The Political Question

Do you want to be an active participant in your own life?

There is one political question, and it is “Do you want to be an active participant in your own life?”. It is a question every man today must ask himself, but, depending on his answer, he might not ask it, and instead just walk around waiting for someone else to ask him.

Political questions change and morph across history. The left-right paradigm as we use it in common parlance today, refers to an essentially solved previous political question. The new paradigm is so young and yet-to-be-articulated, that every single politician in the world can be said to be on one side, and that there is yet to be a single person in opposition. But the paradigm is already active, regardless of this.

The choice, for a common man like myself, of who to support, between the formal “left” and “right” amounts to: The Right sells me out to “business” and “private enterprise”, and does not protect my rights or prosperity, The Left sells me out to super-national organizations like the EU composed of unaccountable bureaucrats, organizations which where funded by international business-leaders, in a smoky room in 1945.

You have no representation. You are already a serf. It's over.

“Right” and “Left” are vintage hipster fashions we dress ourselves in. In a vulgar way the split is more between something like the “NPC and human” meme - but this is very vulgar, and imprecise. But it is getting at something. A great counting is underway to find the people in humanity who possess a Will.

The only future of party politics is to get people away from the screens, and into real life. If you win the social media game, you lose. You are assimilated. They don’t want to win, they just want you to play their game.

One of the primary causes, everyone agrees even across the new isle, is interfacing with internet media. “social media”, phones, the whole ordeal. There is no middle ground here – as long as you use these tools, you are assimilated. The only way out is to get away from the screens. This is going to be as big and life-changing a decision as quitting crack cocaine, and you are not going to be able to get a lot of people to go along with it. They would have to be fully committed, before they even hear your economic plan. You’re asking them essentially, blind trust. A leap of faith. They are not going to be able to do that, unless you can provide them with something in return, such as, being a larger than life cult-leader, cult of personality. And anyways this has already been tried.

Organizationally, emulating criminal gangs is preferable. A Mafia style organization is preferable to a political party organization. This is how the current regime organizes, not like a military or a traditional hierarchical structure, but in a way where every level of organization has plausible deniability over everyone below them. Here’s the thing about political parties: They lose.

The political question is this: Do you want to build a swing-set for your kid, or, do you want one to be provided for you by the state, so you can just send the kid out on his own, and have some time to engage in personal hedonism. Do you want to build a swing-set, or, do you want a swing-set to always-already be present, for you to use.

Do you want to be an active force in the formation of your child's life, or do you want to be a passive consumer of “choice” - pre-selected options provided for you by [something, somewhere]?

Do you want to be actively physically engaged in the production of the things that impact his life, or do you want to choose them from a catalogue?

Do you want to work?

Do you want to live? Or do you want to be provided life? Consume life? Is life a verb or a noun to you.

Do you want to be active participant in the life of the people around you, your family and neighbours? Or do you want to outsource the engagement to the government, and have them do the work for you. Does “the jobs we don’t want to do” include socializing?

The breakaway civilization is not them headed for “automated luxury communism”, “leaving us serfs behind to wallow in pain and work”. They are headed for hell, they are creating hell on earth, and you have the option to jump off the train before they get there.

The left-right dichotomy is dead – today the choice is between the Living and the Dead. They are not “NPCs”. They are members of a death cult. They are not zombies, they are not “npcs” - they wish they were. They are trying to become these things.

Voting is a pseudo-religious ceremony where you give up political agency, privileges and duties, of being an active participant in your own life. It is a religious ceremony where you sacrifice your political agency. It doesn't matter who you vote for (although for pragmatic reasons, there are still reason to do so – but only pragmatic reasons).

There is a saying that “you don’t get to complain about [current year state of things] if you didnt vote” - ie, if you didn't participate in the political process, you don’t have “skin in the game”. It is entirely the other way around. The only reason you vote, is so you get to complain. It is a ritual to give yourself permissions to engage with forbidden feelings and taboo subjects of being powerless. You don’t vote to win, to get pragmatic physical, material concessions. You vote so you can feel psychologically comfortable with complaining when you don't. This is the primary, not secondary, purpose of the entire thing. Voting is acquiescing your political agency.

The political question is this: Do you want to Get Good, or, do you want a cinematic experience with romance options.

The political question is this: Do you want to be informed? Or do you want to be “entertained” and spoken down to. Wikileaks has proven the non-feasibility of genuine, productive, journalism. If you try to do it, the regime kills you. You could sit down and read the Wikileaks releases, or you could sit on twitter all day, again, or on 4chan, again, and complain either on the timeline or to yourself, that “this isn't even good any more”, and get in little internet fights with people.

