Since the early 80's here in Canada and throughout the world, a specific vision of society bred a coercive vision of humanity. It was based in the belief that individualism was the main motor of progress throughout the capitalistic system. Of this conception was born the notion of "free world", this notion of "free world" was also born in utter and outright reaction to the totalitarian communism that had for beacon the Soviet Union and the centralized form of Communism that was but an ideological tool of repression. The notion of freedom has always been a very difficult notion for me to come to terms with, because as any "grand" philosophical notion it means everything to everybody and anything to anyone. During the end of the 20th century the battle to define and to personify freedom intensified. But the battle that ended the Cold War, did not end in with the fall of the wall, it took an unexpected detour.
In 1989, the myth of freedom the intimate link, almost a charnel link between capitalism and freedom was created from scratch. History is always written by the victorious, but the victorious aren't very good writers and sincerely victory does not always translate into a victory of truth. And since then our history, the collective history of the struggle of some to defy the powerful, to fight oppression, to combat repression, to create a more humane system has been stollen from us. The fight to create a more humane system, in the way I see it, is the struggle to create a system in which truth prevails. Truth being the mingling of a strong need for honesty and through that need is born human dignity. Those are the main elements for a strong "humanistic" system = Truth through a coordination of the need for honesty that empowers human dignity.
Human dignity should be at the centre of any conceived political system, but in capitalism/corporatism it has been absent as in totalitarian communism it was also. In this day and age, our "humanistic" values are being deprived of that lifeline, its oxygen that is dignity. Dignity comes through several forms and shapes its physical, its epistemological , its material and its emotional. For me each of these vectors is connected to a very "real" and tangible human need, a need on which depends humanity (not as whole, but as a state of mind). The physical vector is a wish and the right of even human-being to live a life in which one's physical integrity and well-being is assured, assured in times of heath or hardship. The quest for knowledge and knowledge are the foundations of human dignity an educated human-being is dignified and can fight to protect his dignity. The material vector, dignity is created when the primary needs of human-beings are satisfied liberating them from the enslavement of survival. The final vector is the need of truthful respect, and respect is born through equality.
In the modern capitalistic system, such as under the "Red Kremlin" those vectors of human dignity are asphyxiated. In our modern times, the systems of education and heath care, created to solidify human dignity and "respectful equality" are being scrapped. The final stage of capitalism --> corporatism/austerity is upon us. During the Communist metamorphosis into a totalitarian regime, the strategy of the salami was used cutting off opponents gradually on the left as on the right of the political spectrum. Communism became totalitarian, communism does not breed totalitarianism. As capitalism does not breed totalitarianism, in both systems a blueprint that concentrated the power over many in the hands of few did in fact bred totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a system in which the regime tries to control every aspect of human life. In communism it has very visible through state enforced propaganda and the concentration of power in the hands of high-ranking party members. In the modern corporatism, illusions are created to keep the population subdued in "illusory freedom". In modern corporatism, words change but the effects are the same.
With the 9/11 and the true entry into the 21st century, a renewed assault against human dignity was lunched by the corporatist oligarchic cycles of power. An assault, commodifying all the systems and social programs that bring dignity, commodifying humanity just as totalitarian communism transformed humanity into an ideological battle. Through the commodification of education and heath care the epistemological and physical vectors of dignity have been shattered. And now finally has arrived the final stage of corporatism, austerity. Austerity is the final and utter destruction of the notion of dignity in political, economical and social terms, to concentrate the combined economical, social and political power in the hands of a chosen elite. Austerity is the destruction of the values and principals, pillars of democracy and democratic rule and the finalization of oligarchy.
So that's the corporatist "master plan" to deprive the peoples of the world of that lifeline, called dignity, cutting out truth and equality, destroying the current social fabric of cultures, creating one generalized society of mass consumption. But the plan forgot about the chain of reaction, that exist inherently in human nature and when alerted it starts-up. It starts-up when people have no hope, expectations or vision for the future left "grosso modo" no dignity.
Revolution is born when dignity is under threat, somehow the oligarchies of past, present and future have never comprehended that, do not understand it and shall never perceive it. Because when you want to deprive someone of his dignity it means, that your notion of dignity is false. Oligarchy at least in the corporatist system has replaced dignity in their spheres by money, their lifeline is money without it they are useless, but the power of a dignified people is something money or ideology or brute force can never bend.
