“A spectre is
haunting the Internet. It’s called Emancipation.
Web surfers of the world,
join us. You have everything to gain
especially independence of
thoughts and mind.”
(Carl Zimmerman)
Introduction:
1. About Us:
We are a group of
international students, graduates, teachers, scholars, writers,
artists, authors, inventors, free lance
workers, scientists, engineers, farmers and independent entrepreneurs,
interested in Science and Philosophy, the Arts and Humanities. Some of
us, ever since the famous Fall of the infamous Wall of Berlin, have
begun
to review Science, Philosophy & History, began to develop our own
Science and Philosophy, our own views about Praxis and Theory, about
Nature
and Society.
Specifically, we
concentrated on other ways of Thinking & Thought, on new Logical
Methods and on our own Epistemology, Ethics and Aesthetics. We
formulated the
emancipatory guide-line:
Do a n d Think AND Excel Of, By and For Ourselves, Here, Now and Forever!
Ever since 1989 till today,
among many other things, we seriously studied our world system, the
fatherland, official Science and Philosophy, the New World Order,
Technology and Economics; day and night, in debates, chats and
lectures, reading,
studying, writing and discussing, as far as our abilities and
capabilities
could reach and fathom reality, we penetrated and interpenetrated the
essence of so-called History,
and we came to the conclusion, to the
horrible discovery, that Labour in all its forms
is the umbilical cord, is the very essence of
Alienation, is Alienation per se.
This cognition and
recognition opened vast vistas to our Science and Philosophy,
unravelled "open secrets", brought many
an enigma into broad daylight. We began
to reap what we have sown, the fruits of
self-action, self-thinking, of self-excellence,
in nuce, of self-emancipation.
Our Thinking and Thought, our Intellect and Reason, were blossoming, blooming and flowering, we became more natural, more social, more historic. Our Thinking Methods, our Logics became refined, our acts and thoughts oscillated like magnet-needles, hovered like the Sword of Damocles over a moribund and dying culture. We perceived things which we never ever have dreamt of before, we did things which we never ever could have imagined before, and our thinking registered relations which have been obliterated by millennia of exploiting smoke, dominating smog and discriminatory putrefied air.
A few of us, fell by the wayside, like house-pigeons, they could not reach the cosmic heights and ontic velocities of the messenger doves; we bewail their departure, and wish them success in all their future endeavours. We became quantitatively less, yet qualitatively more. Yet, we marched on, we pulled ourselves out of the morass, by grasping our own hair, out of the stagnating, skunklike mud of indoctrinated ignorance and manipulated arrogance. We became excellent, we began to excel, to gain immanent transcendental cruising speed.
As such, we reached the end of the so-called Second Millennium. We knew and we know that we cannot "conscientize", cannot organize, mobilize or teach anybody or anything, who or which does not find itself/herself/himself already on the excellent emancipatory orbit. In fact, we never tried to do this -- we left this educative endeavour to Christians, Marxists, Liberals, Teachers and Professors. We appreciate and respect their vocation and work, but we have other emancipatory objectives, subjectives and transjectives.
2. The Current State of Affairs
Being part and parcel of this globe, striving towards cosmic depths and heights, directions and perspectives, towards active levels, towards ontic degrees, other intellectual elegance and rational fragrance, towards new, original mensions, towards more excellent surpassing, we decided also to be "in", to be "cool", to know what is "related". We entered Cyberspace, we sped forward on the Information Highway, we embraced the WEB, we became internetted, we went global.
We designed Home Pages, organized Discussion Forums, we e-mailed, we chatted, we chattered!
This metamorphosis had a
quantitative effect; we expanded globally, we reached
strange sites, new pages, new panoramas
opened in front of our eyes; many illusions were deleted; our knowledge
was enriched and saved, we encountered new versions, met beta-beings,
downloaded Classic and De Luxe varieties. We
experienced
crashes, viruses, cracking and hacking, pecking and cackling.
We are being confronted with
millennium relations, with a new species of beings,
with other affirmations, negations and
contradictions. Our modus operandi changes, our modus
vivendi relates in different, triverse ways, our Invisible,
Invulnerable,
Invincible Principle dawns on the Galactic
Horizon. Emancipation gains new, authentic, original mensions.
The chaff is being sifted away, the natural, fresh, germinating wheat triumphs over its cloned inmate; the emancipators identify themselves, and the alphas, betas and omegas spew global, globalized venom; they only see themselves, can see nothing else anymore, except their own cloned phantoms in their virtual real world. Formal Logics has reached its historic objective: A = A. Only B or C or Z can still visualize A, Non-A, B, or anything else for that matter.
We reached the Alpha
and Omega of History, of the Fatherland, of Globalization.
And Now, And Here,
What is To be Done?
What and How Can Be Thought?
What and How and Why can be Emancipated?
We have crossed the "Historical
Rubicon", now let's Reach For The Stars:
per aspera ad astra!
PART II
A. ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC
EMANCIPATORY
"RULES AND REGULATIONS"
Prelude
Why do we need rules, norms, regulations, statutes, constitutions and laws?
Are they not preserving
Labour, the status quo? Are they not intrinsic elements
of the functioning Global State? Part and
Parcel of the Political Domination of
"Big Brother"?
Emancipation, Excellence,
Transcendence, by definition, cannot be achieved within
the static framework of a systemic set of
restrictions, of do's and don'ts. However, on the other hand, are
our scientific and philosophic methods really so chaotic, our
Epistemology and Logics truly so anarchic, just chosen at random, mere
trial-and-error equivocations? Certainly not.
Until now, in Praxis, we were guided by certain cosmic landmarks; in Theory, we had certain ontic guide-lines, in Excellence, we detected certain transcendental clues, motives, motifs. Generally, we identify with scientific precision, incision; we differentiate with decisiveness, determinedness. We triversify, superate in excellence, in emancipation.
Thus, are these not valid in
the praxical "organization" and theoretical approximation
of our correspondence, inter-communication,
inter-relations, chats, debates, discussions, "membership", "guests"
and "visitors"?
