The Political Theory Of Loneliness
“Why won’t somebody do something!” is a common refrain these days in dissident politics. Here’s Paul Craig Roberts:
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If the Western peoples were not so insouciant, so gullible, so trusting of “authorities,” so utterly stupid and incapable of thinking for themselves, there would have been no orchestrated “Covid pandemic” and no mass vaccination, which is against all medical protocols in the face of a pandemic. According to all available scientific evidence to date, the “Covid vaccine” has killed and destroyed the health of more people than the Covid virus. The corrupt “authorities” have done their best to cover this up, but as I have reported the coverup has failed. Still nothing is being done about it.
Sorry, Paul, just a moment here… *GunnerQ puts down his beer, picks up the television remote and pushes the “Smite Evil” button.* All better in D.C.?
Because so long as I’m alone, that’s the best effort PCR is gonna get.
Which answers the question, why USA can have so many heavily armed men who do nothing about the highly organized teams of Evil enforcers.
Somebody is holding a monopoly on the freedom of association, and it isn’t We the People.
Somebody was even teaching classes at Berkeley in the 1950s on the importance of revoking white man’s ability to associate & organize with his peers.
Where loneliness can lead
Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
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…In the middle of the 20th century, Arendt approached loneliness differently [than a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution or the threatpoint of ostracization]. For her, it was both something that could be done and something that was experienced. In the 1950s, as she was trying to write a book about Karl Marx at the height of McCarthyism, she came to think about loneliness in relationship to ideology and terror. Arendt thought the experience of loneliness itself had changed under conditions of totalitarianism:
“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century.”
Only a woman could think loneliness was, historically, a borderline experience caused by social conditions like… let’s be honest about “old age”… widowhood. Arendt was uncommonly solitary for a female, which is probably where she got the idea to use loneliness as a political weapon.
Which she then accused Hitler of doing. The guy was many things, but a poisoner of basic socialization was not one of them. She also accused Stalin, and that was true, but she didn’t accuse his peers and ((her cousins, Lenin & Trotsky)) who also were corruptors of basic human interaction for political gain.
Then she taught classes in totalitarianism at UC Berkeley, to the people who by total coincidence, became today’s American totalitarians. Many of them also being ((her cousins)).
Before Arendt left to teach at Berkeley, she’d published an essay on ‘Ideology and Terror’ (1953) dealing with isolation, loneliness and solitude in a Festschrift for Jaspers’s 70th birthday. This essay, alongside her book The Origins of Totalitarianism, became the foundation for her oversubscribed course at Berkeley, ‘Totalitarianism’. The class was divided into four parts: the decay of political institutions…
Dumbocracy, check.
…the growth of the masses…
Immivasion, check.
…imperialism…
Natch.
…and the emergence of political parties as interest-group ideologies.
Exactly the Regime’s “indigenous peoples, reparations, etc.” agenda.
Hannah Arendt didn’t write the book on totalitarianism; she wrote the game plan.
In her opening lecture, she framed the course by reflecting on how the relationship between political theory and politics has become doubtful in the modern age. She argued that there was an increasing, general willingness to do away with theory in favour of mere opinions and ideologies. ‘Many,’ she said, ‘think they can dispense with theory altogether, which of course only means that they want their own theory, underlying their own statements, to be accepted as gospel truth.’
Et tu, Hannah?
Arendt was referring to the way in which ‘ideology’ had been used as a desire to divorce thinking from action – ‘ideology’ comes from the French idéologie, and was first used during the French Revolution, but didn’t become popularised until the publication of Marx and Friedrich Engels’s The German Ideology (written in 1846) and later Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia (1929), which she reviewed for Die Gesellschaft in 1930.
It all started with the French Revolution, didn’t it? The modern incarnation of the Empire That Never Ended. Per articles I’ve read (and lost, sorry), that was when the concept of citizen was first expanded widely enough that the Jews could, for the first time, claim to be full members of the nations they infested, without the duty to assimilate. No more need to be the client-banksters of the local king; the Jews could now be the kings themselves.
France is now ruled by ((Lasard Bank)). Looking at YOU, PM Macron! Why were you recently ordered to send French troops into Ukraine, a suicidal move? Because the Russians recently forced Lasard and Rothschild out of their “French” colonial holdings in Africa.
