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