In reality, we need
not, should not need any "rules" and "regulations"; what is
quintessential for us are our own cosmic
nature, our own ontic existence, our own excellent transcendence; these
are our real, true, guiding "guardian angels". However, because we are
still
on our way, are still stumbling over identifiable, stony levels,
are still falling in different degrees into rocky crevices and
pot-holes, and are still swept away in triverse mensiones by
stormy hurricanes, for these reasons, and only for these, we urgently
need certain guide-lines, to keep us on track, to keep us in balance,
onboard, safe and sane.
Concerning levels, degrees and mensions, we are not only unified, we are this, but we are also differentiated, and some of us, are also triversified. We do not act identically, we do not think totally differentiated, we do not excel in historic, emancipatory spheres. In simple text: we find ourselves at different levels, degrees and mensions of consciousness. As stated before, we're all on our way; we assist, we help, we encourage, we direct each other. This must be learned, must be ruly, regulated. Some of us are more "advanced". Of course, this is not a privilege, it's only that some of us are already since a very long time hot on the trail. Some of us are newcomers, however, we are introducing new, fresh air into the debates, generating innovative acts, thoughts and life energy.
1. THE UNFOLDING DRAMA
With reference to the above, in accordance with "Do a n d Think It Yourself", let's scrutinize some brilliant ideas and recent suggestions of our own "members":
"... If this should have been what has happened, then I must come to the conclusion which Carl always has been explaining to us, i.e., his insistence on underlining and permanently emphasizing the validity of the 'Emancipatory Fight with the Pen', i.e. , by simply writing down and publishing our thoughts on the web; this might de facto be more 'effective' than I have thought it to be until now. (Besides, this reminds me of the "Butterfly Effect" in Chaos Theory) ... " (Iris)
" ... But now, there we go again: What is to be done? How about "personalities" within our online and off-line debates in this context?
Should they, can they be "excluded", "avoided", and if so, why and how?
Because we would like at least to officially "maintain" the illusion of --- what?
Or should we put "under the carpet of privacy" some verbal manifestations and conduct which as we know and stated are nothing more than precise reflections of the very state of affairs within the involving system with which for several reasons we are not in agreement with?
Should there be any need of classification and splitting into some "official" and "private" pandemonium debate?
How about the
"divide and rule" principle and "secret-landia" of already internalized
schizophrenic behaviour modification
patterns on a global cyber-scale on-line and off-line? How about
further online-splitting of yet already offline split
personality-chips?
Do we need some kind of updated Moral Philosophy of Adam Smith, do we need his "Inner, Neutral, Objective Spectator", do we need an official online Knigge (Behaviour Manual)?
After all, how would we
seriously come to know somebody, basing us on a
discussion-chip-performance? Haven't
we already struggled for years and experienced
enough regarding the overcoming of those
chips and our illusions, being used and abused since birth and during
years by pretending, behaviour-modified character-masks?
And finally, didn't
we encourage everybody to honestly, truly state his/her thoughts on
his/her level, openly,
authentically?
However: We simply 'go ahead'. ... " (Iris)
"I cannot and will
not accept such level of behaviour. I have no
problems with two fellow humans
having differences of opinion however to
take it to "mud slinging" level is
beyond my comprehension. ... Also I
suggest that we develop a code of
conduct for new members. Looking forward
for your comments. " (Khalid)
"Look at the fireworks in
the Debate message shown below. The sparks in
our debates don't compare to anything like
that. However, the message
demonstrates why it's important to mainly
stick to issues and avoid
personalities as much as possible in
our debates. Personalities should
be addressed in private messages between
the parties involved. Unless
I'm mistaken, I think that the main
purpose of our debates is to help
increase the knowledge and insight of the
debate participants and
spectators for their growth (because
unless we grow, we die) and for the
development of emancipatory ideas. I've
seen teams die when they continuously
behaved in the manner shown in the Debate
message below. The Crew is too
astute to let that happen. "
(Carl)
"Please pardon me today, for being so explanatory, so introductory, it's important. I have 'good' emancipatory reasons.
Furthermore, a short note on our general philosophic endeavour. Extensively and intensively, over the decades, we have studied seriously Democracy, Foreign Policy, Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism, Revolutions, the Frankfurter School, Elementary Physics, Mathematics, Economics, History, Religion, Literature, Poetry, Languages, etc.
Since donkey years, we
have read whatever we found of scientific, philosophic or emancipatory
interest; we have studied Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology,
etc.
With unbiased, scientific innocence,
with open-minded preparedness to learn, with restless, philosophic
expectations, we tried to unravel, to interpenetrate the profound
caverns of knowledge, of truth and wisdom, listening to anything, to
anybody, who had something to contribute, to reveal. What is published
on our Home Pages, and what is being illustrated in our chats, are the
disturbing results of stringent, serious deliberations.
And now: What Is To Be Done?
We cannot supply the data, the facts, the literature, the statistics, which after decades of investigation, study and analysis had led to such radical, dramatic, innovative, emancipatory conclusions. ....
This must go on the
record once and for all. Many people, for whatever reason, may not be
able to follow us; others may condemn us, may declare us to be totally
crazy; we understand these outbursts, in fact, we expect them, and we
nurture no "bad" feelings towards any person concerning this delicate
issue.
It's extremely difficult to develop
guide-lines and rules to direct us towards
emancipatory excellence.
Now, let's move on. Please, be patient, our task is extremely difficult, diverse and controversial; exactly because it concerns thinking itself, in-itself, which exists extremely complicated and complex. Thus, warm up your 'thinking motor', launch your belligerent 'think tank'." (Franz)
"Carl, I agree with Franz.
One needs never apologize for the actions
of another. A fool will always
reveal himself given enough time. I have
no idea who is right or wrong in
the facts of the discussion but there is
no doubt in who turned it in the wrong
direction. So what. ...
It is amazing how
intellectual conversation can turn angry and insulting so fast
and without reason. ... One thing I know:
give people enough time and they
will reveal their true selves.
