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Contents
section III-b: politics
'Be the
master and maker of
yourself'
F.
Nietzsche
Ordering,
democracy and utopia
In section III-a the practice of the personal
was discussed in the sense of meaning and ritual. The idea was that
wishing respect for oneself the other also needs to be respected -
nothing but a fair deal. The religion of regularly associating for the
sake of a holy person then, who, including a holy scripture, really is
worthy the full respect, constitutes a school of learning. In history
are the schools there in succession. From the consecution of the
schools one can derive in what way they each for themselves fell short
and in what respect the science of the person was in need of an
upgrade, of an adaptation to the time and circumstance. To this
upgrading there is never an end, one unrelenting has to keep to the
time; the dynamical nature reflected in the culture commands a constant
reorienting and readapting, which, as we saw with the method, only
non-repressively progressing truly entails the progress. Baruch Spinoza
(1632-1677) in his Theological-political Treatise said that
God's providence is to be understood as the order itself of nature and
also Vyâsa described it in the Bhâgavatam likewise calling nature the virâth
rûpa or the gigantic form of God. To the need of the constant
adaptation to that personally understood God, is the dynamical element
of the time of the living nature as being the universal object of
worship recognized. The idea of God as being a dynamical natural
reality at the disposition of a personal choice is also, in the sense
of an alternative paradigm, mentioned by modern physicists like David Bohm (1917-1992)
in Wholeness and the Implicate Order and Fritjof Capra
(1939), in e.g. his book The Turning Point (1982). So even though we might be erring
with the constancy of lightspeed, offers the new physics a helping
hand, especially those contributions that do not deny the possibility
of the existence of a connecting element like the ether. And this is politically of importance
because the ideation of natural science happens to form the basis for
the rest of the sciences, just like the story of creation constitutes
the basis for the Bible and the Purâna. The idea of how the world
originated and functions is indicative for the rest of the cultural
superstructure. Reasoning from quantum-mechanics and pushing himself
off against a mechanical, fixed, singly cartesian dimensionality
outside of the dimension of the time-space of the new physics, arrives
Capra almost like the new-age guru Osho most poetically at sayings
like: 'There is motion but there are, ultimately, no moving objects;
there is activity but there are no actors; there are no dancers, there
is only the dance.' Also new-age authors like Marilyn Ferguson at length dilate on the consequences of the
dynamical, indeterminacy of the true energetic self of the universe in
which we to her opinion, with that premise being of selfrealization,
are all connected in what she (in 1982) calls the 'aquarian
conspiracy'. Concerning the resistance against it she states: 'It's not
so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways,
but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being
between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's
nothing to hold on to.' The old shoes are worn, but the new ones
aren't yet comfortable, but it's another type of consciousness, another
way of seeing which we materially political, technical and legal, or
else individually therapeutic have to give shape from the principle in
order to make the change with the order of time possible. Ferguson is
right in her option of connectedness in this, of the basically
operating from the inside, with a 'trojan heart' taking up the karma,
as she put it in an interview in 1995; the same old science time and again has to
be reformulated and adapted in faith with the dynamical and personal
nature, the way we also time and again have a new constellation of the
same old planets. Without that revaluing, without that adaptation to
place, culture, person and time is one fixed and has one fallen thereof
lost one's way or is one bewildered in attachment, as Vyâsa puts
it (S.B. 4.8: 54). It is, varying to the classical themes of wisdom, always an
unfinished structure. Historically we so first had the vedic culture
itself that, in her rule defeated by the time, came to a fall on the
basis of the familial attachments of the aristocracy, which, having
become a burden to mother earth, had to wipe itself off the planet at
the battlefield of the great war of the Mahâbhârata.
