Yes I like this. The world is a crucible in which elements are separated by their purities. And the world is large enough still that such separated things can still mingle and mix around with each other, to meta-crucible effect whereby both the high and the low can become enriched, often in spite of themselves.
It is a strange and difficult logic, the transition from the negative to the positive. So much of what we are remains unconscious even while we are using it. It was recently pointed out to me by someone that while Nietzsche's existentialism was good, his metaphysics were shit... to which I replied, Yes perhaps, but Nietzsche was already-always grounded implicitly in an upright metaphysical relationship, even though (and perhaps precisely because) he didn't or couldn't explicate that directly, coherently into his concepts, and he needed to some extent push aside metaphysics in order to focus on developing within the existentia. At which point I was accused of being a "postmodern, Marxist, jargon-user" etc etc.. Ha.
Much easier to be good than to become good. This is a formula for naturally refusing the negative. What does this say about modern humanity today, which attracts the negative at least as much as it repels it? Nietzsche was right about the great world-historical process of human transformation. Things get confused when we forget the larger scope and purview, the super-process of which individual moments in space and time are but pieces, stages toward some end/s. Maybe the individual is a microcosm.
Subject: 12 types of human negation 
Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:16 pm
