Ecodictatorship and socialism complement each other perfectly

Skybird · 09-29-21, 03:36 AM

A brilliant analysis and summary by Norbert Bolz. Only rarely I have red the described philosophical concepts being so eloquently summarized and put into their correct place. Many oneliners in there worth the be kept on mind.

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The spiritual father of today's left is not Marx, but Rousseau. Man is inherently good, and where fallible he must be educated.

Right politics are made for bad people; it solves some problems and otherwise lets us live as we see fit. Left politics is made by good people; it promises to solve all problems if we only live as it sees fit. This thesis may be astonishing at first, but it is well founded.

Every policy is based on an anthropological conviction. The left assumes that man is good; therefore the structure of society must be to blame for the evils of the world. The right-wing assumes that people are "bad" and work out the social mechanisms that ensure that we still live in a good society. Almost all great thinkers were right-winged in this sense.

We owe to Kant a catchy picture and a concise term that lead us to the center of the problem. In his “idea for a general story with cosmopolitan intent” it says: “Nothing perfectly straight can be made out of such crooked wood as what man is made of.” And in the same script the word “unsociable sociability” is used. They don't like each other, but they need each other. They are venerable, covetous and domineering, but it is precisely the discord that this stirs up that incites people to develop their natural disposition. In short, culture is a product of their wickedness.

- Man does not know what is good for him, he has to be educated

But when man is made of crooked wood, the search for perfection is the straight path to totalitarianism. The image of the good person produces a totalitarian society because all deviants and those who think differently have to be re-educated. Left politics always assumes that people do not know what is good for them and therefore need to be educated. The only way to get to the left-wing paradise is through the paradox that Rousseau so beautifully formulated: You force people to be free.

Most enlighteners have denied original sin. For them, the human being was good or at least perfectible through upbringing and the revolutionary transformation of society. Here, too, Rousseau gave the decisive cue. In his famous “Contract Social” he developed a program to “change human nature”; that is, he assumes that man is completely malleable. Robespierre was the devoted student of Rousseau, who then put this theory into practice, namely into the terror of Jacobinism. Nevertheless, the left has succeeded to this day in claiming the monopoly on humanity for itself. They presume to speak for humanity - earlier in the name of the citizens, then in the name of the proletariat and today in the name of the formerly colonized Third World.

For the good person, man is naturally good and is only corrupted by the doctrine that man is evil. In other words, for the good, the only evil is the doctrine of original sin. But it was precisely this dogma that kept political moralism in check, because everyone was a sinner. However, this means that it is not the image of good, but of bad people that makes a good, liberal society possible. We owe the fact that we can still rely on distance, courtesy, tact and diplomacy, not to good people, but to good citizens. It is the product of the free market which turns private vices into public virtues.

- Lack of talent is compensated for by the right attitude

Here it becomes clear what is meant by “evil” in the anthropological sense. Humans are dangerous because they are endangered. But in the forced coexistence with his own kind, in the process of civilization, he learns to transform his aggressiveness, originally born out of self-defense, his passions such as vanity, lust for fame and mistrust into productive energies. This can be seen in competition and competition as well as in the acts of creativity that Schumpeter once defined as creative destruction.

Just as the “bad” person makes a good society possible, so today the good person leads us again on the path to bondage. Instead of organizing our social life through competition, we are blessed with the socialism of a paternalistic welfare state. Accordingly, the rule of law is on the decline. Because the just state of the left discriminates. The quotas he is introducing everywhere are nothing more than privileges, that is, illiberal and undemocratic - group rights that lead us back to the premodern status. This is attractive to many because it is now very easy to compensate for the lack of talent with the right attitude.

The spiritual father of today's left is not Marx, but Rousseau. While Hobbes constructed the reasonable modern state on the basis of a pessimistic anthropology, Rousseau wanted not only back to nature, but also back to the ancient polis. Compared to Paris, Geneva was the new Sparta for him. His concept of the political is based on two standards: the polis and nature. For Hobbes, the state of nature was a negative yardstick: unstable and shaped by a self-contradiction that practically forces people to the state. For Rousseau, on the other hand, the state of nature is a positive yardstick, a regulative idea: stable and characterized by lack of need.