Greek philosophy just like that came with the philosopher Socrates
being condemned to drink the cup of poison, to a fall with the
deliverance of the proof undermining the authority of the state of the
lesser wisdom of the pretentious formalism of the ruling class; with
the moral drawn stated in the Gîtâ (in 3: 39):
'with ones wisdom one mustn't upset the people'. Buddhism came,
with the foodpoisoning to the death of the Buddha, to a fall in the
human tolerance for impurities and the negation of the world as being
an illusion; like an Arjuna blowing the conchshell, one has to hold
one's ground. Judaism came to a fall by it's impersonal, institutional
denial of the living personal God, the nevertheless as inevitable
recognized Messiah or avatâra. Christianity falls down
from a poor concept of time with an insufficiently expressed Lord Jesus
who in this couldn't be more specific than stating that it, with the
then (45 v. Chr., 709 A.U.C) abolishing of the lunar calendar since
Julius Caesar, on earth indeed had to happen as in heaven; for the
Lord, the Father happens to be kâla, the Time. Islam which
with the order of time for God and His ether with the times of prayer
did obey the sun - recognized as the will of God, Allah - following,
comes to a fall by her fundamentalistic, jihadistic lust for lording
over, and being of disrespect for, other forms of belief; for he who
always wants to win will, by the golden rule, have to loose it sooner
or later as a consequence. There irrevocably happen to be different avatâras
and ditto devotional cultures that each have their historical purpose and maintenance. Reformation must, to the
self-willed of the compassion and the integration of the social
science, with the christian fall-down in theological opposition and
one-sidedness, next expand into a more multicultural,
rationalistic-empirical enlightenment of expanding the consciousness,
for the reformer S'rî Caitanya
(1486-1543) happened to conclude to an inscrutable oneness in
diversity. The culture of Enlightenment comes, entirely predictable from natural entropy*, because of a lack of consistency and
philosophical unequivocalness next to a fall with the French Revolution
finding fault with all that elitary and false subjectivistic/empirical
individualism; for as we knew already: the philosopher must sing. Democracy finally in a social/revolutionary
sense defended with the French Revolution, comes, liberal/conservative
finding itself in opposition, to a fall in the degrading in the
dictatorships of communism, militaristic fascism and fundamentalism,
for the cards of the human identity have been shuffled - as is also
vedically confirmed. Therewith are we at the onset of the twenty-first
century awaiting the definitive falldown of the so divinely lusty, but
especially internationally most unjust, capitalist dictate with it's
sanctification of commercial strife, with which then the limit will
have been reached of the possible forms of corruption in the human fields of action of the nepotistic, viz. on friends and
family founded, democracy that constantly runs into dictatorships, as
was discussed in section Ib. The hindu goddess of money, S'rî
Lakshmî, in the end is but a maid-servant of Lord Vishnu, the
Lord of goodness and maintenance. The politics of friends, the faulty
combination of riches and connectedness, and the democracy do not
combine that well, so was shown already by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
in his Leviathan. He only knew three forms of state: the
monarchy, the democracy and the aristocracy, viz. the people
represented by one man, by an assembly of all the ones willing thereto
and the representation of a part of that gathering. Nepotism makes
democracy an aristocracy in disguise, an aristocracy which Hobbes in
case of dissension - not so surprising with chosen 'nobles' aiming at a
more lucrative position in industrial circles - with the populace calls
an oligarchy, a culture of regents far removed from the people and for
the countering of which one in The Netherlands e.g. notably introduced
the monarchy. A monarchy which, with many an illusory smoke curtain of
fake-democratic left-right changes, proves itself to be a culture of
regents for which the populace has no feeling but only dissent, is
according Hobbes' logic then factually a tiranny. In our case thus a
capitalist dictatorship: the confluence of a faulty combination of
capital and philosophy at the one hand with a wrong notion of political
power at the other hand. It is only the complacency of the consensus of
the anxious, capital-motivated majority, repressing and
violating minorities, that thinks less of the volunteer in the service
of God calling him unemployed declaring him subservient to the Mammon,
and that being of an unjust treatment neglects the rest of the world,
which makes one think that one is a democrat. False and ignorant
contentment with factual injustice makes no stable state. And thus one
could say that the idea of the majority of the voters, yet bears no
justice, and carries a false idea of democracy. The republican
democracy, or else the monarchy, is only real when in case of justice,
when everyone is done justice and not just a 60% or 80% majority. Thus
we are faced with the need of a general consensus about the
installation of election-groups (see also synopsis) in a beforehand settled order not allowing
mutual repression with a majority-vote: the majority must on a basis of
consensus about this self-knowledge paradoxically manage to protect
itself against itself. Rousseau (see also Charter of
Order) said about this in
'The societal contract' II.3: 'In order to really obtain the general
will, it is thus of importance that there is no group split off in the
state and that each citizen only is opinionated from his own stance.
Such was the case with the eminent order of state of the great
Lycurgus. And if there would be any groups spit off, must one increase
their number and see to it that they are equally large as did Solon,
Numa and Servius. These measures of precaution are the only right ones
to further that the general will (as opposed to the specific will) for
sure shall clearly and constantly surface and the people will not be
mislead.' The power is, divided in a proportionate representation of,
classically tailored, fixed election groups, thus to no one but to
God (see further 'A Small Philosophy of Association').
It is the 'easygoing' fake-democracy of
nepotism which, because of a lack of a societal structure of fixed
election groups representative for all the vocational and professional
groups that thus balance each other at the level of the government, is
wasting her qualities, and that way in fact thus discourages those
qualities - and therefrom one sees the decline of the political
character. It is thus paramount to educate anew the democracy, or as Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) it right away in the preface to
his study on the democracy in America stated: 'The first duty which is at this
time imposed upon those who direct our affairs is to educate the
democracy; to warm its faith, if that be possible; to purify its
morals; to direct its energies; to substitute a knowledge of business
for its inexperience, and an acquaintance with its true interests for
its blind propensities; to adapt its government to time and place,
and to modify it in compliance with the occurrences and the actors of
the age. A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world. '
In this context we stress the notion of time and place, since in this
is found the essence of our plea for the ether and the order of time
associated with it. This re-education is, according Plato's 'The Republic'
and his 'Seventh Letter', the responsibility of the philosopher who
then in fact is the boss, the philosopher-king, or either of the king
or ruler who then has to be the philosopher. In the culture of
vaishnavism around the works of Vyâsa one therefore speaks of the
spiritual master or the âcârya who is the
Mahârâja or the 'great king', even though he stands more
for the liberation in devotional service than for the enlightenment of
a sovereign power of selfrealization which is more reserved for the
independent esoteric guru. In the culture of Christianity which as yet
was not as conscious of the different types of teachers as is explained
section III-a of the synopsis, this would account for the difference
between the theologian preaching liberation in being of service in the
religious community and the psychologist/psychotherapist who wants to
educate the people in the enlightenment of a philosophically
responsible way of selfrealization less stressing outside authorities.
