The Resurrection of Europe

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Peter Wyssling
Die Auferstehung Europas
I The new Paradigm
The resurrection
of Europe
- From the Ego to the Ich
II The social Drama - Europe, the Unfinished
III The threefold ressurection
The differenciated Living Space
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Europe’s spiritual life was uninspiredly
confined to state borders, thus laying the
foundation for the gradual undermining of
cosmopolitan spiritual interest. Thus spiritual
life lost its tremendous political peace making
influence, its particular role of uniting
individualising principle, of christendom…
Wherever old superstition on a higher world
kicked up, alarm trumpets were sounded, the
dangerous spark of philosophy and wit
possibly smothered in the ashes; nevertheless
Tolerance was the parole of the educated, and
especially in France synonymous
to
Philosophy. Very strange, this history of
modern scepticism, and the key to all terrific /
monstrous (??) phenomena of modern times…
Blood will run in streams over Europe until its
nations become aware of their dreadful
delusion, driving them round in a circle…
Only true religion, achieved through insight,
can wake Europe again, and secure the
nations, and install Christendom visible on
earth with new glory into its old peace-making
role…
The rest of the world is waiting for Europe’s
reconciliation and resurrection, to join and
become citizens of heaven…
(according
to
Novalis,
„Die
Christenheit oder
Europa“,
(„Christendom or
Europe“), 1799)
Part I
The new paradigm - From the Ego
to the Ich
The whole and its parts
The individuum and the universe, man and world – the basic structure of all
polarity, matrix of all identities. The new paradigm states: the part is bigger
than the whole, for through the part the whole is brought to mind, is
rendered aware. Aware of itself, self concious! The whole world is
enigmatic, and man is the answer to the riddle: evolution on earth,
evolution of mankind, the infinite differencialisation of species – at the
“end of times”, i.e. in surpassing a consciousness that is connected to space
and time, the liberated ego gains an awareness for its identity with the
‘Weltengrund’, with the worlds origin, the „new Adam“ is born.
Translated into the older idiom of Theology: the „Holy Spirit“, radiating
from God the Father and Christ, delivers the individual from the darkness
of isolated individual consciousnss
frome within the “I” of the isolated particular conscieousness the message
is voiced by the Spirit by the name of:
I am WHO I AM.
But man’s mind is weak, it looses itself in the dark of the paths of fortune
and fate, of internalised prejudice, of creeds and scientific paradigms, it
falls with a thousand temptations of “worldly” life. And what is more: the
mind thinks itself identical with the worldly body, which in truth is the
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“Temple of Divinity”, which gives to the mind the gift of perception, the
ego-consciousness, and later death as the meaning of the path of life.
Europe ?
The (seeming) opposition individum and world relates to the polarity of
center and periphery. Europe as the cultural core of the current world
civilisation is part of the world, but as spiritual potential Europe can be
“bigger” than the whole. In this sense the realm of Europe is “not of this
world” – it is a spiritual world. The cultural diversity, the great creators of
european classic bear witness to this. When political or economical
expansion develop from Central Europe, when hegemonial intentions
trigger the european “mind”, extreme destruction will be the consequence –
if this comes to pass death will be Master over Europe, at least over central
Europe.
Europe’s identity is the identity of the human individuum that dicovers
itself as meaning and end (goal) of the universe. The whole discovers itself
in the part. Individual life and social life reflect the beaty of the universe –
Art is the transformation of triviality. Not arbitrary art as a construct, but
art as the continuation and perfection of “Nature’s” creations, the crown of
which is music: at the intersection of the lemniskate of Mind and Spirit
(Pneuma) – the actual “identity” of things and creatures, equally instrument
of black and white magic.
Europe’s tragedy is the absense of true art and culture. The brutality and
barbarianism of the 20th century is the face of the mind which does not
find the way, the inner path to the Spirit:
Terrorising, power-obsessed presumptiousness creates new man (the “new
Adam”) as a carricature in direct and economic war: the worldly “hero”,
all these different idols: - the “proletarian worker”, the “entrepreneur”, the
“socially-minded capitalist”. Lucifer, magician and God of his construed
world design!
