The 'Metaphysics' of Pressence

“Derrida follows his Nazi guru Heidegger in

 concluding that the real problem in The West 

is that our culture is permeated by what 

he calls “metaphysics” — Heidegger had 

railed against “The ‘metaphysics’ of Presence” 

and against metaphysics in general.

For Derrida, metaphysics 

evidently means anything 

that cannot be boiled down 

to Sense-certainty.

Derrida seems sees metaphysics as 

The Enemy that must be destroyed,

and under this heading 

he lumps God, The Self, 

The Soul, The Human Individual, Causality, 

Substance, Essence, Idea, Action and 

virtually any concept of any importance 

turns out to be ‘metaphysical’ —

And these have to go , of course for reasons 

that are never really uh explained….”

THE DECONSTRUCTIONIST AGENDA (WEBSTER TARPLEY)

"....currently education and intellectual life in the united states and many other countries are being destroyed by the triple plague of political correctness post-modernism and the so-called deconstructionism. 

After the collapse of Marxism in much of the world the forces of evil in philosophy and epistemology are now increasingly arrayed under the banner of deconstructionism which offers a place of recruitment for fascists communists irrationalists and bankrupt ideologues of every sort so if you were wondering what the face of the enemy looked like after the fall of the berlin wall this is it the leading purveyor of destructionism is the frenchman jacques de rida he is now unquestionably the most celebrated and influential academic philosopher in the world today as i will try to show the continued intellectual hegemony of deconstructionism in schools and universities amounts to a death sentence for human civilization as we have known it deconstructionism in the academy and in government is a direct threat to the lives of a very large portion of the 5.3 billion human beings now inhabiting this planet but as we survey the contemporary intellectual postage or postage it is clear that no one but ourselves is qualified or interested in combating the frauds and charlatans of deconstructionism so in this sense larouche's attack on deconstruction is the decisive intellectual engagement of the close of the 20th century a couple of aspects of of the problem the modern campus is now the bastion of euphemism and absurd circumlocution marx had demagogically promised that his philosophy would change the world the deconstructionists only want to change all the names there is no more right or wrong good or evil there is only appropriate and inappropriate language is supposedly being purged of ableism ageism borealocentrism ethnocentricity eurocentricity hegemonism heightism logocentrism lookism racism sexism scentism and smellism nobody is fat anymore you only possess an alternative body image those who don't have as much hair as they used to cannot be called bald they have to be known as follicularly challenged or differently hear suit to be dirty is now to be hygienically challenged to be tall is to be vertically endowed if you're old take comfort in the fact that you are chronologically gifted now it will be noted that this supposed rebellion afflicts language with all the horrors of the worst pentagon bureaucratic prose remember the collateral damage of the gulf war when targets were serviced killing innocent civilians and of course ethnic cleansing is nothing but a politically correct term for genocide political correctness offers no hope for the homeless but it does demand that they be called under housed involuntarily undomiciled or houseless the jobless become non-renewed so you can see that political correctness is a form of radical nominalism in which the verbal signs take the place of ideas and things and as always this radical nominalism is never very far from paranoid schizophrenia from the outright mental disease where the victim believes that by changing a name or a sign he or she has altered reality itself if we go back to baroque europe and think of lilly marino or what was known in france as precious these ways of talking are harbingers of the collapse of civilizations then and now political correctness demands that no one should be offended by any criticism of their depraved or backward prejudices larouche of course would counter that the essence of education must always be polemical that without offending somebody somehow there can be no education at all political correctness also insists that everything in human affairs can be reduced to race sex sometimes called gender socioeconomic class and choice of sexual perversion known as sexual orientation the new york times now recognizes a minimum of five sexes but the coprophiles the coprophiles and this edo masochists are insisting on their rights notice that the pessimistic litany of political correctness is strictly determinist it denies humanity any freedom you are they say what your race sex class and choice of perversion have made you and you are a slave to that there is no freedom the universality of the human personality which is one of larouche's central concepts of writing in politics is flatly denied there can therefore be for the deconstructionists no such thing as an