With the guidance poised in between these two fires of progress, is it
clear that without the philosophically founded reform or re-education
of the democracy, without the constant upgrading of what is supposed to
be the democratic order, and without the filognosy thereto of the - by
mediation of the gnosis around the order of time thus -; mutually as
being dependent declaring of the enlightenment of science and the
liberation in service of the person of God, we inevitably will fall
back again into the darkness of the dictatorship and the moralism which
constitute the shadow-side of a freedom ignorantly understood. The
competition between teachers of initiation and teachers of instruction
along the dimensions of the impersonal, local and person-minded must
with the filognosy and the respect therewith for the enlightenment of
the teachers from within, come to a stop. In terms of our filognosy
must each know his place. It is like the japanese confucianist
philosopher Ogyu Sorai (1666-1628) said it in his Rules of Study-6: 'A
noble man therefore is 'not prejudiced' in matters of right and wrong,
good and bad. Bad is when something is not fed and does not find its
deserved place. Good is to feed and let something realize its full
potential, and see to it that it finds its place'. This last section
III-b is directed at shaping to the grace of our filognosy this desired
revaluation of democracy.
In postmodern time now with the synergy
exhausted, depressed under the regime of artificiality and
fragmentation, we know the faith as such only as, the way the
philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) put it, a negative, cynical
realization of lost modernistic ideals, in which society fell apart,
like it was meat in the showcase of the butcher, and the hope has been
forsaken for an all-embracing solution. One could describe the
postmodern situation as the lamentation of the grand but, about the
human, religious and moral freedom, somewhat too negativistic, power
minded, philosopher F. Nietzsche
(1844-1900): it concerns an intellectual depression which, literally in
his case, with a brain feverish of venereal disease seeing a whipped
horse in the street in tears falls around it's neck. Postmodern man
knows on the basis of the philosophers, who as mere thinkers aren't
acceptable anymore today, and with the social activists among them,
like Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) and the early, equally anti-religious Karl Marx (1818-1883), but one belief and one mantra: 'that's
nonsense!'. The religion is, in a depression being disappointed about
the enduring abuse by the human being, nothing but hypocritical
nonsense. But was it not the ancient philosopher Epicurus who
(341-270 b. Chr.) in his letter to Menoeceus' already said
that 'Not the man who denies the gods that are worshiped by the
masses, but the one who ascribes to the gods what the mass believes
about them, is godless'. Marx is not entirely without a form of
belief or a God. He also builds on a connecting element: 'There is, in
every social formation, a branch of production which determines the
position and importance of all others; and the relations obtaining in
this branch accordingly determine the relations of all other branches,
as well. It is as though light of a particular hue were cast upon
everything, tinging all other colors and modifying their special
features; or as if a special ether determined the specific gravity of
everything found in it.' This he writes in his 'Introduction to a contribution to a
critique of political economy'. But with probably deeming himself, and the adherents of
his historic-materialistic theory, to be the impersonation of that
ether, is with the atheistic cry of nonsense which classically to
Epicurus factually was pronounced over the (dis-)believer and not so
much over God and His gods, nevertheless at the onset of the
twenty-first century shamelessly worldwide the materialistic doctrine
of the, now also socialistically practiced, sex- and money belief
practiced, with the worship of the idols called Mammon and Viagra. In
that disbelief is then further everyone written off who dares to voice
a not-to-realize ideal contrary to the misanthropic, but factually
perverse, relativistic/cynical paradigm.
The postmodern philosopher Jacques Derrida
(1930-2004) spoke of deconstruction when it's about the appreciation of
interpretation-sensitive human forms of existence or 'texts' as he
calls it: each may see in them whatever he likes and so it would be
impossible to arrive at a complete and coherent concept and ditto
society. He is right saying that books alone don't suffice and also
mutually exercising respect texts never deliver one an all-embracing or
coherent image of reality. And it is also sure that in a depression
without having a clear picture in one's mind there indeed may be spoken
of a literal deconstruction of the image of time of the observer. Man
depressed is disturbed to the triple nature of time: the past is black,
the future is invisible and the present is unpleasant. As a cultural
institute he breeds a no-future generation of people suffering under
what psychologists like Martin Seligman call 'learned helplessness', a mental affliction of the
self-doubting kind in which no solace is found of an absolute reference
we could address with the name of God and by which we could pull
ourselves out of our pool of misery. We saw that also relativism, as a
faulty combination of scientific power and philosopical knowledge,
traditionally decried by the Pope and exposed as a compensation, came
to a fall with the refutation of Einstein building on a non-existent
limit of light speed, who appeared to be the God and Prophet of it, but
according the different empirical results of scientific experiments
about the speed of light at the onset of this century, turned out not
to be irrefutable in it.
