in trying to understand our modernity, I was thinking about the
ism’s and ideologies that we have and then comparing/contrasting
our current ism’s and ideologies with ancient ism’s and ideologies…
for example, we have two prominent ism’s that are THE 20the century
ism’s, communism and capitalism………
but as I have previously laid out, both ism’s are less path to freedom and
more a path to our enslavement… by that think about capitalism…
I have laid out in great detail how capitalism is nihilism…I am not free
in a capitalistic society because I am simply a small and insignificant pawn
in capitalism…my role is simply to create more profit so that those who own
the means of production can get wealthier… I am means to greater wealth
and it is not my wealth that is increased… in my 40 plus years of working,
I have nothing to show for it outside of a body and soul that has been severely
damaged… because of the pain I suffer from working, I need pain pills
and sleeping pills to go to sleep… I am in pain every single day and that is the
result of my working for 40 years… my soul was crushed years ago…
and for what, I cannot retire… the various economic downturns have left
me with no money saved up…I cannot quit my job, I cannot afford it,
I cannot go anywhere else because no one will hire me, I am too old…
I am a victim of capitalism as are millions of people who suffer under it
damaging affects…and why? because it is said that somehow under
capitalism, the “hand of god” will benefit society… in 40 plus years, I
have yet to see how this “hand of god” of capitalism has benefited society…
but communism has the same problem of the individual being merely a
helpless pawn while communism with its historical dialectal materialism
that operates above us and controls us in a soulless relentless fashion…
we have no personal determination in either capitalism nor in communism…
we are simply ships that bob above the seas while the sea of capitalism and
communism try to sink us and with no care as to who we are or whither we
have consented or not… and I think that is the real problem, we have no
control or say over either capitalism or communism… an small example,
is my recent transfer to another store… I wasn’t asked, I wasn’t told about it,
I was simply transferred without any consent or approval by me… and that in
a nutshell is capitalism…actions taken about my life without any input
from me… and that is also communism… for we have no input
into the forces that dominate communism, the dialectal materialism…
where we are simply crushed under the wave of historical forces that
we have no say or control over……
and that is the failure of ism’s from Catholicism to Hinduism to Islam to
really any religion and to the ism’s of the economic and political…
we have no freedom and no say over our fate in ism’s and ideologies…
the Enlightenment and Kant basic point was that we needed to
become free of authorities that would tell us to do, like the bible
and god and Aristotle and the Church…… but what the enlightenment
never saw was that we cannot be free of the ism’s and ideologies
long enough to engage in what Kant called “Sapere Aude”…dare to know…
we cannot think for ourselves because we are trapped within ism’s
and ideologies that so completely dominated our lives……. we are
simply pawns to the final goal of these ism’s and ideologies…
pawns to god, pawns to capitalism, pawns to communism, pawns
to religion, pawns to the economic and pawns to the political…
so I would guess the real battle is to become who we are and
by doing so, hopefully… maybe, become free of these ism’s
and ideologies that have collectively crushed and destroyed
our bodies and souls…………
so the question becomes, how are we to be free of those ism’s and
ideologies that have trapped us within the complete control over
our lives… where we have no control and no say over our lives…
does the modern vision really mean to recapture our voice
and to recapture control over what it means to be human…
we are not, as religion and politics and economics and ism’s all say,
we are not disposable pieces that can be discarded, once our
role of enriching the system without any benefit to ourselves,
happens……
I am a human being and I demand that I am treated with respect
…and what gives me the right to make such a demand?
I am a human being and that is enough to demand to be treated
not as a ends to such means as in profits or a pawn in historical
dialectical materialism… I have value for myself, in myself,
and by myself…this is a radical call… I have value, not just
as a worker or as part of an ongoing struggle for the classless state…
as my call for an escape from ism’s and ideologies really is a call
for all… recall your Marx… he said,
“Workers of the world, unite”
but we are not just workers as seen by Marx, we are human beings…
we should unite but not as workers or as citizens or as mere pawns
in a capitalistic system or tools of god to create the final state
of heaven on earth… under Catholicism, we are just disposable
tools that simply act for god to bring about this end state… what
a sad commentary about the role of humans… we have no value
outside of bringing about Armageddon…
if you want to be free, truly free… you must become free of ism’s
and ideologies that tell you who you are and what is your role
in the specific ism or ideology…
but how are to achieve this state of being free of ism’s and ideologies
that so dominate our modern life?
the first step, as always, is to become aware of our current status
of simply being pawns or tools of the ism’s and ideologies that
currently exists… we have no other purpose in life except
to fulfil our role within the specific ism and ideology…
but I say unto you, no, a thousand times no…
I have value outside of and beyond the role of pawn
and tool of the dominant ism’s and ideologies of the 21st
century………
the modern goal of humanity is to become free, to escape the bonds
of slavery of the current ism’s and ideologies like capitalism and communism
and Catholicism and of any religious, social, economic or political system
that desires to crush me in the name of that ism or ideology…
the path to freedom is to become free of ism’s and ideologies…
but one may ask, without ism’s and ideologies, how are we to know
what our values are, how are we to know how to act or how are
we to know what is important in life?
or said another way, the Kantian/Kropotkin questions
of “what can we know” “what are our values” “what can we
hope for” “what should we do”… ism’s and ideologies
can answer those profound questions but ism’s and ideologies
answer those questions by enslaving us into those ism’s and ideologies…
we are no longer slaves to ism’s and ideologies that demand
to control us, leaving us without any say or control over our very
nature, over our lives………
the next revolution is to free ourselves from the dehumanizing
and nihilistic ism’s and ideologies that control our lives……
“Human beings of the world, unite, for you have nothing to lose but your chains”
Kropotkin