Let not the one hand see what the other doeth: On the one hand, morality seeks to purge itself of the animal; on the other hand, purging is animal. How does one dominate a reflex for domination?



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He who hesitates often wins the race of not being wrong.  With a little reticence the paralysis of Will can even claim genius. Given the absurdity of the many “opportunities” we pursue, in the comparison, it may even be genius to have just enough intelligence to be confused.

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Observation depends upon the inversion of the power ratio of self-to-deed: the ego must stop itself to see the crack in consciousness and remain small enough to secure the leverage.  


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Is it perhaps due to natural selection that our youth often crave “wicked” symbolism? Intelligence is not necessarily a moral event, but shouldn’t morality necessarily require our intelligent inspection of values? And if Morality has a duty to proceed intelligently, what do we call it when it outpaces our listeners' definition?  From their perspective, we double the sin: because their confidence in their moral sensibility is nonetheless unintelligible, they take the “incomprehensible” that exists beyond that sensibility as "our immorality" and compound it with what is rationally intelligible, as "our intent."  Fortunately, the sensibilities of our youth will carry some of the messages into the next age.
   

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