logicp_writings/collectivist_theology/hegel.md

Introduction

Wikipedia

Context

• From Phenomenology
• Explains how self-consciousness dialectically sublates into: {Absolute Knowledge, Spirit and Science}

• a priori to understanding the Science of Logic Sublate is sometimes synonymous with Aufheben. To take up, lift up and carry. To higher level where its abstraction can be utilized. It is sometims translated to mean negate or take away, but there are two ways in which to examine this.

  Sublate Negation

  As you take up an idea or concept, you'll be able to understand some aspect of it, which could be considered an abstraction of it, and this can be synthesized into some other action or observation. You may have negated some aspect of the original concept, and reduced it into a partial component, or even transformed the aspect of it into some new conception from which an abstraction can be more easily deduced, internalized, harnessed, and so forth.

In the other sense, to lift or take incurs the negation of having moved some object from its original place, but in doing so you are also engaging with that object, or carrying it across spacetime for a later point, preserving its potential for incorporation with that future event.

Recognition

Absolute knowledge can only be attained after self-conscious recognition of another instance of self-consciousness. Believes that the entirety of reality is present to self-consciousness, and that this state is reached in 3 steps:

1. Desire (directing outwards from self)
2. Master-slave (directed to an unequal other)
3. Universal self-consciousness (self consciousness recognizing self in another)

Myth

• Story of people meeting
• Self consciousness developed from consciousness
• Sublation into absolute knowledge, not through natural science, but through phenomenology as per a progression through history wherein a struggle for freedom leads to realization of self
• Hegel's language makes for multiple interpretations:
• a) self consciousness through human development
• b) self consciousness of a society in history becoming a nation realizing freedom

Master-Slave

Dual interpretation:

• The dialectic interpreted as an internal process occurring in one person or as an external process between two people.

This occurs because Hegel asserts "end to the antithesis of subject and object" - What occurs in the mind also occurs outside Objective and Subjective unified through sublation.

Two natural beings meet and find self consciousness in one another's independent existence. They are aware of one another's pre-reflective, exclusionary disposition which prioritizes itself.

Each being perceives itself as truly self-conscious through certainty of oneself as a thinking being. This constitutes an incomplete self-consciousness, failing to see the other as equivalent.

Interplay of manipulating the other, whereby they see themselves reflected in the other. This yields a form of narcissism.

The self loses itself when finding itself as the other, which is also sublation in the sense of having reduced the representation of the other to its own self.

Reaction

When confronted with the other, the eslf cannot be immediately recognized. The other is like an ordinary object.

Death struggle

If one dies, self consciousness is not achieved. This is an "abstract negation". Death is avoided by agreement and subordination to slavery.

One transformed into master as they do not perceive their identity as dependent on life, thus eliminating fear.

The other is transformed into slave out of fear.

Enslavement

Recognition of the other gives each self-certainty required for self-consciousness. Relation of master/slave preserves the recognition of each other. In recognizing the other, one's own consciousness is made into an unessential object, but realization of this object constitutes certainty of self

Contradiction/Resolution

This state is not sufficient to achieve full self-consciousness. Slave only recognizes pain of death. Master's self-consciousness is dependent on the slave for recognition.

Slave creates increasingly sophisticated products for master from nature due to creativity, and sees himself reflected in the products, thus causing him to realize that the world is created by his hands. The slave is no longer alienated from his own labour and achieves self-consciousness, while the master becomes dependent on the products created by the slave, resulting in his becoming a slave.

Dialectical Thinking

In which each thing is what it is only by becoming what it is not. Alchemy. Alchemical thinking is in Marcuse's Repressive tolerance:

Tolerance is only truly tolerance by becoming intolerant Freedom is only truly free if you limit free (for certain people) Democracy is only truly democratic when the people with wrong ideas are disenfranchised Critical thinking is only truly critical thinking when it adopts a Critical Consciousness A space is only desegregated when it is segregated so it can get away from the structural deterministic force of racism (super structure of society) on the rationale that a space can only be deracialized by intentionally racializing (Mapping the Margins by Crenshaw - there is a fundamental difference between saying I am Black and I am a person who happens to be black). Racialize specifically to fight against the race that's already present. Racialize to deracialize.

Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectical thinking is the thing in which each thing is only what it is by becoming what it is not. Lead to Gold. Alchemy.

Theodore Adorno and the Dialectic of Enlightment - he criticizes this exact idea - he turned post-marxist by this thing 20 years later in 1966 - he seekst o recover the dialectic in some new way which merely negates what is and thus opens possibilities for new ideas to bloom from the particulars, with nothing in the way. We won't have a synthetic structure, get it all out of the way so the perennial philosophy can emerge. But this is still Alchemical thinking.