- True freedom through submission to the common will

Today, however, the green Rousseauists mostly overlook what Kant had recognized very well: that Rousseau did not want to go back to nature, but only wanted to look back in order to gain the state of nature as a standard. Where Hobbes could only see self-assertion and vanity, Rousseau finds self-love and pity. The noble savage lives in himself, that is, internally guided, and thus appears as a prototype of the autonomous human being. Modern man, on the other hand, lives in the opinion of others, i.e. externally guided.

Rousseau's political theory only becomes intellectually demanding through the dialectic of the social contract. It is a dialectic of total alienation. Orientation towards the standard of nature does not consist in a simple "backward", but first of all requires an absolute alienation and denaturalization of the individual. Society corrupts man; but he attains his true freedom through submission to the common will, the "volonté générale". It is the sovereign will without a ruler. Mind you, this common will is not the will of everyone - and can therefore again and again become the benchmark for educational dictatorships.

Submission to the common will transforms man into a citizen. The Contract Social says: “Citizens agree to all laws, even those that are passed against their will, and even those that punish them if they venture to break any of them. The unchangeable will of all members of the state is the common will; through him they are citizens and free. ”Rousseau thus demands the total unity of morality and politics, state and society, the private inside and the public outside.

- Ecodictatorship and socialism complement each other perfectly

In the article “Political Economy”, which he wrote for Diderot's great encyclopedia, it says: “The most comprehensive authority is that which penetrates into the core of a person and has no less effect on his will than on his actions.” The dictatorship of The common will no longer accepts privacy; the attitudes of the citizens are brought into line.

The common will not only replaces the will of the sovereign, but also the transcendent natural law. Today, in the age of green Rousseauism, natural law is being replaced by the law of nature. The environmental movement does not stop at looking back at nature as a yardstick. With the topic of climate change - but now also Corona - it cultivates a negative romanticism: as if the desecrated nature were taking revenge on the “homo faber” and “homo oeconomicus”, i.e. the technician and the capitalist.

We are dealing here with a double escape into nature - back to the good person of the natural state and back to the healing nature. This idolatry of nature has an eminently political dimension, because ecological dictatorship and socialism complement each other perfectly. Together they stand in the puritanical struggle against everything that makes life enjoyable. In the revolutionary dreams of the left, eco-dictatorship has replaced the dictatorship of the proletariat. And those who have taken over the patronage of nature no longer need democratic legitimation. Corona and the climate, but also Europe and mass migration, are defined by the left as problems that can only be solved if you don't take the rule of law and democracy so seriously.

- Do-gooders pretend to be the conscience of society

Existential legitimation takes the place of democratic legitimation. Concern and fear replace argument and consensus. And here, too, Rousseau is the great role model. His “confessions” are a single excess of unmasking and self-exposure in order to break through to the true, naked human being. Rousseau has thus achieved a completely new form of legitimation: self-justification through self-accusation. And today this form of political moralism has reached an extreme value: self-flagellation. The only pride we still allow is pride in sin.

If man is naturally good, it must be someone's fault that the world is bad. And so the good person asks himself: What is the disturbing factor? Friedrich Schiller's famous verse "World history is the world judgment" is understood here in such a way that the enlightened elite can empower themselves to judge society. The Enlightenment has already prepared this tribunalization, this intellectual civil war, insofar as it understood reason as a critical process. The intellectuals make the state the moral process and call it criticism.

Against this background, one understands how censorship, inquisition and pillory, which we actually only knew from the Middle Ages, could become practices of today's left. The red-green do-gooders appease their guilty conscience by playing up as the conscience of society - as a warning against the ecological end of the world and as intrepid, belated anti-fascists in the “fight against the right”. What bothers their dreams is not capitalism or fascism, but human nature. It is the real enemy of the left. And while they clamor and protest, the axis of evil keeps the world going.