Such is the carricature of those individualities Europe has to give birth to,
for it will otherwise collapse: those untiring fighters and searchers who
banner the motto: My kingdom is not of this world. Whose secret is: by
powerlessness to real power. – Or, following the thread of Parzival, this
archetype of inner development: knowing by compassion / comiseration.
The appearance of the advanced individuum is the “fool” in the midst of
the heroes.
To the west Europe borders to the realm of the anglo-american Elite,
whose laws are the constraints and and advantages of global hegemony.
What is closely scrutinised worldwide is the dollar, diplaying the pyramid
and the wathful eye of the Lord. What the world wants to know is: will raw
oil in future be settled in Dollars or in Euros? Who possesses the earth’s
resources and its nets? In the realm of the brainstormers of the New World
Order, THE NOVUS ORDRUM SAECULORUM, the constitution claims the
pursuit of happiness and well being of its well guarded patriots, global
hegemony being the true metamorphosis of the Imperium Romanum. The
neo-roman circus thrives on the spectacle of desperate fights for sheer life.
Distinguishing “nations” into “willing” and “villain”/”rough” (USPräsident Woodrow Wilson, who designed the ideology of the Versaille
“Peace”-Contract in 1918, already talked of abstract “nations” as agencies
of political will, not of individuals.) is so undifferenciated that it joins bad
religious fundamentalism. State propaganda (or rather: meta-state
propaganda) bears the complete signature of an economic secular church
which operates and celebrates with the elemental needs of the “masses” for
cruel pictures of injury, revenge, honour, glory, etc. – updated with the
global tools of high tech and mass media. The deepest and best hidden
secret of this cultus concernes either the provocation or the birth and the
sustenance of the “true ennemy” and its different faces – installation of
roman DIVIDE ET IMPERA , the barbarian culture of fear, aggression and
triumph. Signature and Brand of poor Mephisto, partiture of the wordly
spirit, his earthly power and “shining” – the promise of peace, beauty and
happiness, which says: my empire is this world ! 1
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No use to talk to him , to the „Erdgeist“, as Novalis calls it: the sense of words is getting
upset
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Towards the east and the south Europe meets the chaos of meta-religious
confrontations, the exercise fields of the „Clash of Civilisations“, evoked
by Brzezinski. Spiritually tired, the western-oriented Europe fences itself in
against the image of the venturous refugee from the realm of poverty, of
raw materials and state debts. People from the east are not only different
because the social structures are more authoritarian, more archaic.
Moreover the structure is a reflection of the disposition of the mind and
relates to the hierarchical-religious embedding in an orientally influenced
theistic world picture - which principally perceives man as an object of
divine guidance or predisposition (also called fatalism)2. The power of this
vertical paradigm outweighs the wish for personal happiness and egoistic
wealth (except within decadent-corrupt elements, feeling like'fathergod
himself'). For the individualised psychology of westerners this
subordination under higher values and ideals is not only incomprehensible
but downright weird. Fashionable egocentrical “esoterics” does not
produce resonance in the oriental mind. Only the power of the individuum
that experiences itself as ‘intellectual’ instrument and co-creator of
“spiritual reality” can find an approach to the oriental phenotype.
Contrary to this task is the inveterate body-soul-dualism of academic
thinking, which, rooted in clerical catholic tradition eliminated the triad
body- soul-spirit as early as in the 9th century. A revision of academic
psychology would also enhance physics as basic science, insofar as the
nature of “materia”, or “energy” would be approachable as epiphenomena
of movements of a consciousness-like or memory-like kind3. (The recently
published exchange between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung
anticipates the fruitful scope that could be activated for science and life by
considering the trichotomic nature of man.)
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the characterization of Islam and Judaism is the monotheistic conception of god – as the
all-guiding and omnipotent “fathergod” (Demiurg), whereas Christianity perceives deity
as trichotomic substance of “father, son and holy spirit” – reflected in the differenciated
trichotomical Nature of man as compostion of I) body, II) soul and III) mind. In catholic
church Mind, the third part of human being, has dogmaticaly been abolished in the 8th
council of 869. – this ist the origin of today basical ‘scientific’ dualism: Psychology also
perceives man as composite of only two elements: body and psyche, reflected in the
dualism of “materia” and “subjectivic consciousness”.
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As Karl Ballmer states, "Materia" has not cabality of memory, but is memory-like
phenomena.
The future of Europe, at least the task for Central Europe consists on the
“fight for true individuality” squeezed in a precarious situation between
a) western extro-version (economical expansion), based on a secular
religion of wealth and ‘wellness’, anti-indivualistic in the sense of denial
and inveterate dogmatism against the spiritual essence of humanity –
mirrored in a false superficial “individualism”.
b) oriental intro-version (passive and active retreat on former vertical
paradigmas), reflected by lethargic socio-cultural passivity, re-focussing on
fundamental structures opposed to the superficial western individualism.
Of course, the economical and political dynamism of western “leadership”
is overwhelming and overtrumping the lack of individual egoism in eastern
populations, as far as this process is a pure strategic/military action like the
Afghanistan or Iraq war, it may become dangerous – the people feel
opposition against the lyes and amorality of a-teist western decadence.
Thus, both the western and the oriental/asian mentality can’t get aware of
what could be the real and true task of Central Europe: the impulsation of
a pure economic world view by the strength of “inner developpment”,
inspired by basical forces of individual mind and psyche.
It is so difficult to show what that means – because there is so few "places"
in the world, where inner developpment and mind-searching has become an
inspiring fact. The “space” for this basical re-formulation and re-founding
of human identity can't be other than the individual mind, the consciousnes.
As this is an “inner” activity, it can’t be relied to a defined geographic
space – but nevertheless: Europe has been the birth-place of the classical
culture of western civilisation, even of all ideologies running the world, so
why should not this Europe be the place for the re-birthing of the true sense
of live, of culture, as culture is the mirror of individual ethos, art and
science.
Thus, new social structures have to be found by those who may sease the
upcoming identity of Europe, especially of Central Europe. Allways led by
the central idea of true individuality.
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Parts II and III are the partial tranlation of german version
"Europa, das Unvollendete
Part II
The social Drama
Europe, the unfinished
POLITICAL PROLOGUE
All kind of socio-political problems are really
art-problems, and since people have become so
un-artistic and so sophisticatedly clever there is
so much chaos in the world today.
(Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz)
Capital is essentially intelligence ...
This worldly intelligence works as a principle by
which labour is shared, structured. The question
of this primordial whole is significant. It will not
be asked wherever – following old habits of
thinking – the entrepreneur and capitalist is not
conceived as a worldly “mind” but as a “moneyearner”.
With some resignation and shame it has to be
stated that nothing will be more difficult than
revising the decisive basic idea present in all
socialistic and market economic doctrines: all
kind of work or labour, entrepreneur’s activity
or intellectual work as well, is but “work for
gain”.
This ego-centred, omnipresent definition of
economic activity has clearly to be revised.
(Karl Ballmer, A Conception of Capitalism)
US-Vize Dick Cheney proclaimed, that the „forth world war“ would be
about destroying any opposition whatsoever. Dominant north american
foreign policy continues to navigate within a wide spectre of targeted
information and desinformation. Europe, the „old“ Europe, is a central
scene on the war field of worldly powers. Between Gibraltar and Ural the
continent stretches like a filet of meat, in the minds of its subjects often
merely a sum of so called „political subjects“, governments and
international enterprises, chessman in the world wide game. In the
historical wrestling of orient and okzident, part of Cheney’s „world war“,
the West, this Europe of Power, plays an important role. „We will
definitely not withdraw from Irak“ – the polish prime minister Leszek
Miller says the text on the role of central europe, although a majority of the
polled population rejects the engagement. Governments face a difficult
standing, subordination under the world’s direction is forced to have a new
frame of argumentation, below and between the Powers of Europe abysses
are gaping, being irritated and full of resignation, there is a mood of inner
emigration. Longing for a different world has become tired. „Europe’s
Psyche“ has fainted, is unconscious?
