Civilizational Restructuring and Our WEF Moment
This transition from the old to the new, being quite essential for the concept of modernity
Berdyaev saw himself primarily as a philosopher of history. In one of his books he confesses that he dislikes history but has a deep intuition about the historical process. In another place he mentions that the construction of "historiosophic" systems, is perhaps the vocation of Russian philosophical tradition. We live in a crucial epoch, he noted, when old and huge layers of civilization cease to exist and are replaced by new cultural formations which gradually come to life. Our age is the age of global turmoil and catastrophic changes which could be compared with the time of the decline of ancient civilization and the birth of Christianity.
Berdyaev observes how “it is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.” The point In Berdyaev’s interpretation, modernity thinks that it can reverse Adam’s fall and reestablish paradise, but it only blindly and dumbly reenacts that fall. It is a case of titanic hubris and of equally titanic nemesis. “The world war and the revolutionary processes which have followed it have a metaphysical significance for the fate of man.” World War 1 first, then WW2, put on display, bloodily and destructive, the demonic inhumanity that had long simmered under the veneer of civilization; it showed that the modern utopian conceit expressed a fundamental nihilism which, discovering that it could not create on a godlike level, turned its fury on creation, especially the human portion of that creation, and sought its annihilation. “The war revealed the personality of our civilization,” Berdyaev writes; “it cheapened life, it taught man to take no thought for human life and personality, to consider them as means and instruments in the hands of the fatality of history.” The tragedy of the situation lies in the fact that great masses of humanity have awakened and come into power at the moment of a falling away from Christianity and the loss of all religious beliefs.
I think the Technological Cultists of the WEF are happy as each day passes. The Great Reset is moving forward and their power is intact. National groups using war increase the global disorder. Moreover, in their hubris, destruction of humanity and replacement by engineered beings is optimal. The win for WEF is merely more plunder. I doubt they think past 2030. As their order falls apart I suspect the baton pass to China wins. I do not think we can go backwards towards civilization. Barbarism won. You see these men and women regard this world as disposable. Like cultists they are convinced they can escape consequences of hubris.
Guillaume Faye-This is not a conspiracy, it’s something worse. It’s a kind of ‘logic’ – a form of collective resignation. Conspiracy theorists are wrong. A strong folk will not let itself be captured or crushed by the system by which it is ruled. All peoples are responsible for their own destiny. What we get is our own fault, not that of others. We are the actors and guilty of our own defeats. A folk is never the passive victim of its own cultural and ethical effacement: it is its author and an accomplice to it out of resignation and an unwillingness to defend itself…. A ‘secret orchestrator’ has little power when faced by a folk determined to resist it with all its might.
The system is not broken, or the result of an evil cabal of elites – it is robust, and working precisely as it is meant to run. It is driven by the worst intents of all humanity, which is, at its beating heart, made up of people who imagine themselves to be individuals, and therefore given to doing harm to one another and multiplying evil for themselves. Modernity enables this tendency rather than controlling and suppressing it, as all traditional societies have done throughout the ages. Western Civilization has surrendered itself, it has not been conquered, and it is therefore the struggle against the weakness of the West which is the paramount struggle of the contemporary Dissident – a lesson Western Dissidents seem resolutely opposed to learning.
Solzhenitsyn
Today’ s world has reached a stage which, if it had been described to preceding centuries, would have called forth the cry: “This is the Apocalypse!”
Yet we have grown used to this kind of world; we even feel at home in it.
Dostoevsky warned that “great events could come upon us and catch us intellectually unprepared.” This is precisely what has happened. And he predicted that “the world will be saved only after it has been possessed by the demon of evil.” Whether it really will be saved we shall have to wait and see: this will depend on our conscience, on our spiritual lucidity, on our individual and combined efforts in the face of catastrophic circumstances. But it has already come to pass that the demon of evil, like a whirlwind, triumphantly circles all five continents of the earth…
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2021/01/raskolnikovs-final-dream-in-crime-and-punishment-is-a-prophecy-of-2021
https://ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
I fundamentally agree with Dostoyevsky's view, with which you close, but what assumptions are at work in all of these philosophical statements?
does the physical world work?
How does the spiritual path of an individual present itself to the individual who walks it?
What happens when a lot people surrender individual decision-making responsibility for that of the group? That is a very important point, and I think it is the case 95% of the time in human society.
As groups we are a differnt organism. Some humans work that fact to their ends, but that organism can only be worked to certain ends. Mass violence and murder is one of them, of course.
Some of the owners excel at this point of crisis-manipulation of masses of humanity.
Ancients dealt with the same waves of human reaction to changes in the world. No epoch in recorded history corresponds to the magnitude of the threat we now face. Never before have there been so many people, the great majority without any self-sufficiency outside of the massive industrial economy.
I happen to not be in the 95%. I am as I have always been. I did not make myself independent as a moral agent, and I tested immorality in childhood and youth (some), but I knew right from wrong, and tried doing wrong. It always brought regrets. I was taught that it was like this foor everybody, but I don't see that. Maybe as much as 10% I don't know.
Either a person really knows right from wrong, or goes along with the crowd. I have found that most people, including those who mean well, choose to follow the crowd, rather than conscience.