Even though it's indeed difficult to prove
materially because of the paradigmatically being bound, must be said
that the ether simply exists once we know why we in that context have
to speak of the forcefield of the Milky Way existing as a fixed frame
of reference. The time didn't turn out to be absolute in the velocity
of changing with the light, but time was absolute in the quality of the
changing itself. As Herakleitos
(535-447 B.C.) said: everything is in flux, panta rhei. And
thus is the relativistic depression, that after Nietzsche was rampant
in the political era to the inability to supersede Marx' atheistic,
social idealism, unmasked as a form of attachment in defiance of that
change, contrary to the absolute authority of our dynamical Father of
Time and His sacred ether, the factual godhead of the classics by
Nietzsche declared to be as dead as the mean, mechanical time, of the,
from this view seen, hopelessly outdated clock. Even a schoolboy is
these days capable of lecturing the physicists of the fallen and all to
linear conceived standard time-paradigm. So succeeded the talented
young man Peter Lynds (born 1975) in 2003 therein, by, even before Consoli's
interpretation of Düsseldorf already, stating that there are no
separate moments of time, and that only a continuous change exists
which one could consider absolute. Furthermore turned the cynicism, the
canine variety of the biting sarcasm, never out to be a successful rule
of state, apart from the isolationism and the paranoia of autarkies
like Hitler's Germany and the Cambodja of Pol Pot, but
rather constitutes a mental aberration of possibly sociopathically
abreacting, like a cactus as thorny, depressed people mainly of
interest for practicing psychologists and psychiatrists. Being
intellectually perverted in the negativism of a mutually confirmed
cultural pessimism, does one like a cult leader e.g., love to keep up
and also be dutiful with the appearance of authority, progress and
civilization, but one went, disturbed being postmodern, in fact
personally, intellectually and socially bankrupt, uncertain about one's
identity therewith philosophically being lost, like we noted with the declaration of order already; that is the conclusion we from now have to work
with in this last part of the filognosy of our comprehension. It is,
nearing the end of our argument, perfectly clear by now that without a
sober methodical approach, a proper knowledge of facts, an effective
and art-loving analysis, a fine, disciplined sense, for spiritual
unification to the principle and a well organized respect for the
classical, meekly and brotherly coexisting and each other succeeding
spiritual schools of learning, there can be no mention of a meaningful
political approach of respect for, and from, the civilized person in
all his historical, social and scientific glory. It is evident that
with but a color-sensitive ego-desire, with but an economic/judicial
argument, with but a conservative attitude of private considerations of
decency and virtue, and but a single socialistic ideal of sharing
honestly in a humanistic understanding for the weaknesses, we will not
be able to cope politically. None of the dictatorships derived from a
narrowed politicized consciousness will last because of the inequity
they represent with their one-sided dictates. The Tocqueville says
thereto: 'The consequence of this has been that the democratic
revolution has been effected only in the material parts of society,
without that concomitant change in laws, ideas, customs, and manners
which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial.' If
the democracy really wants to be a blessing, will we have to
acknowledge that for the sake of her quality a certain change of mind,
a change in the consciousness of the people, is required. Thus we so
arrived at the filognosy which, understood from the causality of the
person or the factual substance of our investigation, more or less as a
precondition demands the scientific sobriety and spirituality to the
principle, or else presents them as the indispensable elements needed
to enjoy the fruit of a beneficial political disposition of emancipated
people taking responsibility.
With the religion as the study we never
graduate from, and the politics as the right-minded practice to it
which time and again has to recapitulate and adapt, confer and revise,
have we arrived at the necessity of a reliable, thorough vision for the
future. Without a clearly outlined ideal, without a purpose in mind, is
as said, postmodern mankind not capable of emerging from it's
narcomaniac, anxiety-neurotic, obsessive depression and cynicism as
being cured and thus capable of finding a rational/democratic
equilibrium between the charitable enlightened humanistic, and the
materially motivated, traditional moralistic/pragmatic argument. What
should we do when we, whether depressed with Nietzsche or not, have to
accept our responsibility not able any longer to play hide and seek
behind the back of the traditional authorities of in fact the parson
and the reverend? Who is able to tell us, grown-ups of intellectual
independence, what we would have learned and would have to engage in
next? Science so divided in itself? That is, despite of the behavioral
side of science and the theology, not personal enough. With the answer
found in the commentaries of the oppositional, dialectical and
democratic politics, and therewith theologically following in the
footsteps of Desiderius Erasmus (1466 or 1469-1536) who stated that: 'It is
wrong like children to hold on to the letter and not mature to the
freedom of the spirit', we see the greek word of polis
emerging as the etymological root of the concept of politics, meaning a
city or community determined by a certain exercise of authority or form
of administration. It is evident that we, from the scientific via the
spiritual and the religiosity of personal confessions and conversions,
having arrived at the political, the 'talent to rule' the polis,
we inevitably have to ponder over the authority and the powers that be
in holding together our society(-ies) on this planet.
