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Baruch Menache · Published Author · Poet · Playwright · Philosopher

Books about the structures behind inner and public life.

Philosophy, psychology, social theory, fiction, poetry, and drama brought together as one connected body of work, with selected writing published by independent literary outlets.

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The Soliloquist Journal

“Depreciation”

Published poetry

A separate poetry publication in The Soliloquist Journal, recorded independently from “Memory.”

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Spare Parts Literary

Twitching Hour

Published drama

A dramatic work presented on a dedicated “From the Desk of Baruch Menache” publication page.

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The Soliloquist Journal

“Memory”

Published poetry

A poetry publication in the journal’s Fall 2025 issue and a distinct editorial credit.

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Free-Range Kids

What Becomes of a Helicoptered Kid?

Published commentary

A first-person contribution on childhood autonomy, controlling parenting, and anxious adult supervision.

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The Pocket Poet

“Depreciation” & “Spring”

Accepted · Forthcoming

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Elevate Society · Independent review · 2026

Baruch Menache’s Podcast: Podcast Review

Independent coverage of the podcast and its psychology, philosophy, identity, culture, and social-theory themes.

Outlier’s Edge Podcast · Episode 825 · Sept. 1, 2025

Stop Predicting Start Acting Now

A guest appearance with Niiamah Ashong focused on acting under uncertainty and moving beyond prediction.

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@baruchmenache

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Amazon customer reviews · Celebrate Sex in Marriage

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Selected readings · 30 works

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Theory & nonfiction · 2026 · ~6.1 min

The Social Man

A Theory of Social Formation, Abstraction, and Social Structure

PART V: CONCEPTUALLITY · CHAPTER 5 — Conceptual Footprints and Existential Certainty

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Theory & nonfiction · 2026 · ~5.8 min

The Perceptual Person

Perception, Social Sequence, and the Architecture of Human Experience

PART I — FOUNDATIONS OF THE PERCEPTUAL PERSON · 1. The Perceptual Person: Transparency, Adherence, and the Law of Objects

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Theory & nonfiction · 2025 · ~6.3 min

Contemporary Politic

A Guide to the Structures Behind Modern Politics

Part I: What Makes Something Political: A Structural Inquiry · Chapter Two: Metaphor as the Basis for Political Conceptualization

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Politics & theory · selected reading · ~6.3 min

Politics Explained

Democracy, Power, Democratic Socialism, Revolution, and American Government

Selected from the shared political-theory text · Metaphor as the Basis for Political Conceptualization

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Theory & nonfiction · 2026 · ~5.9 min

Social Consequence

On Limits of Reverse Engineering in Social Systems

PART II: AGAINST REVERSE ENGINEERING: ON SUCCESSION, GENEALOGY, AND THE PSYCHE · 2.4 — Against Conflict as Method: Succession, Genealogy, and the Limits of Reverse Engineering

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Social Man

CHAPTER 5 — Conceptual Footprints and Existential Certainty

Mobility is prosperous for structural adaptation and it might be the only approach to gain inquiry into a structural habitat. The accession towards perceptual information gained by a structural formalization is simply an embodied footprint of that assembly. If one is removed from its participation, the only method is to conjecture and articulate a design that may or may not fit that mold. More so, they have no existential knowledge of its reality. Troubling, in fact, is the existential participation in the conceptual conjecture when there is no concurrent one available.

In such cases, it becomes necessary to extract a memory of likeminded existential experiences and apply themselves to that conceptual footprint. This is done with a fair amount of measure in the case of viewing a political framework, for which the average citizen bears little to no existential participation with the political echelon. Yet, through their conceptual participation via its various avenues, they perform an individualistic extraction of existential subjectification that fulfills that mold, allowing them to become aware of the conceptual footprint.

This enables an awareness and concern for the framework, since there is personal investment, despite the projection of some arbitrary existential memory to fulfill what would have been a true separation of conceptual and existential realms; an awareness that would otherwise remain devoid of animation. Thus, one infuses life via an existential alignment to the area of conceptual interest, enabling participation in that realm. However, they have never entered into its existential aspects, more so, the conceptual overview references the wrong substrates of existential certainty, as well as the wrong information about what would constitute the true existential experience. This, in turn, leads to a conceptual conjecture that is flagrantly disillusioned with that reality.

The reason existential knowledge is of paramount importance is that without it, the study would merely become a conceptual framework studying another conceptual framework; it doesn’t reach back into structural reality or existential certainty. It is like a fabricated version of initial events for a scientific discovery, which then builds a whole discipline of knowledge based on that discovery, only to eventually conclude that the initial discovery was a complete fabrication; thus disallowing any genuine value in relation to existential certainty and structural formality.

It may still retain purposeful study as a conceptual outflow, serving as a contextual library of logical formations that lead to further premises, whether they realign with reality or not. However, the case of structural adaptation cannot rely on a constant flow of conceptual overlays because they are simply unnerving to a structural environment, which cannot proceed with anything that does not relate to its existential certainty, especially considering that the generation of structural change is based on a high amount of inferences that lead back to social and existential preliminaries.

For example, a structure in the environment will be referenced from the public realm, of every individual who participates in that inference, whether internally or externally. This results in public perception based on individual participation. Throughout these proceedings, multitudes of social inferences dictate its properties, based on diverse sources and outcomes, all considered witnesses to its reality and the nature of its intrinsic makeup.

This is why structure cannot lie to the property of its existence: it has so many impartial witnesses who see only as they would, based on their continuing experience of the rest of their perceptual process. It is possible for a group of people to ascertain a structure to be of a certain regard, but because these people are in relation to others, or are referencing themselves on the backs of others who are diverse and don’t have that partialization — and then reflect back on the structure, it creates a feedback loop that always protects and ascertains the truth of that reality.

This is why existential certainty is most important: the structural environment is an existential certainty, and it can only be met with a coinciding existential certainty, which is found through structural integration. An individual cannot gain existential certainty by themselves, whether in relation to their views or how they proceed toward perception, but can come to understand the objective world, especially the structural environment, according to its rules and conjectures. This allows them to reflect back on themselves those existential certainties, which become rule-based within their personal environment.

For example, an existential certainty that if one moves an object, it moves, arises because of an infinite number of social references that would consider it the case, so that in their own realm, moving something becomes existentially certain. This conjecture can be applied to the eternal apparatus such that in moving one thought, it would be considered that the thought has moved, or moving a body part, it would again be considered a form of movement.

The existential certainty that arises is based on the conjectures of their adaptation to the structural environment, but only those that are mobile within the environment gain access to that notion. If one does not follow the mobility of their experience, such as in compelling something to arrive at the conjecture that it moves, it is because they are embedded in the experience of that movement based on its perceptual information. An undeveloped population would not notice the notion or articulation of the existential certainty of movement. They are residing within the experience of moving, such that there is no form of moving other than being at each increment, with no idea of what proceeds or goes forward from it.

Even if they look back and proclaim they’ve moved from one position to another, despite the perceptual environment being perceived as a truism of such paramount degree, they still lack the existential contrast of movement and would be forced to articulate it without fully understanding what that means. In their usual manner, they would not articulate it, but it is only possible to force that articulation based on our conjecture, which arises because we have prior knowledge of that very supposition.

This is why a simple interaction with an underdeveloped population transforms the conceptual footprint: even based on the preliminary conjectures preceding such questions, one is forced to articulate the very notion of existential certainty that, before these events, was simply a reality as they participated in it.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Corporeal Construct

Anatomy of the Corporal Construct

The corporal construct is one that animates itself according to its principles, and its fundamental principle is to articulate or exemplify sociality, whether as a whole or as social sentiment. It bears the namesake of sociality; it becomes beholden to the cause of sociality and its permutations, since, as the holder of that namesake, it has no access to its preliminary data.

It would be wrong to consider it simply the preeminence of corporal constructs, for it is, rather, the entire animation and procedure of the corporal process, and all other effects extend beyond the direct perception of sociality. There seems to be no other construct that is as dependent on sociality as the corporal process, since it reproduces itself, and by becoming, it must rely heavily on the original embodiment.

It can be the cause through which a corporal construct would succeed in discounting, discrediting, or disrupting the preliminary fact that lies behind the movements of its constructs, such that it seeks to be free of its shackles in an attempt to control the preliminary sociality. This is done in order to continue its internal process without major movement. It is only normal for a corporal construct to behave in this manner, because it is meant to act as the human and, eventually, in the role of the human, discount the actual human.

Whatever role one may take, inhabiting that role and recognizing its discrediting function to inhabit the role is to begin to take upon oneself an attempt to discredit the human endeavor upon which the role depends. The trajectory or proper direction of the corporeal construct reestablishes itself as the role that it performs and in the recognition that they are merely a namesake of sociality, to perform it fully, while remaining aware that duality exists and that its internal construct is without authentic reality. This is the reason that a corporeal construct continues to animate life both in breadth and scope; it articulates itself rather than disrupts the process, allowing for the entire procedure.

The problem arises when the namesake of "human" overtakes the sentimentality of the human; it proceeds to be the solution within itself, relying more heavily upon degenerate forms of human aspects which happen to be miscalculated and have become outsiders to corporal constructs.

In the event of corporal overhaul, all socially favored characters are tethered toward corporate procedures. The eventual outsider, who does not entangle with corporal process, may be among the most degenerate kinds of figures, for they notice societal process and thus become observers of civilization to be socially charged. For then, their entire sociality is reliant upon weakened forms, for all other forms are either incorporated into the corporal construct or discredited, such that what comes about is meager sociality; and thus the beginning stages of degenerate corporal procedure, for it is the rearticulation of diminished sociality.

There is a certain negative sentiment that arises from within a corporal construct with the subconscious realization that it has no effect on direct sociality, and certainly does not contain it, through which it is realized as simply a showcase of sociality and thus without purpose other than a third-party perspective. A first-person view of a corporal construct has no effect, whether on the person or the organization; it is only the third party, through whom the individual may ultimately take the helm, that gives a corporeal construct any purpose or rationale.

Although the corporal construct automatically distributes conscious sentiment or sociality, that distribution is not effective. This is not the individual distribution, nor the details of distribution, but rather the namesake and surface of social elements that are rearticulated in the corporal format. Without the intellectual details of that corporal construct, it is a codex that has no individual access and thus does not participate in decision-making or resolution.

The Corporeal Objective

The corporeal purpose, which becomes noticeable when neglected, is to provide stable reverberation from a vantage point that overlooks the corporeal representation. The only method for this to be accomplished is to depart the corporeal experience and enter a perspective upon the corporeal instance. This would mean a substantial degree of divergence from all first-person personhood, which may nevertheless justify the endeavor. Without the corporeal perspective, a continuous first-person narrative begins to become overbearing upon its own weight. This continuity obliges one to follow the rather arbitrary circumstance of individuality, within which a web of biases and disruptions produces failure through excessive centeredness.

The centric focus causes one to feel that they are at a loss to the continuum, where the ever-present system becomes oppressive by its means of regularity. Even as the first-person perspective is not an endeavor that seeks to uproot the whole experience, by virtue of being within that state, one becomes detached from the whole nature and begins to follow a very specific set of parameters that has been conjured by the mind against the good reason of a wholehearted system. Without ever having the opportunity of departure, all beneficial features of that state begin to take the appearance of an overlord, with each new demand as further evidence.

The continuity does not have the ulterior motive of creating the demand, but the inability to separate creates such an experience. With that being the case, one will reconstruct the entire centric system to move toward the ease that would allow them some repose. In this manner, one becomes a shadow of one’s former self, solely because the maintenance of continuous development is one that has become oppressive.

We find similar parallels with those who participate in continuous rumination, in which, without a proper separation, one begins to follow a very distinctive version of it; one that only follows the most essential aspects while neglecting the complete encounter. They do this because the effort required to sustain a complete encounter begins to appear oppressive, as there is no methodology for departure from the system, and without relief, individuals will choose to avoid an experience that would inevitably become irresolvable. This is the same in many other arenas of life, where the lack of a possibility for departure leads one to reconstruct the current system to be as idle as possible so that they never need to enter into a state that offers no resolution.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingPhilosophy of the Center of Civilization

The Universal Center –Consciousness and Biology

At the center of universal consciousness dissemination, this entity behaves in a peculiar manner. Due to the nature of its energy, it cannot translate into a biological singularity and is marked by colossal oversight. Critics argue that this trait makes it appear as a facade of a genuine center—suggesting that a more developed center would not exhibit such vulnerabilities. They typically fail to offer an alternative center against which their ideals might be challenged. This paradox of consciousness reveals that the most central locale is also the most removed from biological reception.

This is why the center demonstrates its uniqueness only through specific reflective offerings. When it attempts to stake a claim in more biological aspects, it devolves into a parody of itself. For example, clothing—a material element that is not fundamentally biological yet maintains a defined relationship to it—may lose its significance within a universal center. However, when clothing is imbued with a higher level of consciousness, the biological distance is offset. In response to the conscious needs of the moment, the locale that produces appropriate clothing measures is one that remains detached from the center while still interacting competently with it.

Undoubtedly, a more biological element, such as substance, will decline in the universal center, becoming rough on the palate as it attempts to savor something so detached from biological forces. Yet every individual remains bound to their biological center and requires a sense of that connection—even in the most universal locales. When there is an overemphasis on biology, however, the biological input needed during interactions with the universal element is minimized.

The measurement of biological compactness and expansiveness can be understood in terms of necessity. When necessity is great, the biological emphasis is minimal; for instance, if one must relieve oneself, that urgent need diminishes the importance of other biological aspects in the environment. As the body's immediate requirements ease, the environment assumes a relatively greater role. Similarly, sustenance is measured by its necessity—when it is critically needed, the specific contents and the context become secondary.

A universal center, therefore, demands only a minimal degree of biological attention to foster proper interaction. This might manifest as sustenance that is non-essential within the metabolic structure but still offers a hint of sweetness or bitterness. Such elements interact on a biological level without being central to core metabolic needs. Similarly, artistic presentations—which, though not biological necessities, portray elements of biological relation—lose their significance if they fail to connect to a biological element. For instance, abstract art expresses personhood and the mental experience of our system; yet its weak relation to biology means it lacks the vitality found in other artistic expressions.

The extent of biological emphasis is dictated by the necessity of the moment. In times of low necessity, the biological element is expanded; when necessity is high, it is minimized. However, at the universal center—where conscious material emanates at an accelerated rate—the biological component must always remain minimal. The question then becomes: how small? In some cases, even a mere aroma will suffice; in others, a metabolic ingestion might be required. We can never fully depart from the need for biological interaction. Even as conscious material flows faster than we can fathom, we remain bound to our biological centers, though this connection takes on a ceremonial form rather than constituting a major focus.

Another point to consider is the disintegration of beauty and splendor at the center of universality. The closer one approaches the center, the more its inaccessibility becomes apparent—its innate nature being ambiguous. This is comparable to sexuality, where a focus merely on procreation and bodily interaction can dilute its vitality and dynamism. Proximity creates a situation in which the essence cannot fully manifest through further interactions. Much like poetic prose, which assembles a vocabulary that obscures the objective, the final product diverges from its original aim. Although the prose may ostensibly reach the objective, much like the punchline of a joke, it loses the depth of sentimental value or, in the case of humor, its sensibility.

We easily grasp these final objectives—whether it be the punchline of a joke, the sentimental value of a prose piece, or the center of universality—without the need for further dissemination of their inherent value.

What is necessary, however, is the "download" of the objective: its dissemination pending every fissure of the psyche is engaged. For example, when approaching the objective within sexuality without diverse representations to guide us, we may achieve it in time but lack a persona to bring the interaction to life. To embody a complete persona—accounting for every facet of the psyche—there must be relatability across all diverse modes of interaction.

Consider, for instance, a simple prose phrase: "The crisp of Fall." The intent is to evoke the sentimental nature of the fall season. In doing so, the details might refer to the onset of cold that intermingles with hints of warmth, culminating in a sensation described as "crisp." Yet this is not the sole objective. The term "crisp" also denotes a state of food texture—perhaps reminiscent of a slightly overcooked state—and it pertains to the seasonal transition from summer to winter. These represent at least three distinct objectives, not to mention the sub-objectives that lead to them.

Rather than stating "Fall is crisp," we approach it from the perspective of "crisp," as if crispness itself brings about Fall, rather than simply characterizing it. In this way, the universal element of "crisp" interacts with the attributes of Fall, remaining ambiguous as to whether we are addressing the season or the concept of crispness. Typically, we balance the attribute of Fall with a counter-statement, ensuring the prose retains a deliberate ambiguity regarding its objective. Thus, every element of the psyche associated with "crisp" becomes relatable—be it the transition, food texture, cooking temperatures, the waning of Summer, or the onset of Winter. In navigating these multiple objectives, we approach a final, ultimate objective that remains inherently ambiguous. The prose loses its effect if it becomes overly ambiguous, resulting in a lack of clear outcome, merely representing an endless abyss.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingElements of Civilization

Interactive Structure

The Interactive Pocket and the Loss of Consciousness

To define the interactive structure, we elaborate on its themes. The core premise of the interactive system—or "pocket"—is that it is siphoned off from conscious life. Without the lifeblood of that force, the next available entity on the conscious continuum is the interactive pocket. This phenomenon automatically manifests when there is a direct loss of conscious life. In a sense, consciousness arises from an interactive system that, upon its demise, reverts to its preliminary stage.

In this stage, there is no unity, cohesion in thought, or interactions. Thus, we call it the interactive structure because it permits any interaction but does not foster the cohesion of interactions. It serves as a playground for consciousness, beckoning points on the continuum that are worthy of further engagement and promising an elaboration capable of unifying all aspects of reality.

The mental landscape in this state is one of blindness, with momentary flashes of light that quickly fade back into darkness. When these fleeting epiphanies occur, they promise continuous light and stability—a reflection of the natural desire for a stable home ground where all interactive elements cohere.

Ironically, the homebody is the primary interactive pocket that proves its value only as a point of interaction, not as a bearer of full consciousness. Thus, the homebody is naturally "homeless" relative to the stability provided by the interactive structure through consciousness. We assume the opposite only since a homebody structure is situated within a repository of consciousness—such as a civilized locale embodying consciousness—the home receives that consciousness. However, being a repository causes the home, as an interactive system, to lose stability. This reception permits the world to enter without halting the process, ultimately leading to the home being overtaken by the civilized world. It then becomes no longer interactive but merely a stable point within consciousness. Although this might seem utopian, quite the contrary ensues: the need for continuous change and stability within consciousness leads to a distaste for the home structure.

Consciousness is an ever-flowing entity, and adhering to a single locality for stability will either mark it as lacking interaction—thus losing vitality—or force it into a perpetual repetition of its interactions. For an ever-flowing entity, the mobility of stability is essential. Otherwise, any overstimulated stability will lose its connection to consciousness and seek haphazard points on the continuum for revitalization.

