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[2] ai.viXra.org:2509.0039 [pdf] submitted on 2025-09-13 22:17:24
Authors: Hamid Javanbakht
Comments: 12 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed references)
This essay develops a hermeneutical model of American democracy through nine interpretive levels, parallel to Islamic transitive hermeneutics as presented in From Submission to Exegesis: Transitive Islamic Hermeneutics and the Metaphysics of Fulfillment. Within this framework, party politics emerges at Level 3, civic values at Level 4, and universality at Level 8. The central argument is that the current crisis of democracy lies in a fractured anticipation: the distortion of party politics and civic values in their attempt to leap prematurely into universal claims. Instead of preparing the way for genuine universality, primordial values are polarized and transvalued into exclusionary myths that sanction political violence. Drawing on Nietzsche’s notion of the transvaluation of values and contemporary debates on polarization and contentious politics, the essay argues that fractured anticipation transforms values meant to unify into weapons of division. The rhetoric of figures such as Charlie Kirk exemplifies this distortion, where appeals to liberty and patriotism mutate into justifications for exclusion and confrontation. By situating political violence within a hermeneutical ladder, the paper reframes America not as a static polity but as a process of interpretation whose fulfillment depends on transparent movement from politics through civic myth toward universal dignity, rather than its distortion into polarized violence.
Category: Social Science
[1] ai.viXra.org:2509.0014 [pdf] submitted on 2025-09-06 01:53:28
Authors: Hamid Javanbakht
Comments: 12 Pages.
This paper investigates how contemporary moral discourse particularly within digital forums and ideological spaces—deploys quasi-value statements to invert traditional moral categories. What appears as courage or transcendence is, in many cases, a ritual desecration of virtues such as kindness, love, and truth. Analyzing a symbolic threat embedded in sodomitic metaphor—specifically, a violent response to calls for kindness—this study reveals how moral language is co-opted for the purposes of dominance and humiliation. Drawing on Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra, Weingartner and Haring’s value logic (especially the concept of E3 type evil), Zoroastrian dualism (asha vs. druj), and performative speech ethics, the paper argues that we are witnessing not new forms of virtue, but simulated moral authority parasitic on the values it mocks. This rhetorical desecration constitutes a shift from outright denial of kindness to its symbolic inversion—and requires urgent philosophical and spiritual vigilance.
Category: Social Science