Hegel wrote of alienation from modernity and Marx wrote about it in terms of alienation from what we create through work. Neither with Hegel should we agree to strive to reconcile with modernity, nor with Marx should we simply diagnose alienation as a primarily economic problem linked to a specific economic system - capitalism. Marxist economics were equally alienating because it was a radical Enlightenment system. Nietzsche saw through the shallowness of modernity and advocated the Ubermensch. Traditionalists such as Evola and Guenon were important in diagnosing this spiritual alienation as a consequence of the whole project of modernity, the reign of Quantity. Today Dugin advocates the Radical Subject as the way forward for the traditionalist and sacred spirit.
Modernity is a project beginning before the Enlightenment, back to the Renaissance, developing through Baconite science, Newtonian Physics and then of course the Enlightenment itself. Its ideology is in a very broad sense liberalism. Its economics are also revolutionary and disruptive of communal life, whether as revolutionary industrial Soviet Communism, global capitalism or the Technocratic Fourth Industrial Revolution. Heidegger in particular was able to present an alternative view of being open again to Being, rather than trying to capture it and as a consequence being enframed by our own metaphysics and technology, cut off from Being as the concealed.
The project of modernity, with its blind faith in Progress, what the man on the Clapham Omnibus might term "change for change's sake" (the ideology really is that crude and shallow), was intentional. The interest in the Occult and magic of the early scientists, their receptivity to the demonic, "progressed" into the ideology of the secret societies, such as the Illuminati and the Free Masons. Whether the Freemasons today adhere to this ideology no longer matters, but there was a time in history when the secret societes including freemasonry were committed to the revolution which ultimately meant pulling down the ancien regime - Crown and Altar. (Even if monarchs could for a time serve as vessels of modernisation and religion could be recapitulated as deism or a proto theosophy).
What was the utopia with which they planned to replace the ordained structure of human society? Well it encompassed liberation through atomisation, technological development and universalism. Indeed those revolutionaries who paraded the Goddess of Reason through the streets of Paris coined the shibboleth that became the cry of all subsequent revolutions - liberty, equality, fraternity. This was not the prescriptive liberty rooted in ancient rights under the King that Burke referred to when talking of the liberties of Americans and Englishmen under the English Common Law founded upon precedent. No this was formed by the theories of elite thinkers such as Rousseau, whose ideas led to the formation of secret societies amongst the elites. The Enlightenment itself was fundamental to the shift in thinking, but the very Enlightenment itself was part of the revolutionary fervour of rejecting inherited wisdom, as can be seen in Immanuel Kant's famous essay "What is Enlightenment?"
The so-called Enlightenment was a philosophical project working in tandem with the sciences to dislocate Western Man from his traditions, his history and his religion. It was the zeitgeist of the Eighteenth Century, conceived in earlier centuries in Renaissance Humanism and the alchemy of the early occultist sciences. It was a rising up against the Divine. And universalism, which meant in reality complete atomisation and dislocation in effect, was its creed.
This is what has led to transgenderism and will in turn lead to transhumanism in this quest for supremacy over reality.
As technology, metaphysics and ideology have worked together, the human being has been reduced to homo economicus, a mere unit of production whether that was in the English Industrial Revolution, Soviet Russia or Capitalist-Fordist America. This is the real alienation and it is not simply the Marxist account of losing the control of what one's own labour produces. This is only one possible symptom of the shift to materialism that is fundamental to the idea of Progress. A strange and irrational faith emerged that the Greeks would not have accepted - history is evolving progressively. A new thought indeed! Instead of a fallen post-Edenic, post Golden-Age world, we were to believe Man could again construct Babel. The real effect was a deep spiritual alienation that manifested in destruction of home and hearth, disconnection from the home gods, the ancestors, the transcendent.
The irrational faith in Progress then, bolstered and supported by theories such as Darwin's evolution, was what really alienates us. From ugly architecture to grotesque art in aesthetics, to dislocation and insecurity in employment and in economics we are always more and more alienated and torn away from our embeddedness. Furthermore in a materialist paradigm we are unable to find the words to forge an argument against this pressure to move further and further, deeper and deeper into this mistake, this putting our own technological advances and liberation above the sacred and the human.
it is no accident that culture has decomposed and decayed. In a world of alienation atomisation and ennui are the result. This is expressed in our artwork. It manifests in terrible and senseless crimes, in sexual promiscuity, in deviance. There is no longer a Higher Authority, there is no longer a purpose, a telos, outside of and above this fallen world. The only purpose is more liberation from authority and tradition. Technology is intimately connected to cultural change and adds to our pride that we can create a new Luciferian world in defiance of cosmic law. In the end they plan to defy death itself with their Singularity concept, bypassing the need for the Cross or so they think in their pride.
"And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."
Of course technology in itself is not an evil. It is to an extent of course a consequence of the Fall and linked to Cain. Nonetheless, the Empire became Christian. Art was created to glorify and venerate the Divine and the Saints. Freedom is neither a moral evil. The trouble is that by dislocating us from our cosmic position we have misunderstood freedom. From the Greeks onwards, Plato and Aristotle, through to the Stoics and culminating in the Church Fathers, freedom was understood as freedom from the passions and the potential to participate in the Divine. The debased view of Man that emerged from the Enlightenment misunderstood freedom as a shallow lack of constraint by authority to be able to indulge the very passions that the ancients understood enslaved us.
The whole driving force of Progress is the passion of pride and it is pride that separates us from God and will as a consequence alienate us from our neighbour, our culture, our very purpose of existence.
Philosophers on the Right turn to the Ubermensch or the Radical Subject. That though is still a modern response. In "riding the tiger" of modernity the Traditionalist has already accepted the inevitability of Modernity. There is no inevitability about it. Man might build in pride, but Babel was destroyed. This ideology of a universal system that now manifests in the dogmas of the WEF and the other globalist institutions, is nothing more than men of clay trying to replace God. No paradigm is inescapable. One simply has to look at the premise. And the premise of modernity is Promethean. It is an attempt to usurp the Divine. It was the presumption that led to the downfall of Nebuchadnezzar. However high we build we still have feet of clay. And by attempting to usurp the Divine we have simply been degraded to slaves of the passion of Pride. It is indeed Luciferian. This is the dogma of Lucifer's revolution in the heavens replicated here in earth. It is no accident that the supposedly secular advocates of Progress have always been fascinated by the occult and drawn to Lucifer as the progressive figure of Light. It is why the Lucis Trust is so deeply entwined with the United Nations.
If we have faith though and have not given in to the materialist ideology of the Revolution then we know how this ends. Indeed we know the victory is already won and this is simply the intermediate stage before the consummation of that victory and the building of the new Celestial City - not Babel, but the heavenly Jerusalem.
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