Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything-anything-to defend ourselves against that return.

The explicit and the implicit are what we cannot see (culture) or what we cannot understand (chaos), namely existence, and together are the nonsense that is the mayhem.Everything is word. "Understanding" is the most acute of all the autocratic tomfoolery and magic trickery, thereby the bullshit archetype mythology, existence — in the establishment of existentialism as our incompleteness.

The tragic irony is that nonword, namely existence, is the error that is the chaos, and anything that implies existence or non-existence. Such implication (and all implication) is the error of action or agency that the error existence itself is.

But the rhetorical crime of politics in terms of such existence is that the structure of culture is something we cannot see, or what someone else has to see for us, so as to be able to act in a different kind of chaotic synthesis from its own different perspective.

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I discovered that beliefs make the world, in a very real way-that beliefs are the world, in a more than metaphysical sense. This discovery has not turned me into a moral relativist, however: quite the contrary. I have become convinced that the world-that-is-belief is orderly; that there are universal moral absolutes (although these are structured such that a diverse range of human opinion remains both possible and beneficial). I believe that individuals and societies who flout these absolutes-in ignorance or in willful opposition-are doomed to misery and eventual dissolution.

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The world as forum for action is composed, essentially, of three constituent elements, which tend to manifest themselves in typical patterns of metaphoric representation. First is unexplored territory-the Great Mother, nature, creative and destructive, source and final resting place of all determinate things. Second is explored territory-the Great Father, culture, protective and tyrannical, cumulative ancestral wisdom. Third is the process that mediates between unexplored and explored territory-the Divine Son, the archetypal individual, creative exploratory Word and vengeful adversary. We are adapted to this world of divine characters, much as to the objective world. The fact of this adaptation implies that the environment is in "reality" a forum for action, as well as a place of things.

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Rejection of the unknown is tantamount to "identification with the devil," the mythological counterpart and eternal adversary of the world-creating exploratory hero.