The Homebody as a Repository of Mutilated Consciousness

This dynamic causes the home to become a repository of consciousness that has been mutilated—a state arguably worse than having no consciousness at all. Mutilated consciousness represents the transitional process between conscious aliveness and the interactive structure that precedes full consciousness. In this transitory stage, it is both alive and not alive; its offerings may be repetitive and lack true cohesion, yet still provide enough stimulation to the senses. It becomes vivid for the senses while remaining confusing and complicated for intellectual elaboration. It can both eradicate and revive the same element without explanatory justification. Thus, mutilated consciousness occurs in the homebody at the epicenter of embodied consciousness, which has become the primary source of stability.

Yet this runs counter to the nature of the homebody as an interactive structure. In an embodied consciousness locale, it serves as a necessary interactive space distinct from the surrounding consciousness. A barrier prevents its continuation, ensuring that whatever occurs inside remains interactive—as if consciousness does not extend beyond it. Stability in external consciousness is found in other locales, leaving the homebody unused in that capacity.

The great benefit of an interactive structure is that it does not sway personhood toward any higher ideal or ordeal. Anything can be experienced—or nothing—as there is no unified system to gravitate toward or away from. This lends the structure a playground-like quality. In a playground, various forms of play are accepted without judgment; it is a unified space for any expression or activity, free from the strict terms that drive a child toward a rigid system of play. While maturity may later classify certain forms of play as more transcendent, from a child's perspective, all play is fruitful. Over time, however, we acknowledge that some pathways of play lead to grand maturity while others foster regressive behaviors that limit the broadening of personhood.

Yet when an interactive point on this endless continuum is stereotyped, it comes to be seen as the final consciousness being sought. This is similar to a child who continually engages with one form of play, eventually equating the entire playground with that single activity—rendering them blind to all other possibilities. Even when one is aware that this is only a single point on a continuum, physicality will often subconsciously treat that point as the manifestation of all other points. In this way, physicality triumphs over conceptual attempts to downplay a single point of play. The drive toward continuous interaction integrates into the psyche as a byproduct of one's own consciousness.

Consciousness is the end product of any interaction, which distinguishes sensibility through its incorporation with personhood. For instance, when one interacts intimately with another, aspects of that person become embedded in one's personal consciousness. This reception of material is the source of positive emotions due to its relevance to overall personhood. It imparts a sense of centricity and unity. The notion of intimate exchange is, in essence, the reception of consciousness from the most relevant points. Although consciousness itself may lie dormant during the exchange, the sense of personhood is keenly felt.

One might argue that consciousness is not a discrete component, since one does not typically reflect on its associations during such exchanges. Even when there is a consciousness exchange—much like that between an infant and a mother—only the mother is conscious of it, while the infant simply receives it without awareness. An intimate exchange with a partner performs a conscious exchange but would almost become sterile if one party acted in a detached, self-conscious manner. This is because the exchange would lose sincerity if perceived from an external, self-conscious perspective. The exchange does not arise from absolute personhood, nor does it incentivize a conscious overview. The only existentially binding exchange occurs when there is a lapse in the conscious overview, allowing personhood to follow its movements without interference.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Nature of Approach

Chapter Two: THE EXISTENTIAL MIDDLE GROUND

We must first introduce the idea of existentialism. In this case, or in this context, it is the two extremes, that of existential participation and that of non-existential participation. This would constitute what would be demanding of the entire psyche imprintation, and as such, will continue whether one utilizes psychological tools or other apparatuses.

In the other case, it is the non-existential participation. It is the psychological habituation that is without connotation of a further imprintation other than the end result of that process. It is not bound to the existential nature of the individual. That is, we are assuming there is a plateau of existential reality and such that is beyond that. For example, what would be generational memory is existential to the individual who partakes in that generational memory. It is existential because it took part in a layer of psychological habituation that can further be premised as an existential imprintation.

This would be the introductory context of existential participation, which imprints the psyche further than any socialization or psychological behavior which can uproot such. There is context in which it can be reimagined, rearticulated, participated in its inverse state, or other processes, but so long as it is an interpretation, it stays at some level in the foundational elements of one’s psychological makeup. It might even be considered physiological, but we are not in the scientific area of study to produce the evidential nature. We can at least term it as a construct and is existent at a level of imprintation that is beyond articulation or expression. That is, expression can utilize it, and articulation can make note of it, but it will not be, in its fundamental sense, the end result of that source material.

Once established in this context, we can continue to understand the discussion at hand, which is the middle ground between existential participation and non-existential participation. Because of the vastness of difference between existential impartation and what is not so, one would succumb to the result of attempting existential participation without the consequence; attempting a middle ground of substantiation that would not be considered outside of an imprintation, but as well is not the expensed complexity that comes along with existential participation.

There is not only validation, but also a true premise of creation. It defines what is to become further from it. It is based on influencing measures around such premises so that this middle ground would offer something distant from that, in addition to being consequential in some regard; not to be considered a happenstance of the psyche.

There is also the inability or consequence of existential imprintation based on environmental habitat. If one is not in a socialized environment, they cannot materially manifest an existential participation because they are not in a socialized arena. They are rather marginalized in some context that does not allow for the intersection of such, so that even in the attempt of existential imprintation, would produce this middle ground of, at some level, existential, but at another level, not so. It is both an inquiry of this middle ground in terms of the intention, or the organic function that creates the middle ground based on environmental restrictions.

For example, in a deep winter or a time of rehabilitation without a true socialized process, whatever intersection attempts to take place, even if personal, it is not imprinted as an existential reality for the psyche, since it requires a level of socialization. It is rather going to be this middle ground, since one is believed to be imprinting an existential reality based on the personal circumstance or on the attempt to do so.

Thus, we have before us the middle ground, the appropriation of, at some level, existential material, although not in its true imprintation. In this state, it is rather a platform position of what would be existential participation if the parameters were set properly, both personally and environmentally. It is bridged in itself, encapsulated as a positioned authority of a would-be existential reality. It is believed to be, or it is attempted to be, and in that way remains in the limbo state of in-between realms.

It is as if one acts as the bridge between the psyche as a permeating substance and the existential imprintation, and that bridge has now been activated. As with any bridge, it is treated in this manner so that, in furthering its premise, what we would have called an immobile position between authorities can be developed by articulating its destination, such that it is not the bridge itself, but the destination that the bridge serves.

That is a way in which one realizes the existential middle ground in a further state of existential participation, that is, when the environment and personal basis are available for such an intersection. Until then, it is a bridged authority that serves as a distant premise from either the permutations of the psyche or of true existential impartation.

The other manner in which this can be alleviated is through denigration. Just as a bridge reaches its destination, it arrives from an origin—distant from that destination, so that the bridge can be removed by denigrating its process. It has only been platformed in association with what would be an imprintation at a further date. But as of yet, it is still platformed with little authoritative juxtaposition to that aspect. By denigrating it, one cannot realize the psyche permutation that is laid beneath it, to simply articulate in what way this is not an existential imprintation. However, if it is not easy enough to denigrate, for it has been created as a deviation from regular process, then the denigration must constantly arrive in every attempt of its aspect, so that it finally is realized as merely a bridge and happenstance of consequence rather than purpose.

The true problem in this developmental process is the lack of utility in either direction, in which one remains steadfast in middle ground, as though it were an existential imprintation; it does not need to be furthered in its premise toward a true imprintation, or it needs to be denigrated to allow for psychological process in its normalized state. At that event, one becomes habituated in this avoidance of true existential demarcation, lacking the sensitivity of what constitutes a true marker, becoming more entrenched in the appearance of such.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Perceptual Person

1. The Perceptual Person: Transparency, Adherence, and the Law of Objects

There is the possibility of an individual emulating the environment, specifically the perceptual realm, and in doing so, enlighten to the happenstance of being an 'object.' This is not correlated to the common term of objectification that is used to determine the commodification of an individual, where the object is in view of its marketability. This is the concurrent view of the subjective itself, not as distinct from reality, or as an individual per se, but as an object mirrored and conclusive of the environment.

The first question is: what object of nature is the mirroring to take effect, and the answer is all objects are just as likely to be mirrored. The individual has been distanced from the notion of being an individual, and by doing so is subjectively viewed as they were the objects they perceive, or more adeptly, that the perceptual realm flows through them and beyond them.

That perception, as a single modality of the psyche is not concerned, and it would not even be viewed as a realm within alternative realms. The perceptual being merely views themselves through a glass that sees beyond and before them, all without them. The contradiction of both being transparent within the perceptual realm and their specific experience, which automatically has it determined as singular; fixed through a justification of nature.

For even in the objects of nature there is distinctness, yet all viewed as a singular perceptual expanse; the subjective self merely one of those objects. If we were to imagine the subjective view of an object, this is the perspective most likely to be entertained, since the object is part of the vastness of perceptual sequence, yet somewhat of a distinctness for being a singular object, thus engineering themselves as translucent at the behest of that individualistic position, which in all consequence is not individualistic.

The question of intention is not available since this perspective takes precedence over will and thus intention; rather, it is the question in what way individuality manifests itself despite the perspective, or more accurately in how it fails and disrupts its process.

We can find this very aspect in the process of general objects, where its individuality is most manifested when it endures a structural change, for the brick is now a building, compelling the object to manifest individuality of either the preliminary brick or how it becomes the new identity of the building.

In this way, individuality is chanced upon through outside forces, which has this perspective quite vulnerable to the sequence of the perceptual realm. Having been completely reliant on the transparency of the perceptual realm, simplistic change to that arena has the individual notice their individuality prior to that change, and more so, in what way they begin to adhere to this new perceptual process.

Thus, two very primary traits become its modality: one, perceptual adherence; and two, perceptual vulnerability. We must form a distinction with the social man, who is vulnerably subjected to sociality, and in this case is merely perceptual change: change of an environment vs. change of relationship.

In the case of the social man, the relationship material is very significant to their selfhood, while for the perceptual person, it is barely noticed as a consequence. It is only when there is a structural change that is offset with a social aspect that both are noticed, e.g., change of environment or relationship.

(The social man is discussed in length in another work; The Social Man, and suffice for our terminology is one who follows social processes irrespective of anything other than concurrent sociality. Sociality would be defined as the articulation of a social being in its exemplified state and as part of a social process. A social process would be defined by its streamlined public effectuation in regard to the performance of individuals in consequence to other individuals, but is also that which allows the psyche to benefit from its manifestation in the aggregated version of its interpretative data of other social beings throughout its developmental process. It would benefit the reader if they treated ‘The Social Man’ as an introductory work.)

Relationships and sociality are least interesting of all, for it is not perceptually noticed and is rather something that defies the structural reality. It is viewed as bothersome for its intrusiveness, or worse, its disruption of the sequence of the perceptual realm, e.g., a person disturbing the public. Yet such an example is not precise enough, although the relational aspects of such an occurrence would be of inconsequential; the perceptual object is causing friction by not following the law of perceptual continuity, more than a disruption it is consequential to their view of selfhood and reality.

The law of object is such: the perceptual arena (of which there is no other) is in service to each other. That is, despite nature proving to the contrary, and might be scientifically proven, such a law still remains steadfast. Since they are not aggregating the data of each perceptual form, but are viewing the entire process as a single sequence, as long as it remains sequential it performs as it should, and selfhood follows along the process.

There is no availability of logic because the transparency of the perceptual merging is without individuality and, more so, its mental capacity. In some way they are correct for the supposition; if we were to view the perceptual realm for the first time (assuming that is possible), it will be viewed as sequential and something that is sequential. When we view a photograph, we view its entirety, unless we have a predetermined aspect. The perceptual realm serves as complete unless directed otherwise. This is the law of the perceptual process and might be more aligned with logicality. Since the perceptual realm is reliant on that modality, it follows those laws, despite what nature manifests from its innate state.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingContemporary Politic

Chapter Two: Metaphor as the Basis for Political Conceptualization

There is a prevalence of a sort of national entity because the political structure is the oversight of all other systems. There is nothing higher than that, and the oligarchic or cooperative systems are only dependent on the primary political structure. They retain a sort of premise that follows their own parameters but remain under the political system, while the political sphere includes them as but a single part of all other systems. This can sometimes be misconstrued as the primary reality structure instead of genuine actualization, owed to this premise of regulating all other systems. We presume, because it acts like any other system, it is an agent like all others, but in reality, there is no agent nor agency.

The only reason that a political structure exists at all is because a sociality permeates that existence. We could say that at any given time, political structures fade into oblivion for their lack of social agreement, and others are constructed due to their social stimulation. Not all systems are reliant on sociality, for instance, a neighborhood, city, or other geographical establishment. These are both reliant on sociality and concrete elements. There is a border between houses, neighborhoods, and cities, and this border does not act as a border but rather as the existential experience of individuals. One gains a sense of the border of their abode because of both the external sensibilities that claim external ground and because one can only "download" their abode to a particular direction and limitation.

The same can be said for residents of a city, where each negotiates their abodement and such settlement of their ownership of the city. A country or political organization does not retain individual residence because it is a conceptual organization that usurps other systems but does not possess personalization. Even if one were to reside on its border, they would not experience a personal sentiment toward the border, as there is no natural negotiation; only the enforcement of the political structure. The neighborhood, town, city, and other infrastructures built from multitudes of individuations are negotiated daily as to what constitutes externalities and their degree of externality.

The change of season could have a city move from one location to another, afforded by the individuals who take up an abodement to constitute the existential experience of the city. The topic of how that occurs is for another occasion.

Therefore, the major cities of a political system are always in conflict with the political system, because on one side is an existential abodement of individuals and their biological experiences, and the other is a system that does not relate to the individual yet retains oversight of the city. Until the institution of a political entity, there is only the city, which is regulated not by consideration of a constitution or effective governance but by its internal sociality. Similar to how a neighborhood of some moral standing can govern itself without the need of external parties; based on biological necessity, willing negotiation, and all the social exchanges necessary for righteous dealings.

When the city moves beyond that process, it resembles what is very similar to a stock exchange, a mirror city that overlays the real city, and exchanges and governs from that simulation. This simulation has enough connections to the real arena that it is taken seriously by all. When the stock loses its value, it is either recalibrating with the real entity or revealing that the connection between the simulation and the real entity is severed.

The political entity acts in the same manner: it follows the circumstances of the "neighborhood" but does so from the vantage of a conceptual landscape, mirroring the processes which occur beneath its rubric. The individual can never truly connect with the political process of the city or neighborhood, but can reside and abode in the realm, revealing a certain social experience that parallels others yet remains deeply personal and ever-changing.

We must notice when a social dialogue discusses a neighborhood, city, or state from the standpoint of abodement; where biological circumstances are negotiated to differentiate this from discussions rooted in market illustrations. The issue is apparent in market discourse, where even the language mirrors that of real entities. The real market is a social infrastructure for the exchange of goods within a geographical locale, whereas the financial market is a simulation of that reality.

When an entity is described as "valuable," it represents a simulation of its value, not an internal valuation. This is difficult to calculate, as such value might include unquantifiable amenities that cannot be liquidized or recognized. Thus, an avid market reader must follow both the simulated value as well as the entity itself, since there may be discord between public interest and internal reality.

Anyone who dwells in a real entity in relation to its market perception cannot fully reflect the simulation of their establishment, not due to excessive knowledge, but because of their biological attachment that cannot be reflected upon. They are experiencing the internal system and cannot take a detached view of its simulation. Even if they attempt such, they will only to fail at properly understanding its realm due to their existential attachment. Those in the market exchange recognize not to be existentially involved in ventures, as this would cause an abundance of information, losing the simulating character, creating a blend that causes fault in both categories.

This is why someone who dwells in the city can never discuss the city, or they could, but it would be improper information, as they are recording a milieu of sociality that does not concern the thing itself but rather its simulation. Only the political oversight of the city can view it from that vantage and make judgments, just as the analyst speculates about organizations.

This is most true for the state's political structure, which has the furthermost oversight and thus is the most simulated compared to the real entity it claims to govern. Within this simulation of political conceptualization, there is still a certain gain from personal attachment. While there is no direct mirror to the real entity on the ground (for at least the city's political entity simulates the real city), the political entity of a state does not have a "real state" for the ground; it is made up of real entities, simulations, and other systems, all bundled into what is called the political entity.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingPolitics Explained

Chapter Two: Metaphor as the Basis for Political Conceptualization

There is a prevalence of a sort of national entity because the political structure is the oversight of all other systems. There is nothing higher than that, and the oligarchic or cooperative systems are only dependent on the primary political structure. They retain a sort of premise that follows their own parameters but remain under the political system, while the political sphere includes them as but a single part of all other systems. This can sometimes be misconstrued as the primary reality structure instead of genuine actualization, owed to this premise of regulating all other systems. We presume, because it acts like any other system, it is an agent like all others, but in reality, there is no agent nor agency.

The only reason that a political structure exists at all is because a sociality permeates that existence. We could say that at any given time, political structures fade into oblivion for their lack of social agreement, and others are constructed due to their social stimulation. Not all systems are reliant on sociality, for instance, a neighborhood, city, or other geographical establishment. These are both reliant on sociality and concrete elements. There is a border between houses, neighborhoods, and cities, and this border does not act as a border but rather as the existential experience of individuals. One gains a sense of the border of their abode because of both the external sensibilities that claim external ground and because one can only "download" their abode to a particular direction and limitation.

The same can be said for residents of a city, where each negotiates their abodement and such settlement of their ownership of the city. A country or political organization does not retain individual residence because it is a conceptual organization that usurps other systems but does not possess personalization. Even if one were to reside on its border, they would not experience a personal sentiment toward the border, as there is no natural negotiation; only the enforcement of the political structure. The neighborhood, town, city, and other infrastructures built from multitudes of individuations are negotiated daily as to what constitutes externalities and their degree of externality.

The change of season could have a city move from one location to another, afforded by the individuals who take up an abodement to constitute the existential experience of the city. The topic of how that occurs is for another occasion.

Therefore, the major cities of a political system are always in conflict with the political system, because on one side is an existential abodement of individuals and their biological experiences, and the other is a system that does not relate to the individual yet retains oversight of the city. Until the institution of a political entity, there is only the city, which is regulated not by consideration of a constitution or effective governance but by its internal sociality. Similar to how a neighborhood of some moral standing can govern itself without the need of external parties; based on biological necessity, willing negotiation, and all the social exchanges necessary for righteous dealings.

When the city moves beyond that process, it resembles what is very similar to a stock exchange, a mirror city that overlays the real city, and exchanges and governs from that simulation. This simulation has enough connections to the real arena that it is taken seriously by all. When the stock loses its value, it is either recalibrating with the real entity or revealing that the connection between the simulation and the real entity is severed.

The political entity acts in the same manner: it follows the circumstances of the "neighborhood" but does so from the vantage of a conceptual landscape, mirroring the processes which occur beneath its rubric. The individual can never truly connect with the political process of the city or neighborhood, but can reside and abode in the realm, revealing a certain social experience that parallels others yet remains deeply personal and ever-changing.