We see this with the postmodernists - Foucault has the idea that through criticism we can expose all the absurdities and thus expand the potentialities of being. Both of these lines appear in the post-marxist dimension, but in Neo-Marxism such as Herbert MArcuse's description from Essay on Liberation:

Beyond these limits there is still the space both physical and mental for building a realm of freedom which is not that of the present. Liberation also from the liberties of the exploitative order - a liberation which must precede the construction of a free society - one which necessitates a historical break with the past and the present.

Alchemy is still present, just worded differently, and much less mystically. But in alchemy, this is a key point, the alchemist must purify themselves appropriately or his alchemical magic won't work. A key hermetic belief. For HErbert Marcuse, we see this in 1969, from the same essay in eugenecist terms: "What is now at stake are the needs themselves. At this stage the question is no longer 'how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others' but rather how can he satisfy his needs without hurting himself. WIthout reproducing through his aspirations and satisfactions his dependence on an exploitative apparatus which, in satisfying his needs, perpetuates his servitude. The advent of a free society woudl be characterized by the fact that the growth of wellbeing turns into an essentially new quality of life. This qualitative change must occur in the needs - in the infrastructure of man, itself a different dimension of the infrastructure of society. The new direction, the new institutions in relationships to production must express the ascent of needs and satisfactions very different and even antagonistic to those prevalent in the exploitative societies. Such a change would constitute the extinctual basis for freedom, which the long history of class society has blocked. Freedom would become the environment of an organism which is no longer capable of adapting to the competitive performances required for wellbeing under domination. No longer capable of tolerating the aggressiveness, brutality and ugliness of the established way of life, rebellion would then have tkaen root in the very nature - the biology of the individual, and on these grounds the rebels would redefine the objectives in the strategy of the political struggle in which alone the concrete goals of liberation can be determined"

Hegel all through this, right? Changing the nature of the biology of the individual so he's no longer capable of tolerating domination - maybe he can become psychopathic! Not biology like "biology" biology, but rather making people totally intolerant to the idea of intolerance and of oppression, and look what we're doing to our children, making them with theri microaggressions and ultrasensitized to easily freak out. No more politics at basecamp, throw htemselves to the floor and have a meltdown. They are not psychologically capable of tolerating life - they need a liberated world. Marcuse's project - is it happening?

"Political radicalism thus employs moral radicalism. The emergence of a reality which might precondition man for freedom. This radicalism activates the elementary, organic foundation for morality in the human being. Prior to all ethical behaviour in accordance with specific social standards, prior to all ideological expression, morality is a disposition of the organism, perhaps rooted in the erotic drive to counter aggressiveness - to create and preserve ever-greater unities of life. We would then have, this side of all values, an instinctual foundation for solidarity among human beings. (Solidarity is key ) a solidarity which has been effectively repressed with the requirements of class society, but which now appears as a precondition for liberty. TO the degree to which this foundation is itself historical and the malleability of human nature reaches into the depth of man's instinctual structure, changes in morality may sink down into the biological dimension and modify organic behaviour. Once a specific morality is firmly established as a norm of social behaviour, it is not only introjected, it operates as a norm of organic behaviour. The organism receives and reacts to certain stimuli and ignores and repels others in accord with the interjected morality. Isn't that's what happened to our poor emotionally crippled college students and adults, now? Which is thus promoting or impeding the function of the organism as a living cell in a respected society. In this way, a society constantly recreates this side of consciousness and ideology, patterns of behaviour and aspiration. As part of the nature of its people, and unless the revolt reaches into this second nature, into these ingrown patterns, social change will remain incomplete and even self-defeating."

That's a scary project. To finalize, with a little bit from the essay on liberation, where he gets into the biology:

"In the advanced capitalist countries, the radicalization of the working class is counteracted by a socially engineered arrest of consciousness. And by the development and satisfaction of needs that perpetuate the servitude of the exploited, a vested interest in the existing system is thus fostered in the instinctual structure of the exploited, and the rupture with the continuum of repression is a necessary precondition of liberation, and it does not occur. It follows that the radical change which is to transform the existing society into a free society must reach into a dimension of teh human existence, hardly considered in Marxian theory - the biological dimension - in which the vital imperative needs and satisfactions of man assert themselves. In as much as these needs and satisfactions reproduce a life in servitude, liberation presupposes change in its biological dimension. That is to say, different instinctual needs, different reactions of the body, as well as of the mind."

Alchemy. Purify oneself sufficiently and engage in the dialectic, the magic process, by adopting the Critical Consciousness - and what happens ia liberated Utopia will emerge on the other side of everybody doing this. By blooming out of the ashes of the existing society, once all of its limitations and oppressions are burned away through Aufheben - aufheben kultur. This is alchemy driven by the dialectic in roder to achieve a Utopia - Gold sprouting from Lead. A golden society, a golden age, sprouting from an oppressive, leaden age.