imago viva day to express the creative faculties that all human beings share countries that permit deconstructionists to assume power over the government and that has gone quite far in the united states as we'll show such countries are not likely to survive political correctness attempts to define a canon of what is to be studied and it seeks to purge this canon of the dead white european males in favor of rigoberta menchu france fanon jean jeannette or antonin arto as larouche has pointed out this is a demand to wipe out the progress made by science in western continental europe in particular germany france italy holland and other countries since the italian golden renaissance of the 1400s if nicolas cuzanos leonardo da vinci kepler leibniz marge gauss pasteur griman cantor and the other platonics were to be wiped out we could no longer maintain the survival of the 5.3 billion human beings of today without the scientific achievements of these dwems the relative potential population density of the world would fall back to the level of the 1300s back to the time of the bubonic plague we might go all the way back to the roman empire most of the 5.3 billion who managed to hang on today somehow would be simply doomed we must therefore underline that deconstructionism is a philosophy of genocide it is proposing and implementing the most colossal genocide in human history we must also stress as the antidote to that laroche's concept of relative potential population density and the increase of the population density through realized scientific discovery it is here that we can find sources and grounding for concepts of value knowledge and truth that are now the only alternatives to the deconstructionist madness now many people who observe the lunatic pageant of the modern campus may conclude that the professors and administrators are all crazy and of course so they are but there is a method in the madness their demands are not purely arbitrary there is a kind of philosophical system or doctrine which dictates the specific issues raised by political correctness one generic name for this is postmodernism which claims that the raving irrationalists voltaire russo and the rest of the enlightenment they say that was the age of reason but now we're in the age of unreason we've turned away from those guys and now we have unreason so this is pomo and as you can see the pomo is quite confused uh we could propose the slogan for students on campus nomo pomo now at the heart of this pomo is deconstructionism deconstructionism began its triumphal march through american universities in 1966 when derrida appeared at johns hopkins to tell american academics that the structuralism of levy strauss was dead and that the future belonged to deconstructionism derrida is now strongest in the united states of any place in the world he is stronger in the anglo-american sphere than in his native france he is dominant or at least very strong in much of america francophone africa the middle east eastern europe and other areas and in the united states if you want tenure if you want an endowed chair if you want a financial grant from the government government financing the national endowment of the humanities you have to learn to talk a kind of pedantic deconstructionist gibberish now deconstructionists are in a way like the cynics and skeptics of the ancient world they are like diogenes and pirro because they refuse to profess or affirm a doctrine of their own but they tend rather to negate the ideas of others deconstructionism is very eclectic and i would suggest that we could compare derrida's world of ideas to a kind of a great sewer if we could have the first slide the sewer deconstructionism no it's it's it's uh it's the there you go you can think of the world of ideas of derrida you see of course when when deconstructionists arrive then la mer can never be too far away you can compare his world of ideas to a great sewer into which empty the various gutters and waste channels of the past two or three centuries each of these channels contributes in its own way to the great khloaka maxima the central sewer of deconstruction as this slide shows and of course one of the things that we're reviewing here is the disastrous degradation of much human intellectual life of the past couple of centuries as we go towards the year 2000. now let's just look at a couple of these things most basic federida are perhaps descartes and rousseau the french disease specifically transmitted through these sadistic institutions the ecole normale superior and the other government parts of the government school system of which derida is a typical creature secondly we have the skepticism of hume hume started out from paulo sarpy's notion of sense impressions and then ended up denying the world himself causality and all hope of knowledge delhi simply uses texts in the way that hume used sense impressions and then follows the same path thirdly we have the mystifications of the hegelian dialectic also present mediated through such teachers of derida as jean hipolit is of course an important ardent follower of nietzsche nietzsche who proclaimed that god is dead and that the superman by his superior