We must notice when a social dialogue discusses a neighborhood, city, or state from the standpoint of abodement; where biological circumstances are negotiated to differentiate this from discussions rooted in market illustrations. The issue is apparent in market discourse, where even the language mirrors that of real entities. The real market is a social infrastructure for the exchange of goods within a geographical locale, whereas the financial market is a simulation of that reality.

When an entity is described as "valuable," it represents a simulation of its value, not an internal valuation. This is difficult to calculate, as such value might include unquantifiable amenities that cannot be liquidized or recognized. Thus, an avid market reader must follow both the simulated value as well as the entity itself, since there may be discord between public interest and internal reality.

Anyone who dwells in a real entity in relation to its market perception cannot fully reflect the simulation of their establishment, not due to excessive knowledge, but because of their biological attachment that cannot be reflected upon. They are experiencing the internal system and cannot take a detached view of its simulation. Even if they attempt such, they will only to fail at properly understanding its realm due to their existential attachment. Those in the market exchange recognize not to be existentially involved in ventures, as this would cause an abundance of information, losing the simulating character, creating a blend that causes fault in both categories.

This is why someone who dwells in the city can never discuss the city, or they could, but it would be improper information, as they are recording a milieu of sociality that does not concern the thing itself but rather its simulation. Only the political oversight of the city can view it from that vantage and make judgments, just as the analyst speculates about organizations.

This is most true for the state's political structure, which has the furthermost oversight and thus is the most simulated compared to the real entity it claims to govern. Within this simulation of political conceptualization, there is still a certain gain from personal attachment. While there is no direct mirror to the real entity on the ground (for at least the city's political entity simulates the real city), the political entity of a state does not have a "real state" for the ground; it is made up of real entities, simulations, and other systems, all bundled into what is called the political entity.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingSocial Consequence

2.4 — Against Conflict as Method: Succession, Genealogy, and the Limits of Reverse Engineering

There are two approaches to a system or scheme of things in accessing its essence or proprietary knowledge base. One follows the ideation of its succession, which leads to its result, and the other follows the results in retrospect of its succession.

This is to say a natural order that we can follow a result based on succession, or based on its resulting status; following its successive order based on that reference. We can understand this in the case of, for example, machines, where we can either reverse engineer a process in which we are not viewing the ideation or the way the process has been made, but only how each point reflects back to the other point until we are made aware of the whole property.

The benefit of reverse engineering, which is usually seen as the second of the two, is that one gains access to how it exemplifies itself as a resultant property. For example, if we reverse engineer an engine, we understand the dynamic force between two corresponding parts and, in that way, become aware of how they reflect continuation as a result of a composite. If we attempt to view the engine based on its designing properties, in which we follow the ideation until creation, where the final product is only the result of a continuous succession of iterative and distinctive aspects which finally make their way to completion, we do not understand how the resulting properties intersect with each other as a force. We only know how it came together based on an ideation of creation.

A more generic example is following the child and their composition, or how they stand in their characteristics, to understand its origin, its fatherly characteristics. Or we can follow the genealogy of the child to understand the child, but we are lost to the resulting characteristics in lieu of how he was created. For example, in the study of psychology, and specifically the psychoanalyst in session with a patient, it is automatically a reverse engineering of their character and psychic habits rather than its succession, or the way it came about. One does not reflect on matters pertaining to the creation of that psychic manifestation, but rather on the way aspects of the psyche intersect with each other. One can use a ruler based on an educational perspective so that we understand how opposing forces interact, but we are reversing the resulting manifestation of the child. We do not understand the child per se or its creative ingenuity as a composite system, nor are we interested in such. But then we are at last led to a complex societal genealogy through which this child came about, more so to follow the child so that we gain access to specific dynamic forces within them as they manifest. The result is such that we only know the exemplary traits that are manifest and that intersect at other points within the child's psychic behavior, rather than the wholeness or composite behavior of the psyche.

When we reverse engineer something, we are only concerned with how intersecting parts take place according to their precedent, but we do not view the aspects that are not in opposition or in exchange with resulting behavior. So that a child without any symptoms, or a patient without any symptomatic behavior, is not viewed by the psychoanalyst as anything other than an ordinary human being, for it is only in conflicting metrics that we follow the sequence of exchangeable material between two distinct happenstances of the psyche, specifically in how they dramatically conflict, through which we now understand the psyche in its reverse engineering. We are specifically looking for conflict itself rather than anything else, because that is where the exchange occurs. And if there is no conflict, then we do not understand the psyche. That is, psychology has never made a breakthrough in understanding the psyche outside of its conflicting measures, and rather only in its symptomatic aspects, which imagines a conflict that is attempting to mend based on the reverse engineering of its process.

Because the method of social exchange exists only if distinctive forces come together unresponsive to each other before the mechanism of exchange takes place, it is only in its conflicting parts that we reverse engineer to find its composite picture. The aggressive mode of exchange is not conflict per se, but it is distinctive, so that in retrospect we need to view what would be the case of conflict. We look at a screw and in what way it would be in conflict, what is beyond it, and in that way we understand its succession. We do not truly understand the succession in terms of its complex development, but we do understand what would be its conflicting force based on the methodology of understanding within the realm of conflict. One understands that a structure would be in conflict with what is outside of it, so that we could reverse engineering a structure by understanding its conflicting property in terms of what is external to it. We have not understood the structure fundamentally, since every structure can be critiqued as such, but only that we understand a point at which conflict would occur and thus must take place as an exchange in order for the structure to become existent.

The same can be said for psychology, for we understand that one's proprietary base of extension is going to be in conflict with their broader development as a mature individual; that there is a preliminary base, a foundation upon which a person is built, which will always be in conflict with what is beyond that. As such, we can conclude that in every human being conflict exists, and thus assume a basis in which the foundational aspect is in exchange with what is current. This does not give us access to the composite individual as a complete psyche, yet we understand the aspects of conflict that exist in the psyche as it is, and thus in a way understand how the exchange took place.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingEnvironment and the Individual

Chapter 1: Residency as Objective Mediation Between Environment and Individuality

Once availability of residency is going to decide a determined interaction with the environment, even as residency and general domestication are a consequence of at least marginalized aspects of an environment, it is required at every level of organization in an environment. Even when diminished as a function, it remains necessary, including within a nexus of civilization operating at the highest environmental standard. Without an object of residency, one is unable to interact. It is not that one is interacting with residency in the environment, but rather that it is the sequence to interaction.

There is a possibility of interaction without residency, but it quickly dilutes itself because the individual does not have a relatable base from which to leap into the notion of interaction. It is almost as though, when one reaches an environment, they lose all individuality, so that there is no proprietary being available for interaction, and thus we need objective forms of individuality which one interacts to allow for that final interaction.

The question may be, why not have the individual enter back into their individuality within the environment? But this is at the cost of the entire environment, in that they are setting up a domesticated sequence from a realm that is not fundamentally domesticated. They are interacting with an objective form of process, so this form of residency is not domestication, nor fundamentally a residency of environment, but more of a context to enter a state of objective individuality in a way that does not subject one to disturbance by entering a true form of residency or domestication.

This form of residency is effective in that it is objectively oriented, such that it is constituted as a part of the environment rather than a part of a residential process, in addition to being publicly oriented and therefore has no connotation of a private affair and the expenditure that goes along with attempted privatization of public environmental standards, including but not limited to shadow elements, disturbing domestication, and other unfacilitated processes. Thus, we have both publicly oriented and objectively manifesting forms of presence through which one can enter their individuality, not so much in a psychological sense, but in a perceptual sense.

One becomes residentially acquainted, not through the regular sequence of marginalized environmental standards, but through objective form, in which perceptual acquisition allows for a semblance of individuality to manifest without the cost of it being a true form of residency. This process is not intended to confine one to a form of residency, but rather to allow one a vantage of individuality as they follow into an environmental standard. They do this by following the object insofar as it serves as indifferent to other objects. That is, there is no attachment to its object form nor any occasion on which it would be assumed to be more significant than any other object. Thus they move from one object to another: one object as a form of residency through which individuality is accessed, and then the next object lacking form of residency through which they continue into environmental interaction.

Without the objective form of residency, one will lose traction in their interaction with the environmental standard because they do not have access to their individuality. But with containment to that object of residency at the expense of other objects, one enters into a shadow aspect; it is an attempted interactivity with the perceptual environment, and thus will continue into interaction from the shadow vantage. Thus, it is a balancing act in which there is no occasion either to remove oneself from that necessity or to become entrenched in its objectification. What one is accessing of their individuality in that form of residency is related to their association with a true form of residency and its marginalized environmental arena.

This would mean that if one has not set up a proper orientation of residency in its fundamental sense, then the object-related residency will do no justice in serving access to one’s individuality. What it relies on is the memory of residency rather than directly upon the entrails of individuality. One does not naturally become acquainted with their individuality through acts of residency involving the objective form and the environment. And without residency, one would move directly into the shadow rather than the axis of individuality. The only measure that allows the avoidance of the shadow and entrenches it into a residential format is that one has the association of residency through which their individuality is fulfilled.

The objective form of residency will only allow one to retreat to a memory. Thus, infrastructural development is based on the majority constituents and their dealings with fundamental residency, which is ecological in form. Thus, those objects change according to the necessity of reference to the populace’s general association with fundamental residence. But it is not only an access of memory; it is also an access of a system of memory that contains within it one’s individuality. One does access complex aspects of individuality in the state of fundamental residency. Thus, one must not only refer to a fundamental state of residency through which they have developed and experienced, they must also have exemplified their individuality in that form of residency, to whose realm they now retreat.

General themes of residency are associated with biological necessity and its various contextual forms that facilitate that biological necessity, whether table or chair, utensil or other such contextual forms that serve biological necessity. The reason we refer to them as contextual, despite their true physical manifestation, is that in the fundamental state of residency all forms are contextual. Their physical characteristics are not psychologically realized, so if we are to view them from a psychological or subjective vantage, they are contextual forms. In the environment where these forms are to take on an objective interaction, they are physical in the sense of one’s biological standard, so one is interacting with a different process. Yet that object refers back to fundamental residency and its contextual forms according to one’s associations and, finally, according to one’s individuality, which has been impacted within those realms, thereby giving one access to their individuality within the environmental standard.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingTransmission and Exchange

Chapter 20. Social Sequence and Unburdening of Interactivity

There is a self-centered acquisition of pleasure and its conscious sense, which does serve as an instrument for both pleasure acquisition and conscious association, because social sequence is permeable and usurps individualistic systems and developmental programs of the psyche or interactivity. One effectively has at their disposal a realm to which one can attach, which will remove, at least for the moment, the dealings of that interactivity. It is pleasurable in the sense of removing the burden of individuality, given that the social sequence usurps such processes.

We usually assume such a categorical analysis for addiction-related items, but it effectively does the same, in that they all reduce some constancy of psyche process or permeability in which the sociality of the synaptic access in that way overrides the interactiveness of the system. What is occurring in this process is rather the acquisition of an external realm which naturally usurps interactivity and other individualistic manifestations. In the case of the addictive item, it is already psychological in its onset, opening its floodgates of regular psyche process to become a mirroring of social sequence, thus usurping interactivity at every moment of possibility.

We could already set the parameter of an addictive item as only that which opens the psyche to its permeability and thus its sociability. And any substance, whether internal or external, that offers without that characteristic will not be induced to become addictive. What the psyche is looking for is sociability rather than the substance itself. And when we refer to substance, we mean substantiation, not the tangible association of a material substance. This is why we do not even require an item itself, but rather anything that can induce the psyche to access its sociability, such as inclination toward participating in sociability at every occasion and in every environment, or the thinking process of the psyche, or any other manner that allows access to its permeability, which will override interactivity. The reason that proactive thinking is less so is because thought is differentiating; it does not allow much access to permeability, but only very specific patterns of thought, which do not stretch far and are not deeply involved in differentiation, can induce permeability, so that all in all, these notions of pleasure are simply the removal of that interactivity.

As though the stimulation of rationality as a notion of pleasure we could ascribe pleasure to rationality and dialectical intellectuality as a psychological process or metaphysical one; if we were to take that stretch. But a simpler answer, and one that seems most sensible, is that it is not a biological circumstance in that modality, but merely the removal of interactivity that is being allowed through this dialogical behavior that is pleasurable in revoking individuality. One will acknowledge the difference in the case in which interactivity is not fluctuating and individuality does not present itself as an obstacle, in which case, if the modality of process—whether proactive psyche endeavors, substance internal or external, or attachment to a social sequence—does induce the likeness of pleasure, and if that pleasure is now diminished, then we acknowledge what was serving was not access on the other side, but only the movement away from burden.

In terms of applying oneself to social sequence, it is most readily a process of functionality, yet it is disruptive nonetheless, because it serves as a pleasure in the unburdening of individuality and interactivity. It is most functional because in the case of substance intake, internal or external, it is noted as a pathological acquisition; or in the case of psychological endeavor, it automatically turns pathological in its avoidance of what would naturally be the process of the psyche if one were not seeking to unburden interactivity and individuality. However, in the case of applying oneself to social sequence, one is simply attending to social process, which is a higher pedigree than individuality, since individuality is based on social process and is in some way an individualistic acquisition of sociality, so that one is simply moving back toward the source of their individuality by taking note of social sequence.

Moreover, that is the most fundamental reality which one can access, as opposed to pathological aspects or behavior, which are at least tokens of fundamental truth, because this is a generally proper orientation of process that is not pathological. And even if one continuously adheres to social sequence, it cannot be considered pathological, even if in their attunement they are deeply averse to interactivity, because as long as one is part of that social sequence, their individuality is simply secondary to it and is not considered a distraction, but rather a purposeful objective of what an individual can perform.

Yet it is not even the activity itself that is the cause, but rather the intention of it being in service of unburdening interactivity or individuality for the ultimate access of pleasure that is associated with it, as opposed to a general interaction with no added incentive in this regard. It is thus imperative that one is not attuning to social sequence for its pleasure, because in doing so they are seeking the alleviation of individuality rather than the interaction of social process, and this will host a set of problems in its continuation.

The idea is that social sequence should not be pleasurable, but rather a heightened appropriation of process. The only way social sequence can be converted into a pleasurable process is through the unburdening of interactivity. Even though it is heightened in the sense of access, which opens the availability of the psyche, it is merely the access of more processes that is endured, so we cannot say the diminutive process contains small pleasure and broader process contains higher pleasure. It is simply the process of affairs.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Soldiers Playground

Acts 6–7: The Astronaut / Family Encounter

Acts 6–7

Act 6: The Astronaut
[1972, on the street, meeting a famous astronaut named Fillmore, also homeless]
Fillmore
Fillmore turned a red clove in space,
Ginger was the only crop in ice water,
Said to expect corn for Thanksgiving.
Sprouted heads of bark for tea,
Dined for the ginger meal
Scraped orange in zero-gravity.
GI Joe
Sour turns savory in a cultural box,
Sweet memory cultivated in subterranean
Remembering cornbread and pastries.
Fillmore
Without brother or wife—it’s science!
But no corn set them dirty,
Crying a ginger sleaze;
Dared as folk who sold bark on earth,
Cursed aloud, curse’d first on moonlight.
GI Joe
Sat in moon’s crater flashing lights to earth;
Home shelled for tea in zero-gravity,
Fillmore speaks in great terms of PhD,
Promised science in mission of no foe.
Fillmore
Daddy’s mission has a complexity,
Moon’s crater needs cratering.
In zero-gravity Fillmore sparkles,
Flashing signals for mission to know life,
Awaiting thrusters and misters from Earth.
Missioning is done, scraped enough science, planted nation’s sovereignty.
Come back, restless earthlings rambling ‘bout costs—bring dust and rock, picture and fracture.
GI Joe
Taught the great teaching of soil,
Dusted man in a dusted world,
If only to eat dust, procreate dust
Free from planetary solidarity.
Oceans be the only detest,
Needs not as eater-earth;
Treats Earth with less care,
Streets alike white picket of paved dust,
Oh, damn color! Fillmore, damn that promise of sense!
Fillmore
Sitting in grays and governmental whites,
Color second-to-none in thought,
Science madam! —never forget the sacrifice,
Slaughter of oxen or tenfold,
Pyramids and the afterlife,
Moon-dust and the evermore,
Drape color when peace’d from foe,
Its hue when temple rites lose tax;
To show gold, for laboring bronze;
Stainless steel of jobless masons
Who’d do work of millennia in a rush,
Rusted steel remains stainless,
Don’t tell its demise to my earthlings!
GI Joe
Ever look at a star in morning sun?
A miracle with much light is none-so,
Stargazers are the last clan to call midday—
A child is to be born in earthly shine.
Evening has the gasp of citizen, stars a-bright!
Aurelius, look papa, ignore the police boot.
Fillmore
Came to mock the train;
Riders taking too many seats,
Given too much thought to the ride,
Felt the spirit up close—to the nose.
Don’t reflect in a mirror scape
Approximating onstage seats,
Next be the bowels of actors
And sandwiched lunch of canned tuna,
Ya’ tempt to know and reach dust in every way;
In every room, in every mouthful.
Act 7: Family Encounter
[Fillmore recounts when he returned from his mission]
Wife
Welcome dear to earth’s scratch,
Goings of birth and tidings to tell,
Charge forward the way backward, you don’t say, sire!
Fillmore
Friends seem strange in moonless bright,
Neighbors excel ‘way my door frame,
Shows meager taste of clams and shellfish,
Th’Oceanias favor mammalian demise
Offers plenty in the hard catch of few.
Fish await the sea’s abyss,
In multitude comes to forbear.
Retreat to shores for aquatic longing.
How is daughter of Fillmore’s longing?
Daughter
Fathers’ mission takes my day in storm,
Not serving the role for rolebearers’ claim;
Be thee daughter in toad of nations’ cry.
Fillmore
Dear, found the union in near-miss love,
Miles count the air that leads back home,
Dearest, mission scheduled and final,
In cocoa and tea will winter our hearts.
[At home, 3 months later, in the kitchen]
[Speaking to no one and all]
Fillmore
Grass grown at length wearies man,
Tables and chairs do no Crusoe leap,
Kitchenware speaks in lauded monotone,
Suits and press’d shirts for garden duty.
After a time treated in the forevermore;
Screams your name in success and envy,
Forget the purpose in fables of mission;
Myths shred asphalt, derelict on parchment,
Folken hero gorge lasagna and meatballs
To slowly dwindle in hero’s background,
Grins and smirks afloat the wintery frown,
In half-life lives the most miserable,
Never setting to bemoan a loss.
[sings]
Fillmore’s a bygone product of shrewd politics,
Face got wrinkles, arms grown far too thin,
Fillmore never needs to know love,
He is favor of mankind, his job is done.
Fillmore’s a bygone product of shrewd politics.
Never knew memory until it was,
Reached peak by friend and foe,
Written better than finely lived souls.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingGifted Wares

