A literary example of pose/poise (perhaps):
"Instead of asking how things are in fact, and how one could possibly find out, one wonders mostly whether one has got the author's point; and if one thinks one has, one may even feel superior to those who have not.
Speaking in Kierkegaard's terms, one might say that Buber makes it all too easy for his readers to avoid his ethical challenge by adopting an aesthetic orientation."
--Walter Kaufmann (Preface to Martin Buber's I and Thou)
Does the hipster, (term here used as a substitute for any/all alternative youth lifestyles), adopt an heir of superiority because they believe that they understand the ubiquitous author's point? Have they thus adopted an aesthetically oriented life that is masked by inauthentic ethical, or social aims, lifestyles, and means?
I posit that this may be the case not only of the alternative youth, but the acting puppeteer behind the complacent state of the country's marionette populous as a whole. Kaufmann continues to say that Kierkegaard is guilty of the fallacy as Buber. We as Senator's are perhaps the strongest proprietors of the aesthetic life in our romantically ethical outbursts against our peers, our education, our technology, and our age. And of course, are damn proud of it.
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Are we the strongest proponents of the aesthetic life on earth, maybe, we are Senators after all. But I fear this is the season of the ethical Jewish man working hard to feed his family. The homosexual aesthete in his dainty shoes and doily dress are not fit for our time. Our out bursts of the ethical are not in vain. The are the key to the honest anger that lies within us. "Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." M.A. It seems to me that the Kierkegaard aesthete is impotent when it comes to the honest angst ridden ethical out bursts. They lay in there bed trying to rotate crops (e or aesthetic) while Phallic ethicist stand the test of time, feeding their families and armed with the ethical right to indignation. The Jewish ethicist wins in the battle with the Kierkegaardian aesthete. Seasons have passed, new fruit is to be tasted, and bite into these fruits with great curiosity and enjoyment, for they rely on every previous season to taste as good as they taste.
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