Originally Posted by
Bertrand
although Singu abuses the notion sometimes, individuals have dignity precisely because their reality doesn't depend on what some consensus bound theory about reality and what in turn that theory says about them. in some sense they are bound by laws whether they like it or not such as gravitation, but they're free to come up with new laws, which is precisely how the old laws were generated in the first place. it was always some individual trying to do better, and only later did the collective recognize it. so it has to be this way, that the laws don't conclusively determine another person's reality so much as set the objective values the society they're surrounded by is governed with, i.e.: the rules they've accepted as a collective. they can impose these rules unto death but the point is with every new generation the ability to overturn them is born again. its in that sense you can see Singu's statements are simply an acknowledgement of his own personal concession to the collective, i.e.: personal statements of values giving up complete authority to the state. in essence the collective defines for him what is true, and in a certain sense that is the necessary counterstroke to his radical subjectivity. you could say all that talk is just that, because we have a person who ultimately does not really abide by their own message, which is precisely why the message is so overblown, this is precisely whats known as split mind where the two halves diverge strongly, albiet in some sense unconsciously. I suppose all this behavior seems perfectly normal, as it tends to from the point of view of the schizophrenic patient. this doesn't mean that people can't be wrong, but there's always a chance they're right. individual cases are less important because its this idea in principle that tells us about all theories, where they come from, reality, and the role of the individual as such