the missing thing that is completely different from everything else, but everything has a stake in it.

the ball philosophy passed to US: the mortification of the word


Western philosophy fully intellectualized the materiality of thought until it found the chemical correlate of every spiritual state.  Philosophy began to bleed into empirical science.  At the pinnacle of transcendence lies incarnation and corporeality. 

The word must be true to the word for the word to be true to the world. Mechanical principles apply in both cases. The word is the last frontier, and then maybe it will be done -- the mortification and crucifixion of the last free floating transcendental ideal -- and we can finally transcend the need to crucify transcendence.  But first philosophy must face the fact that it can only sit on its hands for so long, and then it must make a move.  

Here's the next move, our move, because academic philosophy won't do it: Philosophy must stoop to get its fingernails dirty with the mechanics of language in all its messy murky manners in situ, soaked to the bone in history, unable to be disinterred from itself. It must speak in the vernacular tongue, which is to rise up to it, not just bend down to it.  It must don a blue collar over its white one and lie on its back on the cold garage floor and slide under the vehicle with a full set of tools in hand.  Keep diving deeper into the mongrel discourse, and this will make more and more sense.

The word must be true to the word for the word to be true the world.