more art, beast

However these kind of things come about, something I’m doing tonight. 

Socialist Fantasy Meets Reality, Produces Fascism - Summary

I earlier wrote a part 1 https://wwwinabstentia-andrewk.blogspot.com/2023/09/socialist-fantasy-meets-reality.html to this theme and haven’t yet finished the follow-up, but in the meantime I should be able to sum up the essence of the matter here pretty concisely - though, to warn you, if a little brutally.

 Socialism is a power fantasy from amongst those of a more intellectual bent from within the bourgeoisie - a sub-group who in terms of financial weight and hence power in a materialist, post-Industrial Revolution western society are relative nobodies. So these, in a sense, embittered outcasts from within the bourgeoisie devise an ideological fantasy where, in total contrast to their felt state of disempowerment, they take over control of the State, and now have absolute power.  In this ideological “leftist” fantasy the State, i.e. they themselves, own everything - this the real meaning of the beautiful ideal of no private property. No opposition is permitted and anyone felt to be such a threat - which means anyone denying the triumph of their ego over reality - is crushed. So serving this, along come the shutting down of the narrative of reality, through the justification of things like ‘hate speech’ and ‘misinformation.’

Even all nation states are ultimately dissolved, as the power lust extends to the entire planet. Thus it is a globalist fantasy, and literally all human reality is overcome in this lust for power. This is all of course cloaked by supposed idealism, in which anyone opposing the ideal marks themselves out as an enemy of the good who must for good reason be removed. Thus cancel culture: opposition is cancelled: at best ‘re-educated’, otherwise exiled, sent to the gulag, worked to death or executed.

So this is the unrestrained fantasy, but what about when it meets reality? Particularly within a modern industrial nation and its power structures, the idea of those forces at the helm of all this worldly power being overthrown by these relatively impoverished, angry, intellectuals is little more than laughable. If those really at the reins of worldly power feel like it, with all this worldly wisdom and their own love of power in their DNA, so to speak, if they feel truly threatened, the beast beneath the civilised veneer will produce its claws and, with all the genuine power at their command, these intellectual fantasists will be dealt with very easily.

However, and I’ll try to be more brief, in the encounter of socialist fantasy and reality, what if instead of having to defeat all the existing power structures like the nation state and big business, the ideologues unite with them? And so fascism: thus the Nazis’ name of National Socialism, and why Mussolini’s friend Gentille could say that “Fascism is a form of socialism; it is its most viable form.”

And so to point to the present a little. Anyone of course felt to be an opposition to modern leftist “liberalism” will be called a fascist, but fascism is where we still have leftist totalitarianism, but the fantasy has been refined due to its meeting with external reality. So leftist totalitarians unite with Big Business and the State, rather than having to overthrow them. The innocently uneducated might imagine it to be an absolute evil to which the left is in complete opposition, but it is really just a kind of heretical offshoot from the pure fantasy where all opposition vanishes before itself.

So a few modern elements of Big Business to which in fascism the State is very much in unison with, are Big Tech, Big Pharma, the mainstream media. So when Donald Trump was kicked off the Big Tech platforms like Twitter and Facebook whilst being President of the US, he very obviously was not the form of government that was in perfect alliance with the forces of Big Business. He is a felt opposition - which under totalitarian systems is not allowed to exist, though you can be a pretend opposition, which is the  usual political “divide”. And so Trump is relentlessly targeted by the various forces of power working in unison to eliminate this almost unimaginable threat to have arisen to their seemingly closed systems of power.

 When the mainstream media and Big Tech in unison with left wing government and the FBI blatantly lied about the truth of things like Hunter Biden’s laptop, this is an alliance of forces and intent that is classic fascism. The interests of authoritarian left wing government and ideology pushed by Big Business.

When radical left-wing gender ideology is being pushed by the giant corporations like Budweiser, Disney, Hollywood, even to their financial detriment, here again is the union of State and Big Business that is classic fascism. So rather than defeat “the forces of capitalism”, the ideologues unite with them. These centralising forces are together getting stronger, individual liberties are getting weaker - that’s the program of operations.