Man wrestling with the moral authority and the
exercise of power is, with the duty of adulthood, very well willing to
stand in God's shoes. But we are in trouble assuming that power,
problems one inevitably has to face in politics. In the cinema was
there of the director Tom Shadyac 2003 a nice story about it called 'Bruce Almighty'. It describes how a frustrated reporter who
sees everything working against him in life, thereupon challenges God
to prove that not He Himself is the lazy, unemployed ass not doing his
duty. God then proves Himself by handing His powers over to him, but
not without the message that he has to abide by two rules: he cannot
say he is God and he must respect the free will of the people. And thus
engaged does our hero, hilariously drawn by Jim Carrey, end up finally
turning in again his absolute power, realizing that the love for the
goodness of the reality as it is, is ruling the world and not so much
the special abilities with which one cannot subdue the free, human will
anyway. The combination of the concepts of freedom and authority
constitutes a philosophical problem. In his book Leviathan clarifies the philosopher Thomas Hobbes
(1588-1679) in 1651 that to accept a certain form of authority, whether
of God or not, is something inevitable if we do not want to end up in a
chaos of 'everyone against everyone'. So stated next to that on a later
date the australian archeologist V. G. Childe, (1892-1957) in following after the dialectically about the
- in the personal and collective history alternating - thought systems
reasoning philosopher G. W. F. Hegel
(1770-1831), that each rule of state, implies a dominance of hierarchy,
a pecking order, a stratification in societal classes, which he
observed as emerging from the free, gathering and hunting man of nature
who managed to organize himself in a 'revolutionary' way from being
agricultural into having cities and thus arriving at a division of
labor. In that there was, as seen from his marxist vision, an evolution
of the forms of state in a 'struggle about the means' like stone,
bronze and iron with the thereto belonging eras which still generally
accepted carry those names. From T. Kuhn (1922-1996) we now know that that struggle must be
considered paradigmatical and not directly social. It is more the stir
in the upper regions than in the lower ones what is going on, even
though matters misapprehended may sometimes work maliciously out in a
downward direction. Plato as early as in the Republic already from his side spoke, more refined as Hobbes, of a
hierarchy of rules of state offering the perspective of an aristocracy
of nobles which by a timocracy directed at (military) honor and a
'happy-few'-oligarchy of higher officials slides down in the direction
of a tardy bureaucratic democracy of politically belligerent
representatives of a doubtful heritage which desperate in a general
call for authority eventually corrupts into a dictatorship of 'I am
God'. Also the vedic option offers the vision such a state of affairs
with the decay of the noble rule in the chaotic chronic quarrel of kali-yuga,
even though they see it as something cyclic in ages covering many
thousands of eras. The sociologist Max Weber
(1864-1920) used a division in three in discussing the legal
authorities and this division can be recognized as a further insight in
this process of historically sliding down or eroding into the immoral
chaotic and impersonal uncertainty of authority. 
Departing from
the traditional authority of the church and the nobles with
respect for the person of God, evolved according Weber the charismatic
authority of dictators like Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin and Mao in
defiance of the holiness, which once turned over, results in the
authority of the legal-rational authority of an
institutionalized government of which the power of rule controls itself
rather than the individual person at it's service. And thus do we, with
the historical sense for the order of time, sociologically arrive from
personalism at formalism, the reality of a culture of settled state
officials which so nicely was decried in e.g. the book and the
motion-picture 'A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' of Douglas Adams 1979/2005. Fallen in
ignorance about the impurely lived (religious) remedies and being fixed
upon the problematic only, are we again ripe for the psychologist, just
to notice that we this way still with all kinds of schizoidisms are
entangled in a certain ego-determined form of being split within.
Social-psychological one may discern five forms of exercising power in
this: the power of rewarding, the power of punishing,
the power to delegate, the power of merit and the power
of expertise. The postmodern dissension and fallenness is then
characterized by the eroded state, which by delegation to local
authorities rewards the ones adapted and punishes the
transgressors, meanwhile, impersonally as she is, in her
administration is faced with a popular compensation of charismatic
celebrities of a doubtful breed who only then really are a threat to
the establishment of the legal order, when they have acquired a certain
expertise in relating to the popular vote upon
which, democratically, the state itself thus also is building. With all
scientific analysis of the problem have we thus not yet gotten out of
the postmodern depression of the modern intellect. We may, of denial
with the depression or not, see the matter as inevitably inherent to
the spoilt nature of the by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
already described man of a dubious moral fiber lusting for power,
without realizing that the ideal of an utopian state was never lost,
despite the reprehensible formulations of utopists like Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) ('promiscuity is your duty' in Brave New World) and B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) ('no individual parenting' in Walden Two)
who weren't as effective in reasoning out the matter as did the
original and canonized utopist Thomas More
(1478-1535) in his Utopia ('Neverland') of 1516. The ideal of a god-conscious world without
tyranny, superfluous wealth, land owners, however difficult to attain,
cannot really perish because it serves a basic psychological need and
thus, like we saw with discussing the self-ideal in section III-a,
constitutes a reality integrally part of our existence, which also
postmodern surfaces in S.F. t.v.-series like Startrek
e.g. Man without his dreams is as good as dead. However unrealistic the
utopia of the God Mythra of More may seem to be, still it constitutes,
with the vedic god of time Kâla and the thereto belonging avatâras
of Vyâsa, the indispensable aim and cultural root where all
political movements with their programs more or less consciously depart
from and strive for. Each has, as taken from the passion, or else from
the goodness, in the political an ideal of order and authority in mind
at the one hand, and an ideal of freedom and happiness at the other
which is not strange to the person but rather of justice to him. But
with the relativistic splitting up of time and place in modern time as
done by the standard time-politics of using pragmatic/economic
arguments - is no justice done to the person in his control with the
ether and his natural functioning with brain halves that to the
contrary are fully occupied with linking space to time. When motivated
for the good one in opposition therewith wants to do justice to that
natural order of the person, does that for that matter not imply that
one immediately agrees about what that order exactly would be and in
which way it would have to be respected, about how those two elements
of freedom and bondage would have to be combined in a coherent policy
acceptable to as well (natural) science as to the spiritual (reality of
the principle). Even though Jesus said that for God the Father things
on earth had to happen as they are in heaven, still is one not
immediately of acceptance for or known with the verse of Vyâsa in
which the respect for specifically the place and the time is combined
with the respect for the person (S.B. 4.8: 54): 'Om namo bhagavate vâsudevâya [my
respects for Vâsudeva, the Supreme Lord]; with this mantra
[called the dvâdas'âksara-mantra] should the
learned one exercise respect for the physical of the Lord, the way it
should be done, with the diverse paraphernalia and as someone
conversant with the differences to place and time [des'a-kâla-vibhâgavit].'
