let us approach this from another direction:
much of the “mystic” thought centers on the union with god,
the assimilation of man into the “higher” levels…
much of Marxism/communism lies here… we are to assimilate into
the higher levels which is the substructure of economics which dominate
the world, according to Marxism… to assimilate human beings into the great force
that is dialectical materialism that is the governing force of marxism…
we adapt to the social forces that dominate our lives, we change to meet the
needs of the dialectical materialism, not it changes for us… we change for it…
and this is true of capitalism and Buddhism and catholicism or any ism that
you must assimilate into, become part of to “achieve” success…
to achieve heaven or to become a saint, one must sacrifice one individual self to
the greater force of that ism…to assimilate into something… not to be one’s own
self…to become eternal, one must assimilate into, not be oneself, but to sacrifice
oneself into the eternal…I reject this…
to hold onto that which is me, and to bring that into the completion of
my search for what is possible for me, I am willing to destroy the eternal,
the forever… to keep me into what is possible for me…
but I am willing to meet the eternal half way… to be able to be me
and still be part of the whole… some sort of compromise must be possible…
I am willing to be part of the whole if, if I can continue to seek what is possible
for me without being hindered or be obstructed by rules and regulations designed
to force me into accepting the path of society at the cost of becoming who I am…
I am willing to become part of the whole if, if I can continue to seek what is
possible for and then to attempt to achieve that possibility…
as this all sounds very vague, I shall try to “bring it down to earth”
I hold that one possibility for me, is to become a philosopher…
and I hold that my soul/body desires to be a philosopher…
but I lack the money to spend my days and night seeking that possibility…
I am forced to work and thus my ability to seek what is possible for me,
is reduced, lessened…society has forced me into working for it, at the cost
of my ability to seek what is possible for me… I am part of the machine,
with no ability to escape that dehumanization that is the machine of society…
for short, we call that capitalism…it is a economic system designed to
strip us of our dignity and it dehumanizes us and return we get worthless
baubles of existence… a comfortable couch or a “cool” car… so the fuck what?
I have sold myself into slavery to spend 40 plus years to achieve a retirement
that will last, at best, 10 years… what a terrible deal…
a lifetime of work, pain and agony just to have 10 years of retirement…
which will be spend in illness and misery… no thank you…
let us begin the search for a deal which brings us a better bargain…
reject the current system… one that puts us into slavery for capitalism
and dehumanizes us and brutalizes us by making us nothing better then machines…
I work in a factory lite… I am nothing better then the scale that I use to weigh
the produce… just another machine which is easily discarded when I have no
more use…when I stop making a profit for the company, the company has no more
use for me… I am expendable and discarded without a second thought…
I am just another tool to use and discard… or to say another way,
I am assimilated into the system, as part of the system, and discarded
when I lack any value…my individual self has no value or use in modern
capitalism…
I am supposed to become one with the system… a system that doesn’t see me
as an individual, or of any individual value… only as a cog in the machine do
I have any value in capitalism…to be assimilated this way is to become
dehumanized, worthless as a human being, devalued to just a cog in the machine…
a cog that can be discarded at any time or moment…
this type of assimilation as a human being into capitalism destroys that which
makes me a human being…for capitalism has no use for the values which make
me human… capitalism has no use for love or justice or freedom or hope or
honesty or peace… the only value that matters in capitalism is profits…
everything else is expendable to that value… so why should I spend 40 years
of my life working for a system that dehumanizes and devalues me, as a human being?
to become one with capitalism is to destroy everything about me that makes
me, me…assimilation to capitalism will lead to my own destruction…
so, why would I want to assimilate to an ism like capitalism?
the search for the eternal doesn’t mean we have to seek such destructive
ism’s as capitalism, communism, catholicism, buddhism?
ism’s that deny us as human beings…and makes us part of an eternal system
that makes us cogs in the machine…
until we create an ism which allow us to keep our humanity and self as is,
we cannot accept or allow any type of assimilation into a ism that
denies who we are as human beings…
which means we need to work out or create a new type of ism, one that allows
us to remain human while being able to be part of the system/ism that is current
in society…
as of right now, there is no system that will allow us to be ourselves and still
be a part of a larger system… an eternal as it were…we have no ism that isn’t
part of the systematic destruction of what it means to be human…
Kropotkin