Franz, you are not a blank page to me. " (Steve)
"Carl, I appreciate your
elegant proficiency in handling delicate matters
such as, unfortunately, was Jim's case. I
am convinced, that there is no
way to avoid such incidents, as the Crew,
by definition, is open anytime
to sincere participation, active
criticism, controversial thought exchange
and thus further growth, as you yourself
eloquently observed, which
necessarily includes the "risk" of
experiences like the one we had with
Jim. This will doubtlessly happen again,
and I don't see any reason to
be worried or even surprised about future
incidences of this kind, as
long as we know how do deal with these
cases in a professional manner.
What concerns Jim's case, for some reason
he fell onto a low and
regrettable level of completely irrational
personal attacks, which
made a meaningful controversy about some
doubtlessly interesting points he
raised impossible. The Crew refrained from
a "counter-attack" because,
firstly, scientific controversy is not a
matter of emotion or personal
dislike, and secondly, the real
controversy can only start, if both
scientific views involved accept, that the
other side "has a point to
it" worth the debate. Other than that, the
only outcome of a so-called
"controversy" would be eternal
self-affirmation, reaffirmation and
remaining stuck within one's absolute
truths. There is, of course,
nothing "wrong" with absolute truths, they
are our necessary "starting
points", our identification, the firm
basis we stand on for to be able
to negate in the first place, for to
be able to relate at all, and for to be
able to anticipate, that there are more
things in heaven and on earth
than are dreamt of in our very own
philosophy." (Jutta)
What is the "red thread" that relates the above quotations? Which mile-stones, guide-lines, light-year-stars can we identify for us?
Also, we should note that
time constraints require rules and regulations. Our members have
limited time to spend on our online activities, and must co-ordinate
this with the time spent on family, business, study, physical exercise
and
other activities. Very often we don't have the adequate time to engage
in activities necessary to keep emancipatory endeavours on track.
Adherence to certain rules and regulations, developed by ourselves,
with our own approval,
would lessen the problems involved, and thus generate optimal active
participation.
PART III
2. OUR GUIDE-LINES
General
One of the conclusions,
which can definitely be drawn from the above, is that real
emancipators, true historians, do not need
"rules, laws or regulations" of whatever genre. All the suggestions
with reference to a "code of conduct" (Khalid) point at our
relations to newcomers, to others.
Whosoever sees
it/her/himself
as something, someone striving towards emancipation,
towards a cosmic-ontic, natural-social
relationship of and with History, necessarily, at first, has to study
her/his "home-work", has to cognize and recognize certain
"home-truths"; below are exemplified the four major ones:
1. The famous "Gretchenfrage" of Goethe's Faust ; also of Napoleon to Laplace: Not, How's business? But, How's religion?
Thought (I think that ....) and Knowledge (I know that ....) are anaemic and endemic to Belief (I believe that ....). With due respect, who is a staunch believer should put on her/his religious, theologian shoes, which certainly do fit comfortably well, should move very fast faraway from us, and keep her/himself at a safe distance, securely hidden away from the onslaught of the "Götterdämmerung", of the devastating typhoons and roaring hurricanes of our Science and Philosophy. Who has read and studied Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity and Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian?, can cautiously try to approximate us again. Our Science and Philosophy have as a quintessential pre-condition the superation of all demons, angels, gods, devils, ghosts and spirits in our very "souls". Item: firstly, we study, think about, know these fantasies, but we don't believe in them. We don't allow them to haunt, to terrorize, to master us. And we cannot allow religious "abracadabra" and fantastic "tohu wa bohu" to ruin and sabotage our stringent, illuminating discussions, debates and chats.
2. The famous endogenic-systemic "Quo Vadis?" Issue. Whither Goest Thou?
Shakespeare made it very clear that there are more things in Heaven and on Earth than only those things that are dreamt of daily in our miserable "home-made" pseudo-philosophy.
Official education and
dissocialization systematically had practically destroyed all
our transcendental, fiery, youthful
daydreams. They were replaced with endogenic, systemic, evolutionary,
peaceful, second-hand merchandise, with "progress", with "change" only
within the system, only here, and forever here. Amen! A galaxy of
"ruling" norms, habits, behaviour patterns, customs, cultural
heritage,
tradition, rules, regulations, laws and constitutions, invented by all
sorts of "rulers" across the millennia, forever guard that we
never
ever will dream about transcending the very limits of internal,
systemic
repose. They are the formal logical, moral, legal, humanistic
watch-dogs
of our Quo vadis, of our Future! Consequently, secondly,
an emancipator has to clarify this issue, of, by, for her/himself.
Otherwise,
s(he) will never understand what transcendence, superation or
excellence
really and truly imply.
3. The "Ora et Labora",
The Old Bailey and Tower Pray- and Work-Shop!
The Alcatraz of "Kinder,
Küche, Kirche" Syndrome.
Welcome To The KKK Club!
Thirdly, who did not
apprehend, comprehend what Labour is, would never be
able to make a single, earthly analysis,
worth of scientific and philosophic consideration, about transcendental
emancipation; would not understand what the New World Order, what
Globalization are all about. S(he) would never grasp the
alienating essence of Work, of Labour; would forever fall into the
fascist, nazi maelstrom of producing and reproducing an army of
labourers; would keep the second-class, adopted, feminine
"fellow-human-beings" in an inferior status, better in the kitchen,
even in the age of informative cloning; and would drive unknowingly, in
good belief, the rest of "humanity", in the name of "Freedom" and
"Democracy", like Pavlov-Daisy-Sheep, straight into the Cathedral of
New
Worship of His Lordship "Big Brother".
4. The "Ecce Homo"
Arrogance, The "Crown Of Creation",
"The Highest Blossom
Of Nature".
What A Man!
Man, the Creator of the Creator, the Lord of Creation.
Homo, Homo Sapiens, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, The One, The Only, The One and Only, the Hen Kai Pan, the Unomnia.
A Great Man, with Great Ideas, from a Great Race; an Aryan, making Great History.