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German original: https://www.achgut.com/artikel/der_m...erungsprogramm

09-29-21, 03:36 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,546 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Ecodictatorship and socialism complement each other perfectly A brilliant analysis and summary by Norbert Bolz. Only rarely I have red the described philosophical concepts being so eloquently summarized and put into their correct place. Many oneliners in there worth the be kept on mind. ---------------- The spiritual father of today's left is not Marx, but Rousseau. Man is inherently good, and where fallible he must be educated. Right politics are made for bad people; it solves some problems and otherwise lets us live as we see fit. Left politics is made by good people; it promises to solve all problems if we only live as it sees fit. This thesis may be astonishing at first, but it is well founded. Every policy is based on an anthropological conviction. The left assumes that man is good; therefore the structure of society must be to blame for the evils of the world. The right-wing assumes that people are "bad" and work out the social mechanisms that ensure that we still live in a good society. Almost all great thinkers were right-winged in this sense. We owe to Kant a catchy picture and a concise term that lead us to the center of the problem. In his “idea for a general story with cosmopolitan intent” it says: “Nothing perfectly straight can be made out of such crooked wood as what man is made of.” And in the same script the word “unsociable sociability” is used. They don't like each other, but they need each other. They are venerable, covetous and domineering, but it is precisely the discord that this stirs up that incites people to develop their natural disposition. In short, culture is a product of their wickedness. - Man does not know what is good for him, he has to be educated But when man is made of crooked wood, the search for perfection is the straight path to totalitarianism. The image of the good person produces a totalitarian society because all deviants and those who think differently have to be re-educated. Left politics always assumes that people do not know what is good for them and therefore need to be educated. The only way to get to the left-wing paradise is through the paradox that Rousseau so beautifully formulated: You force people to be free. Most enlighteners have denied original sin. For them, the human being was good or at least perfectible through upbringing and the revolutionary transformation of society. Here, too, Rousseau gave the decisive cue. In his famous “Contract Social” he developed a program to “change human nature”; that is, he assumes that man is completely malleable. Robespierre was the devoted student of Rousseau, who then put this theory into practice, namely into the terror of Jacobinism. Nevertheless, the left has succeeded to this day in claiming the monopoly on humanity for itself. They presume to speak for humanity - earlier in the name of the citizens, then in the name of the proletariat and today in the name of the formerly colonized Third World. For the good person, man is naturally good and is only corrupted by the doctrine that man is evil. In other words, for the good, the only evil is the doctrine of original sin. But it was precisely this dogma that kept political moralism in check, because everyone was a sinner. However, this means that it is not the image of good, but of bad people that makes a good, liberal society possible. We owe the fact that we can still rely on distance, courtesy, tact and diplomacy, not to good people, but to good citizens. It is the product of the free market which turns private vices into public virtues. - Lack of talent is compensated for by the right attitude Here it becomes clear what is meant by “evil” in the anthropological sense. Humans are dangerous because they are endangered. But in the forced coexistence with his own kind, in the process of civilization, he learns to transform his aggressiveness, originally born out of self-defense, his passions such as vanity, lust for fame and mistrust into productive energies. This can be seen in competition and competition as well as in the acts of creativity that Schumpeter once defined as creative destruction. Just as the “bad” person makes a good society possible, so today the good person leads us again on the path to bondage. Instead of organizing our social life through competition, we are blessed with the socialism of a paternalistic welfare state. Accordingly, the rule of law is on the decline. Because the just state of the left discriminates. The quotas he is introducing everywhere are nothing more than privileges, that is, illiberal and undemocratic - group rights that lead us back to the premodern status. This is attractive to many because it is now very easy to compensate for the lack of talent with the right attitude. The spiritual father of today's left is not Marx, but Rousseau. While Hobbes constructed the reasonable modern state on the basis of a pessimistic anthropology, Rousseau wanted not only back to nature, but also back to the ancient polis. Compared to Paris, Geneva was the new Sparta for him. His concept of the political is based on two standards: the polis and nature. For Hobbes, the state of nature was a negative yardstick: unstable