for everything that hurt and was hard just for me: thus I found the way again to that courageous pessimism which is the opposite of an idealistic mendaciousness, and also, it seems to me, the way to myself, to my task ... That hidden and masterful something for which we long do not have a name, until finally it proves itself to be our task—this tyrant in us wreaks horrible revenge for every attempt we make to dodge or escape it, for every premature resignation, for every acceptance of equality with those among whom we do not belong, for every activity, however respectable, which distracts us from our main cause—indeed, for every virtue which would protect us from the hardness of our innernost responsibility. Every time, sickness is the response when we want to doubt our right to our task, when we begin to make things easier for ourselves in any way. Strange and at the same time terrible! It is the easing of our burden which we must atone most harshly! And if we want to return to health afterward, we have no choice: we must assume a heavier burden than we ever carried before ...

(EMPHASIS MINE)
http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/ncw/ncw.htm 

A deity will sort them out

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Re.  This: "It’s completely ridiculous that the Trayvon Martin case is confusing people so much. An unhinged hysteric shot a person. Who cares what anybody called anybody else or what the victim’s friend looks like? We should all stop being so kind and understanding towards hysterics."

that attitude, regarding any sort of injustice, has become the norm.  the attitude of "everybody has a point and is entitled to feel as they do, unless of course we do not like you", just goes on and on.

bourgeois psychology

Schizoid personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well it is not impossible that Marechera has a little of the SPD in him, but if so I am inclined to think that this could have been the texture of his life, rather than what directed his overall existence. More likely he used psychodelics to achieve the basic format for his stories.

I still see a certain logic of intellectual and artistic integrity as the driving force of his life. How does one keep it together when everything around is looking bad? Does a bit of SPD actually help one to do so? Yet, Marechera spoke of the thickness of his skin wearing thin through constantly having to beg. Clearly, he acknowledges the reality of social norms.

Still he spoke of how people and other things became 'unreal' to him after his father's death. This sense of keeping the real world and one's fantasy world apart is a feature of SPD.

Then, another contra-indicator: What stands out for me in Marechera's writing is a very strong sense of human psychology, of the ways in which we emotionally function. In the way that I read him, he hits the nail on the head psychologically, again and again - he is IN TUNE with human emotion. That is to say that his writing shows that he is excruciatingly aware of the precise nature of emotional effect that various configurations of events can have on others. Indeed, he often uses the knowledge that comes from his deep emotional awareness to shock people. His acute sense of dramatic timing and irony would not be possible if he were truly "depersonalised" (according to SPD) -- and crazy.

Against such a simple psychiatric approach, I would like to suggest that with regard to the whole detachment from social life aspect that is apparently a feature of SPD, it is important to recognise that cultural alienation can really do a number on you. I know with regard to my own case that my whole sense of humour, my way of making light of the bad situation I felt myself to be in (that is, the situation of being culturally alienated and feeling a gap in 'making sense' between what I was doing and what would have liked to do) was misread in a way that I totally did not intend it.  (haha) When the heavy fist of judgment descends against the wryness of your sense of humour, casting it as a character defect, then the shock of the unexpectedness of this kind of judgment can bring about a feeling of powerful detachment from a society that judges one thus.

And yet, once one has at last adapted to even a bad cultural situation, one is changed forever through the process of relearning about oneself. One can never, as the same person, go home again.

Talk about inner exile!

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The wilderness and the philosophy

Subjectivity without an up-down relationship

Tribute to Julia Gillard, first female PM of Australia

From Hegel to Bourdieu and back again, as necessary

Australia: Infantile social dynamics, infantile politics

Aussie genitalia (especially male misogynist genitalia) exposed

Sexist abuse in Australia

Julia Gillard: Australian blokes have done their country down - Telegraph

Then there was the recent fund-raiser for another senior opposition figure, Mal Brough, where a menu produced for the restaurant owner said it served “Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail – small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box”. The next day she was asked live on air by radio host Howard Sattler if her partner Tim was gay. Just imagine. That question was asked of the prime minister of Australia. It took me back to Britain in the 1980s, where a largely successful battle was fought to end the use of racist or sexist abuse in public discourse. Australia is 30 years behind......

The irony is that, though she could have done so, Gillard never sought to gain advancement in her career by playing on being a woman. She ended up reaping all the disadvantages and none of the benefits. And it was only late in the day of her career, in that extraordinary speech, that she spoke the truth about misogyny in words that men and women alike in Australia and beyond knew to be true. She may just, as she said in a valedictory speech that was typical of her calm reason, have made it easier for the next woman prime minister of Australia.

Irony, African humor and boxing techniques

AQUARIUM

I really like being, about to be 45

Indelibly.

I suppose everybody has a time which is theirs.  Middle age seems to be related to my own genetic picking.  I can be me, arrivedly.

To be unwritten...to have unwritten....no meaning granted to youthful images or ideals.

I like the formulated structure.  I've written everything down.  Written stuffs.   My face also has a written quality.  The video in which I like myself best looks most etched.  I hadn't slept too much the night before as I'd taken an antihistamine (now deemed to give me sleepless nights) and I'd been reflecting the whole night on Julia Gillard's fall from power.  That video reveals my intense philosophical disposition.

