Awakening from the fantasy of Leftist/Liberal Utopianism

      I used to be anti-Trump until I awakened from the liberal & Marxist brainwashing of my secondary & graduate school mis-education. Not to mention mass media gaslighting that took a while to see thru for me. But Jan 6 is mere prelude of what is to come if the Liberals don't wake up to the Globalist, Marxist inspired utopian totalitarianism that has captured the liberals. 

    If Marx were alive today & if there were any Marxists left who could think historically as Marx did, they would see that the contemporary constitutive contradiction is between the localist/populists (true Federalists) & the technocratic centralists trying to de-democratize & establish a one-world government. The later are guided by the Davos/WEF cabal. 

    Populists are, however, not a social class & what is going on today is not "class warfare". The populists are Communitarian localists, based on the principal of subsidiarity, not Communist. In short, all revolutionary politics today is localist/communitarian & stands against bureaucratic-technocratic managerial Centralism. That's the big picture & the correct context within which revolutionary politics must be thought today. All else is confusion & the guaranteed destruction of the democratic sovereignty of We The People.

      At a political level, socially and psychologically, the distinction that is operative is the "friend-enemy" distinction. There are various determinants that constitute 'friend' as there are for 'enemy.' I saw this dynamic play out at the surface level, when my "friends" at the collegs Itaught at for 30 years, turned on me viciously when I began advocating a neo-populist federalist politics.  Besides its principal education stance in Federalism & subsidiarity, my position is pro-Trump, anti-vaxx, closed borders, pro- energy independence, anti-BLM, anti-Critical Race Theory and unequivocally anti-democratic party, especially Biden's cabal. But my former "friends", suffering from Trump de-rangement syndrome, vilified me beyond all reason calling me evil, fascist, murderer, racist, vile, selfish, etc., etc., etc. They in effect were a political lynch mob. They refused to debate me, continued to character assassinate me and eventually canceled me, which is what Leftist Utopians always do when they begin to see the absurdity of their politics, science, medical practices and attitude toward the predominant globalism. 

     So America is radically and vehemently divided between friends and enemies but fails to see the prevalent populist/centralist dynamic that is determining who is a friend & who an enemy & all other contradictions. The pseudo-distinctions, i.e., contradictions, between democrat/republican, conservative/liberal, left/right, captialist/communist are all obfuscatory pseudo-differences confusing the simplicity of the true constitutive contradiction of the whole of the polity between localism & centralism.  The radical Centralism of the State, often but now redundantly referred to as the Deep State, attempts to de-legitimize & destroy all localism & thus the very heart of Federalism, the People's democracy & the spirit of American cultural, social & political identity.

AMERICA ISN'T SAFE ANYMORE

        It's a sad if not tragic day in America when only the super rich or very wealthy can feel safe from the Woke inquisitors, whether the MSM media mob, the wacko street protesters, criminals, the social media assassins, etc.  

     Russell Brand is the recent victim of the 'Me Too' branch of the woke purification purges.  Of course on the Right, no matter how we define that, we know that the real reason Brand is being burned alive is that his truth-telling counter-narrative to the Globalist Agenda is reaching too many people, at least 6 million & counting.  And these days, if not in all days, narrative shapes or is realty.  Narrative is definitely political power.  And that is all that's left in a world where truth has been diagnosed as having the virus & must be quarantined or exiled to the 'conspiracy theorist' reservation. 

      But even the Musk's or Joe Rogan's are not really safe if they can "get something on you," blow it up in the mass media & destroy whatever credibility or effectivity remains in your public persona.

     So the right to safety is dead where the totalitarian agenda seeks to reduce all but the compliant elite to the status of non-person in a state of bare existence.  Even the safety within our own skins is on the hit list of dehumanization. Bodily sovereignty scarcely hangs on in America. Informed consent, medical freedom, the Nuremburg Code, the Hippocratic Oath are all dead, mere obstacles to the globalist centralization of all institutions in the WEF's proposal of the new "normal" world order.  All policies will be the Official Policies of the "trusted" experts. Democracy, freedom, learning & sociality are on the way out.  

