Transcendence is Relative

[Tinker]

This was something I always felt that Spengler didn't understand. His notion of transcendence is a very genteel educated form that wealthy Jewish intellectuals favor. He never seemed to be able to comprehend the notion of transcendence for those who are too low to grasp Bach.

Insane Clown Posse seems generally fairly much without redeeming qualities at first. But their subculture has a religious devotion there, and their is a subtext of transcendence in their music. It's not the elevated elitist transcendence of David Goldman. It's a transcendence from being neck deep in the mud.

It's all well and good to trash Julie as that video above does, but the thought that she might not have any community, or any sort of outlet, or any aspirational philosophy at all without a bunch of jokers dressing up like killer clowns and rapping.

It's a disturbing thought. But this was something that always rubbed me the wrong way about Spengler. His constant exhortations on transcendence but his almost complete lack of empathy for the people who live life covered in mud. Sure, he expresses heartfelt sympathy, but it's always academic. He has respect for tribal African Christians for understanding, "The Blood is the Life", but he doesn't really understand what people are living with on a day to day basis at the bottom rungs.

I think that this, at its root was the core disagreement I had with Spengler. As much disrespect as I saw the Rave scene get over the years, I knew one thing, I knew that it lifted a lot of severely emotionally disturbed people out of the mire, and gave them something to hope for, a sense of community, and most important of all, a sense of transcendence.