As Marx was not wrong to note, surplus value is appropriated by
those who have control of the means to deploy violent force with relative
impunity. In cases where there is no such impunity, then it is in proportion as
they have the might to protect their claims that they have any demonstrable
rights to those claims at all. This "realpolitik" of the realm of
material existence in which we live, which we call "this world", is
certainly amply demonstrated by history. And certainly, if one subtracts the
ideological rhetoric from all of the instruments of power's codifications in
the realm of human tradition and custom, throughout history, and leaves just
the naked conduits of power and their effective transmission in the form of how
wealth is created and distributed, it will be found that there is no argument
stronger than "brute facts" in the discussion of how Power functions in this world from its origin to this day. Yet the rhetoric of ideals remains, and
polishes these forms of brute power and struggle and make for many a fine
delusion about what is "worthy" and what is "unworthy". Power is masquerading as beneficence, even as the very Fleur de Lis of Authority.
The entire structure of human action in all fields, to include the
realm of economics which mainly has to do with the exchange of goods and
services under the watchful eyes (and guns) of Power, shows that there are
certain minimal necessities which must be maintained in order for the current
system to obtain and maintain a certain homeostasis. This may depend no less on
the artificial scarcity of some values, so that certain "utilities"
are marginalized or even subtracted completely from "certain markets".
That is usually done openly in the form of official declarations of what is
available on the market, and these are estimated to have certain ranges of
exchange possibility that gives price indexes, and these values are cleared out
"as if" these declarations were true. Obviously if there is a
"hidden market" or a "black market" or even a "beyond
black" market, these reflect the exercise of power; mainly power over
information and power over primary means of production of energy (fuel, food,
data, etc), but also power over culture.
Power over culture is power over the exchange of ideas and values
among people through the various venues that we know of already, such as
knowledge, art, discourse, recreation, and the various adventures always
available to leaders of ambition and initiative, who lead themselves into new
frontiers at least, and show that culture, in reality, is built on "the
first column", the individual. The roles of the individual in his own life, even as abstracted from the unavoidable embeddedness it will have with
all the lives around him that form his society, is truly the "heart"
of culture. Behind every single important fact of culture, is ONE MAN.
Eventually, if one digs deep enough, perhaps in the furthest reaches of time
one would need a chronoscope in order to do so, one will find ONE MAN applying
himself so that his vision of a potentiality which he wants to explore is
engaged through will and act, and then becomes an actualized reality. Others
see this and learn to adapt themselves to HIS will and act, or they will not
accomplish it. If they independently reach something similar, then and only
then can it be said that more than one man was involved, but
they were each still involved separately and what they have in
common as much as anything else is their singularity. Of course this is an
oversimplification, and there are many grades of participation in singularity
that hold both individual and group constituents, just as there are many layers
of such developments, many interrelations, and many refinements and
cross-pollinations and other forms of exchange that breathe life into even the
most singular endeavor. But regardless, it is still true that where the rubber
hits the road, if it was created, then an individual created it. Many
individuals can come together and each will yet be an individual, creating his
part. And whatever comes together from all those parts, forms a whole that is
the sum of individuals and their unique creations, and "writes large"
each one in due proportion.
That would be the relation of the first to the second, then the
third to the fourth columns, which constitute a social state. The individual
individuates through various mediating roles, and creates. This process is concatenated
through groupings of "creators and appreciators" to borrow from
Evola, and then there is generated a massive cultural expression that creates
both productive basis for the creation of ideas and values and the markets of
their exchange, which creates the fullness of the expression of the idea of
humanity, primarily in how it does not minimize the individual, and in direct
proportion to how it magnifies him.
Now there is going to be a variety of life forms in the world,
including the world of human social states. And there will be those who want to
receive benefits but produce nothing. Surely they would not be well-received in
terms of society's distribution of another set of ideas and values, that of
class, credit, honor and worth. But they may still find ways to obtain what
they want, if conditions are just right. Just as someone may abscond with what
is another's when they aren't looking, especially if they are trusting (or the
thief is invisible), so may some obtain what they want unjustly by making their
possession of it either not detected, or not detected in a way that makes it
known to be wrong. Let's say that were all that they did, and they only did it
with material things. That would be bad enough, and one would understand
problems which might arise from such parasitism. Eventually many problems would
arise even if they simply took what they wanted and left, as tribes once did in
the form of extracting tribute. But what if they stick around and start messing
with everyone else's private lives? It would be a problem perhaps, but not if
they could be identified and pushed out by the cooperative effort of those who
would not like their lives meddled with by such folk. But what if they found
ways to keep themselves around at least in the public sphere through various
governmental and non-governmental entities? Whether such entities
"could" have viability in the four-columnar system of the social
state, it seems that they are rather open to the opportunity to provide fronts
for the activities of a "fifth column" operating behind them as a
screen, as are corporations, institutions of any kind really. The usurpation of
surplus value is one thing, but aggregated to a mass scale, it takes on
momentous proportions that can be best described as exponentiated.
