Deconstructing Context 5

Now, in this Nabokovian Universe, almost everything seems to be permissible. At the same time, not everyone is teeming with personality and character as in Nabokov's novels. Vladmir Nabokov himself was very impersonal in his lectures, reading his notes. Male intellectual heavyweights are attracted to this world because it makes them think, so impersonality and very complex thinking is a character of the males who inhabit this world. T.S. Eliot's impersonality also foreshadowed this world.

There is also the world of fundamentalists, a world marked by God, permanence and order. Here everyone looks at you with a Medusa stare if you disagree with them. Now, Owen Barfield interpreted the Medusa image as the image of the female vulva combined with the brain matter of the female mind. It was either Owen Barfield or Freud or a combination of both thinkers. Anyway, that image always gives me the chills. But with the fundamentalists, the Medusa image seems to be the phallus. Their bodies becomes hard like the penis when excited and they stare at you with blank, sometimes pitying eyes, obliterating you symbolically, essentially mentally stoning you.

The Bible is to be interpreted in one way and in one way only, literally. But even this world is having to deal with "context" or changing historical context. Although they have rejected modernism and Postmodern thought, it is hard to see how they will become anyone but Pharisees, people forcing the law of God on everyone and thereby killing freedom and the Spirit of God. It is hard to see how they will become like anything but Rocks. Even among the fundamentalists, there is disagreements about how literally they want to take the Bible, especially when it comes to some of the more cruel laws of Moses which Jesus did not comment upon.

At the same time, there is great patriotism and pride with the fundamentalists and they are willing to fight for America despite their disillusionment about America. They are brave souls whose spirits are ignited but never continually fed or grown.

When Christ comes back though, what would the fundamentalists say to Christ? Wouldn't they say what the Grand Inquisitor says to Christ in the Brothers Karamazov. Wouldn't they tell Christ that he is not needed, that they have found the solution to the 3 Temptations... take away people's freedom and they will serve and worship you for taking away that huge burden. Do the miracles. Turn the stone to bread and feed them so they won't have to worry about food. Jump Down from the Cliff... test God and surely he will rescue the saved ones...take over the political power structure so that there is no free will.