Yes, this is a strange body we've been living in, all of us sort of suspended, kept carefully separate in sterile compartments and connected through the approved media. A human face, or at least a superficial smiling facade has to be pasted over the skull, to reassure you and keep you coming to the trough. In a similar manner, researchers will wear primate costumes or masks to feed the primate young.
This social body takes its shape both through violence and nurture. It hardens at the points in which violent fire breaks out, softens at the points in which a human reassurance is needed to maintain a structural, communicative integrity.
The center right and the center left are charged with the task of maintaining this body, while the far right and the far left lap at its edges, either to restore the body to a mythical state or reshape the body entirely.
The body is in constant adjustment, to maintain homeostasis against destabilizing forces coming from all directions. Softer here, harder there. The masculine impulse strikes with assured violence at the enemy, while the feminine impulse nurtures and maintains its shape. Both impulses maintain the body.
And so but what happens to this body as the destabilizing forces overwhelm its equalizing mechanisms?
All this esoteric talk is just a loose attempt to describe the forces of maintenance and destruction that shape and shear a civilization I guess. There's no easy way to explain any of it really, save writing a book, and even then...