      This critique will all be dismissed as ranting paranoia as part of the gaslighting narrative of the new normalization in which the "normal people" & safe people will see things as having gone back to normal.  When in fact the saving of the worthy aspects of the traditional past may be well impossible.

      If total control can be avoided, then possibly the circling of the wagons of conservativism, Christianity & common sense will be required against, the elitist agenda best personified in the cabal of the World Economic Forum & their enablers: the proto-fascist corporatists, the World Health Organization, the United Nations & even possibly most importantly, the insidiously lurking  presence of the ubiquitous Chinese Communist Party.

       Possibly the theme of the movie The Matrix will come true in the necessity for rebel bands of freedom revolutionaries to carry out guerilla warfare against those who can no longer listen for or hear truth.

PHILOSOPHICAL CRISIS IN THE WEST

 

It’s clear there is a spiritual crisis in Liberal Democracy.  What’s not so clear to most is that there is also a philosophical crisis.  For two reasons.  The value of truth has declined if not disappeared. Secondly, there is no understanding that the nature and place of truth must be discussed.

The spiritual crisis shows up in the dehumanization of mankind and the barbarism that still reigns in human affairs.  The philosophical crisis show up in that the discourse on fundamental meaning and purpose is absent from everyday human affairs.  Not only do most people not discuss politics, let alone know enough to discuss it meaningfully as a matter of daily human affairs; but the fundamental issues of philosophy that underlie those discussions and the issues and antagonisms involved are hardly ever discussed amidst the quotidian preoccupations of the masses.

It would seem that the progressives would want to engage in such discussion of the perennial issues and questions, given they seem to want to change the given state of affairs no matter what the cost and as fast as possible.  There is no will or allotted time to consider if change is so urgent and where warp speed transformation is going to take us.  Possibly out of the pot and into the fire.  But how would we know when adamant certainty prevails and the entertaining of fundamental questions is considered laughable or, at best, only for college philosophy class.  Sadly the spirit of such fundamental discourse doesn’t even often prevail in philosophy class.  I know.  I witnessed it for over 30 years of college teaching.  There is a fundamental rupture between thought, life and action in the world.

Philosophy is fascinating and engaging.  But the prevailing felt impatience that such experience is a waste of time and that there in fact is “not enough” time for thinking.  Philosophical thought does slow us down. It does take time.  But that may actually be one of its many benefits given that we are living in a kind of ‘warp speed’ world.  A rush to who knows where.

The idleness of philosophizing is no virtue today.  Though the right to “be idle” seems to be catching on as a ‘human right’ in some liberal strongholds.  But the pressure ‘to get on with it’, whatever “it” is governs our sense of time and how time should be “spent,” and what is worth our time.  Yet not having enough time to “do philosophy” is not really a matter of the quantity of time available.  Most of us waste inordinate amounts of time without realizing it.  What keeps us away from such such idleness, philosophical idleness and will undoubtedly keep the progressive liberals from embracing the “right to idleness” is because of what happens in idleness.  What happens?  One is confronted with one’s thoughts; or, even worse, one is confronted with the boredom bordering on the abyss of existential despair when the exigencies of achieving the next liberal goal is put to rest.

So for those who might want to take a break from the breakneck speed of everyday striving, achieving and just ‘keeping up,’ let’s go back and consider something we might want to think about.  It’s near the beginning of philosophy, about 2500 years ago that a man named Socrates began asking some important questions.  But apparently dangerous questions.  Because if you don’t know the story of Socrates his lifestyle of questioning and teaching the youth philosophically cost him his life.  He was accused, tried and put to death for “corrupting the youth,” and “not believing in the gods of the community.”

But let’s take the risk and consider just one of his questions.  It occurred in a wonderful little dialogue written by his student, Plato, called the “Euthyphro.”  It’s a short dialogue.  You might want to check it out.  But the big question that arises in the course of this dialogical drama is this:  Does God say something is good because it is in itself good; or, is something said to be good only because God says it’s good?

We might reflect for a moment and note that for those who don’t believe in God or a God, that such a question is meaningless.  But if I might be so bold, let’s translate the question into something relevant and meaningful in our world:  Is something good in medicine because it is good; or is it good only because Fauci says it’s good?

