The revenge of the mediocre. This would apply to Nazism, too, but we are not facing Nazis anywhere as far as I can tell (although I continue to believe Klaus Schwab may well have Nazi sympathies).
Here is how I would put it: life is a process of flowing, moving, evolving, changing, growing and eventually flowing into a completely different form by “dying”. The opposite of life is stasis. It is paralysis. It is dying to the day, rejecting the day emotionally, the same way every day, or as close to the same way as possible.
It may sound difficult to die to each day, but all you need are fixed ideas, which are best containered [sic] within an ideology.
Totalitarianism fits the mediocre with a new face, a new purpose, a life that is not a life. It is an emotional suicide that people choose in lieu of actual suicide.
And all of this is very old. Joan Grant spoke of a cult of Set in ancient Egypt. That is all Communism or Nazism really is. It is a cult dedicated to death and the denial of life, which is to say change.
And if Truth is the animating principle for the living, then lying must necessarily be that of the dead. Killing people to help them is a good example. Committing atrocities in the name of justice is another.
And it’s interesting to read the principles of the Satanic Temple, which some Army officer reportedly got in trouble for sharing. There is nothing to object to, is there? It’s all reasonable.
And yet they cling to this imagery, and this myth (understood as a deep emotional symbol) of Satan.
So it seems obvious to me that the first principle they would teach at the first initiation is to invert all of them. The true first principle is to lie as often as possible, about everything.
As I say, all of this is very old. These are recurrent possibilities in human experience, so they are recurring realities. The urge to remain still is both primitive and powerful.