Often it would seem that both pessimist and perfectibilist agree as to the facts, differing only in their attitudes towards the facts.

The leisured and powerful are justified by their function, while the poor and humble who by their labours maintain them have the consolation of knowing that they ‘maintain the state of the world.’ To each his providentially appointed condition and estate! And if the people should murmur in their hearts², cavil at their lot, question the providential nature of the arrangement, and seek to shake the foundations of authority itself? The in the conservative can appeal direct to his own power and his opponent’s weakness and ignorance.

In Ibsen’s dialogue between the Provost and Brand, it is the mocking castigation of their own inferiority by the Provost that is effective in undermining the people’s will to take up the challenge in the face of their fears.

What can you achieve,

Humble people born in a humble village?

Were you created to shake the world,

To right wrongs, liberate the oppressed?

The taunt strikes at each man’s own sense of personal impotence³ ever to alter the conditions under which he suffers; it reminds him of his customary status with its attendant feelings of deference to those set⁴ in authority over him. It reminds him that he is the subject⁵ [and that others are the rulers]; and it suggests that this dichotomy is eternal⁶ as Nature herself⁷. But is it ? The debate turns on the issue of what is human nature. It is precisely the issue as to who we are that is the most fiercely disputed. Can man^7A by his own understanding and endeavours work out his own salvation⁸.? Or is he irrredeemably a fallen creature, seeing the better but following the worse ? suffering by virtue of his own folly and then wallowing in his own self-pity ?

You grind away God’s image, live like beasts,

Then join the grovelling queue to beg for grace

Often it would seem that both both pessimist and perfectibilist agree as to the facts, differing only in their attitudes towards the facts. The conservative has no difficulty in convincing himself that human nature [‘is what it is‘]. On the contrary [/ au contraire mon fromage\ ma cherie] [ comic insert to text – laugh or die young, team], it is his main stock-in-trade [English Language Students say Year 9 ‘up,’ look up oxymoron.. nh nh there’s the correct term and your writer will get ‘back’ to you on that matter as soon as he rem-embers i t – ‘think‘ comic Australian publication circa 1969 quite possibly by the famed Afferbeck Lauder..]. The progressive radical contemplates the spectacle with anguish, but would often seem to concede that the facts are as Ibsen³‘s^3A Provost and Brand too in the end would have us believe.. [the far less French wooden mechanical Latin term for doubl-entendre gosh my brain hurts an’ i’m just lovin’ it..]. When Edmund Burke attacked the radicals struggling to achieve an extension of the suffrage, he was quick to fasten onto an allusion by Dr Price to the existing^3AA voters as a few thousands of ‘the dregs of the people.’ ‘You will smile here,’ Burke comments, ‘at the consistency of those democratists, who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time, they pretend to make them the [depositories] of all power.’ None struggled more devotedly to enlighten mankind than Denis Diderot [in the face of crushing blows by his enemies]. But even Didwerot, in a mood of despondency as he considered in retospect the malignant opposition which he had to overcome in order to produce the great [Encyclopaedia], was constrained to reflect: ‘The world does not profit from its advance into old age: it does not change. It is possible that the individual perfects himself, but the race becomes neither better nor worse in the mass. The sum of evil passions remains the same, and the enemies of the good and useful remain as numerous as ever ^3AAA.’ Nevertheless.. the good always enjoyed one vital advantage.. ‘The good man is susceptible of an enthusiasm that the wicked man does not know…’

Let me end this essay with RV Sampson’s Ibsen’s Brand..

‘While it may appear that man has only to heave himself to his feet with determination to take up the full weight of [‘]his cross[‘], in life the burden is too great for him. He quails before the magnitude of the effort and despairs, [or rather averts his gaz ..] tautology eep=eep=eep-eep whatever [e and passes by].

All of them have craving in their hearts\ But the sacrifice frightens them.\ Their will is weak; their fear is strong.

When you want a break we have music for you OK. Of the Spheres? Oh for Jesus’ sake Kevin, shut up and listen..

Chopin: Les Sylphides: 4. Mazurka

YouTube·Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra – Topic·Jul 10, 2024

Just a note: Michel Fokine (1880-1942): Russian dancer and choreographer. Primarily he choreographed story ballets, such as Firebird (1909), but his signature work was an abstract ballet, Les Sylphides (1909).

Key binary: explication de text + the “act” of creation⁹ (human learning, creativity & authentic arts).. May we immediately retire every narcissist flaneur, poseur and eminent fiercely “evidence-based” expert science publicist on Earth ?

