Fergus, Quondam Happy Face's Reviews > Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Looks like Søren Kierkegaard was right.

One world. One destination. But two different strokes for two very different types of folks. The Eithers - and the Ors. Will they both get to their destination?

Let’s look at Zeno’s Paradox. I know, you’re gonna say that’s the oldest con in the book - extrapolating a purely mathematical formula onto practical reality to subvert it - but doesn’t layering both the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics onto reality do that too, and aren’t they both largely mutually exclusive?

Yet both are an accepted part of modern reality. Riddle me that, Zeno!

That old Greek Zeno’d probably have a good chuckle over that. For he was ONLY trying to say: Nothing is what it Seems. And isn’t that what our friend Kierkegaard is really trying to say here? All bets are off, friends!

Postmodernism has arrived.

So who gets the Real Trophy first - the Eithers or the Ors?

And is it worth it to know?

Well it’s an ethically polarized and a confusing world. We‘ve gotta get used to it.

And this book is an elusively allusive deconstruction of the inner dialectics of that world. Kierkegaard picked up THAT trick from Hegel.

But Hegel was trying to shore up the sanctity of the Modern State - to set ethics on a newer and firmer foundation than Kant’s pereginating prevarications could ever before do.

But now Kierkegaard is saying “cut it out, guys....

“Say to the sanctity of that old sacred cow, the State, begone! What we REALLY have to do is shore up the Sanctity of God...

“Whose Kingdom is not of this world - and Who thereby makes the mediocrely fitful sleep of the postmodern state ABSURD!”

Now there’s a clarion call for you!

I know, I know, the Nihilists and Dadaists and Poststructuralists have by and large ignored K’s POV. For they just wanted Freedom.

That carries an enormous price, friends, just so you know...

Kierkegaard, though, tried to tell us postmoderns that only the Truth will set us Free, and so he has been relegated to the dustbin of oblivion by the Sleep of Society.

EXCEPTING those unfortunates who are now Waking Up, and so need his tough talk more than ever before.

They are, he says, the Unhappiest Ones!

So they are Storing Up Wealth in Heaven.

Kierkegaard will take you on a marvellously self-combative long trip. Like Ryan Holiday he wants to kill our Ego.

Past the obfuscating, “quiet-voiced elders”, past the dreary limbo of his own doggedly deeply depressed self, past the Seducers of the World whom he dismembers and eviscerates right down to their marrow -

To a Life of New Hope. The Hope of PEACE.

A hope that is secured in the absolute cancellation of all our debts and the answer to all our postmodernist conundrums in the Divine Sac'rifice -

And puts us on a Free, Forever Road:

To “the Conclusion of all that is Inconclusible...”

The road that will lead us back to the Wide Awake Peace of “knowing the world (as it is) for the first time.”

This is an irreverent review of Reverence. I've Dumbed it Down to Death:

Yet, as you can see, you understood it in spite of my nonsense quite easily.

Welcome to Kierkegaard’s non Binary Aspie Paradox -

The Paradox of Breaking Even with God, and Your Suffering Self -

A Pre-Emptive Paradox, quite beyond neurotypical duality -

That may well be the Final One before Dawn.