Slow to put the jigsaw together but from a variety of sources discussing Marxism the thesis of Technocracy and Woke blend together. Vogelin has been denounced for his mis-use of Gnostic to describe Marxism. He famously held Marxism was a Gnostic variant of Christianity. The philosophy of Eric Voegelin offers insight into the causes of the twentieth-century nightmare, causes, he suggests, bound up with the very nature of “modernity” itself. According to Voegelin, the great modern ideological movements—communism, fascism, national socialism—are neither random and inexplicable outbursts nor solely the products of particular material and historical conditions. They should be understood instead as the extreme manifestations of a form of spiritual disorder or psychic disorientation that springs from certain tensions inherent in human existence. For Voegelin, the crisis of modernity is in essence a spiritual crisis rooted in a deformation of the truth of reality. https://voegelinview.com/voegelin-on-gnosticism-modernity-and-the-balance-of-consciousness/
Absolutely! In actual Marxism "capitalism" is the demiurge, and the proletarian vanguard are the elite who have seen the true Godhead. It is natural this would devolve into transhumanism as Gnostics are explicit about rejecting the body as given.
Good stuff, this is your best essay yet IMO.
Thanks. Every day is different, sometimes I'm on and sometimes not so much.
I would say you were on today, very interesting tie ins between woke and technocratic transhumanist dystopia.
Slow to put the jigsaw together but from a variety of sources discussing Marxism the thesis of Technocracy and Woke blend together. Vogelin has been denounced for his mis-use of Gnostic to describe Marxism. He famously held Marxism was a Gnostic variant of Christianity. The philosophy of Eric Voegelin offers insight into the causes of the twentieth-century nightmare, causes, he suggests, bound up with the very nature of “modernity” itself. According to Voegelin, the great modern ideological movements—communism, fascism, national socialism—are neither random and inexplicable outbursts nor solely the products of particular material and historical conditions. They should be understood instead as the extreme manifestations of a form of spiritual disorder or psychic disorientation that springs from certain tensions inherent in human existence. For Voegelin, the crisis of modernity is in essence a spiritual crisis rooted in a deformation of the truth of reality. https://voegelinview.com/voegelin-on-gnosticism-modernity-and-the-balance-of-consciousness/
Absolutely! In actual Marxism "capitalism" is the demiurge, and the proletarian vanguard are the elite who have seen the true Godhead. It is natural this would devolve into transhumanism as Gnostics are explicit about rejecting the body as given.
I agree! Great essay.