I set myself up as the satanic accuser, a demonic spirit of retribution, trying to dig-out nobility from those who lived in shame; wanting to manipulate what preachers and rabbis had turned into guilt to agitate the labouring spirit.
Then, I discovered how shameless the world was, using shame only to escape its audacity, and realized how alien to nobility the average man remains, and how words, for such as them, are but a means of detachment from themselves, and their shameless existence.
Never let the shameless ones burden you with their shame.
“Earning” is the sacrifice that bestows sacredness.
Shame & Guilt were not invented by Abrahamism, or any ideology, or spiritual dogma; they were weaponized, used as a tool to manipulate and exploit, honed on the whetstone of lies. Christians, in particular, used a hypothetical primordial event to shame and seed guilt among its minions. Just as it promoted a false and duplicitous conception of free-will, they manipulated a natural emerging insecurity – produced by an emerging self-awareness – offering the recompense of a possible relief through total submission and a symbolic sacrificing of oneself.
Shame – in the Pagan sense – denotes a holding oneself accountable, not to an external will but to one’s own principles, one’s own ancestors, values, ideals.
One does not feel guilty about some event that occurred without his participation, nor his consent, but one feels guilty when he fails to live-up to his own standards, or when he actively disappoints his own conception of himself.
In the Biblical allegory of Adam & Eve we can find the roots of what later developed into a nihilistic psychosis, now being manipulated by a parasitical meme.[size=60] [ MANifesto: Word Wars – Diagnosis – Virus-Meme – Parasite-Meme][/size]
‘Adam & Eve’s awakening to their own nakedness’ is a metaphorical way of saying that they became self-conscious.
Self-Consciousness is where nihilistic psychosis germinates and develops its defensive ideologies.
Animals do not feel self-conscious because they are only conscious of otherness, of an external world, so they cannot feel ashamed. Only a species that can perceive itself in relation to world – and to the degree that it can do so – can feel vulnerability (insecurity), and the pangs of guilt and shame. Let’s keep in mind that all value-judgements are juxtapositions; animals are trapped in their subjectivity. To become conscious of oneself presupposes the ability to noetically juxtapose this growing self-awareness with that of an awareness of world, which precedes it, or of another consciousness, from the vantage point of a third.
Man can now judge himself in relation to another, and feel small, weak, and not good enough, by the objective comparison.
We’ve already described that the simplest form of empathizing – the most primitive form is sympathy, viz., mind simply projecting into another its awareness and its own understanding of itself, or what it knows of itself. Subsequently, such a consciousness presumes that another is itself in a given circumstance. It’s a very simplistic method and that is why it evolves first. This method, of projection, developed into the simplest, most primitive form of spirituality, i.e., man projecting into world, even into inanimate things – into what he found mysterious and incomprehensible – his own understanding and knowledge of himself; he projected into the unknown what is intimately known to him. Man sees, in all things, himself reflected back – Deism – gradually modifying this projection into a refined, idealized, conception of himself – a singular idea – i.e., one-god.
Shame is the first reaction of man discovering himself among others in a shared world. He evaluates himself in relation to another – particularly of his own kind – and he begins to feel insecure.
How does he cope with this insecurity? He returns to what he knows the best – himself; he returns to his past, to his infancy, a period when a parent was present to comfort him, and guide him, enveloping him and taking care of him; he reverts to a state of ignorant innocence, i.e., forgetfulness {[size=80]Λήθη[/size]}.
Shame is the passion of nihilism – shamelessness evolving into a reactionary coping mechanism.
When personal judgements are usurped by another’s judgements, shame is experienced – self-consciousness feeling vulnerable under the gaze of another; when the judgement of an-other is usurped by personal judgement, pride is felt – self-consciousness either denying the validity of another’s judgement, or having reached a level of self-awareness that exceeds that of the other, feeling secure in his judgemental gaze.
Both can be the wellsprings of contentment and/or discontentment.
Do not fight untested arrogance. Let it take you to its inevitable humiliation.
Where shame & guilt is low there is little hope for dignity to flourish.
Pride is maligned these days. It is included within the vices all men should try to quell within themselves. But pride is really a benefit to the individual – a product of honesty and balance.
To be in control of all emotions and sensations affecting the brain, is to be willful and rational, totally engaged in the world.
Pride prevents the ego from overstepping a self-imposed limit towards actions that threaten to shame it. Without this self-imposed limit egoism loses itself in self-aggrandizing solipsism, unable to guard against those things that may soil its integrity and injure its sense of self-worth.
To be proud is not to be arrogant and pretentious; this is a form of pride which is out of control, compensating for a secret self-doubt.
To truly know yourself – to be self-aware – is to acknowledge the negatives aspects of oneself, in relation to another. To be proud is to desire to correct these negatives; to strive to surpass and to improve oneself.
Shame emerges as an automatic reaction to an inconsistency between mind and body.
Shame is the product of a mind being contradicted by the body’s automated reactions, i.e., meme/gene dissonance. [ MANifesto: Word Wars – Meme & Gene Dynamics]
Their one-god converted shame to guilt, and with his death, shamelessness has become the updated worship of an absence, fulfilled by man’s ego.
A man can fall beneath an animal when he exaggerates his attempt to overcome shame, becoming accustomed to the rewarding relief of shamelessness. Through this loss, some discover the only kind of pride left to them.
Where there is no shame there is no possibility for self-correction, for self-control… for dignity, and nobility. Shame is the judgement of another taken to heart. Shamelessness is indifference, disrespect, for all others – a beneficial escape with a postponed cost.
With no shame, integrity has no hope.