Act 1: The Girls’ Secrets

Act 1

Act 1: The Girls' Secrets
[Present day]
[Scene: A dimly lit hotel room, two girls sit in quiet conversation, their words hanging in the air like the weight of untold secrets. The atmosphere is heavy, filled with the tension of what's unsaid, men had been over and had left.]
Daughter:
Come sister, tell the tale of youth,
Hasn't a boy in sight
Given charm to patented film;
Lime yellowed with adornment?
Plastering shades
Seem to garner at sunrise;
Moon only but lingers.
Keep us asleep—they too may be awake.
Will they come back, to retreat the shame?
Stepdaughter:
Oh, there's not a worry in sight
Of shining lights to the everbright.
Yesterday was its last
Two days were its delight
And the final days' come
Devoid of a boyish respite.
Waitress:
To disturb a kiss
In their leisure,
Address is my duty
Of fulfilled perchance.
The accused make service tenable,
Given choice-maker his allotment.
Servile banking without a receipt,
Beveled goods despisin' human form.
Breakfast served, madam.
Fried, skilled with a honey glaze
Buttered to afternoon, oil'd to Friday morn.
[They ignore the server and breakfast, rolling their eyes.]
Daughter:
Confirmed? They seem suspect for a few.
Arisen at nine, betwixt in graces' mess.
Eye you, is that a hologram
Taken a liking to a halo,
Fixed a sure way out.
Stepdaughter:
It will be confirmed when I see it wash away,
Till then we ado the secrecy of youth.
Aroma takes favor to flavor,
Secrecy—better with eggs,
Rouses spirits to the comforting fine.
Daughter:
Fine by me, tell me your way,
I may conjure but not deny.
Take heed of every word, none to avail.
Find me when short-of-change;
Scratchy pockets and dimmed dimes.
Whenever we turn,
'tis the page of its aftermath.
Stepdaughter:
Don't you say—at lat'est a-day,
Went his name, tried in time.
Croaked, void of laugh;
Name for weakened knees,
Foothold with meager whims
Everlasting of the arrow
Seeking resolute to the bow,
With a winter harvest
To a farmers' lien.
Daughter:
Oh, do tell, avenge, purge that spirit!
Don't conceal the implied fate.
Peace'd by the merry shroud,
Dost done do the deed twice now
Once in bed and once again.
So do not spare a detail or two,
Repeated for the everyday;
Cross-examined—court's ruling
Charged the fellow for sinisters' aim.
Spitballed to adjoiner a-year,
Try me for pink in whatever the fate,
Will do in blanket spate.
Send for mercenaries, harken folk;
Blood is mercy if power gets her day.
Stark the night with simple folk;
Mused immortality.
Stepdaughter:
Frightened of peril's close
Just in the same afar.
Contorting namesake,
Fostering rebellions,
Witnesses—we are.
Shadowed hands, halved a whole
Crowded over smiles—trying times.
Say, the off-putting mentor,
Correct the incorrect!
Do this, do that,
Don't do it all,
Do none for a fall.
That song of tears,
Despairin' farewell.
[Enter two friends from the other room]
Irritating Friend:
To seem a shine—colorless—
Without selection, tuning away.
Out, trusting the Sun with a glare.
Wherever you may go
I'll double in step,
Unless a ring brings to a sing.
Backup Friend:
Quiet! Adulted minds speak languages afar,
'Tis when we silence to believe a faint.
Get on with your duty!
Irritating Friend:
Come, sleep is a fighting grievance,
Do away from that.
A will which repeats for the kill.
[The two friends fall back asleep on couch, the server leaves with suspect]
Stepdaughter:
Strayed along lines of sandilions,
Send me to the backchannel
Who'd look swayed or forward.
Believed, sustained trade-winds,
Truckers in bearing, me in toad;
Rest-assured sanity.
Girl made from straw
Him from meat.
Fire stoked and mocked
Envy encased in touring tests.
[Serious tone]
Tented storms and drained sewage,
Named in time, so I'll tell you again,
Shambled we will be—all over this.
Daughter:
Cared' away our soul,
As 'plain'd as we might.
This night and the next
Will be sat in silence.
The third will do the deed.
Trust the merit
That gives weight to words.
A rainbow tells us so
In color coded perfection;
For now, coolness of shores.
Will be found too fraught in bondage chill,
Lather me in cloth and comfort;
A redemption from premeditative horror.
Stepdaughter:
Training wheels give moons' flight
Fighters supposed in lost ground.
Alas to cry out, 'alas',
To decide mine-awful fate,
Destiny dare not return in gold,
Signage for a passenger
Marked a redden hue.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingNews Worthy

Acts VII–IX: War Scene / The Plane / Returns Home

Acts VII–IX

Act VII: War Scene
[Stevens, assistant and two other colleagues, three security men, amidst a shootout]
[To the assistant]
Stevens
Give a 35, a wide angle—did I say wide?
A cloth—now!—on the lens,
Dirty up the shot, what good is the picture? Where’s my video, get ‘em video, they’re gonna eat this up.
Is that who I think it is?
Gerry, get on this, guess who showed up?
You wouldn’t believe it.
No, I prefer cold brews, there’s something thick ‘bout them, what! What did ya say?
Cappuccino? European much?
Hey, Muhammad, what ya’ think, an American with a cappuccino?
Abdul
Sister wives do no good for a man with camera,
Feeling the out-of-sight and near close to hell,
Be it the waters between waters, or the slain’d preacher.
Have you come far as a mission of faith?
Or despite the headlong do you keep another eye?
Peeking the other way it could’ve went,
Salt to a wound, warning to your breed.
Let us sit in this mess of good Abraham,
Rebel the spirit of Rome to many-a-fall,
Be gone to merry land and forget this,
Earn me the right of passage over barbecue folk.
[Turning to the rest of the entourage]
Stevens
Tribal yearning is the forbidden taste,
Can’t play sand and not be child reared,
Merry-go-around and be passenger bound,
Offered the child a sense
That two worlds build ‘stead of one.
Abdul
Forgiven after shards of glass create a crystal vase;
Plan of action fails the ritualistic turn,
Speaking cryptic that’ll calm the heart.
Panged at the price of one,
Destroyed in the least mannerly,
Awaits the trail of the bygone,
Tearing a misdeed from great injustice,
That too is marksman territory,
Three inches from the target center.
Stevens
Join the ranks of the diabolical and delirious,
Told of a scout in the East who makes great meatloaf—
Tell problems how often they come,
Sits in stew and tea, both simmering with angst.
Trouble you, kind sir, for some potatoes,
I’ll take the lot and then some—
Starchy lovers all coddled in warmth of last seasons’ residue.
Abdul
Come out of shadows and admit misfortune,
Wear black for an occasion or two,
Try the dirt path that we can see you dirtying,
Satisfied in the lot of infancy,
As though mothers’ milk had no source,
Come yeast the rebellion that will lose the fight,
Make an entry when no exits to be found.
Sit in your soup and ladle, children and table,
Smile at the lot of men who breed less-so men,
Till soup and ladle are gone—
Stories old, recipes sickly, love piecemeal, tenderness stage play;
Then what you men gonna do?
Stevens
Sat in a pool of delirium and stubbornly,
Chosen the occupation of least rummage.
Pelicans sift the snow covered ledge.
[He leaves]
Act VIII: The Plane
[Transport plane, sparse men]
[In a deep state of melancholy, muttering to himself]
Stevens
Scrawny fellas in state’s disguise,
Talking’ over radio static,
Being frank about frankincense,
Pleasing the destiny of country will,
Handling of mongers in checkers,
Devout-will of the Christian faith,
Turned uphill to give the talky-talk,
Swearing their way to paradise,
Shortcuts to the rich fantasy,
For the state’s love, its endearment of dowry,
Laden in forgotten grace;
Strange that exile is so near,
Scrapped together in a broken prophecy;
An untaught deal is a sentence of mind.
[As he lands]
Bank of thieves, spit-rolling,
Turn around the trade;
Showcase a one-pointer or fortune teller
To make amends with a nation and its currency.
To sit on a throne of paper, glass and sandcastles
With an army of stick figures and false realizations,
Sentimental value carving a relic of the past.
This is your fortune, my friend;
Don’t waste it on sentimental men.
The stranger you think
When knowledge is dumbfounded.
Act IX: Returns Home
[Entering his house]
Chorus
In darkened rooms thy spirit sits,
Maiden to the men abroad,
Chiseled into rock of curves,
Sweet thing, she is—that her, says so,
Sapphire emboldened likeness,
Warmed cake to sweet tears and new holidays,
“We’ll call him Timothy—
after your grandfather”
Psalms played into house acting
Where gained credit has no currency,
Currency is sacrifice to the tune of love.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Winter Platform

Selected Passage from Chapter Four

Chapter Four

“Do you think I didn’t try? All I’ve ever done in this bare life was try—try to perform the duties demanded of me, try my own hand at love. It’s almost like ambition itself is the plague, I at its center. Do not disturb me lest you find yourself among the foolish men who once saw innocence in this world. Stay away from prejudice, to couple a lustful sensation without accounting for its every corner. Contrary to what you think of me, and I know you believe a whole lot from imagination; plain and simple is the real story here. I’ll tell you the story, narrate the arc until exasperation buckles your knees, and still you beg for more, and I will tell it as openly as one could speak of any subject.”
He continued, “It’s tragic all around, you ought stop finding a way out, might it have been for this or that, or the way of interpretation. Like in how we seem to think it’ll fall away from the tragic arc if only we offer commentary; to rewrite with a greater appreciation. But I tell you, you have only prolonged the arc, to follow the steep decline, to which I ask: do you really love it here in hell? Are you so masochistic as to at least control your destiny in tragedy? Laziness, depression, those seem to be the best approach, don’t they? All failures handed to the guy who tried. The rest catch awards for participation.”
He turned toward Silas, watching the calm that appeared, as if to say it were a matter of fact.
“Where does one go on a rainy day? To delight in the fever of excitement which gives jitters to a young maiden? Boredom, that is the stuff of gold. No one has ever been over-satisfied with boredom. More than its lot will never be hers. Give her the thing that doesn’t spoil, the thing that never appears to be more than it is.”
Instead, he veered into a realm where all understood the predicament in which he was drowning.
“The begotten time was one of those, in which it came and went, and no questions were asked. If I were to force an answer from parched earth and tomato green, it would say something along the lines of, ‘To awake from my slumber, let grow in my own time, that we can at least enjoy a day of summer, or year of life.’”
He concluded, “That was the thing about us, we didn’t want to let go of youth. It was venerated at every corner, with every neighbor, friend, or foe with status of personage.”
At one moment in this generally futile marriage, he sat on the couch, TV off, radio off, and books he did not read, closed; he was as still as the moonlight could ever be. And before him was his wife, tasking away at a drawer, one he precisely did not know the utility of. She was swaying in different motions, fingers prodding in what seemed like aimless direction.
He was there, thighs moving slowly after a day’s work, persisting in his pose, watching his life with soft eyes. He noticed the way she moved her hands, a slight twitch in her left arm after every three or four movements. Something in her mind altered at that pace. She was a thinking woman.
Oh, if she knew of his watchful eye, she would hide forever, or, worse, scold him to a point where no thoughts of her animating spirit could ever be present. He anxiously waited for her to disrupt the calm. Give me your wretched sense of the perfect world that I am not. Give me all that comes along with a half-cooked dinner. Give me all at once, this is your chance! Unexpectedly it did not arrive.
Without an idea, he went on tracing the line of her face, the left side facing him, and noticed the sound her feet made. It was all for the possibility of entering the liminal grounds surrounding her, the space which had never been offered or trespassed.
And now, because of that very acceptance, he was unavailable to do all that he wanted, forced instead to watch in an ever-self-conscious way. Her twitches became more regular, undoubtedly twitching with the knowledge of his peeping eyes but still, no recognition, as if she refused to follow her intuition, as if it were factually impossible for him to uncover what she did not allow him to see.
At some point, he was more than willing to give back the mantle, to get over the interaction, for her to spew whatever words were waiting for him, for him to mutter an incomplete response, and then to go to a corner and her to another. It became agony, as she was being exposed alongside his inability to deal with that very exposition.
Why this night, on this occasion, he did not know. In fact, there was no logical conclusion, just the happenings of this moment. Eventually, he exited the exhibition, found something of less significance to fill his attention. But for those thirty-five minutes, he unveiled his wife without her consent. And their relationship was never the same, despite neither of them knowing the source of the problem.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingBlinding Lights

Love’s Void

Poem: Love’s Void

Love’s Void
We knew each other once,
In another lifetime, that is,
And suddenly, it was you and me;
Space—ashamed at ever showing its vile face.
Love not returned is a shame
How flowers bloom to an empty forest
Or the way memory is lost to wind,
Saving remnants of a last encounter,
That may never be or never was;
Then to the dearly departed
Knowing its absence seeds unraveling.
Days and months make spin
In trade winds and settled seas;
Daybreak, winter-break and the off-season.
Cherished in its time to do the merry
Beholden to a moment of the expected.

Fading

Poem: Fading

Fading
The memory, blotted in forgetfulness
A millennium passed on by,
Prickly ordeal—this buried ember.
Take the present to go for your deeds;
Skeletal, forgettable and lonely;
Afraid of the reminder.
To have fallen the grips of nostalgia,
Where a glow perceived an expanse,
More so, the proven case where it was.
Hadn't the expertise to know a fade,
Worse off, raised by two fading figures,
Who were light in a darkness of void.
Drinking coffee remembering our youth
And where and when to find it again.
Shutting windows as the rain creeps in.
The savaged heart knows what it misses
In a dreary sun-laid rapture.
Souls at the beach in a wintery storm,
Always beautiful and full of future,
Wayward to the blossom of summer.
Fairy roses behind a dim lit window
From where do flowers go
Rainbows are there;
Summer and spring,
Youth and old age;
A flower is for all occasions
From which it leads to all places.
The tragedy of a child,
He thinks it will last forever.

Reflection and Disfavor

Poem: Reflection and Disfavor

Reflection and Disfavor
They told me to satiate in the drink of my reflection,
Yonder there, it’ll be found.
And so, a young mind,
Path gone forward,
Found I did, and then some.
It was the extra supplications
They didn't want to hear.
To the cave I went
Offering sympathy.
Out I came, promising an extra heart,
They told me in disfavor
All my fragility.
Is it love you see,
Or my disparity?
For I will find some more,
But we know you don't want it.
You will never feel that burden again,
Or each day will be your torment.
The shadow of the sea won't let you forget,
So wish me goodness,
For I have always done the same.

Crystal Horizon

Poem: Crystal Horizon

Crystal Horizon
Lighthearted we walked,
Who is to know a thing like that?
To tell, that it may be ruined.
No! I will not give out,
A mind may never follow.
Sand beneath feet,
Glistening in summer sun
Where the children play;
Crystallite horizon.
Harmony gives laughter a second chance,
Peace—a mantra of yesterday’s season.
Daring is the foothold,
Waning to the last edge
Where ripples of currents do no bother,
Singing away the music of yesteryear
With no buffer to the oblivious dusk.

The Empty Promise

Poem: The Empty Promise

The Empty Promise
We treaded the in-between,
Always marking our progress
And those surround,
Beyond and before.
The afterlife has been solved
On dutiful ground
To circumvent broken beauty.
What if I were to commit to tragedy,
To give myself to imagination
And simulate the experience?
What else? To be a part of this faction?
They place me at their lowest seat.
To work and live will I fulfill
In the emptiness of dreams;
Those that will not leave the kitchen
And its martyrdom.
Causality of being won’t endure
Another mark of this bygone,
Of a work from another time
To another page
Of a book burning to come.
I'd rather empty stillness
Of a promised afterlife
Where roses are red
And color has meaning.
A millennium in rainbow
To forget its tainted rue,
And the off-shine that comes with time.
To a grandstanding entrance
Of the abodement of hell.
Devilish in kind
To my fair skin,
Remaining in-trance of
Fumes of kitchen odor.
For the afterlife has been chosen
By life itself.
To commit before execute,
To succeed before trial.
Affirmations to keep alive
As I tread the oblivion.
We tie roots of sadness
And empty waste of urge,
Where going is but for a moment,
The unsolvable life and its misgivings.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingFestival of Doom

Acts 3–4: Enter Pocochella / Tavern

Acts 3–4

Act 3: Enter Pocochella
[On their way, as they enter Pocochella]
Davenport:
There is value to price
In wind-habits abroad,
Miles stretched of innocence,
Exiled in all its glamour—
[Noticing the abundant farmland]
Donnatella:
Exclude the foreigner pledged to sight.
Homage costs the price of love,
Or haven't you seen love in a public square?—
It's a wonder any child is born at all.
Davenport:
Child is a rescue of parental misstep,
Some call miracle; others, nature's part.
Cherish what the eye sees
Over what the heart knows;
Never has the child cried a gift unwrapping.
[Passing even more abundant farmland]
Cody:
Steel-footed ground, crops in plenty;
None to eat, only to sustain.
Safe haven in the quarterly,
Denied a second dispatch.
[They hear the chatter of the town]
Trusting instinctual sounds
Made in cold buffers,
Forestalling their way to Mother.
Donnatella:
Sampled a taste of evergreen oak,
Tables do work that can't be undone.
Scratchy silence is the right approach—
Fleece and linen taken for a wash.
[The gatekeeper's friend question their status]
Timothy:
Fickle at the sidewalk,
Training eyes bespoke harmony.
They'd know by now —
That evergreen is spelled with e's
And trees creep up on summer.
Gatekeeper:
Went Father to his flock
That made known their silence.
It was distrust indeed—
As man had known before,
Or rather, learned in pain;
White rose lead the way!
[They enter the city]
[Gatekeepers friend Timothy follow them in]
Tricked by solace,
Ivory bridge—bottlenecked;
Breathless entanglements of merit.
[He screams out to them]
Going to run for mayor
To delight my species of cattle;
Sheep and goats; milk from udders.
[Gatekeeper turns back]
Timothy:
And those unearthed
For the florist's game
Have prickly cut out — never.
[Seeing the aghast at his pessimism]
Never a reminder of its faith
And how it passes for love!
Davenport:
A rebellion of nature
Said in deference of words,
Threaded in sentences,
Weighed in memory.
To be filled again
With more prose than captures.
Shuttered Francesca
To an oversized windbreaker.
Donnatella:
Safe—
In the reminder of pain
As if some kind of holder.
Cody:
Deli-wax and picky-wags
Set buzzing on said tree
Eating foliage at rates
Bygone to its counterpart.
[They all enter the town tavern]
Act 4: Tavern
[In the tavern, Davenport gets stuck in talk with the bar keep]
Bartender:
Sidebarred to a closet, olden clothes possessed.
Faraway to scour the checked club—
Where goes the chancellor bearing the name?
Covers more ground than walking, short of distance.
Davenport:
Mustn't we pull the mask to encounter the subject?
Subject angled in some way fit,
Carved for a microscopic lens.
Eyed to taste, envied and accessed—
No need for chivalry.
Folk had honor as badged confidence,
Living to reply a rejoinder,
Solved the mystery of loss
Without a lively search 'n rescue.
Bartender:
Return Civilization to her owners.
Take their wine and cheese—
To talk! To speak—what for?
Donnatella:
When ravaging food-supply is defeat,
Humbling in the direction of famine.
Eating less than a mammalian share,
Stoking love in debt to a westward dove.
The fruitful reply is their mode of necessity.
Take my abundance, sir,
I have more coming my way.
Take the lot, for there is an allowance.
They'd come in many ways, cumbersome in all,
They'd open their horizon to the very few
To show prowess and engender the state.
Bartender:
With color they make sounds,
With acrylics they make paint.
Never has art seen such genius;
Never have the theologians
When cryptic messaging come to play.
[Walking the town square]
Timothy:
Sampled goods exposed,
Secondary market—the streets.
[Showing a delinquent alley]
Cody:
Free to the one who begs,
Weighty to the cherished eye.
The stupor, shrouded from throbbing,
Colorless heaven adjourned the occasion.
Did you find justification after all?
By the overgrown bush
Across the bike lane
Where trespassers go;
The emblem of residence.
Come by the West side;
The sun—east expenses the shadow
Which scares the child all the same;
Triumph the blade of grass.
[The night creeps in as they keep walking]
Donnatella:
The sound-wind blows,
Fateful to the howling faceless,
Never made known their name nor mark,
Feared the suspicion when man 's to blame.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Case of Two Sisters

