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Though non-religious in the traditional sense of the word, I see like-minded thinking here ... partially due to the circumstance of living in and adapting to Japan for over half of my life, and partially due to temperament. I am also seeing a mindset similar to what I am getting out of the likes of A. Lobaczewski's 'Political Ponerology' and Dr. Ramani's YouTube pod casts. Cluster B personality types (dark triads), appear to make fractal dysfunctions within families and communities, as they make at a macro scale in large populations. But I also think the ancient Greeks nailed the problem with 'hubris' — the blind arrogance and ambition to act as gods, but without the cognitive and emotional where-with-all of wisdom.

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Lobaczewski's 'Political Ponerology is the psychological way in to the secular mind. Hubris, however, fit into the shame culture of archaic and Classical Greece, in which people’s actions were guided by avoiding shame and seeking honour. It did not fit into the culture of internalized guilt, which became important in later antiquity and characterizes the modern West.. In other words, until the advent and internalization of Christian thought, hubris had no moral grounding. Given the disintegration of Christian thought over at least 200 years we can. place Lobaczewski's 'Political Ponerology next to Friedrich-Georg Jünger’s The Perfection of Technology (orig. Die Perfektion der Technik.)

According to Friedrich-Georg Jünger, modern man’s veneration of technology reveals his distant kinship to the Titans of myth. This ‘titanic’ impulse to dominate and consume expresses itself through our technology-driven industrial economy, which now determines every aspect of life from the air we breathe to the food we eat.In the Western tradition, the Titans rebelled against the Olympian Gods and sought to usurp their power for themselves. Most famous of all was Prometheus, who stole the primordial flame and thereby came to symbolize the dangers of human striving and overreach. “All technology is of titanic mold,” Jünger writes, “and man the maker is always of the race of the titans. From his titanic kinship stems his love for the enormous, the gigantic, the colossal; his delight in towering works that impress by their quantity and mass, the vastness of their piled up matter.”

For Jünger, this ‘titanic’ impulse expresses itself through our technology-driven industrial economy, which has grown from its humble origins in western Europe to cover the whole earth, determining every aspect of life from the air we breathe to the food we eat. Whereas a healthy, humane economy would take care to preserve the underlying substance with which it works, whether in terms of manpower or natural resources, the modern “global economy” seeks to maximize production and consumption above all else. Although couched in the language of freedom—of free enterprise and free markets—it often seems that persons exist to serve the economy and keep it functioning rather than the other way around.

Within Western Christianity there has become weakened the faith in man, in his creative power, in his aspect in the world. In the social-political movements prevail principles of coercion and authority, with a diminishing of the freedom of man -- in Communism, in Fascism, in National Socialism there triumphs a new victory of materialism both economic and racial. Man as it were has grown tired of spiritual freedom and is prepared to renounce it in the name of power, with which to order his life, both inward and outward. Man has grown tired of himself, of man, has lost the confidence in man and wants to leap off to the supra-human, even though this supra-human be a social collective. Many of the old idols have been toppled in our time, but many new idols have likewise been created. Man is so constituted, that he can live either with a faith in God, or with a faith in ideals and idols. In essence, man cannot consistently and ultimately be an atheist. Having fallen away from the faith in God, he falls into idolatry. We can see the idol-worship and the fashioning of idols within every sphere -- in science, in art, in statecraft, and in national and social life. And thus, for example, Communism is an extreme form of social idolatry.

http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1932_377.html

And now we see the WEF as a culmination of social idolatry. Trans-humanism is Post-humanism. It is humanism with the optimism taken out, a movement that advocates for the transformation and the “advancement of humanity through technology” that runs the gamut from nanotechnology to AI. This paradigm is not limited to gadgets and medicine but also molds social, economic, cultural, institutional design, language, and the psyche.

To be clear, Trans-humanism is a manufactured endpoint to human evolution…

1) Where our bodies will be augmented and sterilized in utero.

2) Where divinity is exorcised out of humanity and humanity has outgrown its usefulness.

3) Where scientists are Gods to be worshiped.

