Hi. This Leo
Volont.
This is Part
Six of my Seven Part Series
Democracy a Bad Thing
This is Chapter “The Morale Dilemma”
We discuss here the rise of John Locke’s Blank Slate Theory
and the general Optimism from the Age of Enlightenment that stoked the fires of
Democracy. And then the Dark Clouds of
Truth that rolled in with the 20th Century and all that actual
knowledge about things. Democracy could only work for us if we ‘Gamed it’, but
can we be that cynical?
(31)But, yeah, Group Social Dynamics and sundry other Instincts
are the kind of stuff that us Biologically Sourced Human Beings from the Animal Kingdom carry
around in our heads. It sort of leaves
us open to psychological manipulation, doesn't it? But how many of us acknowledge to ourselves
that we are animals, you know, that we can be trained to jump through hoops or
sit up and beg?
The Oldest Propaganda
going back involved setting up that Great Divide, elevating ourselves
distinctly above the Animal Kingdom as being different in substance and higher
in quality. We were Spiritual and
animals weren't. Grandma whispered in
our ear about Pet Heaven when Spot “went to the Farm” to stop us crying, but
Granny always was a sweet old Heretic. We know the primary aim of the World Religions
was to idealize Human Beings and spiritualize us up to the point of placing us shoulder to shoulder with the
Angels. Yes, those cynical evil
manipulative Priests did that so that when they asked us to behave better than animals we would.
Damn Them! But then when God died, or when we killed Him,
then we developed a Philosophy of Humanism whereby we self-apotheosized
ourselves. We made ourselves into our
own Gods. God is Dead. Long Live Us.
So in this case the course of Human Progress took us from being fooled
by others to being self deluded by ourselves.
We are all still yet to achieve the height of Human Development: Cynicism.
(32)During the Age of
Enlightenment, which I spoke of earlier,
John Locke came up with the Blank Slate or Tabula Rasa Theory, which
would be used in the advancement of Democracy's Ideology. Cynics and pessimists of his time had argued
that the vast majority of people didn't have the capacity for self rule and
were not so much managers as needing to be managed. Locke's Blank Slate Theory promised instead
that all men are born infinitely malleable and all potentially as capable as
anybody can be, and with the correct
upbringing and education we could all maximize ourselves in both character and
capacity, becoming enlightened Sir Isaac
Newtons, Aristotles and
Shakespeares. The means we're all posh
but just need polishing.
Well, for almost the
entire 19th Century there was a suspension of our collective critical faculties
as we all pretended to believe in this obviously over optimistic Ideal. The French were the first Democracy to
blink. They developed the IQ Test and
found that given the same educational resources there would still be a wide
range of differences in intellectual capacity.
Yes, it turns out that only about 15 to 20% of people can function at
the responsible managerial level. Then advances in Psychology uncovered fixed
traits, some of them considered quite negative, which blew Free Will out of the
Water. "Just be yourself"
might make a great slogan, but in the real world that translates to "You
can't be anything but your own unique bundle of peccadillo-ridden
neuroses".
(33You know, if the reason we accepted Democracy as the
ideal Ideology is because we accepted as true all those gilded
overblown premises coming out of the Age of Enlightenment, well, what
should we do now? We now know that far
more than the majority of people don't have the mental capacity to withstand
targeted manipulation. So that would
mean that Democracy has simply become a contest in how the rival political
parties can allocate resources in order to fool the teaming hordes of all our
gullible idiot neighbors families and friends.
The Left should be the first to renounce Democracy because,
ironically, since they believe in the bloated and false promises the most,
well, that would make them the most
vulnerable of being sucked in by them, right?
It isn't the selfish and predatory Right Wing that wants to return to
some Green Happy Idyllic Collective in the Garden of Eden, is it?
You know, the Left accuses the Right of being anti-science,
but isn't it the Conservative Right Wing that has the Think Tanks, the
Foundations and their own Research Colleges. the Democrats don't have a
fraction of the Advanced Degree Talent that the Right has. The Left simply can't afford all those
salaries. With their Studies, Research,
Private Polling, etc, the Conservative Right can SEE what they're doing. To us it's all just guess work. We're blind.
Good Intentions, Sincerity and
Meaning Well is no match for Predictive Knowledge and Behavioral Modelling.
(34)But even if we could afford to pay the freight for good
pragmatic science-based advice on how to conquer all of the political landscape
that lies before us, well, would we even take it? If Satan took us up to the top of the World
Mountain and offered up to us all four
corners of the Globe if only we were cynical enough to take them, well, would
we? Wouldn't many of us still choose the
Political Pollyanna of 'Sincere Good Intentions'? But the Moral High Road is only the Way to
Loserville.
Yes, at some point along the way we started believing our
own Propaganda. I know it still sounds
to you like some worthy ideal, but sounding good doesn't make it true, and
operating under false assumptions never gets you to where you need to go. It is like with New Age People when one of them is really talking up that
bullcrap and you wonder whether he or she really believes it and is stupid
but sincere, or if he or she is just trying to get over on you and scam you out
of your money , thinking that YOU'RE the one who's stupid. Well, who would you really have more respect
for? At least the scammer isn't stupid,
right? At least you can assume that the
Scammer sees the same Universe you do, even if he or she doesn't have the best
of moral centers. But Sincere True
Believers just see like some Paste Board
Covers over everything. Nothing's
real. (Yeah, watch my "Faculty of
True Discernment" Video for insight into that sort of stuff. )
(35) My point here is that if you think Democracy is a good
thing then you must also think that it works, but there is no reason on Earth
why you should think that so. Democracy
is the train that got us here and everything is screwed up, right? Democracy is just an Ideological Belief, a
kind of Religious Doctrine that has been imposed upon us by those who can
afford to manage and control Democracy.
Our role in it is to be the Good
Losers, to concede every time they win.
But, yeah, every False Religion is built up on the chimera of
Faith. We'd reject Democracy unless
they'd allow us some hope that someday we might Win. But do you honestly think that having Faith
in Democracy will give us the Miracle we pray for? No!
There is no God here and they're the ones pulling all the levers. Remember, Democracy was the Ideology
developed and advanced by Capitalists in
order to subvert and destroy the Authoritarian Governments that stood in their predatory
selfish ways. They never intended
Democracy to BE Government but to be their weapon AGAINST Government. Yes, they still insist on Democracy but not
because they "believe" in it, no, not the same way we do.
They're cynical about it! but in
a good way, where they're convinced they have the power and resources to manage
the results better than anybody else can.
They TOOK the Satanic bargain.
But not us. We're too pure or too
poor to win.
Well, that’s it for Part Six. Part Seven will be the Home Stretch where I
discuss the concern that even if we did win, we’d probably fumble the ball
anyway. And then there is Fascism and
those boys play rough.
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