Acts 8–10: Alayna Performs / Alyssa Performs / Chorus

Acts 8–10

Act 8: Alayna Performs
Bystander 1:
Girly smile fits measure of temple,
Reckon one would notice the difference,
Reckon beat of heart finds synchronicity;
Perpetual beep throwing yesteryears lifesaver.
Bystander 2:
In the backboat of a child’s dream,
Fable cut short of adulted dreamscape,
Motion players of the team;
Quarterback, thy father and lover
Striking balance no maid cherish,
No heartless soul dost notice.
Bystander 3:
Skittish faith gets lever in position
A’ride neverland ‘gast blows of a single man,
Wherefore the scattered populace founded,
A seed dost not multiply—diffract, dilute or resolute.
Incoming ‘quals outgoing, sun and moon to testify.
Bystander 4:
Chesters walk pretty lines
Shows the curvature of lines,
Noise arrives in moment of dullness,
Age, a treachery of highest heresy,
Youth ashamed of birth-fat and loose arms.
[She wins by margin]
Act 9: Alyssa Performs
[She wins, speaks to brother after the event]
Brother:
Too many enemies has Joe lost in purpose;
Who fights alongside one with no friends?
To shelter when a windstorm blows east;
A purposeless man is a dwindling flower,
Each fight equate clamp on boring ears,
Hiya, I am worthy, alone and meaningless;
Hiya, I am a fly to disturb kings!
Alyssa:
Blow rain on warm homes of tomorrow;
There is shelter given name to distance,
Come too close to find it unresembling;
Favoring the wolf ‘gainst pigs.
It’s the little things: sparkle by a shadow of a glimpse,
It goes to show, journey counted in twofold,
Residency is thrown to pigeons—
Predators of yesterday.
Brother:
Set the bar to prove barless;
Expectin’ to the end of all promise,
Potential ties in a bow of loss,
Primrose entertainment is last laugh.
Alyssa:
Journey exposed by destination,
Dear make entry at wrong time of year,
Flagrant in a weather coup
As colors of a royal wedding.
Go easy on the eyes, take time to surprise,
Boxed with the other gifts sent on sleigh
Of year-round smiles, if spring than hop.
Delirium dost halt direction,
A’shame they’d do all at once
Than expect dance be so.
[Reporter chimes in]
Reporter:
How’d you like your hair?
Ponytail or plush or down?
Reminder of youth or stalwart style?
Six ways to beauty, past child’s sameness or womb oneness?
[Alyssa is confused]
[Father enters the group, hugs her, others leave]
Father:
Asking why, servile of determination,
Ignorant of the plateau, seven ways share it down;
Give the tablets, send wayfarer to her door,
Shown resilience in ambush on promenade,
Ticketed for a tinkle, give boy a star,
He’s earned share in a table fight,
Served up the dose, weaning now, favor a trident man;
Winner becomes the only prize and price,
Takes to an empty house, shelved in damp wood,
Day in, day out—glimmers of some proportion.
Alyssa:
Refute the spin, arise a’dimmed,
Shake ground to know a stance,
Flexed a reflex to seem the stretch,
How else would you know limits?
Gratitude to know, neglect to sow,
As told, simple over complex;
Be a part and be beyond,
One eye, glint, the other, stone;
Dance be thy lesson;
An aggressor, wolf to kings.
Father:
Sempti Pi selected kinda gal,
Upped the brow, raised thy moral,
If standing on a vantage cannons ready,
Strike at a better pose, aura pronounced.
Kings’ thumb is the imprint of a thousand,
Its twitch, a hurricane on th’ ocean side;
‘Tis the mark of dignifying enemy’s shadow;
The very trait sits in every home:
For all are born from mothers, wedded of fathers,
Never a credit of that very truth;
If foe—forsake the womb of creation?
What fight is worth an empty void?
Where winners don’t claim fortune.
Alyssa:
Can man be so fearsome—
Waver impunity over nimble motion?
Control tide waves, determine an outcome?
Father:
Carrying bulkhead with a group by tail end,
Ever since man climbed steed and rode sunset:
Better be king with proper service than weighty citizen.
Act 10: Chorus
Chorus
Chase hydrangeas as though sprouting life,
Lilies of young maidens full of promise,
Dare flower overtake chaff of wheat,
Toil of mill kept farmer and baker away,
Weeds and shrubbery grew in wake,
Then came the rose, a thorn for every flower;
We spoke in cryptic tones of the mystery unfold,
Blush of an adolescent to a thorny remake,
All afraid of the wheat and kernel;
Afraid to dirty hands, produce by man’s back.
-The End-
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingTwitching Hour

Opening Sequence through The Dance Prelude

Bar / The Couple / The Gate / Couple at the Bar / opening of The Dance

Act: Bar
[1960, bar in the city, Jones speaking to his manager who is upset]
Jones
A scented evermore is language exalting expression;
Them boys will tell ya 'bout it after a drink that never stops.
[Looking away]
Fainted scent all over the place,
Sparkling to remember its name,
Played into hands of a citation.
[Girl was listening, who was enjoying the performance]
Delilah
Beckoned, cast for a disavowal friendship,
Cloaked imperious to a stand-up guy;
Girlish residue of motherly breast,
Sanctimonious divergence to a fatherless plateau.
Rested the impinged family that makes 'self known.
Manager
Fixed a stable choice
Told a friend in confidence,
Choice no more; friend no more.
[Manager leaves]
Delilah
Sand dunes and clothed faces
Wearing scent of the East.
Rested for a millennium,
Wind 'n dirt possessed by fragile destitute,
To no avail of rain and budding flowers.
[Man participates, has interest in the girl and uses the chance]
Jamie
Satisfying urges compensate memory,
Has the fish filleted on a traditional diet?
Fatherly comfort on a beckoned shore?
Sifting oblivion to find the abyss;
Such memories find forgetfulness in time
And irrevocable desertion to present and good.
[Friend of the man who has some envy]
George
Cover that naked part
Shown too soon,
Rather hidden for a reminder.
Memory 's a funny thing, ain't it?
Act: The Couple
[Raining, outside the bar, the couple walking]
Noah
Singing in the rain that was meant to pour,
Isn't gratefulness that overcomes tribulation?
Winds washed before having met its shore.
Samantha
Lying awake and knowing
Wherein it wasn't humility
Nor the kind word of a stranger.
But surely given up on covering
For a lie that stood more than allotted.
Noah
So you went down to the bowels of goodness—
Or you thought so to be
Until you noticed a mischief of mines catching a turn
But you couldn't turn back;
Could you now, could you now, could you now.
[Changing tone]
You must go forward
Knowing the path is forged wrong
But that it is your own
And it is comfortable, righteous and deliberate.
Act: The Gate
[Gatekeeper did not let them in]
Noah
The howling of the maestro at the assembly gate.
'Give back the greens,' a voice of another said.
Shall you take yellows when the world is painted orange?
None shall cover the red that glows in black,
Instead, let us in, naked as we are.
Gatekeeper
The outside is just as good.
Samantha
Outside is nothing other than where we don't belong;
Belong in the fence, destiny in the fence, home in the fence.
Noah
Gates brand me foreigner,
Open what is made to be opened,
Allow entrance to believe an exit
That we exchange locations,
For outside you look and inside I do.
Gatekeeper
Midst the night you try that luck,
Hasn't run out 'suppose you now,
Passion'd make way, whatever the cause.
If hell is 'round the fence-gate, shan't you give up?
Come in now, your kind is the late-comer,
Evening to its next of kin and children begotten.
Come right in!
[They enter]
Act: Couple at the Bar
[Man struggles with door]
Samantha
Troubled with the door
Ajared to an opening.
Favoring the simple folk
That slip through cracks
Behind fading glimmers
And second-hand hope.
Noah
Rather face the entranceway
Than be damned from earth,
All for an unearthly glance
And a run-outta-luck type of guy.
[Sitting, entering an even more melancholic state, sparse people, its late]
Noah
Trust the Saints and Rabbis
Buckled to worldly pressure,
'Get him to speak our language',
Ocean depths of weightful bounty
Telling pupils of sorrow in light
Shining at the least favorable;
The opposite tale is the better one.
Samantha
Deluded the senseless, smiled one's lot
Comprehending the wise table, smirked the lot.
Noah
Shiny does glimmer in light
Does wine try its match,
Loses in ascendancy,
Claims the jokester's thrill
And suit-man bolster.
Let us ascend then!
Act: The Dance
[Pianist collects himself, as a prelude to his next song]
Jones
Feeble, Yaw! Folken disturbed by spirit,
Spirit! Get the paper trail to admit the tree;
Water the rebellion within the sandlot.
This gets better, as with time in the bygone.
Instinctual mess made of starvation for love,
Bundled warmth forebodes a ruled child,
Heating the victim's camp with attention.
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingGone West

Morning Three / The Secret

Acts: Morning Three and The Secret

Act: Morning Three
[Morning]
[Owner entering barracks, barracks no longer feel neutral; they are controlled space]
Owner
You shake boots on firm ground,
Don't ya?
All coddled after a layer or two of warmth?
Deserter ya ‘re not
Full of morning's cold air,
‘Stablish somethin’ for my rules.
Mister be ready to leave,
Air’s been staled of lazy,
Off you go to a gray horizon,
Departing a promising embrace.
[At work]
Tory
Sitting on a pile,
High indeed,
Of wishes and promises—
Told to sleep.
Now banished from my refuge,
For the oath taken by mine wings.
T 'were we must fly to rid of you
And dread of loss naught to remain.
[Working]
Rickle
Geared in position,
Rickety to the tee,
Trickity to the three,
In count and in motion.
Screws and bolts to ones and zeros,
Arms and banter for code and source,
Day's earned work to nighttime chill.
Better or worse was never the question.
To give man reason to live,
Before tanket—tookatoo
Finds no refuge in the one-to-two.
Salamander
Slowly makes in the outback,
Ideal as to be expected.
Ruffling Earth's brow,
Painstaking as always.
Wind over the lost gander,
Lamp all lacquered in yellow.
To carry what cannot be fulfilled
To linger what will be lost
To stay the wretched path
To endure a repetition
To settle a lost dream.
Tory
Renowned in the age of innocence
Which can no longer afford
This sentimental value.
The overflow must have done him in.
They remembered his dreams,
Fantasies at the wayside.
Overrun; the cause of default.
Rickle
To pledge allegiance,
Rotary gears in motionless state
Mechanized for the grunt.
Sighed a'way the wind,
Melancholy, as I wish.
Jitters for excitement,
Dare tell Mary in support of my freedom.
Brushing those fields of some gesture,
Love, is it that Tory?
If I find myself merry
To more than movements
Or find tranquil in a storage room.
When seventeen was just a number,
Placated against my insecure wall.
Tory
Marked by time
What a thing!
Must we watch the demise,
Shelter to witness the stance
Of a grieved reluctance.
Saying grace goes with beauty
Knows nothing of misfortune,
Wanting the best of form.
Dignity’s last spark
As embers find way to dust,
Calmly laying ash,
Light as a feather;
Mark of consumption.
Rickle
Dare you not—gray!
That color of pronouncement.
Haven't enough to show yourself
Under the nightly sun?
Without regret of a noble face.
Are you not more bleak than black?
Where it knows its place
Behind white love and sweet dove.
Hadn't you the spirit of leathered red?
That enjoyed a sacrifice?
Be gone, gray!
With callousness and disfavor
The deception of it all!
You consumed more than fire
Tricked more than a white rose
Stolen heart from someone who loved
Taken cradle of no return in sight.
You gray monster, satisfied with the claim
Haven't you the decency to regard the consumption?
Or attempt a change?
Oblivion is your choice,
To take all that's around you,
Until my love becomes true,
And gray is forgotten forever.
Act: The Secret
[In the owner’s office]
Owner
They came on by train tracks,
Down by hollow creek,
Blackened by coal.
Manager
They know not your neighbor nor friend,
Their smile, for charcoaled teeth in blanked state.
Is anyone going to give them existence?
Owner
They stand for our sitting
Make way when day should end,
Find favor to bring loss
And always depart a shining sun.
[Owner leaves, Rickle enters]
Manager
You see the spirit
Has gained the upper hand.
Nothing to do
But be a man wished for.
Rickle
I trust you will keep a secret
That cannot reach public ears.
The gist I will tell
If you promise secrecy.
Alas, I will pronounce the hidden.
Manager
Freed the cold daybreak
Ghastly rival-spirit buckles in
Making wild claims on desert sands.
Seems awfully nice,
A cool breeze ‘fore sundown.
[Tells him the plan]
[Alone, screams out to horizon]
Rickle
Breaching an ocean pile of stardust!
Yellin ‘nto windstorms,
Hiding of shielded remorse.
Sand as rivers in palace gardens
Ghosted into weatherly paths,
Sun quenched of spring delight.
Daybreak offers rest upon rest;
Nightfall for infallibility,
Twilight chills existence.
Do you take me as I am?
All reckless and kind?
Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingContext and Intimacy

Connection and Intimacy

To describe the difference between connection and intimacy, we must first identify each in their own regard. Connection is based on existential reflection, which is to say that it allows one the advantage of seeing themselves through the other. Intimacy, on the other hand, is existential experience, which, contrary to connection, is an engrossment of shared existence to a point of full integration. Although in another work we have stated that the integration is never complete, for the sake of contrast with connection, such a definition will suffice.

There is the notion that the mere experience of connection is a form of intimacy, as it involves a mode of sharing or exchange. However, since intimacy can arise even from the facial expression of a stranger, any discussion of it must refer to a measured quantity of intimacy. Intimacy does not necessarily require an exchange to occur. Simply touching another person can elicit intimacy. While a slight exchange may take place through the existential reflection of their own bodies prompted by the relevant touch of another, this is not the primary component of the experience. When discussing connection, it is the amount of exchange that qualifies it to be called a true connection.

Some may require a material exchange in moments of intimacy, and for good reason. Since intimacy entails existential integration, it involves a kind of merging of selves to allow for that integration. There is no defensive mechanism in place to prevent the post-integration process. As a result, one can be left simply abandoned or existentially lost. The exchange becomes handy so that all intimacy is checked by its exactness of exchange, thereby, even as one is risking being lost post-integration, they have equally exchanged beforehand, which would have them risk as much of a loss as they are to have gained. This will ensure that there will be no availability for either party to abandon post-integration because they both have as much to lose.

The problem with this method is that the integration, or intimacy, will be questioned at every interval to scout out the balance of exchange. Never will there be a case of true romantic intimacy and coinciding vulnerability because the pre-integration exchange will defuse what would be high levels of existential integration. This is due to the universal nature of existential integration. An individual is only able to existentially integrate from a universal or general standpoint, since the individualist details become too excessive, which does not allow a smooth integration. The more singular the individual postulates themselves, the less available they are for integration, which is to de-individualize the person in entirety.

Existential Attachment

When an individual is existentially attached to an object or construct, it becomes the dichotomy of their embodied existence in relation to an objective circumstance. Objective personification entails receiving the full existential nature of the individual, laid out upon a landscape of interactive material. It becomes as if the object of existential attachment begins to enact the biological and conceptual makeup of the individual. In this way, the individual prioritizes engaging with the substance of themselves through the objective world in a manner that enables dynamic opposition. Whatever is entailed in the internal realm is the true nature of the substance but lacks the ability to become an interactive opposition.

Existential attachment provides the ability to project the individual onto an object or environment, which then becomes a reciprocal entity embodying aspects of selfhood. Coincidentally, existential attachment generates a data stream that can become redundant, overwhelming, or overly fixated. This can lead one to place themselves in an environment or attach to an object that undermines the wholeness of their personhood, offering only the limited interactions it can provide. In some sense, whenever existential attachment occurs, there is a recalibration of personhood into that domain.

The object receives the existential nature and does not release such unless there is a conscious removal of the bond. The bond is continuously renewed without resolution because the consideration of an already received existential exposition is animated to receive its vitality alongside the vitality of one's innate existence. This becomes a remarkable incident: with the embedding of the existential self into an object, aspect, being, or social construct, there is no return other than a conscious separation from its clause.

We may suspect that more engagement or activity implicating detachment will conclude the bond. Let us unpack both of these premises to determine if they will be productive in their final outcome.

Firstly, the claim that continued engagement allows for separation is similar to a parent-child bond. We may assume the child gains autonomy only after renewed engagement leads to an attachment of such primacy that the only resolution is to form their independence. Contrary to such an assumption is the nature of this choice, in which the child may find a reservoir of unlimited attachment and begin to assume that whatever independence which has been obtained is contrary to the true nature of this attachment and its boundless resources.

We can envision the child following a path to a regressive state in which they were wholly attached to the parent. This presumption is based on a viewpoint taken from the vantage of the parent. According to psyche nature, continued attachment results in an inborn resentment for the loss of personhood through those burdening connections. This causes the psyche to pursue distance and autonomy through a conscious detachment from those objects.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingAmbiguous Foundations

Ambiguity and the Physiological Limits of Coherence

Ambiguity, as a foundational layer, is thus unstable. It is not a position of authority; it is rather a multiple conversion that is not distinct but contains parameters of differentiating advantages of a universal cause. It is not simply an ambiguity of all things considered. It is specifically in the direction of social process, specifically in its hierarchical order, and more specifically in its direction and relatability to physiological concepts and imprints that supersede all social processes.

