“Fin de siècle”
often refers to the end of the 19th century where the
old Regime of thought and the political and the economic
were themselves negated by new thoughts, beliefs
and ism’s…… You can take the world, the world and
divide it up into two sides, the ancient world and the modern
world with the dividing line being the French revolution…
The end of the old Regime was brought about by, in part, by the
loss of faith in the “old ways” of the political and religious and economic
and the new ways of democracy, capitalism, communism…
but each side of the division had its fatal flaw…
both sides pre French revolution and the “Modern” world
had flaws in that the forces that control each,
are forces that we cannot see or control…
the old way had the religious church, state, cultural
that we know of as the “age of kings” and the long disputation
between the Catholic church and the “modern” Protestant religion…
and the Modern way in which the old forces of church and state were
being destroyed by the new forces of democracy and capitalism…
but democracy and capitalism and communism are all driven by
forces beyond “people’s” understand and control……
we have capitalism which is driven by the unseen and uncontrollable
forces of the “invisible hand of god”, the market forces which operate
outside of and beyond human control…and we have communism which
is driven by the forces of “historical materialism” in which economic classes
are driven to battle each other for mastery of the means of production…
and there is no room for a individual who has dreams and desires and hopes
to fit into this new world driven by forces that doesn’t care about individuals
dreams and desires or hopes…….
this new age after the French revolution is a nihilistic one where both
human beings and their ideals are negated in the pursuit of profits/money…
we are still living in this age…… this age of nihilism… which has
lasted since the French revolution…thus I say unto you… Fin de siècle…
we have reached the end and every end is a new beginning…….
but what shall our new age look like?
what shall be its ideals and principles and philosophies?
upon what values shall we begin anew?
and that is the question… we ever engage in changing
the values to which we live by and live under…
the values of the old regime were negated in the French revolution
and the new values created… and it is time for those values of the
French revolution be negated… and with what values shall we negate
the values of the 19 and 20th century? what shall be the 21st century values
upon we build our society upon? that is the question… the past (values)
and the present (values) equal the future (values)……….
and herby we see the failure of Trumpism… for it has no future…
just like the Nazi values Trumpism follows, values of hate and anger
and mistrust and greed and racism, Nazism/Trumpism cannot be used to
go into the future because those values of hatred and racism and anger cannot
lead us into the future… they are dead end values… we must engage in
a search for values which can lead us into the future…………not the old
Nazi/Trumpism values of the past…what are the new values that
can heal and unite us which is an escape of the Fin de siècle values of the past…
am I Jesus? no, I am merely john the Baptist… proclaiming he/she is coming
with the new values of the coming years… values which can carry us into the future…
values which are pregnant with the new possibilities and a new understanding of
who we are………
here we are at the end of the old age began by the voices of war between 1914
and 1918… we are to begin anew… with values that can take us into the future…
not just MAGA values which are empty and harmful because those values are values
of hate, violence, anger and greed and we cannot go into the future with those values…
hate can only bring us back into the past… and not the future…
so, what are our future values?
Kropotkin