Sacramentality to Sackamentality: A Suggested Concept

I propose a definition of sackamentality that opposes sacramentality. This suggests a tendency to rob sacred stuff because you have the power and you want to de-sacralise for your dominance. It is a phenomenon in the mono-revolution and involves a sick mentality.

Sackamentality refers to a forceful profane or ideological attitude and activism, rejecting existing sacramentality, accompanied by physical and psychic dispossession, dislocation, desecration, destruction, sacking or ransacking and a conceptual enclosure in a smaller sack or cul-de-sac.

Sacramentality in Catholicism indicates central significance of ritual manifestation of God’s grace initiated or inspired through Christ  Catholic materialism was never as disenchanted as scientific materialism made material. The mater and matrix behind material was inspired by conceptions that included mystical inputs and transfigurations. But sacramentality indicates a world infused with divine presence in the Book of Nature as well. Sacramentality is fundamentally linked to incarnation, embodiment and grace. This is the media of communion not the mechanical matrix.

We need to increase speed in which we can communicate coherent iterations of complex but obvious concepts. Attack on the Second Temple in Jerusalem is depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome after the Siege of 70 AD. Jesus foresaw the sack. Subsequent attacks on Christianity and especially sacramentality in reality, nature and mind can be juxtaposed or described by a mentality that can be called sackamentality. The word sack has a verbal semantic convergence from the words to sack and to ransack, despite apparently different etymological origins. Yet they are both suggestive of pillage, plundering, robbery, revolution and raids. Often such sackings or ransackings imply a theft from previous sacred spaces, like the Vikings from monks. Attack on sacramentality involves another mentality represented by physical sacks of booty. Sacks of money typically represent misers or millionaires. We ‘get the sack’ probably because workers got a sack for their tools when finished. Now workers are getting the sack with AI and posthumanism threatens to give the human race the sack. The idea of the ‘cul-de-sac ‘is also suggested, the bottom of the sack. We can think of a road or its earlier anatomical idea of a sack with one opening. Then it may imply the opposite of birth. The life-giving sac may become a body bag. Remove the sacramental, become enclosed in a dark sack. The Romans used to put those guilty of parricide in a sewn sack with animals and thrown it in a river.   

The British Museum is temple to sackamentality paradoxically posing as preserver. Translation of humans into data points is digital sackamentality. There is a delusion that accompanies sackamentality. The vice of possession of booty ransacked is transformed into virtue often ironically attributed to a greater work ethic, superior intelligence or some other sacred justification. Bolshevism sacked religious institutions. We can add in the Kulturkampf and the whole process of secularisation which original meant taking Church stuff.  Deconstruction, postmodernism, commodification, consumerism, materialism, naturally exploitative capitalism and communism, colonialism, imperialism, rent-seeking and windfall profits involve this sackamentality.  I would note echo of the Swedish word ‘sax’ for scissors which echoes the English word ‘seax’ for a knife or small sword reflected in the name ‘Saxons’. Seax anticipates the ‘cutting-edge’ of technology we are meant to celebrate. Media matrix of communication of the AI material world is driven by a sackamentality of propaganda and counter-hegemonic, anti-homeostatic destruction of previous Christian hegemony to finalise the sacking of spiritual consciousness and humanity itself.