I’ll leave you to it to ponder this question if you choose; maybe go back and read the “Euthyphro,” and possibly even do a little research about what others have said regarding this question.  It is a founding and grounding question of the Western tradition, the tradition so vilified and under attack by the forces of “good” who presume to know what is good and bad and where we should go from here.

If I might give a little hint, it’s this.  If the question of the truth about good and bad, right and wrong is not a matter of God and God’s authority, especially for atheists obviously, then consider the nature, origin and legitimacy of authority itself.  Who rightfully has authority over truth, not to mention goodness?  Or, does authority itself guarantee and/or justify claims to truth?  Or, is truth itself not the fundamental determinant of what idea or which officials should have authority?

Have fun!!

Radical Relativism No Defense for Twitter’s Radical Left Censorship

The Left argues that the First Amendment is not “absolute.” So that means it is "relative." Thus, they would conclude, that the egregiously selective and targeted censorship at Twitter was justifiable. Relative to the perceptions and judgements of the Twitter radical Left, the Right's speech is unacceptable. On Twitter today we hear the shallow minds of the Left argue that one should not be able to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theatre; and, one should not be permitted to incite violence against another’s person. Therefore, based on these two examples, all speech, they continue, is relative and all judgements about what is acceptable, permissible and censorable is relative, i.e., not determinable objectively and thus subjectively relative. But we might ask relative to or for whom or what? Why and to what particular relative points of view is speech only relatively or situationally or contextually permissable?

Moreover, with respect to the Left's presumably justificatory examples, more importantly we must point out that the reason yelling ‘fire’ and objecting to permitting inciting violence is not because speech is not absolute nor because such examples are instances of causing or preventing some unconscionable action but because such speech makes it virtually impossible to invoke the other side of speech, namely, the ability and opportunity to question, to object, to inquire, to dialogue and participate democratically in the discourse of knowledge and reality. The Left’s fallaciously superficial if not silly counterexamples are examples of speech acts that violate the nature of speech itself. That is, to question the factuality, truth, reality, goodness of any act of speech, or of any actual events, fulfills upon and honors the nature of speech whether declarative, interrogative, speculative or imaginative. Speech which violates the nature of speech and prevents the fulfillment of its and our human nature is that which must be impermissible. So in short that “speech” should be stopped which stops speech itself from enabling us to fulfill upon our nature, spirit and purposefulness as beings of speech. The 'shout fire/inciting violence' examples are impermissable because they excite or incite actions that stop speech where speech is or may well be required. Real speech has recourse to itself as dialogue that enables the truth and reality of claims to be considered, not imminently and exigently without further linguistic consideration thru impulsive action, but reflectively within the imperatives of the required time to think, speak, reflect, comment and question. Real speech allows and invites a response and provides the time and opportunity for the responder to do so.

The Leftists are radical relativists for whom the only thing that is absolute is their point of view, their proclamation of the real, the true and the good. Thus we on the right are dealing with a dogmatic, authoritarian and effectively violent cabal. In their relativistic defense of censorship, they violently violate speech itself and thereby the very practice that fulfills upon our nature as creatures of language and thought, a practice requiring in principle unbridled, infinite iterations of the word.

The New Conservative Revolution

 "The small and everyday can be solved easily, if we understand the large and essential and put it in its due order." - Martin Heidegger

Despicable Martha's Vineyard Hypocrites Exposed

After Gov. DeSantis' brilliant exposure of the unsurpassable hypocrisy of the Left Liberal elitist utopians holed up at Martha's Vineyard, the "flight & landing" seen round the world, we now know all we need to know about our need to purge this country of these scourges upon democratic society. These "Vineyard" parasites on human life pretend and profess to stand for the D.I.E ideology, namely the values of "diversity," "inclusion" and "equity." What we saw exposed at Martha’s Vineyard is the exact opposite. This scum stand for “diversity,” well, for everything but diversity of political opinion. They use their MSM and Big Tech shills to gaslight the populace that what they profess is actually values they hold. They misrepresent the Conservative Right every chance they get. And the truth is they never met an opportunity to censor, cancel, vilify and assassinate personalities that they did not love. They refuse and suppress the right and actuality of the Right to speak for themselves. So the opinion of the People is a just a little too diverse for them and we get called extremists, terrorists and traitors to democracy. Imagine that.

