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+<h1 class="title">Hegelian Frame and Marxism</h1>
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+</header>
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+<h2 id="neo-malthusianism">Neo-Malthusianism</h2>
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+<p>So the premise is the set of assertions that includes the following:
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+- Nature is treacherous - We utilize technology to mitigate the danger
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+of nature - All transcending of nature is a good thing and contributes
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+as a moral good in that it confers scientific progress - All leads
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+towards man’s mastery of the universe and himself - Even if we do not
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+know the appropriate next steps or the ultimate end-state, all
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+scientific progress contributes to realizing these things</p>
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+<p>Indeed, genital mutilation and creation of hybrid and chimeric
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+organisms can be seen as some form of scientific progress, and what
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+should it lead to? - The perfected state of human being - But is this
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+something to be attained by all human beings? - Should every human that
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+has ever existed have the opportunity to exist as perfect being? Should
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+the goal of mankind be to make it such that all humans, past present and
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+future, come to exist as perfect being?</p>
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+<p>Of course not - it would be, at most, those humans that exist at the
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+moment that perfect human being is attained, or at least feasible. And
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+would it even be desired by any one human for all living humans at the
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+moment where it would become possible? No. If one were to conceive of a
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+perfected human being for all human existence, other conceptions would
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+detract from its attainment if even in muddying up the conception of the
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+most correct manner of existence for human life. So, for the holder of
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+that conception, it becomes a challenge to view. It becomes difficult to
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+picture the vector of perfecting human being as running through the
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+expressions of those who haven’t the sensibility to have come into
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+holding the view of those who already see the path to perfection. Those
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+with special knowledge don’t necessarily have the glimpse of perfection
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+either, but they know what is excluded from such an image, as well as
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+what particular paths are to be trodden en route to the promised land
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+and who is ready to be on such paths.</p>
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+<p>Again, this is because of a historical sensibility, which is to say
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+that it’s not something in terms of a familiarity with the past events
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+of history, but having the sense to understand the current moment in
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+history and, by extension, the future. It’s for this reason that there
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+must be deep-seated intolerance for those who don’t appear to be
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+expressing the current historical moment correctly; they are as
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+malfunctioning robots or brainwashed zombies - relieving themselves with
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+their favourite form of activity to source their stupor as they miss the
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+opportunity to provide an intelligent, noble and reasonable nudge in the
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+right direction.</p>
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+<p>If their expression of being is made to manifest incorrectly, it is
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+at best a latency-inducing frivolity and at worst the regressive and
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+insensible entrapment of the entirety of human kind and human culture
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+into a most stagnant and unnatural form of reality; a falsely-lived life
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+for all others simply because one cannot put to rest their urges and
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+most fallen and simple, animalistic aspects - one’s for which it is
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+man’s capacity to resist and overcome which is the most basic
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+demonstration of having evolved from mere animal to a thoughtful and
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+conscious being.</p>
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+<p>We may need to delve into the more classical understanding of
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+Malthusianism in order to make sense of the world today. In particular,
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+we will see how manuscripts ( !NOTE: Decide if we need this) of the
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+early Club of Rome analyses - we can see already, even after knowledge
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+of the Soviet Atrocities, the interests of the day were still such as to
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+assume that Marxist Analysis is necessary and that a Marxist objective
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+should be sought.</p>
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+<h3 id="malthusian-dialectics-and-transhumanism">Malthusian Dialectics
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+and Transhumanism</h3>
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+<p>The Neo-Malthusian influence has left a lot of the older generation
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+intellectuals with a perspective extending firstly from the assumption
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+that humans are treacherous to nature, and that nature is treacherous to
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+us. That the relationships at the base level is one to be described by
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+disharmonic excesses of pointless activities motivated by the fact that
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+man’s animalistic urges have not been made consonant with his capacity
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+for grandiose schemes and a need to imagine himself as something larger
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+and extending beyond his own life.</p>
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+<p>Our ability to harness our faculties in conjunction with the
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+materials provided by nature allows us to imagine that we are, in
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+effect, controlling nature, or at least refining our ability to reform
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+and direct nature en route to inevitable mastery, but this simply means
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+that we are capable of disturbing the balance of nature long before ever
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+becoming capable of moulding it correctly, which is itself an ambition
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+which is likely to never reach fruition. In the short term, we mitigate
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+the immediate danger of nature to the long term detriment of the natural
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+world as a whole.</p>
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+<p>There is perhaps a break in the representation of Neo-Malthusian
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+influence in modern times, particularly among the older generation, but
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+even as it extends into today’s youth, in that the influence of
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+Neo-Malthusianism appears to go off in two different directions.</p>
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+<p>There is a Neo-Malthusian influence which remains among much of the
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+older generation, and which even influences the younger generation
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+(though it may present in a few different ways that are more directed
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+towards social activism and transhumanistic desires) and I’m trying to
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+consolidate two schools of thought which appear to have bifurcated from
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+that domain of thought (the Neo-Malthusianism).</p>
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+<ol type="1">
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+<li><p>A desire to master technology and nature such as to bring harmony
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+between the existence of man and the natural world. This may include a
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+transhumanistic development of human cognition and biology such as to
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+allow for the potential to live a full life which affords humans
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+limitless experience without incurring the pitfalls of resource
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+depletion and mishandling, environmental degradation and the
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+perpetuation of increasingly tumultuous climatic cycles which threaten
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+to make existence on this planet unsustainable for human beings (and
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+perhaps all life as a whole).</p></li>
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+<li><p>A desire to reduce all human activity and energy utilization to a
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+net-zero or even absolute-zero equation wherein there is a perfect
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+displacement of energy and transformation of matter such as to allow for
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+the existence of some humans in a manner which does not disturb the
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+natural world. This would allow perfectly equilibrated systems to
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+perpetuate themselves and thus reinforce nature’s propensity towards a
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+robust and ever-lasting expression of life.</p></li>
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+</ol>
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+<p>Some might refer to these two incarnations of Malthusian thought as
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+being one which still contains a modicum of techno-optimism, which might
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+be referred to as Neo-Malthusian Techno-Optimism, and that this modern
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+articulation of Malthusian influence is more compatible with the
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+transhumanistic aspirations of both technocratic interests as well as
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+the tech-infused yearnings of young, pop-culture infused entertainment
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+seeking individuals who hope for all the life-enhancing benefits and
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+experience-expanding affordances of technology without early,
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+disciplined investment in their physical well-being, while the other
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+would be characterized by a more Eco-minimalist manifestation of
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+Malthus-inspired thinking which is more prevalent among the older
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+generation.</p>
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+<p>For the younger, more transhumanistically inclined expression of
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+modern Neo-Malthusianism, we can consider some of the following sources:
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+- <a
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+href="https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/an-eco-social-perspective-on-transhumanism">An
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+Eco-Social Perspective on Transhumanism</a> - <a
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+href="http://viznut.fi/texts-en/transhumanism_degrowth.html">Transhumanism
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+Degrowth</a> - <a
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+href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318466857_The_Future_of_Innovation_Hyper_Innovation_Slow_Innovation_and_No_Innovation">The
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+Future of Innovation</a> - <a
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+href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-02-26/beyond-capitalist-realism-the-politics-energetics-and-aesthetics-of-degrowth">Beyond
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+Capitalist Realism</a></p>
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+<p>Many would contend that it’s absurd to consider that Malthusianism
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+would lead to something as Transhumanism, because the thinkers and
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+authors of works derived from institutions such as the Club of Rome, who
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+published “The Limits To Growth”, contended that technological expansion
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+was not a possible means of overcoming the impending loss of resources.
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+But, of course, such thinkers would need to consolidate the fact of
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+their failed predictions, particularly stringent ones which claimed
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+quite outrightly that we wouldn’t have certain resources, such as
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+copper, by a time that is now long behind us.</p>
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+<p>To such critics, however, I would respond in communicating that
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+Malthusianism is predicated on a necessarily collectivist world view
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+which deals with a historicist conception of the world and compels an
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+expectation of an eschatological endpoint which, according to their
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+worst predictions, serves as some form of judgment for the ills of
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+mankind. Any sort of collectivist understanding of the world requires a
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+shared endpoint and a description of reality based on a state of world
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+in a process of becoming, and that this inescapably means a dialectical
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+way of thinking about the world.</p>
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+<p>When thinking dialectically, we are always in a spiraling course of
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+re-imagining the terms of the world as concepts that are never
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+fully-formed but that are always developing against their contradictions
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+into syntheses which represent the next stage of understanding in the
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+course of human history. As such, we can turn to the use of the
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+dialectic in supposing the manner of thinking which allows the human
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+mind to aspire towards Malthusian principles while desiring the benefits
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+of technology so long as they are in line with a future endpoint of
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+liberated humanity.</p>
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+<ol type="1">
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+<li>The dialectic always progresses</li>
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+<li>Programs are implemented by the state (because the state represents
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+class consciousness in its most historically correct form)</li>
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+<li>Excuse will be made similarly to noting that standard of living
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+changes in negative correlation to birth rate</li>
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+<li>A truly scientific society will account for all resource use and
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+thus need to be both developing transhumanistic tech while being
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+sustainable</li>
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+<li>Most transhumanist tech is developed on the basis of treatments
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+which are intended for the masses in a dialogue which includes
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+consideration to overpopulation, such as vaccines</li>
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+</ol>
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+<p>!TODO: Do we need the connection between Malthusianism informing the
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+definition of Communism? These considerations can inform our categorical
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+definition of Communism, which is just a formal artifact for the logical
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+conclusion of collectivist thinking and which is bound by imminence in
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+that it is an object which relates to every man and, thus, is
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+ontologically consistent with man as a process of engaging in his
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+self-definition. It is not man himself and not necessarily the aggregate
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+of him, nor his geist. It is the object relating all then and serving in
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+such a capacity that, upon its imminent attainment, marks the phase
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+whereupon evidence of man’s nature finally manifests by virtue of the
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+conditions which were now made palatable by man’s own hand, such as to
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+make him “man in himself”.</p>
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+<p>Its definition is then the promise that man can and, by virtue of the
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+logical extension of such an assumption, should bring about the moment
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+of his true reality. It is the binding of all men to this imminence but
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+it also requires one last contextual element in order to make this
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+understanding complete.</p>
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+<ul>
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+<li>A theory of how man proceeds to Communism</li>
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+</ul>
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+<p>How does this proceed? Through conflict and struggle</p>
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+<p>!TODO: Should this “struggle” content be placed here in a section
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+about Professionals? Should it be migrated, or can its essence be
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+extracted and placed elsewhere in a more concise format?</p>
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+<h2 id="still-struggle">Still Struggle</h2>
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+<p>Whether old or new, we always see the descriptions of class struggle,
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+regardless of whether one believes the word class to be archaic. It is
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+always the elucidating of dialectical tension driving history as
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+teleological foundation, that this is occurring through critique of
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+world and society, and always within a short handful of hops of Marx
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+himself, neo-Marxists and even newer contemporaries who might denounce
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+him while still maintaining what exhibits a Hegelian view of reality. A
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+dialectic examining contradiction and yielding tension. Even if many do
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+it, not through a conscious and intentionally-advocated metaphysic, but
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+simply as intuition delivered through cultural critique and moralization
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+on the juxtaposition of humans grouped and classified on their
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+appearance, reproductive strategy, association, sexual preoccupation, or
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+any other dimension of social division and oppression.</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“… capitalist society reality is – immediately – the same for both
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+the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, remains unaltered. But we may now
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+add that this same reality employs the motor of class interests to keep
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+the bourgeoisie imprisoned within this immediacy while forcing the
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+proletariat to go beyond it.” - Gyorg Lukács (History and Class
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+Consciousness)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“The Communist Party is an autonomous form of proletarian class
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+consciousness serving the interests of the revolution.” - Gyorg Lukács
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+(History and Class Consciousness)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<h2 id="remark">Remark</h2>
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+<p>I want to be very clear that I’m not contributing these observations
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+and opinions simply because I think that they offer an easy critique of
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+some vulnerable aspect of institutions, the state, a cultural domain, or
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+any recognizable arena of discourse.</p>
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+<p>TODO: this is the right content, but it needs to be refactored The
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+referenced characteristics in critiques of phenomena which I describe as
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+being either collectivist cult manifestations or conducive to
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+collectivist social transformation are not ephemeral, cultural or that
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+which has occurred through happenstance. We are identifying the base;
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+the fundamental aspect and mechanism by which its employers and
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+proponents believe it functions and we should be able to see that it’s
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+not just necessarily the case that they are progressed or implemented as
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+per a formal understanding (though there is certainly no limit to that),
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+but that it is implicit as it is taken up by those who adopt the
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+language and syntax and utilize it in the context through which it is
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+presented.</p>
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+<p>The notion being alluded to is that of dialectics as they’ve been
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+provided, not through the formulators (Greeks, Romans), and their
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+predecessors and anteceding thinkers, but the German idealists, and
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+those who profoundly influenced them, who have massaged, processed and
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+supposedly evolved the method, as well as those who contributed to its
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+use in a way which brought it to having been framed as a feature of
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+enlightenment thought, such as Rousseau, and now especially as its usage
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+in popular culture and, sadly, academic institutions including those
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+pertaining to the sciences, at least to the extent that activism has
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+entered such institutions which is, in all veracity, almost all of
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+them.</p>
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+<p>Just as, with modern usage of the dialectic through aspiration to
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+idealism leaves all terms ambiguous, we can see how thinkers like
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+Rousseau are understood to be enlightenment thinkers for certain
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+characteristics which ultimately contradict the association. That is to
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+say, Rousseau is thought of as being an enlightenment thinker, while
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+putting forward ideas that are clearly anti-enlightenment and skeptical
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+of it. Kant is much the same way, having contributed much to modern
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+dialectic, both as a means of understanding but also as a tool for
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+change, in a manner which makes him especially relevant. I should add,
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+however, that this isn’t to say that Kant’s use of or description as to
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+the means of making use of the dialectic was as a tool for change. Quite
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+the contrary, for him its use was purely analytical, but as much as his
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+work is potent and viable in the realm of the enlightenment and the
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+streams of thought which extend from it, there’s good reason to consider
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+that his efforts and contributions stand in contrast to the
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+enlightenment and, consequently, empower those who wished to leverage
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+his tools in a direction unbecoming of the enlightenment:</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.” - Immanuel
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+Kant (Critique of Pure Reason)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>Though it seems perfectly valid and reasonable to choose to deepen
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+one’s understanding of any given concept or cognizable artifact, that
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+is, through universal application of deep thought, using comparison of
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+terms as it they can be related in an individual’s thinking, and by
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+having reflected sufficiently to perhaps lead a represented
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+understanding to the point of communicable thought. Classically, when
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+considering the use of dialectics, the weight of its impact through man
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+and society is only to be found in the degree to which one is affected
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+by the process, and the degree to which impact can be made through
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+effective rhetoric.</p>
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+<p>For the Hegelian and supposedly post-Hegelian, the tension moves
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+beyond mere intellectual pursuit, even if the work itself can be thought
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+of as being one. They are not simply driven by a desire for intellectual
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+prowess or intellectual dominance, but through an insistence on
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+metaphysical dominance. This is the difference which allows for one to
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+continue their forward charge, even after a loss of confidence in the
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+veracity of their position in the traditional sense. The veracity of the
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+current understanding of the world can always be superseded with the
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+veracity of one’s commitment to an as-of-yet unrealized point of
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+termination - if it has not yet come to be, we’ll always be en route
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+towards its coming to be.</p>
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+<p>For dialectical purist, believing in the fundamental description of
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+reality through a post-Hegelian thinker, such as Marx or Lukács, they
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+come to be active under the assumption of a world and reality which are
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+fundamentally idealist and that those things which are to pass will be
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+doing so as an analog of forms to coming to pass as ideal forms as
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+though it would be found in a Neo-Platonic elucidation. More concerning
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+than the mysticism-infused behaviour, however, is that the dialectical
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+mode of thought can take a more implicit form.</p>
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+<p>That is because this tendency towards idealism isn’t an artificial
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+programming yielding from one’s having encountered the ideas of Plato or
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+Hegel, even if they give such ideas a seemingly robust structure. On the
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+contrary, the disposition of idealism is a very human one which begins
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+in every human’s early phase of life. It’s a tendency which causes us to
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+admire idealism, even in our antagonizers, and even at the very moment
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+of conflict.</p>
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+<h1 id="perceptual-frame">Perceptual Frame</h1>
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+<p>The perceptual frame is the crux of what is to be understood in
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+adopting what I believe to be the correct mode of analysis to understand
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+human behaviour, beliefs about collective social dynamics, and
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+understanding the interplay between reason and faith. Insofar as humans
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+are able to deliberate, there is no perception outside the perceptual
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+frame of a conscious human mind and this is the constant that we should
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+expect as being universal and legitimate, regardless of suspected
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+ideological contamination.</p>
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is
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+this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he
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+erects it in reality. The perceptual frame is the first phenomenon, as
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+phenomenon in itself (to borrow some Hegelian terminology) that we each
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+experience, and it is not an aspect of our experience from which we ever
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+depart, lest we depart from experience altogether.” - Karl Marx (Das
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+Kapital)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>We begin with something approximating an idealist view, not in the
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+sense of having some advanced or fully-formed opinion as to how all
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+things should be, but in the sense that we can reasonably agree that the
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+entirety of what can be scientifically observed as the perception,
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+interpretation and sustainment of the sense apparatus of a human person
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+is tantamount to incurring all of what is described as human mind, human
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+consciousness and, especially, something which extends from a human
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+having thoughts.</p>
|
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+<p>This isn’t an argument as to whether a human has thoughts to the
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+exclusion of other animals, but that we are examining the experience of
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+having a human body, what it might be disposed to perceiving of that
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+experience, and how that should inform our opinions about what it means
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+for a human to proclaim, define or association with some referenceable
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+manner of thought, such as Idealism, and that this occurs either in a
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+process of thought which is only available to humans or which is
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+distinctly human</p>
|
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+<p>Even if it were the case that their experience was absent the sense
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+apparatus, to any degree, some might call it a perception less-tainted
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+and others might say it lacks relevance insofar as the experience lacks
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+environmental context, but then if there were any content at all, it
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+would be as a realm of ideas, especially as can be imagined as an
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+experiment in mind, for it is easy enough to see that if truly an
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+experience could be had which was completely devoid of content, then it
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+would be an oblivious experience and still maintaining a form which is
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+fundamentally idealist, save for an instance where no thought occurs
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+whatsoever.</p>
|
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+<p>If at the base of development we are already at a mode of perception
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+which may plausibly be perceiving such to assume that one’s own frame of
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+perception is the only one in existence, or the only type of perception
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+that may be experienced but that somehow could translate into multiple
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+perceptions, such as multiple instances of the same perception, or
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+otherwise as a perception whose outlook from the subject (perceiver)
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+looks as an imagined, cultish formation insisting on what is perceived,
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+or how and in what way or per what quantities perception could take
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+place, and that in isolation it would be the only meaningful perception,
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+then still these observations concerning the natural tendencies of human
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+perception would still hold. Far less likely would it be to envision a
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+cult which believes an isolated perception with no sensory input as
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+being void of thought or a state of mind as being one of a vegetative
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+state, except as a final limit.</p>
|
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+<p>!WARNING: That last paragraph was rough.</p>
|
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+<p>The main point is that we need to learn to understand and even intuit
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+that: - Others likely have a perception, too - There is at minimum an
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+environment which appears to exist independent of one’s consciousness or
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+will</p>
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+<h1 id="hegelian-frame-and-marxism">Hegelian Frame and Marxism</h1>
|
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+<p>Contrary to the wholly individualistic perceptual frame is the
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+Hegelian frame. It refers to one’s perception when imagining collective
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+consciousness. This could be as speculating or a sense of belief about
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+an intuition for an intelligible phenomenon of collective consciousness,
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+as extant or imminent event, and whether relating to all things
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+ontologically or as consolidation of a conscious faculty as a shared
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+quality. There are many standards by which to describe such a
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+perception, and it is an evergreen challenge of human existence to wade
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+through them and ground ourselves, but it is perhaps the Hegelian
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+flavour of collectivist thinking which best serves our explication of
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+the difference of these frames, particularly as it’s deeply embedded in
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+modern civilization. It must be mentioned that this manner of perceiving
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+is necessarily dialectical.</p>
|
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“Dialectics is the theory of knowledge of (Hegel and ) Marxism. This
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+is the aspect of the matter (it is not an aspect, but the essence of the
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+matter)”. - Lenin (Lenin’s Collected Works)</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“The state is the actuality of the ethical Idea. It is ethical mind
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+qua the substantial will manifest and revealed to itself, knowing and
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+thinking itself, accomplishing what it knows and in so far as it knows
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+it.” - Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel (Philosophy of Right)</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>Coming back to the point of what precisely is the Hegelian view,
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+Hegelian faith, or Hegelian application of dialectic, we can now make
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+clear the distinction. But first, a PSA.</p>
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+<h2 id="digression-unconstrained-analytics">Digression (Unconstrained
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+Analytics)</h2>
|
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+<p>It bears mentioning that American Lawyer, Intelligence Analyst and
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+founder of Unconstrained Analytics would advise us that we needn’t wade
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+into the flavours and interpretations of Hegel’s dialectic all too much,
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+lest we find ourselves living in it and mystified by it. The important
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+point is to recognize the worldview is itself dialectical and that as a
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+matter of teleological implication it yields implements to ascribe
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+purpose subjectively. It is through this mechanism that cult-like
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+behaviour is facilitated in human beings.</p>
|
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+<h2 id="hegelian-impendence">Hegelian Impendence</h2>
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+<p>Whereas classically, and as an intellectual pursuit, dialectics
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+consists of examining what is not understood by examining what
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+contradictions can be found, or what oppositional terms and concepts can
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+be set in conflict with one another (generally as per their relationship
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+to something already cognizable), and using the tension brought out
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+through the dualistic analysis of the corresponding items to invigorate
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+the drive towards one’s better understanding, Hegel’s is use the
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+dialectic as driven through a conception of history is different: -
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+Dialectical tension occurs in all things - Dialectical process is the
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+engine of change - Dialectical tension evokes change and this is what
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+drives history - Historical movement heads towards resolution -
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+Semantically: utilizing negation against an abstract understanding in
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+order to yield something substantive</p>
|
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+<p>Some would call this an imminentization or that something is
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+eschatological, which is to say: all things occur in the context of an
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+endpoint. By endpoint, we mean an end to a period of history. The aim is
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+for the occurrences to be considered in their most reasonable
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+representation, which is to say reasonable in the sense of its relevance
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+in the context of it having existed with all things, thus giving rise to
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+consider that the most complete understanding of anything is in the
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+context of everything. Some might also call this being scientific, or
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+applying a scientific analysis, which is not the same thing as
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+application of scientific method.</p>
|
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+<p>That isn’t to say that an intellectual pursuit of comparing terms,
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+concepts or ideas shouldn’t be expected to move towards better
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+understanding. Of course it would insofar as someone decides to apply
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+focus and attention. You cannot progress on understanding if you are not
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+paying attention to the thing in question, but there is a difference in
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+saying that focus and attention to X shall result in improved capacity
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+to grapple with “X”. This could be improvement through achieving a
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+particular level of competence, through mastering actions and attaining
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+insights, but it might simply be an improvement through one’s having
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+made the subject temporally relevant.</p>
|
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+<p>But that is not blind faith just as it isn’t blind faith to consider
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+that you’re going to move closer to the correct answer of a math problem
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+if you actually begin working it out.</p>
|
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+<p>Dialectical faith is faith that the actions and utterances are not
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+correct on the basis of truth claim. What makes it true is that it is
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+desired. That it is not universally agreed upon as having been brought
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+to fruition just means that the process isn’t complete. For that which
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+you desire came to be because of true human nature extending the true
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+longing desire of all mankind. As such, if what is desired is not yet
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+manifest, its insistence becomes morally obligatory.</p>
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+<p>The eschatological change is one of human conception, be understood
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+as recognition made by all of humanity yielding change at the structural
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+level of Being. For Marx, this comes to be the being of the species and
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+is intrinsic to reality.</p>
|
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+<p>For Hegel, this comes about through all manner of dialectical thought
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+as the understanding of all things includes an unresolved tension and
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+process of reflection occurring occurring through sublation. In his
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+idealist formulation, all exist as aspects of a totality synonymous
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|
+divinity.</p>
|
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|
+<h3 id="final-events-in-historical-periods">Final Events in Historical
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|
+Periods</h3>
|
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|
+<p>There is a difference between the idea of an endpoint and its being
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+the final event of history, which sounds as mystical, or even
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|
+cataclysmic, cosmological event. It’s the final occurrence of all that
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+could be.</p>
|
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+<p>With Hegel, his idea of an eschatological endpoint, though not the
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+term by which he refers to it, was that of a final completion of the
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+process of existence where the fact that existence had occurred was
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+because of a deviation from from a completed state so perfect that it
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+may be tantamount to non-existence. The deviation from state of
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+perfection was the creation of existence whose instantiation implies
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+that its unfolding would logically lead back toward the perfect state
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+and that, at least according to the semantics of Hegel’s philosophy,
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+would be complete when the absolute state of existence will negate
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+itself in a final determination whereby no more progress can be made in
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+the dimension of existence beyond the fact of its perfect completion
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+having no more perfect state possible except as a final resolving of the
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+redundancy of itself as being something which maintains a distinction.