will to power can put himself beyond all morality nietzsche is of course the classic proto-fascist of the 19th century nietzsche's problem partly to do with the cerebral syphilis but not cerebral at the beginning but ultimately syphilis of the brain he spent about a dozen years of his life in a kind of a catatonic trance and once upon a time nietzsche's colleague jacob burkhart professor at basel came upon nietzsche sitting in a room which he had smeared the walls with his own excrement busily masturbating for derrida nietzsche is of course a touchstone and this influence is reinforced through michel foucault as we're going to see in a minute now derrida has never ignored marx and after the fall of the berlin wall de geada announced in 1990 that he would focus more on marx it's obviously a maneuver to get the marxists regrouping around deconstructionism marx was of course a british agent on the matsini uh bakunin model controlled by mr urquhart of the british museum derrida's marx is mediated by the structuralist al-tusair perhaps the greatest guru for dereda is martin heidegger who came out as a raving nazi in 1933 signing his letters heil hitler raving against non-aryans and so forth among heidegger's discoveries we have for example the fact that human beings are going to die that we are beings towards death he also discovered that nothingness annihilates or nichts and so forth right if they ask you how old you are if you happen to be 47 say minus 47 because whatever you started out with it's that much less so this is heidegger it's existentialism the worst kind derida came to heidegger through a man called manuel levinas who supported heidegger during his nazi phase there's also the influence there of jean-paul sartre who of course died as as simone de beauvoir tells us now a pro-terrorist alcoholic pederast then we have sigmund freud a homosexual morphine addict kabbalist mystic of banai breath who generally genially reduced everything to sex drives death death instincts and so forth derrida's freud comes filtered through a certain jacques lacroix l-a-c-a-n a parisian author who has been responsible for many fallacies [Music] this list would not be complete without structuralism especially as represented by lady strauss the head of the school of anthropologists who claimed that since all human societies have the same structures such as kinship and so forth a village of mud huts is just as good as the athens of solon and socrates structuralists have of course been in the forefront of the terrorism of the so-called indigenous peoples from paul pot to sendero luminosa the other element that we have there is the transcendental phenomenology of edmund husserl a couple of words about that perhaps later now jacques de rida is the endlessly pedantic endlessly long-winded expositor of all of the above derrida's immediate limit lineage is equally abominable as the next slide shows us the next slide three professors at the ecole normale superior ens each taught the other in a kind of parisian granginyol of the history of ideas first of all altussair he was a structuralist marxist who was already suffering from mental breakdowns in the late 1940s in 1980 he murdered his own wife by strangling her but he escaped a trial and possibly the guillotine by commitment to an insane asylum his student he recruited a young provincial pederast named michel foucault a leading light of post-modernism in his own right fuco's time at the ens alternated between attempted suicide and attempted homicide foucault started off as a nietzschean marxist and allegedly was a speechwriter a ghostwriter for jean kanapa of the politburo of the stalinist french communist party foucault has developed the doctrine that we are all deviants this was picked up by rd lang and other exponents of anti-psychiatry and used in their cost-cutting campaign to shut down the mental hospitals the mentally ill who were thrown out on the streets to become homeless and to freeze to death can thank foucault foucault later became a maoist he preached mass extermination on the paul pot model and later in his life in the 70s he discovered the san francisco nazis in leather sadomaso scene at such dens of perversion as the barracks in the folsom district he went on lsd trips in death valley he frequented gay bars long after he had become aware that he had contracted aids deliberately infected others and finally died of aids in nineteen eighty four in his last phase he elaborated his own similarity to the cynic philosopher diogenes for reasons that undoubtedly include the approval by diogenes of counterfeiting cannibalism incest and the practice of public masturbation in foucault's book le mo electros or the order of things foucault predicted that all notions of mankind and humanity were destined to be effaced like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea when the tide comes in so humanity is on its way out now derrida was the teacher of derrida at the ens foucault took derida with him to visit the inmates at the mental hospital of saint anne de rida has been somewhat less publicly flamboyant than Foucault but he is no less of an irrationalist he's probably a more effective one --

