Essential Insignificance
2nd August 2004, 07:33
Alienation; Consciousness
The predication of alienation, it shall be said, arises from the material conditions which constitute the very foundation that society, lays, quiescently upon. The foundations like any material substance, which one concerns, to illustrate; governs the potency and durability of the basis, from which arises the superfluities. Destroy the foundation, and the embellishments well topple from the bottom up- an inescapable power. But alienation is an utterance that preserves assorted definitions; which is decipherable only when the context is accompanied. Alienation from yourself, others, from the means of production to suffice life’s very necessities, material wealth; from the very product that labour-power produces. Alienation has scores of denotations; from the extraordinarily feeble to the exceptionally immense; all juxtaposed with a context for reflection and expression. Reflection, after considerable contemplation, soon turns itself, for itself, into expression; expression that restores and preserves the very essence of human life--freedom.
But what is freedom? The freedom to think, the freedom of choice, the freedom of opportunity, the freedom to alternate locality, the freedom of speech, the freedom to pursue my every desire? These are all mendacities and falsehoods; freedom is build upon a myth; upon the myth of bourgeoisie machine; the machine of ideology. The machine that has mollified and pacified the revolutionary consciousness, the very machine that is encumbering and burdening the mind with artificial hope and desire, with ostentatious requests and requirements; which, ultimately, ostracises the entrapment of the being from himself, as a natural individual. The being is rendered but a machine of fabrication, which recurrently manifests itself in the being; determining and influencing his very individualism, until eventually, nothing but an opaque apparatus, seldom capable of natural function and purpose is left; only capable of perfunctory, mechanical, and automatic labour—the labour of the lifeless—the labour of the proletariat.
The ideology machine is conditioned in each epoch buy the ruling class, which corresponds to the means of production; from which, the former is conceivable by the latter. The ideas of the every class-society, generally, are the ideas of the ruling class. What are these ideas but placates and appeases of revolutionary movements.
What is meant by ideas? Morality, political ideology, religion, etc. Theses are all conditioned by the ruling elite to serve their interests; in times of adversity and requirement; the bourgeoisie call upon and focus their attention on these very notions to harbor the affectability of their motives, of course, by reinforcing these very notions repetitively. We see it, frequently! In times of need, even the ruling elite will prostitute their (paltry) decorum to the given cause, namely the winning of, or regaining of, the Great Fraud*—the means suffice to the ends, in this cases!
The tenacious mechanism of the ruling class, has thus far, sustained its ascendancy over the proletariat--generally. Yet, this is but an ephemeral epoch, an indispensable, yet devastating epoch; that will in the course of history be rendered ineffectual of sufficing the wants and needs of everyone, not just the imposition of the ruling elite.
Modern day capitalist society is now a dichotomy, split in to two opposing camps; exemplified by the relations that they have to the means of material life, which is then characterised by the modern day class struggle. Those that own nothing of impotence, but their labour-power to which they are forced to stultify themselves, at any request, to the bourgeoisie of face beggary and starvation. And those, the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production, whom at their volition, the remaining population subsist or expire. Seldom have the relations of social society been so intelligible.
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* Bourgeois, local, state and feudal elections.
The predication of alienation, it shall be said, arises from the material conditions which constitute the very foundation that society, lays, quiescently upon. The foundations like any material substance, which one concerns, to illustrate; governs the potency and durability of the basis, from which arises the superfluities. Destroy the foundation, and the embellishments well topple from the bottom up- an inescapable power. But alienation is an utterance that preserves assorted definitions; which is decipherable only when the context is accompanied. Alienation from yourself, others, from the means of production to suffice life’s very necessities, material wealth; from the very product that labour-power produces. Alienation has scores of denotations; from the extraordinarily feeble to the exceptionally immense; all juxtaposed with a context for reflection and expression. Reflection, after considerable contemplation, soon turns itself, for itself, into expression; expression that restores and preserves the very essence of human life--freedom.
But what is freedom? The freedom to think, the freedom of choice, the freedom of opportunity, the freedom to alternate locality, the freedom of speech, the freedom to pursue my every desire? These are all mendacities and falsehoods; freedom is build upon a myth; upon the myth of bourgeoisie machine; the machine of ideology. The machine that has mollified and pacified the revolutionary consciousness, the very machine that is encumbering and burdening the mind with artificial hope and desire, with ostentatious requests and requirements; which, ultimately, ostracises the entrapment of the being from himself, as a natural individual. The being is rendered but a machine of fabrication, which recurrently manifests itself in the being; determining and influencing his very individualism, until eventually, nothing but an opaque apparatus, seldom capable of natural function and purpose is left; only capable of perfunctory, mechanical, and automatic labour—the labour of the lifeless—the labour of the proletariat.
The ideology machine is conditioned in each epoch buy the ruling class, which corresponds to the means of production; from which, the former is conceivable by the latter. The ideas of the every class-society, generally, are the ideas of the ruling class. What are these ideas but placates and appeases of revolutionary movements.
What is meant by ideas? Morality, political ideology, religion, etc. Theses are all conditioned by the ruling elite to serve their interests; in times of adversity and requirement; the bourgeoisie call upon and focus their attention on these very notions to harbor the affectability of their motives, of course, by reinforcing these very notions repetitively. We see it, frequently! In times of need, even the ruling elite will prostitute their (paltry) decorum to the given cause, namely the winning of, or regaining of, the Great Fraud*—the means suffice to the ends, in this cases!
The tenacious mechanism of the ruling class, has thus far, sustained its ascendancy over the proletariat--generally. Yet, this is but an ephemeral epoch, an indispensable, yet devastating epoch; that will in the course of history be rendered ineffectual of sufficing the wants and needs of everyone, not just the imposition of the ruling elite.
Modern day capitalist society is now a dichotomy, split in to two opposing camps; exemplified by the relations that they have to the means of material life, which is then characterised by the modern day class struggle. Those that own nothing of impotence, but their labour-power to which they are forced to stultify themselves, at any request, to the bourgeoisie of face beggary and starvation. And those, the bourgeoisie, who own the means of production, whom at their volition, the remaining population subsist or expire. Seldom have the relations of social society been so intelligible.
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* Bourgeois, local, state and feudal elections.