It is curious to me, when confronted with the problems unique to government in form and scale, that the source of these problems is never identified as government, itself. In other words, the problem is never the existence of government.

Human thinking at its core seems to contain the false notion that man must be ruled in order to survive. It seems as necessary to man’s survival as breathing. It is an unconscious, even subconscious, instinctual assumption that makes hypocrites of everyone who decides that government X is bad and should be replaced with government Y, These people don’t realize that if man was capable of coming to that conclusion on his own, he wouldn’t need government in the first place. If man could figure how he should be properly ruled, he wouldn’t need to be ruled.

The hypocrisy here is several-fold, but the crux of it is this: the specious metaphysical premises (concerning the nature of man and reality) which assert why government must exist is entirely identical between governments X and Y. This means that at the most fundamental level, there is literally zero difference between them; and they both look at their constituency writ large in exactly the same way—as existentially flawed and needing to be first controlled, then subsumed.

What is this existential flaw? 

It is the flaw of individuality. Each human being possesses an intrinsic, indelible, singular conscious frame of reference…the “I”, or “Self” of individual existence. This is the Original Sin of man’s birth. He is born utterly un-collectivized. And as the government, the State, is an institution entirely rooted in collectivist metaphysics, this makes human beings writ large its enemy.

Man by nature thinks as “Self”; he wills and chooses as Self; he acts as Self…and that is why he is born in sin and suffers root existential insufficiency the moment he is born. And this is why government is necessary, you see. Reality, according to the metaphysics which inform government, is not individual, but collective. Your individual consciousness is a lie. There is no you qua you. There is no “your Self” in an epistemological and ethical corollary relationship with “Other” (other Selves). There is only the Collective Self, and One Collective Truth which is the Collective Ideal, which is The Divine Sovereign on whose behalf the government—meaning the “enlightened” ruling class—rules. Common examples of these Collective Ideals are: The Nation, The Empire, The Race, The Culture, The Workers, The Greater/Common Good, Social Justice, Climate Justice, The Church, and The People, to name just a few. That is reality; and you, with your Individual Conscious Self, are naturally opposed to this reality, and therefore, you must be governed…and “governed ” means “ruled”, and “ruled” means “controlled”, and “controlled” means owned, You qua you cannot be allowed to be. The True Consciousness—the Collective Consciousness—must be dictated to you from outside your Self. And you must be compelled into compliance with the will of the Collective Ideal, which really means the will of the ruling class.

You must be compelled out of Your Self and into The Group. Your singular, conscious Will must be replaced by an obligation to Law (moral ethics swapped for legal ethics) which is a set of Collective behaviors to which the individual shall be compelled by force, propaganda, spurious philosophies, and meaningless traditions by the ruling class. The military and the police, being the bedrock of coercive power, shall be subsidized by the masses. Individuality is not an affliction from which the ruling class suffers, of course, and this is because of…well…magic…divine intervention…special knowledge (gnosis). They don’t need the law, after all, so why should they pay for it?

They won’t. You will. Whether you like it or not. 

Of course in the United States the common trope is that no one is above the law, and we all must “pay our fair share”. Absolute bunk. This yarn of fantasy has been spun and consumed by Americans since the before the Constitution’s ink was dry. Yet a sleepy glance at the law applied to the masses versus the ruling class reveals a discrepancy large enough to shame the Grand Canyon, whilst the preponderance of millionaires and billionaires in positions of political power reveals an even starker discrepancy relative to the tax burden. So much for “all men are created equal”. That anyone fell (or falls) for this rank political absurdity is shameful; that any soldier died for it is an abomination. Look…that the US government was ever going to be compromised of a benevolent collection of humble citizen-servants is perhaps the oldest and clumsiest lie this country has ever told itself. My own cynicism tells me that the Founding Fathers could not possibly have believed such obvious nonsense when crafting the Constitution, which makes me think the whole Convention was little more than a political feint…but who knows? Maybe they were just arrogant and delusional enough to think that they could somehow perform the alchemy necessary to synthesize the State’s coercive nature with individual freedom. In reality, however, it was complete rubbish.

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The ruling classes are absolved of their own Original Sin of Individual Consciousness by appealing explicitly or implicitly to some divine, transcendent appointment…they rule not as mere humans, you see, but as ambassadors—which really means “incarnation”—of the transcendent Collective Ideal—which really means “God”. Hence why the ruling class claims the Authority to enforce the law whilst they, themselves, are never actually subject to it. They are the law, you see, as far as you and I and the rest of the unwashed are concerned, which means that they are the Authority of the Law, which means that they are that which gives the Law its efficacy and meaning. Which in effect and in practicality means that, again, they are God to us. In the case of a theocracy, the ruling class is quite literally God; in case of a representative democracy like the United States, they are The People, which is, once you cut through the rhetoric, just a euphemism for God. They are the Collective Ideal—that transcendent, utterly abstract, unseeable, ultimately unknowable, infinite and infinitely perfect All in All from which all things are made and that which the individual, with his wicked and preternatural Conscious Sense of Individual Self, is in perpetual rebellion as a function of his being born at all. 

