Homo Symbolicus: An Ontological Defense of Man

        Bio-evolutionists and those who are not mere atheists, but ontological atheists who make categorical claims about the character of consciousness as purely a function of survival, do a grave disservice to humanity. The particular separation from man from animal is not only philosophically true, it is necessary to eschew tribal pitfalls. Bio-evolutionists have made obscene speculations, say, that racism is a primordial function of tribal identification, which once served a purpose for social cohesion. All declarative descriptions, obscene or otherwise, are nonsense.

        The character of human consciousness, unlike the animal, is the apparent infinity which is not limited to the finitude constraints of material reality — for a lack of a better term, the soul of man which itself cannot be shoehorned into myopic definitions. Thus, where animals are commanded by reality — and only act in accordance to the dictates of evolution — man commands reality to his nature, and thereby charters territory unattainable to lower lifeforms. As Jacque Lacan notes, "they [animals] impose themselves from within the Real — have instinct, namely the knowledge needed for their survival [but man] —a structure carves up his body [language, a function which is founded in the Symbolic Order]."

        I also believe that this is a critical theoretical framework to provide a rationale for epiphenomena such as transgenderism. The simple biology belies the symbolic truth; a truth symptomatic of a mind-body incongruity.