John Blundell

21st Century Neurolinguistics, Neurocognitive Health, Mentally-healthy Child Development, the authentic 21st C Post-socratic 2-5 set series quantum relations logic, Human liberation from 3,000 year-old Southern European and Eastern Mediterranean barbarism, superstition, female capture and non Islamic Mathematics

¹ https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/grim-forecast-for-cost-of-living-crisis/ar-AA1sK8Bg?ocid=socialshare&cvid=578eb18e3ddd497b8bb2512a4f250477&ei=13Story by Becca Monaghan 18h • 2 min read

² This happens during a heart muscle contraction. Systolic murmurs are divided into ejection murmurs (due to blood flow through a narrowed vessel or irregular valve) and regurgitant murmurs (backward blood flow into one of the chambers of the heart)

³ In medicine, refers to the inability to have an erection of the penis adequate for sexual intercourse. Also called erectile dysfunction.

^{3A Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as “the father of realism” and the most influential playwright of the 19th century, as well of one of the most influential playwrights in Western literature more generally. Wikipedia}

^3AA Senior-secondary, undergraduate, Masters Degree, PhD level and all mature-aged cognoscenti bored out of their ‘tiny’ minds and actually driven to frank despair by totalitarian Christo-

What can you achieve,

Humble people born in a humble village?

Were you created to shake the world,

To right wrongs, liberate the oppressed?

fascist news-, education- & entertainment-media look up Athenian philosopher two millennia ago Aristotle’s usage(s) of the adjective Existing.. DAMN IT don’t use electro-mechanical search – you’re if you do searching nothing and learning nothing, just playing the narcissistic crypto-fascist Smart-arse or Jensen Huang’s or the neurocognitively-broken Billy Gates’s Useful-fool: ‘Do not Pass Go’ but ‘go’ directly to the old boy’s Finding out the existing means of persuasion.

^3AAA Avertissement to Vol. VIII of the Encyclopedie, 1751-65

4 In mathematics, a set is a collection of different[1] things;[2][3][4] these things are called elements or members of the set and are typically mathematical objects of any kind: numbers, symbols, points in space, lines, other geometrical shapes, variables, or even other sets.[5] A set may have a finite number of elements or be an infinite set. There is a unique set with no elements, called the empty set; a set with a single element is a singleton.

^{4A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity or simply singularity is a condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that spacetime itself would break down catastrophically. As such, a singularity is by definition no longer part of the regular spacetime and cannot be determined by “where” or “when”.}

^4AA Students will note there is presently dispute over the useable and Human Project-feasible (Stage 5 of human society) linguistic usages Set and Singularity that essentially liberates in the human imagination Two- to Five-set Series Quantum Relations Logic. It should be noted urgently that there can be no false dialectic, or polarisation motivated by partisan vastly cashed-up political interests of mathematics and logic.. Please note carefully the Diderot remarks by RV Sampson because they ‘go’ directly to the global deskilling or socially-engineered Gates-Huang &c criminally malfeasant Christo-fascist Cabal dumbdown. Historic: Locke’s Essay Towards Human Understanding around 1700 London will help readers with the big-picture or macroeconomic reframe. The micro particularities of the content, the Argumenta – all I ever read – at 17 – also rewarding reading, J

⁵ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/subjects.. a subject is one of the five major elements of clause structure. The other four are: verb, object, complement and adjunct. Subjects are essential in declarative, negative and interrogative clauses. The subject acts as the ‘doer’ or agent of an action. Subjects are typically noun phrases e.g. a noun or pronoun and any dependent words before or after it

⁶  having no beginning and no end: lasting forever. eternal bliss, continuing without interruption.

^{7 /7A} I am not addressing these matters here. ‘Suffice to say’ the pinnacle audio-visual-Production-values rich, fecund, white American woman was right to publicly question human commodification- (HCuP), artificial compartmentalisation- (ACuP) & excessive codification Under Patriarchic Fiscal Elites (ECuP) as per Community Economist Publications international newsletter 1996 (copies unavailable as all were stolen but never recovered along with the entire Blundell Orchards office business records and research library on 17 April 1998, confirmed legally as an SA Government instigated and orchestrated fraud by th Supreme Court of South Australia in1999, but her proposed remedy was deranged and tragically misogynistic.

⁸ preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss..”they try to sell it to us as economic salvation” Similar:lifeline preservation conservation means of escape

⁹ doctrinaire socialist, ‘polymath,’ close associate of the ‘existentialists’ and literati^9A social outsiders with money after post traumatically shocked 9 million dead WWII who killed himself and he’s missus.. er died too

^9A Literati may refer to: Intellectuals or those who love, read, and comment on literature; Intelligentsia, a status class of highly educated people who … (Google Alphabet @NVIDIA iOS Official is it?). May we immediately retire every narcissist flaneur, poseur and eminent fiercely “evidence-based” expert science publicist on Earth ?