Writing

Matter’s tendency toward entropy must be disrupted if ultramateriality is to push itself into the world. Ultramateriality is the surplus over and above the material. This temporal surplus is always pulled from within by the ever present weight of materiality to level its amplitude, to quiet its disruption. This pervasive pull encircles potentiality, limiting its flight, prescribing the inevitable decay of life’s orbit. To sustain life, ultramateriality must ceaselessly counteract its own encirclement. Since life must push against its own weight, suffering is. It must be, for suffering asserts not only itself; it is the surfacing of death. Since death is inside life, ultramateriality cannot surpress its emergence. To do so would deny life’s own preconditions. Instead, ultramateriality must persist in the face of death, willing to sustain suffering while pushing itself into the world. The will to persist comes through the acceptance of falleness. Death is not an exteriority which outstrips life, but the other way around. Life is the temporal surplus which elevates the ultramaterial above the equilibrium. This surplus generates the debt which must be repaid. Death recalls the surplus.

To breach the surfaces of existence, ultramateriality must ever equivocate between its physical and metaphysical dimensions of being. This equivocation exerts the psychic impetus necessary to rupture the superficies of temporality, whereby its subduction induces the upwelling of the smoldering passions stirring ever incessantly within. While that inner polymorphous magma is obfuscated by its contiguous surfaces, insofar as the crust of temporality cannot contain its psychic upthrust, human existence rests not on surface platitudes, but on the tensional tectonics of ultramateriality itself. Consequently, while the tension between the depths and surfaces of existence reverberate from the push/pull of interiority/exteriority, its deeper primordial resonance arises from the antithetical synthesis by which ultramateriality is constituted. Insofar as ultramateriality is the surplus, which overflows unto its material substrate and its toughness is that which suspends existence, it must, by its equivocation, transmute the physical/metaphysical divide into a psychophysical continuum if skirting the boundaries of being is to give meaning unto existence. Since the ability to breach the terrestrial divide is ours alone, those who cherish their humanity must traverse the metaphysical horizon within if the flames of care are to illuminate the abyss of the anaesthetic infinitude. To uncover the wondrous depths thence, layers of amalgamated excesses must be scrupulously scraped away to expose its silent splendor within.

In a universe so vast where humanity is not even a speck on a speck, existence itself is an indelible reminder of our own insignificance. Adrift in its unfathomable infinitude, being dangles ever tenuously athread the abyss. Isolated in this endless expanse, psyche spun a circuitous yearn to suspend its dread of emptiness, but that weave could not sustain the relentless drag of existence, ensnaring, thereby, spirit’s own demise in the tangle of its collapse. According to contemporary particle physics, microcosmic strings reverberates not from the invisible hand of God, but through their own proclivity towards entropy. Be it sub-atomic or intergalactic, matter’s cadence towards chaos echoes throughout the chasm in which existence is suspended. Contrary to diffusion theory, the universe end not with a whimper, but persists in its everlasting cacophony.

Because ultramatter is ever decaying, existence is beset by the pervasive intrusions of vulnerability. Thusly bereft, nihilism may seem to offer relief since its abyss can partially mask the quiet desperation of this carnal bondage. However, the diversion of nil leads inevitably to the withdrawal unto negativity. To affirm the positive, existence must embrace the congruence of ultramateriality and vulnerability, since it is their fusion, which gives tangibility to time within the matrix of eternity. Because ultramatter is the surplus, which flows from matter, it is suspended between the material and the spiritual. Caught between the timelessness of inert matter and the eternity of the divine, it is mandated by its destiny to reach, compelled by its inner calling to bridge the metaphysical gap, which separates the material and the spiritual. Striving is, therefore, not only a natural unfolding of its being, it is also the quintessential ethos that each of us must take to heart in order to confirm our own humanity.

Unfortunately this dream is not destined for success. Denied sufficient lift to transcend our falleness, its flight must fail. It must, for falling promises not the soaring epiphany of flight. Falling promises only the hope for flight, a hope sustained through relentless sacrifice. So intangible is virtue’s substance, that its essence cannot be grasped by ethics alone. Moral presence is sustainable only if the ethical is articulated by the accompaniment of aesthetics. Ushering morality into the world is not the responsibility of the heavenly angels. That duty rests upon their fallen brothers. Surprising as this may seem, it is not only so, but must be so, for virtue is not the descent of goodness from above. Virtue is an incarnation from within. It is ultramateriality, which calls forth virtue’s flight. It is mortality, which reaches for its substance.