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+That last removal of the distinction of its existence is the only step
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+which is left to occur.</p>
|
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+<p>With Marx, he words himself on the topic of history by only
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+commenting on history as it pertains to the history of man, so whether
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+he considers that to be a subset of all of history, or whether he
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+considers that question to be irrelevant is something we can never know,
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+but at the very least it is the only history that he considers in his
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+explications of a philosophy about the liberation and creation of man
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+predicated on the dialectic as a historical process. All modern
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+incarnations of dialectic describe a historical process of unfolding
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+tension as transformation of world conditions.</p>
|
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+<p>Defenders of dialectic claim it avoids mysticism by stating the
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+dialectical process of history is not itself the entirety of history
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+which also includes a greater overarching history of universe, yet will
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+contend that history is only relevant for man and that transformation of
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+reality occurs through the dialectical process. They will also claim
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+that the process contains all qualitative aspects of human existence and
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+will have described its own unfolding by the completion of the current
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+stage of human history. These presumptions make it irrelevant whether or
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+not the period described by the dialectical process is itself the
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+entirety of history. The fact of the matter is the idealist description
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+of dialectical history is a metaphysical faith and this cannot be
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+ignored.</p>
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+<h3 id="remark-on-hegelian-framing">Remark on Hegelian Framing</h3>
|
|
|
+<p>We understand Hegel as being an idealist, and many of us can look
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+back on our past experiences and recognize relationships with people
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+whom we’d like to allege are “idealists”. But are there idealists? Can
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+someone ever be so sure that they themselves adhere to the ideal of
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+their supposed idealism? Can they be an idealist without adhering to the
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+ideals? Are they certain that they are idealist in their manner of
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+thought or have they simply identified the implements of idealism?</p>
|
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+<p>There is something to be said here about the insistence of being able
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+to represent things in idealist terms. The problem about ascribing
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+idealism to someone’s view is that even if they themselves claim to be
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+idealists, we cannot read minds. What we perceive as being our
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+rationalized thought process might be better understood as a balancing
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+of our cognitive faculties with our psycho-emotive state, and even those
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+things cannot be well-demarcated from one another.</p>
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+<p>I want to take the approach that we all likely go through modes of
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+conception, perhaps even at all times, which are compatible with what we
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+describe as idealism. We already agree that there is a subject/object
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+split to a degree that a human being cannot look at any object and
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+understand it in absolute terms - its complete structure, nature,
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+composition or ultimate context. We can observe it and understand things
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+about it and make inferences or contemplate shapes, feelings, patterns
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+or concepts invoked by it.</p>
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+<p>Even if we are creating a geometric model or represented image as per
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+our nervous system engaging with conception of the object through the
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+activity of our visual cortex, that image is not the thing in question
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+and, though by itself, it makes it an idea in its own rite, it’s not
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+necessarily the idea or the representation of the thing one might
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+assumes it’s purported to be, or even simply in reference to. The idea
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+exists as an abstraction, and further abstractions are conjured even
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+upon reflecting on the experience of perceiving that thing in
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+question.</p>
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+<h4 id="friendships-and-authoritarianism">Friendships and
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+Authoritarianism</h4>
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+<p><em>I was somehow always surprised to see persons I had been close
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+to, known for a long time, and gotten into difficult situations with and
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+had been someone I could count on, at least in the most difficult of
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+situations, in spite of the fact that my relationship with them may have
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+contributed to, not necessarily whether I would ever get into such
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+situations, but mechanistically in terms of the path, behaviour and
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+temporality of my having reached those situations, and their disposition
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+towards utterances and argumentation which, upon reflection, appeared to
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+necessitate seeing aspects of the world that have been well tested and
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+observed and experienced with a body, would be willing to pretend
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+something is not true, or that something which should be true or for
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+which the behaving and expecting or even simply hoping of it as being
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+true might somehow bring a possibility of a change in the world
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+!!</em></p>
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+<p>The phenomenon of humans failing to see what’s right in front of
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+them, or at least failing to communicate their acknowledgment of the
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+reality they should reasonably be expected to understand, is a
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+frustrating factor of the human condition, particularly for social
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+relations. Of course, to believe that only others are subject to this
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+and not oneself is likely an instantiation of it, but nevertheless I’ll
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+indulge myself in examining what this means in the context of
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+authoritarianism.</p>
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+<p>Though the phenomenon is something intuitively participated in, and
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+thus perhaps avoided to some degree which doesn’t make it explicitly
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+focused upon, I found that as I grew older I began to feel more
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+surprised surprised that those close to me, who had often demonstrated a
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+great capacity for reasoning with rigorous logic and an open mind and
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+who were dependable in dynamic situations where semantically accurate
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+negotiation cannot be executed transparently, seemed to easily come to
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+the point of pretending to be oblivious about that which they should
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+likely be aware of. This seemed to prevent them from applying those
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+skills of consistency and rigor. Even in scientific matters, they would
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+suspend their capacity to critique the logic or science behind a
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+declaration when it was related to a social matter, political
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+proclamation, or adherence to an ideal.</p>
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+<p>These were people included some that I’d known for my entire life,
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+and were people with whom I’d spent great lengths of time with in very
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+private settings, deliberating what we seemed to agree on as the limits
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+of knowledge, the means of pushing the boundaries of thought and
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+conception, and finding the inspiration to empower our thinking through
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+our lust for life and exploration. We drove curiosity and provoked great
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+aspirations in one another, and could enjoy doing so without being
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+hindered by ego or neurotic extravagances, at least when the setting
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+permitted (and isn’t that the kicker).</p>
|
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+<p>But slowly and surely, for reasons I speculate about, and possibly
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+even just because of the manner in which I myself was changing through
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+life, I found that, if were confronted with a matter bearing great
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+social significance, the reliability of clear definitions and sensible
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+ordering of contextual analyses seemed to be at risk of being
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+sacrificed.</p>
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+<p>This was evident when coming across issues that had to do with
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+conceiving of humans as something universal with equal potential for
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+understanding and achievement, and its replacement with assuming people
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+have their perception poisoned by hegemony to the point where volatile
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+deconstructive approaches must be taken, such as championing events
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+which agitate people differently according to class affiliation, with
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+these classes being informed by skin colour, ethnicity, sex, and other
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+categories of identity which, in my opinion, are fundamentally imagined
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+but also include ones whose qualitative distinction is one of
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+imagination (that is to say, to imagine group identity is something
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+altogether imaginary to begin with and to imagine a group identity
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+predicated on gender as the construction of an identity category
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+predicated on gender, which is an imagined attribute (even in the case
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+that one believes gender itself is coherent, as its basis as something
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+subjective and even fluid necessitates awareness to the subjective
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+perceptions of other humans, thus requiring some degree of faith in
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+acknowledging their gender pronouncements as something legitimate).</p>
|
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+<p>I furthermore saw this when it came to issues of climate and the
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+environment. When a serious effort was made to understand environmental
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+degradation or contamination from a low-level analysis, it’s not taken
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+seriously as it’s not being initiated under an assumption of seeking to
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+find evidence which reinforces the alleged consensus already being
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+championed at a high level through entities that are highly political
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+and highly embedded in governance. This coincides perfectly with the
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+aversion to avoid any sort of debate about the premises that such
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+initiatives and projects build upon, with guidance always being that the
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+emphasis should be placed on how to proliferate the political message,
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+harness industry support and coordinate academic institutions towards
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+maximizing social acceptance and the redirection of infrastructure to
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+the goals of those initiatives.</p>
|
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+<p>One last aspect of these surprises is perhaps the least surprising,
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+which is the orientation toward and acceptance of authoritarianism as
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+not only the logical conclusion or necessary evil of our circumstances,
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+but as something which is being revealed as the basic element of social
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+organization. That social environments cannot be organized except
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+through the application of authoritarianism as a principle and its
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+associated procedures. This has also become an issue for those who
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+pronounce themselves as “right-leaning”, but was a feature of the
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+“left-claiming” who, in my opinion, are differentiated politically
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+through cultural circumstance, whereas they share a personal disposition
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+with the more traditionally-minded conservative authoritarians.</p>
|
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+<h4 id="endpoint-framing">Endpoint Framing</h4>
|
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|
+<p>Another aspect essential to this view which I’ve not yet mentioned is
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+that of double negation. This conception of a future endpoint is
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+essentially one of accepting a certain degree of mystification in the
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+adoption of the process of absolution under an overarching expectation
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+that the mystification will be resolved once the process has ended. Once
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+an endpoint is expected which justifies the imperfections of the
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+present, it is seen as the inevitable release from consequences
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+associated with the period preceding it.</p>
|
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|
+<p>It is through this expectation that one is not simply in the
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+circumstance of making a claim without positing something concrete, such
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+as providing the solution or tracing the logical conclusion, but is
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+holding onto a belief the substance of which they’ve not themselves even
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+witnessed. The endpoint is inevitable, having been designated as such
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+through stating it as the precondition for accepting this world and
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+promising that it will account for a complete set of aspects of the
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|
|
+world of man. It is the wholeness which implies the endpoint; the
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|
|
+promise of totality defines the endpoint.</p>
|
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|
+<p>For Hegel, it is the manner by which abstraction holds reference to
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|
+the actual and through advancing forms toward their ideal form, like a
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|
+Neoplatonic process of realizing the realm of ideals. His abstract is
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+made concrete through the process of negation, be it the negating of
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|
+finite into infinite, Being into Nothing (or Being into Pure Being or
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|
|
+Pure Immediacy). It is the expectation that through submission and
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+faith, and an orchestration of congruently oriented perceptions
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+reflecting the subject at hand, the desired result will be found and
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+that this will correct the state of Being for all humanity and, by
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|
|
+extension, all existence.</p>
|
|
|
+<h2 id="collective">Collective</h2>
|
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|
+<p>How are we to understand the very concept and premise of a
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+collective? Some may put forward that simply having a collective is
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+itself a moral good by default and improvement on the status quo. It is
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|
+claimed that it acknowledges the basic reality that we humans are
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|
+numerous and that life is improved for each and every one of us when we
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|
+work together and help one another. It is alleged that some are
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|
+corrupted with hate and ideology, leading to some being wrongfully typed
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|
+as “other”. Indeed, there exist multiple entities, but of what type? Is
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|
+it all just one type, and is the notion of a collective then simply a
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|
|
+way of reminding everyone that there is no “other”? Or, could we say
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|
+that the types which exist indicate the same number of collectives? Or
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|
|
+might the number of types be equivalent to those declared within the
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|
|
+collective and those who reject such declarations?</p>
|
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|
+<p>Let’s start with a charitable offering to purveyors and advocates of
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|
|
+collectivism in saying that there are multiple entities, but likely of
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|
+the same type because we need to understand that they’re at least of
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|
|
+enough of a similar type such that they can be enumerated within the
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|
|
+same context.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>What, then, is the purpose of humans who exist in a world where there
|
|
|
+is some ethical value in the collective? Is it that there are different
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|
+primary purposes for humans to be in different collectives such that we
|
|
|
+could say that it’s somehow arbitrary? Something that, on the balance of
|
|
|
+it all, ends up looking random and necessitates further questioning in
|
|
|
+order to know what purpose is being erected or focused upon? Is it just
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|
|
+generally implementing the concept of coordination? For the sake of
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|
+coordination itself? Well, coordination implies a shared purpose, so
|
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|
+we’re left still wondering what the purpose is, in all cases. One might
|
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|
+say that it is the need to have a specification for a more complete
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|
+form, and that the collective suggests that those who come into the fold
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|
|
+are cognizant or illuminated to the need for such a specification. To
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|
|
+have a specification of the world and what exists in it. To know that
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|
|
+all who exist are specified within the collective as a means to reach
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|
|
+completion of existence and the purpose of existence itself.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Could we say that the collective exists to serve some other entity?
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|
+Well, even in enumerating an entity which exists supposedly outside of
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|
+the collective itself, we still must assert that the collective has a
|
|
|
+purpose bound to its components, so we’re still not able to clearly
|
|
|
+state the purpose is externalized. But, actually, here’s where things
|
|
|
+get interesting.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Either that entity is the collective itself, in which case we ask:
|
|
|
+why does that entity exists, and what is its purpose? I suggest that
|
|
|
+it’s purpose is as a promise of a completed collective as expectation of
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|
|
+its fulfillment becomes man’s attainment of purpose.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Can this entity be the state? Let’s say that the purpose of the
|
|
|
+collective is to serve the state. But what is the state? It is not
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|
|
+alive, though an idealist might say otherwise. Is it the manifested
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|
|
+instance of a matrix of ideals? It comes back to human existence and its
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|
|
+purpose. If the state exists as a means of orienting man, then the state
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|
|
+is the excuse for the collective and then the question is why we must
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|
|
+align and orient all men? If there is any reason, it’s because of the
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|
|
+purpose and potential of attaining some form of true existence or true
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|
|
+nature that isn’t otherwise happening outside of the collective.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The collectivist may refute and claim a difference between a
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|
|
+communist and democratic socialist conception of an ideal as liberation
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|
|
+of mankind through collective alignment to negate the oppression of the
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|
|
+proletariat, as elimination of disparate classes. This would mean a
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|
|
+state of affairs whereby no distinction exists that would permit
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|
|
+conceptualization of the classes; there would not be a difference
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|
|
+between any two men, and this would ultimately happen at an
|
|
|
+international or universal level. What would the response to such a
|
|
|
+criticism be?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>If you have a collective for the state and an assumption that this
|
|
|
+state remains for the one nation and only one nation alone, then we must
|
|
|
+ask what makes this nation state separate from any other? Is it just
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|
|
+arbitrary geographic lines?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>When juxtaposing a nationalistic collectivist state against one
|
|
|
+aspiring to internationalism, I take the position that the premise of
|
|
|
+Fascism which, just as Communism, would necessitate the same endpoint,
|
|
|
+regardless of the theoretical description of its endpoint.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>In Mussolini’s Fascism, such as what might be understood through “The
|
|
|
+Doctrine of Fascism”, what constraints are there to limit the state, to
|
|
|
+which all citizens exist in service of and in alignment with as a
|
|
|
+collective, to its own discrete form to the exclusion of others?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>If there are other states, then one would logically proceed to
|
|
|
+supposing that the other states limit the glory and absolution of our
|
|
|
+fascist state. Any other state is the fodder by which the fascist state
|
|
|
+can achieve further greatness. Would then not the next step be for the
|
|
|
+fascist state to conquer all other states, until such time that it is a
|
|
|
+universal state?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>There is a presupposing that the purpose and expression of every
|
|
|
+citizen necessarily requires conflict, as is found in war between the
|
|
|
+state and the other (other states). It wouldn’t need to reconcile
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|
|
+anything theoretically, so long as there is inevitable conflict between
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|
|
+itself and anything which is its other, and thus it would necessarily
|
|
|
+need to enter into conflict.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The criticism of this would be to say that the state would then turn
|
|
|
+its attention inward as conflict could occur from the inside, and this
|
|
|
+is obviously something that we always see as a regime with a utopian
|
|
|
+collectivist philosophy always subjects its own people to massive
|
|
|
+atrocities.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>But the solution to that is easy: you just need to keep refining the
|
|
|
+process and the content within the state until there exists no
|
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|
+contradiction between any of its components. That is to say, until such
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|
+a point that all men are of one mind or there is only one man.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>So while there may be some aesthetic difference in the theory, we are
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|
+heading to the same endpoint and always because it’s the purpose of man
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|
+to move through conflict until the distinctions are eliminated.</p>
|
|
|
+<h2 id="dialogue-on-collective">Dialogue on Collective</h2>
|
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|
+<p><em>Here is a dialogue arguing the point that regardless of your
|
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|
+flavour of collectivism you end up with an authoritarian regime and
|
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|
+totalitarianism as collectivism perpetuates delusion which necessitates
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|
|
+the gnostic mind that seeks absolution.</em></p>
|
|
|
+<hr />
|
|
|
+<p>Eman: “I’m not convinced that the Doctrine of Fascism is describing
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|
+something which isn’t equivalent to Marxism. I think that the fact of it
|
|
|
+requiring the state and invoking conflict as a means of bringing man to
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|
|
+their highest expression is superficial, and that they both logically
|
|
|
+conclude as the same.”</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Interlocutor: “I see what you mean, but the Doctrine of Fascism also
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|
|
+requires a totalitarian state and the suppression of individual
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|
|
+freedoms. These are not things that can be reconciled with Marxist
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|
|
+theory which aims for the liberation of the working class through
|
|
|
+collective action.”</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Eman: “Marxist theory requires a dictatorship of the proletariat,
|
|
|
+which in practice is equivalent to the fascist state.”</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Interlocutor: “But the goal of Marxism is to create a society where
|
|
|
+there is no need for a state, whereas fascism seeks to maintain control
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|
|
+over society indefinitely.”</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Eman: “The state is necessary as long as conflict exists between men,
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|
|
+which reveals itself as contradiction and thus disparate class.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Both of these systems would lead inevitably to requiring a
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|
+circumstance where no conflict exists between men. Until such time, both
|
|
|
+will remain staunchly totalitarian and imposing an authoritarian state
|
|
|
+which will always be a more severe permutation of these as history moves
|
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|
+toward my described requirement.”</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Interlocutor: “I agree that both Marxism and Fascism require a strong
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|
|
+state to enforce their ideologies, but the ultimate goal of Marxism is
|
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|
+to create a stateless society where people are free from class conflict.
|
|
|
+In contrast, fascist ideology seeks to maintain control over society
|
|
|
+indefinitely through authoritarian means.’</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Eman: “The difference you indicate is of no consequence except if the
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|
|
+endpoint is reached, and for such an endpoint to be reached we will
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|
|
+require the same condition.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Until such time, both will seek to maintain control over society
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|
+indefinitely through authoritarian means.</p>
|
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|
+<p>With Fascism, it will begin as requiring the one totalitarian state
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|
+to be in conflict with any other state, thus either we require an
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|
+infinite supply of other states, or we will achieve a circumstance
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|
+whereby only one state remains, and that will be the universal or
|
|
|
+international state equivalent to what would be found under Marxism just
|
|
|
+prior to the liberation of all of humanity.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>For that last step, we require the elimination of distinctions
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|
+between any remaining man. For this reason, only a circumstance of there
|
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|
+being one mind for all men, or one single instance of man, would
|
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|
+veritably provide the reliable condition of there being no conflict
|
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|
+between men.”</p>
|
|
|
+<hr />
|
|
|
+<p>We will proceed to examine some formulations of Hegelian thought that
|
|
|
+we are familiar with today.</p>
|
|
|
+<h2 id="remark-1">Remark</h2>
|
|
|
+<p>Before examining those subsets of Hegelian thought, let’s highlight
|
|
|
+that the Hegelian view of events is more insidious in its invitation to
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|
|
+commitment than the “pop culture” representations of Hegel. “Problem,
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|
|
+Reaction, Solution” sounds like an intelligent methodology with some
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|
|
+susceptibility to political manipulation and something which can be
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|
+applied by anyone through planning and political responsiveness. It can
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|
|
+be deemed completely normal on the basis that there’s necessarily a
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|
+noticeable difference between a planned provocation executed through
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|
|
+conspiracy and some sensible degree of preparedness already expected by
|
|
|
+a good professional in any given domain.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>In actuality, it is a more mystical incarnation of dialectic not
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|
|
+specifically catered toward improving understanding of what is and may
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|
+just as well function to reduce understanding in the short term. The
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|
+understanding is only conceptually valid at the end of the process, thus
|
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|
+excusing any immediate blurring through dialogue. What dialectics is
|
|
|
+understood to provide is the methodology for historical change. Whether
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|
|
+one believes the fundamental nature of the Universe or reality is
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|
|
+material, ideal, or something unspecified, the faith remains the same:
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|
|
+inducing conflict produces the tension of the dialectic which drives
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|
+history forward to an endpoint of resolved tension. To be a bit
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|
+pedantic, though, it should be said that inducing the conflict reveals
|
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|
+the tension of the dialectic, and that dialectical tension would have
|
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|
+already been present, but that a man of action can help catalyze the
|
|
|
+process of the world’s logic working itself out, which would contribute
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|
+to the advancement of world history towards the achievement of the world
|
|
|
+spirit, or Weltgeist.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>For Hegel, the state of ideal or final stage before true realization
|
|
|
+of ideal, is where all things that were are revealed to be the same
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|
|
+thing. Their disparate forms and articulations were all part of the
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|
|
+process of working out that they were all in fact the same thing.</p>
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+<h2 id="queer-liberation">Queer Liberation</h2>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“…dialectical thinking, in which each thing is what it is only by
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+becoming what it is not.” - Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
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+(Dialectic of Enlightenment)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>Things are transformed into what they are not in order to become what
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+they really are. To know the identity and essence of something is to
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+know what is not it, thus its existence implicitly holds reference to
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+its negative. In speculating of its negative, however, we discover
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+contradictions. As a result, the “it” in question transforms through
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+negation into its other; it becomes its negative as all things do.</p>
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+<p>For the Queer cult, there is continuous application of dialectical
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+tension through a process of negation under an implicit expectation that
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+conflict will eventually be resolved allowing for the true, natural and
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+unforced form and behaviour to become possible.</p>
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+<p>The tension is borne of expectation about what it means to have a
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+human body and what it feels like to have awareness to the notion that
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+others are also faced with this.</p>
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+<h3 id="dimensions-of-concern">Dimensions of Concern</h3>
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+<p>If you are familiar with Queer Scholarship, or are a practitioner of
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+queer yourself, then you might already think you grok the right term but
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+the average participant to the discourse is coming into it with a
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+concept of queer learned through the following: - Pop
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+culture/movies/music/TV - Hobbies (relates to culture but often has
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+queer structural implementations) - Workplace - Activism</p>
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+<h4 id="pop">Pop</h4>
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+<p>Most people encounter it through pop culture, with literature
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+preceding in describing the strange and unusual as queer. A common first
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+run-in with queer has been through film and television programs, <a
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+href="https://glaad.org/publications/accelerating-acceptance-2023/">as
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+has been documented</a>, where, for at least many decades, queer was
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+made to be synonymous with homosexuality, and likely where there were
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+more than scant references to transexuality or transvestitism, which
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+generally were made to stand as their own things.</p>
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+<p>If queer nomenclature is present in your hobby, by virtue of
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+location, organization, activity partner, or even the documentation of
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+the hobby itself, then it more than likely has come following some
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+period of queer praxis. This same praxis would have “evolved” the use of
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+queer language in film and television to more closely approximate the
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+actual meaning of the term.</p>
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+<p>If queer praxis has been made to be required through a particular
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+domain, then the primary objective has been to transform the use of
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+language to make it conform to a queer worldview. This means that the
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+participants needn’t necessarily yet understand what it means for
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+someone to be queer, or what queering as a verb or action happens to be.
