Page 91 - GALIET KAFKABEL JOB, KANT AND MILTON: Omnipotence, Impotence and Rebellion IV+

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At the infinite crisscross, the Theatre of the Infinite Absurd, of injustice and tyranny, cannot be a universalized. The triumph of impotence belongs to enlightened Josef K’s for defending Kant’s categorical imperatives that do not morally permit the universalization of tyranny, and for advocating Milton’s libertarian ideals that foster liberty against oppression, and that applauds spirits that revolt to resist subjection to depose tyrant Kings or Magistrates. The Triumph of Impotence does not belong to Job, as Cox asserts. Josef K resists committing the suicide the Court presses upon him on his last hour (T231). When Job submits, he eternally returns to sin and to the same master – slave morality he valiantly deplored. To return to it, is to return to its key Deity, Yahweh, the two faced. Dealer of simultaneous good and evil, Yahweh dispossesses and restores, covering up His crimes under the pretext of “Mercy or Reward.”
To accept that which must not be accepted; to humble one’s gaze by that which abuses power and tyrannizes; to bow down and hastily abdicate when one must rise; to remain silent when one must go on rebelling against a tyrannizing Yahweh (Job), or against a despotic Judge (K), who 3⁄4 legislating beneath the pretence of justice and munificent apparent restoration, whether permanent or temporary 3⁄4 shrinks the human to the infrahuman by advocating an infinite regression towards the mistruths of original sin and its oppression.
Beyond the twilight, there is a faint glimmer that beckons, and there, in the nearing of light, K’s unjust death is sublimated to a noble death. Lost amidst the infinitely vast and small, Josef K trembles, like the parting waters, around a small island in the glittering moonlight (T228), yet endeavours his mind to remain calm and analytical (T228). A mind noble and grand that belongs to the altar of idealism, as if a lupin blossom, or Foucault’s sunflower. Josef K hoped to live to the last hour (T231), and in his valiant heroism, rejecting the Absurd, he abides by Kant’s categorical imperatives and by Milton and Republicanism’s commonwealth ideals. He valiantly defends the autonomous rights of non-domination and non-interference (politically), and the return to innocence (immanently) in the life of Jesus, the immanent prophet and man. Thus moved, Josef K, the Lupin of the Lupin Fields, and Liberty’s sunflower, moves us deeply to weeping.
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