a tribe had a myth
of a proto-being
that in its birth confusion
saw its own bodyparts,
organs,
as other to itself
but had to learn that it was
inseparable from its own parts
as it punished them for annoying it,
not submitting to its will
`it´ put a glowing hot ember into its ass for farting,
and became duly ridiculed for this obvious incoherence
as it would gain coherence as a self
only after accepting this fundamental plurality
the proto-being would thus learn
of its own subjectivity,
and the contextual limitations
that come with it
and become human by assimilating
the parts of its organic body with its conscious I.
for the tribe this fusion of bodily context and consciousness
made the coherent subject, the self and gave grounds for its rationality.
thus for them a tribe that demonizes bodily functions,
calls pleasure anal, and thus profane – makes it unbecoming to enjoy –
would appear as incoherent as their proto-being –
primitive and barbaric
just as they would recognize the rationality
derived from the primacy of the ego
as the same infantile confusion of the proto-being
that has not yet understood that for the will to become coherent
it has to accept its own limitations, its plurality,
its physical otherness,
its organic nature.