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+Instead, they are helping to create an environment where queer activists
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+have control over the use and meaning or at least structurally and
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+institutionally recognized definitions) of all language, especially
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+structurally and through compelling institutions to recognize
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+definitions, under an assumption of queer mythos.</p>
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+<p>It is an accessible, soft initiation to queer conformity and consent
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+to social enforcement infrastructure without really grokking its
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+premised theory of knowledge which supersedes any other.</p>
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+<h5 id="pop-spectrum">Pop Spectrum</h5>
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+<p>The “pop culture queer vibe” was examined in video by Peter
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+Boghossian. It was pointed out, in this spectrum street epistemology
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+video featuring Peter Boghossian, Charles Love, <trans person> and
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+<female lawyer>, that straight people make up the majority of Pride
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+Event attendees, and this appears a modern articulation of pop culture.
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+Whereas previously such persons had likely been introduced to the term
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+as previously described through TV and film, and perhaps through pop
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+music stars, they now take part in celebration of queer rituals for
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+belonging, in what presents to many as a pagan ceremony to conjure
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+transformation. “It is an identity without an essence” <a
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+href="https://youtu.be/KZhiUv7COCw?si=sLYVEvyYBmv9kO1V">The Spectrum
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+Street Epistemology video in question</a>.</p>
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+<p>They posited some reasons as to why this is the case, but the premise
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+of the discourse was made abundantly clear through the first question
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+they used to examine different viewpoints and arguments: <em>Do straight
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+white people attend Pride parades because Straight White Pride is
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+considered unacceptable and forbidden?</em></p>
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+<p>Well, the answers were a bit divided, but I think almost all of them
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+failed to make sure that they understood the question, or at least
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+failed to clarify the premises such as to make the discourse relevant
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+and fruitful to unpacking related issues and fleshing out people’s
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+viewpoints. Some responded yes and elaborated that, in another world
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+where the popular cool and hip thing to do is attend White Pride and
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+promote a racially white belonging, they would be taking part in it,
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+whereas here they’re doing something analogous to that which signals
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+their having situated themselves in a centralized position that is
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+protected and supported by the prevailing central forces of society, and
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+are furthermore celebrating their superiority of possessing an evolved
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+mind with the correct sensibility, having been sexually enlightened, and
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+sporting a moral sensibility that is somehow a virtuous achievement on
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+their part and that of their “kind”.</p>
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+<p>There is a form of folk nationalist colonization at play altogether
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+different from the rough era of immigrants making their way into America
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+that pursued establishment not of a culture that had to distinguish
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+itself by race in a society that didn’t value it, but with an approach
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+to survival and expansion of basic capacities necessary to support life
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+and flourishing.</p>
|
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+<p>Now, things are different, and we’re more likely to see the sort of
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+“White Pride” racial celebration that is positioning itself in the same
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+way as a CRT-derived race celebration, or a Queer Theory-derived sex and
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+gender identity celebration.</p>
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+<p>It signals allegiance to a collective that bears significance in
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+terms of a power hierarchy which insists on a particular ordering of
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+world, society and, in the case of queer, reality itself. Those who do
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+not demonstrate an allegiance to it as a collective and posited destiny
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+are not just excluded from the event, but from society which comes in
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+the form first of polite society. Given that this imposes a weight of
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+moral implication predicated on rhetoric constructed through terms of
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+life and genocide, the point is made that those contrary to the goals of
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+“justice” and “fairness” have not evolved with humanity, and are thus
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+somehow something altogether less human, sub human, or not human.</p>
|
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+<p>But what is Queer? And are those incongruent to a queer worldview not
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+evolving with humanity?</p>
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+<h4 id="defining-queer">Defining Queer</h4>
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+<p>Now that you are beginning to get annoyed, it’s a good time to
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+provide the technical definition for queer, which is the meaning of
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+queer as used by queer scholars and queer activists.</p>
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+<p>Queer is opposition to being as a means of transforming being. Some
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+might call it a political position or standpoint and I suppose we should
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+be clear that we are defining it insofar as it can be associated with a
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+person identifying as queer or practicing queer. One might have become
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+accustomed to thinking that someone is “a” queer, but we must then first
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+consolidate the most important definition in queer literature which
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+claims that Queer is completely void of its own content, has no essence,
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+and exists only as the process of opposing anything legitimate and
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+normal.</p>
|
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“Queer does not name some natural kind, or refer to some determinate
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+object. It acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the
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+norm. Queer is, by definition, whatever is at odds with the normal, the
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+legitimate and the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it
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+necessarily refers - it is an identity without an essence.” - David
|
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|
+Halperin (St. Foucault)</p>
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“Queer, then, demarcates not a positivity but a positionality
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+vis-a-vis the normative. A positionality that is not restricted to
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+Lesbians and Gay men but is, in fact, available to anyone who is or
|
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|
+feels marginalized because of his or her sexual practices”. - David
|
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|
+Halperin (St. Foucault)</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>I want to argue that while many see Queer as being specifically
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+political, I would contend that it’s political in the sense of political
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|
+society as the vehicle of history which illuminates the structure,
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+understanding and meaning of a human being, as would be described by
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|
+Eric Voegelin. It’s just that, with Queer theory, it’s especially
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+advanced in its focus on the body.</p>
|
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|
+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“The existence of man in political society is historical existence;
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+and a theory of politics, if it penetrates to principles, must at the
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|
+same time be a theory of history.” - Eric Voegelin (The New Science of
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|
+Politics)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>The desire to implement the capacity to reject and destroy anything
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+on the basis that it be considered a normal part of reality is, at
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+heart, the desire to replace reality itself be it by occlusion,
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+distortion or complete supplantation. What may begin as a mere reaction
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+to limit inquiry, obfuscate or misrepresent to prevent an unwelcome
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+revelation of the reality which clearly corresponds between the subject
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+and their other can inspire angst and resentment in the subject who
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+still suspects the threat of revelation. This angst and resentment
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+enables the subject to accept the dissolution of reality into
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+nothingness as a protest against the order of being itself.</p>
|
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+<p>Once on the path of dissolving the normal, a moral impetus has been
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+provided to dissolve any inconvenient distinction that might prevent the
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+mind from maintaining its beliefs and desires. At such a point, the only
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+positive endpoint which would satisfy would be a state of liberation
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+wherein no distinction can be discerned. This would exist as one of the
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|
+following permutations: - undifferentiated many - absolutely
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+differentiated many - one, oneness, pure essence, pure Being,
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+undifferentiated one, the Monad</p>
|
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|
+<h5 id="deconstructing-munoz">Deconstructing Munoz</h5>
|
|
|
+<p>For more insight into the concept of queer as has been developed
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|
+among its practitioners, let’s take a look at some prose by a queer and
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|
|
+critical theorist to get a feel of the language and investigate the
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|
|
+implied meaning, particularly per a Marxist Gnostic lense:</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another
|
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|
+way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel
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|
+it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We
|
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|
+have never been Queer, yet Queerness exists as an ideality that can be
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|
+distilled from the past and is used to imagine a future. The future is
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|
+Queerness’ domain. Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of
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|
+desiring that allows us to see and feel beyond the quagmire of the
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|
+present. The here and now is a prison house.” - Esteban Munoz (Cruising
|
|
|
+Utopia)</p>
|
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<ul>
|
|
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+<li>“Queerness is not yet here”: historicism.</li>
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+<li>“Queerness is an ideality”: bestowed as Idealism.</li>
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+<li>“We are not yet queer”: ontological determination for humanity.</li>
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+<li>“We may never touch queerness”: The work is never done.</li>
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+<li>“but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued
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|
+with potentiality”: something to feel because this idealist religion is
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|
+axiologically mediated through pathos, which brings enlightenment to
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|
|
+those who follow it/</li>
|
|
|
+<li>“We have never been Queer, …, can be distilled from the past, …,
|
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|
+used to imagine a future”: Speculative idealism in alignment with a
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|
|
+Hegelian metaphysic, and used to create the future returned to a
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|
+perfected ideal.</li>
|
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+<li>“The future is Queerness’ domain”: The future is ours.</li>
|
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|
+<li>“Queerness is a structuring and educated mode of desiring, …, allows
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|
+us to see, …, beyond the present”: our desires direct us to our
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+destiny.</li>
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+<li>“The here and now is a prison house”: gnosticism.</li>
|
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|
+</ul>
|
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+<h4 id="desire">Desire</h4>
|
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|
+<h5 id="evergreen-hegelianism">Evergreen Hegelianism</h5>
|
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|
+<p>This desire for an unspecifiable endpoint where no oppression occurs
|
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|
+(at least insofar as sex, sexuality, the body, its expectations are
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|
+concerned) is not altogether too different from what is desired in each
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|
+post-Hegelian incarnations. For example, Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive
|
|
|
+Nationalism was founded on his views as a Hegelian and indicate the same
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|
+objectives for the process of history, such as social justice and
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|
+collective well-being. John Dewey, Du Bois, Richard Rorty and probably
|
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|
+any other person considered Hegelian from the Gilded age and beyond will
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|
+undoubtedly indicate a desire for a liberation endpoint that can be
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|
+described as social justice. The only difference might be that some of
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+them might refer to the affair in more pragmatist terms, hence why so
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|
+many of them are referred as having championed Practical Idealism or
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|
+Neo-Pragmatism.</p>
|
|
|
+<h5 id="broad-adoption">Broad Adoption</h5>
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|
+<p>Broad adoption in his way of thinking, as evidenced first by all
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|
+those who not only refer to him, and not also speak in a manner which
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|
+suggests the same way of thinking, but because it is the logical
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|
+conclusion of a collectivist interpretation of reality.</p>
|
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+<p>Though these connections could be more exhaustively explicated, much
|
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|
+work has already been performed by others in such a vein thus I will
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+limit my effort to bring the point into context.</p>
|
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|
+<p>!TODO: Add more references from the Hegelian study we did (see Hegel
|
|
|
+OS Notes)</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between”is” and
|
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|
+“ought” first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure
|
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|
+of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being—its
|
|
|
+theory—intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light
|
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|
+of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts
|
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|
+themselves appear false and negative.” - Herbert Marcuse (One
|
|
|
+Dimensional Man)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>It’s rather obvious that Marcuse is a proponent of dialectical
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|
+thinking, and that he indicates that what is revealed en route to a
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+concrete practice are truths as facts that appear negative. This is a
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|
+perfect example of Hegel’s dialectic of synthesizing concrete from
|
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|
+abstract and negative.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“The laws of thought are laws of reality, or rather become the laws
|
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|
+of reality if thought understands the truth of immediate experience as
|
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|
+the appearance of another truth, which is that of the true Forms of
|
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|
+reality—of the Ideas. Thus there is contradiction rather than
|
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|
+correspondence between dialectical thought and the given reality; the
|
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|
+true judgment judges this reality not in its own terms, but in terms
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|
+which envisage its subversion. And in this subversion, reality comes
|
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|
+into its own truth.” - Herbert Marcuse (One Dimensional Man)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>Here we see that Marcuse’s metaphysical interpretation is one of
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|
+Idealism in which reality itself must be subverted in order for it to be
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+judged and that this must be the case because of the moment in an
|
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|
+incomplete historical process.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of
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|
+thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and
|
|
|
+installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates
|
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|
+under the sign of disaster triumphant.” - Max Horkheimer and Theodor
|
|
|
+Adorno (The Dialectic of Enlightenment)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Analogous to Hegel’s criticism of empirical understanding versus
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|
|
+reason as through the method of dialectic, Horkheimer and Adorno,
|
|
|
+seminal champions of Critical Theory, claim the aspects of enlightenment
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|
|
+thought to liberate humanity have resulted in disaster.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“Black feminism remains important because U.S. Black women constitute
|
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|
+an oppressed group. As a collectivity, U.S. Black women participate in a
|
|
|
+dialectical relationship linking African-American women’s oppression and
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|
|
+activism. Dialectical relationships of this sort mean that two parties
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|
+are opposed and opposite. As long as Black women’s subordination within
|
|
|
+intersecting oppressions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation
|
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|
+persists, Black feminism as an activist response to that oppression will
|
|
|
+remain needed. … If intersecting oppressions did not exist, Black
|
|
|
+Feminist thought and similar oppositional knowledges would not be
|
|
|
+necessary.” - Patricia Hill Collins (Black Feminist Thought)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Just as Marx built his ideas atop Hegel’s dialectic, Collins employs
|
|
|
+it in a more explicitly Marxist modality emphasizing class conflict.
|
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|
+Here, the fact of the lived experience of black women is itself the
|
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|
+evidence of intersecting oppression, the tension of which drives the
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|
|
+liberation of all oppressed groups.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“Revolutionists seek to change reality, to make it better. Therefore,
|
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|
+revolutionists not only need the revolutionary philosophy of dialectics.
|
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|
+They need a revolutionary ideology, i.e. a body of ideas based on
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|
+analyzing the main contradictions of the particular society which they
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|
+are trying to change, projecting a vision of a higher form of reality in
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|
+which this contradiction would be resolved, and relating this resolution
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|
+to a social force or forces responsible for and capable of achieving it.
|
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|
+It is only after you have arrived at the correct ideology that it makes
|
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|
+sense to develop your revolutionary politics” - Bell Hooks (Feminist
|
|
|
+Theory: From Margin to Center)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>Changing reality through revolutionary ideology employing dialectics
|
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|
+to reach a higher form upon resolving contradiction. It’s perfectly
|
|
|
+Hegelian, and highlights his featured framing of sublation as the
|
|
|
+operation of dialectical synthesis.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“CRT in relation to colorblind ideology is a reflection of the
|
|
|
+cross-institutional traveling of resistance, the conditions of
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|
|
+possibility that seed insurgent knowledge, and the continuity of these
|
|
|
+dialectics in the contemporary era.” - Kimberlé Crenshaw (Seeing Race
|
|
|
+Again)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Crenshaw and CRT practitioners in general aren’t trying to understand
|
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|
+knowledge as being bound to race in a manner that can be verified using
|
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|
+the normal toolset of rigour to vet facts, verify logical consistency,
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|
+and examine rhetoric for its validity and truthfulness. Instead, the
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|
+tension of experience is itself the knowledge, and that forms differ at
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|
+this moment in history by virtue of the fact that humans which can be
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|
+materially differentiated experience discomfort contingent on their
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|
+perception of themselves in a social system with other humans is itself
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|
+the evidence of oppression in a race system of idealism. The ontology of
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|
+the races is to drive the course of history through the corresponding
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|
+tension of their relations. That there is tension at all means the forms
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+and knowledge are different and that the process synchronously become
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|
+complete with the elimination of tension. The races are seen as a social
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|
+construct belonging to the ideology of Whiteness, but the experience of
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+it is proven by the very fact of race having been enumerated, in spite
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+of it having no legitimate substance of its own.</p>
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+<h2 id="totalitarian-ideology">Totalitarian Ideology</h2>
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+<p>Marx’s conception of Man as a Species Being, and the ontological
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+claims about man’s needs and purpose in life necessitate totalitarian
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+classification. This is not because people agree on semantics or a
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+belief that some formal declaration tantamount to totalitarianism would
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+alleviate the tense nerves of doomsaying collectivists, but because if
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+it were true that a human nature could not be expressed except through a
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+state of perception void of judgment and oppression then there is no
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+feasible option to proceed towards other than control over human
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+reality. Interestingly enough, you’ll find plenty of people on both
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+sides of a partisan narrative who will readily state either that they
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+believe such control already exists or is being developed by virtue of a
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+constellation of phenomena that surround us in our everyday lives.</p>
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+<p>We must delve toward this totalitarian permutation because the
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+conditions of human life would have to suffice to not drive humans to
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+oppress one another, and we would need some way of understanding that
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+our subjective perception of ourselves and each other was resolved.
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+Insofar as it remains subjective perception, it would need to reach a
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+level free of contradiction and be made convincing that the experience
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+of human life is not interspersed with the appearance of friction.</p>
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+<h3 id="appearance">Appearance</h3>
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+<p>It’s important to talk about appearance, as much many have a distaste
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+for the superficial. We function through our cognition of our phenomena
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+rather than the phenomena themselves and so it gets rather ambiguous,
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+beginning from childhood, to intuit whether we are cognizing the thing
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+itself, its appearance, or some meta-representation of it. It’s
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+ambiguous in the sense of behaving as though things bear the same
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+appearance to others, and then to speculate on it. We spend a great deal
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+of time engaged in the battle of convincing or being convinced about
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+something on the basis of its appearance, as it would be a long and drab
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+existence to continuously require substantive proof of everything before
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+assuming it real and concrete. That is to say, we are necessarily
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+well-practiced in informal world-making based on the appearance, and
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+this sets us up for delusion which everyone from time to time will
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+permit, if even only as children (though perhaps it’s arrogant to assume
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+one is immune to such folly). If we can allow the correct appearance to
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+unfold for others, and we are able to record their having borne witness
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+to it, then this serves as the fundamental structure of reality for
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+human experience, regardless of whether it is in fact the most
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+legitimate description of reality.</p>
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+<h4 id="appearance-of-absence">Appearance of Absence</h4>
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+<p>It’s important to underscore the way in which collectivists measure
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+purity, or failed adherence to the collective, which is through a
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+particular absence in the appearance. To incriminate in absence of
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+evidence you must provide the appearance of there being an absence of
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+something else, such as a legitimate detail, for the absence becomes
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+evidence of respect for the sacred. It’s an absence because it is
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+through verifiable distinctions of reality that the capacity to project
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+an alternate reality is destroyed. Ironically, failure to ensure the
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+absence of such distinctions it is equivalent to projecting the
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+appearance that one is absent a soul. This leaves the judge no choice
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+but to make the moral and intelligent deduction that the subject in
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+question is not truly human. When this is coupled with a historical
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+dimension, it is presented on the basis that the soul is connected to
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+knowledge, insight or perception which indicates progress in the
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+traversal of the historical dimension.</p>
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+<p>This comes in the form of what many refer to as virtue signaling, but
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+what many fail to comprehend is that it isn’t necessarily that one is
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+finding an opportunity to demonstrate a good quality about themselves,
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+even if that might be the interpretation by a recipient, but is the
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+signaling of group membership or ideological alignment. Discussions of
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+the pitfalls of believing oneself to be good, moral, and virtuous aside,
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+the potentially harmful consequences of this include that one will use,
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+as signal of membership, absurd and self-harming practices and
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+modalities of living.</p>
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+<p>With a collectivist worldview, it isn’t necessarily the case that the
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+qualities choose the group, but that the group confers the qualities,
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+and that membership is itself virtuous. This is because the group
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+legitimizes the desired reality and, concomitant with that, it is the
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+case that things cannot be legitimately judged in the interim, providing
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+denial of the abhorrent characteristics and practices one might permit
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+in their partiality for the group which, in actuality, is the cognized
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+object upon which they’re fixated. The cognized object is a reference to
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+the concept of a group, which is completely abstract though
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+experientially validated. The maintenance of the cognized object is the
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+maintenance of a historical endpoint and it is the perception that one
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+is in a trajectory in relation to such an endpoint that one is able to
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+maintain thought, belief or intuition without any empirical means of
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+verifying whether it corresponds to reality. The trajectory is reality
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+and is phenomenologically evident.</p>
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+<p>Allow me to restate that the signal is a political signal in the
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+sense of being engaged in the trajectory of alternate reality intuited
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+as the possibility to transcend. This takes the form of an ascription to
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+group membership in political society, but that is an aesthetic
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+component of human experience.</p>
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+<p>Again, as far as the subject perceiving the signals of others in the
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+context of group membership, its absence is itself the appearance of
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+absence of one’s soul or humanity. This is the case because their very
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+existence is interpreted as imposing friction against one’s traversal to
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+the endpoint; their comportment is the denial of the endpoint and thus
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+the denial of one’s soul or legitimacy in a reality.</p>
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+<h4 id="where-this-goes-in-society">Where This Goes in Society</h4>
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+<p>An appearance of the absence of something is a requirement whose
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+means of satisfaction becomes ever more sophisticated, particularly if
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+it becomes a determination to be made through formal administration.
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+What might have been satisfied with a temporal period without
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+observation of an event of interest should evolve to proactive measures
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+such as well-designed testing evaluated using a representation of
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+perception. Such a model begins as the most basic test itself and later
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+should involve biometric data, such as heart rate, and ever-more outputs
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+from the organism, the brain and organs, and neurochemical analysis.