Therefore the ruling class hates you…the government hates you…because it must hate you, otherwise there is fundamentally no reason for it to be the ruling class in the first place. This hatred—and hate’s political corollary, fear—is the immutable nature of every State from the beginning to eternity. There is no government that can ever truly serve humanity because it is contrary to its nature to serve. It is not designed to serve, it is designed to rule. That’s what it does. That’s all it does. It is force at the metaphysical level…its essence is violence. It is the Destroyer, not the Creator. The government is chaos…it exists to eradicate the individual, to eradicate the Conscious Self, the I. It is UnTruth; it is UnGood. It pretends to be the incarnation of God, but in reality it nullifies God by destroying the one thing in Creation which is capable of recognizing Him as God—the Individual. It destroys consciousness and thus the very frame of reference for reality, itself.

And that’s why humanity keeps winding up victims of ruling class mendacity trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. And, alas, right on cue here come the dissident right midwits to the rescue with a proposition for a “new” ruling class that will do power “right” this time. 

Sure they will.

Chattel slavery and the Battle of the Somme were both government programs; the atomic bomb was a government program; Auschwitz and the Rape of Nanking were government programs; Cortes’s rampage across the Aztec Empire was a government program; the Aztec’s practiced human sacrifice, a practice of the State religion, and thus was also enforced by the State, which makes it in essence also a government program. Yet by some deeply impressive cognitive dissonance, the moral atrocities which inexorably follow government in all its forms—democratic, capitalist, communist, monarchist, tribal, dictatorship—are always somehow in spite of it, not a product of it.

Astonishing. 

Thus the solution to the problems which are naturally a function of government never include the simple act of merely questioning the efficacy of government, let alone its existence, let alone suggesting the dismantling of its institutions and a categorical repudiation of the philosophies which inform it. At best we might get a superficial change in leadership, or a change in the “ism”, which of course never actually fixes anything. At best it postpones some inevitable disaster for a while, but in the meantime introduces a host of new ones.

It is curious how an institution which solely exists to coerce by violence and threats of violence is never considered the problem when people in a “free democracy” like the United States begin to feel as though their current political and economic situation isn’t quite as “free” or “democratic” as they thought. Such is the epidemic of cognitive dissonance. A long time ago God warned world vis-a-vis the Israelites not to demand a King, and we still haven’t learned. We pray for a benevolent State and benevolent leadership and from them, peace. We might as well pray for square circles. 

To keep beating this dead horse, the purpose of government is to coerce human behavior through explicit and implicit violence, and thus to control the will and the mind of the individual, and there is nothing benevolent about this. How could there be? Government represents the eradication of consciousness, and thus the eradication of reason and its progeny, Morality and Truth. This is why government always becomes tyrannical, even if benevolence is intended…something “of and by the People” as it were. The reality is that the ruling class, according to its nature, destroys the individual, and subordinates him to an entirely spurious “Collective Responsibly”, in service to the Collective Ideal. From this, individuality is supposed to magically morph into a supreme “Collective Consciousness”, which of course is impossible. Nevertheless the ruling class is ideologically compelled to force-collectivize the masses, which leads to society-wide chaos through ever increasing degrees of public control as the State removes all manner of individuality from the individual. The violence inevitably becomes overt, leading to mass death and systemic collapse.

The collectivist metaphysics at the root of Government are a lie. They are irrational, they are anti-reason, anti-language, anti -consciousness, and anti-life. . The Truth is individualism, period. Government’s entire purpose thus is to take man’s nature and by some alchemy change it into that which it is NOT. In short, government is in the business of making square circles. Government doesn’t then simply fail then, you see, but it is failure, institutionalized.

So, with regards to society under government, what is it, stripped down of all the fake philosophizing and pretense? 

It is the ruling class and the ruled; the master and the slave; the owners of men and the men who are owned. Everything else is fantasy. To think that replacing government X or politician A with government Y or politician B is going to do anything other than rotate the circle of history is complete delusion. 

Hence then the hypocrisy of those who belong to dissident right. The dissident right, being understandably disaffected by the globalist cult of neo-Marxism which passes for political leadership in the west, has fallen for the oldest trick in the book, and allowed themselves to be distracted by the shine of power rather than to do what is wise and truly revolutionary, which is to not immediately desire and seek power, but to examine the metaphysics of power, and go from there. To accept power as a-prior is foolish. 

The shine of power makes us believe that power is both the root of all social, political, and cultural ills and simultaneously the primary solution. This is a lie. It cannot be both. It cannot simultaneously be cause and effect, good and evil, truth and lie. If state power is the source of woes, it cannot also be the solution. One cannot fight cancer with cancer, or Marxist ideology with fascist ideology, and one cannot replace government X with government Y and expect any rationally or morally significant outcome.

Predictably and perfunctorily, the desire of the dissident right is to wrestle power from the left. Not that they have any coherent plan for this…they are revolutionary dilettantes at this stage. Nevertheless, implicitly or explicitly, they all assert that authoritarianism will be necessary to “right the ship”, as it were, at least in the short term. After that…well, if they can finally achieve a society comprised of the “right kind of people”, perhaps a more representative sort of arrangement can be considered. 

Right. 

In short, the dissident right is obviously a national socialist movement…I don’t even think they deny this anymore. Seems cliche to go there, but the truth is the truth. 

This appeal to authoritarianism as some kind of real solution is of course hilarious in its absurdity, and is insulting to the intelligence of even your average midwit. Apart from the obvious fact that authoritarian states never give up power willingly, for obvious reasons, it reveals just how ignorant the dissident right is when it comes to understanding the real nature of power, and of government. Like I said in part one of this series, the dissident right is highly educated but spectacularly lacking in wisdom. They have read many books, memorized many political theories and sociological and cultural philosophies, yet the depth of their actual understanding can be breached with a fingernail.

[End part two]