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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Asked whether he ever truly went beyond that excitement, Michael says he felt the body's extremity in his mind too, and Dani answers that he is trapped in cycles of experience moving toward death, false Nietzschean posturing, and futile savior acts in whore houses and alleys.
Dani's critique grows harder and more exact, refusing to let raw experience count as wisdom. Christ, Nietzsche, pimps, whores, and college kids all get dragged into one argument about Michael mistaking dramatic action for transformation.
Daniel names the trap directly: 'each story is only an extention of the other. Each story is within the same cycle,' and 'if you do not go beyond experience as being your framework for knowledge, your spirit will demand the death experience. That is where you are going. Toward the complete human experience. Finality.' He places the Nietzsche-quoting Beatniks short of where 'Neitzhie was,' passive because 'their dread is the knowledge that they have of Christ within.' Michael answers as a self-cast savior - 'I have been Christ too. I have gone into the temple, which was the whore house, and driven all the rich merchants and phony college kids out' - to which Daniel returns the deflating 'But what difference does it make Michael? You are only fighting for yourself.'