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+Whatever is possible with the present level of technology.</p>
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+<p>With data collection and intelligently providing inputs, such as
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+whatever one is faced with on a screen, and made to include analysis of
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+one’s response to them, a refinement in predictive capability can be
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+sought through a building assurance that it would lead to the correct
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+conditions for a better world. What began as a control of conditions to
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+reify the alternate reality of the deluded human eventually scales to a
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+technological faculty in a political society.</p>
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+<h4 id="ideological-appearance">Ideological Appearance</h4>
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+<p>People are motivated to attack something they already disapprove of
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+and this makes it easy to lead them into acknowledging proposals which
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+make concepts vague and ambiguous. A chief tactic undertaken to maintain
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+delusion is to present things as like that are actually dissimilar or
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+even fundamentally different.</p>
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+<p>This could be, for example, a subject presenting that some political
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+statement which expresses something truthful, especially when understood
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+in neutral terms, as being a statement which denies reality. This can be
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+through supposing that its purpose is to counteract a subject’s
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+political interest. In such a case, the statements upon which the latter
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+interest are predicated needn’t be expressed, yet a particular framing
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+can cause an onlooker to consider that it is, in fact, not a statement
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+of fact in neutral terms, but a denial of reality.</p>
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+<p>One example of this is the statement “There are two sexes”. In
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+contrast to this, political activists informed by Queer Theory claim
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+that their worldview is supported by science, including biologists, and
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+will put forth a contrary statement: “There is gender spectrum”. Though
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+a dialectical attack wherein gender, a social construction, is made
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+interchangeable with sex, a biological aspect of human life, and though
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+the activists will claim these to be different in circumstances wherein
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+they are attempting to effect the adoption of gender, they will also
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+equivocate sex with gender when it becomes useful to do so. They will
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+reference further statements by biologists to enumerate anomalies of
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+sexual development, or intersex conditions and disorders of sexual
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+development, but with the aim of presenting a critique of discourse the
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+claims people who have particular experiences will have worldviews and
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+personalities that are informed by those experiences and that, as such,
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+since certain people have the same condition, it’s plausible they might
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+have some views or experiences that are sufficiently similar. These are,
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+of course, mutually exclusive concepts, but the description of
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+subjective experience, though completely plausible in the sense that
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+particular experiences should be expected from similar circumstances, is
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+now used to blur the understanding of human beings as having a sex by
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+virtue of reproductive strategies, and the corresponding biological
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+development that goes along with that, with social construction by
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+implying that knowledge is bound to subjective experience. That there
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+are biological details to be discerned is now implicitly negating an
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+understanding of sex as a biological reality and replacing it with a
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+spectrum of possible permutations which, in reality, don’t actually ever
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+replace someone’s sex, yet the consequence is that the former statement
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+“There are two sexes” will be presented as a denial of the fact of there
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+being people with disorders of sexual development. The kicker, however,
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+is that it’s only to reify the notion of gender identity as the mythos
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+and driver of historical progress through knowledge currently understood
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+through identity.</p>
|
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+<p>We can get into the weeds on that one if we’re so inclined, but the
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+fact of the matter is that sexual reproduction doesn’t have to lay any
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+claim as to the personalities, experiences or worldviews of any one
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+person, and recognizing the fact of human beings propagating the species
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+through sexual reproduction doesn’t have to indicate anything about
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+whether intersex people exist.</p>
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|
+<h4 id="appearance-dialectic-and-political-systems">Appearance,
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|
+Dialectic and Political Systems</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>Having a proclivity toward dialectical thinking and framing human
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|
+life to indicate a collectivist moral code is relevant not just in
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|
|
+understanding regimes that instantiate Communist or Socialist modes of
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+thought, but also the manner in which their advocates tend to represent
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+such systems and regimes to the broader public in a popular context.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Fleshing out these aspects in greater detail will help us understand
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|
+the principles of collectivism, its necessary manifestation as cult
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|
+ideology, and how these relate to our understanding of Socialism and
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+Communism as we aim to better define terms.</p>
|
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+<p>There is a certain projection in that the socialist will aim to
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+present all developments which can be labeled as “standard”, “status
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+quo”, “normative”, and so forth as being paragons of the worst
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|
+ideological leanings, and this is no surprise to those who are already
|
|
|
+familiar with the expression “Iron Law of Woke Projection”. Socialism
|
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|
+will always be championed and pushed forward as a fundamental principle
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+of social relations through an aesthetic and control of vernacular which
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+declares it as liberal, civil, scientific, intelligent, democratic and
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+so on. The projection is its mission to make the entirety of the social
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+environment an instance of its ideology.</p>
|
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|
+<p>Frivolous equivocation is continuously engrossed in by socialists
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+whereby regimes and society will be professed to be or not be Communist
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+depending on the discourse at hand. The reason will be two fold: - To
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+separate the current undertaking from any historical precedent which
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+could otherwise serve to dissuade acceptance. - To promote or induce
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|
+radicalization of prospective revolutionaries when there is a sense for
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+having them potentially take up the collectivist cause in a more radical
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+form.</p>
|
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+<p>For these reasons, a current effort for revolution can be separated
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+from previous attempts by claiming it is nothing out of the ordinary,
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+and simply the embodiment of good sense-making and fairness while, at
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+the same time, its advocates will be happy to help any initiate to
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+socialist revolution come into believing that anything they have done,
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+or are likely to do, is an effort which in its highest and most
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+intelligent form is precisely the development of socialism which makes
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|
+everyone’s life better.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>This noisy and expressly dishonest political interplay, with feet
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+firmly entrenched in a mystical metaphysic, makes the environment yet
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+noisier and prone to agitation when it comes to the problem of
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+construing communism as a political system for which governments of a
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+corresponding type have been formed. There is good reason to do this,
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+such as that these are the precise systems which have come to be created
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+atop the ideas in question, and we need practical and concrete examples
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+in order to connect people to a deeper understanding of what these
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+things are.</p>
|
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+<p>The problem that we arrive at, in more detail, is that the concept
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+being instantiated is so far outside of reality and so antithetical to
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+what we understand about biology and human consciousness that those who
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+champion it could never satisfy the model without wading into
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+destructive behaviour and, if needs be, the destruction of the world and
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+humanity. We shouldn’t underestimate the potential for such catastrophe,
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+not simply because of historical precedents, but because of the
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+necessary progression of technology both in the obvious sense of greater
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+capacity and, more insidiously, as the degree to which we become
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+increasingly convinced that we will be able to complete the infinite
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+series, so to speak.</p>
|
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|
+<p>The completion of an infinite series is the perfect way to describe
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+the extraordinary and fantastic undertaking, particularly in this case
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+of it being tantamount to a moral realization and a completion of
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+something which can only be understood as some sort of perfection or
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+redemption. It is, in effect, requiring an acuity of understanding at
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+such a level that every detail can be fully understood and consolidated.
|
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+This reminded me almost right away of the distinction pointed out when I
|
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+was reading Turing and his describing of the limitations of a machine
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+that would compute numbers as there are certain numbers which are
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+incomputable due to the fact of there always being an infinite series of
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+numbers not only extending positively or negatively in whatever
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+direction toward infinity, but also in the sense that we have an
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|
+unlimited series situated between any two known numbers.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>James Lindsay does a wonderful job of describing this problem using
|
|
|
+the Pygmalion myth <a
|
|
|
+href="https://newdiscourses.com/2023/05/onlysubs-woke-marxism-and-pygmalions-wish/">available
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|
+to his paid subscribers</a>.</p>
|
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|
+<p>The concept of a complete and totalizing system is something wherein
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+all actions and occurrences are in concert and are coming into being in
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+a manner which drives the perfectly concordant, harmonious and uniform
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+expression of the system with such perfection that one might wish to
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+posit it as a divine expression. Another way to think about it, at least
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+using a more physical description, would be as a state with no
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+compression, no entropy and no loss of potential. It is a perfect
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+permutation of a reality which comes into being through harmonious union
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+between the theoretical model of perfected existence and the practical
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+concretized activity of all things. This perfect permutation is the
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+state of being having been configured into its perfect form.</p>
|
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+<h3 id="communication">Communication</h3>
|
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|
+<p>But to communicate these ideas intelligibly such as to remove all
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+doubt and disagreement, they must be considered as per their most
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+perfect representation, thus they must be considered as per their
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+theoretical formulation as put forward by their father: he whom has
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+given them form.</p>
|
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+<p>And by calling Marx the father, that isn’t to say that he should be
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+construed as the originator of this manner of thinking, as I think that
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+is more of a fundamental split in terms of how humans intuit reality,
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+but he did formalize many aspects and give a robust theoretical basis
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+from which he’s been able to reach so many using a vernacular that is
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+well-recognized and remains in use today. For the purpose of
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+understanding these ideas in motion today, it remains suitable to
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+consider him as their father given the specific concept of property
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+which I maintain is crucial to focus on not only it pertains to economy
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+or community, but to personhood itself.</p>
|
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|
+<p>Let us examine the following of Marx’s quotes:</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“…is the positive transcendence of human self-estrangement by private
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+property.”</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>Does that simply mean fairness to everyone? Wouldn’t we have
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+transcended self-estrangement of ourselves at the same time?</p>
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+<p>No.</p>
|
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+<p>Where does Marx think our self-estrangement comes from? It is our
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+inability to make manifest in reality the things that one thinks or
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+conceives at in real time (such as to say, at one’s whim).</p>
|
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+<p>How petulant and self-absorbed to consider not only that oneself is
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+estranged, but that the unburdening of one’s sense of estrangement must
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+simultaneously take place as the unburdening of estrangement of all
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+human existence. It’s quite a bold indication of the narcissism of these
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+just, heroic agents of discontent who are a gift to the universe as the
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+essence of liberation for all mankind.</p>
|
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+<p>Estrangement is in some respects something potentially discovered in
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+all aspects of human existence for reasons which, if we are to examine
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+whether it is somehow connected to property, emerge from personhood
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+itself. That one could be estranged at all is a consequence of being in
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+an environment with other conscious beings while also being aware of the
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+separation of one’s body from others. The very fact of being separate is
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+already a form of estrangement from, at the basic level, and something
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+because of which some would desire as a unity or meaning to be derived
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+through reciprocity.</p>
|
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+<p>The difference is Marx posits that the fact of there being labour, as
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+a consequence of private property, is the cause of human estrangement as
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+per his ontology of man. In a sense we could say there is a wider set of
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+permutations of estrangement that could be incurred by a human, but in
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+his representation of society and mankind, and nature itself, if this
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+one cause of estrangement were to be alleviated, all human conflict
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+would cease to exist, at least insofar as conflict is significant enough
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+to warrant a differentiation of class predicated on the belief of the
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+inability of a human being to create the object of reality in tandem
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+with his capacity to speculate and conceive of an object as subject to
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|
+the world as an expression of his true nature.</p>
|
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|
+<h4 id="the-case-for-solving-oppression">The Case For Solving
|
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|
+Oppression</h4>
|
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|
+<p>If we are able to successfully and authentically work together to
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+accomplish something because we understand we rely on one another to
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+make a better world then we are doing so while conceiving of a
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+qualitatively better world. In human terms it means less human
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+suffering. We all suffer and should understand that reducing suffering
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+in the world impacts us positively.</p>
|
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+<p>So, why would it actually seem like a better idea to improve things
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+for ourselves most directly in the most immediate if we aren’t also able
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+to understand how to end all of our own suffering. It would make sense
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+that there will be some problems which we can solve and others we
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+cannot, and that in order to solve the most difficult problems we
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+eventually have to realize that we need to work with other people.</p>
|
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|
+<p>Wouldn’t we realize that we’d need, for those times when we’d
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+actually have to work on the problem that requires cooperation and we’re
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+ready, willing and enthusiastic about working together in earnest, a
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+methodology and skill for working together, even by defacto which is
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+refined through repeated activity. For that reason, it makes sense to
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+start now in order to be ready for those crucial moments which, if we
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+are serious about wanting to solve problems, are inevitably going to
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+confront us.</p>
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+<p>Indeed, oppression should be reduced and eventually all forms of
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+oppression should be solved or at least the circumstances should be made
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+to be as conducive to the elimination of oppression as possible, but
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+that doesn’t presuppose a social critique for explaining what that
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+oppression is, what it’s caused by and how to solve it. It’s something
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+to be understood and solved at face value, and that means using whatever
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+toolset is available universally and in a manner where we can expect to
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+be able to demonstrate truth to our fellow man in an authentic and
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+forthright-oriented manner.</p>
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+<p>The power of nature comes from understanding that reality can’t be
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+ignored or played with. Reality is as it is and it affects us in
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+absolutely unavoidable terms, and any kind of self-interested frenzy
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+will need to contend with that same nature, regardless of how many
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+resources we’ve set aside for ourselves.</p>
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+<p>Now certainly if we are fueling our desire for the use of a
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+particular methodology using some form of despair and dissatisfaction,
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+then we can search indefinitely for the causes of every dissatisfaction
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+and aim to rectify them until we finally achieve a clean slate from
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+which to become engaged in the human experience.</p>
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+<p>The collectivist will claim that should we hope to one day rid
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+ourselves of some of the most dissatisfying, painful and unpleasant
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+aspects of human existence, then we innately and intuitively imagine
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+them as possibly being solved because we are a part of a humanity which
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+consolidates and refines itself through community. There are a lot of
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+ways to argue this point, and it’s true in a sense, but I don’t think it
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+really means what the collectivist would like for it to mean. We
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+actually solve problems as individuals and whether you want to think
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+that the problems you solved weren’t actually solved by you is up to
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+you, but if no one is actually able to genuinely solve a problem, then
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+no problems get solved whatsoever. The fact that we draw inspiration or
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+information from the acts, voices and perspectives of others should be
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+seen as a great thing, but it should also be thought of as an expansion
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+of us simply taking inspiration from nature or acquiring knowledge
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+through our observation of nature and whatever precedent is available to
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+us at any given time. In such cases, we are inspired by the acts of
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+other individuals which lift up other individuals.</p>
|
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+<p>Alright, I’m humouring such a perspective, but the point here is that
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+to consider it a failure to perfectly structure the integration of a
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+plurality of human beings as being the source of oppression and
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+suffering in the world, not only in terms of who suffers through poverty
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+or physical violence, but even at the level of explaining our
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+disagreements as being the result of a false consciousness extending
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+from the conditions of the environment which, as a cause, supersedes the
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+relevance of one’s technically evaluatable rationale as per what they
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+are able to communicate, can lead to the circumstance of considering
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+that any suffering which one experiences can be blamed on any phenomena
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+one suspects as bearing an effect through relations, resources, or even
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+mediums that are more abstract than that, but which are essentially
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+abstract resources.</p>
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+<p>If every unsolvable problem can be imagined as one whose only chance
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+of being solved is through the collectivist ideal finally being reached,
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+through a lack of conflict and the elimination of all incongruence in
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+our organization of the world, then there is no limit as to what
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+evidence of oppression can exist, and what resentment should fuel the
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+effort.</p>
|
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+<h3 id="queer-communism">Queer Communism</h3>
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+<p>The cult of Queer is very much the continuation of Marxist thought.
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+We must make the conditions such that we do not have a need to enumerate
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+identity. All must simply be man in himself, truly liberated to express
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+and exist without moral implication, judgment and expectation over the
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+fact of us having physical bodies. This is the ultimate manner of being
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+unburdened by what has been; we will be unburdened by the fact of having
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+had to exist with a human body.</p>
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+<p>The sociocultural soul of the body will not be imprisoning you
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+through your interpreted and tainted conception of your body, thus
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+allowing for you to act in accordance with your true nature. At this
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+point, Queer praxis would be complete.</p>
|
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+<p>It is no trivial matter for virtually each of us have faced the
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+callous judgment, if even only the terrifying prospect of it, which
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+cripples your sense of self and makes it seem unfairly dependent on
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+perceptions stemming from entities not embodying, at least in the eyes
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+of the Queer theorist, a legitimate consciousness. One can easily find
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+themselves falling into deep contemplation over the realization that all
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+are subjected to this and, thus, the resulting pronouncements by Queer
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+activism can therefore be suggested as valid. But is it?</p>
|
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+<p>To explore that in more detail, we can reflect on what things we see
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+people get wrong. Where, for example, we consider matters in we have
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+enough insight to evaluate the positions, choices and opinions of others
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+over something for which we have a certain expertise, be it from what
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+happens to have been our rare experience through happenstance, or where
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+we are actually an expert and professional in the formal sense, and we
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+bear witness to exceptionally intelligent, accomplished and reasonably
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+well-intentioned persons who have something to lose make absolutely
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+pathetic and completely dumbfounding decisions. In fact, with enough
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+experience, most come to realize that everyone is sometimes wrong! Thus,
|
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+I would suggest that gaining competence in general is all that one needs
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+to liberate themselves from others’ expectations, and that one clouds
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+one’s outlook and essence of being far more greatly through any sort of
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+desire to not be subjected to judgment.</p>
|
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+<h4 id="judith-butlers-hegelian-reifications">Judith Butler’s Hegelian
|
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|
+Reifications</h4>
|
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“Originally intended to dispute the biology-is-destiny formulation,
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+the distinction between sex and gender serves the argument that whatever
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+biological intractability sex appears to have, gender is culturally
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+constructed … If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps
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+this construct called “sex” is as culturally constructed as gender;
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+indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that
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+the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at
|
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+all.” - Judith Butler (Gender Trouble)</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>Though we will tackle the full quote later in the book, the
|
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|
+unfamiliar might feel unimpressed with Judith for simply asserting the
|
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|
+negation of sex by gender with such glaring contradictions: We created
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|
+gender to describe things beyond the biologically mediated reality of
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|
+sex, and yet the fact of us thinking to do so is the evidence that there
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|
+is no sex after all, just gender. But consider that the position taken
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|
|
+by cult initiates is one of refusing to see the distinction and this is
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|
+a protest against the structure of human reality. The contradiction is
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+to bring it into conflict because the transcendence of biology is
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+insisted upon as a moral good.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“Many of the arguments made in the field of childhood education
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|
+concerning children’s sexualities, though, tend to stabilize queerness
|
|
|
+as identity, instead of preserving something contingent, a “site of
|
|
|
+collective contestation”” - Judith Butler (Critically queer. GLQ: A
|
|
|
+Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>For Queer Communism to be realized, all objects related to the ground
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|
+of reality must be destabilized as this is the means by which history
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|
+progresses. Since crystallized perspectives are what must be overcome,
|
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|
+they can only be prevented through targeting children as “a site of
|
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|
+collective contestation”.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="reifying-the-queer-child">Reifying the Queer Child</h4>
|
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|
+<p>By now everyone has become familiar with the phenomenon of Drag Queer
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|
+Story Hour, whether through seeing it offered through schools and
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|
+libraries, seeing articles about it from their favourite publicly-funded
|
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|
+news publisher, or through their family and friends who, in most cases,
|
|
|
+seem to manically and vocally offer up their children to the project
|
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|
+with glee. And though there will likely always remain contention about
|
|
|
+the purpose and dynamics of such a project, we thankfully don’t need to
|
|
|
+wade through the pop-culture discourse or argue with family members
|
|
|
+about the matter as the Queer activist “scholars” have themselves
|
|
|
+explained in great detail precisely what they are up to and why with
|
|
|
+flagrant yet now unsurprising academic papers such as <a
|
|
|
+href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2020.1864621">Drag
|
|
|
+pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early
|
|
|
+childhood</a> by the queer and trans academic Harper Keenan and academic
|
|
|
+Harris Kornstein aka Lil Miss Hot Mess, who not only works as a drag
|
|
|
+queen, but has been a board member of Drag Story Hour NYC, which has
|
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|
+recently renamed itself to “Drag Artists for Expression NYC”.</p>
|
|
|
+<p><em>But first, let’s think through the very idea of using drag queens
|
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|
+to introduce children to Queer Pedagogy</em>:</p>
|
|
|
+<h5 id="drag-queen-specificity">Drag Queen Specificity</h5>
|
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|
+<p>Who are these men? Do they portray themselves as modest females, in
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|
+order to simply be convincing that they are they opposite sex? No. Not
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|
+at all.</p>
|
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|
+<p>They are to be extravagant in their expression of the female form. A
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|
+female that cannot be resisted. A female that won’t be ignored. A female
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|
+that attracts and tantalizes. A female that causes your blood flow to be
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|
+diverted and your breath to be taken away. This is accomplished through
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+attire, which is generally made to be risque, to the makeup, which
|
|
|
+exaggerates the piercingly feminine and alluring eyes, the flushed and
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|
|
+aroused cheeks and the big, smoochy lipstick-laden lips that are waiting
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|
|
+to be tasted and kissed. It is in the sway of hips and the swinging of
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|
|
+bottoms that a spanking is hinted because they’ve been so so naughty.
|
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|
+The twerking of the hips demand attention and yearn for the rich
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|
|
+pleasures of the senses, which is something the transvestite queen
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|
|
+insists is to be celebrated.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>You might state that your particular drag queen was toned down, but
|
|
|
+toned down from what? Why must your favourite ritualistic ambassador
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|
|
+through which to teach children of the new world be of a type which need
|
|
|
+be toned down? Do you believe all Drag Queen Story Hours will have drag
|
|
|
+queens that are equally toned down and in the same ways?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>It’s quite curious, indeed, that the educators specifically
|
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|
+designated for the enlightenment of children are to be ones with a
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|
+particularly sexual dimension of expression that is, by default,
|
|
|
+reasonably expected in all other performative scenarios, yet denied by
|
|
|
+some when the targeted audience is children. Remember, Drag Queens
|
|
|
+existed before they became storybook companions for kids. Can we say
|
|
|
+with certainty that such is the design? Or is this simply an unexpected
|
|
|
+factor to be mitigated? And, depending on the reason for this
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|
|
+predicament, would that be considered a shortsight or a foresight?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>If such a sexual dimension of expression were suppressed, would that
|
|
|
+not be considered contrary to the purpose of exposing children to an
|
|
|
+environment of performers who demonstrate the absence of limits and
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|
|
+constraints? Or, if this is a reasonable detail to attenuate, should it
|
|
|
+not be expected that such attenuation would take place to varying
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|
|
+degrees - a spectrum, in fact.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>What is the preference of the Drag Queen Story Hour advocate? What
|
|
|
+accountability do they recommend for circumstances where appropriate
|
|
|
+attenuation is not achieved, or are they rather thankful in a belief
|
|
|
+that your child has been made even wiser than you are? Because it would
|
|
|
+be possible to choose any other form of performer or exemplar of a
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|
+vocation, such as a handicapped athletic champion, daredevil or
|
|
|
+astronaut.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>But those who attain more traditional achievements simply won’t do,
|
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|
+thus we need to understand why someone would insist upon this particular
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|
+specialization, and it is simple: these performers, whether or not it is
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|
+being presented purposefully and explicitly, hold continuous reference
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|
+to sexual expression.</p>
|
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|
+<p>No, I don’t mean the fact that they are human beings and humans are a
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|
+sexually reproducing species with biological and social expression of
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|
+sexuality, I mean that these performers specialize in expressing
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|
+sexuality through their craft). Not only is this known by all adults
|
|
|
+with any awareness of Drag Queen performance, but these same adults are
|
|
|
+aware of the ever-present potential for expressions to take place along
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|
|
+the sexual dimension before these children.</p>
|
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|
+<p>What is the purpose? It is not the stories being read, nor
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|
|
+self-esteem, nor the presentation of identity categories in order to
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|
|
+ensure the child will not fear or hate such identities. How do we know?
