What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy)? Well, this piece is from the leading Establishment journal from the Deep-State-linked, Anglosphere, the Daily Telegraph: Yes, the western sphere has become so prone to a 'head-spinning' disorientation (as was intended), through the constant rain of disinformation labels, stuck haphazardly across anything critical of the 'uniform messaging', and by outrageous, obvious lying, that a majority in the western world has begun to question their own and surrounding levels of sanity.
In their bemusement, they have come to see the 'messaging' of sacrificial politics and the financialisation of absolutely everything as 'perfectly rational'. They have been rendered helpless, held immobile in a spider's web. Bewitched. Yes, the Beast's Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome - similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th-17th Centuries - but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the 'rough beast' with its' gaze as 'blank and pitiless as the sun', is better known simply as Ideology.
The word 'ideology' is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corruption of language that conceals its fundamentally anti-political, latent totalitarian character. Ideology is incapable of treating human beings as distinct participants in a shared, non-political social life. Today's woke ideology sees human association rather, as groups to be acted upon. It is explicitly anti-National, anti-Sovereign, anti-Traditional Religion, anti-Traditional Culture, anti-National Infrastructure, and anti-Family.
The term idéologie was coined during the French Revolution by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, an anti-clerical materialist philosopher who conceived of idéologie as a social science of 'ideas' that would inform the construction of a rational progressive society governed by an enlightened élite, whose technical expertise would justify their claim to rule.
These contours to European ideology, as they emerged during the French revolutionary era, largely were cast by the Franks in the period before, and after Charlemagne. It was then that the doctrine of racial superiority arose ('others' were 'barbarian' and Pagan and served only as slaves). It was then too, that outward, predatory expansionism (the Crusades, then colonialism) was embedded in the European psyche.
The Charlemagne era further cemented an unbridgeable social schism. The Frankish oligarch in his castle; his Frankish bishops inculcating his villein serfs, living by the foot of the castle, with vivid fear of eternal Hell. To which, the non-elect was pre-destined, unless improbably, they gained the grace of God. This nascent Frankish 'idea' was precursor to how we Europeans are today: the sense of absolute superiority; of belonging to an elect; and Europe's class divide - are today's shadows from that totalitarian era. What the French Revolution added was raw ideology, through the radical shift in the relation between state and traditional society. Rousseau is often taken as the icon of 'liberty' and 'individualism' and is widely admired. Yet here we have that clear corruption of language which conceals ideology's fundamentally anti-political character.
Rousseau explicitly refused human participation in non-political, shared life. He saw the human associations rather, as groups to be acted upon so that all thinking and daily behaviour could be folded into the like-minded units of a unitary state.
It is that unified state - the absolute state - which Rousseau upholds at the expense of the other forms of cultural tradition, together with the moral 'narratives' that provide context to terms such as good, justice and telos.
The individualism of Rousseau's thought, therefore, is no libertarian assertion of absolute rights against the all-consuming state. No raising of the 'tri-colour' against an oppressive state.
Quite the reverse! Rousseau's passionate 'defence of the individual' arises out of his opposition to 'the tyranny' of social convention - the forms and ancient myths that bind society: religion, family, history, and social institutions. His ideal may be proclaimed as that of individual freedom; but it is 'freedom', however, not in a sense of immunity from control of the state, but in our withdrawal from the supposed oppressions and corruptions of collective society.
Family relationship is thus transmuted subtly into a political relationship; the molecule of the family is broken into the atoms of its individuals. With these atoms today groomed further to shed their biological gender, their cultural identity and ethnicity, they are coalesced afresh into the single unity of the state.
This is the deceit concealed in the ideologues' language of freedom and individualism. It is rather, the politicization of everything into the mould of an authoritarian singularity of perception. The late George Steiner said the Jacobins This Jacobin inheritance was polished further by the Fabians and the likes of HG Wells, who wrote in his new Bible Trilogy, published in 1901: Bertrand Russell (linked with the same current of thought) would put it most succinctly in The Scientific Outlook (1931): In sum, today's 'Totalitarianism Lite' (Niall Ferguson coinage) of contemporary western life, accepts that whilst human beings naturally form social groups for common purposes, today's woke ideology assumes that organic associations natural to any rooted community, cannot support a good society (because of ingrained racism, etc.), and therefore must be cleansed from the top down to rid it of such legacies. This is the 'Bolshevik' seed that Rousseau sowed.
Here is the point: Our disorientation and sense of disappearing sanity owes not a little to the psychic stress of embracing an ideology that purports to be exactly what it is not. Or, in other words, it proclaims liberty and the individual, when concealed within is absolute statism.
