This is an excellent summary of the issue and I will be sharing it. Anytime an idea supercedes the individual, whether it's the notion of Appeasing the Sun Gods, Public Health, or Public Good, it must be understood that the individual will suffer at the behest of the individuals that created the idea to begin with. I've long favored all drug legalization, for example, not because I use drugs, but because if there is no victim, there is no crime. In short a junkie who steals from others to support his habit should be charged accordingly, as should a drunkard who beats his wife, say. Of course those indivual actions also have a consequence on that individual's body or ability, say, which they need to live with. A greta many atrocities have happened in the name of the greater good...
LOL I caught that after I wrote it, then decided it was fine that way. This computer has an "a" key that is perpetually stuck, which unfortunately causes a lot of typos: either there's no a, or it sticks and there's two aa's, or it delays and the a comes after the next letter when it should be before. Well at least it works to get the point across!
The argument that society, as a concept, doesn't act or have a will of its own, but is rather a summary term for interactions among individuals, is a good one. The idea that certain entities often get to define 'the greater good' and enforce it on others highlights a need for constant vigilance. Also, the emphasis on individual rights as the foundation of freedom resonates with me (Hence my No 6 moniker!) - true freedom encapsulates each person's ability to pursue their well-being while respecting others' rights to do the same.
Thank you Lily. This brought tears to my eyes. Humanity should be wailing at their oppression. I'm distressed that so few are. After this covid-evil, people are just happy to attend a movie, concert, dinner or to walk in their local park. They don't realize that the next great wave of control is peaking around the corner. Even at this point my husband is under great pressure to get the jab, and we will NOT. We don't care if it saved a billion lives, it's our choice and we are suffering the consequences for our refusal. I wonder everyday what it will take for people to wake up... is it vaccine injury, their kid on hormone blockers or an abortion without parental notification, their business looted or burned down by rioters? Once the world is wholly enslaved it will be very difficult to turn back. In so many ways we are already enslaved and the powers that be sit back and laugh at our attempts to resist. As always I'll pass this along. If kids were taught a quarter of what freedom is we might not be in this predicament.
"In a perplexing paradox of human chronicle, the doctrine that fundamentally compels us to see ourselves as beings ordained for sacrifice has been broadly accepted as an emblem of kindness and love for humankind."
For me this goes to the crux of the manipulation and also why there is such difficulty in penetrating the hearts and minds of compliers. A brilliant hijack of human goodness to fool them into anti-human slavery.
Thank you for the rallying cry. Time and time again it's been proven that the collective is less effective than the sum of its constituent individuals. We frogs who realise that and have escaped the ever-increasing temperature in the water need to encourage more to jump out and help defeat the evil turning up the flame.
To put an exclamation point on your great essay, I will now quote Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka "Dr. Suess", who I think was really canceled over this truth:
Mentioning "a Sisyphean task" right after quoting Camus - how could I not like that? But I think the Jung quotes, which establish the individual as "the real thing" (/more than an abstraction), are most important for understanding not just the political and corporate but - maybe more importantly - the cultural attack on freedom: The powerful trends in academia and pop culture don't necessarily aim at elevating the status of society but at lowering the status of the individual. What racialized identity politics, gender ideology, the idea of "climate justice" and even neo-conservatism have in common is that the mere existence of individuals isn't enough, that human life draws meaning from the social constructs and social norms surrounding it. As a consequence, the individual can be portrayed as just one more social construct. If this terrible idea hadn't become part of many people's mindsets, it would have been far more difficult for political and economic powerhouses to put up our most basic rights for discussion.
You are missing the idea that collectivism can exist oitside the state. And that former statist collectivism was aboit production of real industriak goods and not food and now its hollowed out o collectovist consumtpion power whoch is innately statist and the state is the biggest consumer and always will be. The automation of supply chain outsourcing orocess means the conveyor oc jobs always leaves before labor gets power, ensuring a perennial allignement between banks and ownership class. Im not advicating an alternative im saying youre describing it wrong. Empires and eoch nations are shackled to consumerism. And sonsumerism is alligned woth 'radical individual' corporate socialism-social heirarchy.. the other collectivism , non statist , is religious in nature and thrives on consuming less. Luddites amd amish come to mind. Of course a simoler path requires a producing and not merely consuming or welfare.
Collectivists, in this sense can also favor the destruction of the wealthy state. As the states existence empowers parasitism not production.
You have done well to expand your horizons but youre nott not entirely oit of the mud of labelling traps.
This is an excellent summary of the issue and I will be sharing it. Anytime an idea supercedes the individual, whether it's the notion of Appeasing the Sun Gods, Public Health, or Public Good, it must be understood that the individual will suffer at the behest of the individuals that created the idea to begin with. I've long favored all drug legalization, for example, not because I use drugs, but because if there is no victim, there is no crime. In short a junkie who steals from others to support his habit should be charged accordingly, as should a drunkard who beats his wife, say. Of course those indivual actions also have a consequence on that individual's body or ability, say, which they need to live with. A greta many atrocities have happened in the name of the greater good...