 

They love diversity of culture and race but just not in their backyards. They are NIMBY on steroids. They love illegal immigrants until they have to take care of them. Of course they are willing to “take care of them” with our tax money and if we keep the brown people in our backyards. The Martha’s Vineyard clan claimed they didn’t have the infrastructure nor the housing for all these brown people. And yet they expect every other community that they ship the little brown people off to in the dark of night to have that infrastructure. They are pathological liars par excellence.

 

The ‘white-as-white-can-be’ Martha Vineyard’s clan loves diversity and equity of education for themselves but one-dimensional, choiceless, “public” woke education for the rest of us. They try to kill educational choice, charter schools and even homeschooling every chance they get. They want to herd all the People’s children into grossly deficient “public schools” so they can brainwash them with woke and genderist nonsense and basically keep them dumbed down in literacy, historical knowledge and in short the ways of truth, freedom, liberation and goodness.

 

The Martha’s Vineyard partisans also love “diversity,” choice and equity in medicine for themselves but not for the people. They work to transform medicine into one-dimensional vaccine madness, a vaccine for every illness. They get to choose their medical care but for the rest of us they want to universally and coercively mandate vaccines and eliminate our civil liberties if we do not conform. Informed consent for them means you either agreement with the Official Medical Mafia or you are an extremist deserving of jail or elimination from society through various kinds of “excommunication.” Bodily sovereignty is not on their list of civil rights except, of course, for themselves when it comes to abortionism, abortion on demand up to the day of birth. But ask for bodily sovereignty with respect to vaccines and they go batshit.

 

The aforementioned Islanders, which includes Barack O’Bama, possibly the only black man on Martha’s Vineyard, the token black man, because he happened to be President and only because he happened to be President, also want the Green New Deal for everyone. They are so kind they want to include us, We the People, in their utopian fast-tracked fiasco. But of course all the rich private jet owners, and the government officials who want to hop around the globe like John Kerry, Green New Dealer Extraordinairre, get to fly by jet anytime and anywhere they want, polluting the atmosphere, in one little hop from D.C. to New York or L.A. or Beijing or anywhere else they want to go, more than thousands of people driving their little gas vehicles just to get to work to survive. So it’s electric vehicles for the rest of Us whether you can afford it or not and super-polluting private jets for the Martha’s Vineyard contingent.

 

So it’s D.I.E. for us or be censored, canceled, vilified or in short “killed,” in one way or another. But it’s hypocrisy and gaslighting on immigration policy, education, medicine and environmentalism coming from the Martha’s Vineyard rich and the fascist propaganda regime, the well-known toadies and ass-kissers in MSM, Corporate America and the Leftist Liberal universities. 

 

The Martha’s Vineyard hypocrital elitists are an effete, enervated and hopefully ephemeral species. Their kind have exhausted all means of honest, effective government, useful productive ideas for progress and any pretense to authentic belief in the value and power of the democratic and constitutionalist traditions of the American republic. If they do not achieve some self-awareness in the near future, they will push the People over the edge of what is tolerable and acceptable for any freedom loving people wishing to be left alone to live peaceably in their communities embracing the conservative values that have made us great, a multi-cultural society of tolerance, opportunity and local democracy in the context of a true federalism as the genius of the Founders intended.

No one wants violence, especially the Conservative Populist Right. It is not us that supported, condoned and whitewashed the BLM violence and murder of the summer of 2020. But when a People is cornered, smothered, vilified and stigmatized, denied of civil rights and proportionate representation in the American conversation, they may not have a choice. 

 

Leftist Liberalism is in terminal crisis. We the People will not be blamed for its demise.

A POLITICAL-CULTURAL CIVIL WAR

 

I think we have to be clear that Trump stands for what is so contrary to establishment foreign policy, trade economics, woke ideology, D.I.E.(diversity/inclusion/equity) policy, climate alarmism, open, i.e., borderless borders, medical authoritarianism, BLM & police de-funding that he thereby stands for a radical conservative transformation returning America to its essence. But as it is now, namely,, the Leftist effort to Socialize & Globalize America,, Trump in effect stands for our recognizing the reality of a re-structuring social/ethical class formation, rupture & conflict. The Elitists, both democrat & republican, don't want the country to see itself as the class divided country, that they made. 