It's the same alchemy, and it requires here, literally at the biological level, just like the Soviets requested a new Soviet man, the purification of the self for it to actually work. The adoption of a pure consciousness of the religious, whether it's critical consciousness, class consciousness, race consciousness, whatever it happens to be. So, in essence, this is the hegelian idea that people will not and cannot be free, so long as they are other to the absolute. And in the instance that they genuinely become aware of their own role in manufacturing the absolute, and how the absolute understands itself, the absolute will realize itself, history will end and liberation or communism or true freedom or whatever they want to say will emerge in this perfected society that comes out at the end of history, and that's Hegel's historicism upon which all of these stupid ideas are based. It's a Hegelian religion.

You can put all this crap that Marcuse just said, purification etc, much mroe simply, by talking about a contemporary voice. Robn d'Angelo puts it from her much narrower perch, in Critical Whiteness studies, in that 2018 book called White Fragility, is that you have to try to be less White. That's the ambition. Try to be less White. Coca Cola infamously took this up as a diversity imperative, which resulted in them facing massive blowback, because people saw how horrific it is, but for d'Angelo, this is the same as Marcuse, really. The same ideas as Marcuse. If we were to just purify ourselves of the white supremacist super structure. Get that out of the way, and a racially liberated world might bloom. If we want to do that, we have to apply the dialectic, but we can only do that if we've adopted this so-called Racial Humity, racial stamina. Critical Race Consciousness. We have to be aware of our whiteness and strive to eb less white. We have to recognize that there's no such thing as a positive white identity. Once we've purified ourselves, we can apply the dialectic to challenge that white supremacist suprestructure by disrupting, dis mantlling, subverting, this is applying the heal that heats the world so hat an alchemy towards a perfected idea/state/culture can be achieved. You hear it everywhere, and you see it in Hegel. And it's really also in Marx. That line is completely drawn at this point, and now we're starting ot see that it is a religion with a complete metaphysic, a complete different idea about how the world, and God and Being and Nothing and everything are constituted. A god no longer that is, but a god that becomes by the action of humans understanding the problematics and tearing them away so that the seeds of God, the alchemy, will arise from that Aufhaben'd world.

So the basic idea, here, is that in the process of creating the other, which is the world (God) which is present in everything, which is kind of a Panentheist (Panentheism) idea (God exists in everything), exists in fragmented form trapped within all these imperfections of the world and the philosophies and religions that arise. The alchemical belief the same thing about seeds of Gold being trapped in base materials is going to be applied here, the alchemical process is to treat those in some sort of an alembic, usually with fire, by spiritual pure alchemists who are in parallel Critically Conscious philosophers - Gnostics. They will free the seeds of Gold out of a perfected society with perfected ideas and get them to blossom and thus change base metal or material into GOld, or the society into a perfected absolute. The idea will perfect, the absolute will realize itself, the end of history will arrive and this is the idea behind Hegel's dialectical spiral. His trinity spiral.

Do we go too far?

Too Far

Marcuse again.

Second edition of 1-dimensional man

Description of Marcuse's project

Marcuse thought the dialectical philosophy could promote critical thinking. 1-dimensional man is perhaps Marcuse's most sustained attempt to present and develop the categories of the dialectic philosophy developed by Hegel and Marx. For Marcuse, dialectical thinking involved the ability to abstract one's perceptions and thought from existing forms in order to form more general concepts. Uncritical thinking derives its beliefs norms and values from existing thought and social practices, while critical thought seeks alternative modes of thought and behaviour from which it creates a standpoint of critique.

Such a critical standpoint requires developing what Marcuse calls negative thinking, which negates existing forms of thought and reality from the perspective of higher possibilities. (Spiritually pure alchemy). This practice presupposes teh ability to make a distinction between existence and essence. Fact and potentiality. Appearance and reality. Mere existence would be negated in favour of realizing higher potentialities while norms discovered by reason would be used to criticize and overcome lower form sof thought in social organization, thus grasping potentialities for freedom and happiness would make possible the negation of conditions which inhibited individuals full development and realization.

In other words, perceiving th epossiblity of self-determination in constructing one's own needs and values could enable individuals to break wiht the existing world of thougth and behaviour. Philosophy was thus to supply the norms for social criticism and the ideal of liberation which would guide social change and individual self transformation.

Critical and dialectical thinking by contrast postulates norms of criticism based on rational potentials for human happiness and freedom, which are used to negate existing states of affairs that oppress individuals and restrict human freedoms and well-being. Dialectical thought thus posits the existence of other realms of ideas, images and imagination that serves as a potential guide for a social transformation that would realize the unrealized potentialities for a better life. Marcuse believes that great philosphy are the locus of these potentialities and critical norms, and he decodes the best products of western culture in this light. (Performing alchemy on them to reach higher unrealized potentialities for a better life).

So, for Hegel, Where this all comes from - the divine expresses itself in nature. THe seeds of the divine exist in everything, but yet everything is imperfect and must contain its own contradictions.