He's the child of a sephardic 

Jewish family living in Algeria; 

he was very young when 

he had the experience 

of being buried alive --

he was locked in a coffin-shaped cedar chest by his sister he later managed to escape alive but he was traumatised by the belief that he had died and been brought back from the dead from this grew his identification with the Isis-Osiris myth in which isis of course brings osiris back from the dead but this also implied federida an obsession with castration which he told his students had suggested to him the the title for one of his early books Disseminations 

Derida's irrationalism was later fueled by the mystical writings of the kabbalah very important and by his devotion to the satanic degenerate actor octo of the theater of cruelty some people may remember this octo was somebody who spent about a decade of his own life in a mental institution degree da was jailed in 1981 by the czechoslovakian communist regime on charges of drug trafficking but these these charges were never proven some of the best one-liners about derida come from foucault during the period when these two were quarreling during the nineteen seventies foucault said that derida was a terrorist and an obscurentist who deliberately wrote in such a way as to be impossible to understand so he could then lash out at his critics as cretins who were incapable of understanding the profoundness of his thought the best summary from foucault is the kind of philosopher who gives a bad name now we can we can turn the lights on we don't need this at the moment we have one more degree opaque doctrines or a philosophy of anglo-american destabilization from the word go his big publishing breakthroughs came in 1967 and key lectures were delivered at the height of the may 1968 riots that led to the overthrow of general charles de gaulle the best government that france had seen in many ages the guidance was the leading light of the clique around the magazine tel kell which was one of the theoretical mouthpieces of this rebellion now deconstruction deconstruction is an attack on the judeo-christian western european civilization it is an attack that is powered above all by rage darida hates and resents reason and creativity and these he identifies with the epoch of christian creationism and infinitism when these appropriate the resources of greek conceptuality that is from his book on gramatology in other words derrida hates plato he hates apostolic christianity as exemplified by saint john st paul saint augustine and other patristic writers he hates the entire edifice of western civilization based on christian platonism and in this he follows mentors like nietzsche who claimed to be socrates in reverse or diogenes who defined himself as socrates gone mad most of all derida hates the logos this in the greek means word or discussion perhaps ordering lawfulness but finally reason the logos is reason in plato's dialogues the spoken word is the path to refining and improving the logos or reason later christ came into the world as the word of god and in another moment of the christian trinity the holy spirit is the logos which proceeds from the son of god and which abides with human beings devidal wishes to reject all of this and all of the implications dereda says that western european culture is guilty of logocentrism the western cultural paradigm has contained within it the aspiration to be based on reason this has to be rejected the western cultural paradigm also gives priority to speech and to the spoken word you can compare this to others cultures around the world but this is not the case most literature was originally designed to be read aloud or even sung from plato's dialogues to dante to chaucer to shakespeare to schiller and this is the hated phonocentrism which derrida also wants to get rid of degree da delves into plato in an attempt to show that the overtones of the platonic logos are exclusively paternal and male dominated this gives rise to the further charge of thal logocentrism and of course soon enough that turns into phallocentrism in the writings of the mean ads of feminist literary theory today derida follows his nazi guru heidegger in concluding that the real problem in the west is that our culture is permeated by what he calls metaphysics heidegger had railed against the metaphysics of presence and against metaphysics in general for derida metaphysics evidently means anything that cannot be boiled down to sense certainty derida seems sees metaphysics as the enemy that must be destroyed and under this heading he lumps god the self the soul the human individual causality substance essence idea action and virtually any concept of any importance turns out to be metaphysical these have to go of course for reasons that are never really uh explained and of course federida language is this self-contained formal system of signs with no connection to any reality concept or thing back during the weimar republic in the 20s and 30s in germany the pro-nazi heidegger and others referred to their battle against metaphysics with the name destruction or destruction and destruction was the first name that tereda ever gave to his own method parallels have been drawn from deconstructionism to zen and above all to the sufism of al-ghazali whose destruction is in effect a deconstruction of al-farabi and even sinner attempting to play on their supposed self-contradictions and writers on post-modernism have called attention to this a dozen years ago larouche authored a new standard american english curriculum for effective u.s public schools in which he outlined the requirements for a literate language setting out to express the geometric complexity of reality according to laroche this would include seven grammatical cases nine tenses five moods an active and passive voice non-reflexive and self-reflexive features and a vocabulary of fifty thousand to one hundred thousand words including a very well developed verb system this would therefore mean the ability to express at least 1260 degrees of geometric freedom but of course for the radical nominalist paranoid language has nothing to do with reality larouche's geometric requirements for literate language were rooted in the efforts of dante and petrarca to create languages as the necessary premises for nation