The internet has been completely destroyed as a platform. I won’t speak on 3.0, because I'm old and I’m rubbing up against a barrier of entry. But I’m not optimistic about it. Even if it was everything it’s made up to be, if you actually create a threat to the status quo, they drown you in South America. Even if it was feasible, it would still be part of the whole “constant media-stimulation qua “phones” is causing everyone to go insane, and it is our lead in the aqueducts problem” problem.

Death Camps

Death camps are the logical – logically necessary – end point of the enlightenment project. The idea of an “AI that decides to kill humanity to optimize some arbitrary production it was designed for”, is not some thought experiment. It is not some crazy thought experiment about a possible future state. It has already happened several times and it is currently happening. It is the world we are sleepwalking into, and creating by instinct. It is the world that you are being primed for through media: Live in apartment-Box, “own nothing”, optimize for living on “cheap fuel”, commit assisted suicide when you can no longer work. The world we are creating is a decentralized global concentration camp.

A supposed distinction between whether this aim is pursued knowingly or subconsciously, is meaningless. They do it because of their Dasein, their philosophy. Knowing and unknowingly is a meaningless distinction. They do it necessarily - as a force of nature. Whether they are pawns or embodiment and avatars of this Force matters little. What matters is, you will always manifest concentration camps, always, as long as you are locked in the enlightenment. It's one big death cult. The political question is this: Do you want to live?

The death camps are coming. We just won't recognize them before we suddenly wake up one day looking out from the bars.

No one can yet see it, and I don't mean to imply that I am an exception. I can't see it either. It will come in a new unrecognizable shape. I can only see a vague outline, much like everyone else who feels it on the wind.

Paradoxically, when it comes, it will come as a surprise, even more so to me, who expects it.

Hitler had ‘em, Stalin had ‘em, and now, in a general, wide sense, the “test” is to see whether it was an extremism, a “totalitarianism” problem, and whether we just have to centrist-Liberalist the kinks out of the system towards perfect social organization. Too far left – oops death camps. Too far right – Whoopsie death camps. I know, we just have to walk the golden mean of minimal death camps to maximum industrial output! Genius!

There will be centrist death camps. It follows as natural law from the enlightenment. It's not an extremism problem, it is an enlightenment problem. There will be liberal death camps. It’s not a “totalitarianism” problem, it is a reason-problem. There will be democratic open society humanitarian death camps. Mercy is irrational.

They prosecute a man for making fake propaganda which the regime would later use almost word for word unironically. You can be banned from polite society for re-posting regime news articles, word for word, that are only 4 years old. We are already in full Stalinist paranoid nightmare. The “Western” powers are already as insane and hysterical as Stalin was insane and paranoid.

The political question is this: Death camps? y/n

Every variable people currently operate on is in the past, no one has yet articulated the paradigm which is relevant to us today. We probably won’t until we find ourselves in prison one day and have to account for how we got there.

On a purely theoretical level, we are trying to find a way out of napoleon/revolution/enlightenment that doesn't result in death camps. Embarrassed that every revolution ends in mass depopulation and fails in even producing a better social order despite the sacrifices, we are trying every possible variation of the operation, just kind of hoping to find one that doesn't end in death camps. They won't succeed. It is unfortunately built right into the project from the get-go.

Depopulation is formulated right into the fundamental basic premises and assumptions, and thus qua logic, end up proving the necessity of depopulation. All formal logic can do is create coherent statements, logic can only ever be truth-sustaining, it can never generate truth. And we unfortunately live under a social order where this distinction is nor recognized, because it is embarrassing. So we are just going to tautology ourselves into mass murder over and over again until someone gets a better idea.

If you want to turn human life mechanical and optimize it like a machine, what you get is a human factory, and if you set up a human factory what you get is a human butchery.

The factory is the church of historical materialism.

If the 19th and 20th century was the political expression of Nietzsche, then today is the political expression of the Kierkegaardian either/or. The political question is this: Do you want to live, or do you want to end all life. Camus’ “the first question in philosophy is “should I kill myself”. But I don’t like him because he’s French.

The key to long term victory is schools. Nothing about the current Rockefeller school system can be reformed into anything useful. It is itself a primitive proto-concentration camp. What would you dream about, what would you have embarrassing nightmares about, if you had never gone to high school? Why does everyone have the same dreams?

The difficulty is getting away with creating an alternative, without the forces that be preventing you. I don’t think it should be pursued openly as a political statement. That would be playing to the camera, and playing to the camera, you are already playing the wrong game. What I imagine is building organically from home-schooling, to establishing an informal corporation with trusted friends and neighbours, to build something entirely from the ground up, where you are directly involved with your children.

The political question is: Do you want to be involved in your child’s upbringing? Or do you want someone else to raise your children for you.

The political question is: Do you love your children, or do you just want to pretend to.

Eternal power and beauty is present everywhere and you can never truly be imprisoned.