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|
+Drag isn’t to present homosexuality (regardless of whether it may be
|
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|
+present in the performance). You don’t identify homosexuals by their
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|
|
+being in drag. In fact, drag performers have often been heterosexuals
|
|
|
+who simply developed this particular talent and skillset.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The drag performer harbours potential for over-the-top sexual
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|
+expression. And with that fertile capacity for sexual expression
|
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|
+situated right beneath the surface (and sometimes bursting out for all
|
|
|
+to see). The DQSH advocates can wink and giggle to one another (or to
|
|
|
+naive parents) about the thin layer of repressed sexual expression which
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|
|
+erupt for the children at any moment.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Enjoy the contradiction of both wanting a performer who demonstrates
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|
|
+“no limits or constraints” to the benefit of children, while also
|
|
|
+asserting that this performer will limit and constrain their sexual
|
|
|
+expression.</p>
|
|
|
+<h5 id="drag-pedagogy">Drag Pedagogy</h5>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“Drag Queen Story Hour provides a generative extension of queer
|
|
|
+pedagogy into the world of early childhood education…offer early
|
|
|
+childhood educators a way into a sense of queer imagination: play as
|
|
|
+praxis, aesthetic transformation, strategic defiance, destigmatization
|
|
|
+of shame, and embodied kinship. Ultimately, the authors propose that
|
|
|
+“drag pedagogy” provides a performative approach to queer pedagogy that
|
|
|
+is not simply about LGBT lives, but living queerly.” - LMHM Lil Miss Hot
|
|
|
+Mess (Drag Pedagogy)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>The purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour is to embed a generative praxis
|
|
|
+in early childhood education which grooms children into embodied kinship
|
|
|
+with queer family.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“drag artists have channelled their penchant for playfully “‘reading’
|
|
|
+each other to filth” into different forms of literacy…as well as
|
|
|
+positioning queer and trans cultural forms as valuable components of
|
|
|
+early childhood education…what might Drag Queen Story Hour offer
|
|
|
+educators as a way of bringing queer ways of knowing and being into the
|
|
|
+education of young children?” - LMHM (Drag Pedagogy)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Note the reference to “different forms of literacy”, which is from
|
|
|
+the Freirean model (to be touched on later in this book) which assumes
|
|
|
+that literacy is a form of privilege used to reproduce structural
|
|
|
+oppression. The goal is for people to become literate in their
|
|
|
+liberation and for the Queer theorist, simply means making queer
|
|
|
+activists.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“DQSH creates spaces for young children and families to immerse
|
|
|
+themselves in LGBT-themed stories, and does so in ways that seem to
|
|
|
+genuinely reflect queer ways of being and relating – rather than as a
|
|
|
+neatly marketed product. We believe that this makes DQSH worthy of
|
|
|
+closer study. We argue that the programme creates a pathway into the
|
|
|
+imaginative, messy, and rule-breaking aspects of drag for children
|
|
|
+without necessarily watering down queer cultures.” - LMHM (Drag
|
|
|
+Pedagogy)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>It positions itself as being concerned with “broad acceptance” only
|
|
|
+to seem viable for young children, but it ultimately doesn’t want to be
|
|
|
+“watering down queer cultures”.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“organizers invite kids to create their own drag name or study
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|
|
+feminist icons using DQSH’s self-published Dragtivity Book. A few cities
|
|
|
+have expanded programming to include bilingual readings, events geared
|
|
|
+specifically towards neurodivergent children and others with
|
|
|
+disabilities, or programmes for teenagers that feature makeup and
|
|
|
+performance workshops.” - LMHM (Drag Pedagogy)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Here they tell you that they target autistic kids and ask kids to
|
|
|
+create their drag name so they can begin imagining and acting out queer
|
|
|
+identities to perform or transition to.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“he teacher is a drag queen. She breaks the limiting stereotype of a
|
|
|
+teacher: she is loud, extravagant, and playful. She encourages children
|
|
|
+to think for themselves and even to break the rules. She is the
|
|
|
+exponential product of Ms. Frizzle and Bob the Drag Queen. She is a
|
|
|
+queer teacher. To the unimaginative adult (which – sigh – describes most
|
|
|
+of us), it might seem that the world of drag and the world of children
|
|
|
+are impossibly distant from one another. Yet, their meeting has left
|
|
|
+many audiences wondering why they hadn’t considered it before. DQSH
|
|
|
+co-founder Juli Delgado Lopera notes this overlooked affinity in an
|
|
|
+interview: “I think generally queers are not mixed with kids—especially
|
|
|
+drag queens … It’s a kid’s world to be very imaginative” (Graff, 2016).
|
|
|
+Co-founder Michelle Tea also comments, “they’re both very funny and see
|
|
|
+the humor in the world … [and] for drag queens the idea is about pushing
|
|
|
+limits and pushing boundaries” (Rudi, 2018). Such generalizations may
|
|
|
+not always apply, but these comments lead us to ask: What if we took
|
|
|
+play, defiance, and imagination seriously as forms of knowledge
|
|
|
+production? If we celebrated the convergence of children and drag
|
|
|
+queens, what kinds of potentialities might their collaboration hold?” -
|
|
|
+LMHM (DP)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Most adults are boring, unlike the creative and playful child and
|
|
|
+drag performer who can connect in ways that boring and unimaginative
|
|
|
+adults cannot. And the drag performer is just doing what normal teachers
|
|
|
+already do, except now we can expand our horizons by celebrating the
|
|
|
+convergence of children with queer activism founded through exploitation
|
|
|
+of hyper-sexualized stereotyping which intentionally pushes limits and
|
|
|
+boundaries.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“Combined with our experiential knowledge of working with children
|
|
|
+and living in queer/trans communities where drag is often a celebrated
|
|
|
+tradition, we incorporate theories drawn from the academic fields of
|
|
|
+education, performance, and queer and trans studies to consider how drag
|
|
|
+queens and children might work together, however fleetingly, to promote
|
|
|
+a spirit of creative inquiry and world making…for teaching and learning
|
|
|
+that extends beyond traditional approaches to LGBT curricular
|
|
|
+inclusion…to…envision new modes of being together…[and invite] children
|
|
|
+into building communities that are more hospitable to queer knowledge
|
|
|
+and experience” - LMHM (DP)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>It’s a project to initiate children into doing the work as
|
|
|
+collectivist praxis for queer world making. Note how “LGBT” curriculum,
|
|
|
+including the teaching of transgender inclusion, is referred to as
|
|
|
+something traditional, and the quote then suggests that there are
|
|
|
+as-of-yet undiscovered modes of being together by inviting children into
|
|
|
+queer communities.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“it is not amateur night. So, bring your notes and put on those
|
|
|
+glasses, everybody, because this requires reading on multiple levels.
|
|
|
+…We focus on five interrelated themes: play as praxis, aesthetic
|
|
|
+transformation, strategic defiance, camp and its relationship to stigma,
|
|
|
+and embodied kinship. Ultimately,we suggest that drag pedagogy offers
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+one model for learning not simply about queer lives, but how to live
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+queerly.” - LMHM (DP)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>These are professionals with an expertise in using coded language
|
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+requiring “reading on multiple levels”. Any good Marxist with a
|
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+postmodern flavour knows that language is power, and if you’re concerned
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+with getting rid of structural oppression then it is your MORAL DUTY to
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+manipulate by employing a double meaning to language wherever possible,
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+particularly to encode Queer praxis into otherwise normal language as a
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+means to liberate the body of the child through adopting fluid sexual
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+identities. This isn’t inclusive education to teach about the
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+“existence” of “queer lives”, but to initiate the child into a new way
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+of living their own life. Note that they even employ the term “praxis”
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+themselves.</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“Queer theory can be used to examine how often-impossible standards
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+of normalcy are formed, not only through institutional categorizations
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+of gender and sexuality, but also through social expectations produced
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+through the racialized structures of capitalism that are inextricably
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+intertwined with that hierarchy.” - LMHM (DP)</p>
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>Indeed, it most certainly is Queer theory, and Queer theory most
|
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+certainly is an evolution of Marxism working atop the critiques of
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+Critical Race theory with the goal of attaining Communism. They couldn’t
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+possibly be more clear in telling you this themselves.</p>
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“queer and trans pedagogies seek to actively destabilize the
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+normative function of schooling through transformative education. This
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+is a fundamentally different orientation than movements towards the
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+inclusion or assimilation of LGBT people into the existing structures of
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+school and society - LMHM (DP)</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>They are quite clear in pointing out that gay acceptance is a form of
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+“assimilation” into the current hegemonically-tainted structure and that
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+they seek to destabilize society through children.</p>
|
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“queer and trans communities reach toward a different kind of world.
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+Jose Munoz Esteban argued in his 2009 book Cruising Utopia that
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+queerness is imagination itself, a yearning for a future not fully
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+conceivable in the present” - LMHM (DP)</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>The goal is Queer Utopia, but it can’t yet be conceived because
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+“Communism doesn’t know how”. In the hermetic tradition of Hegelianism
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+we must allow the divine to be revealed from the mundane by negating the
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+aspects of the old system through making children incompatible with
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+it.</p>
|
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+<p>It’s also reminiscent of Herbert Marcuse saying that we can’t imagine
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+the utopian society, but that it’s trapped within the current one.</p>
|
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+<h3 id="atomic-forces">Atomic Forces</h3>
|
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+<p>We are starting to have a clearer picture about the dimensions of
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+concern, and we see that queer is liberation from the body in the sense
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+of shame, expectation and the possibility of one not having sole
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+influence over perception. Even in classical Marxism, it is still
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+liberation from the consequences of having a body. The fact of one being
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+subjected to atomic forces is enough to say that one’s circumstance is
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+oppressive.</p>
|
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+<p>Some may disagree that such a superfluous endpoint could be sought,
|
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+even with enough time, but I wager that we do this instinctively as an
|
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+organism bearing certain elements: - Biological organisms instinctively
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+orient towards and pursue the avoidance of unwanted sensations (see
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+<em>“Pain-Avoidance and Defensive Behaviors (Nociceptive
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+Circuits)”</em>) . Though we do things which lead to discomfort is not
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+the same as contemplating the effect of expected discomfort on
|
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+subjective bias. - We evaluate facts emotively (Russell Conjugation). -
|
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+We have declared that we can pursue things that do not yet exist and we
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+utilize them as per expectation.</p>
|
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|
+<p>Let us note that all modes of Hegelian thought follow the same logic
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|
+with analogous entities, with each a distinct aesthetic and dimension of
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+value, and ultimate promise of how one will live life according to their
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+true, natural, uncoloured and uncorrupted state of being.</p>
|
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|
+<h3 id="race-enums">Race Enums</h3>
|
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|
+<p>Race Idealism in all its forms, such as CRT, is a Hegelian cult
|
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|
+projecting a conception of racial injustice where the identity borne of
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+race, and the identification with racial identities, as a cognizable
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+objects of reference, are considered as only being asserted as no longer
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+needed once they’re no longer enumerable. This is the manner of
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+supposing the addition of something contrived and synthetic as a way of
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+life to be is criticized as the superordinate oppression of the world.
|
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+The ability for the problem to be communicated serves as evidence of the
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+problem itself, whose causation is implied and maintained through
|
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|
+circular reasoning.</p>
|
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|
+<p>The end of the history of racial oppression will bring about several
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+conditions: - We cannot enumerate race - We will exist in a just world -
|
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|
+People can exist as they are, unburdened by what has been - People no
|
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|
+longer participate in racial praxis</p>
|
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+<p>There is something to be examined about the possible conception of a
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+cognized object representing each one’s own race for which one has pride
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+and some gnostic outlook carrying the hope of divination and absolution
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+in the face of a racial other, particularly one whose characteristic
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|
+behaviour is to either impose or participate in the aesthetic of the
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|
+gnostic construct.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="remark-on-colour-blindness">Remark on Colour Blindness</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>We already know what the critique of those who believe in antiracism
|
|
|
+and who are against the notion of one being socially colourblind is
|
|
|
+because it’s always a form of projection (<strong>cough</strong> and the
|
|
|
+<em>Iron Law of Woke Projection</em> never misses). They are seeking
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|
+that modality in their interpretation of a person’s body, and then they
|
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|
+are experiencing the fact of they themselves judging that person and
|
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|
+imagining the limitations, experience and rationale or motivations of
|
|
|
+that person who has that body based on what they cognize as being the
|
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|
+model of that body’s behaviour according to colour and sex. But it’s
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|
+something altogether abstract, of course, so it’s against whatever
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|
+symbols they cognized at the moment that they were conceived, which are
|
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|
+symbols predicated on superficial dimensions, but bearing significance
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|
|
+in the order of reality and society.</p>
|
|
|
+<h5 id="insisting-on-race-to-complete-reality">Insisting on Race to
|
|
|
+Complete Reality</h5>
|
|
|
+<p>As all things that we deal with are through their symbolic cognition
|
|
|
+as objects that are actionable and bearing meaning and significance for
|
|
|
+human life insofar as the Metaxy, or the medium between a material
|
|
|
+reality and the prospect of something more such as a transcendent realm
|
|
|
+of divination, the symbols themselves are not bound to real-world
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|
|
+objects in discrete form, but must function with compression or, as
|
|
|
+Voegelin would put it, compactness necessary to be an actionable object
|
|
|
+with significance in both realms. In the case of a racial cult
|
|
|
+predicated on a Hegelian collectivist and pantheistic metaphysic, the
|
|
|
+people of God must express the consciousness of the race as part of the
|
|
|
+historical process of working through the mythos of racial oppression
|
|
|
+towards liberation. In this way, we have a proxy by which the people of
|
|
|
+God are not simply those universally extant, or even those with a
|
|
|
+correct consciousness, but must first be separated by race and, in this
|
|
|
+way, the people of God cannot be their own nation or representative of
|
|
|
+universal human spirit, but must be units of the race nation, with the
|
|
|
+conflict between race nations playing out. Their mythic stories of
|
|
|
+struggle are the aspects of the singular historical timeline of
|
|
|
+historical redemption and their perception of a promised land of racial
|
|
|
+justice to be delivered is the eschatological consciousness which, in
|
|
|
+the present, is instantiated in those who know they must adhere to their
|
|
|
+racial identities. There is a gnostic revolt against a universally
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|
|
+accessible reality in the sense that the ideological project of
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|
|
+immanentizing the eschaton forbids the dissolution of an incomplete
|
|
|
+representation of history and reality, which would be imposed by
|
|
|
+colour-blindness.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="the-international-race-nation-cult">The International Race
|
|
|
+Nation Cult</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>But all of that aside, they are lulling themselves into believing
|
|
|
+they have the evidence of prejudicial experience concerning a
|
|
|
+stereotype, and they are experiencing, for whatever it’s worth and
|
|
|
+whatever it actually pertains to in the real universe, as some kind of
|
|
|
+event, likely through neurotic speculation and self-reflection. That
|
|
|
+projection is abhorrent, and should be ridiculed and condemned for its
|
|
|
+bigotry and idiocy, and as it’s a deliberate attempt to perpetuate
|
|
|
+misery in hopes of compelling the world into transformation, even to the
|
|
|
+point of destruction if that’s the only type of transformation that
|
|
|
+could take place. The sentiment driving that desire is completely toxic,
|
|
|
+and so it should be no surprise to anyone that it would seek utter
|
|
|
+annihilation.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“Interrupting the forces of racism is ongoing, lifelong work because
|
|
|
+the forces conditioning us into racist frameworks are always at play” -
|
|
|
+Robin DiAngelo (White Fragility)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>They succeed tremendously well in proving to themselves that
|
|
|
+colourblindness doesn’t exist, as they keep rediscovering the focus of
|
|
|
+race either through being prompted to be reminded of it explicitly from
|
|
|
+environments richly endowed with Critical Race praxis, or through their
|
|
|
+general paranoia which, in spite of whether they may have a proclivity
|
|
|
+for it, is heightened by instigating and participating in continuous
|
|
|
+struggle. It is an undertaking for which they themselves admit to seeing
|
|
|
+no conclusive remedy, other than submission to cult collectivism and
|
|
|
+endless critique as airing of grievance, navel-gazing, wound-collecting,
|
|
|
+and other toxic, pathology-inducing behaviours. Short of a totalizing
|
|
|
+force that will assuredly control every other human’s experience such as
|
|
|
+to negate colour or race from the equation, like perhaps a society-level
|
|
|
+faculty extending from a totalitarian technocracy, there will never be
|
|
|
+an end to the racism upon which their vile cult subsists. We should
|
|
|
+denounce that complexly obscene behaviour and insist on colour blindness
|
|
|
+as it’s actually the only alternative to an endless process of
|
|
|
+dehumanization.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Perhaps I’m not coming across as clear as I should, but if we are
|
|
|
+really serious about choosing a future with principles which suppress
|
|
|
+dehumanization on dimensions such as the absurd valuing of race then we
|
|
|
+need to be explicit about what it’s going to take, not just in order to
|
|
|
+criticize the world, but in order to clearly indicate what a legitimate
|
|
|
+solution would look like.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The only possibility of justice, fairness and empathy between two
|
|
|
+beings is for them both to presuppose that the other could be a
|
|
|
+reflection of themselves, be it in the potential for experience,
|
|
|
+understanding, or form. Alignment in the sentiment about perception is
|
|
|
+the key which unlocks fairness in shared event.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>In taking these cult faith movements, sold as conceptual frameworks,
|
|
|
+at their word and looking to see myself represented, if I were to find,
|
|
|
+for example, a half Indian half Dutch man of equal dimensions, age,
|
|
|
+health, style, preference and opinion, I’d find that we aren’t perfectly
|
|
|
+aligned and that somehow there could be some difference from which to
|
|
|
+produce an aberrations preventing perfectly atoned contentment. And
|
|
|
+heaven forbid if they were to hold a political opinion or prefer a
|
|
|
+different political candidate than I, as it would surely mean that they
|
|
|
+are contaminated with false consciousness and that I am a victim of
|
|
|
+genocide.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>So there is no choice, because you’ll never find that truly
|
|
|
+empathetic and openly curious view of anyone else’s experience without
|
|
|
+inducing it through your logically deduced conclusion that it’s simply
|
|
|
+better to do so because it makes your life better. That is to say, you
|
|
|
+don’t find the people that are empathetic just on their own; you make
|
|
|
+people empathetic by improving the environment with your own intention
|
|
|
+and with expressions which follow the upholding of principles that are
|
|
|
+hopefully morally sound and ethically robust when executed by you, who
|
|
|
+actually believes in them.</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="double-negation">Double Negation</h3>
|
|
|
+<p>!TODO: This can safely be relocated, given that it doesn’t
|
|
|
+necessarily follow the previous section. !TODO: Give intro to double
|
|
|
+negation based on my notes about biological proclivity</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The human mind is prone to expecting that it can adopt behaviours
|
|
|
+that are contrary, incongruent and even antithetical to its stated
|
|
|
+beliefs or values under an assumption that the behaviour will be negated
|
|
|
+at an appropriate time such as to still fulfill the outcome which
|
|
|
+corresponds with those values. Somehow, the frame of mind or
|
|
|
+consciousness of the present indicates the future outcome without having
|
|
|
+to act in the modality which directly produces the outcome. In fact, the
|
|
|
+expectation for the future event can be rationalized such as to allow
|
|
|
+the present behaviour which must necessarily be negated, thus behaviour
|
|
|
+may contradict the stated objective.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>One example of this might be knowing that we aspire to be healthy
|
|
|
+with our dietary choices, have strong opinions about what type of eating
|
|
|
+is conducive to the best performance, strong vitality and a long life,
|
|
|
+and an expectation that we will use such knowledge to practice dietary
|
|
|
+consumption in order to achieve our expected endpoint of healthy and
|
|
|
+long-lasting life.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The same can be found in our mastery of other human skill sets, be it
|
|
|
+in our personal lives or in our professional faculties, as we believe we
|
|
|
+understand the methodologies and habits which will lead to our happiest
|
|
|
+way of life in pursuit of professional or personal achievements and
|
|
|
+that, in spite of this knowledge, any deviation from that is part of our
|
|
|
+preparation.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>This follows an intuition about making progress through a continued
|
|
|
+process of illumination. You might say that we are in perpetual
|
|
|
+preparation, be it through skilled and structured training, or even
|
|
|
+simply in waiting for a quantity of time to pass. With this in mind, one
|
|
|
+can either embody an expression whereby they cannot yet commence their
|
|
|
+true life, or perceive the preparation as the true life which
|
|
|
+continuously improves the conditions of their life and reality as a
|
|
|
+whole. Reality must then be perceived either as becoming something more,
|
|
|
+or as being false and unproven in the sense that it has not yet been
|
|
|
+brought into being.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="enabling-thinking-conducive-to-double-negation">Enabling
|
|
|
+Thinking Conducive to Double Negation</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>To summarize, this is the practice of believing that the current
|
|
|
+conduct, though correct in some sense, is still expected to be changed.
|
|
|
+Keep doing what you want, even if problematic, under an assumption that
|
|
|
+it will be negated at a later time, and that it might be a form of
|
|
|
+virtue.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Some motivation, at least at the individual level, might be the
|
|
|
+libido dominandi, a means by which to permit the play of the mind,
|
|
|
+self-loathing, puritanical thinking, and making one compatible with what
|
|
|
+one perceives as structural forces, especially if its tendrils, as
|
|
|
+currently articulated, are somehow ephemeral.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="forms-of-double-negation">Forms of Double Negation</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>These constitute the forms of double negation that we are most
|
|
|
+familiar with, at the cultural level:</p>
|
|
|
+<table>
|
|
|
+<colgroup>
|
|
|
+<col style="width: 40%" />
|
|
|
+<col style="width: 30%" />
|
|
|
+<col style="width: 30%" />
|
|
|
+</colgroup>
|
|
|
+<thead>
|
|
|
+<tr class="header">
|
|
|
+<th>Mythos</th>
|
|
|
+<th>D.N.</th>
|
|
|
+<th>Note</th>
|
|
|
+</tr>
|
|
|
+</thead>
|
|
|
+<tbody>
|
|
|
+<tr class="odd">
|
|
|
+<td>Classical Marxism</td>
|
|
|
+<td>negate the process of negating the existing order</td>
|
|
|
+<td>Negation of state (which negates capitalist society)</td>
|
|
|
+</tr>
|
|
|
+<tr class="even">
|
|
|
+<td>Race Marxism</td>
|
|
|
+<td>negate the process of negating whiteness</td>
|
|
|
+<td>N/A</td>
|
|
|
+</tr>
|
|
|
+<tr class="odd">
|
|
|
+<td>Queer</td>
|
|
|
+<td>negate the process of negating normalcy</td>
|
|
|
+<td>N/A</td>
|
|
|
+</tr>
|
|
|
+<tr class="even">
|
|
|
+<td>Feminism</td>
|
|
|
+<td>negate the process of negating patriarchy</td>
|
|
|
+<td>N/A</td>
|
|
|
+</tr>
|
|
|
+<tr class="odd">
|
|
|
+<td>Critical Pedagogy</td>
|
|
|
+<td>Promises perpetual revolution</td>
|
|
|
+<td>Appears as the exception, but is perhaps more honestly stated as
|
|
|
+they all do this</td>
|
|
|
+</tr>
|
|
|
+</tbody>
|
|
|
+</table>
|
|
|
+<p>In each of these, the prescription, critique, and alluded benefit are
|
|
|
+the same: - identify source of oppression affecting distribution of
|
|
|
+resources and division of labour. - The dimension of concern may appear
|
|
|
+different aesthetically based on the sociocultural critique - negate all
|
|
|
+expressions inline with the hegemon/demiurgic force - the new world
|
|
|
+awaits where the end will have justified the means</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="dialectical-religion">Dialectical Religion</h3>
|
|
|
+<p>Indeed, it is a religion because it introduces a complete means of
|
|
|
+viewing human life from which arise duties of conscience. Each variant
|
|
|
+explains original sin, final judgment, salvation through liberation and
|
|
|
+the transcending of man to God in order to bring about the
|
|
|
+transformation necessary to satisfy the resolution of the plight of the
|
|
|
+oppressed.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>“God” here doesn’t have to mean a man in the sky, but the source of
|
|
|
+absolution which must not rest outside of this material construct, as a
|
|
|
+transcendental deity of the Abrahamic faiths would intimate, but an
|
|
|
+indicated direction that necessarily exists or will come to exist in
|
|
|
+this world. A divine construct brought into being either as oneself,
|
|
|
+one’s integration with conditions that have been made perfect and
|
|
|
+complete, or as the understanding and perception of the world which will
|
|
|
+be made manifest.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>A concept of divinity understood as outside the material construct
|
|
|
+within which man is engaged is incompatible with a dialectical worldview
|
|
|
+as the terms of understanding are themselves always in flux, thus
|
|
|
+precluding a settled expectation of divinity in an externalized
|
|
|
+transcendental realm.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>It functions as a dialogue which includes oneself but necessarily
|
|
|
+requires the rest of the existing world as a component for, in most
|
|
|
+cases, one’s victimization through the conditions of the world and the
|
|
|
+others who are party to it requires a correction not of the self, who is
|
|
|
+not accountable simply due to being extant as the product of the
|
|
|
+surroundings. As such, any observed error, shortcoming or revealing of
|
|
|
+one’s lack of grace is simply an indication that one has been prevented
|
|
|
+from embodying their true essence due to these surroundings, which must
|
|
|
+be transformed.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>It is dialectical because it functions by continuously adopting new
|
|
|
+understanding of previously known concepts and reifying the new
|
|
|
+understanding until they cannot be thought of in any other way.
|
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+Everything is redefined to indicate a collective consciousness that will
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+bring about transformation through knowledge otherwise not available,
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+except through the proletarian identity. The change in history is so
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+powerful that it can even promise to make the impossible and
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+unimaginable real.</p>
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+<p>The drive towards eliminating the factors which prevent humans from
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+beginning their true existence comes through a sense that the human
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+being, and humanity, will come to be completed, and that this sense of
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+completion would only be arrived at once we no longer fear a threat of
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+succumbing to the limitations of human existence.</p>
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+<p>Such a thing cannot be attained without relinquishing human being
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+itself, and we are essentially programming the rest of the populace into
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+seeing the issue in those terms. The refinement of the populace into
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+something which makes no sense except in theory.</p>
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+<h4 id="completing-man">Completing Man</h4>
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+<p>The vision of the completed human being is one formulated and
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+delivered by the state. A man who sits in perfect harmony within the
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+collective and who, because of this, enjoys his most perfect personal
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+life as well. If all resources are perfectly directed toward an
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+objective as identified by the state, then no objective becomes too
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+difficult nor too absurd to promise to the citizens.</p>
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+<p>Some might wish to say that there is no state in the final
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+permutation of world and society, or that one is critical of the state,
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+but all collectivist cult affiliation necessarily requires that it
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+itself functions as the state, or that the state must adopt the goals
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+and even language of the cult such that it can be leveraged. The state
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+must be a stepping stone in the right direction and, ultimately, even if
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+there is no formal state as political society, the state is always an
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+everlasting object as the state of spacetime.</p>
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+<p>If the state authority exists at the scale of the globe, rather than
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+a single nation with an independent area of land and water, then their
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+duties become so supreme and superordinate that the criticism of any one
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+single human cannot carry the weight necessary to unseat them. No locale
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+of opinion, with all of its idiosyncrasies, noisy paradigms, ugly biases
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+and embarrassing history polluting it, is able to choose, raise up, or
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+dismiss and deny the authority which is situated to have ultimate
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+oversight and acuity over the entirety of human affairs and human
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+existence.</p>
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+<h5 id="impossible-objectives">Impossible Objectives</h5>
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+<p>I wish to highlight again that there’s no limit as to the absurdity
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+of future promises to be made by the intelligentsia on behalf of a
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+conceptual collective so long as it is mediated through the state by
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+virtue of a social contract. The high falutin betters are not in the
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+business of actually realizing anything whatsoever at the level of
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+concrete edification; the elite-minded moral busy-bodies are able to
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+convince themselves they’ve realized everything at the level of idealism
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+through making commitments, especially on behalf of those who might have
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+a difference of mind.</p>
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+<h2 id="the-description">The Description</h2>
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+<p>Communism is, according to Marx, the state of human life and nature
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+which follow from these evident truths: - Human beings engage in
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+volitional activity; - Which is not influenced by any desire or need; -
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+And especially not a need associated with survival; - And all aspects of
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+society are fulfilled by this as free activity; - There is no state</p>
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+<p>The Communist advocates for this endpoint, and they perceive
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+Communism as: - A God object - A perfectly spontaneous ordering of life
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+- A return home - Entering the Garden of Eden - Having one’s fill from
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+the tree of knowledge</p>
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+<h2 id="the-statement">The Statement</h2>
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+<p>Revisiting Marx’s revealing statement: > “Communism as the
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+positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement.”