building c dante's de bulgari eloquencia larouche was also in the german tradition of historical philology associated with wilhelm von humboldt franz bopp and the grimms derrida is a part of the adversary school that grew up in the linguistic school of geneva this geneva school was designed to combat the influence of german historical philology degree sides above all with the linguistics of ferdinand de socio of geneva which accomplished a massive deterioration in these language studies by abandoning all idea of historical analysis for so-so and the word as a sign does not lead to a concept or an object but it only leads you to other signs take for example the word cat okay cat as a word leads you to the furry feline right but no according to the sorcerer this word by itself can mean nothing it only means something because it's different from other words like bat or rat or hat it's therefore a negative and relational axiom of de sosure for derrida the word seems to promise meaning but its definition always sends us through an endless chain of other words when we look for the definitions so the promise of meaning is indefinitely postponed delayed deferred according to this nonsense each word in a text points to a never-ending series of other older texts the chamber of texts this is derrida's jargon word of difference with a big a in the last syllable which packs difference and delay into the same baggage now for derrida the author is dead by definition he never existed the human self and the human ego have collapsed into an x marking the spot where they once were this is the so-called subject position there is no perception all the terridad is willing to talk about is a text a written text of black on white with punctuation typefaces paragraphs margins called fonts copyrights logos logos but no logos and so forth this is what he calls writing or l and this writing is primary over speech primary respect to the spoken word which is another purely arbitrary and absolutely absurd assertion everything is a written text in the sense that every thought utterance or discourse watch out when you hear discourse because that's them uh anything any discourse is simply a story that we tell each other about something that exists well something that may or may not exist and the best way for a discourse to be there is as a written text so estelida says there is nothing outside of the text everything is a text there are no more works of art all black writing on white paper is a text be it shakespeare the telephone book mickey mouse the racing form the u.s constitution the jupiter symphony the nicean constantinopolitan creed all of those are texts and every one of them is exactly equivalent to any other as you can see what tereda tries to do is to draw you into a labyrinth of jargon he's always shifting the jargon allegedly to keep from falling back into the hated ways of metaphysics he uses trace of words like trace sediment and iteration to show that words evolve and change their meanings as they are used again and again it's like barnacles on a ship's hull or the way a coin might be worn when it goes through circulation for example if we hear the word crook who do we think of think of maybe recent u.s presidents it's a hint nixon all right nixon well nixon i think nixon is the one however if we think of males males carter thank you good very very literate uh well-educated group the males right the jimmy carter's males how about prudent it's it's it's clear so the idea is that each one of these words becomes freighted with a trace a sediment of something because of the way that they've been used and this is always there and may not be under control it's it's clear enough these are overtones connotations associations you can think of them as etymologies if you want to they become the key to delhi da's practice of what he calls dissemination the scattering of meanings through free play the point is always to show that writing is is the product of some kind of a compulsion some kind of a determinism it is not free one example is derrida's deconstruction of his favorite target plato if we could have the next uh the next overhead here this is the deconstruction of the phedris dialogue in the book disseminations by bhai derida derida attempts to show through a textual analysis of the of the dialogue words that that plato uses one is pharmaca this is a proper name it is a nymph who was present when one of her companions was blown off a cliff and died on the rocks below then we have the word pharmacon this can mean either a medicine which gives life or a poison which gives death then we have pharmacous plato refers to socrates as pharmaceus it has the overtone of a sorcerer or a medicine man used ironically derida points out that although plato goes through this series pharmaceutical former chaos he does not use a closely related word which is the synonym of the last one which is pharmacos and pharmacos is the sacrificial victim or scapegoat this is the person for example who would be ceremonially killed in athens in the event of a plague or some other natural disaster or some disaster of another type so scapegoat is of course what socrates later became so derrida goes through this with the idea of showing you that plato was also not free he was compelled he was controlled by some kinds of subconscious psychological factors and therefore the text says what plato could not have meant and this is the obvious deconstructionist conclusion all reading is misreading the fedris dialogue and any other piece of writing is hopelessly contradictory and completely indecipherable so much for that the crowning moment of deconstruction is what we see here the discovery of aporia the aporia or hopeless contradiction and confusion in one or more key words of a text now arporia is a very old trick the aporia is the embarrassment when you can't decide uh which way it's supposed to go the old this old trick was known to zeno zeno was of course adept in proving anything and the opposite of anything derrida believes again that language is at bottom a purely formal structure which can be completely disrupted if a word turns out to have more than one meaning and one post-modernist writer makes the case he tries to praise derida by saying that derida is doing for language what girdles proof has