5) Where politicians are priests who dictate new laws to live by.

6) Where the more you separate yourself from your divine nature…your heart-self…the more you create something non-human.”

Encyclopedia Britannica has this statement to make about Trans-humanism which is more matter of fact. “Trans-humanism, is a social and philosophical movement devoted to promoting the research and development of robust human-enhancement technologies. Such technologies would augment or increase human sensory reception, emotive ability, or cognitive capacity as well as radically improve human health and extend human life spans. Such modifications resulting from the addition of biological or physical technologies would be more or less permanent and integrated into the human body."

The French writer Volney, whom Jefferson translated in part but then stopped due to his concern the Federalists would use the book against him in his Presidential aspirations wrote

earlier than all: the book is Ruins of Empire.

Ruins of Empire

What is this blind fatality, that, without order or laws, sports with the lot of mortals? What this unjust necessity, which confounds the issue of actions, be they those of prudence or those of folly? In what consists the maledictions of Heaven denounced against these countries? Where is the divine curse that perpetuates this scene of desolation? Monuments of past ages! say, have the heavens changed their laws, and the earth its course? Has the sun extinguished his fires in the region of space? Do the seas no longer send forth clouds? Are the rain and the dew fixed in the air? Do the mountains retain their springs? Are the streams dried up? and do the plants no more bear fruit and seed? Answer, race of falsehood and iniquity, has God troubled the primitive and invariable order which he himself assigned to nature? Has heaven denied to the earth, and the earth to its inhabitants, the blessings that were formerly dispensed? If the creation has remained the same, if its sources and its instruments are exactly what they once were, wherefore should not the present race have every thing within their reach that their ancestors enjoyed? Falsely do you accuse Fate and the Divinity: injuriously do you refer to God the cause of your evils. Tell me, perverse and hypocritical race, if these places are desolate, if powerful cities are reduced to solitude, is it he that has occasioned the ruin? Is it his hand that has thrown down these walls, sapped these temples, mutilated these pillars? or is it the hand of man?

At the “Trans-humanism” website transhumanist.org on the homepage you will find the slogan, “Towards a Triple S Civilization: Super-intelligence, Super-longevity and Super-happiness!” This slogan encapsulates what a growing number of people today believe and want. These are the goals of a small but very influential group of people.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hello Stegiel,

Just a quick note before I head to school (assistant to public schools in Western Tokyo) to tell you I was blown away and honored by your comment. Not only did the quality and quantity of thought that went into writing it take a considerable investment of your time and energy ... but I see the tip of an iceberg of immense reading and subtlety of thought that leaves me in awe.

I will have to read your comment a few times, and see where my own readings and experience intersect. Living in Japan now for 40 years ... and somewhat adapting to a secular land of a thousand gods, and its roots (now corrupt) in the meritocratic ideals of Confucianism and the even earlier 'spiritual-naturalism' of Taoist thought ... (and my academic career has been in applied linguistics, with extended readings in philosophy of science ... Wittgenstein, Russell, the Logical Positivists, Sapir-Whorf, etc. — and an eclectic mix of primatology and neurobiology, but only at the science-consumer level) ... I will be struggling to dovetail with your expertise on the Western traditions.

But from my first skim ... you are more than correct.

Just wondering if you have a book on the market? Academic papers would appear to be easier for you, but the above comment, put into the popular vernacular, would be a powerful voice in unraveling the twisted rabbit-hole of a narrative mankind is falling.

Thank you again for this Stegial. Lots of new names and new ways of looking at familiar ones here. I am in awe, and will be reading this several times ... possibly commenting in this thread.

In awe and gratitude, cheers from Japan,

steve

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Stegiel's avatar

Not yet. Too lazy. I type opinion pieces and aim to harvest the work of ten years or so into a Writer's Diary like Gombrowicz. Sometimes fiction. Rarely poetry. I enjoy reading thoughtful writers. Wittgenstein taught me a bit. Especially his 3 Tolstoy short stories which I read promptly. I liked Russell quite a bit, read his Autobiography and other works. Jaspers Camus and Sartre and Heidegger too. Sufi and Zen writers. Ivan Illich and Thomas Merton. Ed Abbey. Others. Japan holds great fascination. Kenzubuto Oe "Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness.". Fluxus Japan too. Mishima. One reads. Today Neitzsche on history. I wanted to teach just before Covid. Now I just seek to live.