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+- Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Private
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+Property and Communism)</p>
|
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+<p>How does one normally perceive such a statement? Isn’t Communism just
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+getting rid of private, for-profit mega-corporations which otherwise
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+enjoy ridiculous monopolies at everyone else’s expense and replacing
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+them with state-certified production of whatever people need in
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+appropriate quantities and with standards which solve planned
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+obsolescence, and any other worry consumers might have currently.</p>
|
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+<p>Well, no, there is no state in Marx’s theoretical formulation of
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+Communism.</p>
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+<p>The whole notion of a consumer, at least as per a socialist, extends
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+from the premise that there are roles of human life which necessarily
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+separate people into class, with these roles causing humans to have
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+fundamentally different qualities of life, different outlooks, different
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+access to knowledge, different bias, and so forth. That there is a
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+consumer follows from an assumption that some would produce and others
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+would not. But, for Marx, the idea that some produce, beyond a temporal
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+point of human, social and technological development and evolution,
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+becomes a mistake which denotes a stagnation in the continuation of the
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+process of man evolving to realize the type of existence which should
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+follow the base faculties of human being as differentiated from
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+animal.</p>
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+<p>All humans create their life within the range of their capacity to
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+conceive, have thoughts and perform actions which make the life they
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+desire a reality. Humans are related to one another through shared
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+environment and possess faculties for socialization means that humans
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+act in the world that they create which affects all humans. Given their
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+ability to ponder reality, the conditions of the world, the manner in
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+which their actions affect others, and the manner in which actions of
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+others affect them, it is said that humans act in accordance with all
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+other humans as a whole.</p>
|
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+<p>This means that, if we were to find a set of conditions that truly
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+brought satisfaction to any man in life, it would be because their
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+capacity to imagine the world they desire was unhindered by the actions
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+of any other man, as well as the conditions of the setting being shared
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+with other men. Some would insist that such conditions would correspond
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+to there no longer being a state, as there would no longer be a state
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+required to manage possible grievances or moral infractions between
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+men.</p>
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+<h3 id="withering-the-state">Withering the State</h3>
|
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+<p>Both Marx and Engels wrote of the eventual dissolution of the state,
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+as its existence would become moot and redundant given a sufficient
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+transformation in the conditions of man and society, but it was perhaps
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+Vladimir Lenin who formalized dialogue on that topic to a more
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+conclusive degree. Lenin drew from the ideas and writings of Marx and
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+Engels, and was very clear about it by basing his comments on the
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+progression of societal change toward the elimination of state most
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+fundamentally on reflections he made on the quotes of Marx and Engels,
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+whom he found to have considerably different views on the role of the
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+state, but whose logical conclusions can be consolidated through
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+developing our understanding of what the concepts and their related
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+terms, such as democracy, ultimately mean. Such semantics are not so
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+important, however, as the main point to get across is the degree to
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+which distinctions need to be eliminated for a true conception of
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+liberated humanity which, according to Lenin, would be one without a
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+state due to the absence of class distinctions.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is
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|
+necessary.” - Vladimir Lenin (The State and Revolution - The Economic
|
|
|
+Basis of the Withering Away of the State)</p>
|
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|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“The Communist Manifesto gives a general summary of history, which
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+compels us to regard the state as the organ of class rule and leads us
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+to the inevitable conclusion that the proletariat cannot overthrow the
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+bourgeoisie without first winning political power, without attaining
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+political supremacy, without transforming the state into the”proletariat
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|
+organized as the ruling class”; and that this proletarian state will
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+begin to wither away immediately after its victory because the state is
|
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|
+unnecessary and cannot exist in a society in which there are no class
|
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|
+antagonisms.” - Vladimir Lenin (The State and Revolution)</p>
|
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|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>State only exists both as a utilitarian function and evidence that
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|
+conflict between classes have not yet been eliminated, thus serving as
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|
+the implement by which the dialectic plays out according to the tension
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|
+of those classes and which works to drive history. Once the proletariat
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+have truly attained supremacy as a ruling class, those with the power to
|
|
|
+direct the affairs of society will also be those with the consciousness
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|
+necessary for man to liberate himself. Lenin believed that a transition
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|
+period of dictatorial rule by the proletariat was necessary before the
|
|
|
+eventual and complete dissipation of state.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“Dialectics is the theory of knowledge of (Hegel and ) Marxism. This
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|
|
+is the aspect of the matter (it is not an aspect, but the essence of the
|
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|
+matter).” - Lenin (Lenin’s Collected Works)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>We see, once again, that Lenin’s contributions are based on the
|
|
|
+Hegelian faith, which is to say a faith which precedes Hegel but is best
|
|
|
+understood through Hegel because of the manner in which it encompasses
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|
|
+both the role of state as the worldly manifestation of the divine at the
|
|
|
+present moment in history as well as the belief that this fundamental
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|
|
+phenomenon of world transformation, both as a feature of existence as
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|
|
+well as a tool to be utilized by human consciousness, is the means by
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|
|
+which all of reality reaches its eschatological destiny.</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="pragmatic-communism">Pragmatic Communism?</h3>
|
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|
+<p><em>Indeed, on the Marxists.org website, they speak of the nature of
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|
|
+truth and actually position Communism as being close to pragmatism,
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|
|
+except with everything’s utility measured insofar as it propagates
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|
|
+Socialism and installs Communists in power. Here, however, we’re talking
|
|
|
+about the perspective of a pragmatic Communist who claims that
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|
|
+incomplete Communism (which is also Socialism) is still
|
|
|
+Communism.</em></p>
|
|
|
+<p>Some will retort: “Well, it’s all the same: the incomplete societies
|
|
|
+are still doing communism as is first feasible, with room for change as
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|
+time passes. They are still the societies that are communistic by
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|
|
+comparison.”</p>
|
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|
+<p>I’m not even necessarily denying that, but the point was that it will
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|
+never satisfy the capacity for a central authority to assert for or make
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|
+a claim to ever-greater power. The logic of the system of thinking is
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|
|
+that private exchange of use of goods as a financial transaction, and
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|
|
+the necessity for having such activity estrange man, the worker, owner
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|
|
+and consumer, and that this perpetuates and becomes even more insidious
|
|
|
+with each subsequent generation which must adopt the corresponding
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|
|
+practices. According to Marxism, these are a set of ritualistic
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|
+practices as part of ideology pushed in order to survive in the system
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|
|
+such as it is.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Continuing down a path and calling it Communism while knowingly
|
|
|
+contradicting its principles may sound like a death blow to a communist
|
|
|
+revolutionary’s thinking, but it is quite the opposite. Whenever a
|
|
|
+communist feels they must do something contradictory in order to operate
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|
|
+to their benefit (even insofar as being able to fulfill their stated
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|
|
+obligation - such as perpetuating communism or socialism), it becomes
|
|
|
+several things for the communist all at once: - Evidence that they are
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|
|
+right (look what we are forced to do) - Enjoying special privilege at
|
|
|
+your expense - Protest against the system - Production of tension which
|
|
|
+transforms society in their favour</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Those confused by it are negated in the process which systematizes
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|
|
+reason.</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="placing-definitions-in-context">Placing Definitions in
|
|
|
+Context</h3>
|
|
|
+<p>Before we go further, we must clarify something else related to the
|
|
|
+definitions I have settled on for my understanding and my approach to
|
|
|
+helping others in their understanding of Communism (which, to be frank,
|
|
|
+is Collectivism).</p>
|
|
|
+<p>If Communism is the end stage of a historical process, Marxism is the
|
|
|
+theology from which that is derived as an ought, particularly through
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|
+its ontological and teleological declarations. The study of Marxism is
|
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|
+what has developed toolsets which are faithful to those
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|
|
+declarations/descriptions.</p>
|
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|
+<p>Communism is the God-object at the end of the transformation of man
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|
|
+and nature, through the creation of new man. It is the state of life and
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|
|
+the stateless beginning of our new history. Stateless only in that there
|
|
|
+is no state separate from ourselves, and we are co-continuous as the
|
|
|
+existence of man, for if there were any deviation from such a
|
|
|
+permutation of reality and human existence, we would not yet be at the
|
|
|
+point of Communism, for the state of liberation (as opposed to a state
|
|
|
+as entity which governs) would not be true for all men.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Conversely, Marxism is the means of understanding the here and now in
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|
|
+the context of oppression. Marxism is the belief system which puts faith
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|
+in that process. It explains the true nature of man based on what it
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|
|
+means to be human, and how man and mankind can come to be fulfilled in
|
|
|
+their existence. It also requires faith to believe that something will
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|
+come to automagically be through removing known things as barriers or
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|
|
+sources of corruption but without laying the first brick of whatever
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|
|
+future edifice you expect should come to be potentiated and come to
|
|
|
+fruition by the acts of negation.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>One last thing will have to be touched on before we get more in-depth
|
|
|
+with Queer and Covidism: a refreshed context on the biological
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|
|
+connection.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="we-arent-like-that-historical-faith">We Aren’t Like That
|
|
|
+(Historical Faith)</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>When the cult says “historical”, it means “historicist”. Is there a
|
|
|
+difference? Yes, of course, but not specifically because history only
|
|
|
+came to be studied and carefully considered later, but because of the
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|
|
+way it was used.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>There is a massive difference between historical and historicist and
|
|
|
+many who use the terms historical and historically are actually doing so
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|
+in the context of a historicist understanding of the world and
|
|
|
+description of human life, reality and purpose.</p>
|
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|
+<p>History on its face should be nothing but an effort to develop an
|
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|
+objective understanding of the events of human existence as a
|
|
|
+dispassionate chronology that can be reviewed, drawn from, curated and
|
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|
+updated using the rigorous, unbiased and impartial application of reason
|
|
|
+about our present knowledge. But to make a claim that something is
|
|
|
+historically relevant or that something today can be defined based on
|
|
|
+its historical precedent, rather than the neutral understanding of what
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|
|
+that thing is today, is to claim that we need to apply a lense which
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|
|
+falls outside the toolset of universal application of logic and reason.
|
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|
+This is where history becomes an input for performing praxis on the
|
|
|
+basis of Critical Theory, but even this is a modern application of
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|
|
+something which has long existed.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Understanding historicism, much as with Hegel or Marx, requires us to
|
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|
+understand that the concept of science or what is scientific has itself
|
|
|
+evolved and that its preceding phases weren’t necessarily the
|
|
|
+dispassionate application of the techniques we’ve come to associate as
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|
|
+being Scientific Method. Furthermore, it’s not difficult to imagine how
|
|
|
+common it would have been to have such presumptions about history:</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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|
+<p>“The historicists believed that history was not only a science but
|
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|
+the science par excellence, because it alone could grasp the
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|
+individuality, development, and meaning of human life in its full
|
|
|
+concrete reality. Unlike the natural sciences, which abstract from the
|
|
|
+particular to find universal laws, history comprehends the unique and
|
|
|
+particular in its organic development.” (Beiser - The German Historicist
|
|
|
+Tradition)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Historical Idealism and Historical Materialism came to develop such
|
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|
+as they did in large part because of what we now refer to as the
|
|
|
+Historicist Tradition. As the prospect of a scientific understanding of
|
|
|
+the world was sought at a time both when history was beginning to be
|
|
|
+conceived of as a discipline and science was being circumscribed, these
|
|
|
+ideologies and historicism itself came to be deeply embedded in the
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|
+structure of political society and the aesthetic of modern human
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|
+thought.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>I argue that the way historicism and historical thinking was used was
|
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|
+not to manipulate through rationalizing based on historical knowledge,
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|
+but an example of the manner in which humans are disposed to think and
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|
+approach something based on its use as provisioned by virtue of: - a)
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|
+how it interfaces with the body (or can be imagined to), and; - b) what
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|
+this something represented (what abstraction was cognized at a high
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|
+level) by the mind upon undertaking the operation of observing,
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|
+imagining, and appropriating the conceptual object at the moment of
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+cognition, as it is the only reasonable universality we can examine
|
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|
+given the difficulty of finding consistent parametrization for how
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|
|
+humans cognize objects</p>
|
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|
+<p>How it interfaces with the body is an interesting concept to explore
|
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|
+here. When we consider our body in its finite form in a system that is
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|
+transforming not just temporally but its very substance, limitations,
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|
+symbols and meaning thereof through subjective perception. The manner in
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|
|
+which technology and the knowledge are changing allows us to consider
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|
+that a higher level science is developing bearing significance in the
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|
|
+interpretation of the body, its place in the system, and the limitations
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|
|
+of that body in the system. It stands to reason that there is an
|
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|
+inherent hope that limitations of human embodiment are going to be
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|
+addressed, so long as sufficient development occurs as a consequence of
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|
|
+the historical process. This is tantamount to an indiscernible
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|
+completion given that, should those resolutions be met, we would no
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|
+longer have angst with respect to any desires or conceptions that are
|
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|
+otherwise limited. That is to say, it would allow for a new phase of
|
|
|
+temporal existence and a new history, which is very similar to what is
|
|
|
+described by Marx when he says the following:</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“…in the entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the
|
|
|
+creation of man through human labor, nothing but the emergence of nature
|
|
|
+for man…” - Karl Marx (Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of
|
|
|
+1844)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="they-dont-even-know">They Don’t Even Know</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>People pushing for Communism will obviously not be aware of
|
|
|
+historicism, yet they it’s clear they are thinking dialectically in
|
|
|
+terms that are never fully-formed. This is the hallmark of
|
|
|
+collectivists, just as their collective is never complete yet its
|
|
|
+construction stands as the precondition to a world where their terms
|
|
|
+will finally be fully realized and intelligently affirmable.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>For those who are surrounded by intellectuals who proclaim themselves
|
|
|
+as measured centrists yet decry everything below them as populism and a
|
|
|
+stepping stone towards fascism, it will ring a bell to reflect on their
|
|
|
+propensity to comment on the aesthetics of the target of their critique,
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|
|
+and denounce it on the basis of what direction it’s presumed to lead
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|
+toward. This will serve as sufficient rationale to propose an
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|
+alternative which itself needn’t be something which exemplifies a
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|
|
+principle so much as it heads in a direction which they believe exudes
|
|
|
+the flavours of progress, particularly given historical references. For
|
|
|
+example, an amalgamation of Europe is a good thing because of a war
|
|
|
+precedent, in spite of any criticism about it, because its formalized
|
|
|
+and amalgamated structure is itself a symbolic guide and lacking
|
|
|
+sufficient power to cause negative effects.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>But what do they see when looking at Communism?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>It is represented as something never fully formed and referenced as
|
|
|
+something not Communism, except by hardcore activists and
|
|
|
+true-believers. But, ideally, in constructing a plausibly cognizable and
|
|
|
+crystalline conception of Communism, it would come to be seen as: -
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+Something plausibly referenced in the way that it is expected to be
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+commonly understood - Something for which your support of it won’t lead
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+to your being attacked by the public, legitimate state, or in those in
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+private - Something which has power: - It needs power to assert
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+something totalitarian - It needs even more power to progress toward its
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+goals; - Or at least to indicate it’s addressing its goals</p>
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+<p>Unless it is something fringe and outside of most people’s lives, the
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+crux of Communism, collectivism with the promise of liberation extending
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+from Marx’s critiques, will not have to be advocated for, nor any of its
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+premises. You will instead only be made to insist on the popular
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+cultural artifacts of the day, and the values of the most popular set,
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+or the set extending from the state. Marxism and revolutionary theory
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+will cause the proliferation of Marxist political action through
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+institutions, and any apparatus which reaches the people. The
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+implementation adapts to the contemporary aesthetic and temperature
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+level; it needn’t mention classical categories in order to implicitly
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+compel towards an equitable end state. Its execution necessarily becomes
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+more totalitarian as it proceeds in articulating itself.</p>
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+<p>Another thing that we’ve witnessed with our own eyes, and
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+increasingly so, is that the policies presented as leftist which are
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+purported to yield rights and freedom to all. Take note, of course, that
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+any advocacy for all occurs through focusing on the few or some subset
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+subset rather than the degree to which the law is universally stated and
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+universally applied. It must be applied in a way which denies the
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+possibility of universally applied and universally administered law.
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+That corresponding regions and political locales become increasingly
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+authoritarian all the while attempting to produce an ever more
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+constrained and detailed arrangement of human classification which is
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+composed entirely of a defined separation of human life, human thinking,
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+human morality, and human guilt.</p>
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+<p>We compose a conceptual encampment of historical effects and the
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+specification for the inner workings of people’s minds, which goes so
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+far as to lay claim to what knowledge can be expressed, known or learned
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+by any specific human by eliminating any analysis of their individually
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+disseminated report or stream of thought and any of their creations and
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+productions; we have the rationale to deny communication of any kind.
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+Instead of allowing for humans to be understood both in universal terms
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+and by assuming they are operating through universally-accessible
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+faculties, we exploit social systems and relations by making such
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+principle-based methodologies inadmissible in the place of a critical
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+assessment using the lense of Marxist analysis.</p>
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+<p>All group analysis is ultimately only significant as it relates to
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+the prospect of engaging in critical praxis for the purpose of
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+liberation consistent with revolutionary theory. That a basis is formed
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+on a particular or combination of dimensions of social critique bearing
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+significance in the realm of thinkers extending from Marxist analysis,
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+Critical Constructivism, or Critical Theory can be largely ignored when
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+hoping to understand the phenomenon, as such details are a distraction
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+and invitation to be lulled into validating the false premises or
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+expending your life often futile combat. Unfortunately, it’s actually
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+necessary to know the details of the false descriptions and proposals
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+as, ultimately, they have to be defused and the work to do that must be
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+demonstrated. Adjudicate accordingly.</p>
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+<p>In this way, we appear to already have an extremely radical left wing
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+political milieu from which to frame all perspective, but I beg you to
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+consider that this is merely an aesthetic of theory which doesn’t even
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+begin to consider the manner in which human mind meets with these
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+concepts, much less their concretization in policy, nor the patterns of
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+behaviour which extend from their implemented organizing structures,
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+governance and systems of inquiry which come to be affected, erected or
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+in the same way made fearful or inspired.</p>
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+<h5 id="perceiving-imminent-authoritarian-collectivism">Perceiving
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+Imminent Authoritarian Collectivism</h5>
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+<p>In many ways, the inspiration for the thinking I’ve developed around
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+collectivism and thoughts about why humans offer no resistance to the
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+systems around them as they potentiate a more authoritarian future has
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+come from my personal observations. I struggled to find the right way to
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+express what I was witnessing as those around me who seemed to proclaim
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+universal freedom and liberty would somehow promote ideas and repeat
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+refactored statements that were pro-tyranny. Though I had many ways of
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+understanding it, deconstructing it and rationalizing it on the basis of
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+what I perceived as the psychological and immediate social incentives, I
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+have found the concept of having embraced a dialectical way of thinking
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+as being an excellent model.</p>
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+<p>It’s particularly drôle and a tad disconcerting to see a never-ending
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+and sophistic dialectical buffet being conducted around the encroaching
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+threat of authoritarianism, especially since most of the hyperbolic
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+takes come from histrionically-performant agitators from all walks of
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+life.</p>
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+<p>While many can clash and grovel over whether or not some nation or
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+government was able to veritably instantiate a political system in
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+accordance with the desire for a true Communist state, what does the
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+normie human mind see when it considers Communism in the context of its
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+own life?</p>
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+<p>For any sort of encroaching authoritarianism, the mind sees it either
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+as something that it wishes to annul and prevent, or something utterly
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+inevitable for which it’s either too hopeless and complicated to push
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+back against, or inevitable as something promising some form of
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+absolution. In the case of this description, we’d like to focus on the
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+latter with the second modality: inevitable and promising something,
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+such as completion of the world.</p>
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+<p>It needn’t be the moon, though that’s certainly within the range of
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+plausible promises, given that the state promises anything and
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+everything in order to earn the support of its citizens, if even the
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+power to rationalize the dismissal of any protest or criticism. It can
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+simply be the promise of maintaining one’s social salience and
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+professional viability, as well as the ability to avoid being censored,
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+dismissed and forgotten. Beyond that, however, it becomes the promise of
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+whatever appeals to one’s ego, so long as one is obedient and
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+maintaining compatible messaging with state infrastructure. The appeal
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+through the gnostic disposition is endless, as humans yearn for a
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+liberated existence in a very general sense. It’s important to note that
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+the term “gnostic” doesn’t refer, to members of the religion of
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+Gnosticism per se, but the proclivity of humans to engage the world
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+symbolically, making for a political outlook, and the manner in which we
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+perceive reality in those terms as it pertains to the potential to
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+eliminate the anxiety of human embodiment as our soul finds meaning in
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+the pursuance and mitigation of those symbols.</p>
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+<p>When we come to view the impending changes to our environment as only
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+being a matter of time before they are widespread and adopted by
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+everyone, then we have an incentive to get ahead of it. In the worst
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+case, this might come to be seen as having been required to get ahead of
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+the inevitable changes, while in a better case one might respond such as
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+to believe they are helping to direct the changes to best serve the
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+environment and its inhabitants.</p>
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+<p>Once you are biased to accept the continued construction of an
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+inexorably powerful ruling entity, you are also biased to interpret its
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+critics as something that can interfere with the future you are now
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+invested in. Whether it’s the prospect of complicating your future thus
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+impacting negative emotion or as an opportunity for you to demonstrate
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+obedience and allegiance, it has now become easier for you to accept
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+rhetoric which denounces critics of the regime.</p>
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+<p>Those who rebel, resist and reject the advancement of its power will
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+be labeled as those having the privilege to enjoy doing so, as though
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+they’ve enjoyed such privileges long past their culpability in untold
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+acts of dishonour worthy of notoriety. Regardless of whether you agree
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+with those implementing the new standards of authoritarianism, those who
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+are attacking it are to be spoken about as though they are only doing so
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+because of their privilege and access to unearned power which could only
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+be used for the wasteful or the obscene. Only someone with excess
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+resources would risk their social credibility and congruity to power.