As we saw with the discussion about the fields
of action in section I-B, is there, to begin with, no immediate
agreement about how the political field should be described. The
left-right spectrum is described by e.g. the Eysenk model, the
Nolan-distribution, the Political Compass, de Pournelle-chart, the
Inglehart-values and the Frisian Institute (see Wikipedia: Political Spectrum); the're rather structuralistic. All these
models have in common that they fail in a certain philosophical lead of
unequivocality and clarity. That clarity though does exist ever since
Aristotle who in About the cosmos stated: '... that this is the
most admirable of political solidarity: namely that she from the
diversity brings about a oneness and from inequality an equality,
capable of withstanding each natural or coincidental occurrence.
.....In matters great like these teaches nature us that equality is the
guardian of solidarity and that solidarity is the guardian of the
cosmos, which is the progenitor of each and all and of beauty to the
highest degree.' As early as in A Small Philosophy of Association we concluded accordingly that we
axiomatically - vedically thus and not singly european with
theoreticians of the democracy like Aristotle en Alexis de Tocqeville -
deriving from the dictum 'unity in diversity', were dealing with a
quantitative and qualitative dimension on the basis of which we have
the two dualities of the quantitative individual opposed to the social,
and the qualitative concrete of matter opposed to the abstract of
having ideals, as if it concerned two intertwined yin-yang-symbols (see
the fields-table). Also incorporating the chinese philosophy of
the balance in nature of Lao Tzu (6th
century B.C.) and the balance in the reflection thereof in the culture
of rule of Confucius (551 - 479 v. Chr.), as also the japanese shinto
philosopher Kanetomo (1435-1511) who said that equilibrium is divinity, must
with this original clarity now, filognostically correct of reference,
and thus being certain of our matter, the confusion of the thought
models concerning the political order and the exercise of authority of
the modern state come to a close. It may be clear that, reasoning from
the vedic root, with the false ego - the identification of oneself with
the material self-interest - a political struggle has ensued of
interestgroups that no longer are fully in touch with their
statusorientation nor integer with the fields of action the way that,
more or less, with ease can be recognized in the rational-legal
authority of state departments. The political, the official and the
lawful happen to be different options of rule - like Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755) recognized it in his trias
politica of the legislative, executive and judicial powers 0f state
- even though all three of them receive an income from the same state.
We simply have officials of discussion who with laws engaged have to
play their roles in the chambers of discussion and there are officials
of order who simply for a state department execute the matters of
state, whatever their personal, political preference, and we have
judges that have to watch over the human rights in this to preclude a
dictatorship of officials or civil initiatives. The ideal consists of a
healthy common sense in relating to this (political) reality and the
problem in going for it consists of the illusions (the mâyâ
and moha) of people caught in the notions of the false ego (ahankâra),
in -isms, in which one is not able to find the balance between the end
of a vision served and the means of the opulence fundamental to it.
between the vision cherished and the quality or opulence aimed, at
cannot find the balance or the proper entry. That's what appears to be
the only clear logical/filognostical answer to the matter. And if we
face the reality as being the holy purpose, the holy grail of
democracy, in such a scientific way that there is as well understanding
for all the escapades of the modernistic ego, have we neither to be
afraid for what the psychologist/philosopher Karl Popper
(1902-1994) warned with his plea for the open society of a liberal
democracy. 