 

The utopian Left wants us to see ourselves as a mass culture which of course they will still keep divided but through diffusion, along the lines of the silly nevertheless violent gender, race, educational battles, inter-regional hatred, cultural & religious fights, medical freedom, etc., i.e., violently divisive conflicts that are manufactured by the mainstream mass media & the universities but are absolutely unnecessary. 

 

 Trump does not simply symbolize all this but surely can also lead the conservative populist movement to a greater solidarity & thereby pound the last nail in the coffin of Leftist/socialist, anti-democratic and proto-fascist radicalism. So it's vital, IMO, that this political moment is not couched in the CNN/MSNBC narrative of hatred & vilification. 

 

There is a genuine political & cultural divide & conflict that the conservatives must not lose or our very existence as an American essence will be made illegal & forced out of playing any part in institutional & historical integrity. This is literally a civil war, but so far, without the shooting, i.e., overt militarized physical violence. So far it has been ethical, journalistic, medical & political autocratic policy violence. 

 

Trump did not create this division. But his presence throws a national spotlight on this real yawning cancerous divide that already exists. Given Trump's presence the Leftists have ramped up the conflict into a cultural civil war in order to destroy his base & him if they can get him. This of course was what the obscene FBI raid on Mar a Lago was all about......the effort to criminalize Trump & remove him & what he represents from the political scene. 

 

Trump & the Right do not want a political class divide. But here it is & his presence makes us aware of it. Conservative-Populist class consciousness is necessary for political solidarity & thereby the preservation of institutional, Constitutional & authentic Federalist integrity. Game on!!

THE WAR ON HEALTH, HEALING AND HAPPINESS

 

People, "the virus" is the narrative of danger, fear & hysteria. Get healthy & fuck the Official Story. It's probably always been intended as a control & transformation mechanism. 

 

If you are caught up in the emotional bubble of the immediate moment that the media mouthpiece of the Medical Authoritarians create & re-create, you're fucked. Your freedom to be naturally healthy is gone & the ability to think about the big picture of health, healing, medicine & illness is also gone. 

 

You are considered sick until proven healthy which is as irrational as guilty until proven innocent. Medicine is being morphed into the new Official Medicine which is the one-trick pony of vaccines & more vaccines. In short the Fauci Faction is creating a vaccine sub-humanity dependent upon "medical" diktats & official edicts that decide how you should feel, viz., safe or fearful. If one's own bodily feeling of health  and bodily sovereignty is expropriated, human  freedom is gone for good.

THE PEOPLE VS THE ELITISTS

 WE ARE LIVING AT a structurally transformative juncture in world history. Whether the techno-bureaucratic rationalism of the international capitalist elite, or, the will of the democratic communitarian populism of the people prevails will determine the direction the limb of life will branch & turn for any foreseeable future. 

At this turning point we can clearly grasp that the forces of authoritarian elitist totalization see their opportunity to finally destroy the spirit & discourse of 2000 years of democratic struggle. They see their excuse in a fictitiously exaggerated virus and posturing their quest for domination as humanitarian care for a world under attack by this putatively voracious lethal germ. 

But it is a blatantly embarrassing non sequitur that the world should now be re- designed, even if there were an actually lethal pandemic. The fiction of this ruse has now begun to fall apart. The people are beginning to see that the destruction of all they have built as businesses, communities & individual lives is not worth sacrificing to fight a pseudo-scientifically imagined nemesis of life on earth. 

The people on the whole are not that gullible though many are still under the hypnotic sway of a liberal mass media that practices an impossible moral purism and seem to believe their narrative of fear and doom. This media plays the role of mouthpiece for plutocratic talking points that feed the ideology & propaganda of the new medical fascists of Big Med, Big Pharma and the agents of the bio-political agenda of social control.  They do this in the interest of mass centralized accumulation of capitalist profits & the final institutionalization of the Official Narratives of global control of the Experts, Specialists & academically brainwashed liberal Professionals. 