The philosopher, when sufficiently gnostic (having the right consciousness), will then be able to apply reason (vernoomft, as opposed to mere verstand) via the dialectic to expose the contradictions and in synthesis get the seeds of the divine to blossom into the world. This gives rise to more perfected ideas and the process repeats itself, with history existing as the alembic, and hte dialectic acting as the fire, and aufhaven acting as the reducing process. Occassionally, for Hegel, great men of action (key concept), like Napolean, are brought to the fore by history to move this process along in lurches. A lot of times there are warlords who kill a lot of people, Napolean was this archetype, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Possibly Woodrow Wilson, FDR and others, Ghenghis Khan, etc. Would make the list of men of action.

Used by history, according to Hegel, to move the process of history along, because history has this arching purpose to it, which is ultimately to actualize the absolute. It doesn't matter if these are good guys or bad guys, because sometimes it takes good roads and sometimes it takes bad roads.

Philosophers primarily, for Hegel, are meant to move this along in particular. The tool that they'll use is reason which, when it is perfected, is the absolute. Everyday folks who live within the geist are also helping to move it along, because they hope to expose those contradictions in the current state of affairs, which the philosphers will then be able to identify and resolve through proper application of dialectical synthesis.

This is a revolving door between the woke and the activist scholars. The faster in the Hegelian thought process, the faster it goes, the harder the dialectic is pushed and the more the existing society and status quo are torn down and broken, the faster the absolute will be able to realize itself through engagement with the other, and thus the faster everything will be perfected and turned into Utopia.

This is, for Hegel, being that he is a speculative philosopher (looking into a mirror to remember - a process of recollecting and remembering or uncovering through speculation - a mysticism). That philosophy perenis - the perennialor eternal philosophy. The one true philosophy that all theologies, religions, systematic world philosophies are all revealing some part of, but are not properly doing because they're not convergent into one idea. The alchemical process is to take the fragmented pieces of this philosophia perenis and reduce it in the alembic of speculative philosphy down to its essential core, and the tool to do this is the dialectic (the fire) across their differences , and the way it's done is through Aufhaven. That is, the philosophia perenis which characterizes the absolute and indicates, when realized, that the absolute has actualized as the ultimate dialectical synthesis of all ideas. Everything in the world comes back to one idea.

Speculative idealism to remember the prisca theologia - primordial theology (concept introduced from Marcilio Vencino in the 15th century - central concept in hermetic faith. Alchemy.) Fascino was a priest, but he was also sufficiently heremetic where he was threatened with excommunication for his alchemy (or astrology or neoplatinism). The parallels between fascino and hegelianism were obvious - Hegel even commented on it in oen of his books. Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy writes about Fascino - he saw himself as one member of a venerable sequence of interpeters who added to a store of wisdom that God allowed progressively to unfold. He's a gnostic as well. Each of these prisci theologi or ancient theologians had his part to play in discovering, documenting and elaborating the truth found in the writings of Plato and other ancient sages, a truth to which these sages amy nto have been fully privy acting as they were as vessels of divine truth.

Fascino, who was an inspiration in some ways to Hegel, was an astrologer and alchemistwho was responsible for the translation of hermetic texts (literally the texts of Hermes). Along with various neoplatiinists in the latin. Hegel, writing in the history of philosophy, was aware of him. He criticizes fascino's Neoplatonism, but he also adapts a heremetic view and something from his prisca theologia. All faiths and philsoophies are manifestations of the one and the same ultimate faith, that's being expressed inadequately or incompletely in the world, and so Hegel believes in his systematic philosophy and his reason when it' sperfected and becomes the absolute - that he has the accurate one true philosophy or faith. This is being done for HEgel because he sees the absolute as existing throughout time, even though it's becoming absolute through time as well, freeing up the philosophia perennis from the confines of cloudy nature, which has fragmented and locked it away in various worldly forms (philosophies and theologies) which were constructed by people who only know the part, but forgot the whole. For Hegel, when you know the whole, the parts all make sense.

This comes back to Verstand and Vernunft. Two ideas of science and reason that Hegel had. Under the broader heading of knowledge - Wissenschaft - which is often translated as "science", you have two categories:

Verstand (understanding):

• lower level
• just understanding things - parallel to traditional theory
• understanding how things work - physics, science, philosophy
• Hegel thought Isaac Newton was a charlatan and a fraud - limited to observational and empirical/rigorous things.

Vernunft: reason

• higher level
• articulation of this is laying out a so-called logic of science
• Verstand lays below the vernunft which puts it all into a complete and systematic philosphy
• When reason is perfected, you have the absolute - a perfected remerged philosphy of perennis which reflects the prisca theologia
• Arrogant way of viewing his own philosophy as perfect, and a very gnostic way of thinking.

Verstand - understand the world and do so empirically/logically. Low-level understanding. Marcuse repeatedly appealed to a higher level of understanding which is available to people who have true reason, which is freed up and has a consciousness behind it. The consciousness of the absolute.

