You can't use your rebellion ironically, to perfect your slavery, if you are on the MASTER end of the Hegelian dialectic. (Only the slave can rebel.) That's because you are one side of the dialectic, which means outside of the dialectic, which makes you free. That is one place where one is immersed in nonknowledge.
In fact, Bataille says that a natural and sovereign path was always open to the one who did not bow his will to any superior force, person or principle. There were "princes", he said, who had no need to rebel, so long as they confronted death at every moment and accepted the caprice of fate.
In fact, Bataille says that a natural and sovereign path was always open to the one who did not bow his will to any superior force, person or principle. There were "princes", he said, who had no need to rebel, so long as they confronted death at every moment and accepted the caprice of fate.
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