Irony? I don't think so. Paradox maybe, but again, this depends upon your own doxa. This is not ironic. Rather, the sentence you quoted is an attempt to change the ontological status of the relationship between the ego and the totality of beings (i.e., the cosmos, community, collective, etc.). In particular, I'm trying to apply the phenomenological insights of Jean-luc Nancy to the task of reframing the sense of community. It seems that community can include all beings (in the individuality and totality) insofar as the operation of such inclusion is explicitly inoperative. This sense of an inoperative operation of community is the sense of the world. Because breaks and ruptures are essential to its constitution, an inoperative community can include things which are, as such, impossible to include (i.e., things which are outside the horizon of human community in the traditional sense, including supposedly non-human things like stones, water, animals, plants, deities, subtle or astral energies, etc.).
Inoperative, a community is always already including into itself that which is other than itself. In terms of the shamanic ontology I alluded to, we are dealing with a community constituted an essential porosity of relations between accessible and inaccessible realms of being. Porous boundaries mark the inoperative community, and shamanic healing operates with this same porous contact.
If I could be in a group, a collective, a community.... because I am currently not in any group, collective, community... such a group is impossible. It cannot operate properly whatsoever.
My use of the phrase critical question owes much to Adorno and Habermas, but I'm not going to bore you with more details.
Inoperative, a community is always already including into itself that which is other than itself. In terms of the shamanic ontology I alluded to, we are dealing with a community constituted an essential porosity of relations between accessible and inaccessible realms of being. Porous boundaries mark the inoperative community, and shamanic healing operates with this same porous contact.
If I could be in a group, a collective, a community....
because I am currently not in any group, collective, community...
such a group is impossible. It cannot operate properly whatsoever.
My use of the phrase critical question owes much to Adorno and Habermas, but I'm not going to bore you with more details.
In any case, I don't think we know what irony is.
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