The Neo's And Their One

TODO:
Had some thoughts about the Neoliberals and Fascism.
Old story of how the former becomes the latter.
New take on it?

Hey math geeks, did you know there’s a functor from Neoliberals to Fascists? For normies: yeah, it is called “a straight line”, or at worst a “Zebra crossing”. Highly technical stuff.

Hey film geeks, don’t be snowflakes, artistic interpretation is subjective. If you want to think of Neo as merely an abstract embodiment of all human knowledge and hacking ability, then he’s not a fascist, he’s a commie, or maybe an anarchist? De gustibus non est disputandum.

One recent episode of The Majority Report . The guest, Richard Seymour, had a generally reasonable report on fascism today in the USA.
Fun stuff… not.

However, at one point he misspoke (I presume) and said the far-right in the USA are seeking a white majoritarian populace, so they can exploit good ol’ democracy.

Me: “What’s the matter whiteman, you no like tyranny of the minority anymore?”

I had to comment:

No, @11:30 — they are certainly not advocating majoritarian democracy. That would be actual democracy. They want (or really just “need” since I’m sure some of them want the lot) “just enough” ethnic cleansing, so “ethnic rinsing,” to gain a majority, and more importantly they want political psychology indoctrination, so a majority will support neoliberal policies even if they lack a majority (which they will lack, for sure, demographics!). These are “not yet fully fledged fascists” but that’s a constraint of time. It takes time to indoctrinate people. Neoliberalism took decades. The Boomers do not remember how they grew up in an era of economic prosperity (the “how” was due to barely above mediocre government support for labour).
      How did they forget that was a good era for society — and would’ve been even better had the Cold War and colonial/slavery and sexist remnants been absent? They did not forget of course, most want “MAGA”. So what’s the deal?
      The deal is they completely forgot what caused half-decent economic prosperity: the cause was government support for labour and unions (milquetoast support, but still it was non-vanishing). They forgot because of general ambient neoliberal shock doctrine in effect all over the place, which was aided by the OPEC oil crisis, and vicious unrelenting anti-union propaganda and CIA infiltrations (or the analog in other countries) — nothing better than corrupt union bosses and violent “left-wing” radicals to aid the neoliberal cause in popular Socer Mom and NASCAR Dad normie consciousness (controlled opposition). That OPEC inflation was not a natural markets effect, it was a monopolist setting price, not the workers with their outrageous wage demands.

I’ve got to believe most ordinary people still do not want violent revolution and overthrow of governments. I’ve got to believe most democratically elected representatives are not pure rentier wannabe sǝןoɥssɐ.

By the way, as outrageous as it sounds, I think I’d still trust a Soccer Mom or NASCAR Dad to back me on wise fiscal policy ahead of an over-educated economics or business school graduate. The latter species are practically bred psychopaths. Whoa! Too “populist” for you? Go read Thomas Franks.

Not because I trust people in general, I don’t, I just trust people because I want them to be trustworthy. Like the LBW law in Cricket, benefit of the doubt.

This can get you into trouble if the batting side is on a hot streak. I admit. But I am not talking here about the power elites, I am talking about good ordinary working people and the unemployed. If they crave violent revolution I’m not with them, except if the violence is all intellectual and plays out in policy, not fisticuffs (a euphemism if ever there was one).

We should want to overthrow governments but this means the people running the government, not the institution itself per se. History proves this, regardless of which side you were on, if any, the fall of the Berlin Wall (and all the events surrounding) showed a government can change tune practically overnight, without ceasing to be government. This can be rapidly accomplished through spiritual education, not technocracy and fake-meritocracy (aka. credentialism). I’ve never seen a bad idea that wasn’t thoroughly defeated with wisdom.

Governments are not bound by laws of historical materialism. There are no such laws. We do not have to wait for the non-existent ‘falling rate of profit’ to materialize. We already have the spiritual means to reform government, and kick the current bunch of idiots out of power. The catch to this is we need massive collective action, because the mainstream media is entirely within the thrall of the financial elites and their socially parasitic brainworms. That’s my point: there is no effective massive collective action absent massive education and wisdom. This takes time. It can be agonizing. It is agonizing.

This is why all my writing is free-libre Copyleft . It does no good to wait for donations before I write. This means, anyone can copy what is on Ōhanga Pai and modify as they please, provided you credit the author for his or her original bits, and not miss-attribute by omission.

I know this all looks and sounds naïve, if it does to you then I am sorry for you. To be clear: I am not peddling the Clinton/Obama/Bush narrative of, “Go to school and learn to code!” — oh no, no no! $\mathfrak{fUCK}$ that.

I truly do mean spiritual education: teaching and practicing honesty, love, kindness, forgiveness, justice, mercy, compassion and humility. You’d be surprised Mr Technocrat at the RBNZ and Treasury, how far such spiritual virtues get in arriving at good macroeconomic policy. Better than all your electricity draining computer models combined. Even beats that sometimes mush-brained “Green-Fascist with software”${}^\dagger$ technocrat Prof. Steve Keen. (I can write that, he’s a friend, so can get the joke… if he is in a good non-UBI boosting mood.)

${}^\dagger$ The full title would be “Green-Fascist with software that proves accounting identities by assuming the accounting identities.” Too on-the-nose? lol.

Damn, I had a clever idea to fit with the title, something about how the online gaming nerds boost the Trumpistas, the Silicon Valley AI technofeudalists and the Elon’s, as sort of Mr Anderson/Neo saviours. But that topic is a bit toxic for my brain and mental health today. I’m a math-physics nerd you see, so I used to like to pretend mathematically literate people were generally smart. But it turns out not to be the case. Domain specific expertise is a beeaach.