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.
1:16 Limitations of the self and the symbolic unknowable.
3:41 How we identify with the filth and alienation. 3:41
5:30 The fragmentation of the monolith.
7:30 Moving the sacred to the secular.
9:39 Solving the mystery leads to more mysteries.
12:16 How mimetic desire works.
13:41 Moving from the real to the symbolic.
15:29 We shun the real shit and believe bullshit.