The time to resist, speak out and act against all forms of domination, irrationality, legal violence and all the falsely innocent bureaucrats, police, officials & workers who claim they are "just doing their job." The workers who threw Jews into the concentration camp ovens were just "doing their jobs." Soldiers of the capitalist wars were 'just doing their jobs' following orders, murdering hundreds of thousands. Now is the time to reject effectively violent, lethal & immoral "law" that would have you succumb to executive authorities for authorities sake. Reject arbitrary authority, assume responsibility, creative agency & the mastery of democratic self-realization. This is the time of universal moral action & the refusal of repressive, irrational & perverted legal orders. This is the time of the purity of the peoples' democracy to arise & deny the bureaucratic-technocratic managerial elite their self-appointed superiority & let it be known that the "emperor has no clothes."

LIBERAL CULTURE DEGRADES INTO SELF-CONTRADICTION AND CONFLICT

 Soldiers can't do their jobs: rules of engagement.

Teachers can't do their jobs: critical race theory

Professors can't do their jobs: woke-ist ideology

Doctors can't do their jobs: Fauci & CDC bureaucrats rule

Students can't learn: afraid to speak out against authoritarians, dogmatists, moralists

Politicians can't do their jobs: big money controls them

Citizens can't be free: removal of civil liberties in name of safety, absolute health, denial of death

Workers can't work: businesses close down; Gov handouts create couch potatoes; regulations strangle.

Judges can't judge: they are ruled by political power/cultural pressure

MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX LEANS TOWARD FASCISM

 Mainstream liberal media promotes the medical "Matrix." It is medical authoritarianism. Our bodies become a dumping ground for Big Pharma's drugs & vaxxines & you pay for the privilege to store their toxic shit in your sacred flesh. Big Pharma wants to colonize your body & use "illness" created by a sick culture to justify pseudo-medicine. They don't want to heal let alone promote health. They want to suppress symptoms thus causing more & deeper illness & justifying evermore toxic non-solutions for your misery & suffering. The culture must be healed. The earth must be detoxified. Big Pharma & medical fascism must be fought. Mass media brainwashing must be exposed. We must return to the instinctual feeling of health, happiness, & subjective power, the "instinct" that Nietzsche called the greatest, truest human intelligence.

THE REVOLUTIONARY TELOS OF ALL POLITICS

 Now is the time to re-birth the communities of America as the "thousand points of light" for freedom & democracy. It is only in this new populist socio-political context that the spirit of authoritarianism can be put to rest. It is now across this country that the spirit of the new individual who finally & fully owns his/her power to embody & create health, happiness & abundance for all can be born. The fraudulent elitist authorities of pseudo-science, -medicine, - government, -education & -religion must be debunked & returned to the people in a revolution of authentic knowledge, power & leadership.

VIRUSES, VITALITY AND VIRILITY

Life brings people together. Death can bring people together also but not as avoiding the necessities or essential risk of life. The funereal celebration of death is in the name of a life lived.

The moral presumption that our goal should be the in principle prevention of all death at any cost to life is anti-life if not insanity. It is the denial of death. It is liberal moral purism run amok. The denial of risk is also the denial of choice in action and value determination.

The proclaimed pandemic and its political consequences have made clear the anti-life attitude-become-policy of “safetyism.” Safety at all costs in the name of life. And yet simultaneously the potential death of the whole, especially in terms of economic relations, is ignored. This is individualism run amok. Every individual life becomes a universal concern thus jeopardizing the conditions of the general organic dynamism and vitality of life.

Viruses are interesting because presumably it’s not clear whether they are living or not-living. Yet they are part of the natural constitution of our very bodies, populating the microbiome in great number. They are part of the intelligence of immunity. So it seems they are part of life in working with or as the body in maintaining the integrity and purposefulness of the whole of the body, namely the goal of vitality, vigor and virility.

Viruses are not the enemy and only become so when the immune system is compromised and unable to “commune” with the presumably “invasive” virus to further enhance the immune response. So the virus is acclimated to our body and the body accommodates the virus if organic health plays out naturally. [I would like to note at this point that I am not an expert in virology, I only play one on Facebook.] Nevertheless there is an organic balance when the immune system is not over-stimulated as with some vaccines or it is unresponsive to foreign viruses due to a weakness within itself.