Put another way, one of Hegel's tenets that relates to the purpose of reason - the particular cannot be understood except in relation to the whole. This is the focus on contradictions which help you to understand that you don't know the whole - you clearly missed something. This means that Hegel's philosophy is ultimately holistic, rather than reductionist. Verstand is reductionist - understan dthings, break them down. Vernunft is holistic. The holistic science.

It also means that what he calls reason is actually ideology, which is why all the way down this line from young hegelians, the marxists to neo marxists, to cultural marxists, certainly the woke - all seem to think that they have something better and more holistic, a superior understanding of the world compared to everyone else. This is very gnostic in nature.

Dialectic from marxist.org

Formal thinking often has trouble understanding the causes of events. Something has to be a cause, and something the effect. People are surprised that when they irrigate land and 20 years later due to salination of the land, silting of the waterways etc they have a desert.

Dialectics, on the other hand, understand that cause and effect are just one and another side of a whole network of relations, such as we have in an ecosystem. One thing cannot be changed without changing the whole system.

Dialectic has its origins in ancient society, both among the Chinese and the Greeks where thinkers thought to understand nature as a whole and saw that everything is fluid, constantly changing, coming into being and passing away. It was only when the piecemeal method of observing nature in bits and pieces practiced in western thinking in the 17th and 18th century had accumulated enough positive knowledge for the interconnections and transitions, a genesis of things to become comprenhsible, that conditions became ripe for modern dialectics to make its appearance. It was Hegel who was able to sum up this picture of interconnection and mutability of all things in a system of logic which is the foundation of what we call today dialectics.

In other words, all this stupid scientific understanding of things (formal thinking, all of this traditional theory) is verstand and it's lowly and stupid and people make mitsakes like turning their farmland into deserve.

But we have a higher level - vernunft - which is the dialectic. Hegel's systematic philosophy. He names his own systematic philosophy as "logic" and that systematic philosphy is , infact, the higher way of thinking and it is driven by the dialectic. It ties into that thread previously mentioned that the operating system is the dialectic.

Marx: Hegel had the thing standing on its head and turned back upright. Neomarxists: Marx had this thing

Hegel focused on the ideas, the God and the absolute. Marx focused on the state, or the materialist world or the son. And the neomarxists focused on the culture - the spirit or the geist.

That makes a solid, very clear through-line that these people (Hegel, Marists, Neomarxists and their woke inheritors) are all talking about the same thing, with just different aspects being what they believe as the relevant part where you do the alchemical process.

Hegel - The ideas Marx - The state and the material conditions Neo-Marxists - The culture Woke - The culture

(Recall in horror, what it implies under Marxism, that a philosphy treats the state like it's Jesus. Which, in some sense, provides salvation and life. But also, an ideal model for how to live an ethical life, because that's what's going on under Hegelian statism and the its expression in Marxism.) Recoil in horror. Jesus as the state. State becomes Jesus. That's, the way the truth in the life become the state.

This really is how Hegel sthought about hte state, by the way. So this way of tinking, summing up the Metaphysics:

Hegel remains speculative/mystical - trying to apply the Marx frees him from his mystical shell - makes the dialectic into dialectical materialism - seeks to exploit the conditions of material life, by raising class consciousness in the people who experience it.

The neo-marxists shift that whole project to Aufheben der kultur. THe dialectical abolishment or transformation of culture. In working in the geist.

The current woke project is primarily an effort of constant multidimensional aufheben der kultur. Kultural warfare of the dialectical leftist motif. Thus, it's no surprise that we are now currently embroiled in a totalizing international culture war, and it's also very easy to see who the antagonists are and how they proceed. The way that they proceed is trhough this culture war - Aufhebe der kultur - tear down the existing culture to cause problems.

Judeo Christian comparison

Easy to see this whole project, and all of these forms, as being a religion. In fact, three species with three denominations of one religion. The judeo-christian model is not a terrible metaphor. But don't get me wrong and take this literally, it's just a comparison.

I want people to think k I want to spur the thinking, I want to use historical development of Christianity in its regard. Not comparing the values and ethics involved. Just using it as a comparison point so people understand. But in this sense, one could almost think of Hegel himself as being Judaic, he's the one that's establishment and making convenant with documenting this new absolute deity. Marx falls into the role of the early prepolene Christians who ahve brought this faith into a new era of practicality, but whose reach is limited in the Neomarxists by turning to aufheben der kulture down with the woke - like the polyEvanglists whose reach is virtually unlimited.

That's sort of the religious structure of this religion in terms of how it comes out practically.

With Hegel, the Judeic faith is very exclusive - the kind of prepolyne Christian approach is also quite limited in terms of its reach.

Evangelistic Christianity is billions in global, rapidly expansive. This polyene demand to evangelize is indicative of what you see in the neomarxists and the evangelists by moving the entire project into the sight of Geist.

So rather than working within the idea as the deity, or working within the material world as the son, they instead turn to the geist - working through what Hegel would conceive of as being the holy spirit - what moves the world and Good Night are they ever succeeding at moving the world with it.