When an experimental drug that doesn’t stop you getting some sickness, is forced on the populations of almost all the planet, where civil liberties are massively curtailed, and there is an almost total unity of purpose amongst Big Government, Big Pharma - who profit to unimaginable levels - Big Tech, who endeavour to censor any opposition views regarding these practices, the mainstream media singing almost exclusively and for as long as feasibly possible from the same hymn sheet . . . Well it should be pretty obvious that here again we are in the midst of the classic fascist variation on the totalitarian socialist power fantasy. The State allied to big business tries to award itself pretty much unlimited powers over the individual. And the willingly propagandised masses were supposed to feel very comfort in how well they were being medically looked after - by the same people telling them we need to use the term “birthing persons” instead of  “mothers” because the birthing person could be a man. Totalitarian science - or the despot of “half-science” as Dostoevsky termed it as he saw it beginning to emerge.

So here in practice we see the intellectual absolutist power fantasy has met reality, become adapted and become a more plausible and viable form. As Machiavelli wrote, "the people are everywhere anxious not to be dominated or oppressed by the nobles, and the nobles are out to dominate and oppress the people”. It’s just that the makeup of the nobles can vary, but the underlying desire for power and more of it is obviously through history a constant element.

So even the summary is a bit longer than I’d hoped but anyway I think it’s all pretty obvious stuff.

Copy

 

A charcoal copy I did quite a while ago of the painting Repentance of St Peter by El Greco. So I can, to some degree anyway, actually draw. The unusual or distorted physical  dimensions are quite normal for El Greco and the mannerist style in general.

Way Back

 

I unexpectedly came across some stuff when I first started doing some art from way back, mostly with soft pastels; this one I’ve filtered out the colour - cos it wasn't very good.

Error

 “It is an error to argue in front of your data; you find yourself insensibly twisting them [facts] around to fit your theories.”

Spoken by Sherlock Holmes in Wisteria Lodge by Arthur Conan Doyle.

last night

 

Something I did last night.

moving

 

Something I did a couple of nights ago, though if I do manage to finish it, it’s not finished yet.

ink 55

 Don’t know if I’ve any particular feelings for or against this, but this is it anyway.

filtered

 Some ink piece with a slight filter on the colour.

Humility

 

I thought this was excellent.

What Was That?

The What Was That? version of the track Are We Here by Orbital from 1994.

light dark

 

earth

de Stael

 

A painting by the Russian/French artist Nicolas de Stael.

Socialist Fantasy Meets Reality, Produces Fascism 1

           “Fascism is a form of socialism, it is its most viable form.”

The above a quote by Giovanni Gentille, along with Mussolini, the formulator of fascism as a conscious doctrine in Italy, and which I’ll come back to that later.

People have all kinds of fantasies. Someone may have for example sexual fantasies of a private world of beautiful adoring slaves in a world of luxury and endless pleasure - maybe people the fantasist personally knows, maybe famous celebrities. Within this fantasy naturally there are no awkward silences between the individuals involved, no moments of boredom, petty arguments or sexually transmitted diseases, embarrassing visits to the hospital, etc. If only this fantasy could be made real, there would be nothing like that, instead just endless bliss. How easy to attain heaven in fantasy. 

Another youth dreams of scoring endless and amazing goals for an all-triumphant Manchester United. He is adored, fabulously wealthy - this fantasy can merge with the first one above, and spill out into further realms. He moves into acting, he becomes the new James Bond, etc, maybe he moves into politics and comes to rule the world. So again the realisation of the fantasy would be heaven on earth - for the star of the fantasy at least.

So there can be all kinds of fantasies, and at the heart of all of them is the desire for the replacement of a felt un-ideal state with an ideal one. At the core so fantasy equates to an increase in personal power, regardless again of the form the fantasy takes. It could be the attainment of a magnificent stamp collection! - but even here the desire is for an increase in one’s power within that field. 

Impediments can add sauce to the fantasy in the sense that they are overcome, and this is even very enjoyable for the ego of the fantasist - and we are dealing very much with ego here. So villains are defeated by a James Bond figure, or the football  dreamer, with tension at its highest, completes his hat-trick in the final minute for Manchester United to defeat Liverpool and win the league. Or maybe a local arrogant rich beauty slowly succumbs to a slavish passion for the hero.

