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4:43

(In »Living religion versus deadly alienation«)

In the situation that thus arises, metaphysics itself is the only way to balance the variants of the law. Metaphysics is namely the opposite of the law. Without metaphysics’ constant production of hope, visions, utopias and alternative worlds, the human being would never be able to think of any alternative to the law’s libidinal security. A society without metaphysics immediately and without resistance submits to the totalitarian law. It cannot even imagine any alternative. Consequently, physicists ought to stop talking about laws at all. In relationalist physics there are no longer any eternal laws, but merely a multitude of open and contingent processes. The presumed laws can be changed, they even must be changed over time – not least when new emergences suddenly arise, and they constantly do – and then these laws are of course no longer eternal laws that dictate in detail all imaginable events in advance, but are simply probable courses of events in specific, spatio-temporal contexts.