In all three cases, the basic underlying faith is identical, present, largely constant, and that faith is based on Hegel's metaphysics, which is ultimately a metaphysic based in societal alchemy that's meant to create some new world that's perfected and Utopian. This leaves it open to megalomanics who, throughout history have come up and picked up these ideas, whether Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, we could name more - who picked up these ideas and who think that their vision of the right side of history can be implemented under their rule. The woke, although they don't have this charismatic man of action behind them right now, are doing the same thing, which is why I've called it Leninism 4.0 in the past.

Let's step back, change gears, and head towards a long wrap-up to this.

WrapUp

The consequences of this line of thinking.

Necessity And Urgency to the Dialectic

If you believe that the Utopia is brought about faster by the dialectic, you have to do this hard and fast - as hard and fast as possible - this is what the progressives strive at. The more vigorously the dialectic is applied, the faster we get to Utopia - that exists at the end of history. So everybody who resists this must somehow be eevil, because they resist the idea of Utopia, and they drag humanity's feet and history's feet and the whole time that this is happening, they maintain the oppressions of the imperfected society that's evil.

So, you're going to see Urgency, you're going to see demands for confirmity, you're going ot see demands for Collectivism as a result. You're also going to see seeds of statism, but I really want to convince you that Hegel was a statist, so it's really no surprise that Marxism becomes statist. The neo-marxism is totally Totalitarian and the wokeism inherits both statism and totalitarianism, because Hegel's philosophy is ultimately profoundly statist. The state is a divine idea, as expressed on Earth.

Hegel writes:

The state is absolutely rational in as much as it is the actuality of the substantial will, which it possesses in the particular self-consciousness, once that consciousness has been raised to consciousness of its universality.

Once consciousness becomes critically-aware, then you have the state being absolutely rational. It's going to be a perfected state, like I've kept saying.

Hegel:

This substantial unity, is an absolute, unmoved and in itself. in which freedom comes into its supreme right.In other hand, this final end has supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of this state (total Statism under hegelian thought, and you see this exact mentality all the way down that whole line. Young Hegelian - Marxist -Neomarxist - Woke. What else did Hegel say? In `Philosophy of Right`)

The state is the actuality of the ethical idea. It is the ethical mind, qua, the substantial will, manifest and revealed to itself. Knowin and thinking itself accomplishing what it knows, and insofar as it knows it.

This sets aside, of course, a much more famous declaration in the Philosophy of History:

For truth is the unity of the universal and subjective will, the universal is to be found in the state. And its laws, its universal and rational arguments, the state is a divine idea as it exists on earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of history in a more definite shape than before, and in which freedom obtains objectivity and lives in the enjoyment of the subjectivity. This is why they think that freedom comes from the state.

This is Hegelian Leftism

And remember: The state has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the state.

In free societies like the United States - especially any free society (US in particular) that proceeds from Jeffersonian framework - we belive that rights precede the state - our rights were endowed by a creator. They are inalienable. In a hegelian framework, this is not how it works. The individual is to to be subsumed by the state. It has a supreme right against it, and the individual has a complete duty to the state. Total statism, total collectivism.

Rights are replaced by privileges to be granted by the state. This is a completely different political model. Rights endowed by the creator meets the antithesis of privileges granted by the state.

The connection to what's going on in the woke ideology today here cannot be missed, especially in the now famous declaration in Critical Race Theory:

Critical Race Theorists are highly suspicious of another liberal mainstay - namely, Rights. And they're simultaneously obsessed with privilege and how the system, which is a manifestation of the idea state in the culture or geist, creates and thus bestows privilege. Privilege is something that's granted by the state. They're obsessed with the idea of privilege, they're obsessed with who has privilege and how that' sunfair, because the state itself is unfair because the entire structure of the idea, stat eand culture are incorrect, and so they agitate culture knowing that that's where you have the most drive to change the entire thing, to oorganize who has privilege, that's why they're so obsessed with privilege, that's why they want people to check their privilege, they want to criticize privilege, because state is something that comes down from the state, and they want to reorganize everything so that privilege gets reorganized so that it operates according to their ideology, their world-view.

Another consequence of the Hegelian thought, as I've mentioned, is collectivism. Because when the ideas are perfected, and this is a little bit of a philosophical

int - everybody must have the same ideas because they're perfect. All the contradictions, which lead to other ideas, must have been synthesized. Think about it - if anybody has different ideas, that's a site of contradictions. If your idea and my idea rae different, we now have a dialectic between us, so that means it's not perfectly synthesized. So we don't have the perfect idea, therefore the absolute has notrecognized itself unless we all have the same idea. There can be no cognitive liberty in the perfected state.

We have to have total collectivism. We don't even all have to be the same, we have to think the same. And this is going to happen by bringing that state, by all subsuming our will to the state, giving over our will/our duty to the state entirely. So now it's a collectivist organization.