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Amy Harlib's avatar

Supporting the blessed Bishop Vigano who is the real Pope and not that anti-Christ traitor in The Vatican with a statement and useful links. Mind you, I am NOT Christian but I am a deeply spiritual person who understands that we are in a fight against the worst satanic evil in world history and I stand with all warriors for protecting/saving what is good and holy which is to cherish all living beings.

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/10/14/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset-an-overview/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire

https://www.technocracy.news

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

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Stegiel's avatar

I was born and raised in Christianity, a mellow Methodism. Of course by 1966 I was utterly secular. Secular as much as Huxley or Orwell. Even through college, studying Myth Criticism. and Jung and Philosophy I had next to no interest. Of course through the years I became aware of elites practicing Satanism and the U.S. Army weaponizing demonolatry. After Covid-19 and lockdown and much reading of the Russian Orthodox philosopher Berdyaev I am now keenly interested "intellectually." I am not able as yet to worship anything. This is a failing.

As Berdyaev writes: Myth-ideas hold sway over the masses, beliefs either religious or beliefs social-revolutionary, but cultural humanistic ideas do not hold sway. The conflict of the aristocratic and democratic principle, of quality and of quantity, of height or of breadth is unresolvable upon the basis of an irreligious humanistic culture. In this conflict the aristocratic cultural level frequently feels itself as dying off, and doomed. the process of techinization, mechanization and the process of democtratization of the masses leads to the degeneration of culture within the technical civilization, inspired by a materialistic spirit. Driving the soul out of people, turning people into machines, and human work into merchandise is a result of the industrial capitalistic order, in the face of which Christianity has become perplexed with confusion. The injustice of the capitalistic order finds its just chastisement in Communism. The process of collectivization, in which the human person vanishes, happens already within capitalism. Materialistic Communism seeks but to bring this process to completion. This posits for the Christian consciousness in all its acuteness the social problem, a problem more so of justice, more so of the human social order, the problem of spiritising and Christianization of the social movement and the working masses. The problem of culture is at present a social problem and on the outside it is insolvable. The clash of the aristocratic and democratic principles is solvable only upon the groundworks of Christianity, since Christianity is both aristocratic and democratic, it affirms the nobility of the children of God and it summons upwards, to perfection, to the utmost quality, and together at the same time it is oriented towards everyone, to every human soul. It demands an understanding of life as service, as service to a supra-personal value, to that which is valued above and beyond oneself. The fate of culture is dependent upon the spiritual condition of the working masses, upon whether they be inspired by the Christian faith or by atheistic materialism, and also upon this, whether technology becomes subject to spirit and spiritual values or whether ultimately it becomes the lord over life. It is quite pernicious a thing, when Christians assume a pose of reaction against the movement of the working masses and against the achievements of technology, in place of this they ought to inspire and ennoble the processes transpiring in the world, and subordinate them to higher values.

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Amy Harlib's avatar

I love your response.

Everything about my life I try to: "inspire and ennoble the processes transpiring in the world, and subordinate them to higher values." I also believe THE GOLDEN RULE is the answer to everything!

Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!

Fighting the predator globalist technocratic ruling class psychopath total slavery agenda one performance at a time!

As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (67) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer

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Steve Martin's avatar

Wow Amy, seeing your name pop up more than a few times, I am just now realizing (remebering?) a first-rate brain is behind that name. Not only Stegiel, but I will be reading your comments again and again. This has been one of the most inspiring deep-dives into 'big picture' thinking I've yet to read on substack, and I'm loving it. Bathing in it and trying to soak it up like a sponge.

Cheers from Japan Amy!

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Arigato! Gozaimasu! I love all things Asian!

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