[UA] Jacques Derrida, Antichrist

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

Lots of people seem to be popping up with ideas about magick based on
words.  Eerily, people even seem to be independently headed in the SAME
DIRECTION.  (Cany anyone say "steam engine time"?)  Now, if you're looking
for a central paradox for the use of language, you might not need to look
any farther than my least favorite literary movement,
deconstruction/post-structuralism.  Here's the paradox: language
communicates, but but it can never communicate perfectly.  When I say
"Jacques Derrida should get off his high fucking horse" I know what I mean,
but there's no way you can be sure EXACTLY what I mean.  Is the horse tall,
or intoxicated?  Is it fucking in a literal, or a figurative sense?
Everything becomes subjective and fuzzy, and the more you try to explain,
the more uncertainty creeps in.

On one hand, post-structuralism in small doses is a good reality check to
keep people from imposing their own bias on everything they read.  But on
the other hand, it's gone WAY too far into "nothing is true" territory for
my liking.  But it could fit into UA, I must admit...  Especially the idea
that words have arcane, secret connections based on sound more than
meaning.  Everyone FEELS that, which is why puns and rhymes resonate with
us so.  But no one accepts it as literally true.

-G.
Justice is a bit like sausage.  If you love either, you should never watch
it being made.