The political question is, " Are you one of us, or one of them?' If that question is not asked, the body is unpolitical. The minimum number of parts is two; the whole exists only as the relation between the two parts. The whole exists only so long as it is divided into parts; Eros and Thanatos are inseparable; there is no love absent hate. A political body, a genital body arises from the relationship between love and hate. We love us and hate them.

The hidden agenda is to perpetuate the political process of loving and hating. The hidden agenda is not to heal the wound of separation but to perpetuate it. Killing is eating; to be killed is to be eaten. But love is also eating, and being eaten. The active desire to incorporate the other is eating, the passive desire to be incorporated is being eaten. " The hidden truth which makes peace: the identity of the killer and the victim." Love's Body. 164.

You become what you eat. The active partner is passified even as the passive partner is activated; enantiadromea, or this becoming that. It is not difficult to see the symbolic intimacy of killing and loving, but this intimacy is hidden from public view. Morality is at once a veil and motive force; the fantastic idea of victory over sin motivates the action and re-action. Bucky says synergetics means "toward oneness with a minimum of two." To achieve victory over sin is to lose yourself.