The impersonal and inhuman power of money
Economic Man
Personal originality is rare as we know now very well after Covid. People think within their collective. If this is thinking. The thought is cramped by caste and class and the family and the community. Individual personal opinion rarely break out of the collective group think of the herd. Thought is regimented. It will not break rank. Collectivism and the collective conscience are not new in history. History began with it. Modern states are dictatorships demanding a unity of ideas. All must agree. Consider the library of Benedetto Croce burned by a Fascist mob of youth. His crime in their eyes was being Anti-Fascist. A political liberal in most regards, he formulated a distinction between liberalism (as support for civil liberties) and "liberism" (as support for laissez-faire economics and capitalism). Croce had considerable influence on other Italian intellectuals, from Marxists to Italian fascists, such as Antonio Gramsci and Giovanni Gentile, respectively.
Or we fast forward to today and the Covid lies paid for by big money. Economic man is individualistic. Individualism is egoism, profit, and a wolf like attitude towards the other. This human is socialized, objectivized, bowing low before the great God Mammon. Mammon in triumphing is returning a reversion to the instinct of a herd but one that is depersonalized, technical, and civilized. Powerful and strong before Covid Mammon is even stronger today. The men and women of WEF, Bilderberg, U.N, et al are all Emissaries of Mammon. But these individuals too are collective thinkers with their caste. Pit this concept against Personalism. A human is not an object to be manipulated and used.
And as humans sicken and die from nano bots or whatever is in the blood evidently of both vaccinated and non vaccinated the new Collective is being built to be Transhuman. A biological machine out of Brave New World. A hive for insect machines. All mankind is experiencing the crisis, Instead of the living personality the State is supreme value. Fascism, Communism, and decaying Republics share this thesis of the Hive State.
3 years ago this was obvious. https://tapnewswire.com/2020/09/ultimate-proof-covid-19-was-planned-to-usher-in-the-new-world-order/?ysclid=l2gkjnlzlr
For the Russian philosopher Berdyaev, freedom is absolutely fundamental. And freedom is connected with subjectivity and Spirit, rather than the objective (measurable) external world.
All attempts to locate meaning and value in things outside the human soul are doomed to fail. Thinking of the universe as an organism, for instance, seems like an improvement over thinking of it as a dead mechanism. It turns the cosmos into a living entity with a purpose, but it also means thinking of people as mere cells in this organism to be subordinated to the larger whole. Nationalism turns the nation into a false idol to be worshipped. Neither “history,” nor “progress,” nor “the human race,” nor Platonic Forms are particularly significant or even real. They are hypostatizations and abstractions. For Berdyaev, the concrete individual personality is the full locus of reality and value. Anything else renders the personality a meaningless nothing to be used as a means to some other end.
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The Journal of Lingering Sanity is a reader-supported publication. We are beholden to truth not party. “The time has come," the Journal said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings."
Great piece!
Now how do we get the masses to see their true value? How do they get the courage to seek the truth that has been, is and always will be right there, inside them? All the wisdom in the world is readily available to anyone who seeks it. How do we get humanity to see through all the bull shit that has surrounded us for generations?
We are very insignificant in the grand scheme of things, if we believe we are separate from one another and not part of creation.
We are in constant competition/survival mode, if we believe the resources on this planet are finite and only available to the obedient 🙄
The only thing that stood in the way of me realizing the truth, were the lies that I was holding onto. Once I accepted that every single story/voice in my head was potentially a falsehood, I was capable of seeing and feeling reality.
We have been trained over millennia to chase after materials of comfort and convenience, instead of seeking truth and love, virtue and purpose.
We are asking those stuck in permanent childhood/immaturity/prey mode to stand up for themselves instead of taking the easy road/obeying their parents/authority/government/predators. We are asking them to do the work and make the difficult choices, while having golden carrots constantly held up right in front of their faces.
I’m at a loss. I am not a teacher, mentor, elder or considered an expert on anything so my views/knowledge/opinion have no value in this empty vessel we call the modern world. Apparently the only way to have something valuable to say today is by wearing a white coat or reading from a fucking teleprompter, despite being caught lying repeatedly. How do we get the masses to understand that when the words that come out of a persons mouth don’t line up with their actions, they are NOT TRUSTWORTHY (It doesn’t matter how many letters they have “earned” after their name or who they associate with or how much money they have).
I’m afraid as a result of history and the rise of technology and the concentration of Capital we are dehumanizing ourselves as fast as possible. The residual impact of Christian teachings decays in the churches and society. Man is not interested in his soul but wants to be machine. WEF arises from these roots. Two terrible global wars, a Cold War and nationalism. Nationalism has become the organizing principle and the State is now the only Diety. The logical next step after the collapse of capitalism has become the tyrannical NWO. What is to be done? Going forward I think creating community is the way. A change of heart and direction requires will. Political leaders have no will.