done for mathematics so you can see the way these arguments are cooked up for derida the moment of aporia opens the door to throwing all writing into hell this is the so-called misona beam the throwing of the text into the abyss the western platonic tradition which thought that it had solid ground under its feet he claims falls through the floor no writing means anything as nietzsche said and there is no meaning to be discovered has occasionally revealed that he sees the future under the heading of monstrosity he invites his followers not to be nostalgic about the lost world of meaning and communication but rather to imitate the nietzschean superman in his attitude of nonchalance and to dance the dionysiac dance outside of the house of reason there are no meanings the deconstructionists can therefore feel free to impose whatever meaning they like through an act of force that will attest to their superior will to power and this is what is now happening on the campus remember that a deconstructionist can by definition have no morality there was uh professor paul demand of yale the so-called boa deconstructor he could crush anything the boa deconstructor paul demand wrote that any action exists on two levels as fictional discourse watch out discourse as fictional discourse and as an empirical event so if you commit a war crimes atrocity you can simply define that as a fictional discourse uh and you've solved it it was very interesting that after the death of demar it became widely known that he had written pro-nazi editorials in the le soir newspaper of brussels during the occupation of world war ii now delhi likes to dish it out let's see for a moment if he can take it it happens that deridad's first important publication deals not with literary criticism at all but with the origin of geometry this is 1962 translation and introduction to edmund husserl's the origin of geometry all of derida's characteristic modus operandi is present in this short 1936 piece by the phenomenologist hussero derida of course has never had an original idea in his life but by looking into this we can see how de guida's pathological inability to conceptualize creativity leads to the vile results that we have now summarized husserl raises the interesting question of geometry by which he means mathematical physics understood as the whole mathematics of space time i'm going to be talking about husserl you can imagine derrida as existing within the borders of husserl if you can refute herself you've refuted since he's inside for husal of course the question of the origin of geometry is complicated by the fact that he is looking for a phenomenological explanation this means a series of mystifications and so forth that are not important for now purcell writes science and in particular geometry must have had a historical beginning and this meaning itself must have an origin in an accomplishment first as project and then in successful execution now why is husserl interested in this on the one hand husserl wishes to mount an attack on galileo's notion of mathematical physics specifically on galileo's mathematician of nature in which nature itself is idealized under the guidance of the new mathematics and nature itself becomes a mathematical manifold husserl is not happy with various features of this at the same time husserl wants to be able to reproduce the founding moment of geometry because he thinks that the ability to do this is necessary to the authenticity of current progress in mathematical physics so herself asks if the researcher of today in physics has to run back through the whole immense chain of groundings back to the original premises and actually reactivate the whole thing he asks such questions as how as a systematic endlessly growing stratified structure of reality physics can maintain its original meaningfulness through living reactivatability if its cognitive thinking is supposed to produce something new without being able to reactivate the previous levels of knowledge back to the first it's a little bit garbled but but try to follow a little bit further on husserl says if the premises can actually be reactivated back to the most original self-presence then their self-evident consequences can also be accordingly it appears that beginning with the primal self evidences the original genuineness must propagate itself through the chain of logical inference no matter how long it is now herself regards geometry physics mathematical physics as a deductive science there are other sciences that he thinks are inductive and he says only if the foundations of the deductive structure have truly been produced and objectified in original self-evidence and only then could geometry preserve its genuine original meaning as a deductive science through the progression of logical constructions okay i hope you get the idea he wants to go back to the original founding because he thinks you need that for the whole progress of today jose points out that the pythagorean theorem exists only once and that the word lever lion occurs only once in the german language all right how can we be sure that the proof we see or the word we hear is the genuine article because husserl says there is the free play of associative constructions sounds like delhi and the sedimentations of meaning that come through repeatedly use right again husserl concludes that there is no certainty that geometry as mathematical physics can ever be cashed in our results based on principle are of a generality that extends over all the so-called deductive sciences and even indicates similar problems and investigations for all sciences for all of them have the mobility of sedimented traditions that are worked upon again and again by an activity of producing new structures of meaning and handing them down existing in this way they extend enduringly through time since all new acquisitions are in turn sedimented and become working materials well i think it's clear that any hope of new knowledge or illumination that might have been present at the beginning of this inquiry by husserl has completely disappeared there are two main failures of husserl that stand out first is that husserl derrida a part of this stubbornly and persistently ignores the necessary act of creative mentation the process of scientific discovery that has got