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You Can Only Ever Have a Mediated Immediacy

Aristotle and Hegel both say that you can only ever have a mediated immediacy. So even with your, your eyes, it's not like you're always looking through a veil or something like that. It's just you're always looked through your own subjectivity which is the mediation. Right? And so I think desire or your, your sort of phantasmatic frame that, that shapes the way that you desire, right? Yeah. That's all that that's as close as you can get to some form of mediation.

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