It is controlled in a manner, but that controlling mechanism cannot be controlled; thus, we can remove the notion of it being controlled, since it maintains the universality and the perspective of the individual. That is, it is not universal in all orders. But suffice the individual cannot change that mechanism, as though to remove the imprintation of the parental body and childhood development; it cannot be removed or altered, it is physiologically true, and rather sets the parameters for ambiguity within such confines to take precedence. It is a universality in a set parameter of physiological imprintation, and more so it is specific, differing vantage points that cannot converge and remain ambiguous. They cannot converge because, once oriented toward the differentiated parts of an ambiguous state, they have no intentionality other than the fact of organic interest of acquisition. And the fact is it is not one point that is connected to another, since it is organic interest, so that contradictions are paramount, because a single interest does not connect to another interest but merely supposes it. We cannot apply some parameter framework to understand they would become ambiguous in certain parts based on historical precedent, but for the individual’s sake, for their perspective and orientation, there is no possibility other than those set parameters, and rather they are completely ambiguous within that limit.

Thus, to uncover a more universal picture than the determined state of the individual, it is not a critique of their lack of ambiguity or foundational layer, but rather a realization of broader systems. By the subjective state of the individual, there is no ability other than the orientation that is set forth, and thus ambiguity remains in its differentiated parts. It is merely that one is not situated in a position of authority in any direction, but rather follows the interests and inclinations of the moment, or remains confounded to their existential state; for if they reach toward some newfound system that is not their orientation, then being ambiguous is not altogether meaningful in the reality of their internal system. It is that they remain ambiguous based on a parameter they cannot control, but they are integral to being a part of. They do not require commitment, but rather avoidance of alternate commitments that do not rely on that foundational layer. It is specifically in following the differentiated parts.

Corporeal Internalities and Social Functional Realization

Corporeal internality is advantageous for a developing society because its regular material across a spectrum which does not require constant social remediation of its hierarchical causes. Both the individual behind the colloquial internality and the recipient are extended to access a level of development that would be unprecedented otherwise. In a regular scenario, the information is as much based on the social exchange, and the more familiar the exchange, the less prevalent information takes charge beyond the process between individuals.

We have mentioned in ancient times how societal growth was based on the intermingling of individuals who contain a slightly less developed understanding within the entire society. Abstraction was less commonplace and it was more reliant upon the direct interaction between individuals. We would not go so far as to say abstraction is corporeal internality, since it is utilizing a process of psyche in one case, and the other is a process of systems. Corporeal internality is not a psychological development, since in certain circumstances it would rather be a disturbance of sequence. For example, in highly social environments, corporeal internality would not be in service to the social footprints, since it is avoiding the social input, yet is a participant nonetheless forced by nature of social sequence and thus becoming a disturbance which cannot maintain a psychological stance of such in most scenarios. Thus, it is not psychological, but a function of systems.

In the case scenario where there is strong social sequence in its marginalized realms, corporeal internality can suffice. Not as a distraction for the inserts of nature of corporeal internality, because it serves a way from the prowling eyes of social process. The moment social sequence meets corporeal internality; it fails to be anything more than a distracting force of that setting; a disturbance of which constituents may indulge to thus expand that or to be simply overlooked by nature of it being an embellishment of non-consequential existence.

Corporeal internality is necessary, especially in the where a non-consequential existence is necessary. It is in these moments where exchange makes it problematic and social intersection becomes burdensome. One cannot perform their own function in a state of corporeal internality. As we have mentioned, it is systemic and orientational and not psychological. Thus, even the aspects of human endeavor that one would like to produce through corporeal internality cannot suffice from a biological stance; it is already an existential state pertaining to the social permeation. With any attempt at corporeal internality, it would just undermine the very supposition.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Family

The Family as a Biological and Conceptual Entity

The family is a subdomain of the surrounding society and a microcosm of the collective to which it belongs. Like a room within a shared structure, it reflects the larger whole while maintaining a degree of separation. Though it serves as an identity, its role within human interaction is far more intricate. It functions as a biological extension of the human interface, yet it transcends mere identity by existing as a biological reality—an experience of the fully formed organism.

This conceptual reality emerges through the shared gene pool and integrated memory of the initial or archetypal family, forming a deeply rooted and potent identity structure. The biological mirroring generated by the family structure serves as a far more powerful catalyst for subjective reflection than the physical home itself. Even when spread across multiple domains, the family retains its biological mirroring effect, persisting through even the subtlest recognition of its existence.

The home is the assumed actualization of the family body, insofar as the family body participates in it. The home contains its unique biological mirroring by serving as a habitat of residence for the most vulnerable aspects of human nature, automatically representing the human form by participating in its vulnerabilities. This gives the walls, roof, and doorways a distinctive portrayal of the biological aspects of its inhabitants. When the home loses its role as a biological mediator, it becomes a simplistic structure, lacking conceptualization, and transforms into a hollow existence.

For example, a home that mirrors the biological nature of sleep becomes a conceptualization of its inhabitants by unobtrusively making sleep available. If this mirroring is disrupted, the home ceases to be transparent, no longer serving as a haven that fully reflects human characteristics. Biological mirroring allows the home to represent the self, offering a space where one can enter and embody personhood despite deviations.

Through daily interactions and attention, one may lose the full experience of personhood. The aspects that receive attention come to represent the whole, while the rest fades into obscurity, leading to existential dissonance. Each lost aspect of personhood creates an unknown existential void, leaving one with a sense of unease.

Upon entering the home, one encounters its mirror of biological selfhood, which calls for the retrieval of complete personhood—especially the neglected aspects that daily life erodes. Even though the biological mirror reflects human vulnerability to sleep, it does not account for the subtle complexities that may be missing. Yet through biological representation, these vulnerabilities resonate with the absent aspects, restoring the energy needed to fully engage with the present experience.

The family body adds to that complexity by holding up a biological mirror, reflecting subtle details that cannot be represented in a concrete structure. However, the family body lacks a certain characteristic—it cannot mirror the biological vulnerabilities that a concrete home can provide. Each person must concern themselves with their unique humanistic vulnerabilities, as no other human can fully provide hospitable conditions for them. When the family body is removed from the home, the home becomes a general representation, failing to account for the missing details of personhood with every entrance.

In the beginning, the home has the capacity to serve through the general demand for biological reflection. However, as time progresses, this generalization will no longer suffice. The home loses its function as a space that nurtures whole personhood and instead becomes a mere habitat, meeting immediate biological needs without offering the conceptual depth that defines a "home."

How Family Memory Shapes Identity and the Present

Interactive Memory refers to the active process of memory formation that relies on conscious representation rather than passive recall. Memory does not exist in isolation; instead, it is continuously shaped by the individual's engagement with both the private and public spheres. This means that memory is not simply a recollection of past experiences but a dynamic structure that is reinforced, altered, or even reconstructed through conscious reflection and external influence.

Within the private domain of the family, memory takes on a structured form, where past events are not just remembered but actively interpreted, reaffirmed, or redefined. This process is not purely personal; rather, it is shaped by the larger social and cultural environment, which serves as an external reference point. In this way, Interactive Memory functions as a bridge between the internal world of private experience and the external world of public influence, ensuring that memory remains fluid rather than static.

The presence of the public sphere within the private domain is fundamental to this process. The way individuals remember their personal experiences is inevitably filtered through public narratives, collective history, and social discourse. Thus, memory is interactive in the sense that it both responds to and shapes the present, continuously drawing upon conscious awareness to maintain its relevance within the individual and the family unit.

The maturity stage is met with a multitude of changes, one of the most significant being the disparity between the childhood interactive database and the present advancements, which lack unity. There is no unity between the two because the process of expansion does not allow for attentiveness toward prior stages. This is to enable the availability of the unknown, which is necessary for growth. Therefore, people from the childhood database are not engaged in present, friend-like interactions. Instead, they assume the role of representing an aspect of the psyche without direct engagement. We notice that when the interaction materializes, it brings about content relevant to that history, and will only appear with the occasional sprinkle of present reality.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingMonotheism and Pathology

The Link between Pathology and Monotheism

Pathology is either the fixating emphasis or the fixating neglect of certain patterns of thought. The subjective experience of pathological thinking would be identified when finding oneself wedged within the psyche; an absence of mental flow. Our thesis is to bridge psychology with the ancient notion of Theos, or the theory of a categorical Theos. This joining, even if established, should not be robust or to remain consistently connected, since each discipline, the one of monotheism and the one of psychology, should remain esteemed in its singularity, in which they will prosper at best.

Psychology is the discipline that becomes an advantage for being afflicted with mental dysfunction and should be the leading discipline for that regard. Monotheism and its theological equivalents have become the domain of religion and are advantageous in the realm of existential consideration and collective identity. When monotheism and its subsidiaries begin to reconcile with mental dysfunction, both the theory and the patient undergo an unjust science. When psychology attempts to violate existential issues, especially collective identities, it becomes fairly incoherent and cult-like. Allowing a new science to define traditional identities causes tradition to fade and has the science appear to lack nuance and subtlety.

Moreso, the religious offshoot of monotheism deals with existential inquiry, a topic that does not require complete rationality, while the healing process necessitates to be operated with complete rationality. As we have stated, when dealing with the question of existence, it does not require the usage of complete rationality, since rationality is a tool of existence. Therefore, religion is a study concerning existence and is allowed the expansive territory of rationality, irrationality, and imagination. Religion is also a collective identity, which as an identity, becomes incorporated with the biological substructure of a social being. The association with a religion does not have to be explained in rationalizing terms as it becomes existence itself; a predecessor to rationality. When religion departs the confines of existential inquiry it becomes quite wearisome, encroaching a domain where exclusive rationality can reside. We find that psychology detests the irrational approach, being science-based, while not being of ample assistance for the exploration of existential aspects for it requires commitment and imagination.

Monotheism's Clause

The clause is such that even as everything is interconnected, certain connections are more interactive. For example, the connection to one's innate body is of a more interactive nature, meaning that there are more connections within itself than shrubbery of the wild. The foliage is interwoven into our experience but not relative to the same extent that it is to our organic structure, so that the attention towards our system would be in proportion to the interactive environment of that connection. Therefore, we must view the interconnection of monotheism as bound to a center which, as it spreads away from the center, has fewer interactive properties than what is most near to its epicenter.

Therefore, there are two aspects to define monotheism: interconnection and the level of interaction within each specific interconnection. In truth, from an objective point of view, it is only singular, interconnectedness; however, the interactive potency must be recognized when dialogical. This energy is a natural manifestation of nature and should not be noted as anything significant, naturally attending to the superior interactive connections than its lesser counterparts. The attention itself is natural to all of nature with equal interconnectedness, yet some of nature is more interconnected than others.

For example, a doctor would naturally take note of the more significant components of the organic body, not for the fact that they have a proclivity towards the extremities. This is done as a natural response to the fact that the extremities comprise a more interconnected potency than the non-extremities. The brain entertains has interconnected properties that far exceed a limb and therefore will be viewed as a sub-body of its identifiable posture. Comparable in how we decide to study phenomena in proportion to the amount of knowledge they may contain. There is no inherent bias to this approach; we are attending to phenomena in relation to its interactive properties. Therefore, monotheism is comprehensive universality even though there will be elements within the universal landscape that deserve more attention than other elements.

This leads us to the religious identity, a service to the necessary attention of the more interactive properties of experience. This is to fulfill the absolute monotheistic notion, which includes all of universality alongside the proper attention to all its more universal components. Religious identity is the universality of the components of universality. This brands religious identity as a subsidiary to the monotheistic notion, to be only in complete service to it. We can imagine monotheism without religious identity, yet as time goes along, the universality of the components will not be addressed adequately. One who is conscientious of such, even without religious identity will be able to maintain a true monotheistic perspective with various tools.

Monotheism is a scientific notation for it is making a claim on reality and will never seek to depart from the perceived reality of the era. The only aspect that may be lost to the scientific purview is that it does not seek to maintain complete evidence of its identifiable notion. As it is postulating universality, it continually seeks to transcend the perceived reality by being a posture of what is universal. Monotheism never wants to be pinpointed within nature, for then it will not be a form of true universality but only a representation for such. Therefore, even as it is a theory, when we find ease in knowing its basis, we start to detach from the rubric of its postulation.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingIdentity, Trauma and Existentialism

Identity

Identity, when occupied too earnestly, can cause disruption of its intrinsic culture. Identity is a mere manifestation of all human culture, so when identity does not interact with that broader culture it loses its cultural value. Culture is the vessel containing human experiences, knowledge, beliefs, customs, and expressions. Since experiences, knowledge, beliefs, customs, and expressions are universal, a specific identity is a mere sample of that database. Any identity is informed by these universal features and when the relationship between identity and universality is fragmented, it can no longer be informed. The ensuing identity which thrives is able to be informed by the pre-existing culture, more significantly, to remain informed by a comprehensive access to the universal realm.

This can be noted by the intricate process which is necessary for a developing culture in making headway from the pre-existing one. The philosophical and theological dialogue which should habituate between them is paramount for both. This is an arduous process, which is specifically accounting for a continuation of the pre-existing culture's dialogue towards a more profound measure and to contrast a new identity. An identity does not arise from nonentities, and we can always record a dominant and primal identity which was formerly adopted which could cause the new identity to diminish. The former identity would find its way into the current conversation while delineating the novel and exposed identity by its side. Remembering that identity is the container of human experience and knowledge: better experience and knowledge would override substandard experience and knowledge. Therefore, an intellectual dialogue with the pre-existing culture was a process of embodying the pre-existing cultural identity into a new sphere of existence.

For the developing culture it would be sensible to corroborate with a pre-existing culture's ritual by mere fact that it was sourced in the pre-existing culture. Moreover, with a realistic transition in place, the lack of its incorporation can impair the developing culture.

Furthermore, we comprise little information about the depth or significance of a cultural aspect, and it may be that this rite holds considerable levity as a ritual that can transform the intellectual development of the developing culture. The developing culture may assert to not maintain conversation about the ritual by virtue of its pre-existing culture association, as if to simply imply that binding to archaic methods is an antithesis to progression. Rituals and intellectual material should be explored at face value without having a particular identity restricting the conversation and secondly, every cultural construct is built on preliminary models. Identity does not serve to limit interaction with the broader society, but rather as a placeholder to reside amongst the differing conversation.

Consciousness and Existential Material

There are many ways to approach conscious substance or its manifest existential material. Without a possible exploration of conscious material in a manner that will provide a continuous stream; a certain desertion is in order to proceed despite its demand. The reverence given to conscious material is an availability towards eventual integration, indebted to the notion of being imprinted upon the psyche.

A secondary approach to conscious substance is a determined position towards its radiant relevance, to revel but not approach it. Curiosity, ultimately, does not prove effective, for the mode of curiosity is to be existentially attached upon approach. When it becomes existential, we would rather phrase it as an exploration, as there is a suitable pioneer to engage in the material.

A third approach would be uncertainty towards the conscious existence, to conjecture that something dysfunctional is ascending which would eventually be found to be fraudulent. This approach appreciates that something is existent but instead of extending in the direction, would rather overstimulate additional existential demands to standstill the process. Because there is no existential answer that would prove to satisfy the entire system, this approach would prove effective. However, bypassing the conscious exploration by stating that it will see its innate decline is the same as ignoring any phenomenon, experience, or interaction, by affirming that everything declines to oblivion. This does not aid the conversation as we assume a stance in an already post-relevant period to disengage in present tendings.

A fourth approach is specific questions of conscious material. Instead of the normal method of inquiry for questions that do not contain presumed answers, this would target its vulnerabilities. Even as they appear to be accessible for conversation, when we respond to some of the gathered vulnerabilities with supplementary conscious material it will go unnoticed. This approach is both sophisticated and simplistic. Sophisticated because the individual does not permit themselves to utilize an approach that will have them free from conversation, and simplistic, because there is effort in the conversation allocated by an already ascertained conclusion. All conscious material is vulnerable by nature and to find their shadow is not a great feat.

There is another method which is prepared from a more negative disposition. This method is to find distaste in the conscious material as the bearer of the existential material. As the material is quite demanding, it can be perceived as a negative substance, all the more so when we classify individual and social failures to be owed to its existence. Once the material is assumed to be negative, it will naturally create a negative assumption of the conscious substance which brought it to bear. In this case, one would set themselves adversarial to both existential and conscious material. The conscious material can be discounted quite easily, and the existential material is utilized to vitalize that discontent. The existential demand which had arrived from conscious substance is now secondhand to be adversarial towards that consciousness; conceptual patricide.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingMind and Itself

The Paradox of Consciousness: Memory, Computation, and the Illusion of Safety

Another questionable justification for the identification of consciousness is not for the sake of its vitality, but for the complexification involved in enabling a procedure, a stream, of consciousness, rather than the encapsulation of a specific time frame of it. In the case of a small encapsulation, one avoids the entire process of the psyche. It is as if one chooses to live in the memory portion of a computer to avoid the computational process that requires a very tight, first-pace, and complex understanding.

Residing in memory and its prior computation is a safe way to avoid complex analysis of the procedure of mind, and also of one's sociality. It is the choice to remain simple in light of the complications that arise with consciousness. However, this is a fruitless pursuit, for the very reason that they are vulnerable to any movement in computation. Having allocated themselves to exist only in memory, whatever computation surrounds them will eventually permeate their memory base and control the entirety of the stance of their psyche, to which they have no remedy.

Unless one chooses to avoid civilization altogether, where it would then be possible to avoid the permeation of consciousness or general computation from the collective, it follows that they will be controlled and regulated by the environment without choice or the possibility of change. Moreover, they do not even have the tools to understand how to navigate the environment, for the very reason that they cannot understand it. They lack regulation between themselves and the environment, and their perceptual data is based on suppositions derived from an antiquated memory base.

They must make coherent decisions about environmental interaction that would be beneficial for their stance within their psyche, though they have no awareness of the true environment, nor the ability to regulate whatever permeation the environment happens to impose upon them. It could be any situation in which a measure of consciousness enters their perceptual sphere without regulation and thus controls their entire platform of memory, without their ever having the tools to move within that memory.

One needs access to computation in order to control memory. Without it, memory stagnates in its aggregated form, moved only by computation and the environmental realm, but in no way possessing a subjective mechanism for controlling or regulating even memory itself, which is the entire basis of their psyche happenstance.

Still, such a justification requires evidence, and it is noticed in the political realm through examples of individualized subjectifications of psyches that have gone awry, proving detrimental to even enter that domain. It is as if one becomes suspicious of all computation simply because some computation leads to detrimental social outcomes (which, of course, it does). Instead, they discard the entire formation of computation as a detrimental procedure of experience.

Moreover, the very memory they rely upon was originally produced through computation. In denying that source, they deny the substrate of their own experience, dictating that its origin is unreliable and unjustified. The fathering of their entire psyche framework is thus denigrated as a possibility of unreliability, making it unavailable for interaction, despite the fact that their entire experience depends on that very source and process.