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+Having sufficient confidence to speak ill of an entity with great power
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+means they too may have power, but given that they are not an entity
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+with oversight over the entire social environment, it’s still a good bet
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+they wouldn’t ultimately be a formidable match.</p>
|
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+<p>The impending state of totalizing power becomes something to be aimed
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+towards, desired and well-regarded as, since it is inevitable, one has
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+no choice but to accept it with open arms.</p>
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+<p>One can also rationalize its existence and reframe it in more
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+agreeable terms. “It’s not Communism, it’s just taking care of our
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+neighbourhood. It’s loving your neighbours and being a good neighbour
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+yourself. It’s sustainable practices, which show my intelligence. It’s
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+fairness and inclusion, or inclusive capitalism, nay, sustainable
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+capitalism”.</p>
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+<p>The forthcoming totalitarian age is something with which integration
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+is necessary in order to preserve oneself, one’s identity in the
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+permissible representation which validates state mythology, and one’s
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+life. You need to register with the new system, as it’s already going to
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+be your system and it could be just like you. If you are to purchase the
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+product, which is your life, and ensure the vendor doesn’t completely
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+ignore you or see you as a malicious actor, then you surely need to be a
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+suitable candidate for both the purchase and subsequent service and
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+support.</p>
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+<p>The totalitarian entity is something chosen and indicated from the
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+central and most powerful point of society. If something is to be
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+implemented for which absolutely everything will be relevant, then its
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+composition and deployment is through that which has authority over
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+everything.</p>
|
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+<p>Lastly, it is a necessary aspect of social integration of oneself
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+that one must maintain proximity to the implements of the superstructure
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+through its articulations as they manifest. This is a prerequisite in
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+order to have any opportunity for advancement in status, profession, and
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+so forth and is, ironically, a necessity for privilege.</p>
|
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+<h4 id="cognition-of-collective">Cognition of Collective</h4>
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+<p>I wish to keep intimating that collectivism is presented as the
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+manner in which it interfaces with an individual. I posit other
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+representations necessitate suspension of belief or refer other
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+cognizable objects in order to allow their descriptive syntax as they
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+cannot invoke an actual collective consciousness. The most charitable
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+affordance could be allegedly experienced or perceived collective
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+consciousness as comes about through altered states with psychoactive
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+compounds and meditation, but that these states aren’t conducive to
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+compelling political action in the manner in which collective
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+organization of society is advocated for.</p>
|
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+<p>What does one envision when confronted with the notion of a
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+collective? A collection of objects in a space, like a jar? A society? A
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+collective of people? In what arrangement and context? Is one
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+envisioning the containment of people, or other object of some sort?
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+One’s containment against some barrier? A collective conveys a few ideas
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+nearly immediately.</p>
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+<p>Perhaps one envisions their own exclusion or rejection by a force
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+greater than any single individual or interest and that this poses a
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+difficult challenge to them.</p>
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+<p>One might also envision one’s act of collecting by their hand: the
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+holding of things to represent a form of abundance.</p>
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+<p>Whatever an individual mind imagines to meet the need of composing a
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+cognizable object for reference as Communism, the fact is that we must
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+assume that even the multitude of choices are dissimilar not just
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+because of different preferences and backgrounds affecting personal
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+biases. The conceptions edified through the visual cortex by the being,
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+their communicable theories and the aspects of reality proclaimed as
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+corresponding objects are each different.</p>
|
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+<h4 id="collective-typing">Collective Typing</h4>
|
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+<p>The main point is to acknowledge that even if we have two identical
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+pronouncements of identity declarations by two identical individuals
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+with identically-stated politics, interests, social standing and locale,
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+you still cannot assume that the conceptual object being cognized in
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+relation to any particular event, place or thing will be similar, much
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+less identical.</p>
|
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+<p>We treat them as equivalent yet we can learn to be clear about
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+people’s individuality. Individuality can’t be a qualifier for group
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+masking of actual people with real instantiated consciousnesses as it’s
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+something the qualification of necessarily means considering things only
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+insofar as they can be applied universally at the level of the
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+individual.</p>
|
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+<h3 id="collectivism">Collectivism</h3>
|
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+<p>“Collectivists believe life is alienating except when reflecting
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+self” - Me.</p>
|
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+<p>It’s important to remember that collectivism in general as Communism,
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+or the set of rationales put forward by Marx to desire Socialism, and
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+Fascism function through its purveyors strongly believing that they have
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+special insight concerning history and mankind and how humans are to
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+transform with the knowledge of it. This is “gnosis” to be explored in
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+further depth, but for now I want to make the point that understanding
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+this phenomenon isn’t as simple as establishing there are persons with
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+“gnosis” beforehand who are attracted to this philosophy, system of
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+organization, way of seeing their socialization or method of
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+world-making. Nor is it the case that upon initiation into a practice of
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+collectivism that one must somehow proclaim gnosis, or work to discover
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+that they have some sort of secret knowledge before moving forward.</p>
|
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+<p>In this case the factor of “gnosis”, much to the chagrin of angry
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+activists themselves who to criticize the use of the term by asserting
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+its only suitable when capitalized in reference to ancient cult
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+religions, can be described as a chicken-and-egg situation whereby it
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+becomes a side effect of of dialectical thinking intrinsic collectivism.
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+The mere act of assuming an unreached destination as prerequisite
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+necessary to grant a universally-accessible epistemological toolset
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+whose legitimate use is otherwise skewed on the basis of some identity
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+theory such as class or a structurally-determined material qualifier
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+like race necessarily obligates the assertion that one understands
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+something that needn’t be qualified through the universally-accessible
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+epistemology.</p>
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+<p>The epistemological distinction, bound to metaphysical orientation,
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+is the fundamental distinction between collectivist and individualist
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+thinking, which might be better understood as a divide between
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+dialectical faith and realism. And the consequences of contending
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+against collectivist thinkers is indeed quite grave.</p>
|
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+<p>For example, the difference between those who believe this and those
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+that don’t is tantamount to a genetic deficiency or racial inferiority.
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+If the consensus decides there is a path to salvation, and some only
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+respond with friction and resistance, then they are literally
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+regressive, dangerous to the human race, and existing as a blight or
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+infection.</p>
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+<p>This historicism is paired with the notion of praxis which drives to
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+the same goal relentlessly while ensuring that any contradictions or
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+obscene manifestations, such as the death of naive peasants through
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+circumstance, can be dismissed out of hand.</p>
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+<h3 id="praxis">Praxis</h3>
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+<p>Praxis means we know the objective but don’t need to provide a
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+complete understanding of how and why. In fact, the objective itself can
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+remain unspecified except as a vector. You are to have faith in the
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+endpoint and understand that there’s no need to find ways to express or
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+portray the composition of that endpoint, as it can be expected that
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+such an endpoint will become realized in tandem with the elimination of
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+the drive or tension that compels any towards it. It promises both
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+everything and nothing at all. It assigns final judgment to even those
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+who are most difficult to judge.</p>
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+<p>When considering praxis through the eyes of the practitioner, they
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+might think “I peer into the soul you never even knew. The model and
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+theory of your mind, body and soul are something beyond you, but which
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+reveal to me your essence and true nature. Only I can understand
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+precisely the way in which you cheat, lie to, and estrange everyone and
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+even yourself.”</p>
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+<p>With praxis, we remind the world that no theory of knowledge will be
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+sufficient until we reorder the world. The theory is that the world must
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+be reordered until knowledge is feasible, comprehensible and
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+communicable. At the moment, forces of a hegemonic nature (which we know
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+to exist as there remains oppression and inequity) are the aspect of
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+social existence which rob people of their capacity to discern and
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+cognize things such as they truly are.</p>
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+<p>With no universally applicable base of understanding or method for
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+sense-making, the oppressor must bow to the oppressed, and those with
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+special insight into these truths must be given the means of enforcing
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+the transformative changes otherwise resisted by the masses.</p>
|
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+<p>Without the means of asserting, using and accepting methods based on
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+logic and reason, this becomes the superordinate process. Praxis is, by
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+definition, superordinate.</p>
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+<h3 id="alternate-reality">Alternate Reality</h3>
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+<p>If you accept an alternate theory of knowledge through the premise
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+that there are biases preventing legitimate meritocratic assessments
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+from being carried out then you will be in for a rude awakening:
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+<strong>The alternate way of knowing is your negation.</strong></p>
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+<p>This means of thinking exists to negate you, for founded as the
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+rationale to dismiss expression. The idea is that ways of understanding,
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+knowledge and accessibility of epistemologies are feasible for some and
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+not others and this destroys the notion that the world is simply
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+observable and that its aspects can be known in a universal sense. A
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+world where things can come to be known through being within it, a part
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+of it, and through being able to observe and contemplate, it is
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+destroyed along with you. In its place is a world where you may not be
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+able to know anything, and where some have a more human consciousness
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+and state of being by virtue of the matter which forms their bodies with
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+the power, might and wisdom of history itself coursing through their
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+veins, both in how their flesh presents and in the manner that the flesh
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+of the body becomes the inevitable point of attention by the mind.</p>
|
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+<p>Either reality is knowable or perhaps more accurately is in the
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+process of being revealed to be knowable, but the manner in which we are
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+impeded from knowing it in its most-veritable, authentic, and highest
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+resolution form is a universal problem affecting all humans for the same
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+reasons. As such, the manner in which we seek to understand reality most
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+accurately is universal.</p>
|
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+<p>To put it another way, given that both the limits and the best
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+available and most viable toolsets for understanding reality are
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+universal, we must fundamentally agree that the knowability of truth is
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+universal and a human challenge and that the details of such a challenge
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+are located in the ways in which we are the same, regardless of whether
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+some individuals might suffer more impediments than others.</p>
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+<p>Furthermore, we can deduce from this conundrum of human life and
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+being that the solution to most if not all our human and social problems
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+lies in the universally-applicable means of mitigating the limits of
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+knowledge.</p>
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+<p>Disrespecting one another through failing to acknowledge this crucial
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+fact about our existence is at the heart of all the ideologies which
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+come to plague us and requires some type of attack on language.</p>
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+<h3 id="back-to-species-being">Back to Species Being</h3>
|
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+<p>In thinking about ideology, let’s step back to re-examine the meaning
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+and significance of the Species Being.</p>
|
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+<p>The arguments by Marx about the Species Being, or being as a being of
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+the species and for the species as through one coming into alignment
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+with their ontology, sounds esoteric not necessarily just in the sense
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+of it possibly having a relationship to occultism, but literally in the
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+sense that it sounds, even at the surface, obscure and far-fetched which
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+casually yields rationale for its dismissal. But the very concept of
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+Species Being is obligatory once we start indicating any form of
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+collectivist ascription. You cannot have an argument for there being a
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+collective, even as implied through proposing the existence of, say, a
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+social contract separate from seeking out one’s greatest mode of life as
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+an individual. That is to say, it is to claim that one’s obligations to
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+social reality are somehow discrete and oppositional to individualist
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+aspirations.</p>
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+<p>The collective obligation is synonymous with Marx’s Species Being,
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+regardless of whether one tries to make the claim that potential for
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+flourishing and a fulfilling life would be made possible through having
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+fulfilled those collective obligations. There is no way to prove a being
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+beyond the individual, and even that requires some degree of faith
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+which, in this author’s opinion, is the minimum faith one has to decide
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+upon embodying through reason that they can hopefully compose for
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+themselves.</p>
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+<p>By the motif of the Species Being, humans are able to impose a theory
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+of knowledge dependent upon the distinctions which exist between men, as
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+material or otherwise such as through culture and alternate expression.
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+If we are to both envision that all humans are to be these species
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+beings or components of Species Being yet are unable to attain their
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+nature until they express their human life in this way, wherein they
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+live their lives as and for the species as man in himself, then we
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+necessarily indicate and require a process leading to the elimination of
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+all distinction between men and for the state of life as a Species Being
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+to be achieved. If this is still not yet clear, or the likely aesthetic
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+in the face of human bodies and advancement of technology, then it will
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+soon be made more clear after examining the same subject from the lense
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+of the corresponding historical event of covidism.</p>
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+<h3 id="but-fascism-not-communism">But Fascism, not Communism</h3>
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+<p>The point I’m really trying to drive home is that once you possess a
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+collectivist perspective, you are set on the same totalitarian path of
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+eliminating distinctions and though various collectivist ideologies can
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+be enumerated, including ones which are understood as being antithetical
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+to one another, their differences are highly superficial. This is
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+strikingly evident when considering Fascism.</p>
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+<p>One thing stood out to me right away when I first began reading “The
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+Doctrine of Fascism” was that the core of all collectivist ideologies is
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+immediately communicated: >“Fascism is action and it is thought;
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+action in which doctrine is immanent, and doctrine arising from a given
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+system of historical forces in which it is inserted, and working on them
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+from within” - Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile (The Doctrine of
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+Fascism)</p>
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+<p>Action and thought amidst historical forces towards the immanent?
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+Perfectly analogous to Historical Materialism. Marxism is Critical
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+Praxis, theory and practice, to achieve Communism as the solution to the
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+“riddle of history”: > “The history of all hitherto existing society
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+is the history of class struggles.” - Karl Marx (The Communist
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+Manifesto)</p>
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“The unity of theory and practice, is the revolutionary core of this
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+method” - György Lukács (History and Class Consciousness)</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>Full quote: > “It is not the primacy of economic motives in
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+historical explanation that constitutes the decisive difference between
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+Marxism and bourgeois thought, but the point of view of totality. The
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+category of totality, the all-pervasive supremacy of the whole over the
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+parts, is the essence of the method which Marx took over from Hegel and
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+brilliantly transformed into the foundations of a wholly new science.
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+The primacy of practice over theory, or rather the unity of theory and
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+practice, is the revolutionary core of this method.” - György Lukács
|
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+(History and Class Consciousness)</p>
|
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+<p>They’re essentially the same thing, but people get stuck on the
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+Nationalist vs Internationalist distinction. The internationalist state
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+of spontaneous Socialism void of contradiction and oppression would be
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+the step after the perfection of the conditions at an international
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+level, which would be akin to a superstate. And the Fascist state? Well
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+it seeks conflict with other states until it reigns supreme.</p>
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+<p>So, in effect, it too would need to become the super state, if ever
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+the zenith of its ascension were ever to be achieved. At that point, the
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+distinction between its dissolution, aka its “withering away”, or its
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+eternal status as the perfected edifice may serve as the final
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+distinction of each logical conclusion. That’s not much of a
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+distinction.</p>
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+<h4 id="syllogism-on-fascism">Syllogism on Fascism</h4>
|
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+<p>The Question: can you have a collectivist undertaking which is not
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+either Communism or Fascism with the caveat that its undertaking
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+includes an aspect of Communism coming into being as part of the
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+historical process of developing the Fascist state? We ask this question
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+because, in practical terms, there must be some means by which to orient
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+the masses which, in theory, includes differentiation of personality and
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+opinion, regardless of whether there’s a concept of an ideal formulation
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+wherein those differences will have been resolved such as to place each
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+member in perfect alignment. For this reason, some revisionists of
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+Fascism have posited that, given the ideal of the state as an organic
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+entity transcending the multiplicity of human beings, each participant’s
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+role, purpose and spiritual value are expressing some form of equality,
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+and that this is tantamount to a more correct permutation of a common
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+and perfected human existence, but that still differs from the concept
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+of Communism either popularly understood or being presented in this
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+book.</p>
|
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+<p>However, there is something to be said as communists continuously
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+assert that Fascism is a dualistically-mediated component of the reality
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+that they describe and acknowledge. To elaborate, Fascism is either a
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+component to reality driving the need of having to create the Communist
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+endpoint or is itself the reaction to a revolutionary force, while
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+fascists themselves have largely manifested as a reaction. There are
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+some semantics to work out in fully consolidating an understanding of
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+what Fascism is, both as a philosophy and historically, as it was borne
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+of Syndicalism and is itself a progressive ideology, which is to say
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+that it is an eschatology which develops through historical praxis. But
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+those semantics aside, that Fascism is largely understood as either a
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+reaction or that which Communism combats leads to the misassumption that
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+it is unlike and dissimilar in its opposition.</p>
|
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+<p>Its telos, ontological claims, philosophical underpinnings, and its
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+pairing with Communism as the dialectical engine of tension to move
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+history forward, which is the desire of a mind believing in historical
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+praxis, make them one apparatus. Furthermore, this author asserts that
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+most of the semantics surrounding Fascism, and even Communism,
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+especially as espoused by those undertaking its praxis, serve as
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+mystifications, and that these mystifications just serve as the
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+agitation to heat the engine in pursuit of collectivist conformity into
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+a totalitarian political society. The more easily understood figuration
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+of Fascism is as an authoritarian system which is totalizing, which
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+leaves no room for anything outside of itself as a perfect state, and to
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+which all humans are subordinate in purpose and value, and that these
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+are all the necessary conclusions of Collectivism as a whole.</p>
|
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+<p>All Collectivism must be totalizing and must destroy humanity.
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+Collectivism for the entity of the state because it allows everyone to
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+be their true self. Collectivism for the purpose of abolishing the
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+state, with the state existing as evidence of conflict between men. #
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+Negation</p>
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+<h2 id="not-an-aspect-the-essence">Not An Aspect: the Essence</h2>
|
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+<p>Another level of understanding Marxism, and what I argue as being
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+generalized most broadly to collectivism as a whole, while emphasizing
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+that this is not merely an aspect of it, but is the essence of it, as
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+Lenin will emphasize in the following quote, is that this is a process
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+of negation.</p>
|
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>“Dialectics is the theory of knowledge of (Hegel and) Marxism. This
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+is the “aspect” of the matter (it is not “an aspect” but the essence of
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+the matter)” - Lenin</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>We must strongly articulate that it’s incomplete to put this all on
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+Marxism as Marxism is not the reason that this occurs in the first place
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+but is just an arguably sophisticated formalizing of the human tendency
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+to compel a forced view of reality through collectivism, which is to say
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+to manipulate perception of information in order to maintain or
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+instantiate some more imagined operations which sustain the
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|
+representation of a world which coincides with the target state.</p>
|
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|
+<p>That this is in order to maintain or instantiate some aspect of
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|
+perceived reality, we can say that it is to reify it. When we say
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+“reify”, we intend to mean it in precisely the way in which Marxists use
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|
+the term when suggesting, for example, that capitalism is an ideology
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+which reifies perceptions and beliefs which cause one to adhere to
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+practices which maintain the structure of power relations such as it is
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+or make the power discrepancies more pronounced and to teach a mythology
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+about the virtues of capitalism in order to sedate oneself into a
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+comfortably stupefying self-certainty about one’s place, conduct and
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|
+happenstance, rather than correctly interpreting the reality of the
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|
+situation. That is, living for a superior configuration of existence
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|
+where each of us is liberated.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in
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|
+order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or
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|
+consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the
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|
+living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he
|
|
|
+will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded
|
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|
+his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around
|
|
|
+himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which
|
|
|
+revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around” - Karl Marx
|
|
|
+(A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<h2 id="hegels-concretization">Hegel’s Concretization</h2>
|
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|
+<p>It is more than a mere configuration of existence. The other
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|
+existence is the actual existence in its proudest form, while ours is a
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|
+false existence except for the parts of it which lead to the attempt to
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|
+transform it towards the desired. That is, we can have faith that that
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|
+which evoked an effect in the world was true application and if it was
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|
+done with theory informed purpose, then it is the expression of truth as
|
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|
+genuine and deliberate practice informed by theory. This is a truth that
|
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|
+one can have faith in while becoming convinced of it simply by seeing
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|
+any effect of its application. The point where the application of theory
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|
+through practice is occurring is the part where the tension of what is
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|
+and what becomes is being composed, feeding and directing the moment of
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|
+determinate actualization. It is the point at which things are
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+immediately expressing what they are while undergoing the process of
|
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|
+continuous change.</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“But, second, it is more than just the unessential; it is being void
|
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|
+of essence; it is shine. Third, this shine is not something external,
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+something other than essence, but is essence’s own shining. This shining
|
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|
+of essence within it is reflection.”</p>
|
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+</blockquote>
|
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|
+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“Essence is sublated being. It is simple equality with itself but is
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+such as the negation of the sphere of being in general… Essence itself
|
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|
+is in this determination an existent immediate essence, and with
|
|
|
+reference to it being is only something negative, nothing in and for
|
|
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+itself: essence, therefore, is a determined negation.” - Hegel (Science
|
|
|
+of Logic)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“Reflection is the shining of essence within itself. Essence, as
|
|
|
+infinite immanent turning back is not immediate simplicity, but negative
|
|
|
+simplicity; it is a movement across moments that are distinct, is
|
|
|
+absolute mediation with itself.” - Hegel (Science of Logic)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>But here is where we observe that whatever reality is is not
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|
+something other than the desire to change it; its rejection an
|
|
|
+insistence to reorder whatever structure of reality has been observed as
|
|
|
+frame of existence. This is not the putting forward of a creative
|
|
|
+expression but one of destruction.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>This is Hegel’s concretization of Being through negation against the
|
|
|
+abstract. That is, what you think you understand or perceive of the
|
|
|
+world has, against it, a contradiction to be composed in idea and put
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+forward as a criticism leading to the replacement of what was only a
|
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|
+more abstract concept of reality, as had been seen before. Now, we are
|
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|
+presented with a tension that induces transformation and as this
|
|
|
+transformation of the target or previous articulation, it comes to be
|
|
|
+obliterated.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>The whole proposition to progress through change predicated on that
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|
|
+tension is a proposal to negate in order to give rise to the actual.
