ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."
-- Ambrose Bierce

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The subtraction of gender from Eutopia

As said on occasion, "two things the female can do the male cannot is have and then feed children", but apparently, that is not self-sufficient, even in Eutopia, where the lady-folk can change sparkplugs as quickly as gents and without consideration for making cents, there is still a need for an invested deposit with interest. As a result, Eutopian children are the one difference calculated by addition rather than subtraction and without regard to any cancellation of zeros, making them the only difference which makes a difference and more, no matter how little of the furry future they're actually alloted. Were one to count orphans as such, we could truly proclaim a unified theory grand with distinction that is expressing a gut feeling mutually attractive, at least for the moment.

In our own foreign land, moments are scarce or tediously drawn out: the war is on going between synthetical genders in pursuit of congenial gentrification disguised as a "harmless" contract negotiation but with unwanted carry-overs made safe in the pen. There is nothing gentle about this genre until the gendarmes & generals are slammed against the barn at birth, a euphemic ex-posure for kidnapping an illegal adoption, aborting all distinction in the proliferation of difference and an end to all subtraction as a means to growth, where belonging is no longer a sexual question (or its economy) but equally baudy, taking life as they may in lieu of corpses or unwanted scarification. Such is thought overly-idealistic.

Even warfaring Athenians built statues of youth, to this day ill-conceived as pornography, despite the attribution of pagan idolatry. Sans one, another or any combination of parent, orphans and bastards must be parthenogenetic like gods stripped of power and canceled in the ratio. Take away increase and growth loses only the dimension of quantification. After all quality is no product of measurement and therefore under no orders from the competition. Hence the common nostalgia for superiority, ever mistook for a species, of payment as a hostile synthesis between iou and yom, unaware that bad is never genetically transcribed like crooked books and that is the reason every birth is a blank slate in need of no repentance of origin and obliged to none for giving, since innocence can be no more synonym of naiveté.

– see Ernestine G. D'Bordeaux, Theses on the Copula

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