Apropos

Ethical

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The decision on with what Apropos engages itself involves an ethical dimension although that decision is often made unconsciously and spontaneously.

Apropos is not indifferent to God and the divine, and certainly does not subscribe to atheism. But it does acknowledge the crisis that Nietzsche observed when he proclaimed the death of God. The decision on life and the world cannot be left to an authority who, to his own disgrace, has repeatedly and in no uncertain terms been cautioned by mankind. The umbilical cord that connected mankind to God has been irrevocably cut. Now that God has been relegated to a position from which He can only look on at a great distance in unthinkable immobility, we are left to our own devices. Even our sympathy for a father who has been abandoned by his own children loses all ground: it is no longer about God. There can be no appropriating when it comes to God.

Apropos therefore also means to not pass the buck to God anymore thinking that he will take care of everything. We no longer have that excuse.

In order to conduct an Apropos operation, a starting point needs to be assumed--but "starting point" already reeks of ideological language corruption--to which the acting subject feels committed. If the commitment is not there, the acting subject will not be able to assume responsibility, and without that responsibility there can be no matter of Apropos anyway. But one needs to accept oneself as acting subject first, rather than as an instrument of God's will. Only then can there be a matter of true responsibility, one that is not a derivative of the relation between God and man.

For that reason, the idea of a "free will" is not applicable in the Apropos universe; not because Apropos would reject the ensuing responsibility, but because mankind is the only one sidelined in that cruel construction. God, who is not of this world, is kept out of range, however, sanctions can be imposed afterwards in His name.

Apropos does not presuppose a free will by which one can later be judged, but a free space in which the acting subject may--both consciously and spontaneously--create a world that neither God nor he has any inkling of, and that he now can at least call his own--an appropriated world.

Apropos is responsible for everything it touches.

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