and shaped by a self-contradiction that practically forces people to the state. For Rousseau, on the other hand, the state of nature is a positive yardstick, a regulative idea: stable and characterized by lack of need. - True freedom through submission to the common will Today, however, the green Rousseauists mostly overlook what Kant had recognized very well: that Rousseau did not want to go back to nature, but only wanted to look back in order to gain the state of nature as a standard. Where Hobbes could only see self-assertion and vanity, Rousseau finds self-love and pity. The noble savage lives in himself, that is, internally guided, and thus appears as a prototype of the autonomous human being. Modern man, on the other hand, lives in the opinion of others, i.e. externally guided. Rousseau's political theory only becomes intellectually demanding through the dialectic of the social contract. It is a dialectic of total alienation. Orientation towards the standard of nature does not consist in a simple "backward", but first of all requires an absolute alienation and denaturalization of the individual. Society corrupts man; but he attains his true freedom through submission to the common will, the "volonté générale". It is the sovereign will without a ruler. Mind you, this common will is not the will of everyone - and can therefore again and again become the benchmark for educational dictatorships. Submission to the common will transforms man into a citizen. The Contract Social says: “Citizens agree to all laws, even those that are passed against their will, and even those that punish them if they venture to break any of them. The unchangeable will of all members of the state is the common will; through him they are citizens and free. ”Rousseau thus demands the total unity of morality and politics, state and society, the private inside and the public outside. - Ecodictatorship and socialism complement each other perfectly In the article “Political Economy”, which he wrote for Diderot's great encyclopedia, it says: “The most comprehensive authority is that which penetrates into the core of a person and has no less effect on his will than on his actions.” The dictatorship of The common will no longer accepts privacy; the attitudes of the citizens are brought into line. The common will not only replaces the will of the sovereign, but also the transcendent natural law. Today, in the age of green Rousseauism, natural law is being replaced by the law of nature. The environmental movement does not stop at looking back at nature as a yardstick. With the topic of climate change - but now also Corona - it cultivates a negative romanticism: as if the desecrated nature were taking revenge on the “homo faber” and “homo oeconomicus”, i.e. the technician and the capitalist. We are dealing here with a double escape into nature - back to the good person of the natural state and back to the healing nature. This idolatry of nature has an eminently political dimension, because ecological dictatorship and socialism complement each other perfectly. Together they stand in the puritanical struggle against everything that makes life enjoyable. In the revolutionary dreams of the left, eco-dictatorship has replaced the dictatorship of the proletariat. And those who have taken over the patronage of nature no longer need democratic legitimation. Corona and the climate, but also Europe and mass migration, are defined by the left as problems that can only be solved if you don't take the rule of law and democracy so seriously. - Do-gooders pretend to be the conscience of society Existential legitimation takes the place of democratic legitimation. Concern and fear replace argument and consensus. And here, too, Rousseau is the great role model. His “confessions” are a single excess of unmasking and self-exposure in order to break through to the true, naked human being. Rousseau has thus achieved a completely new form of legitimation: self-justification through self-accusation. And today this form of political moralism has reached an extreme value: self-flagellation. The only pride we still allow is pride in sin. If man is naturally good, it must be someone's fault that the world is bad. And so the good person asks himself: What is the disturbing factor? Friedrich Schiller's famous verse "World history is the world judgment" is understood here in such a way that the enlightened elite can empower themselves to judge society. The Enlightenment has already prepared this tribunalization, this intellectual civil war, insofar as it understood reason as a critical process. The intellectuals make the state the moral process and call it criticism. Against this background, one understands how censorship, inquisition and pillory, which we actually only knew from the Middle Ages, could become practices of today's left. The red-green do-gooders appease their guilty conscience by playing up as the conscience of society - as a warning against the ecological end of the world and as intrepid, belated anti-fascists in the “fight against the right”. What bothers their dreams is not capitalism or fascism, but human nature. It is the real enemy of the left. And while they clamor and protest, the axis of evil keeps the world going. ---------- German original: https://www.achgut.com/artikel/der_m...erungsprogramm __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 09-29-21 at 03:50 AM.