What good is having all the answers if we have nary a clue as to the question? What if the question is of the order of, ‘who am I,’ and ‘in what ways have I resolved my life experiences into understanding of and insight into myself and the rest of the world around me’? What if chasing the mad power dragon isn’t really a good way doing that? What if the love of mad power, for ourselves and through our cliques and tribes, makes us sick at heart and poisons our minds? What if there’s no real point having mad power because mad power possesses us, rather than the other way around? What if the devil’s bargain of jumping on made-it-to-the-middle-classes-homos shelter ingroup morality-policing and virtue-hoarding bandwagons is aborting our ethical core? What if aborting our ethical core also means aborting our personal identities as individuals? I’m more respectable than thou, but also who am I? What if this is like part of the core lie of power, that theres an “us” or an “I” left to enjoy mad power as someone capable of experiencing pleasure? What if we can’t experience true resolution, pleasure, balance, peace, tranquility or transcendence in possession of mad power because we’re not hostages of paranoia geared towards the subhumans we exclude and subject to ritual degradation and sacrifice building it? Is that why the Eternal Jew was a thing for the Nazis? Even if the latter had succeeded in wiping out every last Jew on the face of the Earth, every last Jew on the face of the Earth would still have had permanent free rent in their heads? Because they needed a scapegoat and we can never let go of a scapegoat if we always need it to lie to ourselves and everyone else around us? Because the problem was actually a social order set against itself by class, which they blamed on the scapegoat, who they immortalised for the sake of hiding from themselves inside Eternal Collective Paranoia? Didn’t the Nazis wanted to spare the root cause of Germany’s woes so they could build an empire rather than save Germany? Didn’t they destroy Germany instead of saving it in the end? Does the conceit that we can exercise mad power, rather than mad power possessing us, engender groupthink and collective narcissism as we rewrite causality and history to make a fit with the prevailing hegemonic ideological orthodoxy? Is this why the genocidal bootlicking of the Eternally paranoid is nothing if not acting out on all the (apparently eternal) free rent subhumans and unpeople have in the heads of eternally codependent national cliques? What if we don’t need to believe in national cliques or higher purposes, but do need encouragement to believe in ourselves and our own inherent worth as individuals? What if we need encouragement to trust our own intuition, and to decide for ourselves as individuals what we believe? What if the great stampede for mad power is doing nothing but signalling to each of us that our worth as individuals rests squarely in our capacity to enable groupthink?
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