In the Sofia Metro police is very present since the Madrid bomb attack. The
protection of the population would be cared for in the traditionally prooven
way, minister of the interior Georgi Petkanov promised. „What is
traditional with us most of all is irresponsibility“, the daily news „Dnevnik“
replied.. Also in the Czech Republic there is fear. With the help of crisis
squads and police task forces in the streets the east european US allies try
to present. At Ruzyni airport in Prag there was even an armoured car
positioned by the government. Horror scenarios do not only appear in
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polish dailies – gaps in the security disposition for the coming European
Economic Forum in Warschau (End of April) are discovered and discussed.
Four years ago EU heads of state and governments had decided on
planning huge. Up to 2010 the EU is supposed to be dolled up to become
“most competitive economic area” »The spreed of reforms needs to
accelerate to reach this goal until 2010« Romano Prodi summarises after
the recent (beginning of April 2004) meeting of the European Council with
just these EU heads of state in Brussels. Council president Berti Ahern
named the content of the reforms. Public budget should be »consolidated«,
health and pension systems »reformed« non-wage labour costs »reduced«
and work should be »flexibilised«.
„Redistribution from bottom to top“ that is the programme Adam Smith,
anchestral Ideologist of the free market would have rejoiced in: West- and
Central Europe, EU Territory, is made to look economic belly button of the
world. The leaders’ vision: the world one economic area, the EU the
parading horse in full canter. The „invisible hand“, that – according to
Adam Smith – directs everything to its best ends as a law of nature, if only
egoism of all involved kepps spurring the horse on enough, has been hope
and wisdom on industrial racing corses. It is this leading, directing
„invisible hand“, Smith thought to be superior to usual craving for profit,
sorting all things to their best ends. In the personal egotism Smith saw the
Identity of all Identities, the motor of life in the “economic area”, this
heaven of believers of Smith’ ‘religion’.
The „invisible hand“ couldn’t prevent the bombs of Madrid. Or how?
Wouldn’t there necessarily have to be a hell with this heaven, so that the
flock of sheep falls not from faith on a consolidated, reformed and
flexibilised blessings of economic galopp? Shouldn’t there be a worldly
hell, so that dear and terror should reign? In order to bridge oppositions that
threaten to tear the flock of half and quarter believers apart? In order to repolarise and neutralise the ferment of Opposition against the economic
religion? Absorbed by the outrage in the face of the horrors of the absurd
death of innocent people, levelled to the anxiety for naked survival, coined
by resignation and inner emigration, and private troubles, diverted from the
Enigma of Central Europe?
MAN’S INDIVIDUALITY, THE BIRTH OF ART
This is where dialogue begins, the European spirit communicating with
itself. Individuality wants to be born. True art asks not about success, it
lives by itself, by the power of powerlessness.
Can one in an atmosphere of powerlessness ask the question of identity,
inner being, essence – of deeper contents of life? Is that elitary luxury? Can
one, when the house starts burning, talk about personal biographies with its
inhabitants? If the case for the fire has to do with the life of these people,
the neighbours, and the further area – then you will at the latest have to do
that as soon as the former inhabitants are planning to build a new abide on
the place of the old that is not to fall prey to the same conditions and
causes. (In breaking out of a fire you try to quench it and save the
belongings, no question about that. But even the fire brigade needs minimal
knowledge of the origin of a fire, the initial situation, the construction to be
protected etc.) – the question of an “identity” of Europe is not to be
separated of its momentary situation.