And, depending on the nature of the dreamer and circumstances, to some degree the fantasy can be realised. Cristian Ronaldo or Lionel Messi’s childhood dreams probably weren’t too divorced from how things turned out, and reality may have even surpassed the dreams. For most though, the fantasies are “fantastical”; ie. not realisable, and there may be a tragic disassociation here between reality and the inner world. And even for the likes of Ronaldo and Messi things don’t always go right, sometimes they lose, and beyond that in the greater scheme of things they get older, will retire, and will continue to get older again. 

So someone especially rooted in the ego desire to conquer external reality, to submit it to one’s will, is engaged in a war they will ultimately lose since, even with seeming fulfilment of all earthly desires, along come ageing, illness, death. So there will always be an integral element of desperation attached to these private or public heaven-on-earth utopias dreamed up since, however great the earthly fulfilment, total defeat for the ego bound fantasist in the sense of death comes along! (So at the edges of fantasy are likely encroachments of dark imaginings, which the fantasist tries to keep at bay.) Naturally some begin to dream of conquering death - not spiritually but physically. And others of conquering and replacing God. Maybe the original fantasy.

So everyone’s fantasies involve power, in whatever sense, and it’s perfectly normal to some degree to have hopes of expanding one’s power or freedom within the material realm - getting a better job, better living space, etc. So even fixing a leak in the kitchen is an enhanced state of empowerment in relation to one’s environment. But fantasy tends to deal in extremes, don’t involve moderate levels of success, and since fantasy, however well this may be concealed, even to the fantasist, is always a matter of power, it is inevitable that some people will have fantasies involving unrestrained levels of  megalomania, and which power mad desires may even come to be realisable. 

And if you want to see what can be done with a collective fantasy, even one known to be wholly imaginary, just think of all the energy in the material world put into fleshing out the entirely made up figure of Santa Claus. And it is in the union of various forces that, as a social-commercial phenomenon ,  this Santa Claus fantasy’s power of incarnation lies - manufacturers, retailers, media. advertisers and willing consumers. So a collective fantasy or delusion can have huge power, especially if the right forces are united behind it, and others succumb to it.

Part 2 here 

Sar-u-mai

 

bull

 

Realigned

 

A piece from the other day, but I think I prefer it this way.

Trial

 God does not grant a great gift without a great trial.

… There is no man who will not feel oppressed at the time of training. And there is no man who will not find bitter the time when he is given the virulent potion of trials to drink.

… As long as you are journeying in the way to the city of the kingdom, and are drawing near the city of God, let this be for you a signpost: the strength of the temptations you encounter.

Isaac the Syrian.

Sound of Freedom Review

 

I haven’t seen the film yet though I did previously see a real-life footage documentary on Tim Ballard, who the film is about, in which he infiltrated and rescued some number of children from the hell of chil-trafficking. I see the mainstream AntiChrist media have attempted to slur the film and laugh off the idea of child-trafficking. Oh right, for example in a world where the infiltration of porn into mainstream society couldn’t be exaggerated, and which industry is obviously fed by all kinds of darknesses and practices, child trafficking and abuse is to be laughed off. In whose interests would it be to laugh it off? That says it all. 

Brainwashing children into believing they need to somehow change their sex = good. 

Child sex-trafficking = also good. 

And when for example Elon Musk immediately and seemingly successfully targeted the removal of Twitter for child porn, well this marked him out as a terrible man. What a bigot. Where’s his liberalism?

Also to add, I didn’t realise Disney had shelved the release of the film for years after its making. Why did they do this? Cos they’re all about the kids. 

P.S. I think rather than mainstream media, AntiChrist media is probably how I should refer to that noble body in future. It’s a much more evocatively accurate term.

a couple

 

Whether finished or worth finishing or not, a couple of things from tonight.

Crisis, Solution, Coincidence

“You know what I noticed with all these big crises we get bombarded with, whenever it is the bombardment happens, and whatever particularly the bombardment is about?”

“You mean crises like terrorism, climate, Covid, and so on?”

“Yeah.”

“What did you notice?”

“The solution is always more and more powers to the authorities. And which increase of power for the state is also, like with a weighing scales, now a decrease of power for the individual.”

“Well yeah, of course. That’s the nature of the dynamic.. Power doesn’t just evaporate, it goes somewhere.”

“It’s almost like the crisis, whatever it is, is always just the excuse for that shift in the balance of power.”

“But of course that’s just purely coincidental.”

“Oh yeah. That goes without saying. Pure coincidence.”

quick piece

 

japan