Although we notice that identification with consciousness can arise from many suppositions, vitality, avoidance of complexification, avoidance of unreliability, avoidance of dependency, there is also the element of seeking the safest possible existence. One may, in fact, believe that consciousness does not deserve to die, that it is immortal in its supposition and substrate.

Notation & Default: Foundations of Personhood

Personhood in its entirety is ambiguous and only the chosen representations at any interval either to itself or to others will be the variety that can be utilized for interaction. We can imagine the egoless person without the defense of selfhood or its propagation, nor the expression, for there is no seat for personhood to actualize. Happenings occur but without deliberations of personhood, external perspectives are attended perpendicular to this person but as others' peculiar projection for representation. The notation in psychology is that there is always an former or immature ego which succeeds the moment for any experience of the psyche. If we were to dispel the current ego, another ego will take its place, just as if we were to lose representation, another will take its place. It is only the matter of sophistication of the representative in its incorporation with the most current material which successfully reflects the present happenings in expression form.

When a family member is perceived without a certain notation, a default notation will take its place. When the default representation ascends from a distant part of the wholeness of person or to put it succinctly, from an infantile aspect of themselves, they immediately take upon that representation and interact with them in accordance. The default notation is going to be the last place of residence for a representation. For it to revert to an infantile measure would mean that the current representation has been constructed without any background of preceding representation which are similar to confirm a slow sign of mature progress. The current representation has taken effect by conscious activity which placed it there and not developed from continuous conversation. To place a representation upon any individual can immediately have its effect, although, when depreciated there may be no prior representation to fall back upon. The enterprise of placing the representation was enacted so as to engage in accordance with an individual.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingTheory of Social Exchange and Personhood

Dialogue and Narrative

the representation of internal dialogue cannot be performed in any other fashion than as a descriptive formulation of its process. We could perform the narrative arc, but we cannot provide details of its process, because the quality of displaying a narrative arc is that it overlooks the internal thoroughfare which follows a logical sequence of dialogue. A conversation may have a narrative arc structure that is noticed but can be ignored—until another narrative is revealed. This process is, in theory, indefinite.

One may follow the narrative arc of conversation and acknowledge when to lead based upon it. However, in certain terms, this is a betrayal of the dialogue itself. As the dialogue progresses, narrative structures are revealed—but not in the aspects of the dialogue itself. The dialogue moves according to the existential movement of each proponent, which is not a decision made by any narrative structure. Each person determines where the dialogue leads, and a new narrative will emerge according to this movement.

Many will naturally follow the narrative presenting itself in the moment in order to guard against a failed submersion into existential attachment. However, this protective mechanism also disrupts the dialogue itself, as one becomes focused on a manifestation of the dialogue rather than its content. By ignoring the narrative arc, one becomes less protected—but gains the ability to develop within the dialogue and follow its sequence, whether it fails or succeeds.

Failure must be allowed its rightful manifestation, because the developed state that leads to it is the authentic work—prior to the dialogue. Once the dialogue takes place, one cannot reside in any domicile of protection. If failure is the intended object, they must existentially attach to whatever that object is. Greater than the failure of existential submersion is the avoidance of it, because such avoidance produces a lack of individuation in dialogue—dialogue that is ruled solely by a connection to a narrative arc, one that can be whirled in any direction by the psyche. Moreover, the development of personhood is most deeply motivated by the existential plunge, which has a way of naturally instructing the psyche in constructing a more elaborate structure for future engagement.

At the same time, the experience of existential loss can motivate a more intricate protective mechanism. The only protection worthwhile to personhood is a more elaborate internal structure—one that can follow a sequence, risk failures, and still hold the possibility of success by virtue of having a developed state. That immersement requires a nosedive unencumbered by the failures of the past, with allegiance to a novel selfhood that will perform however it must. A protective measure focused on prior mistakes will wedge new developments from being included in the immersement, ensuring failure—particularly if that protective measure continually disrupts all movement.

Actualization: Process and Representation

although there is a concept of structural environments and the actualization of each in accordance with their level of consciousness depth, there is a psychological process that precedes them. Hopefully, our inquiry will lead to a convergence between the psychological happenstance and the structural reality.

As we have noted, there are two primary components to decipher a structural environment, and two secondary components. The two primary ones serve opposite extremes: the first being the central locale, which is for the purpose of actualization and is the leadership of the consciousness substance that becomes necessary for all other components; the second is the interactive realm, as this is the locale that allows for the validation and interaction of specific parts of its system without involving the wholesome nature of the system—in other terms, the wholesome endeavor versus its differentiation.

Regarding the psychological happenstance, however, this is not enough of an interpretation, because we have dictated that any actualization in the department of the central locale will be the direction of all differentiation, so that any wholesome interpretation of the psyche does not have the effect of dissemination to all the differentiation possibilities. Instead, it is more of a symbiotic relation, where there is a turn to the generality and to the other, of the differentiation—each in service to the other.

Actualization is the term that is more significant here, in which the psychological system can actualize and can halt its actualization. Generality is closely associated with actualization, but they do not come from the same source. One can be general, such as the idea of all humans, but still not actualize themselves as fully embodying that idea in an existential manner, to the point that they become that idea. Instead, we will repeatedly find generality that comes alongside actualization, but not the opposite. Actualization is when the psyche takes the existential state and places it upon the informational happenstance.

This occurs naturally in the higher consciousness realm, as would be in the central locale, because one mirrors the environment so that they notice the degree of existential depth—so that they accept that the information outside is more developed than the current internal system. A psychological system is based on a certain actualization which, at one point or another, was recognized as more developed than the current model; it is the consciousness block that is of a great depth.

Similar to a structural environment, in which the actualization is the most directive and competent part of the environment, the individual will naturally process and flow in the direction of a higher level of confidence. With every encounter of the environment or individual, one will become a part of that consciousness.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingDomestication

Levels & Dynamics of Domestication

Domestication can occur at various levels, and its progression is symbiotic. The most fundamental level is personal domestication, as no form of domestication is more profound than this. Next comes social domestication, often associated with the family unit, where bonds are mutual and validating. Following this is structural domestication, which mirrors the relationship between suburbs and urban centers or the interconnected locales within city streets. Finally, there is political domestication, which refers to the assimilation of external cultures into a state's jurisdiction. These levels form the basic structure of domestication.

Domestication, in this context, represents the neutral and the natural interweaving of psychological elements that do not require a direct representation or centralized form of communication. The family unit serves as the most relatable example, especially when there is no external interference. Family members communicate in ways that allow for dynamic inferences without a specific goal or directive. The only separation occurs through the interplay between family members, such as the oldest and youngest child. This dynamic also applies to personal domestication, where thoughts transpire in a flowing conversation-like pattern, reflecting each another without external demands. Therefore, domestication always involves a degree of concentration and awareness, as reflection is inherent to its process.

For instance, the oldest child embodies the role of the eldest, while the youngest embodies their role. This pattern is learned from consciousness itself and applied within this context. What makes domestication unique is that it requires minimal representation, often neglecting representation in favor of familiarity. A dysfunctional family dynamic can emerge when representation becomes excessively differentiated, causing family members to prioritize similarity over dynamic inferences. In the case of the oldest and youngest, they might communicate not according to their roles but based on perceived similarities, which can reduce their conversation as hollow: merely a reflection of each other.

This mirrors the experience of someone caught in self-pity for days or weeks, without any alteration in the modality of internal domestication. The same few thoughts keep reaffirming each other in a cyclical pattern, without variation. It's as if the individual has detached from representation, allowing just enough space for thoughts to emerge, but not enough for any deviation from the mirror-like validation of those thoughts. If we were to transcribe the thoughts of someone trapped in self-pity, we would find a few basic patterns that repeat themselves, without any variation. That is, until the psyche enters into a new form of representation that sparks dynamic inferences, advancing the conversation.

Family units can operate in a similar way, providing validation that keeps the family bonded together. However, when there is no significant movement across time, this cannot be considered domestication, but rather a repetitive cycle of thoughts voiced by different family members.

Wholesome Domestication

A wholesome domestication does lack the pronounced individuality, even pertaining to the individual force of domestication. The wholesomeness follows the individual and their prior habitat of domestication according to all its differentiations. This allows for the full expression of individual domestication through the channels of one's vulnerabilities. By default, wholesome domestication not only accommodates individuality but also the vulnerabilities of that individuality across a certain spectrum and according to certain parameters. This leads to the demise of individual pronouncement. One cannot express their profound individuality when their vulnerabilities are exposed. Thus, during wholesome domestication, one loses wholesome individuality, and by having wholesome individuality, one loses wholesome domestication.

Genuine vitality is only possible when one does not seek to validate their existing components but rather leads from those existing components toward a new realm. When one validates their existing components, they must differentiate them to partake in a particular sense. Because of that, one cannot be wholesome; rather, differentiating into systematic parts allows for interactivity and thus domestication. Wholesome investigation occurs when the partialities of one system undergo a validating process that is wholesome, to include many of those particular aspects.

Domestication is a powerful construct that, while often resembling the corporeal structure, is in fact part of the consciousness continuum. It does not isolate itself to fulfill a conscious function. Within a domesticated structure, there is a direct permeation of consciousness, all without reverting to its basic elements. This is its vulnerability: it must engage with direct consciousness while remaining secluded from proper formalization; an outcome of the broadness of consciousness, which is not directly accessible to the social individual.

Domestication sets the parameters for diluting consciousness into specific individuation, according to the rules of embodied experience; relatability. The familial body is the quintessential domesticated structure, given the familiarity of biological attachments and its semblance to a once-developing human form. Even an adopted family forms a potent domesticated structure due to this resemblance, which supports the perception of biological intimacy. This resemblance constitutes a perceptual individuation of self, supported by a strong relatability system; allowing one to experience those elements as nearly internal, without violating their external form.

The objective of domestication is precisely this: to create a potent capacity for individuation by accessing the sociality of the human being through their biological experience of selfhood. In doing so, it facilitates a diminutive version of consciousness that remains relatable to the human interface.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingThe Structure of Consciousness

Consciousness: Structural Foundations

Consciousness begins or commences based on a substrate of a depleted form of consciousness. That elementary modality is foundational because consciousness is structured as a hierarchy of degrees.

A single level of consciousness is reliant upon its elementary form to give it vitality. Because it is more complex, and complexity is not an available attribute for the retention of consciousness, whatever does not complete the complexity configuration becomes dependent upon an elementary form of consciousness.

That elementary module is in service and provides the provisions for the less complex aspects or the depleted end of that conscious spectrum so that the surpassing configuration of consciousness can experience a wholesome appearance. If we were to dismantle that service, the advanced end of consciousness, or that of further complexity, would need to downgrade itself to provide for an experience of those attributes.

The reason those attributes are only available to a specific level of complexity that consciousness can attain is due to the platform limitation inherent in consciousness itself, as it is dependent on individuals and organisms for its expression.

For example, a building can imbue a certain degree of consciousness, and indeed it is only based on its platforming structure and rigid formation. The formation can display a sensibility to the direction of consciousness, but it cannot include all these complex developments that lead to that accomplishment. It is structurally bound to give only a single sequence of conscious experience, and the attributes that lead toward it must be neglected to achieve that goal, like the workers and construction. We could imagine a competent structure with the dystopia of all civilization to notice how it will lose its imbued consciousness and rather stand as itself, as the most simplistic formation of consciousness because no other provision has been selected for that. When we see a competent structure, we could always ask or analyze to find the lesser complexifications—what it is dependent upon to give it its impending level of consciousness.

A more concrete example would be the construction of a skyscraper devoid of a surrounding city or competent political entity. That final structure will not imbue a certain consciousness common with skyscrapers, but rather will take up the position of consciousness that does not have its dependence on civilization or a surrounding social body. Of course, we would notice that with the construction of the skyscraper, there will be a surrounding social body and prevalence of some sort of relevance in the hierarchy of conscious substance. However, that social body must be termed for its availability of consciousness in accordance with its structural origins and memory.

Structural & Conceptual in Psychological Experience

Most of our recent work has discussed the structural circumstances of the individual mind, viewing them as the normal setting, which allows us to perceive structural inference as the only criterion for regulation and process within the psyche. However, another process operates within the individual psyche that supersedes this requirement. Although bound by structure to some degree, it can function in a manner that transcends infrastructure's control. The psyche can do this because no structural mechanism dictates the concreteness of an element, alternatively its flimsy nature. Instead, it relies on a broader perspective—one that the structure itself cannot contain—for such an effect to take place.

For example, a room in a building may be considered a grand hall, but it becomes such only in its completeness, defined by its usage. There are structural elements—such as the first room upon entry, its size, and other characteristics —that shape the final appearance of a grand hall. Yet, the psyche can conceptually distinguish the room from the rest of the structure, besides altering its perceived distance from the entrance.

The door to the grand hall can be emphasized to a point where one may only see the inner space, no longer perceiving it as a "greeting" room. Moreover, one may envision the rooms beyond the grand hall as entirely distinct in character, not closely associated with the hall. As a result, for this particular awareness, the grand hall loses its defining character and becomes a space of limited effect in either direction. We acknowledge this in a palace, for its great hall does not act to the same effect because the quarters are distinctly separated—conceptually, serving as the external room of the palace rather than a meeting place for the internal system. In fact, the palace is in desperate need of an internal aspect to the great hall chamber, which, because of its conceptual separation, is difficult to conjure and maintain.

The same applies to psychological trauma. If one is penetratingly exposed to an experience in a specific space, such begins to act unlike its normal conceptual inference, becoming akin to a landmass where foreboding structural aspects lose relevance. However, the psyche does not partake with complete freedom in this process; it remains reliant on the structural footprint to some degree. A psychological trauma experienced in broad openness, for example, will be associated with the neighborhood or city, but in as much as structural references allow. If the experience occurs in a truly open space, then its association will extend only as far as the structural elements that define that openness. A trauma in the desert, for instance, will be linked to the entire desert—until a structural boundary, such as a nearby town or city, is reached.

Baruch MenacheSelected reading
Selected ReadingShadow and Gateway Theory

The Duality of the Shadow Locale

There are two differentiating approaches to the shadow: one is a default manifestation of a shadow in a manner of participation with conscious experience, or as an emblem of a shadow in its perspective upon the overwhelming experience of consciousness. For example, any form of animated domesticity or high interactivity that is coerced into the perceptual arena would automatically become the shadow; for it represents itself as the details that make up the consciousness experience and thus not only redundant but disruptors to the flow that carries an assumption of an already perfected domestication.

This would be the default shadow to any conscious experience, such that in any locale, if a couple is over-interactive, especially concerned with domesticated elements against the backdrop of other patrons, it would be a default manifestation of a shadow to that locale. We do not need to study the establishment where it is situated. Simply by the fact that there is a coerced interactivity from these two patrons, it has an expectation, more so, a conscious layer of some sort, that such patrons will represent the under-structure of that system; being as who they are as existent beings, and, more so, who are the others.

A sophisticated shadow locale is the creation of a shadow format in its reflection of a wholesome conscious experience. It is a situation that only reflects the true nature of consciousness. It does not do so because it coerces interactivity all the while being structurally connected to consciousness, but rather because it finds itself actualized in contrast to the consciousness experience. Surely, the way to actualize in contrast to consciousness is by a high level of domesticity or interactivity while maintaining a position in a consciousness space; but that is merely to assist and reflect, creating an aura of a whole-sum reflection of that state.

The difference would be that one who is situated in such a locale would automatically experience their individuation formatted upon the representational setting. While in the default shadow experience, it merely disrupts the regular circumstance and expectation. As with the patrons and the establishment, the other patrons will find a disruptive experience rather than a representation of their domesticated elements; having been presented for the perceptual experience. It is simply that they seek to have an established experience, with such as being disrupted of that. Once they depart, they no longer have that participation or its shadow elements.

Gateway as Container and Imagination

The doorway is, in effect, a container of both prior consciousness and the promise or imagination of what would be ensued from the outside. We could have an entire locale that emulates that persona, such that we must learn more than the simple adjustment or degree of separation between two locales. We cannot simply disregard the doorway as a meandering admixture of realms to which one need not heed or allow it to remain too separate, since the entire locale processes its data through this matter.

The gateway locale is significant for the entire system because one does not have perspective on the conscious system when within its midst, nor do they retain it when distant from it. Thus, a certain necessity arises to provide both a fantasy and its prior vectors. With this in mind, one feels as though they have access to the other side of the gateway, an effect that does not occur when they are within it. This is why, even when there is an admixture in the gateway that may need to be ignored in social interaction, it is in the nature of things to extend and complicate the gateway so as to grant access. For example, the process of birth, which is the quintessential gateway, is where nature itself imposes certain demands to engage with the full scope of the child's eminence from the vantage of that gateway.

Birth, although it has the perspective of the complete life of a future human, is rather an imagination that is allowed such a luxury. It can be said to foretell, like in all imaginations, and especially because the interactivity of those events will be domesticated through time to serve to fulfill that perspective, but it is not a real and authentic realm; only the specific development of the being in real time would offer that effect.

We could view the gateway locale with two distinct elements: one is the container and the other is the imagination. The container is a prerequisite: a presupposition that is solely provided by the locale itself. It is the container because it allows for a certain contextual overlay for the imagination, but also a certain infrastructural item and a certain civilized element. Without the container, one can still bring to bear their specific contexts, but because there is a lack of infrastructure such context would fail; it has no landmark onto which to use a pedigree of civilized viability. This is why the beach often feels like a lacking container; even if the imagination is active and specific contexts are brought, it lacks viability because context breaks down without infrastructure, which is necessary for direction and support.

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Published poetry · Fall 2025

“Memory”

A distinct poetry publication in The Soliloquist Journal, documented in the journal’s Fall 2025 issue and presented as its own editorial credit.

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Published poetry · Summer 2026

“Depreciation”

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Accepted poetry · Forthcoming 2026

“Depreciation” & “Spring”

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Published drama · Spare Parts Literary

Twitching Hour

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Published commentary · October 17, 2016

What Becomes of a Helicoptered Kid?

A first-person contribution published by Free-Range Kids on childhood autonomy, overprotection, and the long aftereffects of tightly controlled parenting.

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Independent coverage · Elevate Society

Baruch Menache’s Podcast: Podcast Review

An external review of the podcast and its recurring engagement with psychology, philosophy, identity, culture, and social structure.

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Guest appearance · September 2025

Outlier’s Edge · Episode 825

A guest appearance on Outlier’s Edge focused on action, uncertainty, and the limits of waiting for complete prediction before moving.

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Celebrate Sex in Marriage · Amazon reviews

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Politics · Primary work

Politics Explained

Democracy, Power, Democratic Socialism, Revolution, and American Government

A broad introduction to political theory and public power, connecting democracy, institutions, government, revolution, democratic socialism, political identity, and the social structures behind authority.

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  • Full listing title: Politics Book Explained: A Comprehensive Book about Democracy, Power, Democratic Socialism, Revolution, and American Government [Political Book for Beginners and Intermediate Readers]
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Philosophy as a living structure.