Alain Besançon remarks that "it is just not possible to remain intelligent under the spell of ideology". Intelligence, after all, is an ongoing attentiveness to reality, which is inconsistent with willfulness and fantasy. Nor can it take root in the sterile soil of widespread cultural repudiation. This is why all ideological regimes are without exception plagued by sheer ineptitude.
Which neatly returns us to the afore-quoted Telegraph piece: The author is right. There will be public protests - in some states, perhaps, more than others; civil disobedience - such has already been launched in the UK and in the Netherlands: 'The Don't Pay' campaign, which is urging people to join a 'mass non-payment strike', is the first token of pushback.
This, however, is but the initial step. When the western financial authorities say they 'welcome' a recession to destroy demand - and so to reduce inflation - implicit in this statement is an élite conviction that protest can and will be successfully squashed.
All the signs are that a ruthless, violent, and administrative suppression of popular disquiet is being contemplated.
Every so often, throughout history, humans have periodically experienced a deep sense of their lives being somehow hollow, of nothing realised, and of the world about them being sham - being somehow illusory and empty of meaning. But if we look back at this pattern, repeating itself, time and time again, we get a clear sense of both the event and of the repeating experience of void. For, it is the insecurity and fearfulness associated with 'void' which causes torpor to fade, and people to erupt into rebellious disorder. And why also the attempt by the élite inner circle 'to manage away' such awakenings, so easily ends in tragedy (and bloodshed).
But there is a further - major - difficulty in today's situation. Even if the 'doors of perception were cleansed' (Huxley), it is that there is no 'there - there'. No neat conceptualisation to which he or she can say: 'here is to 'where' we should be going' - or, at least, there is 'no-where' that would make sense to those already becoming half-panicked at what they perceive to be the assault on all the landmarks by which they have lived their lives.
What then might ultimately break a collective psychosis caught up in some irresistible, 'magical' spell? Well, put simply, pain. Pain is the great clarifying agency.
What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy!). The question then becomes: To what other 'image-idea' will the people collectively migrate?
The geo-political implication is that Italy may migrate to one; Germany to another; and France to yet another, and others may just 'give up' on the whole mess of European politics (and nihilism will rise). Does this matter? Might it possibly be revitalising?
It does let us address directly the 'Beast of ideology', who through 'his' own ineptitude, has inadvertently stripped Pandora of her masque, thus opening her box. Who may say which masque she will don next!
In their bemusement, they have come to see the 'messaging' of sacrificial politics and the financialisation of absolutely everything as 'perfectly rational'. They have been rendered helpless, held immobile in a spider's web. Bewitched. Yes, the Beast's Siren Call is for sacrificial politics to be levered down upon the people, whilst the horsemen of War and Pandemic all scream out that an apocalyptic hour approaches. We may call it a collective syndrome - similar to the Witch Craze of the 14th-17th Centuries - but today, the phenomenon WB Yeats termed the 'rough beast' with its' gaze as 'blank and pitiless as the sun', is better known simply as Ideology.
The word 'ideology' is often used as a synonym for political ideas, a corruption of language that conceals its fundamentally anti-political, latent totalitarian character. Ideology is incapable of treating human beings as distinct participants in a shared, non-political social life. Today's woke ideology sees human association rather, as groups to be acted upon. It is explicitly anti-National, anti-Sovereign, anti-Traditional Religion, anti-Traditional Culture, anti-National Infrastructure, and anti-Family.
The term idéologie was coined during the French Revolution by Antoine Destutt de Tracy, an anti-clerical materialist philosopher who conceived of idéologie as a social science of 'ideas' that would inform the construction of a rational progressive society governed by an enlightened élite, whose technical expertise would justify their claim to rule.
These contours to European ideology, as they emerged during the French revolutionary era, largely were cast by the Franks in the period before, and after Charlemagne. It was then that the doctrine of racial superiority arose ('others' were 'barbarian' and Pagan and served only as slaves). It was then too, that outward, predatory expansionism (the Crusades, then colonialism) was embedded in the European psyche.
The Charlemagne era further cemented an unbridgeable social schism. The Frankish oligarch in his castle; his Frankish bishops inculcating his villein serfs, living by the foot of the castle, with vivid fear of eternal Hell. To which, the non-elect was pre-destined, unless improbably, they gained the grace of God. This nascent Frankish 'idea' was precursor to how we Europeans are today: the sense of absolute superiority; of belonging to an elect; and Europe's class divide - are today's shadows from that totalitarian era. What the French Revolution added was raw ideology, through the radical shift in the relation between state and traditional society. Rousseau is often taken as the icon of 'liberty' and 'individualism' and is widely admired. Yet here we have that clear corruption of language which conceals ideology's fundamentally anti-political character.
