A Case for Superfascism (Metaphysical Traditionalism)

[Emerald]

11 hours ago, Bjorn K Holmstrom said:

In conclusion, I believe your diagnosis of our spiritual malaise is sharp and important. But the prescription of Superfascism, even in its purified, metaphysical form, risks treating the disease with a more refined version of the original toxin. The real work for our century is to build bridges to those higher values that don't rely on rebuilding the old, problematic castles of unchecked authority.

That's precisely my thought on this.

The current era does have a dearth of meaning... and that's by design in this period of the integration of the Rational Scientific Materialist paradigm. And there are a lot of difficult side-effects for individuals living through this time where the Materialist paradigm is seen as the only valid interpretation of reality.

But that's a feature and not a bug.

Fascism (and SuperFacism) treats the movement towards the integration of the Materialist paradigm as a problem that needs to be fixed where 'humans were once in alignment with the natural order but fell from grace into the state of degeneracy'... as opposed to this integration of rational paradigms as a natural but uncomfortable part of the process of human evolution.

It would be like if a lobster felt uncomfortable in the process of molting its exoskeleton and believed that the molting is unnatural... and to see it as a problem in need of fixing. So, the lobster would become a SuperFascist or Fascist to try to resurrect its previous exoskeleton as "that was the true and natural exoskeleton that I had before I fell from grace into this new degenerate exoskeleton."

But there are uncomfortable side effects that come with the "shedding of the old exoskeleton of meaning" to make room for integration of paradigms like moral relativism, post-modernism, deconstructionism, scientific rationalism, materialism, empiricism, etc.

And part of that has to do with the loss of the illusion of inherent meaning... and living in a society where everyone agrees about the absolute inherent meaning of things.

But the solution to those uncomfortable 'meaning-loss' side effects and resulting dearth of meaning isn't about chucking out the contemporary paradigms and fighting against the integration of the materialist/rationalist paradigms... and re-instituting old problematic systems where the meaning issue hadn't yet been realized because it was filled in by pre-rational archetypal projection... in lieu of empirical knowledge and processes for gaining empirical knowledge.

That's really the main epistemological issue with SuperFascism... even if it doesn't have some kind of oppressive social stratification (though in practice, it certainly would).

It's trying to solve a problem that isn't actually a problem but simply a natural process. And because that process is uncomfortable, they're viewing the discomfort as a sign that what's happening is unnatural, bad, and degenerative... when it's actually very much about the process of regeneration.

And Fascists and SuperFascists alike, tend to mix up regenerative things with degenerative things.... and to see regenerative things as degenerate... and degenerate things as regenerative.

Edited 2 minutes ago by Emerald