So collectivism is massively - I don't think hegelian thought created collectivism, collectivism precedes it, btu it is an amplification of it to a dramatic degree with a powerful collectivist metaphysic underneath it. And, of course, collectivism leads people who take it up to try to force a situation, because they believe that when there's total conformity, to their totalizing ideology, and that's collectively maintained, then we're now near or at the point of the absolute realizing itself. We're now at the perfected point and the Utopia is imminent. Because we're all part of the dialectic process that's moving history forward, and we're all in it together - we're all in i ttogether, right? That's collectivism.

Anybody who has a different idea becomes both a problem, but also proof that the absolute hasn't realized itself. Because the ideas haven't been perfected. So that person becomes a site - somebody with a different idea, with their own thoughts, with cock and freedom becomes a site where the dialectic is continuing to play out, but that means it's not done playing out. So the Utopia is not here, so somebody with different thoughts is preventing the emergence of Utopia, and they're probably just being stubborn. And you can see where the frustration begins to arise, and people get shot.

People who don't want to get on board with this, especially when some psychopath or megalomaniacal man of action have taken control and power, which is totally a weakness of thsi ideology, because the man of action is always being looked for who's going to move this through, that's going to be perceived from within this logic as being against the realization of Utopia - problematic and in need of elimination, or at least of excommunication or silencing or complete marginalization.

That's exactly what we see - that's cancel culture, and what we saw with much more horrific manifestations like Lenina nd Stalin and Mao and whatever. Che Guevara, Fidel.

This is another thing - we mentioned these guys - this type of mentality, this Hegelian magic is wide open to psychopaths and megalomaniacs whio think that they have and they have the charisma to pull it off a little bit, and the total ruthlessness to force it - they think they have the vision. They've studied the theory and they know what it is, so they have the vision and the capacity to decide what the right side of history is, and it's going to strangely conform to their pathologies, of course, and they're going to install a pathocracy - pathological government that basically tries to make their life like everybody's working for them, and they have the ability to usher that in at whatever costs. This is going to happen again and again under Hegelian Frameworks. This is why the left, right now, is utterly catastrophic, and it keep sgenerating these catastrophic movements.

Hegel's man of action is going to come in in the attempt to fulfill history. History is using him - it's nto even his own agency. History is using the man of action to progress the Dialectic. To progress history. As critical race theory has it, right, and so the dialectic progresses. And if he fails in his mission to ffulfill history, that still fits into the same mold. History still progresses. He doesn't fulfill history, history progresses. It's win win.

So he's likely to gain significant support from the Dialectical left who believes in this kind of faith, but this leads to these kinds of mentalities that we keep hearing abou tthese tropes like "Real Communism has never been tried" Because every attempt so far was just a case where it wasn't real Communism - peopl eforwarded some new synthetic idea which wasn't the totally synthetic/perfected idea. And the contradictions that they had in the attempt were revealed to them through the unfolding process of history, which might be 10s or 100s of millions of dead people, or World Wars - both WW were the result of this, for example: all of the communist failures were the result of this. Hitler was the result of this. All of this was the result of a Hegelian dialectic being taken up as a faith.

So, they say real Communism hasn't been tried because it will only be tried, or only will have occurred after the absolute realizes itself, not before. So everything up to that point, no matter how bad - good roads and bad roads - is how history progresses. It was just a part of the process of making our way there.

So:

Thesis - Communism is the way Antithesis - 100 million dead Synthesis - NeoMarxism - let's shift it to culture.

Let's get out of material and shift it to Geist - it will work this time.

Furthermore, all these mass deaths taht we see through these awful Hegelian projects - these people are just Martyrs of history. They're not a tragedy - they're a victory. 100 million dead? Good, that' sthe view, because history used them. They're Martyrs but history used them to reveal the contradictions and the ideas that were being forwarded in that age. So they're not really a loss, they were revealing those contradictions as history needed them to. History used them and history discarded them, just like Men of Action. Indeed, the 100 million dead were a benefit under this kind of a world view. History under hegel's philosophy, under Hegel's historicism which was praised by Engels - uses people for its purpose and then discards them, so 100 million dead are just part of that process.

Ends justify the means, after all. We keep hearing these things are ends in and of themselves.

As Hegel had it then, the spirit of the time commanded movement, the absolute marches through history through good roads and bad roads, so long as it continues marching. 100 million dead is just another road, just another part of the process, it's all progress, no matter how bad it is.

So let's ratchet down a few notches from that horror show. One more example, and thne we'll talk about what to do about it to wrap up.

Interfaith Movement

People wouldn't expect is another consequence of the Hegelian thought is the Interfaith movement.

This is, actually, another aspect of Hegelian's philosophy. Because of that Prisca Theologia and the PHilosophia Perennis that he's after. Interfaith is the attempt to bring all the various faiths, and maybe philosophies together, the United Universalists Church. And extract from them what was originally there before it became corrupted and worldly. Or to identify within them the various aspects reflected of the philosphy of perennis. The perennial philosophy that all of them are just badly simulating, in the simulacrum sense of Jean Beaudriard.

