Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist

Is that one of John Bolton’s Baby photo’s……

I do not have an ‘inner fascist’ – and neither would anyone else …if and when they owe no allegiance to the incorporated state. Which also entails withdrawing any allegiance whatsoever to the ‘money multiplier cancer’ that is ‘green’ finance capitalism. As advocated by every genuine spiritual leader ever – not least the Buddha – and reiterated by Arundhati Roy:

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing

We co-constitute the state with our obedience. Our obedience is their authority and overpower. If we accept the subjectivity we are given and socialised into: we are naturally subordinated and infantalised. If we accept this in return for some small socialisms and rights that come with corporate responsibilities – blind-faith allegiance to the corporate Mammon of the false idols of technological Progress and Prosperity – we co-constitute the incorporated state with our subordinated subjectivity. We are infantalised wards of the state: co-responsible for its metastatic behaviours and the co-evolution of its core of cancerous capitalist accumulation …which is the root pathology of all pathologies [McMurtry].

This cannot be analysed apart from Marx/Durkheim/Weber/Habermas et al and theories of legitimation and overburdening with social demands of rights, freedoms, and privileges that the state cannot meet. It also demands we look at Karl Polanyi’s ‘double movement’: how the state extends pseudo-socialisms to protect its core ethics of cancerous accumulation and eternal valorisation …which go only towards the life-blind consumption of the life-ground of all value. Thus the state subjectivity is blindsighted to its own destructivism.

But most of all we must honestly look at how subjectivity is co-created as ‘disembodied’ …in subordination to a pre-existing hierarchical incorporated state and finance capitalism institutionalised structure …which is a ‘natural’ supervention over the natural person. This is a wholly false wrongview: one that is assertively reified and coercivelly concretised – not by the state (though they certainly hold the monopoly of violence) – but inter-subjectively …between us. We hold the incorporated state nexus as a legal-rational legitimacy with our subjective cognition. Its coherent structure is our servile social normativity.

Thus: the whole political incorporated state nexus has to be cognitively deconstructed in order to see how it works. The incorporated state is not an *a priori* pre-determined constitution. It is nothing more than a shared and distributed cognition that all co-constituting members socially agree on. Even if their personal narrative constructions are in conflict: the incorporated state is bi-partisan at a more root and ontologically primitive level in the political Collective Cognitive Unconscious.

We co-create our political reality by pre-determined conventions of agreement. In that it is already authoritarian and we subordinate ourselves in voluntary obedience to – which is proto-fascist – it is hard to see how we could do a worse job of it than we are currently managing. To say ‘manage your inner fascist’ is to substantiate something that should not be there. There are other ways of organising a ‘state’ that can give more than the verisimilitude of democratic tokenism. More fool us if we continue to legitimate our further subordination.

To end the totalitarian democracy and invert totalitarianism – the one we are about to validate and extend legal authority to once again – there has to be a credible alternative. That alternative is full and rapid degrowth and a rapid transition to a neo-agrarian solar society. Bob Ayres said years ago that the only sustainable society is a solar society that conserves its minerals. We indulge in coups and murder for ours: and then self-dishonestly shift the blame. It is only through radical honesty and uncompromising self-responsibility – which are spiritual values the political imaginary does not possess: it merely simulates them – that we can end the incorporated state fascism.

By voluntary simplicity, embracing the Great Simplification, and radically re-imagining the incorporated state structure – the future is ours to design. As soon as we completely refuse to buy into the ‘green’ corporate finance capitalist revolution and stop voting to legitimate our own destruction. When faced with radical self-sacrifice; social exclusion and ostracisation; voluntarily demanding less – which can only be achieved by radical wealth redistribution; rejecting NATO terrorism, nuclear weapons and nuclear energy: etc …then we may see the resurgence of the inner fascist. We all know that an uncompromising sustainability programme for returning the proto-fascist epochal subjectivity to ‘normal’ – whatever that is – is too militant for the obsequious authoriatarian inner personality to encounter. So the proto-fascist incorporated state cancer metastasizes and is given legal-rational legitimacy again and again.

It is too late for this election: but the withdrawal of obedience should have been completed by now. This is the notion of inevitability Arundhati talks of. Our inveterate, unquestioning, and blind-faith obedience to authoritarian capitalism brought us here. This is Capitalist Realism. TINA. Faced with the choice of freedom and liberation – we choose subordination to authoritarianism every time. When enough of us choose to end the state: there will be no more state. That is because we are the state. Or a mirror replicant of its life-blind values. And every time we co-constitute the state – rather than choosing life-affirming and life-coherent anti-state values – our values are co-determined by the national security state and its chosen national interests. Life and peace need no Trident or NATO to watch over us. We co-constitute the negative propagandic war ethics that justify the nuclear weapons. We could choose not to? We could choose a whole new value-ethics of social care and social welfare – as soon as we fuck the state off. Then the subordinacy to authoritarianism is also gone. But we have to be brutally honest and self-sacrifice and be prepared to strive for less. A lot less.