When such a system of "fifth columnry" begins to exist,
it is really nothing more than all that is worst about banditry maintaining
its presence rather than just taking its evil cut of the pie and going
away for a while. This is the form of parasitism that cuts the deepest, for it
insinuates itself into all forms of the culture in which the individual's
opportunities to translate his freedom from one form into another through the
mediating tissues of social context is warped into growingly nothing but a
series of opportunities to test "new lows" in depravity for those who
can turn the public space into their own personal shooting gallery for criminal
scores. I think if one has looked at or does look at the body of my writings on this blog one can see exactly what group of people I'm driving at. Some of them are
helping to maintain the "necessary minimum" that keeps the Happy
Fifthing Grounds running, and nothing more. But they are looking the other way,
and they make a citizenry of dupes the new common denominator which constitutes
the most over-praised "bottom of the barrel" that has ever existed. To
call them "citizens" is a bemusing joke. Then it only gets worse.
Some are involved in structural and systemic embezzlement schemes, but still
are allowed to influence society just as if their glut of vile dollars meant
something, when a humble janitor's money (and his say) is worth more, especially if
he doesn't "look the other
way". And there must have been at least a few hero janitors who have
maintained a good conscience in "guilty world'.
Some are doing just a little "fifthin’" on the way to
their normal lives, some "fifth" as
their normal lives. Some do both as if there were no difference. Some are so
compartmentalized they don't know the difference. But they all work to maintain
the dragging down of the social state into the despair of organized criminal
racketeering, whether or not they know it, whether or not they have families
and take their kids to the park and have picnics, or whether or not they are
straight or gay, or whether or not they are of any race, and whether or not
they have any virtue or ability or disability or not. And they are all worse
than they should have been even as they are now, for this fifthin’. Even if
none of the surface of society "fifthed", then if there were a covert
system in operation, like a parasite it would slowly drag down society into its
orbit of lowliness. Just as organized crime has been known to do, or raider
tribes that become larger and more demanding, or bodily infections that get beyond a
certain point, or errors that go uncorrected and multiply, or any other system
by which small evils graduate into worse ones, or systemic developments that arise
from what were before only a few "one-offers", or systemic processes that become
destabilized, deformed, or utterly corrupted.
And that is what the world is today. And it has been, more or
less, this way, since city states began according to recorded history, and even
according to archaeological pre-recorded prehistory. The cycle of productivity and plunder is all this human world has to show for itself. And it not only shows no
sign of getting better, but only of getting worse. And if it had an eternity to
continue, who knows what debasement it could sink into becoming? Only Rod
Serling's worst nightmares give us any proper clue. But we can see the
exponentiating process revealing itself more and more the more and more we
look. Most look the other way, though. I have to say that this is worse than
anything Schopenhauer might have believed possible. But his hardier form of
pessimism was well insulated by wealth and a certain naive distance from the
amazing exponentiating power of knowledge and method, science and technology,
information asymmetry and covertly redistributed wealth. The power to lie to
people was always a part of the fabric of the "elite" cultural
parasitism, but now there is the power to dwarf men’s minds into being
exponentially more gullible than they ever could have been by the vice of their
own duplicity. And it is here now, deploying in further and further subtle
aggressions in plain sight, in many major cities throughout the country. Psychotronic
systems are "on the move" and people are celebrating faster downloads
and more efficient fifth column stalking apps. People are being artificially
being made poor and then offered pathetic hand-out UBIs in a system that is no
better than a gulag compared to what is really possible. While the elite
monsters absorb all the "surplus value" into themselves, they also
routinely and massively pounce on private worlds of value, invade private
lives, demand conformity to false norms, and attack the very innocence and
untouchable purity of children. AND YOU LET IT HAPPEN!
