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A Guide to the Politically Perplexed and Oppressed

In ancient greece, the thinker plato took over from socrates and demonsthenes the logic of division; that
is of infereing from the absence or prescence of a quality, either the presence of some connected quality
or the absence of an opposite one. Now, this way of thinking in binaries is what probably led plato's
mind towards endorsing the dictatorship of his "philosopher-kings" much as I'm sure demonsthenes was
reflecting or echoing in logical form, the divisive politics of draco.

Now, when political and economic conditions had changed, but human blindness hadn't, a new way of
thinking emerged called "empiricism". Now we might say that modern empiricism was begun by John
Locke, but however one reads intellectual history or understands empiricism it's clear that the empirical
school was, and continues to be, a mere inverted image of platonism. For the empiricist, just as with the
platonist, there is an unbridgeable gap between the outer and inner worlds, and thus for the empiricist
as with the platonist, all knowledge can only be from a sudden "jump" or intuition either of feeling or for
the platonist of thought. That is to say, whereas for the one it is thought which by dividing it's most
general understandings into further categories of comprehension eventially deduces specific knowledge,
for the other a like process occurs whereby the impressions in the senses being either palpable or not,
pleasant or not, causes our determinations and judgments of truth or falsehood, good or bad
respectively.

Let us stop to ponder the political implications of such views. If all knowledge is inherently an alienation
of the knower from the known then contradcition is as crucial to science as are axioms, and then there is
an insoluable tensions in thought and thus in desire also. Thus all desire must also be an alienating and
an adversarial relationship with the beloved; the false ideals of "progress", "englightenment" etc. must
be as much parasites on and a derivative of authority/tradition, faith and belief.

Marx and Hegel built further absurdities upon these which were fully realized in either the prussianism
of National Socialist totalitarianism or the totalitarian classism of the Soviet Union.

And this was all infereable from their economics: the labor theory of value, which's truth was taken for
granted by Marx, necessitated that the only source for the infinite abundance of communism had to be
the infinite exploitation of this labor power and thus the ultiamte slavery of the laborer, is in fact the
economic analog to which we can hold up that "parasite" theory of knowledge and desire. The parasitic
theory then, arises from what I call a non-biological view of truth, which forgets to see, as the vegans
also forget, that mind and man are part of the "objective world" and of nature and thus there is no
absolute gap between them, but only a relative one.

Therefore, in truth, few thinkers have been able to peel back the veil of ignorance since this veil was
their very own eyes! It was only those thinkers who working in a roughly parapetetic vein (not to say
that peripatetics are right about everything), were able to affirm both that truth was in the mind, and
that it only existed if the mind was somehow united to external, objective conditions. Not even the
kantians were able to improve this insight.

Then finally, just as in a natural environment all animals are made for each other, and have a generally
symbiotic relationship, so too in the political environment all classes properly exist reciprocally and are
only able to experience liberty and freedom by alienating a piece of themselves and by being
conditioned by what present thinkers would call "the other". The harmony of classes and races then,
brings us to praise any constitution where the leaders and the followers work together. Identity politics,
by seeking freedom "from" "the other" are simply rejecting the mixed constitution itself, and are
replicating the bourgeois class-rule on a higher level however, by endorsing the bourgeois ideology of
freedom and liberty as a "negative freedom" a negation of limits upon the self. Once this absurd premise
is accepted, then all other absurdities from LGBTQ ("super-straightism" too? lol) infantile disorders to
state-encouraged veganism, follow.

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