But I remain psychologically alive. This is a miracle of sorts. I don’t know it happened, other than that I was some combination of agile enough, and resilient enough. And I am getting stronger.
The capacity to endure this level of pain, though, I think makes me able to see more than most people.
And what I see is that our society, itself, is slowly becoming psychotic. At least, some large segment of our cultural order has fallen into ruin, and what remains has as a full time job fighting to preserve in any form what remains.
Our academics–on their account at least the best minds we have–have given up on the pursuit of truth, beauty and sanity. They have more or less consigned themselves to ruin. This is what Collectivism is: ruin. It is the destruction of all human potential, all genuine flourishing, all genuine goodness. It is a mass psychosis. We have seen its fruits in Ethiopia, and Cuba, in China, and Vietnam. It is a grey world, run by grey people, where 2″ equals 3″ if the rulers say so.
If you take a traditional group, say the Hmong of southeast Asia, they have been living in essentially the same ways for thousands of years (so I assume, hundreds I would think at a minimum). As a group, they have certain customs, and within the group you no doubt have tribes, and within the tribes perhaps clans, and within the clans families. Everyone is born with a place. It is all organic. No one is telling them this is how it has to be. It is how they want it, in large measure, even in the modern era some of their young reject tradition.
Collectivism is Plastic Soul. It is plastic culture. It is wide eyed psychopaths saying “we can build a better culture. We know how. We know just what to do. We have read all the books. We just, you know, need to break a few eggs, again. It will work this time.”
There is nothing even remotely organic about it.
Here is the thing: humans are innately creative and adaptive, so we are quite capable of building new forms which ARE authentically organic. But we need to stop being attacked by the psychopaths, and everyone top to bottom needs to realize that this is not something which CAN happen top down, much less something which SHOULD happen top down, as directed by well funded propagandists broadcasting their shit from every street corner and news stand.
Stand down, assholes, and all will be fine. Your static, your incoherence, makes new forms impossible. Just stop trying the save the world and go play checkers somewhere. Hire hookers and snort coke. I don’t care. Just stop trying to help. Your help is a toxin which is paralyzing all of our souls.