Our Saviour, the Almighty, the Redeemer -- A Christian, A Liberal, A Peace-Maker, A Democrat, A European, An American, A Communist, A Nazi, A Fascist, A Marxist, A Hegelian, A Terrorist.
Man, the generator of labour, the inventor of war, technology and conspiracy, the discoverer of world order, of money, capital and profits. The discriminator and violator of women, slaves, "niggers", Kaffirs, Coolies and Camel-Drivers.
Well, finally,
somebody who still nurtures such "great ideas" cannot have a "great
future" on our Home Pages, and surely s(he) will get into serious
trouble with any
real emancipator, a true historian, with us.
In other words, in order to be excellent,
we better get our actions and ideas very
clear and precise concerning the wonderful, beautiful "human being",
whom we want to "conscientize" and emancipate.
5. Concerning New Comers
Now, concerning praxical matters, with reference to newcomers to our forums, debates and chats, it's imperative to do and know the following:
a) Current occupation and
employer or business.
b) Academic degrees.
c) Published articles and/or books.
d) History of on-line activities, e.g.,
membership in other forums.
e) Major interests (e.g., natural science,
philosophy, history, etc.).
f) Their views of a key issue in one their
favourite subjects.
g) Challenge these views, and see if they
have an open mind.
h) Information about why they are interested
in joining the Crew.
i) What they want to contribute to the Crew.
j) What they expect the Crew to do for them.
k) Finally, only then, anyone of us, could
safely recommend anyone
to join or chats or
engage in any other Crew-related activity.
PART IV
3. ABOUT PRACTICE AND PRAXIS
1. Practice, Praxis & Labour
It's an open secret that the
absolute majority of human beings, living on this planet,
from the cradle to the grave, in one way or
the other, some less, some more, participate in the labour process,
live by labour products, produce and reproduce labour and its
by-products, among them consumer goods, destructive armament, lethal
drugs, toxic food, artificial epidemics, atomic weapons, bombers,
submarines, capital, profits. Also, it's fairly known, that since
millennia, economic exploitation, including its corresponding
devastating war technology, political domination, including its
brutal agents, armies, security forces, death squadrons, social
discrimination, including its ideology and education, racism, body,
mind and thought control, immoral think-tanks, infectious mass media,
and human alienation, including its rotting and stinking jails,
fascist torture and gas chambers, its colonial "Tower", "Alcatraz",
"Cayenne" and "Robben Island", its native reserves, bantustans,
barrios, favelas, gulags, lepers,
lumpen-proletariat; that these form the very essence of our
earthly human existence, of the labour process. These four
elements are the basic manifestations of life (rather
death) on this planet, of Labour, of History.
This is what we learned to know, to discover, to use as the emancipatory key toward knowledge about anything which concerns us. This is our invaluable cognitive and cognositive intellectual asset; and we use it to open all doors of secret conspiracy, of classified documents, of human depredation and depravation.
Now, manifestation is not
essence, it is appearance, it is phenomenal. It can be sensed,
be perceived, be experienced. However, as a
rule, we only perceive isolated, unrelated individual appearance forms.
Such perception is not thinking, is not intellectual abstraction; it
has nothing to do with theory. Ideology, mind and thought control,
precisely destroys intellectual and social relations, the relation of
two manifestations, prohibits such "contradictions", in other words,
liquidates thinking. The so-called "conspiracy" theory and the "daily
news" are excellent examples of the above.
Progressively, this "information" is being disseminated on a global scale; this "education" is being "universitized", universalized, globalized. Many of us see thousands of individual trees, we act like a "walking Encyclopaedia Britannica", day and night, we talk and gaff about these phenomena, these "events", these "incidents", like never-ending water-falls, about the particular features of these monolithic entities, about the individual news spots, yet, despite all, we do not think; mentally, we do not grasp the huge, monstrous, "historic" jungle, with its corresponding fatal laws, norms, rules and regulations, and capital crimes; we do not comprehend its wolfish, alienating essence, id est: we do not fathom Labour.
Labour is not individual, it is not an individual person, is not the manifestation of a certain group of individuals, of a specific Illuminati or ruling class, or a global multi-national company. Labour, Labour Power, is concrete and exists abstract, is Practice and exists as Ideology. Alienating Labour exists as the sum total of all maltreated, perverse natural-social and ahistoric non-relations on this current planet.
Surely, in this ahistoric, brutish jungle, progressively, thinking was replaced by "facts", by "empiricism", by "positivism", by cementation; this became our daily bread, our "practice", and, as we know, practice makes perfect, a perfect worker, a technologically perfected labour product, a human commodity, private property; eventually, as the Third Millennium dawns, as the Information Highway opens up, an "alpha" or "beta", a Pavlov-Dog, a labouring Zombie is being cloned, formed, informed, deformed and performed.
2. What is Practice?
Practice is working, is labouring, is becoming an expert in a specific field of production and reproduction, whether it is swinging a stone-axe or a farm shovel, programming a computer, constructing an atomic bomb, or applying Tesla Technology to modern global and galactic warfare. In all these cases, practice has to do with the origin and expansion of physical, intellectual and rational (capital) labour. Labour is manifold, but, as most productive things, it has two major sides: representing those who labour physically and mentally, and those who "rationally, rationalized" exploit, dominate and discriminate these labour forms: the Negation and the Affirmation of the Labour Process, respectively. Marx had identified them as Labour and Capital; but they are simply two sides of the very same thing.
3. What's the Difference between Practice and Praxis?
Except authentic, true, emancipatory Praxis and Theory, nothing on this planet "happens" beyond the realm of this Leviathan, is cut off from the essential labour process. For this very reason, anything that happens can be thought, interpreted, analysed within this very same process. No wonder that the very rulers insist that "change must come from within"; they mean "from within the labour process", never ever to question it. As such, we get to the gist of the matter, and only by grasping labour reality at its roots, that is, by its "radix", can we become radical, can we eradicate Labour, Alienation. Also, no wonder that the labour system fears "radicals". The "White House" abhors "radicals", and the "Kremlin" re-negates "revisionists". In contradistinction to "Practice" as elaborated above, to grasp the cosmic, natural essence of things is Praxis , to reproduce it intellectually, relating its manifold forms and manifestations, that's Theory. To do exactly the opposite, that's Ideology.
