File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 72


Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:18:44 -0800 (PST)
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: Boomerang


>Look who is deranged in the lulu-
>
>"I have no idea whether lesbianism is or is not genetic" - Bravo for
>your restraint of not-knowing: genetic homosexuality, genetic
>drug-addiction, genetic alcoholism, genetic schizophrenia, genetic
>kleptomania...pet religious beliefs of Tartufian biologists,
>skullduggery of official science in need of capitalization.  Even
>Lamarck would have seen through this.  Too bad your restraint was an
>accident, since next you became the discoverer of a recessive gene for
>homosexuality.  Now tell us dear Eubie, is there a (hopefully)
>_receding_ gene for domestic sheep like you?  The recessive lie-on
>gene...
>
>"What is implicit in Darwin's theory is a mechanism by which natural
>selection occurs. We know today that that mechanism is the genetic
>code" 
>Holy ignorance of the machinism that creates, alters, decodes,
>re-encodes, shaves, repairs, recomposes, and ignores the genetic code.
>As Nietzsche said of mathematics - a formula, a code, explains nothing. 
>
>This is what we can hardly forgive you, Mr. Callihan - with enough rope
>you have made even a bloke like Diarrhea look good-
>"I don't have the slightest notion of what you mean by "fundamental
>knowledge." I would think that mere knowledge, by itself, would be
>sufficient. And our mere knowledge in this case is considerable."
>Let none say that restraint is your virtue, drunk as you are with mere
>knowledge.  As for absolutes, it is a mere truth that your death now
>seems only relative to the already morbid state of your perception.
>
>"Thus, the Ubermensch might be conceptualized as an ideal total human"
>Should we surmise that overhuman, inhuman or non-human awareness are
>simply the signifieds of this ideal total human [bullshit]?  Some
>overhuman lion you became...
>
>"Nietzsche might be said to agree with Mao, that power comes from the
>barrel of a gun, for power simply as power is only force" [Note, this
>guy voted for Clinton.] [Note too that despite our graceful efforts to
>educate the gizzard, he manages to confuse everything, Mao with
>Nietzsche, the Circle with the ER, force with power, active with
>reactive, relative with absolute, official science with scientific
>knowledge, nihilism with its overcoming, there is no end to the
>pseudo-Christian recuperations that Eubie skillfully performs on the
>cadaver of Nietzsche.] [He understands power with the subtlety of a
>fishwife.]
>
>"My favorite pet suspicion is that Freddy got it in the womb, from his
>father via his mother"
>- The Spiro-pus complex of gentlemensch? 
>
>"for one cannot know, ultimately, what the value of anything might be."
>[We had already surmised that you guessed that much - which leaves us
>wondering about the value of your long missives to this list, where
>inflation has growingly become proportional to the lack of content.]
>
>Let us hear you affirm your chronic fuck-ups!  Spare us however your
>re-inauguration!  Enough of your vitiated circles as it is!  Maybe
>silence is recommended to your health!
>
>
>Lambda the Rhino gorer of senseless cadavers
>
>By the way - It takes negation to destroy nihilism, yet only when
>negation itself is affirmed; but this does not make Nietzsche into a
>nihilist, even if he donned those clothes before metamorphosis.

Hi Lamby Poo,

Long time no hear!

Actually, I never claimed that lesbianism is caused by a recessive gene, but
merely mentioned that it might be one way in which a trait for lesbianism
might be passed on down the evolutionary tree. The argument, after all, was
over whether the notion of lesbianism as an inheritable trait was an
absurdity or not. I merely weighed in on the side that it was not an
absurdity, without trying to argue that lesbianism was necessarily an
inheritable trait or not. (And, truly, as I stated, I don't have the
slightest idea whether it is or not.)

I also don't claim that the genetic code proves anything, but merely that if
there were anthing we might presume to consider as "fundamental knowledge,"
it is a mystery to me how it might be otherwise than as being part of our
operating instructions, so to speak. That the genetic code is itself being
constantly rescribbled and is truly a work in progress that only extinction
might end, sort of takes care of the "fundamental" part. Not to forget that
we have only got the slightest glimmer of what is in the genetic code of a
fruit fly or how it works, let alone that of a human being.

And my pet suspicion that Freddy may have gotten it in the womb is just
that, only a pet suspicion. (And his mother living to 70 does not prove that
she was not infected, as someone else averred.) However, whether he got it
from the womb, or from visiting a whorehouse for the one and only time or
from inveterate whoring, I have no idea whatsoever. If you want a theory
though, I'm always readdy and willing!

Best,

Doobie the Wensch

P.S. If you would like to reprise the Eternal Return debate where we left
it, I'd be willing to have a go at it with you, but please give me a couple
weeks. I'm just finishing off preparing the second edition of my first book,
so stealing time even to answer this missive. Actually, tete-a-tete-ing with
Paul and John hardly takes the time and energy as it does to reply to you
(especially since I know there are _two_ of you, and only one of me to reply
to your verbal avalanches).







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=A6 Steven E. Callihan            =A6        "The more mistrust,         =A6
=A6                               =A6        the more philosophy."       =A6
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=A6 E-Mail: callihan-AT-callihan.com =A6-F. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 346.=A6
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