On Instincts and the Elite February 28, 2020
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From A Citizen’s Manifesto by Yves Leclerc:
Two opposite trends have been agitating human communities, in particular but not only Western ones, mostly in the last decade: populist parties, usually led by xenophobic demagogues and driven by ultra-conservative identity concerns (Rassemblement National, Ukip, Golden Dawn, Alternative for Germany, radical Islamists…), and spontaneous progressive but post-socialist citizens’ revolts (Arab Spring, Indignados, Occupy Wall Street, Casseroles, Nuit Debout…). Despite their basic differences, both forms of protest embody a strong rejection of the dominant political and financial system of representative democracy and neoliberal capitalist economy, whose close-knit leaderships exert over many countries an exclusive control motivated not by a vision of the common good, but mostly by the pursuit of their own advantages. I would like to focus on the last sentence: “an exclusive control motivated not by a vision of the common good, but mostly by the pursuit of their own advantages.”
A. I pose
1) That the pursuit of the “elite’s own advantage” is unconscious instinctive behaviour in human beings, conditioned by nature to structure themselves in hierarchies and that
2)”a vision of the common good” takes place in animal “clans” alone and does not reach out to other species that a particular animal lives on. Animals cannot act for the “well- being” of all other animals in the food chain and in as much as human beings are mammals, they are not conditioned to act for the well-being of each other by nature. Instinctively, they are capable of protecting each other within the clan: family, race, class, nationality and if humanity were attacked by aliens, perhaps humans would protect each other, but few understand that the elites are behaving like aliens, systematically destroying the natural equilibrium for the short term gain.
B. People’s instinctive emotional and intellectual reach, present in each individual’s personality, that is solely moulded by society, is enough to protect the clan but not enough to project the same principles out to humanity without the intervention of a consciousness free of nature, that is, free of time and space.
1) “Instinctive consciousness” of the clan protects his or her “own” but is more than willing to destroy others, as the holocausts of the past and the present prove. Instinctive consciousness is limited to the “clan”, no matter how big the clan might be. It is identified with the physical material realm through personality or the ego. 2) If consciousness can be defined by the amount of awareness of an individual’s being and “instinctive consciousness” is attached to those realms that connect to the survival of the species, such as family, race, class or nationality, then we can picture consciousness as greater and greater awareness of people that an individual doesn’t know directly, as is the case with the race or nation, but identifies with a wholesomeness of a “clan” that will give them better chances of survival. Clans in whose unconscious “mass behaviour” has often proven fatal for humanity.
C)The hierarchy structures within the clans guarantee better chances of survival to the elites in power. It’s the people in the outer circle who are more quickly sacrificed in times of war or crisis, so it is not surprising to observe that people compete to belong to the elite in power, that is, in theory, supposed to represent the whole: the “people, when “legitimate” but in practice, today, what we are seeing is that the elites of the political, religious and economic realms, represent only themselves but have appropriated the power, the “spiritual realm” and everything physical, that belongs to the whole. If this were guaranteeing that at least they are going to survive the horrors that such process can devolve into, perhaps their actions could be justified as “natural survival”, but the elites are and will continue to be as harmed as anybody else, they are as unconscious as most others and that allows us to conclude that hierarchic, instinctive behaviour, in which an elite turns against the possible survival of the whole, is not rational human behaviour but a cancer systematically acting against Life. A “cancer”, because cancer is basically a mechanism in which a few cells invert the body’s mechanism to Live and systematically destroy it.
There are certainly solutions but they are not in the stratification of human beings in hierarchies of power. Power is a quality of being and as long as some are given more power to BE than others, then there’ll continue to exist hierarchies and fierce competition within them.
On Instincts February 28, 2020
Posted by Elena in Uncategorized.comments closed
From A Citizen’s Manifesto by Yves Leclerc:
Two opposite trends have been agitating human communities, in particular but not only Western ones, mostly in the last decade: populist parties, usually led by xenophobic demagogues and driven by ultra-conservative identity concerns (Rassemblement National, Ukip, Golden Dawn, Alternative for Germany, radical Islamists…), and spontaneous progressive but post-socialist citizens’ revolts (Arab Spring, Indignados, Occupy Wall Street, Casseroles, Nuit Debout…). Despite their basic differences, both forms of protest embody a strong rejection of the dominant political and financial system of representative democracy and neoliberal capitalist economy, whose close-knit leaderships exert over many countries an exclusive control motivated not by a vision of the common good, but mostly by the pursuit of their own advantages. I would like to focus on the last sentence: “an exclusive control motivated not by a vision of the common good, but mostly by the pursuit of their own advantages.”
A. I pose
1) That the pursuit of the “elite’s own advantage” is unconscious instinctive behaviour in human beings, conditioned by nature to structure themselves in hierarchies and that
2)”a vision of the common good” takes place in animal “clans” alone and does not reach out to other species that a particular animal lives on. Animals cannot act for the “well- being” of all other animals in the food chain and in as much as human beings are mammals, they are not conditioned to act for the well-being of each other by nature. Instinctively, they are capable of protecting each other within the clan: family, race, class, nationality and if humanity were attacked by aliens, perhaps humans would protect each other, but few understand that the elites are behaving like aliens, systematically destroying the natural equilibrium for the short term gain.
B. People’s instinctive emotional and intellectual reach, present in each individual’s personality, that is solely moulded by society, is enough to protect the clan but not enough to project the same principles out to humanity without the intervention of a consciousness free of nature, that is, free of time and space.
1) “Instinctive consciousness” of the clan protects his or her “own” but is more than willing to destroy others, as the holocausts of the past and the present prove. Instinctive consciousness is limited to the “clan”, no matter how big the clan might be. It is identified with the physical material realm through personality or the ego. 2) If consciousness can be defined by the amount of awareness of an individual’s being and “instinctive consciousness” is attached to those realms that connect to the survival of the species, such as family, race, class or nationality, then we can picture consciousness as greater and greater awareness of people that an individual doesn’t know directly, as is the case with the race or nation, but identifies with a wholesomeness of a “clan” that will give them better chances of survival. Clans in whose unconscious “mass behaviour” has often proven fatal for humanity.
C)The hierarchy structures within the clans guarantee better chances of survival to the elites in power. It’s the people in the outer circle who are more quickly sacrificed in times of war or crisis, so it is not surprising to observe that people compete to belong to the elite in power, that is, in theory, supposed to represent the whole: the “people, when “legitimate” but in practice, today, what we are seeing is that the elites of the political, religious and economic realms, represent only themselves but have appropriated the power, the “spiritual realm” and everything physical, that belongs to the whole. If this were guaranteeing that at least they are going to survive the horrors that such process can devolve into, perhaps their actions could be justified as “natural survival”, but the elites are and will continue to be as harmed as anybody else, they are as unconscious as most others and that allows us to conclude that hierarchic, instinctive behaviour, in which an elite turns against the possible survival of the whole, is not rational human behaviour but a cancer systematically acting against Life. A “cancer”, because cancer is basically a mechanism in which a few cells invert the body’s mechanism to Live and systematically destroy it.
There are certainly solutions but they are not in the stratification of human beings in hierarchies of power. Power is a quality of being and as long as some are given more power to BE than others, then there’ll continue to exist hierarchies and fierce competition within them.
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