4. From "Paradise Lost" to "Labour Found"
A conditio sine qua non to become an ideologue is to affirm the current "historic" labour process. Generally, ab ovo, thanks to our wonderful education, this is not yet a crime, simply because ignorance is bliss. However, doing it consciously, with "scientific" premeditation, sowing blatant lies to the four winds, that definitely is a capital crime, is bare-faced ideology. Of course, it's not easy to identify the "alpha and omega", the "root of all evil" in this world; at least the Holy Bible gave us a tip: money, the golden calf, a special form of labour, is the source of all "original sins". Even Jesus Christ became a victim of this pecuniary greed of Judas Ischariot. Who still has eyes that can read, at least, between the lines, read your Holy Scriptures. Also read Genesis, there the divine curse, the "historic" sentence, is very clear: Hard Labour "by the sweat of your brow"! It's obvious, in a natural paradise nobody labours, nobody works, nobody performs practice. And, as we know, without any labour problems or pains, in the natural, epicurean Garden of Eden, originally situated somewhere in the vicinity of the current residence of Saddam Hussein, Adam and Eve had a jolly good time. Had they not invaded divine "private property", and not robbed "forbidden fruits", they would have lived there happily ever after, till this very day.
Hence, the human epic
continues, from "Paradise Lost" to "Labour Found". And the whole world
glorifies labour, affirms it. Practically, nobody anymore can imagine
anything else than work, labour, the labour system, making money, doing
business, and then die. Very few earth-dwellers transcend these myopic
inculcated, indoctrinated visions. From worse to absurd, without
working, without money, nobody can survive anymore. This is what nailed
the coffin of Marxist revolutionary education and conscientization.
This is also the emancipatory problem
which we have to tackle: nobody has time for anything, least of all,
for
theory, to think, we all must work. There the labour system has us in
a real tight stranglehold. Of course, labour does not have
transhistoric
objectives; it's not a transcendental survival kit, on the contrary,
it's
a hic et nunc system, a carpe diem El Dorado, its
reckless
alienating goal is total planetary destruction, its "future" is certain
death of all living species. Its politicians talk so much about
humanity,
about human beings, about "human rights", and yet, it does everything
possible
to annihilate the human species once and for all. It's arch-devil is
highly
sophisticated warfare technology, the most aggressive, self-destructive
element
of labour itself.
PART V
4. CONCERNING IDEOLOGY AND THEORY
(Encouraging Note:
To read and enjoy
this part, presupposes an understanding of
previous writings concerning thinking,
thought and theory.
However, we will illustrate this complex
issue as clear and simple
as possible. Of course,
over-simplification would generate
misunderstanding. Also note, to express
certain realities, we have to
invent our own concepts. In any case, in
physics or medicine,
bourgeois science does this every day.)
1. Exodus from History
Prelude: Once upon a time ....
Some formal-logical hundred
thousand years ago a strange, estranged thing occurred on Planet Earth,
in Mother Nature, within History. Whatever might have been the still
unknown causes for that evolutionary leap or "miscarriage", for the
time being, within the context of our current deliberations, the
reasons or real sources are completely irrelevant. Scientifically
and philosophically, ever since, we have noticed, that within the
Cosmic-Ontic Relation "Nature a n d Society", within
History, the generation of a strange, alienating Non-Relation "Labour"
had appeared on the world scene.
Furthermore, some fifty thousand years ago,
this weird process had begun to produce the macabre seeds of a future
maimed, perverse and absurd society. In other words, somewhere, way
back
yonder, Man, the labourer, came into existence.
2. Take It, Or leave It!
Eventually, this unilateral labour process, this human species, acquired some extraordinary features: Man, that is, Perverted Society, Labour Force, began to master, to exploit Nature, reducing it to maimed passivity; but this was not enough, he also began to dominate himself, began to fracture his own precarious existence, his own labour process, thus, progressively reducing himself to a perverse, degenerate social irreality, to a schizophrenic labour personality, to thing, to exchange, to money non-relations.
Till today, left and right,
Man is attacking everything in himself that is still historic,
still emancipatory in the species homo
sapiens sapiens, within the labour process. Like a Draculian
Moloch, with everlasting burning blood thirst, he is devouring
everybody and anything that is still human, humane and humanistic in a
historic sense.
This sounds grim indeed, but it has nothing
to do with misanthropy; it is simply the contemporary dark, stark
labour irrealities glaring at us, staring into our awe-stricken, pale
faces.
It's an existential matter of "take it, or leave it". It's the cruel,
brutal truth that we do not even wish our self-ordained arch-enemies to
know. Lucky for us, we have none. We, as Crew, stressed long ago
already,
that we have neither friends nor foes.
3. What is Theory? How does it exist?
Praxis identifies, unifies, determines, isolates, cuts off. It occupies itself with cosmic, natural essence. It manifests, tends toward rest, toward harmony. It is natural, is acting, naturally acts. It does things, affirms things. We act, we perform Praxis. Within History, Praxis is the affirmative relation, the essential force, our natural power. This is what we have illuminated in the previous part. Now, let us potentiate our intellectual capacities and abilities to excellent performance; read the following very slowly, very carefully, over and over again. When I perform Praxis, I act, I identify, I perceive manifestations, I'm a scientist.
Quantitatively, Theory is composed of Praxis and Itself. Qualitatively, Theory exists as Praxis a n d Theory, exists as Affirmation a n d Negation. In this case, as Praxis, Theory affirms itself, affirms its own Affirmation; a n d as Theory, it negates itself, negates its own Affirmation. Theory cannot, can never transcend itself, not even with its own "Negation of the Negation"; if this tool should be applied, then Theory would simply affirms itself again as Praxis, moving further, toward a "higher" internal Level of the very same closed, static system under intellectual observation.