I’d like to be proved wrong: but I already suspect that it is too easy to be a crypto-fascist instead and indulge in one more push for more? My feeling is that many want the socialism of more …social mores the Earth can no longer afford. No such socialism exists. It is given in a conditional double movement. Which can be taken away as easily as it was given. Socialism does not exist as such right now. This is how state capitalism functions. And if we enter into that dark inequality and obsequious servitude bargain with the corporate Mammon once again for unsustainable social mores …what have we become?

Cheers for that CJ – there is someone who happily flaunts her inner facism upon the wide world.
Having been introduced to the world with a welcoming befitting a second coming!

Perhaps you can give us some guidance, in due course?

The saintly, butter wouldn’t melt, Dr Strangelove Hill.

This person with her supposedly wrong kind of accent to make a success in UK! It is posh Northumberland – there were kings from there!

She came with a fully formed narrative to impart. Not for her the short Yes/No answers, caginess or eagerness to get out of there as quick as possible.

That narrative and her are being promoted by the usual ‘liberal’ arse cheeks of the media. She looks destined for political election. The people are crooning already; the Groans running doe eyed articles. The liberal comedians are spaffing all over their shows about her.
She is of course one of Clintons minions and will no doubt be part of the dynastic claim to CEO role denied to the would be Queen Hillary.

Does that qualify as enough unleashing of my inner fascist?

This speaks to where the problem CAN be truly addressed – by being seen where it is instead of projected and displaced to where it isnt.

Responsibility for our OWN consciousness is fundamental.
All else proceeds from what we accept true by acting FROM it – and becomes our invested and protected identity or worldview – seeking allies and reinforcements as an armouring adaptation to threat or powerlessness transposed into cover story.

The ‘shame of nakedness’ in the Fall – relates to a sense of disconnection in self-lack – that is feared and felt as intolerable threat to our new sense of self in imaged concept.

Lack of power – seeks power.
Lack of love – seeks love.
Lack of safety – seeks protection.
You don’t have to be a genius to see the ‘market opportunity’ here.

In the main reference to the ‘Fall’ – the Voice of the Creator asks
‘Who told you you were naked?’

I see this as the root of the curiosity and desire of enquiry to the point of knowing.
Who or what thinking frames you in lack?
Why do you choose to believe it by acting and reacting from it as your power, protector, guide, and fulfilment of self?
Does it ever fulfil you outside a passing fantasy – that condemns a repeating hollowness?

As the article above clearly shows – we cannot see what we are acting from unless we make some pause of thought and reaction from which to see from another perspective – that is not our habit – but may of course rise as our original nature when our obedience to habit is suspended.

The right to rule over others and world is assumed in every thinking mind BY the act of judgement itself.
That any attempt to enact this meets opposition and indeed power struggle, is indeed ‘who gets to judge’ – or the right to narrative control – from which comes the identity of claim to power in seeking fulfilment and protection as a personal or private sense of possession and control.

In this sense I see the mind of ‘possession and control’ (which could just as well be called power struggle or conflict) as running like a bot-net of zombied golems all supplied with whatever unconsciousness covers for their ‘identity’ BY symbiotic agreement with the intent of ‘object control’ or objective manipulation.

The bot-net is not a fixed identity so much as a synchronicity of coherent domains – that can in a sense ‘time-share’ across different ideas and connections to momentary threads that allow a narrative continuity to run by exclusive focus – held by emotional identification.

Problems can focus the mind – and focus is a matter of what is alighted upon or within and what is discarded.

But there is another way of addressing needs than by operating from the database of past experience that inevitably repeats the past in evolving or perhaps devolving forms of complexity and obfuscation.

Communication is listening not only to each other – but fundamentally within ourselves – as perspective upon our own ‘consciousness-in-act’.

Speaking is then not a self-vindication or appeal for reinforcement, power or protection – but an offering TO the willingness of listening in others of a true sense of with-ness and worth.

The idea of speaking truth to power could be seen as an extension OF equality INSTEAD of power struggle – which is so pervasive and normalised – even as truce – that it passes off as life loved, lived and shared.

Excellent piece CJ. My worry is that the totalitarian state has gone so far and deep that the few of us here we are Orwell’s Winston.