Rousseau explicitly refused human participation in non-political, shared life. He saw the human associations rather, as groups to be acted upon so that all thinking and daily behaviour could be folded into the like-minded units of a unitary state.
It is that unified state - the absolute state - which Rousseau upholds at the expense of the other forms of cultural tradition, together with the moral 'narratives' that provide context to terms such as good, justice and telos.
The individualism of Rousseau's thought, therefore, is no libertarian assertion of absolute rights against the all-consuming state. No raising of the 'tri-colour' against an oppressive state.
Quite the reverse! Rousseau's passionate 'defence of the individual' arises out of his opposition to 'the tyranny' of social convention - the forms and ancient myths that bind society: religion, family, history, and social institutions. His ideal may be proclaimed as that of individual freedom; but it is 'freedom', however, not in a sense of immunity from control of the state, but in our withdrawal from the supposed oppressions and corruptions of collective society.
Family relationship is thus transmuted subtly into a political relationship; the molecule of the family is broken into the atoms of its individuals. With these atoms today groomed further to shed their biological gender, their cultural identity and ethnicity, they are coalesced afresh into the single unity of the state.
This is the deceit concealed in the ideologues' language of freedom and individualism. It is rather, the politicization of everything into the mould of an authoritarian singularity of perception. The late George Steiner said the Jacobins This Jacobin inheritance was polished further by the Fabians and the likes of HG Wells, who wrote in his new Bible Trilogy, published in 1901: Bertrand Russell (linked with the same current of thought) would put it most succinctly in The Scientific Outlook (1931): In sum, today's 'Totalitarianism Lite' (Niall Ferguson coinage) of contemporary western life, accepts that whilst human beings naturally form social groups for common purposes, today's woke ideology assumes that organic associations natural to any rooted community, cannot support a good society (because of ingrained racism, etc.), and therefore must be cleansed from the top down to rid it of such legacies. This is the 'Bolshevik' seed that Rousseau sowed.
Here is the point: Our disorientation and sense of disappearing sanity owes not a little to the psychic stress of embracing an ideology that purports to be exactly what it is not. Or, in other words, it proclaims liberty and the individual, when concealed within is absolute statism.
Alain Besançon remarks that "it is just not possible to remain intelligent under the spell of ideology". Intelligence, after all, is an ongoing attentiveness to reality, which is inconsistent with willfulness and fantasy. Nor can it take root in the sterile soil of widespread cultural repudiation. This is why all ideological regimes are without exception plagued by sheer ineptitude.
Which neatly returns us to the afore-quoted Telegraph piece: The author is right. There will be public protests - in some states, perhaps, more than others; civil disobedience - such has already been launched in the UK and in the Netherlands: 'The Don't Pay' campaign, which is urging people to join a 'mass non-payment strike', is the first token of pushback.
This, however, is but the initial step. When the western financial authorities say they 'welcome' a recession to destroy demand - and so to reduce inflation - implicit in this statement is an élite conviction that protest can and will be successfully squashed.
All the signs are that a ruthless, violent, and administrative suppression of popular disquiet is being contemplated.
Every so often, throughout history, humans have periodically experienced a deep sense of their lives being somehow hollow, of nothing realised, and of the world about them being sham - being somehow illusory and empty of meaning. But if we look back at this pattern, repeating itself, time and time again, we get a clear sense of both the event and of the repeating experience of void. For, it is the insecurity and fearfulness associated with 'void' which causes torpor to fade, and people to erupt into rebellious disorder. And why also the attempt by the élite inner circle 'to manage away' such awakenings, so easily ends in tragedy (and bloodshed).
But there is a further - major - difficulty in today's situation. Even if the 'doors of perception were cleansed' (Huxley), it is that there is no 'there - there'. No neat conceptualisation to which he or she can say: 'here is to 'where' we should be going' - or, at least, there is 'no-where' that would make sense to those already becoming half-panicked at what they perceive to be the assault on all the landmarks by which they have lived their lives.
What then might ultimately break a collective psychosis caught up in some irresistible, 'magical' spell? Well, put simply, pain. Pain is the great clarifying agency.
What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy!). The question then becomes: To what other 'image-idea' will the people collectively migrate?
The geo-political implication is that Italy may migrate to one; Germany to another; and France to yet another, and others may just 'give up' on the whole mess of European politics (and nihilism will rise). Does this matter? Might it possibly be revitalising?
It does let us address directly the 'Beast of ideology', who through 'his' own ineptitude, has inadvertently stripped Pandora of her masque, thus opening her box. Who may say which masque she will don next!
Source: SOTT
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