Christianity operates through a lack: we cannot know God, so a “gap” must be filled between God and Humans. Christ is God splitting from 1 into 2, allowing us to identify and get closer to the mystery of God, but in so doing, Christ was subjected to the filth of this world. (Zizek)
The reversal of the one God splitting into two (only to mysteriously re-unify us) is the process of poop: taking all values and reducing them into one homogenous, non-mysterious pile. (Bataille)
Growth can occur from this filth (otherwise known as manure), producing roses. Beauty from secular waste, rather than an excessive effort towards mysteries that only slip away as you approach them. (Hegel)
{{This is a continuation of Step 74: Symbolic Victory}}
https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-75-holy-to-holy-s/
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0:00 Introduction to this episode.
- Introduction to the episode.
- How symbols create a mystery which drives us.
1:16 Limitations of the self and the symbolic unknowable.
- The gap between being human and achieving the transcendental.
- The symbolic unknowable and god's sacrifice.
3:41 How we identify with the filth and alienation. 3:41
- God forces himself to become a fragment of himself.
- The shape of conflict.
5:30 The fragmentation of the monolith.
- Division creates a distance in the one god.
- The holy nature of shit.
7:30 Moving the sacred to the secular.
- Moving the sacred to the secular in pop culture.
- Non-mysterious, non-motivation unification.
9:39 Solving the mystery leads to more mysteries.
- The attempt to resolve the mystery is the point of failure.
- Mimetic desire, scapegoating and sacrifice.
12:16 How mimetic desire works.
- Mimetic desire and the hedonic treadmill.
- The steam valve of society is sanctioned murder.
13:41 Moving from the real to the symbolic.
- Moving from the real to the symbolic for stability.
- The egyptians and their claims to permanence.
15:29 We shun the real shit and believe bullshit.
- We shun the real shit and believe the bullshit.
- The beauty of the poop pile.