to be the fountainhead of all knowledge including geometry mathematical physics and so forth and it is precisely this concept of creativity as the central fact of science and economics which larouche's epistemology has always placed at the center of attention secondly husserl regards science as what larouche would describe as a single theorem lattice it's an old rambling extended theorem lattice which has been added to over the years but which still retains jose thinks all of the original axioms and other parts larouche has of course repeatedly shown that the progress of science involves the overthrowing of the old axiomatic grounding through the moment of scientific discovery provided that new axioms are given create new axioms and you throw overboard parts of the old theorem lattice so things like epicycles or flogistan or the ether go out the window uh and new ideas come in but for husserl everything is retained and everything is flattened to logical deduction or induction now what derek does manage to do is that husserl's original essay is about 20 pages the commentary by derrida is more than 150 pages so it's six times longer the commentary is six the introduction is six times longer than the text uh it simply gives deridar repeated opportunities to smash his head against the brick wall represented by he by the fact that he lacks any concept of creativity one typical pathological moment for derrida comes when he goes back to kant he goes back to kant's remarks on the origins of geometry in the preface to the second edition of the critique of pure reason kant is of course this uh nasty old evil aristotelian faker but kant talks about the emergence of geometry after a phase of blind groping among the egyptians but then says kant it was revolutionized by the happy idea of one man a new light must have flashed on in the mind of the first man thales or whoever he had been who demonstrated the properties of the isosceles triangle a light going on in your head well that is of course the most common of all the naive descriptions of the actual experience of creativity and if darida had had any access to this he might have begun to say something about the role of creativity but notice that is absolutely incapable of sustaining any such discussion he simply spins out his insufferable long-winded pedentry he has no concept of creativity darida is a wretchedly truncated mutilated pathetic creature hopelessly blocked not creative never funny incapable of adding anything to this outline provided by husserl and of course her soul was bad enough in his own right is therefore the typical aristotelian nominalist intellectual who hates and fears real creative reason and who does everything in his power to destroy such reason as larouche has pointed out the transition from one theorem lattice to the next is accomplished by means of platonic ideas thought objects in larouche's sense riemanns geistes massen and so forth derrida's wretched and shriveled intellect is incapable of any glimmer of understanding of all this except that larouche's epistemology is a threat to shut down deridar's con job deconstruction in conclusion can target any of the written documents which are constitutive of civilization itself take for example theology herb quindi has pointed to a certain mark c taylor a deconstructionist theologian now if you think about it deconstructionist theology is quite a tall order because uh it you you have a ban on metaphysics of course and therefore you're going to have theology without god you're gonna have god is dead but express this theology this is the point that this character taylor deconstructionist eagerly seizes on and he writes one of the distinctive features of deconstruction is its willingness to confront the death of god squarely if not always directly nothing is ever direct it would not be too much to suggest that deconstruction is the hermeneutics the interpretation of the death of god and taylor's program is the death of god the erasure of the self and the end of history remember that for deconstruction all writing is the same it can be unleashed in the field of law with devastating effect listen for just one moment to claire dalton formerly of the critical legal studies group at harvard law school law writes dalton like every other cultural institution is a place where we tell one another stories about our relationships with ourselves one another and authority this is from mrs dalton's paper an essay on the deconstruction of contract doctrine samford levinson sanford levinson of the university of texas at austin chimes in the death of constitutionalism may be the central event of our time just as the death of god was that of the past century and for much the same reason you can see what it is you take habeas corpus due process and they tell you it's all aporia projected on the plane of cosmology deconstructionism would have to give rise to something akin to the chaos theory now fashionable in certain post-modern sectors of physics and then we have the french feminist luci who argues that science is fallocratic that fallocratic science may work for solids but cannot explain the behavior of fluids since these are more feminine ten more lines the clinton white house is of course redolent of deconstructionism and political correctness the clinton cabinet is completely dysfunctional but it does respect the distributive requirement of race sex class sexual perversion and other deconstructionists are also there maya angelou recited a poem at the inauguration she is a leading politically correct writer we have donna shalala of the health and human services who helped to promulgate a code on offensive speech at the university of wisconsin then we have hillary clinton's personal guru of the past 20 years marion wright edelman of the children's defense fund who is also aligned with the new doctrine so is laura tyson of the council of economic advisers who talks about economics as discourse watch out vice president gore's favorite book is reportedly thomas kuhn's structure of scientific revolutions which has become a kind of manual for all new age paradigm shifters so i would conclude in appealing to all persons who share our regard for the potential of the human mind to join us in exposing and defeating the deconstructionists thank you [Applause]