Morality in all its pious window dressing - does not pretend to go back in time to restore an unbroken continuity; brazenly its duty is not to demonstrate that the past actively exists in the present, but that it continues secretly to animate the present, (Pelosi the 'wall is immoral' duh) I will just impose a predetermined form on morality with all its vicissitudes (Michelle Obama - 'You go low while we go high' duh) .
Morality (that overused political depth charge) does not resemble the evolution of a species and does not map the destiny of a people. On the contrary, to follow the complex course of descent in say something like morality is to maintain passing events in their proper dispersion; it is to identify the accidents, the minute deviations—or conversely, the complete reversals—the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those things that continue to exist and have value for us; ie Morality, it is to discover that truth or being do not lie at the root of what we know and what we are, but what we believe morality to be is no more than the exteriority of accidents.
Morality (that overused political depth charge) does not resemble the evolution of a species and does not map the destiny of a people. On the contrary, to follow the complex course of descent in say something like morality is to maintain passing events in their proper dispersion; it is to identify the accidents, the minute deviations—or conversely, the complete reversals—the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those things that continue to exist and have value for us; ie Morality, it is to discover that truth or being do not lie at the root of what we know and what we are, but what we believe morality to be is no more than the exteriority of accidents.
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