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Voices, and individuals, are without identity, not being persons. The interrogators in the beginning of The Trial 45 46 INTRODUCTORY are in casual dress. ” None will and none can declare himself, who he is. They cannot because there can be no pure self-identification, but there can be no identification without authenticity and here there is no authenticity. Even smiles are not intentional. And so reality is absent. ” The voices and actions of others than the sufferer are hardly even forces with that reality force can claim.
Had it been answered, had law appeared, what was absent would be present: identity; reality; persons.
But neither postmodernism nor economic analysis can come to the center of thought. Both abstract away critical parts of experience. Both silently assume authority, both, in their admirable egalitarianism, silently accept and assume the source of human equality, which is spiritual. Were either to come in from the edges of thought to thought’s center and be joined to responsible action, there could no longer be denial in them, as there is, of that upon which they entirely depend. They would be no longer what they are now, but, like the mind of an individual becoming a lawyer, inevitably transformed by a claim of authority.