The Few and the Many
Culture
as the social outcome of tensions between the few and the many obviously has a
firm political component. This component has various meanings; one of them is
the ability to generate change. This changing or generating component can be
misused as a repressing tool in the hands of power, whether this power is
applied to the benefits or the destruction of society. Not any human alien
order is able to protect or to govern individual independence; this is in
strong contrast with the obligations and promises contemporary governments and
industries are demanding from 'their' citizens and employees.
Being
part of an organization, whether a government or any other alien body, is
conflicting with one's need to "be" free, not to "feel"
free, but to "be" free.
The
illusion of 'being' given by the sensation of feeling is paramount and leading
to conflicting tensions both in the individual and in society
Totalitarian
mass-culture establishes a terror state.
This
'feeling' of not being, but acting according to the outcome of the influences
of sensory impulses is in the hands of the malevolent an easy way to full fill
their purposes.
When the
na•ve and easily pleased masses are manipulated with sense satisfying impulses directed
towards the instantaneously consummation of their desires, they turn into
willing anthropomorphic machines, who can easily be controlled. This is
exemplified by the enormous success of various consumption oriented practises
and their intentional propagation of a hedonistic lifestyle as everyone can see
on TV, Film and other media.
It is
very difficult not to consume. Emphasize is directed towards the notion that to
consume is 'good', 'good' for the market, 'good' for the economics. But
fundamentally it is neither good nor bad. It is mere an attempt to postpone
everyone's nearing end and as such both angst and lust driven.
To be
fully aware of the responsibilities one can take for one's own life and
independence is the first step towards a freer and less manipulative society,
which as a matter of fact is getting increasingly more difficult when the
control and angst/lust driven order is gaining more and more control of our
individual lives. There is a tendency towards de-individuating society in favour
of socializing the individual.
This
results in societies where its members are artificially held in a state of
angst; fed by their desires which are brutally perverted by pornographic
conceptions which at their turn are sold as entertainment by the culture /
creative and knowledge industries.
Both the
ancient left and right wings are neglecting lessons learned
Lessons
learned from the outcome of the global politico-economical status quo after WW
II is not being taken seriously enough by the world population simply because
of a lack of self-consciousness. The need to be educated is falsely directed
towards knowledge in stead of knowing. By objectification of human thoughts
mankind loses its ground in a more fundamental way than the threads of so called
fundamentalists.
There is
a very diffuse intellectual gap between Europe (continental) and the American
British alliances which existed before WW II and which is still unresolved.
Ironically
the winner of WW II is global fascism, as the bigger brother of its more
regional guise; National Socialism. America's role in contemporary society can
be characterized by a compulsive attitude towards its own identity, and in that
process neglecting the fact that this behaviour is not everyone's concern and not
at all to the benefit of the whole. By victimizing the rest of the world it
merely shows that it is thinking acting and operating driven by an enormous
frustration.
Education
and politico-economical programs are build on false premises which do not benefit
society as a whole, but on the contrary is building a society where one of the
most important tasks for its citizens is not to end their lives homeless,
unemployed, addicted to whatever addictions are at hand, doing all this with
the very na•ve assumption that free market will filter the good from the bad.
Globalization
in economics promises Heaven and maintains Hell
The wish
of the few for a global economical society results in constructing political
ways to force the many in an angst-lust driven society where economical
machines easily can reach their goals. Culture, ethics, aesthetics, art,
compassion are used as tranquilizers to keep the few reluctant opponents at
ease. The dream factory produces 24 hours a day images, sounds, ideologies,
documents, papers, and novels about how to be happy in a hellish world.
Super
economics is a substitute of super ego
As a
logical consequence of the mechanism of industrialization of knowledge,
industries are serving the status quo, and are deforming any trend towards a
radical departure from the purposefulness and makebility of society to a
marketing tool serving their own intentions namely the complete dehumanization
and zombification of humankind.
In a
world dominated by super economics, superego's come to the foreground to assist
the achievement of its program. So we have our Bush's, Blair's, Saddam's and
Bin Laden's as a consequence of the political direction the world as a whole is
taking.
Hedonism
is instrumental of fascism.
The
natural state of fascism is a state in which all desires are fullfilable,
instead of rejecting the dependencies of desires as a burden and a suffering,
by maintaining a more ethical attitude towards its seductions, fascism
propagates and fully embraces the orgies, the bacchanal, the bloodshed, the
genocide, the total destruction of beauty and is suffocating aesthetics by
crossing deliberately the line between the domain of the individual and the
domain of society.
Class
struggle 'follows' class consciousness
A critical attitude towards the intentions of their employers of a
minority of workers ÔinsideÕ the so called creative/ culture knowledge
industries, ironically leads to political involvements, creating artificial
role functions, which are gradually incorporated into the politico-economical
programs of the very same ursurpating financial and state machines, thereby
adding another refinement in the
producer-supplier-consumer chain. The ÔCreative ClassÕ of Richard Florida [1],
for example, is heavily read and used as a blue-print in developing city
economics, at higher and lower governmental circles around the World.
A
possible way out will be to break the chain, to be able to produce without the
economics involved, a nearly unimaginable, utopian alternative, to produce
works of aesthetical value which are fundamental purposeless, not serving any
need whatsoever. Developing a new aesthetical and ethical consciousness in
place of redefining cultural and social consciousness will help to separate the
aesthetical and the artistical from the creative and the social and in that
process regaining an autonomous position.
The
creative class does not exist (yet)
When
there is (again) an autonomous position of the aesthetical and the artistic the
possibility arise to interchange thoughts, means of cooperation and the like
between the creative and the social, before that the former has to separate
itself from the submissive role is has nowadays.
To be
able to play a future role 'creative class' consciousness has to be developed
and not taken to be granted.
[1] The Creative Class, Florida, R. , 2004
Andreas
Jacobs, Art Ist
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands