the totality of the individual and the world

Miklós Erdély: "An Optimistic Lecture" - the thesis and an extract

"The characteristics of the post-neo-avant-garde behavior:

1. One is required to consider one's own competence within life and fate and insist on them beyond any limitations.
2. This competence holds for everything that considers their existence either directly or indirectly.
3. This way competence holds for everything.
4. One needs bravery to notice everything that is bad, faulty, erroneous, torturing, dangerous and senseless be it the most widely accepted or seemingly unchangeable matter or things.
5. One needs to be brave to propose the most unreal or unrealizable alternative.
6. One needs to be able to imagine to realize these alternatives.
7. One needs to consider chances whose realization is slightly possible but promises great advantages as well as those which are very likely to be realized but provide small advantages.
8. Something one can accomplish with their own tools should be carried out without delay.
9. One should stay away from any form of organization as well as institution. (...)

To quote Max Adler "God is incomprehensible nature; we can reverse this and say that nature is incomprehensible God. Here it makes no difference: we might accept it and simply name our subject 'incomprehensible'. It is all the same whether it is nature or god. With the incomprehensible everybody takes a solitary stance, thus to bring an analogy from electronics; the series of connections or circuit that brings each significant and essential thing to the individual through a hierarchical order is thus broken and we instead have to presume a parallel circuit where everybody has an equal opportunity for the substantial. This is equality against the incomprehensible."