[size=115]The affirmation of life, and of world which includes it, begins with a negative…
Negation of other to establish self, and make awareness, discrimination, consciousness possible.
Negation of the experience of this process, felt as the temporary distraction and nullification of the sensation of need/suffering - stress of maintaining ordering within the Flux.
The negative relationship between ordering and disordering, or the need for predictable consistency, sustaining life and consciousness of it, in a world of increasing randomness.
The negative relationship between knowing and the unknown, or of any absolute in relation to the fluctuating.
The negative relationship between power and space/time; strength and growth.
The White Knight and his Preachers, must exit from this negativity, and find the light, the airy, the other-worldly, where all-inclusion validates, and certainty reigns.
The White Knight attracts the dull, the cowardly, and the simple to his side - the children, the women folk…the retarded.
Emotion, sensationalism, fantastic fantasy, the positivity of his relieving message, makes him admirable, to be valued, among those who cannot cope using their own devices.
The Knight of Darkness runs the risk of attracting the life-haters, the base and primitive, the desperate to stand out from within the herd they cannot distinguish themselves from.
Both are worshiped for different reasons, but the White Knight’s positivity makes him more prone to fall for the sensation rubbing against his vanity, and his desire to see the positive in all so that his own is not lost to him.
His motive is to bathe in the predictable feeling his message rewards him with.
In Christian faith the pretty words, and iconography, the soothing musical tones of lamentation, all offer such a reward…to the point where one forgets the absurdity the entire endeavor is founded on: the idea of a beginning requiring a Creator, and the subsequent deservedness of the flock to eternity in real reality.
The same can be said about any dogma offering flattering solutions to the indifference of the world.
Dig into the “positive”, in relation to human needs, and find there an absurdity covered over with words, and salves, and flowers, and good intentions.
A wake, for the sleeping.
The White Knight and his Preacher ask you to suspend doubt, skepticism, when ti comes to what feels good, and to show no remorse and exhibit stringent intellectual integrity to what does not.
The cynicism of the Dark Knight is his downfall.
He can never lord over the masses, and he will never be popular, not even among those who agree with him, and who cannot deny his message.
The Dark one is destined to be alone, adding another layer to his social needs, the light one is destined to be King among the inferior to him, which is no big feat; he feels alone among those he thinks little of but cannot speak honestly about, because without them he returns to being absurd, transparently needy, and invisible…as light [passes right through him. [/size]