I say suicidal, because if my army had just lost a war against Burkina Faso, I would give them some remedial training before deploying them against mobilized Russia.
Origins is a 600-page work divided into three sections on antisemitism, imperialism and totalitarianism. As Arendt worked on it, the text changed over time, to incorporate new information about Hitler and Stalin as it emerged from Europe.
That confirms that her purpose in writing her books, was to prevent organized opposition to ((totalitarianism)) from ever happening again.
Which is precisely where we are today.
Why can’t we Normals organize against Team Evil? Because Team Evil learned from its previous failures in Eastern Europe, while successfully leveraging modern communications to mindfuck the Boomers.
The initial conclusion, published in 1951, reflected on the fact that, even if totalitarian regimes disappeared from the world, the elements of totalitarianism would remain. ‘Totalitarian solutions,’ she wrote, ‘may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.’ When Arendt added ‘Ideology and Terror’ to Origins in 1958, the tenor of the work changed. The elements of totalitarianism were numerous, but in loneliness she found the essence of totalitarian government, and the common ground of terror.
Why loneliness is not obvious.
Not after American history was scrubbed of why the colonists thought “freedom of association” was a critically important defense against government tyranny.
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Freedom of Association: Overview
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“It is beyond debate that freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the ‘liberty’ assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which embraces freedom of speech”…
And so the corruption of Free Association began, with the Civil Rights Era. When “rights” mutated from restrictions on State power, into mandates for State action.
Freedom of association as a concept thus grew out of a series of cases in the 1950s and 1960s in which certain states were attempting to curb the activities of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In the first case, the Court unanimously set aside a contempt citation imposed after the organization refused to comply with a court order to produce a list of its members within the state. “Effective advocacy of both public and private points of view, particularly controversial ones, is undeniably enhanced by group association, as this Court has more than once recognized by remarking upon the close nexus between the freedoms of speech and assembly.”
Free speech is not free assembly. You don’t need sex deviants in your home, to have a valid opinion on sex deviancy. The Courts justified violating the one with the other. Why did organizations want to see who was a member of the NAACP?
BECUAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE NAACP.
[Wrote Justice Harlan,] “…The state had failed to demonstrate a need for the lists which would outweigh the harm to associational rights which disclosure would produce.”
Yeah… the NAACP’s “associational rights” to take membership in organizations that didn’t want them as members. The Regime got to force their members upon their political opposition.
Cue the anarcho-tyranny.
In a series of three decisions, the Court explored the extent to which associational rights may be burdened by nondiscrimination requirements. First, Roberts v. United States Jaycees upheld application of the Minnesota Human Rights Act to prohibit the United States Jaycees from excluding women from full membership. Three years later in Board of Directors of Rotary Int’l v. Rotary Club of Duarte, the Court applied Roberts in upholding application of a similar California law to prevent Rotary International from excluding women from membership.
…In Roberts, both the Jaycees’ nearly indiscriminate membership requirements and the state’s compelling interest in prohibiting discrimination against women were important to the Court’s analysis.
Some amount of First Amendment protection is still due such organizations…
It’s only now that men are suing for the rights to use the womens’ restroom, and that only because of the decline of Christian morality.
Meanwhile, it wasn’t an accident that Negroes and women, were the quickest beneficiaries of State-weaponized, forced association. Not all demographics are equally vulnerable to deceits and threats of solitude.
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Arendt’s answer [to the importance of loneliness for imposition of totalitarianism] was: because loneliness radically cuts people off from human connection. She defined loneliness as a kind of wilderness where a person feels deserted by all worldliness and human companionship, even when surrounded by others.
Not incidentally, cutting people off from alternatives to the Narrative.
…Loneliness, she argued, is ‘among the most radical and desperate experiences of man’, because in loneliness we are unable to realise our full capacity for action as human beings. When we experience loneliness, we lose the ability to experience anything else; and, in loneliness, we are unable to make new beginnings.
That’s not a man talking. It’s women who are the herd animals, who wither if they suffer too much social neglect. Men just go feral and solve the problem.
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The Political Consequences of Loneliness and Isolation During the Pandemic
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By Masha Gessen, 5 May 2020
For many of us during the coronavirus pandemic, self-isolation describes the extent to which we can act to protect ourselves and others, solitude describes the best we can hope for, and loneliness describes what we actually feel. By “us,” I mean people who have the luxury of self-isolating, and the luxury of striving for solitude.