Thus, Theory operates internally, intensively, within a closed system, it reflects special processes in, within, a single entity in repose, derived from a single postulate, a unique principle, for example, Matter or Spirit. Theory is our precise, stringent, intellectual tool to analyse diverse endogenic processes and triverse static realities, inter alia, those within the specific closed labour system; but also those within History, if it is being determined and identified as a closed system, composed of Nature a n d Society. To analyse a myriad of other types of realities, we have other more sophisticated tools of essence, existence, transcendence, spherence, etc. Furthermore, all these methods, logically are in permanent development and process themselves.
Praxis acts, identifies. What does Theory perform? Theory acts a n d thinks, identifies a n d differentiates; in brief: Theory thinks, relates, diversifies, and differentiates. When I theorize, I think, I relate, I differentiate; I'm a philosopher. As already explained elsewhere, we know already exactly what I believe performs, surely not "I think". In this specific case, I'm a believer. This issue we will discuss later within the context of Belief and Emancipation.
4. What is Ideology? How does it non-exist?
Ideology, based on formal logics, forever affirms, affirms its labour system. It cannot differentiate, cannot contradict two things or phenomena. To negate is forbidden, in spite of all the sweet talk about "freedom of thought", "freedom of speech". Copyrights of Intellectual Labour, Private Property of Intellectual Products, that is what is on the order, on the new world order, of the global day. What seems to be differentiation, like most things in Ideology, is simply a farce, fraud, an untruth. The best examples are: We are all human beings; we all are equal; we all have human rights. In God We Trust. Any differentiation here? We all must work. Everything is possible. We Germans. We Nazis. We Democrats. Any relation, any real identification here? That's official. That's for the people, for the masses.
5. Strictly confidential and classified historic information
How can a student studying history present a Ph. D thesis on recent political history, when the relevant documents are "strictly confidential" and are "classified" for at least half-a-century? And when everything is over, when all the gas and concentration camps are empty, when Patrice Lumumba, Che Guevara and Walter Rodney are already assassinated, when no Congo, Cuba or Guyana exist anymore, then what would be the "scientific" relevance to study censored, declassified documents, to uncover conspiracies?
If this applies to
"history", to the history of the labour process, then what do billions
know about history, about their own labour,
own labour force? Probably, only how to celebrate Labour Day! What kind
of democracy and freedom of thought is this? Is this not the
perpetuation of pure lies, of fine ideology, of mass ignorance, of massified,
masticated education? And many people are searching desperately for an
ideology
that would definitely function; on a global scale, democracy functions
everywhere.
The whole labour superstructure, which is
called religion, law, culture, civilization and tradition, is all pure
ideology. Only here and there dispersed small fragments of
emancipatory,
historic theory can still be detected.
6. Reich and Tesla Pillaged
Unofficially, every time when an aeroplane takes off from any airport anywhere on this globe, contradiction, dialectics, Natural Praxis a n d Social Theory are being used and abused, in the service of labour, of capital. But, about these concepts, about their real praxical and theoretical implications very few erudite scholars, a chosen elite, are being informed. At this very moment, in NASA, in the construction of UFO's, historic Praxis a n d Theory, Technology of Wilhelm Reich and Nicola Tesla, are being pillaged, are being abused and transformed into deadly arms of mass destruction. In the latest scientific investigations, in space travel, in nano-technology, in genetic engineering, perverted forms of Praxis and Theory are being placed in the service of globalized, even galactic exploitation, domination and discrimination, all under the ideological auspices of improving the quality of human life, of health, of food and housing. A whole galaxy of Life Sciences ransack the Relation Nature a n d Society, Praxis a n d Theory, in a word, History. And, who knows anything about this? In a Free World? And even if we explain this to billions, who could still understand, could still think, could still reason? Also, in the fields of Intellect and Reason, Labour is choking us to a slow painful death, gripping us tightly in a murderous stranglehold.
What really was happening in
the 20th century, billions do not have the foggiest notion about it.
All this, in spite of looking at the news on TV every night, or
listening to the radio non-stop. The truth about the UFO's, about
"Aliens", nobody seems to have an idea. About the "Kursk" incident, we
have hundreds of ideas, and none of them approximate the truth. This is
the excellent victory, the global performance of Ideology. This
is Orwellian "Newspeak" operating at its best.
PART VI
5. CONCERNING BELIEF AND EMANCIPATION
1. Various Levels Of Ignorance
To be ignorant is not necessarily an insult. On the contrary, in the world of labour and toil, it could even be an emancipatory asset to be an ignoramus. Who is highly cultured, well educated, and who is an erudite laureate, possessing encyclopaedic knowledge, could be in serious emancipatory trouble. In the cradle, whether of humanity, or in our very personal one, anybody is born in cognitive innocence and healthy ignorance. That billions, via the lack of education, or precisely, as a result of drilled education, forever scream in the cradle of earthly existence, this has nothing to do with pejorative "ignorance", but rather with the after-effects of premeditated inculcation of an enslaved mind on a global scale. Mental slavery is not identical to banausic ignorance of workers, peasants and "natives". A mental slave could have obtained a Ph.D summa cum laude at Harvard, Frankfurt, Oxford or Cambridge. An intellectual and scientific genius could be an Albert Einstein, or an unknown philosopher, Don Albert, who had saved themselves from official academic slavery.
Of course, in a labour
system, which has its exploitative and dominating priorities very
straight, and which has all the necessary economic, political, social,
educational and cultural resources at its disposal to realize its
financial, monetary, accumulative
and surplus value objectives, a young,
flowering, blooming, blossoming mind, filled with natural,
youthful emancipatory daydreams, has scarcely any chance
whatsoever to flourish, to mature, to survive; already very early it is
being "nipped in the bud", being drowned in all sorts of religious and
ideological hemlocks.
