Die Wende/ ‘Great Corona Reset’

The Crisis of Modernity-a detour-man in history viewed from philosophy

‘Reset the Table’: 2020 Rockefeller Foundation Document Predicted Food Shortages and Discussed Plan to ‘Transform America’s Food System. A 2020 Rockefeller Foundation document outlines a plan to transform America’s food system using the COVID-19 crisis as the pretext.

The document, called “Reset The Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System,” was released shortly after the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced its Great Reset agenda months after COVID-19 was declared a national emergency. “While Covid-19 and the resulting economic downturn made the negative consequences of the food system worse and more obvious, the pandemic did not create them and its end will not solve them. Covid-19 has, however, increased both the imperative and the opportunity to address these flaws and limitations once and for all. Now is the moment to transform the U.S. food system,” the document states. https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2022/06/23/updated-full-list-of-food-facility-fires-in-the-usa-from-2020-2022/

====Del Noce maintained that twentieth-century history must be understood specifically as a philosophical history, because Western culture was profoundly affected by the major philosophies of the previous century such as idealism, Marxism, and positivism. Such philosophies became the secular, neo-gnostic surrogate of Christianity for the European educated classes after the French Revolution, and the next century===

Francis X. Maier calls the late Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce the most important thinker that Americans don’t know. Here are excerpts from Maier’s review of a new volume of Del Noce’s writings, which have been translated by Carlo Lancellotti, who comments on this blog from time to time. The title of the new book is The Age of Secularization. From the review:

Del Noce’s use of the word “totalitarian” needs some explanation. He did not mean a society run by bullyboys in jackboots. He was far more worried about a culture addicted to science and technology as the only “real” forms of knowledge; a culture hollowed out and stupefied by the material well-being its tools provide; a culture subject to the resulting philosophy of scientism that renders questions of transcendence irrelevant by confining the human horizon to the here and now.

He defined the technological society as one that, in practice,

accepts all of Marxism’s negations against contemplative thought, religion and metaphysics; that accepts, therefore, the Marxist reduction of ideas to instruments of production; [but] that, on the other hand, rejects the revolutionary-messianic aspects of Marxism, and thus what is still religious in the revolutionary idea. In this regard, it truly represents the bourgeois spirit in its pure state, the bourgeois spirit triumphant over its two traditional adversaries, transcendent religion and revolutionary thought. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/do-you-know-del-noce/

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Some modern proponents of identity politics causes, influenced a little by Marxism and a lot by postmodernism, claim that power is what matters, not truth. What we regard as “true” is merely what the powerful convince us to think, they suggest. In an age of misinformation, tech overlords, institutional capture, and activist journalists and professors explicitly pushing ideological agendas, there is a certain degree of truth to this specific point, which is merely to say that lies can masquerade as truth. A stranglehold on social institutions helps to spread lies. However, the truth remains as important as ever, since truth is the way things really are regardless of lies and manipulation. Truth is coextensive with reality, and reality is immune to wishful thinking and politics.

It is important to emphasize that actual truth is not in anybody’s power to control; only lies, distortions, and falsehoods are, and it is one thing to note that those in power, depending on circumstance, can promote lies as truth and another to endorse this fact as the way things really are in all circumstances. The postmodern leftist takes a sociological fact, that corrupt regimes and corrupt people lie and distort and try to convince people that falsehoods are true, and then converts this sociological fact into an epistemological one, pretending that we can never know the truth because those in power determine what we can know. In their dreams, perhaps; a dream of such utter world domination that all human beings are forever cut off from reality and must rely on what other people tell them to be true. This is a gross overestimation of what human beings can do. There will always be a gap between state sponsored lies, and what people can see for themselves. You can try telling someone that everything is fine, but much good it will do you if everything around him is falling apart. Using a combination of censorship and propaganda, the leftist actually aspires to the power to control all thought and communication and they do it explicitly. The President and Members of Congress are open about their desire to control these things, even, at one point, proposing something like The Ministry of Truth, from the dystopian novel 1984. Cynicism about political corruption, which is understandable, is converted into giving themselves permission to lie; to participating in the corruption. Certain Gnostics did the same thing. The world is a sewer, sewers cannot be made filthier than they are already, therefore we have moral permission to engage in filthy behavior. Instead of fighting lies and corruption, you just pretend to think that lies are all we have. Ironically, they do this with a “higher truth” in mind. They believe their political goals are good, true, and beautiful. This they claim to know. And this higher truth gives them permission to lie to achieve it as the ends justifying the means. One name for this is “noble cause corruption.”

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