Our present Elites are control-freaks.
And politics, in essence, is about CONTROL. Who has it; and who must submit to it.
All has become politics.
And we have seen this before, dozens of times in history. The cold dead hand of the State...crushing the life out of the human spirit.
Here's a little reading I found that explains it far better than I:
and the path to individual happiness
boriquagato.substack.com
let’s start with some simple salients:
politics is misery; therefore, making everything political makes everyone miserable.
this is is the bleakness of totalitarian and collectivist systems.
the entire ethos of such structures is and must be political:
“all within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state”
-mussolini
these are the maxims of the totalitarian impulse to human perfection and its need to not only subsume the individual to the collective but to lionize this subsumation as “progress” and “the way forward.” it takes A LOT of effort because to efface human nature in such a fashion is no mean feat. it requires total commitment and an absolute surrounding by ethoses and demands for obedience and self-erasure, of dominion by doctrine. there can be no way but “the way” and all dissent must be cast as outgroup and relentlessly purged. there can be no counterexample.
this is why, contrary to the jingle on the box, collectivism and “common good” are always a focus on division, a focus on shaking the jar until the bugs fight so that some narcissistic sociopath can play at being king of the ants. the 0.000 batting average of creating utopia is irrelevant to such people, in the end, it all comes down who gets to be the boot and who shall be cast as buttock.
“within the revolution, everything… against the revolution, no rights at all.”
-fidel castro 1961
it is, frankly, the most inhuman system imaginable because it sets itself, as a matter of core doctrine, against human nature declaring it unfit and unevolved and seeking to cast in its place some form of ideological imposition that was either mistaken for utopia or cynically cast as such by the pigs who will rapidly show you just how they feel about some animals being more equal than others.
you want to understand why so many seem so unhappy? that’s why.
we are not meant to live like that.
it’s intolerable.
and worse, everyone can increasingly feel where this is going (and this is nothing new, we have been here before and the game is always the same).
“all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines.”
-mao, 1942
people speak about how movies suck now, how music is stagnant, how art and even fashion are kind of going nowhere and do not have a patch on the vibrancy and variety of the 60’s, the 70’s, the 80’s, the 90’s. they make lame accusations about “kids today” etc but the reality is that it’s not the kids, it’s the politics.
this happens in every single society that gets captured by totalitarian twaddle of “we need to tell the humans how to be some inhuman elevation of themselves that we imagine to be finer and to deny their own natures in service of the collective because some self-styled elite has become determined that the world would be better that way.”
Moar at linky.
This is their latest attempt to crush speech, thought, communication they cannot control...and thus, cannot censor or block. Because, as the last sentence above notes, "some self-styled Elite has determined that the world would be better" if we marched to his patterns.
