Challenging Western Culture: Language, Instinct, and Truth
Deconstructing Western Culture’s Foundations
This critique examines the pervasive interests that claim lives and sow chaos, seeking to uncover the origin of language and its role in Western culture. Western society believes it has generated humanity’s greatest progress through reason. However, this has also created ultraworlds—worlds of fiction. This emphasis on reason has led to the repression of movement and instincts, alienating each individual and converting them into a mere ‘slice’ of their potential. Such repression disclaims the vitality of instincts, creativity, and the very knowledge needed to find Truth.
Reason, Fiction, and the Alienated Individual
It is necessary to begin by establishing a critique of Western culture, for which we will employ a specific critical method. This approach will dismantle the foundations upon which society was built, revealing that what was once considered ultimate knowledge was not an invention, but rather that truth itself is merely a chimera, a deception. Language is the only means that can approximate reality, but reality itself cannot be truly learned or grasped. No society wants language to be what it truly is; it serves not only to express or communicate feelings but also as an instrument of societal control.
Western society’s imposed moral instruments, which reduce individuals to fragmented selves, possess a metaphysical character. They display and express a personal life experience and an intransigent, subjective science. Life, however, is not conceptualizable.
Language, Logic, and Societal Control
Alongside language, logic emerges as another instrument of society to control chaos, creating an artificial order within a reality that is inherently chaotic. Logic arises from our fear of chaos; our mental fragility cannot endure it. Chaos, as some might say, is individuality itself. Order is invented when reality is chaos; a few concepts are invented to define reality for everyone.
Those tasked with controlling this chaos—the ‘mummies’ or established authorities—do so through the gregarious covenant. Here, logic plays a fundamental role: once metaphors are shared by the majority, the original concept, through the philosopher-mummy’s language, becomes entrusted with establishing what is considered good and right for everyone.
The Invention of Truth and Moral Values
Truth, then, becomes a convenient, pragmatic language. While some may perceive and adopt truly useful metaphors, those that pose a danger to the stability of the social covenant—the ‘lies’ they create—will be marginalized, becoming the ‘Steppenwolves’. They will be expelled due to the danger they pose to society, as their instincts and creativity threaten the foundations of the social pact. Thus, what is deemed good and bad (language dictating morality), Truth and Lie, are established. This is an inversion of values, a moral fragmentation.
The Übermensch: Creating New Values
The Übermensch (Superhuman) is the creator of new values, one who has surpassed passive nihilism. This capable individual, a ‘Steppenwolf,’ dominates both external and internal chaos. They have undergone a triple metamorphosis.
Art: Reclaiming Instinct and Vitality
This is why oral language, being the closest to living rhetoric, acquires its greatest spikes of vitality where it is not submitted to standards. In summary, society prides itself on its intellect (pathos), believing that thanks to the forgetting of instincts and their repression, the concept of a creator and controller of chaos could have originated. For this reason, art is vindicated as a means to break with standards, allowing access to the only thing that truly claims to know truth: creativity and instincts, thus enabling the achievement of a ‘great aurora’.