“I don’t blame you for declaring victory and leaving every single one of your non-points bleeding on the pavement, Mongoose. I responded paragraph by paragraph and naturally, you went home. What else could you do.
Weren’t you Maverick’s wingman? Or maybe that was Goose. Hoo-rah!”
Some of you may be confused about Ten. He’s evidently intelligent, and clearly he can recognize values, because he goes out of his way to attack them. But why? What’s the root cause of his nihilistic impulse?
He is typical of a mentality where quantitative knowledge dominates qualitative knowledge. In other words, he’s mathematical to the exclusion of being logical — he’s a brilliant dummy. This type of mind is anti-conceptual, and lacks deep coordination. Ten lives in a highly mechanical, hyper-visual, semi-real world that is radically divorced from nature. His sense of life is more Stanley Kubrick than George Lucas. His emotional references are inverted: when he sees a value, he feels hate, not love. Philosophically, he is a Kantian zombie, a sub-human creature driven by hate for the good because it is the good.
So not everyone is for Mom and apple pie. Ten isn’t.
