This short essay
first describes (in Part One) what the heretics are, pesky yet needed provocation
from outside our “right” orthodoxy, and then details (in Part Two) the heretics
in sections from A through I, which joyously ties up the entire survey of the
heretics invincible, soaring cosmically beyond. Protesting heretics take hold
of their criticizing selves, to invite us all to self-criticize, and so they
are resented by the orthodox already right. Heretics are idios, lone “idiotic” and independent, to resolve two paradoxes of
democracy. Many factual examples are cited, recent and historical, USA and abroad,
to show how essential the brave heretics are, risking their lives to jolt afresh the orthodox status quo, to go beyond
it. Heretics have their sociality;
self-critical, they never err. Thus, heretics provoke us to go beyond us,
going-beyond is living, and so heretics provoke us alive homo-cosmic.