The protests in Montreal and throughout the world have proven a point to me. The cause for dignity, the cause for a system that truly fights for dignity is still alive more then ever. The corporatist "master plan" is collapsing, but we mustn't chant victory until the Cesar is finally berried. Social movements, grassroots movements that bring out the best in mankind, will create a system better for all of mankind. Solidarity in the 21st century that holds for most cherished truth that"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" uphold a brighter dawn. So is the whisper of revolution (the struggle to bring things back to their rightful place) and progress (the "reindignification" of society).
Revolution starts by resisting!
Sky.
In 1989, the myth of freedom the intimate link, almost a charnel link between capitalism and freedom was created from scratch. History is always written by the victorious, but the victorious aren't very good writers and sincerely victory does not always translate into a victory of truth. And since then our history, the collective history of the struggle of some to defy the powerful, to fight oppression, to combat repression, to create a more humane system has been stollen from us. The fight to create a more humane system, in the way I see it, is the struggle to create a system in which truth prevails. Truth being the mingling of a strong need for honesty and through that need is born human dignity. Those are the main elements for a strong "humanistic" system = Truth through a coordination of the need for honesty that empowers human dignity.
Human dignity should be at the centre of any conceived political system, but in capitalism/corporatism it has been absent as in totalitarian communism it was also. In this day and age, our "humanistic" values are being deprived of that lifeline, its oxygen that is dignity. Dignity comes through several forms and shapes its physical, its epistemological , its material and its emotional. For me each of these vectors is connected to a very "real" and tangible human need, a need on which depends humanity (not as whole, but as a state of mind). The physical vector is a wish and the right of even human-being to live a life in which one's physical integrity and well-being is assured, assured in times of heath or hardship. The quest for knowledge and knowledge are the foundations of human dignity an educated human-being is dignified and can fight to protect his dignity. The material vector, dignity is created when the primary needs of human-beings are satisfied liberating them from the enslavement of survival. The final vector is the need of truthful respect, and respect is born through equality.
In the modern capitalistic system, such as under the "Red Kremlin" those vectors of human dignity are asphyxiated. In our modern times, the systems of education and heath care, created to solidify human dignity and "respectful equality" are being scrapped. The final stage of capitalism --> corporatism/austerity is upon us. During the Communist metamorphosis into a totalitarian regime, the strategy of the salami was used cutting off opponents gradually on the left as on the right of the political spectrum. Communism became totalitarian, communism does not breed totalitarianism. As capitalism does not breed totalitarianism, in both systems a blueprint that concentrated the power over many in the hands of few did in fact bred totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a system in which the regime tries to control every aspect of human life. In communism it has very visible through state enforced propaganda and the concentration of power in the hands of high-ranking party members. In the modern corporatism, illusions are created to keep the population subdued in "illusory freedom". In modern corporatism, words change but the effects are the same.
With the 9/11 and the true entry into the 21st century, a renewed assault against human dignity was lunched by the corporatist oligarchic cycles of power. An assault, commodifying all the systems and social programs that bring dignity, commodifying humanity just as totalitarian communism transformed humanity into an ideological battle. Through the commodification of education and heath care the epistemological and physical vectors of dignity have been shattered. And now finally has arrived the final stage of corporatism, austerity. Austerity is the final and utter destruction of the notion of dignity in political, economical and social terms, to concentrate the combined economical, social and political power in the hands of a chosen elite. Austerity is the destruction of the values and principals, pillars of democracy and democratic rule and the finalization of oligarchy.
So that's the corporatist "master plan" to deprive the peoples of the world of that lifeline, called dignity, cutting out truth and equality, destroying the current social fabric of cultures, creating one generalized society of mass consumption. But the plan forgot about the chain of reaction, that exist inherently in human nature and when alerted it starts-up. It starts-up when people have no hope, expectations or vision for the future left "grosso modo" no dignity.
Revolution is born when dignity is under threat, somehow the oligarchies of past, present and future have never comprehended that, do not understand it and shall never perceive it. Because when you want to deprive someone of his dignity it means, that your notion of dignity is false. Oligarchy at least in the corporatist system has replaced dignity in their spheres by money, their lifeline is money without it they are useless, but the power of a dignified people is something money or ideology or brute force can never bend.
The protests in Montreal and throughout the world have proven a point to me. The cause for dignity, the cause for a system that truly fights for dignity is still alive more then ever. The corporatist "master plan" is collapsing, but we mustn't chant victory until the Cesar is finally berried. Social movements, grassroots movements that bring out the best in mankind, will create a system better for all of mankind. Solidarity in the 21st century that holds for most cherished truth that"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" uphold a brighter dawn. So is the whisper of revolution (the struggle to bring things back to their rightful place) and progress (the "reindignification" of society).
Revolution starts by resisting!
Sky.