The most complicated and precise descriptions of isolation, solitude, and loneliness are offered by Hannah Arendt, in the last chapter of “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” Loneliness, Arendt posits, is the defining condition of totalitarianism and the common ground of all terror…
Yes, and..? And what happened, you female terrorized into sheltering-in-place?
Arendt writes about isolation and loneliness as the preconditions, instruments, and products of tyranny. We, in the virtual “here” today, are not the subjects of a tyrant or a totalitarian regime, and the terror we have experienced is not wielded by human hands…
The stupid HURTS!!!
Every Sunday, I meet my best friends in Moscow on Zoom. The loss of sense of time and space means that a seven-hour time difference has little impact on our ability to drink simultaneously… it has been a long time since my friends in Moscow and I have inhabited a shared reality—have had as much of a “common sense”—as we do now. We experience similar isolation, fear, helplessness, and anger. We compare notes on schools that do not teach, hospitals that do not heal, and governments that betray us.
She had eyes but couldn’t see, even that early in the Plandemic. Because ideology!
Those who are self-isolating in the company of others, meanwhile, have fights, doubts, highs and lows in their relationships, clashes about child rearing—all of the ways in which happy, unhappy, and fluctuating families [live].
Mmm, yes. Envy the people who are wise enough to discard the lies, for we are normal human beings. Join us! Aw, you can’t, because you’re “special”.
And what happens to the physical public spaces, while we leave them vacant?
Regime terrorists were authorized to publicly group up and erase your statues, history and police departments. Because Chinkypox didn’t affect arsonists or Congressmen. Because health reasons. STOP ASKING!
The outside, the physical public space, is now full of treacherous negotiations and shifting rules of social interaction that leave you at the mercy of other people. The outside is the sound of sirens; it is the place you go if you become gravely ill. It is the site of battle and the source of the news. Things that exist in the public realm—the President, the F.D.A., the C.D.C., the governor, the mayor, the newspapers—have a greater and more immediate impact on our lives than at almost any other time save for a natural disaster, a war, or a revolution. And yet our separation from them is greater than at any other time: cut off by the hollowed-out public space, we become an anxious but passive audience.
That is the lifetime accomplishment of Hannah Arendt.
End ZOOM call. And segue.
Totalitarianism uses isolation to deprive people of human companionship, making action in the world impossible, while destroying the space of solitude. The iron-band of totalitarianism, as Arendt calls it, destroys man’s ability to move, to act, and to think, while turning each individual in his lonely isolation against all others, and himself. The world becomes a wilderness, where neither experience nor thinking are possible.
For women, this is a nearly unavoidable fate unless she has a family. For men, it is harsh but survivable, but the wrinkle for us is we must first ignore what our women want, in order to organize against the gaslighting and isolation of the State.
Most men will push other men away, before he tells his woman No.
“Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationship with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them; for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity of both experience and thought. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie, the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie, the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
This is the fate they have carefully planned for us, for most of a century. Which gives us some avenues for pushback. Myself, I’ve completely failed to make new, local friends in the wake of the Plandemic. I walk the streets, look at the parks, and scan lists of local events, all to no avail. There is no socializing I can do, that is not female-gatekept. No club to join. No sport to play. No church to visit. Probably you are here, too.
What we can all do instead, is stay in touch with reality. Play in the dirt! Remember your history! Watch a sunset! Memorize your favorite songs, so you can sing them when you’re alone!
And most importantly, detect and reject all of Satan’s Big Lies:
Amid the chaos and uncertainty of human existence, we need a sense of place and meaning. We need roots. And ideologies, like the Sirens in Homer’s Odyssey, appeal to us. But those who succumb to the siren song of ideological thinking, must turn away from the world of lived experience. In doing so, they can’t confront themselves in thinking because, if they do, they risk undermining the ideological beliefs that have given them a sense of purpose and place.
Hence Masha’s self-inflicted torment.
There is the purpose of Big Lies, of Utopias, in one simple paragraph. They’re false realities which if you refuse to adopt, will get you kicked out of the rabbit warren and into the Outer Darkness…
…of Christ Alone Upon His Cross.
Oh, wait. He was forced to associate with two criminals.