He stated that the reality of evolving rules of state
as being a lawful one, like e.g. is envisioned by the evolutionary
model of Marx and Hegel, doesn't mean to say that one thus can design
oneself a future that way. According Popper is the utopia potentially a
dangerous and totalitarian vision of reality because it implies that
repeatedly the freedom of the individual must be sacrificed for the
sake of the higher purpose, for if one leaves man the choice in his
lusty nature nothing will become of the envisioned state. From the
vedic axiom seen must that be confirmed. It is not so much about
creating another world and pushing oneself off against the rule of a
doubtful form of freedom by means of overturning the regime with a
violent revolution. What is of interest is to cast off individually and
thereafter also subculturally or even collectively in the end the
shackles of the illusions upheld from the profit mind and face the
original reality, and thus find the happiness, even though that
wouldn't directly be the happiness of each and ultimately maybe indeed
another time or world. One cannot better the world turning oneself away
from it either socialistic or individualistic, or pushing oneself off
against it; one has to see it as it is and then, with bettering one's
own life also as an example and support for others being of service
with it, be happier with that in the sense of finding a life better in
agreement with one's own nature. And so it is like not just Vyâsa
put it with his concepts of svadharma and svarûpa
(one's own nature and form), but also like the philosopher Seneca
in his selfrealization stated it in 'A Happy Life' III.3 later on in
history talking about that better life. Like Popper indicated it with
his idea of the 'piecemeal engineering' of a gradual realization
of politically set targets, is also with Vyâsa already that idea
found in his per paramparâ, or disciplic succession,
passing on of the spiritual authority, which thus allows for but a step
by step (B.G. 6: 25) cultural evolution in which the individual first of all is
faced with a 'bitter' hangover from the lesson learnt and only later on
may harvest the 'sweet' of a better practice (B.G. 18: 36-38) - a practice of a filognostical, personally conveyed,
virtuous way and proper life-habit of gratitude and servitude equal to
the moksha of individual liberation or else the
individual/subcultural attaining on this planet of vaikunthha,
the vedic heaven of that order of life in which there is no (vai-)
dullness and sloth (-kunthha) any more and one therefor has
nothing to fear.
The fake-democracy must, as we before saw in the Small
Philosophy of Association, be
remedied with a self-certain sense of order, with a certain settled,
representative democracy in which the concept of freedom is not as much
bound to chaos as to order any longer; thus was also confirmed e.g. in
2003 by the muslim-writer and journalist Fareed Zakaria in
his book the Future of Freedom. Filognostically does that
gradual 'soft' revolution, that turning around of the societal opinion
and evolving of democracy, not look much different from what e.g.
Seneca likewise in e.g. his dialogues (III.3) already out of love for
the ethereal integrity concluded: 'wisdom is: not to stray away
from her (viz. nature) and conform oneself to her law and the example
she offers.
Thus it was at the
violent onset of the French Revolution in which a clock-maker lead the storming of
the Bastille in 1789 when, be it unsuccessful, a decimal system was
introduced with the revolutionary clock and calendar with the purpose
to restore the natural authority of nature over man. And thus will it
also ever be, like Seneca it said, in the renewed, less violent efforts
to make that revolution of time still a success. It is, with the soft
revolution of gradualness, more the observance of inevitable facts and
trends and the prominence of natural and social realities that cannot
be denied or compensated away what determines the future. Even so
concerns it first of all the highly personal, selfrealized future of an
individual, emancipating person who gradually, as well being a beacon
for others, thus learns to live closer to the happiness of the natural
God. Therewith will there in the political era - which vedically rules
ever since the battle of the great war of the Mahâbhârata
and as said is called kali-yuga - be an
ongoing discussion between the doubters and skeptics who, on the basis
of their own betrayal of the regulative principles of the game of
order, have to face the karma thereof. For without the philosophy miss
they what Seneca in The Way to Wisdom called her most important
achievement: gratitude and the correct way to express it.
The duty of loving one's fellow man consists of keeping
open the door to that Vaikunthha, to that utopia and to clear the path
leading there, and not so much to impose that by means of the law. To
speak with Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1529) and his book The Prince is it not proper
or of political leadership to have in mind anything else but the
practical use, eventually even in defiance of the ethical code, of the
maintenance of the, till then evolved, status quo to which one
consequently mustn't try to improve the citizen or tempt him into
further corruption. The moral finger is reserved for the intellect and
not so much for the ruler taking advise from him. The utilitarian, at
the practical use directed, idea of the power of state consists of
making the best of the state with the way people happen to be and not
so much in the effort to teach them enlightenment and educate them for
the sake of another world, even though one at the other hand cannot
object to that as a manifestation of 'free enterprise' and 'free
organization'. Each has to follow his own dictate, only then will we be
free from dictatorship. Only then is there understanding for the fact
that the jailhouse of standard time that keeps all, politically
opposing, materialists imprisoned in a relativistic denial of the
ether, cannot be broken down just like that, the way one wouldn't
either with any other jailhouse. Only then are we able to understand F.
