How would Iranaeus’ perspective on Christ as the focal point – the “recapitulator” – of all Creation fit the synthesis in An Archaeology of the Fall?  Like a hand fits a glove.  Or like the body and blood of Christ fits the artifice of bread and wine.  Or, if you despise Jesus, like the animating spirit bringing Eve’s reified doubts to life.

Let us run with the latter similitude for a moment:  Why civilization?  Is Civilization not Nature’s way of recapitulating itself, of finding a “head” for its agency?  The moment that our genus came into being as the primate hominid that talked (in hand talk), Civilization was in the cards, because Civilization – as social order founded on unconstrained complexity – emerges from the purely symbolic (semiotic) nature of talk, and is potentiated through the adoption of the purely symbolic speech-alone talk.

It is as if Nature itself proposes the question that Christ himself asked:  Who am I?  You cannot answer the question without a symbolic order.