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Corpses and other philosophical objects

Anthropology has taught us that early hunter groups burials not only aimed at fabulous trips to other worlds but that they also obeyed to a definite and prosaic fear of the deceased, especially when it was the corpse of a Chieftain or warrior that everyone knew to be of bad temper. They put stones upon the corpse in order to immobilize it and avoid unpleasant visits at night claiming its favorite toys or wives. In this sense, pyramids represent the greatest achievement in anti-zombie technology, disguised as the macro ego-trip of a deluded human being.
Analogously, philosophy has tried to bury the corpse of the metaphysics of the King-God under thousand rocks, but the resilient body keeps coming back to life, annoyingly, embarrassing the philosophical family like a poor and ugly distant relative which appears in the middle of an epistemological party. For the scientific community, the smell is unbearable, though they seem to ignore the annoyance when the mummy presents itself in the party as one of the few chosen priests of the universal law: Isaac, Albert…

The pantheons of philosophy have become the place for field work. Midway between forensic and embalming sciences philosophy feeds on itself, thus reproducing a reification game of transcendental objects which blocks the way for the development of an onto-epistemology based in the human law that at the same time extends into the realm of life. But a wonderful paradox awaits for any adventurous philosophy which steps out of the graveyard looking for fresh air: the transformation of philosophy into natural science only partially buries the corpses of the King-Gods, for in the modern world science has not the liminal character of philosophy, instead, it is central to the mythical axes of Western society, and the proper practice of science requires from the thinker a compulsory belief in Santa Claus, i.e. the naïve psychological constitution of a five year old, otherwise the King will not invest him/her with the wisdom of a Nobel Prize. 

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