Philosophy here is not treated as a detached history of arguments. It is used as a method for tracing how perception, consciousness, belief, identity, and the social world become organized. The books move between psychology, metaphysics, religion, structuralism, and the philosophy of the person.

Consciousness & perceptionBelief & GodIdentity & personhoodEnvironment & structure
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Explore the public world

Society, politics, and the structures between people.

This body of work examines institutions, public power, social exchange, legitimacy, political organization, and the ways individuals become participants in larger systems. The emphasis is structural: how a social order is formed, transmitted, maintained, and experienced.

Politics & powerSocial formationInstitutionsExchange & personhood
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Identity carried through family, history, and civilization.

These works approach culture as an active environment rather than a decorative background. They examine inherited memory, family formation, Jewish and civilizational identity, historical consciousness, environment, and the symbolic structures through which a person enters a collective world.

CivilizationFamily & inheritanceIdentityHistory & environment
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Philosophy · Book page

Psychology Book for College

What Keeps Our Mind Working? Perception, consciousness, cognition, reality, and the science of the human mind.

Philosophy · 2026

An accessible introduction to perception, consciousness, cognition, reality, and the working human mind.

What this work explores

An accessible introduction to perception, consciousness, cognition, reality, and the working human mind.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

Edition relationship

This reader-facing edition develops the same perceptual sequence represented in the earlier scholarly print work The Perceptual Person. Both remain separately available in the library.

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Politics · Earlier structural edition

Contemporary Politic

A Guide to the Structures Behind Modern Politics.

Society · 2026

A guide to the structures behind modern politics, legitimacy, institutions, and public power.

What this work explores

A guide to the structures behind modern politics, legitimacy, institutions, and public power.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

Politics Explained primary edition cover presentation

Politics · Primary work

Politics Explained

Democracy, Power, Democratic Socialism, Revolution, and American Government.

Political theory · Primary work

Politics Explained is an accessible map of political life that moves from foundational political theory into democracy, public power, institutions, American government, revolution, and democratic socialism. Rather than reducing politics to elections or partisan identity, it asks how authority is formed, how political systems become socially meaningful, and how institutions convert ideas into public action.

What this work explores

Democracy and representation, state power, political institutions, American government, revolution, democratic socialism, political identity, legitimacy, and the relationship between institutional structure and public life.

How it connects

The book is the reader-facing politics entry point to the wider social-theory corpus. Its themes connect directly to essays and podcast discussions of power, government, institutions, ideology, political psychology, social structure, and collective action.

Verified catalog identity

The earlier Contemporary Politic ASIN is intentionally kept separate from this reader-facing work.

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Philosophy · Book page

How to Explain God to a Modern Audience

A guide to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas of God for readers shaped by modern reason.

Philosophy · 2024

A clear guide to presenting Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas of God to readers shaped by modern reason.

What this work explores

A clear guide to presenting Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas of God to readers shaped by modern reason.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

Edition and intellectual lineage

The reader-facing God and apologetics sequence is presented here as a distinct current work while retaining its earlier conceptual lineage in Monotheism and Pathology. Retail title variants are preserved for discoverability rather than collapsed.

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Philosophy · Book page

Celebrate Sex in Marriage

The Sacred Meaning of Desire, Intimacy, and Love.

Philosophy · 2026

A reflective guide to desire, intimacy, love, and the sacred and relational meanings of married sexuality.

What this work explores

A reflective guide to desire, intimacy, love, and the sacred and relational meanings of married sexuality.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Philosophy · Book page

Environment and the Individual

Philosophy · 2026

A philosophical model of how environments shape consciousness, identity, behavior, and social possibility.

What this work explores

A philosophical model of how environments shape consciousness, identity, behavior, and social possibility.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Philosophy · Book page

Transmission and Exchange

Philosophy · 2026

An inquiry into how meaning, identity, and social structure move between people and across systems.

What this work explores

An inquiry into how meaning, identity, and social structure move between people and across systems.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Philosophy · Book page

Ambiguous Foundations

Philosophy · 2026

A study of ambiguity as a formative condition of consciousness, institutional life, and social coherence.

What this work explores

A study of ambiguity as a formative condition of consciousness, institutional life, and social coherence.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Philosophy · Book page

Context and Intimacy

Philosophy · 2026

A study of how intimacy, family, and relationship are formed by context, expectation, and social structure.

What this work explores

A study of how intimacy, family, and relationship are formed by context, expectation, and social structure.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

Festival of Doom

Stage & Poetry · 2026

A poetic drama in which spectacle, social pressure, and foreboding collide on the public stage.

What this work explores

A poetic drama in which spectacle, social pressure, and foreboding collide on the public stage.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

Gifted Wares

Stage & Poetry · 2026

A lyrical tragedy of memory, guilt, inherited violence, and the objects through which families remember.

What this work explores

A lyrical tragedy of memory, guilt, inherited violence, and the objects through which families remember.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

Available editions

The play is retained under its principal literary title while alternate retail wording remains indexed as an edition variant.

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Philosophy · Book page

Mind and Itself

Philosophy · 2026

An examination of self-reference, interior experience, and the structures through which mind encounters itself.

What this work explores

An examination of self-reference, interior experience, and the structures through which mind encounters itself.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

News Worthy

Stage & Poetry · 2026

A contemporary play about journalism, war, moral spectacle, and the private cost of public truth.

What this work explores

A contemporary play about journalism, war, moral spectacle, and the private cost of public truth.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

Available editions

The library preserves the principal play title and its reader-facing retail variant as editions of the same work.

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Philosophy · Book page

Shadow and Gateway Theory

Philosophy · 2026

A theory of the hidden boundaries, passages, and symbolic structures that organize human experience.

What this work explores

A theory of the hidden boundaries, passages, and symbolic structures that organize human experience.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Society · Book page

Social Consequence

Society · 2026

A critique of reverse-engineered social systems and the instability created when representation replaces succession.

What this work explores

A critique of reverse-engineered social systems and the instability created when representation replaces succession.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

The Case of Two Sisters

Stage & Poetry · 2026

A poetic family drama about two sisters, competing visions of success, and inherited expectation.

What this work explores

A poetic family drama about two sisters, competing visions of success, and inherited expectation.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Society · Book page

The Corporeal Construct

Society · 2026

A study of corporations and institutions as social bodies that reshape consciousness, memory, and identity.

What this work explores

A study of corporations and institutions as social bodies that reshape consciousness, memory, and identity.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Philosophy · Book page

The Nature of Approach

Philosophy · 2026

A framework for the patterns of consciousness, cognition, decision-making, and human behavior.

What this work explores

A framework for the patterns of consciousness, cognition, decision-making, and human behavior.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Philosophy · Book page

The Perceptual Person

Philosophy · 2026

A rigorous account of perception as an autonomous structure operating in tension with social process.

What this work explores

A rigorous account of perception as an autonomous structure operating in tension with social process.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

Edition relationship

The Perceptual Person remains the earlier scholarly print presentation of this perceptual sequence. The current reader-facing presentation is Psychology Book for College.

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Society · Book page

The Social Man

Society · 2026

A theory of social formation in which abstraction, internalization, and structural relations produce social reality.

What this work explores

A theory of social formation in which abstraction, internalization, and structural relations produce social reality.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

The Soldiers Playground

Stage & Poetry · 2026

A postwar poetic drama of bureaucracy, homelessness, memory, and fractured American lives.

What this work explores

A postwar poetic drama of bureaucracy, homelessness, memory, and fractured American lives.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

Twitching Hour

Stage & Poetry · 2026

An experimental theatrical work where pressure, repetition, and unstable language reveal interior conflict.

What this work explores

An experimental theatrical work where pressure, repetition, and unstable language reveal interior conflict.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

Blinding Lights

Stage & Poetry · 2025

Poetry and dramatic verse tracing identity, longing, resilience, memory, and the glare of public life.

What this work explores

Poetry and dramatic verse tracing identity, longing, resilience, memory, and the glare of public life.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Society · Book page

Domestication

Society · 2025

An inquiry into domesticity, family order, social psyche, and the making of everyday identity.

What this work explores

An inquiry into domesticity, family order, social psyche, and the making of everyday identity.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

Gone West

Stage & Poetry · 2025

A stage work about departure, displacement, and the psychological distance between home and elsewhere.

What this work explores

A stage work about departure, displacement, and the psychological distance between home and elsewhere.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Philosophy · Book page

The Structure of Consciousness

Philosophy · 2025

A philosophical investigation of consciousness as a lived system shaped by memory, society, and instability.

What this work explores

A philosophical investigation of consciousness as a lived system shaped by memory, society, and instability.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Stage & Poetry · Book page

The Winter Platform

Stage & Poetry · 2025

A literary novel of estrangement, interior fracture, and the emotional architecture of survival.

What this work explores

A literary novel of estrangement, interior fracture, and the emotional architecture of survival.

Reading context

This literary work uses scene, voice, narrative, or lyric form to examine memory, identity, relationship, conflict, and the pressures of social life.

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Society · Book page

Theory of Social Exchange and Personhood

Society · 2025

A psychological and philosophical account of how exchange, recognition, and relation produce personhood.

What this work explores

A psychological and philosophical account of how exchange, recognition, and relation produce personhood.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Philosophy · Book page

Critical Sexual Theory

Philosophy · 2024

A philosophical study of gender, desire, sexual identity, social meaning, and the ethics of embodiment.

What this work explores

A philosophical study of gender, desire, sexual identity, social meaning, and the ethics of embodiment.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Society · Book page

Elements of Civilization

Society · 2024

An analysis of the material, political, and cultural forces that hold civilizations together.

What this work explores

An analysis of the material, political, and cultural forces that hold civilizations together.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Philosophy · Book page

Identity, Trauma and Existentialism

Philosophy · 2024

A philosophical exploration of trauma, family systems, cultural transition, and the reconstruction of identity.

What this work explores

A philosophical exploration of trauma, family systems, cultural transition, and the reconstruction of identity.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

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Philosophy · Book page

Monotheism and Pathology

Philosophy · 2024

An interdisciplinary encounter between monotheistic belief, psychology, philosophy, and the formation of self.

What this work explores

An interdisciplinary encounter between monotheistic belief, psychology, philosophy, and the formation of self.

Reading context

This work belongs to the philosophy and mind sequence, where questions of consciousness, belief, identity, and perception are treated as structural problems rather than isolated topics.

Edition relationship

This earlier religion-and-psychology work remains independently listed in the library. Its later reader-facing apologetics sequence is represented by How to Explain God, while this title retains its own Amazon record.

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Civilization & Faith · Earlier work

12 Reasons to Live

A Jewish Perspective

Jewish thought · meaning · responsibility

A Jewish meditation on meaning, survival, responsibility, mortality, and the reasons a life remains worth continuing. The work approaches existence through obligation, memory, faith, community, and the ethical demand to continue participating in life.

What this work explores

Meaning, existential endurance, Jewish thought, moral responsibility, mortality, faith, resilience, and the obligations that connect individual life to a wider human and communal world.

Catalog context

This is an earlier work retained in the complete library. It remains separate from later structural and social-theory books while providing an important record of the author’s earlier philosophical and religious writing.

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Society · Book page

Philosophy of Israel and the Jew

Society · 2024

A study of historical consciousness, land, existential identity, and the dynamics of Jewish preservation.

What this work explores

A study of historical consciousness, land, existential identity, and the dynamics of Jewish preservation.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Society · Book page

Philosophy of the Center of Civilization

Society · 2024

A philosophical journey through identity, society, perception, freedom, and the structures of collective life.

What this work explores

A philosophical journey through identity, society, perception, freedom, and the structures of collective life.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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Society · Book page

Territory and Civilization: Identity, Land, and Culture

Society · 2024

A study of the bonds between land, property, identity, cultural preservation, and political order.

What this work explores

A study of the bonds between land, property, identity, cultural preservation, and political order.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

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The Family: A Philosophical Introspection

Society · 2024

A reflection on family dynamics, generational memory, belonging, and personal development.

What this work explores

A reflection on family dynamics, generational memory, belonging, and personal development.

Reading context

This work belongs to the society and politics sequence, examining how individuals participate in institutions, public systems, political structures, and forms of social exchange.

About the author

Interior life, treated as a philosophical problem.

Baruch Menache works at the intersection of philosophy, narrative, and lyric expression.

Publication and media record: poetry in The Soliloquist Journal, dramatic work through Spare Parts Literary, a featured contribution at Free-Range Kids, independent podcast coverage from Elevate Society, and a guest appearance on Outlier’s Edge Podcast. View publications and media.

His work investigates the structural conditions of identity, the genealogy of belief, and the points at which psychological, social, and symbolic orders break, misalign, or reconstitute themselves. Across theoretical and theatrical forms, interior life is treated not simply as expression but as a philosophical problem governed by sequence, deviation, and correction.

He lives in New York with his wife and children.

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Don’t Ask Permission to Have Children

  Children, Citizenship, and the Limits of State Intervention Don’t ask permission to have children. The state comes in after the fact. It is an organization, a political organization, that deals with citizens. How the citizen effectuates himself or herself in the manner of their private affairs and the multiplicity of themselves onward is irrelevant as far as the individual is concerned. It is either a single citizen or a multiplicity of citizens. There is never a reaching from the state into the individual. For that prerogative, we may be accustomed to this through the interference of traditional perceptions of domestic life. That is only a failure of domestic life in which we need state intervention. In fact, the entire constitution can be based on the idea that privatization is a realm that can never be entered by the state, and in whatever way it acts, its citizen multiplicity does not even get the glance of the state. The same is true of economic responsibility, or responsibi...

Philosophical Exhaustion and the American Social Contract of Expansion

Socialization, individuality, and the attempt to stabilize a system built on unlimited expanse and moral tension Let us find sympathy for these extreme measures to which most of America subscribes. Because the individual lies in a path that provides them with the supposition that whatever is an obstacle either does not exist or can be trudged through. This creates a lack of a safety net when a contrary interaction occurs, which would have one de-exist individuals or trudge through them. Immediately, individual and communal murder is possible, as there is nothing to hinder the perspective which presumes to be more expansive than that which the social body assumes. This social body is nonexistent, or is of less significance than this philosophy. It reprimands individuals as part of a social structure but does not teach them to remove the importance that is given to one’s presumed expansion. In partiality, socialization becomes paramount to this primary philosophy, which removes any rec...

Master Corpus Glossary

            Master Corpus Glossary of Internal Terms Canonical Definitions for the Internal Language of the Works Baruch Menache Master Corpus Edition  |  July 2026             Prepared from twenty supplied works. Definitions consolidate recurring usage so that each publication may stand independently for readers entering the corpus at any point. Editorial Purpose This glossary standardizes the specialized vocabulary used throughout the twenty-work corpus. Each entry states the meaning that the term carries within the works rather than reproducing an ordinary dictionary definition. The definitions are canonical editorial formulations. They consolidate explicit definitions, repeated applications, contrasts, and structural relationships across the manuscripts. Where a term develops across several works, the entry preserves the common theoretical core rather than the wording of a single passage. The t...
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Books about the structures beneath ordinary life.

Baruch Menache writes across philosophy, psychology, social theory, fiction, poetry, and drama. His work follows identity, belief, institutions, intimacy, and the points at which private life meets public order.

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Social Consequence

On Limits of Reverse Engineering in Social Systems

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Ambiguous Foundations

Physiological Imprint, Social Structure, and Conceptual Development

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Environment and the Individual

Studies in Environmental Structure, Individuality, and Social Process

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The Soldiers Playground

Echoes of War and the Fractured Man

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Social Consequence

On Limits of Reverse Engineering in Social Systems

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Ambiguous Foundations

Physiological Imprint, Social Structure, and Conceptual Development

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Environment & identity

Environment and the Individual

Studies in Environmental Structure, Individuality, and Social Process

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The Social Man

A Theory of Social Formation, Abstraction, and Social Structure

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Social order

Transmission and Exchange

The Sequential Nature of Social Order

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Consciousness

The Nature of Approach

A Philosophy of Consciousness, Identity, and Human Behavior

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Philosophy

Shadow and Gateway Theory

Transitional Between Extremes

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Religion & psyche

Monotheism and Pathology

Psychology Meets Philosophy

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Identity & trauma

Identity, Trauma and Existentialism

A Philosophical Exploration of Family Dynamics and Cultural Transitions

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Sexuality & identity

Critical Sexual Theory

Gender, Desire, Sexual Identity, and the Philosophy of Sexuality

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Family & identity

The Family

Exploring Generational Legacy, Family Dynamics, and Personal Growth

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Mind & perception

The Structure of Consciousness

An Inquiry into Mind, Perception, and Internal Architecture

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Social psyche

Domestication

Domesticity in Relation to Social Psyche and Identity

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Context and Intimacy

Psychological Frameworks that Govern Human Connection

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Contemporary Politic

A Guide to the Structures Behind Modern Politics

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Mind and Itself

Architecture of Mind and the Hidden Mechanisms of Human Perception

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Social exchange

Theory of Social Exchange and Personhood

Reciprocity, Identity, and the Foundations of Social Being

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Institutions

The Corporeal Construct

Corporation, Performance and the Architecture of Social Reality

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Civilization

Philosophy of the Center of Civilization

Exploring Human Identity, Society, and the Intersection of Philosophy and Reality

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Civilization

Elements of Civilization

Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Shape Society, Politics, and Culture

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History & identity

Philosophy of Israel and the Jew

Historical Consciousness, Existential Identity, and the Dynamics of Preservation

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Land & culture

Territory and Civilization

Identity, Land, and Culture

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Political introduction

Politics Book Explained

Democracy, Power, Revolution, and American Government

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Marriage & desire

Celebrate Sex in Marriage

The Sacred Meaning of Desire, Intimacy, and Love

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Faith & reason

How to Explain God in Age of Secularism

Clear Reasons for God in a Secular World

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Faith & life

12 Reasons to Live

A Jewish Perspective

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The Winter Platform

A Novel of Displacement, Interior Conflict, and Social Fracture

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Drama

The Soldiers Playground

Echoes of War and the Fractured Man

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Drama

Gifted Wares

A Lyrical Tragedy of Memory, Guilt, and Inherited Violence

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Poetic drama

Festival of Doom

A Poetic Drama of Friendship, Love, and Betrayal

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News Worthy

A Play about Journalism, War, and Moral Spectacle

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Poetry

Blinding Lights

Selected Poems on Perception, Alienation, and Inner Fracture

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Poetry

Poetry by Baruch Menache

A Poetic Journey Through Longing, Identity, and Resilience

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Ideas tested against lived structure.

Baruch Menache works at the intersection of philosophy, narrative, and lyric expression. His books examine how identity is formed, how institutions organize reality, and how psychological and social orders break, misalign, or reconstitute themselves.

His work moves between theoretical inquiry and dramatic form. He lives in New York with his wife and children. Literary fiction may also appear under the name Reed Bellows.

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