In my research about the 'western' social imagination which is opposite to eastern if you know what I mean in terms of civilization and geography, I proved what Max Weber posited. Which is that western man is about mastery or rejection and or both of the world as he/she finds it. This is so true especially in light of American Manifest Destiny.
Man moved from his spiritually socio-political polluted home in Europe and set out to free him/herself from it only to reset it abroad in a vast new landscape. In those early days, the new Euro man/woman was essentially doing what he/she does now... customizing the land and their personhood in/on it. Oh, the great so called pioneer. Since that time, we have effectively run out of frontier... we have turned on ourselves.
We have turned on our own minds and body seeking to customize them as we did to the land and concept of personhood in/on it. This is the last frontier and most likely such behavior will ultimately lead to self destruction.
What do I mean by customization of the self? I mean the agenda to self describe, self decorate, self-proclaim, self-determine, self-adjust, self-motivate, and self love. Now, make no mistake... I am not suggesting that communism is the answer. That is a different kind of self as the State. A monster selfie of unimaginable proportion.
The customization of the self as described here is a destruction of the self God created as He intended. Whether you believe or not...preferring evolution is not the problem. Self destruction will still come at the rate of customization.
There is only one upside 'eternal life' for those that believe that there is a Creator who loves them and is the only one who can save them from such destruction. Those that prefer evolution will meet death without hope of resurrection. And, you may ask... to what will anyone be resurrected to? Eternal life wherein the self will be fully satisfied with itself.
So, if you are customizing yourself these days... repent/rethink it and learn to love yourself as God created you. Now you may ask, isn't customizing yourself just being you and if you get others to agree that you have a right to do that then everyone is somehow the same in terms of customizing. Isn't that agreement reality?
Yes and no. Yes, because agreement is the key to reality; and no, because its not just about agreeing with yourself and imagining that you have a right to get others to agree with you because you are just being yourself. Rather, its knowing yourself as an individual within a group who has the right to be recognized as such but not as an island of unrecognizable customized selfish behavior.
The more viable and stable social agreement reality is about being a member of a body having essential parts that when they function accordingly, they equal the same thing which is one recognizable body of recognizable parts.
As of right now, as of today, we seem to only agree that everyone has a right to be themselves whatever that is and there is no one body for anyone to be a member of. See what I mean? Now, of course you can make the argument that someone can be itself as a thing (as in recognizable as a 'thing' or recognizable unto it self as a thing) but would such a thing even recognize itself as a self or a thing after such unique or even radical customization?
I am talking about the utter and total destruction of the self as created by God for becoming a thing that can be only recognized as a thing but what kind of thing is anyone's guess. In sum, we can probably agree that we have finally reached the end of ourselves... the end of Manifest Destiny having turned on ourselves in such a way there is no destiny to have.
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