Thanks Amy. I couldn’t have said it any better.
I agree that 'greta' is an atrocity as well, oh meaninful typo I adore thee!
LOL I caught that after I wrote it, then decided it was fine that way. This computer has an "a" key that is perpetually stuck, which unfortunately causes a lot of typos: either there's no a, or it sticks and there's two aa's, or it delays and the a comes after the next letter when it should be before. Well at least it works to get the point across!
The argument that society, as a concept, doesn't act or have a will of its own, but is rather a summary term for interactions among individuals, is a good one. The idea that certain entities often get to define 'the greater good' and enforce it on others highlights a need for constant vigilance. Also, the emphasis on individual rights as the foundation of freedom resonates with me (Hence my No 6 moniker!) - true freedom encapsulates each person's ability to pursue their well-being while respecting others' rights to do the same.
Thank you Lily. This brought tears to my eyes. Humanity should be wailing at their oppression. I'm distressed that so few are. After this covid-evil, people are just happy to attend a movie, concert, dinner or to walk in their local park. They don't realize that the next great wave of control is peaking around the corner. Even at this point my husband is under great pressure to get the jab, and we will NOT. We don't care if it saved a billion lives, it's our choice and we are suffering the consequences for our refusal. I wonder everyday what it will take for people to wake up... is it vaccine injury, their kid on hormone blockers or an abortion without parental notification, their business looted or burned down by rioters? Once the world is wholly enslaved it will be very difficult to turn back. In so many ways we are already enslaved and the powers that be sit back and laugh at our attempts to resist. As always I'll pass this along. If kids were taught a quarter of what freedom is we might not be in this predicament.
Excellent! Will restack.
"In a perplexing paradox of human chronicle, the doctrine that fundamentally compels us to see ourselves as beings ordained for sacrifice has been broadly accepted as an emblem of kindness and love for humankind."
For me this goes to the crux of the manipulation and also why there is such difficulty in penetrating the hearts and minds of compliers. A brilliant hijack of human goodness to fool them into anti-human slavery.
Thank you for this. Best.
Thank you for the rallying cry. Time and time again it's been proven that the collective is less effective than the sum of its constituent individuals. We frogs who realise that and have escaped the ever-increasing temperature in the water need to encourage more to jump out and help defeat the evil turning up the flame.
"Once you have SEEN one cannot UNSEE".
A brilliantly written article about the malaise festering amongst the UNSEEING going in some great part to explain how and why this is happening.
Indeed. Happy Independence Day Lily.
Excellent, excellent.
“The illusion of freedom serves as one of the most potent shackles of servitude.”
Here’s to dispelled illusions and broken shackles!
That was excellent, Lily!
To put an exclamation point on your great essay, I will now quote Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka "Dr. Suess", who I think was really canceled over this truth:
"A person's a person, no matter how small"
Happy Independence Day Lily!🗽
Mentioning "a Sisyphean task" right after quoting Camus - how could I not like that? But I think the Jung quotes, which establish the individual as "the real thing" (/more than an abstraction), are most important for understanding not just the political and corporate but - maybe more importantly - the cultural attack on freedom: The powerful trends in academia and pop culture don't necessarily aim at elevating the status of society but at lowering the status of the individual. What racialized identity politics, gender ideology, the idea of "climate justice" and even neo-conservatism have in common is that the mere existence of individuals isn't enough, that human life draws meaning from the social constructs and social norms surrounding it. As a consequence, the individual can be portrayed as just one more social construct. If this terrible idea hadn't become part of many people's mindsets, it would have been far more difficult for political and economic powerhouses to put up our most basic rights for discussion.
You are missing the idea that collectivism can exist oitside the state. And that former statist collectivism was aboit production of real industriak goods and not food and now its hollowed out o collectovist consumtpion power whoch is innately statist and the state is the biggest consumer and always will be. The automation of supply chain outsourcing orocess means the conveyor oc jobs always leaves before labor gets power, ensuring a perennial allignement between banks and ownership class. Im not advicating an alternative im saying youre describing it wrong. Empires and eoch nations are shackled to consumerism. And sonsumerism is alligned woth 'radical individual' corporate socialism-social heirarchy.. the other collectivism , non statist , is religious in nature and thrives on consuming less. Luddites amd amish come to mind. Of course a simoler path requires a producing and not merely consuming or welfare.
Collectivists, in this sense can also favor the destruction of the wealthy state. As the states existence empowers parasitism not production.
You have done well to expand your horizons but youre nott not entirely oit of the mud of labelling traps.
One sign of a declining country is its citizens consider it moral for their government to threaten physical force against honest, peaceful adults.