2. A Sparkling Inkling of our Transcendental Philosophy
After a decade of
thinking, developing, revising and reformulating our Science
a n d Philosophy, we
are already very much advanced, far beyond that what we
could safely present here to our general
public, where somehow the illustrations and explanations could still be
followed, be digested. It's no use to publicize innovative materials
and discoveries that only a handful of constant, conscientious scholars
could comprehend, could apprehend. To understand these, at first,
for example,
one must have followed step-by-step the development of our
Logics, must permanently have thought with us, be part of all the
debates, critique and desperation that we had experienced over the last
decade.
Casual glimpses into our publications, written words, cannot substitute a continuous, constant, adamant, arduous emancipatory process. It's not possible to write all our thoughts, our arguments down. Please, take this into consideration when something is not quite clear. However, carefully, responsibly, we will spotlight this thorny historic road, lovingly we will accompany our dear visitors and guests on this exciting journey. Here is a glimpse into the historic world, beyond Labour. Also, as pre-condition, again we advise everybody to read and study the published materials on our Web Sites. This is the only way not to miss our boat, not to embark our train of thought.
Religion, belief, animism, magic, superstition, god, angels, devils and spirits in themselves are not really the apples of emancipatory discord; it is what official ruling, reigning ideology had made of them; their mortal strychnine, developed in myriad of fine, surreptitious forms -- alienation, racism, egoism, greed, wrath, revenge, arrogance, colonialism, mental enslavement, etc., -- were produced and reproduced in the "scientific" and "philosophical" laboratories of the superstructure of labour, of feudalism, absolutism, civilization, culture and tradition, and then in overdoses they were pumped into billions of helpless, harmless natural-social "creatures".
On the contrary, to have thought
the concept of "God" is still one of the greatest intellectual --
not religious, not theological -- achievements of mankind, of man and
his kind. He had to think Him, in order to close his labour system, to
set the static limits of his earthly catastrophe, to block any possible
emancipatory transcendence and excellence. With two ideologically
transformed guardian archdevils: with Peter
(The First Pope) and Lucifer
(The Light-Bringer), with God and Nothing, expanding Labour and
emerging Capital had doubly blocked the Gateway toward Excellence,
toward Emancipation: God, being the Affirmation
a n d Nothing, existing as the Negation.
This is were we begin our
excellent Bon Voyage; this is our transcendental, extra-laboral,
historic, emancipatory take-off: Toward Neither God Nor Nothing!
Toward Neither Belief Nor Nihilism!
3. Concerning Belief, Ideology and Alienation
Labour, as alienating
process, transforms authentic daydreams into beliefs, into religious
ideology. Let's see, in our times, how Simon and Garfunkel, in their
song
"I Am a Rock", had expressed this
ossification, this estrangement:
" ... I have my books and
my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor, hiding
in my room.
Safe within my womb. I touch no one
And no one touches me.
I am a rock. I am an island.
And a rock can feel no pain:
And an island never cries."
Thus, the "sigh of the
oppressed creature" searches for the "heart of a heartless
world". C. Wright Mills in "The Power Elite" formulated this alienating
feeling
which hunts for solace in ideology, belief
and religion, as follows:
"The powers of
ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they
live, yet even in these rounds of job, family and neighbourhood, they
often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern,
'Great changes' are beyond their
control, but affect their conduct and
outlook none the less. The very framework of modern society confines
them to projects not their own, but from every side, such changes now
press upon the men and women of the mass society, who accordingly
feel that they are without purpose in an
epoch in which they are without power."
Obviously, according to
estimated figures, 85 percent of the world population, the contemporary
religious physical and intellectual labourers, are being flung
into beliefs, toward the outer edges of the labour process, are
catapulted into superstructural havens and heavens, into virtual,
divine, nihilistic, religious and/or ideological spheres, into the
awaiting, all-embracing arms of Allah and Moloch, of Plato and Pluto,
of Peter and Lucifer, of God
and Nothing. No wonder, all across the globe, that the feudalist,
absolutist "I believe in God, The Father, ..." has been
transformed into all the unconscious, automatic utterances which
nowadays all begin with
"I believe that ... ,"
"I believe in business", "In God We Believe,
We Trust"; across the planet, the $ in our wallet reminds us of
this divine pledge every second of our lives, of work, of labour. For
more
background information, please visit:
http://www.iBelieve.com .
4. Concerning Emancipation
Logically, Emancipation
transcends the labour process. It is not the Negation of Alienation, it
is not Disalienation; it transcends as Neither Labour Nor Disalienation.
Its transjective is not simply to overcome
Alienation, and then every thing is fine again; that would be
Dialectical Negation within the Labour System, in other words, would be
Marxism. It superates Labour or Alienation, which are synonymous,
and enters the Sphere of History itself, "there" it excels itself as
Neither Nature Nor Society, transcending to other Spheres, of which
History is only a specific cosmic-ontic reality, but not the only one.
In simple text, what does
this mean in everyday life, in simple emancipatory processes?
Definitely, there is an immense difference between what we have
described as Praxis
and what is being practised by billions
daily on this globe. Daily we also labour, we buy, we consume, we are
being exploited, dominated, discriminated and alienated. We are part
and parcel of the labour process. But, in contradistinction to
billions,
we are not only this, we are more; we know what is happening to
us; we are conscious of our actions. We do not strive to make
big
money, to accumulate riches, to sell, to make surplus value. We simply
do that what is indispensable for us to continue our Praxis
a n d Theory. In fact,
practically nobody sees us, can perceive what we are really
doing -- we are invisible.
We think, we think
differently. This many people register, but as "madness". Barely
anybody can understand us, can see "the
method in our madness", but we are not worried, not "cast out of
society";
we have no sleepless nights about this "loneliness", this social
"ostracism". On the contrary, we are happy to act and to think "in
peace", "at peace", not to be disturbed by cursing, babbling and
prattling, by deafening, beclouding and benumbing infernal voices and
noises, by bedaubing "music", by political carnival, by all those
ideological techno-gadgets which suffocate ontic processes, detonating
the very "soul" of a sane mind and body. We think
methodically, logically, methodologically. And, again nobody
understands
us, cannot attack us. How can you attack something invisible, with
which
you cannot even communicate? This would not be "witch-hunting", but
"ghost-hunting",
as senseless as chasing your own shadow. Ideological labour-reality
itself makes us invulnerable.