What's clear is that, had patriarchy inscribe on me, I'd be in a lot of trouble right about now.  It didn't write me as I wrote myself.

Most people don't get to live their ideals, but I've made things work out perfectly.  I've solved all my intellectual queries, resolved all the psychological issues, married happily, sans child.

I've pursued, pretty much, a military and sexual dimension...of reality.   I like those things because I like them.

The English language doesn't please me even now, but here it is.

I like stuff I've created, not so much the stuff I didn't fucking do.

tireless misogny

From the outset, her detractors launched on her gender as a weakness - and it was. The opposition never let the public forget her gender and the media crucified her. Rhetoric and vitriol that even the caustic conversation of Australian politics would not allow of a male leader was unleashed with a rare bodily hatred.
Opposition MPs reminded the public that the childless and unmarried Gillard was "deliberately barren". The opposition leader and members of his shadow cabinet stood in front of protest signs describing the PM as a "bitch" and "witch". Radio commentators suggested her beloved father "died of shame" and that she should be "dumped in a chaffbag and thrown out to sea" and asked, to her face, if her partner was gay. She was criticised after showing her cleavage in parliament, and even Germaine Greer appeared on television to say that Gillard's "arse was fat". She was scrutinised for what she wore, for her past lovers, held up to ridicule for liking to knit. Opposition MPs appeared at dinners where her "small breasts, big thighs and red box" were literally on the menu. A chaffbag was auctioned at a Young Liberal dinner. Some opposition MPs even physically bullied her in a Parliament House hallway.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10143834/Julia-Gillard-ousted-by-sexism-Achievement-does-not-equal-respect-if-youre-a-woman.html

violence and transformation

 I'd had a sleepless night before making the second half of this video the next day. I think the stimulant in my antihistamine kept me up, so I spent the whole night thinking about Gillard's demise.

Pestilence

It's deep in our subconscious--the whole Christian version of things. Maleness is ultimately righteous, even though susceptible to normal human weakness and sin. Femaleness is devious and corrupt (Eve in the garden). So we keep replaying this myth again and again, and the wrong people get rewarded and others suffer

The worst thing is, it rings true. If someone points out that a random woman is weak, we instinctively feel it to be true -- without having to know the facts.

The game of politics

This is the most vile, despicable, man in Australian politics, willing to stoop to any act for his personal benefit. We must ensure we never see his like again.

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  Margaret Pereira With Rudd as prime minister he's on a level playing field defined in his own sexist terms, so it will be interesting to see his performance. He's used sexism and negativity to conceal his own lack of policies, now his inadequacies and the true extent of his misogynistic treatment of Julia Gillard will be revealed.

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong Yes, I think that restorative dynamic will come into play. However, patriarchal attacks are notorious for being invisible, even long after they have occurred.

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  Margaret Pereira True, but I think it is important to watch his performance and constantly, and publicly, place it in the context of his previously displays of misogyny and his vicious sexist attacks on the Julia. We cannot afford to lose sight of this - not just in terms of Abbott as a potential PM but also for learning lessons about how misogyny works.

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong There are already trolls dressed up as sophisticated news reporters who are using misogynist slurs. What is a misogynist slur, you might ask? Well it is the suggestion that a person might be "uncomfortable with authority".

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong They try to get you with the double bind. If Gillard was uncomfortable with babies, because she did not embrace the typical feminine role, this implies she is uncomfortable with her role as PM, which means she was not comfortable accommodating a femi...See More

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  Margaret Pereira I hadn't considered much how these trolls present combine the gender role with the PM role. They certainly distort anything important and have little or no integrity, but I see what you mean about the double bind.

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong Not just trolls, but journalistic commentators. Of they deliberately misunderstand some small point, like "The Real Julia", which had to do with the well known fact that all VIPs have image consultants

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong One of these journalist trolls emoted: "Ah but she blamed her image consultants instead of taking responsibility". The suggestion that perhaps she was not taking responsibility implies she is a child...women are children, etc. another gender slur

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  Margaret Pereira That's so patronising and I don't believe Abbott would ever have been spoken about in those terms.

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  Margaret Pereira I see what you mean

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong It's quite a subtle put down actually. When I unpack it, you can see how patronising it really is

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  Margaret Pereira What about Abbott constantly deferring to Margie and his girls to deal with suggestions that he's a misogynist. Surely that is a lack of responsibility.

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong of course it is. Hiding behind the woman's petticoat

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  Margaret Pereira Yet hating women at the same time. He's intimidated, yet totally dependent on women's strength.

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong In any case, takedowns in politics happen when the opposition latches onto some irrelevant data and makes it center stage

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong Thing is, people won't see things as they are because of the image, in the back of their heads, of all all powerful male God. It's cultural conditioning

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  Margaret Pereira For sure, just a way to create something that doesn't necessarily exist.

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  Jennifer Frances Armstrong A skilled politician will keep a cool head about these attacks, realizing they are without substance. But unfortunately, we have the general populace, who do not realize that this is all a game

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