So, for Marx, state atheism and his view of materialism would do, and in our present incarnation of this nonsense which is WOKE, as with the others before it, a highly refined, mostly nonsensical vision of Social Justice is something to do with the philosophy of Perennis.

Equity becomes the updated vision of Communism under this Social Justice model.

Public Private partnerships become the vehicle.

A supernational superstate that replaces the state as Nation State. So we have our Equity-Geist. We have our Supernational State in Public-Private partnerships.

And the faith traditions of the world all cheer this on by subverting their beliefs to the synthetic beliefs if Social Justice.

The Christians are Social Justice and saying this it in Christianese.

The Muslims are Social Justice and saying it in Islamese.

The Buddhists are Social Justice and saying it in Buddhistese.

And nobody's preaching their own faith or talking about their own philosophy and tradition, they're all just using that somewhat parasitically to forward that one different faith, which is Social Justice.

And a Socially Just world is the name for the project that will lead the absolute to realize itself and actualize. This is all still Hegelian metaphysical faith.

What to do

1. Understand that the Operating System of the left is, in fact, the Hegelian Dialectic.

It comes in different forms and has different focuses, largely because the Dialectic being its main operating system applies to itself and concentrates and changes it. So, from Hegel's very idealistic view, to Marx's Dialectic materialist view, to the Neo-Marxists very cultural Aufheben der Kultur view, to the Woke kaleidoscope of Identity Politics that we have today.

In that sense, what we see is an underlying metaphysics and underlying tool that's ultimately religious, and is being driven by this Dialectical process which is ultimately alchemical in Nature.

Understanding this thing is crucial to understanding what's going on now, in the currents of Leftist thought since at least the 1830s and maybe earlier, and it should truly be seen as a religious movement.

Of course, I mentioned the dialectic with the tool of Aufheben at its core is ultimately what drives the whole thing, so the methodological undercurrent of the entire Leftist project over the same 2 century timeframe is Dialectic Driven by Aufheben. Abolish, Destroy, Undermine.

While trying to pull out and let blossom the seed of gold of gold within it.

Shapiro

So if we turn to Ben Shapiro's

When ideas are perfected, everybody must have the same idea, because they're perfect

Contradictions were synthesized - but think about it, if anyone has ideas, that's a sign of contradiction, and we have a dialectic between us, therefore we don't have the perfect idea unless we all have teh same idea

no cognitive liberty in the perfect state. We have to think the same. This will happen by bringing a state wher we all subsume our will to th state. Collectviist organization. Collectivism is not created by hegelianism, but it amplifies it to a powerful collective metaphysic. Collectivism leads people who take it up to try and force a situation because they believe that when there is total conformity, collectively maintained, then we are at or near the point of the absolute realizing itself. The perfect point where Utopia is imminent. We're all part of the dialectic process moving forward, we're all in it together. Anyone with a different idea is proof that the absolute hasn't realized itself. That person becomes a site where the dialectic is continuing to play out. That also means that it's not done playing out.

They're just being stubborn, and it creates frustration then those people get shot. Especially if a megalomaniacal man of action has taken control to move these things through. This will be perceived from within the logic as being against realization of Utopia and thus in need of excommunication or margainlization or even destruction.

That's what we saw with things under Lenin, Che, Fidel, etc

This is another aspect - this kind of a mentality - Hegelian magic is mwide open to psychopaths and megalomanics who think they have the charisma and ruthlessness to make it happen. They have the vision and the capacity to decide what the right side of history actually is, and it's going to conform to their pathologies, and they'll install a pathocracy of pathological government that basically tries to make their life as though everyone's working for them, and they have teh ability to usher that in at whatever costs.

This occurs again and again under Hegelian dialectic.

Hegel's man of action comes in in the attempt to fulfill hsitory - history is using the man of action to progress the dialectic / history - as CRT has it, the dialectic progresses. If he fails in his admission to fulfill history, that still fits into the same mould of history having progressed. So he always gets support from the dialectical left who believe in this sort of faith. This leads into mentalities we hear abou t/ tropes / Real Communism has never been tried. Every attempt so far was something where it wasn't really communism - it was a synthetic idea tha twasn't the perfected form of the idea. Contradictions in the attempt were revealed through the unfolding process of history - dead people and wars? WWI and II? 10 sof millions dead?

Communist failures and Hitler both get to be a result of a hegelian dialectic being taken up as a faith.

Real communism hasn't been tried - because it will only be tried or have occurred after the absolute realizes itself. Everything leading up to the point, good rodas or bad roads, are just part of the process to make our way there.

Thesis Communism is the way Antithesis 100 million people dead Synthesis Neomarxists ffffffffff Mass deaths occurring through Marxist projects - Martyrs of history. Not a tragedy, a VICTORY! 100 mil

Interfaith movement is another result of Hegel's philosophy. Brings all faiths together and extract from them what was aer