When we seek our health externally through vaccines or symptom ameliorative medicines, then we begin to weaken our organic immune response because of fear, self-doubt, improper nutrition and being out of touch with the spirit power and energy of the body to heal itself.

Living becomes out of touch with Life. Our inherent power and well-being becomes expropriated by a medical rationality which objectifies the human subject and his/her subjectivity. The expropriation by the military model of medicine and the consequent forfeiting of our power to heal ourselves is the first “harm” done and the first compromise of the principle of “first do no harm.”

RECOVERING HUMAN AGENCY: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, SOCIAL AWARENESS AND POLITICAL ACTION

Understanding this global phenomenon, call it the “viral effect,” is not about some sort of self-evident factualities versus conspiracy theory, as if these are the only two possible perspectives of thought.  The former reifies “factuality” and becomes a mythic “factualism.”  The later reifies the source of action, control and intent and imagines some “big brother” in cyberspace or nefarious bad-guy Illuminati in smoke-filled back rooms planning to orchestrate world change.  Get real.  The ‘viral effect’ is a mass mediated idea that is historically catalyzing global trends of divergence away from the Universalism or globalism, empire building, civilizational homogenization, totalitarian one-dimensionality, etc., etc.  No medical facts will clarify what is happening at this historical turning point.  We must rethink the whole of contemporary life and the parts of that whole in particular.  We all can play a part in this or turn it over to the self-appointed emperors of existence.  It’s time to re-appropriate one’s self in the deepest and broadest existential and spiritual sense.  It’s the opportunity for every individual to become a player and not a pawn.  One can be at play passionately in the fields of the Lord; or a minion worker bee passively responding to the “expert authorities” when they tell you to “believe,” “feel,” “act” as they see fit.  The ‘viral effect’ is the opportunity to fully become a human being in thought, feeling and spirit and re-appropriate the living Self whose experience creates the real, constitutes the real and decides upon the reality to be created.

One aspect of this possibly emerging ‘new normal’ is the recognition of the institutional force or ideological force of official, ‘mass mediated’ authority/expertise/specialization.  The medical aspect of the ‘viral effect’ is what we see in a few official experts such as Fauci, Birx and Gates commandeering the reality of what is going on and attempting to force or suggest universal political solutions: masking, social isolation, socio-economic shutdown.  These actions are the result of a Liberal/Enlightenment psychology (become ideology) that imagines a universal solution to a health problem.  Bill Gates states this most ludicrously when he claims that nothing can return to normal until there is universal global vaccination.  This is the delusion of all delusions.  This is a rich boy playing with his money and consequent power trying to make his vacuous existence meaningful and undoubtedly also enrich his bank account beyond all dreams. 

But in keeping with the medical issue, what is at stake here in the face of the official authority/experts influencing health policy and socio-political action is the question of the locus of control of one’s health and the locus of control of one’s identity and self-understanding even and especially at the personal, subjective and spiritual level.  In short the authentic ownership of one’s own body, mind and soul is at stake. 

If for example, I make any comment on Facebook regarding the medical knowledge around the ‘viral effect’ someone will inevitably respond with a comment like “what medical school did you go to?”  The challenge here is to prove my “expertise” in terms of institutional norms, traditions and practices.  So I’m not allowed an informed opinion unless I am an “expert” whose authority comes from a recognized institution.  Even though I have a Ph.D. in philosophy, have taught for 30 plus years at a college level, read constantly, think and write about politics, spirituality, culture, etc., my opinion means literally nothing unless I have been sanctified by the powers that be. This attitude and article of faith would mean the end of public discourse, critical thinking and democratic association.  It means the end of any belief that public education prepares one and authorizes one to effectively and competently participate in public, political discourse.  This worship of the “expert authorities” de-subjectivizes the individual, expropriates one’s mind and displaces one’s capacity for self-determination to the one’s “supposed to know,” the one’s who are allowed to claim to “know,” the Fauci’s, Birx’s, Gate’s, or, God forbid the Kanye West’s or Kim Kardashians!  Knowledge and truth becomes specialized, institutionalized, compartmentalized.  The “expert authorities” will tell you what is believable, what you can or should think, want and do; even what you should feel and therefore whether you are healthy or not. 

 

THE SUM OF ALL IRRATIONALITY