As far as transcendence is concerned, the only type known on earth is the divine version. That is the only way left, to leave the labour process: is to die. The dead, not the living, transcend. Life is jailed in the closed labour system; there is no escape. Nothing living can transcend; only those squeezed to death by labour, the dead, enter "everlasting life". We excel, transcend anytime, anywhere, anyhow, anywhither, in life and death, in neither life nor death: this makes us invincible.
EMANCIPATION IS OUR INVISIBLE, INVULNERABLE, INVINCIBLE PRINCIPLE.
6. CONCLUSION
At the eve of the 21st
century, without grasping its real essence, the problem of endemic,
epidemic alienation has become an obsessive concern in all walks of
life, ranging from arts, literature, humanities, sociology, to
philosophy. Over the last decades, the alienated figure, the lonely,
lonesome individual played a central role
in all branches of contemporary writing, from
"The Stranger" of Albert Camus
to "Oh Lonesome Me" of Elvis
Presley.
This same loner, lone ranger, outcast, outsider, disintegrated personality, separated from "society", forgotten by an uncaring, heartless, immoral world, can be found as "hero" or even "anti-hero", in the plays of Genet, Ionesco and Beckett, in cinematic productions of Bergman and Fellini. Like Shakespeare's Hamlet, they are absorbed in themselves, in melancholy, they are tormented by a never-ending loneliness, by inability to communicate with the social world, by solitary, passive madness. Unlike Hamlet, there is no fiery "method" whatsoever in their senseless "madness".
They do not have a clue why
they became nutty in the first place; and those who care for their
"social welfare", themselves are even more crazy than their
beloved patients. All become inconspicuous victims and unconscious
perpetuators of psychological experimentation, of ideological body,
mind and thought control; many end up as guinea-pigs for psychological
warfare techniques, for urgent production of future cloned, mindless
"labourers" and inhumane "guardians" of the "glorious" Third
Millennium; they become "asocial" strangers, eventually, they join the
ranks of the ever-increasing mob of billions of "aliens",
of the "lonely crowds", of the "atomized city-dwellers", of alienated
labourers, suffering from the MAD cow disease, landing
on the dumping ground of labour, vegetating
as unproductive "cattle", that have become more and more a global
nuisance. More than 150 years ago, this economic tendential law
of capitalism, the logical result of higher accumulative
concentrations, of monopolization, of oligopolic "merging" of global
companies, both the now "obsolete" Hegel and Marx had described as "progressive
pauperization on a world scale". That is what we call age-less,
stringent, accurate scientific-philosophic projection, not religious
prophecy!
Yet, nobody wants to
identify the real epidemic. If the system should, it would spell its
own doom. Labour, Capital, love to drive individuals and masses to
Rwanda-like
suicide, but it never ever considers
committing hara-kiri itself. Again, all over, in news reel
fashion, only symptoms, isolated appearance forms are being diagnosed,
analysed.
No essential relation is indicated, no
contradictions depicted. Alienation, Entfremdung, is the
bogey-man; but nobody knows what it is ; it is some evil
spirit, some satanic demon, some Illuminati conspiracy, infecting the
"holy cow", sacred Labour.
Existentialism comes
very near to the "top secret", but it does not name the culprit,
does not suggest how to eradicate it.
Heidegger, Jaspers and Sartre knew that
alienation is built "into the very nature of
man", but they did not state that it is
labour, is man himself. For them, man is
simply an enigmatic castaway, a stowaway on planet Earth. Like the
curse of the "original sin", man can never escape from his fate; in
this case, no Messiah, no salvation, will ever come; human
existence is simply meaningless. What Marxists think about this issue,
we have already elaborated many times elsewhere. In brief, for Marxism
alienation, alienated labour is a product of man's impotence before the
ferocious forces of Nature and of Man dominating Man, of Society. Man
is ignorant of these forces and their operation. Advanced
industrialization, higher technology, the class struggle, communism
will disalienate
Labour, free it from the shackles of
estrangement.
In general, liberals,
neo-liberals and libertarians believe that alienation is
essentially a psychological phenomenon, a psychic, pathological
manifestation. Freud, Jung and Adler, and their modern updated
versions, would solve this "problem" very easily.
Of course, other psychologists, psychiatrists
and psychotherapists beg to differ, but none of them tried to
psychoanalyse labour itself, and to send it without return-ticket
straight to the madhouse or to the historical dump heap. Already
in his work, "The Sane Society", Eric Fromm had pointed out,
that alienation goes far beyond its psychic or psychological
manifestations, that these are embedded in
the most profound contradictions of modern industrial and
technological class society.
For staunch believers in the Great Society, in the Free World, in the New World Order, in the Information Highway, in Globalization, Alienation is simply science fiction, is a fairy tale created by "communists", "terrorists" and "radicals". Mankind is happy and gay; innovations, technology, development will eventually lead us to, into the "Promised Land".
Epilogue
A conditio sine qua non for emancipatory action is to identify exploitation, domination, discrimination and deprivation, in nuce, is to face Labour. This identification is concrete, is Nature, is Scientific Praxis.
A coincidentia
oppositorum for emancipatory thought exists as differentiation
of identification, as identification a n d differentiation,
exists as relating Labour as a
Non-Relation to the Relation
Nature a n d Society, exists as Science a n d
Philosophy, as Scientific Praxis a n d Philosophic Theory.
A clarus et distinctus
for emancipatory excellence transcends as triversification of
identification and differentiation, superates
Labour, Alienation, as Neither Nature Nor Society, as History, as
Neither Science Nor Philosophy, as Emancipatory History.
Actors, Thinkers,
Excellencies of History, Transcend! You
have Myriad Spheres to Superate,
Emancipation Of, By
and For Yourselves to Enjoy!
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