Nietzsche as being of goodness with his plea for the selfrealization of
the individual. With the game of order as we explained it in the
previous section, is not so much the human being educated, as, rather,
respected in as well his fallen state as in his elevated state, by
relativizing the concepts of being higher and lower, abstract and
concrete and the being directed upward and downward so as to have them
as free and equal options open to a personal evolution. The blessing of
God is there with the faculty of right discrimination. Only with such a
respect for the fullness of life of as well the common man who living a
concrete and material life can be saintly, as for the man of education
who very abstract and high of commitment, with or without much
experience, can be just as saintly in his selfrespect and respect for
the (filognostic) person of God, may one speak of a truly successful
policy. It is, being unafraid about utopian thoughts of the future, as
Seneca it also said in A Happy Life (V): 'Thus one force will
come about, one harmonious potency, and thus will a reason that is
dependable find it's existence which is not divided in itself and is
not caught in ideas, concepts or a conviction. And when this has spread
itself throughout the complete and is connected with her parts and, if
I may use the figure of speech, when everything sings the same song,
has she attained the highest good. For nothing low awaits her anymore,
no lubricity, nothing from which she would reel or slip.' And vedically
again we have to add to it that the utopia is there always for those
individuals successful in living up to that filognostic notion of order
of the visions relating to the order of nature, but is never there
realistically - and possibly even constitutes a threat - for the ones
who not as conversant with it do not cherish such a lucid mind about
the ultimate filognostical reality the way it, as is proven by the
oldest vedical scriptures and also the later greek and roman
scriptures, as such existed always, there now is and there also as a
bright and radiant future will be. With the filognostic revolutions, at
present taking place on the basis of the love for the knowledge in the
different societal realms as discussed here, goes the saying
politically: stand up for your rights, and stop fighting each other; do
not fight each other with illusions, rather fight illusions with each
other. For Homo sapiens, the knowing man, is the name.
Originally was the time, from a societal
perspective, a religious concept and differed politicians little from
priests in e.g. ancient Rome. Plato and Socrates had said that the
ultimate settlement of the order of things was to the god Apollo, with
which they indicated that the time and the ether, and the concept of
societal order associated with it, essentially is a matter of
religiosity, something which in science nowadays is known as the
apollonian principle with which it as well factually, with them as the
philosophical founding fathers of that idea, consciously commits itself
to the divine. Plato with it put forward, in 'The Republic'
the political values of wisdom, courage, moderation and justice, but
what did we have as a precursor of values before them and what evolved
therefrom? The Filognostic Manifesto this section opens with, begins with an
historical overview of the human values which clarifies the
(r)evolution of the knowledge in and about time. Ultimately will we, if
we thus with our filognosy in the thereafter following pages take a
sober look into the future, have a world order which, having arrived at
galactocentric consciousness, is based upon a
systematical and programmed respect for the human rights and one's civil
identity; in which the cultures of
the solar and lunar calendars
both will be reflected; in which the
year count is no longer linked exclusively to this or that religious preference; in
which in a non-repressive dualism of governance there won't be a single ruling and
commanding time-system, but rather an attitude more naturally conscious
of social relativizing and multicultural solidarity based upon freedom
of choice; in which political parties no
longer will struggle for being elected but rather the people, all together more structurally aware
of each others -isms, in stead of defying each other, will fight to
overcome the illusions of false unification and unemployment they have
in denial of the diversity; and will the (post-)modern disease of
estranged materialistic cynicism and anarchistic relativism be overcome
to the benefit of the splendor and the ethereal of a more realistical,
rational, identity-conscious and personally bound, representative world
democracy which with the option of a better balanced, good and natural
order of time will be of recollection with her (also digital) citizens, offering each a life
that, in the harmony of the filognostic self control with the
forcefield of the ether, is free from fear and confusion.
Footnote:
*: Entropy: based on the natural propensity for
disorder of all material systems.
Pictures:
- The first untitled painting of
an unfinished structure is of Keith Haring (site),
1989, acryl on canvas, 39 1/2 x 39 1/2, and is © of the Keith
Haring estate.
- The picture of a seashell represents a conch
or conchshell. It is used as a signal horn in vedic sacrifices
and represents one of the standard attributes of Lord Vishnu by means
of which He summons for the fight.
- The nineteenth century young man is a picture of Alexis
de Tocqueville, it is a photograph of an etching of the 1899
edition of "Democracy In America".
- The man with the mustache is Friedrich
Nietzsche (painter unknown) the way he is also seen on many a
photograph.
- The picture of the man with the folded hands
is of Johannes Moreelse (1602-1634) and titled: Herakleitos.
- Redon, Odilon: the Cactus Man 1881,
charcoal, 49 x 32.5 cm, The Woodner Family Collection, New York.
- Holbein d. J., Hans 1497/98 1543: Portrait
of Desiderius Erasmus.
- The picture of 'the king of the world' is an
etching from the book Leviathan of Thomas More.
- The picture of the serious man is a photograph of Max
Weber (1864-1920).
- The Island of Utopia, 1518, woodcut, 17,8
x 11,8 cm. Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
- The friendly looking man following after the
yin-yang-symbol is a picture of the philosopher/psychologist Sir
Karl Popper.
- The painting with the castle is of Jean-Pierre
Louis Laurent Houel (1735-1813), and is titled Storming of the
Bastille. At home in the Bibliothèque Nationale
Française. Catalogue number 07743702; water colors; 37,8 x 50,5
cm. Published 1789. In the middle one can see how Bernard René
Jourdan, marquis de Launay is arrested (1740-1789).
- Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (Ridolfo Bigordi
detto, Firenze, 1483 - 1561) Portrait of Niccolò
Macchiavelli, Oil on panel, cm. 85 x 67. London, private
collection.
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