Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

he doesnot believe in it. StavroginWhen. the Devil has been done away
with Punch exults to the audienceThe Devil is. dead Now everyone can
do as he likesBut what will the human race do once. free of any belief It
willeither fullfill itself egoistically obeying an. exclusive
sovereignindividualism (Stirner) or do so collectively by. setting out on
along historical course as in Marx or it will shift its. sights tothe
superhuman through a transvaluation of the values of the. species this is
the path marked out by Nietzsche who argued that the. humanrace
cannot be left to itself but must aim beyond itself and discoverthe. great
metamorphosis that of becoming... Nietzsche has writtenmagnificently.
of the vital illusion not of the 'worlds beyond' butof the illusion of.
appearances of the forms of becoming of the veiland indeed all the.
veils which happily protects us from theobjective illusion the illusion.
of truth... Needless to say thistransvaluation... has not taken place.
except precisely in theopposite sense... A transvaluation folding in
upon. itself towards anondifferentiation a nondistinction of values
itself. fetishized inan aestethics of plurality of difference etc. Not any.
longer afetishization of divinities great ideas or grand narratives but.
ofminimal differences and particles... This dedifferentiation of
thehuman. and the inhuman this reabsorption of the metaphor of life
intothe metastasis. of survival is effected by a progressive reduction
tothe lowest common. denominator.The Crocodile was a late arrival in
the story and has now been. animportant character for about a hundred
years. First he was a dragonwhich. eventually became a crocodile.
Perhaps the idea of a crocodilebecame firmly. established after children
had been frightened by theCrocodile in Peter. Pan. The Ghost is seen
occasionally still.Originally the Ghost of Judy. it is now just any old
ghost. Who was Pulcinella or as he is sometimes. called Pollicinella
orPulicinella His role was primarily that of a servant. as indeed wasthat
of Harlequin and he was obviously a comedian. He. wore anartificial
nose potbelly and hump all calculated to make. theaudience laugh and
he was the mixture of jollity and cruelty wit. andstupidity just as Punch
is today.The PunchTrickster concept embodies. notions of
antiestablishmentarianism buffoonery and shamanism. that
reflectattributes of the creative individual functioning in an.
authoritarianethos the late s bucking the system inverting.
valuesAssuming an ubuique persona and balancing precariously on a.
monocycle PunchTrickster pedals blindly into an unknown future
fendingoff. unseen adversaries with an ineffectual weapon. The
sculpture is. aconcretisation of a state of mind or an existential
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