|
|
|
+Though, for the idealist, it is said to be done in search of something
|
|
|
+better, but in reality it has given rise to such domains of thinking as
|
|
|
+Critical Constructivism and its need to induce crises, leading to the
|
|
|
+creation of an angrier world where enforcement of thought may be
|
|
|
+potentiated.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>!TODO: quote Kevin Kumashiro (Against Common Sense: Teaching and
|
|
|
+Learning Toward Social Justice)</p>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“Consequently, educators need to create a space in their curriculum
|
|
|
+for students to work through crisis…teaching and learning really take
|
|
|
+place only through entering and working through crisis, since it is this
|
|
|
+process that moves a student to a different
|
|
|
+intellectual/emotional/political space.” - Kevin Kumashiro (Toward a
|
|
|
+Theory of Anti-Oppressive Education)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“It is precisely because learning about oppression can be so
|
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|
+upsetting that it holds so much potential for change. By moving students
|
|
|
+into a state of discomfort or crisis, educators can open up
|
|
|
+possibilities for students to question and transform their oppressive
|
|
|
+frameworks.” - Kevin Kumashiro (Troubling Education: Queer Activism and
|
|
|
+Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<h2 id="sacrifice">Sacrifice</h2>
|
|
|
+<p>Sacrifice as a modality of negation is crucial to consider in any
|
|
|
+domain that can be understood as a collective, for sacrifice is
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|
|
+inextricable from the very idea of positing that the role of any being
|
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|
+is as a member of a collective. The sacrifice as negation is indeed the
|
|
|
+primary and lowest level operation of the transformative process, as the
|
|
|
+very anticipation of advancing through transformation in consideration
|
|
|
+of materializing the collective is only cognizable through the sacrifice
|
|
|
+of the multiple for the one. That is, the multiple individuals for the
|
|
|
+one as whole. The differentiated components of the order of system, or
|
|
|
+the order of being as is considered through human perception, is
|
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|
+actualized through sacrifice.</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="why-this-is">Why This is</h3>
|
|
|
+<ul>
|
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|
+<li>To eliminate the distinction of any individuated object is precisely
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|
|
+its destruction</li>
|
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|
+<li>A conscious act which is volitional, both as conceiving and through
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|
+invoking</li>
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|
+<li>The ultimate target for transformation is the world one is a part of
|
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|
+<ul>
|
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+<li>Having others see it as a sacrifice is believing that you have
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|
+suffered through it. The event of its being witnessed is positioned as
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|
+evidence, making it real and true.</li>
|
|
|
+</ul></li>
|
|
|
+</ul>
|
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|
+<p>Those “doing the work” believe they are contending against a
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|
+brainwashed populace who perpetuate implanted lies as assimilated
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|
+members of a structurally determined existence, and this in turn
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|
+continues the never-ending oppression wreaking havoc on the humanity to
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|
+which they themselves could be a part of. This work is a process of them
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|
+taking on the pain and frustration of battling with the hegemonic
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|
|
+enforcement mechanisms which that populace is more directly a part of,
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|
|
+and which is what’s keeping them from being full participants of
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|
+humanity. Among the victims are children, who are the one key by which
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|
|
+to break the cycle, and the potentiality of being. The self-sacrificing
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|
+warrior laments that it simply isn’t enough to grapple with every
|
|
|
+linguistic manipulation and enforceable structural implement or other
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|
|
+means of coercion. One needs to actually create the very texture and
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|
|
+fabric of perception as this concomitantly breaks through into the
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|
+realization, demonstration, enablement and “dis-inhibition” of what is
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|
|
+possible. The result of this, in theory, is that they’ll have
|
|
|
+necessarily invoked an interlocutor’s, witness’ and subject’s
|
|
|
+imagination, visualization and sense of confusion yielding cognitive
|
|
|
+dissonance, and the faculty to reconsolidate their perception of their
|
|
|
+environment and, by extension, their world. To hit the bullseye they’ve
|
|
|
+been aiming at changes the fabric of perception as a political act.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>As you transform the world, one is inclined to adopt the standpoint
|
|
|
+that the limits to being and understanding what is possible are largely
|
|
|
+socially-imposed. Again, this must lead back toward one’s sense that
|
|
|
+guiding and cultivating a collective perception about some aspect of
|
|
|
+reality makes it possible to reform, reset, re-imagine and re-learn what
|
|
|
+is possible.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>This must always be a requirement of every form of woke cult
|
|
|
+phenomenon, as it can’t be woke unless it is cultivating a collective
|
|
|
+perception about something in order to change the world, and also that
|
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|
+it does this if even only through language and dialogue. If something is
|
|
|
+too concrete, it is made ambiguous so that it can be re-imagined as what
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|
+it otherwise would not have been. If something is too good and noble, it
|
|
|
+is seen as its opposite either by aesthetic similarity or arbitrary
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|
+association to something else, or through knowing of its opposite
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|
+through it and this making it appear as though both it and the opposite
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|
+are somehow equally foundational to it. Finding examples of this is key,
|
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|
+but it most generally extends from one’s exhibition of adhering to a
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|
|
+stance due to one’s unwavering principles. The more honest and authentic
|
|
|
+one’s commitment to their principles, the more vitriolic and insane the
|
|
|
+effort to smear that individual as promoting the very opposite. In the
|
|
|
+woke cult, the only way to demonstrate one’s worth and one’s virtue is
|
|
|
+to make allegiance and conformity to the unwavering principle of
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|
|
+disregarding reality.</p>
|
|
|
+<h2 id="modern-negation-and-crisis">Modern Negation and Crisis</h2>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“The generative theme is a topic taken from students’ knowledge of
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|
|
+their own lived experiences that is compelling and controversial enough
|
|
|
+to elicit their excitement and commitment. Such themes are saturated
|
|
|
+with affect, emotion and meaning because they engage the fears,
|
|
|
+anxieties, hopes and dreams of both students and their teachers.</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>Generative themes arise at the point where the personal lives of
|
|
|
+students intersect with the larger society and the globalized world.” -
|
|
|
+Joe Kincheloe (Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy, an Introduction)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“…students learn that the ways that they think and act are not only
|
|
|
+limited but oppressive. Learning about oppression and about the ways
|
|
|
+they often unknowingly comply with oppression can lead students to feel
|
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|
+paralyzed with anger, sadness, anxiety and guilt. It can lead to a form
|
|
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+of emotional crisis.</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>Once in crisis, a student can go in many directions. Some which lead
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+to anti-oppressive change, others that may lead to more entrenched
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+resistance.</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<blockquote>
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+<p>Educators have a responsibility to draw students into a possible
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+crisis.” - Kevin Kumashiro (Against Repetition: Addressing Resistance to
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+Anti-Oppressive Change and the Practice of Learning, Supervising and
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+Researching (2002))</p>
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+</blockquote>
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+<p>If we don’t negate the previous conception of the world, then it
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+lingers and corrupts the current frame of existence, and since at least
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+the perception of reality is socially constructed, if not reality itself
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+(which is an idea that has become increasingly more common than many of
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+us would have ever imagined), then changing the conception of the world
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+necessarily entails preventing the current perceptions of the world from
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+maintaining themselves in the next generation of children, hence the
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+need to induce crises in them. Put another way, the conception of the
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+world is the aggregate perception of the world given a theoretical
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+belief about the world of man having an underlying reality whereby the
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+whole and the parts are intrinsically bound to one another and carrying
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+a quality and structure in which the two are ultimately
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+indistinguishable.</p>
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+<p><em>How are crises rationalized? Well they’re rationalized as being a
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+healthy response to an unhealthy world, thus describing the world in
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+terms which induce a crisis in an as-of-yet uncorrupted mind becomes a
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+point of evidence that one has described that world or taught that child
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+accurately.</em></p>
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+<p>The alternative to that nonsense is to consider this: “I am building
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+in gratitude to offer new possibilities as thanks to reality.”</p>
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+<h3 id="ultimate-negation">Ultimate Negation</h3>
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+<p>When I speak here of the ultimate negation, I feel that there may be
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+more than one answer based on the state of the world and the cultural
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+manifestations that have become broadly familiar in our time. This is
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+because there is one form which has become the most toxic and pervasive
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+which I would like to expound upon. Other forms, though seemingly not as
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+deleterious and anti-human, at least on paper in terms of the logic
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+inherent in its semantic structure, may very well be associated with
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+more actual death or destructive events in recorded history, but it is
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+the logic of the theory that I think fulfills the designation of being
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+“Ultimate Negation” as we aim to maintain humanity in the times
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+ahead.</p>
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+<p>The ultimate system of negation for human life, as we have been able
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+to come to know and experience, is Queer Theory, but I don’t think that
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+we can really grasp its operational relevance and metaphysical
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+implications as the queering of the world of man and of society without
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+considering it as part of the transhumanist plight which may or may not
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+necessarily augment humans to God-status for it must, more
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+fundamentally, grapple with the notion that the human body and the human
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+life are not enough.</p>
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+<p>Queer is at the heart of the negation process, both because of where
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+and how it currently stands, but also because of how it relates to the
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+human form and how queer is the inevitable development following a
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+progression of ever more sophisticated gnostic refutations of human
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+life. Humans have, since time immemorial, been reflecting on dealing
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+with the prospect of a pseudo-immortality through everything from myth
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+to philosophical abstraction on the basis of considering the meaning of
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+procreation in the face of man’s mortal existence.</p>
|
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+<p>Some might say that it’s feminism which is to blame, as it gave us
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+Queer either through the seminal works considered as being the
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+originating of a discrete Queer Theory, which came from radical
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+sex-positive feminists like Gayle Rubin, the postmodern Hegelian banter
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+of Judith Butler, the formalizing of Queer as a term denoting critical
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+transformative change by David Halperin, the French postmodernists
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+themselves, or even the view that woman is a process of becoming as
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+other to demiurgic spectre of maleness which plagues women across the
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+world. Even Orwell warned about women:</p>
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+<blockquote>
|
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+<p>“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the
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+most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the
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+amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” - George Orwell (1984)</p>
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+</blockquote>
|
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+<p>There are also those who will say that Queer Theory is not something
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+to be concerned about, as it doesn’t have a stable-enough grounding in
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+reality in order to maintain a sufficiently coherent structure to really
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+bring down much of anything.</p>
|
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+<p>Others, still, will say that it’s not worth identifying Queer Theory
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+itself, as these are all just superficially differentiated forms of
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+“anti-capitalism” and all these different cultural manifestations are
|
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+just variants of the same thing, such as Communism, and that we could
|
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+simply focus our effort much better by generalizing everything and
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+shrinking the set of operational terms to a minimum.</p>
|
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+<p>There’s something to be said for simplifying, but you would be remiss
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+in failing to consider how toxic and deleterious Queer criticism is in
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+how it preys upon the facets of human thought which are most conducive
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+to feelings of resentment toward the biologically embodiment of human
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+life - something for which most have already dealt with resentment
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+about.</p>
|
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+<p>With all that in mind, we should at least examine Feminism a little
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+bit more closely.</p>
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+<h4 id="muh-feminism">Muh Feminism</h4>
|
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+<p>!NOTE: Feminism article?</p>
|
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+<p>In a way, it’s correct to respond to the proposition of Queer theory
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+by examining Feminism, but there seem to be multiple ways by which
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+people attempt to separate them. For the modern “Gender-Critical”
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+feminist, they undoubtedly see the need to separate them. In fact, they
|
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+see Queer Theory as an implement of Patriarchy having infiltrated what
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+is the liberatory process of women, and they evidence this on the basis
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+of there being biological males in female spaces, and biological males
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+doing Queer activism to redirect and confuse the revolutionary energy
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+intended to free women. Of course, there are plenty of females doing the
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+same, and the boots on the ground doesn’t really tell you where the
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+ideas come from. A more correct interpretation of Queer Theory is as the
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+evolution of, at least, the idea of Feminism as it becomes updated to
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+remain viable and operationally significant and, more accurately, the
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+evolution of cult collectivism as the logical pursuit of the prospect of
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+collective delusional thinking.</p>
|
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+<p>Some might say that, prior to the more pronounced proliferation of
|
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+Queer Theory of the 2000s and, in pop culture, the 2010s, the phenomenon
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+of people distancing themselves from explicit association with Feminism,
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+if perhaps even as seeking self-empowerment or choosing a more
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+post-feminist lean, caused its more aggressive activism to become less
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+stable. Though warmth to standard feminist rhetoric had become less
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+popular out of academia it had since become familiar more familiar to
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+hear the insistence for the prioritization of the equal treatment of
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+women, particularly in an institutionalized surrounding, that they are
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+competing against the odds. That familiar sentiment speaks to the degree
|
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+to which it has become considered as the common, sensible, and popular
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+outlook to have, even if it is now inducing significant pushback.</p>
|
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|
+<p>But why do we avoid considering that as significant in many areas of
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+popular and academic discourse?</p>
|
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+<p>Because of the goals of Feminism, or any view which utilizes Marxist
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+Critical Analysis (and yes, it is my opinion that Feminism fundamentally
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+requires a critical analysis predicated on class struggle), it can’t
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+stop at universal application of liberal principles. No, it stands
|
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+against Liberalism, or “Classical Liberalism” for those who like to
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+differentiate the two, and it does so at its fundamental position. That
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+is to say, that which defines it fundamentally makes it opposed to
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+Liberalism and, if adequately pursued, should lead to its
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+destruction..</p>
|
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+<h3 id="all-collectivism-is-anti-liberal">All Collectivism is
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+Anti-Liberal</h3>
|
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+<p>That should be elaborated upon, because it is quite a statement to
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+say that the goal of something is the destruction of Liberalism, but I
|
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+find it difficult to not reach this conclusion for the same reason I
|
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+gave in my criticism of every other form of collectivism commented on in
|
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|
+this book.</p>
|
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+<p>All collectivism, even when pursued by those who claim to be in
|
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+favour of a society based on Liberalism, must be eschatological and, as
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+such, must delay the application and expected viability of Liberalism.
|
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|
+Just as Robin DiAngelo’s antiracism is a “lifelong commitment to an
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+ongoing process”, and “That Wasn’t Real Communism, the work of
|
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|
+collectivism is never done.</p>
|
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+<p>Even if every law written and every policy enacted is done in such a
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+way as to not permit the preferred treatment of any person classified
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+along some abstractly identifiable trait other than, say, being a
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+criminal with a history of murder and pedophilia (and even such people
|
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|
+have laws they can refer to in order to avoid being discriminated
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+against), it can still be argued to never be enough. Any lingering
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+discontent in the life and experience of a person who has found a
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+culturally referenceable stereotype, even if obscure, by which they
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+believe they can plausibly declare themselves as being associated in
|
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+whole or part can be used as fodder to decry their having been oppressed
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+by a villain whose identity they perceive as their other.</p>
|
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|
+<p>And since they have a path to invoking the force of the state, even
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|
+as a general understanding before even having had their own instance of
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+alleged oppression evaluated by a state apparatus provisioned to serve
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|
+as infrastructure dedicated this very situation, such as a Diversity
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+policy, they will always have the comfort of knowing they could reject
|
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+any doubt about their conduct and proclamation and find a credible piece
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+of universally accepted evidence that they are correct by sheer
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+enumerability in the form of the state’s own participation and identity
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|
+declarations. A reusable reference coupled with state authority can go a
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+long way of convincing the discontent that their method of re-asserting
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+themselves is legitimate in a world that heretofore kept them down.</p>
|
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+<p>With rule by law by a state which presents as the manifestation of
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+divinity in the current concrete form tangible to us, and as our
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+superordinate entity which grants us life, rights, nobility and
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|
+morality, those who chose to reify a mythos by proclaiming an identity
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+which proves the state’s description of history and legitimacy of its
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|
+stated goals are fully-legitimate beings.</p>
|
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|
+<h4 id="its-feminism-when-we-want">It’s Feminism When We Want</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>There is a prevailing issue pertaining to the essence of these
|
|
|
+Critical ways of thinking, and it is that dissatisfaction is
|
|
|
+continuously identified, breeding resentment, and that this becomes a
|
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|
+perpetual cycle. In fact, it is this cycle which powers the engine of
|
|
|
+activism in seeking change.</p>
|
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|
+<p>If it’s the lense of Feminism then it’s the implicit understanding
|
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|
+that the outcome will always be unsatisfactory because of patriarchy,
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|
+and these sentiments will themselves prove that oppression exists in the
|
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|
+exact form described by feminists, Critical Theorists, and so forth. The
|
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|
+moment this is championed by a state government, as is always sought, is
|
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|
+the moment we can be assured of its practical march to
|
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|
+totalitarianism.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Any promise or claim of liberalism premised under the need for social
|
|
|
+transformation is always a lie because transformation is always a demand
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|
+for radical revolution, and revolutionary desire means belief the laws
|
|
|
+don’t work. It means that processes addressing certain problems and
|
|
|
+currently accepted solutions haven’t been working and need to be
|
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|
+replaced and eliminated.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>What are some things which Feminism finds have not been addressed? -
|
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|
+Wage Gap (in ever more insidious and confined forms of quantification) -
|
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|
+Violence against women (any number of things beyond physical violence by
|
|
|
+men vs women are construed as this, including violence of men against
|
|
|
+men) - Hegemonic imposition of any kind: - Women can be not women: -
|
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|
+Queer theory: praxis undertaken to finally embody expression of woman -
|
|
|
+Gender critical: Patriarchy’s manifestation of Transgender Rights
|
|
|
+Activists suppress the life and expression of real women - Expectations
|
|
|
+about how to live, feel, present and behave - That women and men might
|
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|
+sometimes dress differently (this sentiment has almost completely been
|
|
|
+relegated to the domain of Queer)</p>
|
|
|
+<p>As we can see, these scopes can include all sorts of phenomena, such
|
|
|
+as stating that wars causing death to men are ultimately violence
|
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|
+against women. A nation’s inadequate GDP growth or high inflation, male
|
|
|
+suicide, and so on are forms of oppression against women. Yet more
|
|
|
+obvious, still, is how some of these new concerns are actually Queer
|
|
|
+Theory, but which get presented as that of Feminism, or
|
|
|
+Intersectionality, the latter of which should be reasonably seen as
|
|
|
+including Queer theory or at least functioning as an essential interface
|
|
|
+towards its proliferation. Tracing the lineage of Queer Theory to
|
|
|
+Feminism is not very hard as we can look towards any number of seminal
|
|
|
+works of Queer scholarship and see that they came from people who were
|
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|
+and are still considered to be feminists, including by themselves.</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="queering">Queering</h3>
|
|
|
+<blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>“… une femme n’est pas nee, mais devien” - Simone de Beauvoir (The
|
|
|
+Second Sex)</p>
|
|
|
+</blockquote>
|
|
|
+<p>This statement is the basic premise of gender non-conformity and,
|
|
|
+more importantly, queering. If Simone de Beauvoir is to be taken as
|
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|
+correct in making her ground-breaking statement “a woman is not born,
|
|
|
+but becomes”, then we have before us the instantiation of queer, even
|
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|
+before its formalizing.</p>
|
|
|
+<h4 id="queer-as-ultimate-negation">Queer as Ultimate Negation</h4>
|
|
|
+<p>To come to be what you are on your own terms sounds like a brave,
|
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|
+liberated, justified aspiration for anyone. Indeed, I see no reason why
|
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|
+everyone shouldn’t want to exist as they do under the assumption that
|
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|
+they are creating meaning and a destiny for themselves and that their
|
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|
+capacity to endeavour to do so aids us all in attaining the same - a
|
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|
+capacity that I’d hope we should all attain and that, as a point of
|
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|
+ethics and morality, we should all be expected to be afforded the
|
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|
+freedom to pursue.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>But this isn’t about your freedom to pursue meaning. It isn’t even
|
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|
+about your freedom to pursue identity, with Queer theory presupposing
|
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|
+that reaching and expressing one’s identity correctly will bring them
|
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|
+into a state of harmony from which their most meaningful existence will
|
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|
+be derived. This presupposes that the circumstances from which your
|
|
|
+identity becomes possible emerge conditionally from that which must be
|
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|
+made the target of Queer theory, which proceeds ostensibly as a process
|
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|
+of the pursuit of meaning, but is actually a violent and dehumanizing
|
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|
+tool which must modify and destroy not just others, but oneself.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Though poising itself as something to ground the ungrounded,
|
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|
+especially in popular culture, educational institutions, entertainment
|
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|
+and other areas where its praxis comes face to face with common people,
|
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|
+it is not a domain of thought or toolset by which to provide humans with
|
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|
+positive encouragement, illumination and a framework to build stable
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|
+lives so much as it is a threatening arsenal of methods of negation
|
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+which must remove any expression from human society which could
|
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+otherwise be theorized to interfere with one’s capacity to imagine
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+themselves as something which will cause a disruption in the other that
|
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|
+perceives them.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>And how do people perceive themselves? How do we evaluate and confirm
|
|
|
+that they perceive themselves in some way? Is their perception of self a
|
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|
+genuine one? An objective one? Or just mere fantasy?</p>
|
|
|
+<p>Well, it isn’t even so much that the manner in which one
|
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|
+self-perceives is liable to be a fantasy, but that the notion that one
|
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|
+could have any insight into self-perception, especially to such an end
|
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|
+that one could know whether they self-perceive correctly, or to an
|
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|
+acceptable level of satisfaction, is a fantasy. For a state apparatus to
|
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|
+be used for such a purpose is the enshrining in law of a civilizational
|
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|
+right to pursue fantasy, and this on its own is not something
|
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|
+intelligible.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>But it gets much worse than that because, in the cult, everything
|
|
|
+which comes into Being is done so collectively. They tell you over and
|
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|
+over that they believe in the collective and that things which are have
|
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|
+been made to be through the interpretation and confirmation of the
|
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|
+collective. Whether this is simply the socialistic comment of “you
|
|
|
+didn’t build that”, or the Marxist plight of man being able to create
|
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|
+unburdened by conditions beset and coloured by other entities within the
|
|
|
+same system, or whether the lived experience and ways of knowing are the
|
|
|
+result of structural determinism, we can see that every system of
|
|
|
+Marxist thought and collectivism as a whole depends entirely on ensuring
|
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|
+that the conditions are sanitized and made conducive to a true state of
|
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|
+being by ensuring that there are no expressions serving as evidence that
|
|
|
+the conditions have allowed freedom of perception to be granted.</p>
|
|
|
+<h3 id="controlled-expressions">Controlled Expressions</h3>
|
|
|
+<p>As we again see, it is the expressions themselves which must be
|
|
|
+controlled because, as they serve as evidence of not being in the
|
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|
+desired state of reality. They evoke friction and sow doubt as to
|
|
|
+whether the delusion will fully actualize, bringing great offense to the
|
|
|
+cult initiate, activist and believer. Once the cult participant’s belief
|
|
|
+about their identity is bound to the hope for a state of affairs that is
|
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|
+free of offensive expressions, any evidence of an entity existing out of
|
|
|
+alignment is itself an attack on the self-perceived identity of the cult
|
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|
+member. In a superficial sense, these are the goals of the cult. When
|
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|
+the expressions are perfect, uncontaminated and without conflict, these
|
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|
+expressions will have led us to liberation.</p>
|
|
|
+<p>But, then, which expressions are these? Well they are those that
|
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|
+resonate in an environment devoid of any other contradictory expression.
|
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|
+And the path of changes necessary for these expressions is made to be
|
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+traversed not through knowing what the eventual perfect expression will
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+be, but by ensuring the false expressions which prevent others from
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+achieving capacity for free expression are not disseminated.</p>
|
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|
+<p>It is a system for suppressing expression with the faith that it
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|
+leads to a perfected expression. But the process of perfecting
|
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+expression and the methods used in that process are not conceived of or
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|
+designed in some way such as to formulate some form of better
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+expression. On the contrary, though expressions are transmitted, they
|
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|
+are constructed vis-a-vis the targeted expression against which it seeks
|
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|
+to be brought into conflict with. Like a fully-differentiated IgG
|
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|
+antibody marking a specific type of undesired cell for destruction, the
|
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|
+tactical expression targets the particular expression deemed to be
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|
+operating within the system to prevent, suppress, contaminate, or
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|
+otherwise hinder the true and righteous expressions of species and
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|
+Universe.</p>
|
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|
+<p>It isn’t just usually negation; it is negation, and only ever
|
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|
+negation. Why is that? Because the opposite is the thing which intends
|
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|
+to do something. As critical praxis, all action arises through
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+identifying the actions, edifices and formations which have created and
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+they must be destroyed.</p>
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