Is this situation a consequence of original states, senses and meanings, an
original “socio-culture”? Or does the current situation consist of waste
products of itself, of a voidness of any meaning, of a vacuum over buried
cultural horizons, of a loss of identity? – is the presence a chaos, a
scrapheap of historical reflexes, worn down demoralised tradition under the
uncanny dynamics of newtin gods, of the total market? No – the question
of the sense and contents of history of Europe cannot be circumvented. The
armoured car in Prague is a signal – a symptom, a gesture, strange
manifestation of identity. From the time of Charles IV, when in Prague the
first University in the Old German Empire was founded, an arch passes via
the Sovjet tanks of 1969 up to the armoured car of 2004. What does this
tank protect? What can this tank protect?
A first approach towards identity works on a psychological, or
philosophical level. This is where theory of science comes from,
(epistemology, basis of all sciences) – it is about the consciousness’
communication with itself, about insight and truth, objectivity, subjectivity,
about the relation of believing and knowing etc.
However, ‚identity’ can also be regarded as a social phenomena – here the
changing of originally hierarchical (aristocratic) systems by republican
state formations („Nations“), later by economic systems (industrial society,
capitalism, socialism, neoliberal macro economy, EU), the study of modern
society as a product and remnant of older collective formations of identity.
Furthermore identity is a cosmological question: in what way is the human
being, is society involved in cosmic processes – howfar is man – like the
planet earth – a cosmic product?
Identity is a complex thing. Moreover its descriptions very often
encompass an unspoken point of view – which with suggestive power tends
to push away other, more subtle formations of identity. In the first place
European Identity – in connection with the enlargement of the metanational social complex „European Union“ – is a claim, if not a purely
euphoric illusion, indicated by the fears and anxieties that come up with
many when confronted with the political construct of this Union. Inhowfar
is ‚European identity’ an illusion in everyday life, limited to the German
advertising catch phrase „Geiz ist geil!“ („Stinginess is hip!“), to the tango
between entertainment and a secure income, between exhilaration and hard
calculation? The ideal of a future economic elite, the European Player: is it
an economical caricature by Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, beyond good and evil,
an intelligent beast, a „Herrenmensch“ in metamorphosis, private ruler over
a faceless “end consumer” and creep for jobs: a luciferic oligarch, object of
the envy of the have-nots?
At the time of Charlemagne..
.. European ‚identity’ much less than today was an idle wish, way back
when there was nothing to be felt of the dole, pension reductions and
consumer’s delights. This social identity derived from a position within a
religious-hierarchical world picture – the community feeling derived from
knowing to be part of the christian world family. The monstrance on the
altar: god-containing sign for man’s linkage to the ‘Weltgrund’, to the
archaic cause and motor of the world, to God, the Father, the promised
redemption from the sinfulness of “freed” man though the sun spirit, the
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Christ and the Holy Spirit. Ex Deo Nascimur, In Cristo Morimur, Per
Spiritus Sanctus Reviviscimus. European Identity derived from defending
the faith from the attitudes of Islam, the faith in omnipotence in one Father
God, the destiny of Fate.
When Christian religion was lost and secularised, when „church“ more and
more began amalgamating with a striving for power – of historically
Roman tendency – thus distancing itself from its own roots, this essential
and original European Identity fell into oblivion, the time of the
emancipation, the liberation of the individual person from the hierarchical
world picture, from the „Gottesgnadentum“ (“being by grace of God”),
began: the revolution brought about the ideal image of the “Citizen”, as a
change from Nobility, it brought about the res publica (republic), the
separation of powers, etc.
As a counter reaction the strenghtening of entrepreneurship by the
developing industry brought about with it the class fight of the proletariat
and materialistic doctrine. „Religion is opium for the people“ was the
parole. In the east, where revolutionary terror won, nobility gave way to the
state as a new owner of industry and agriculture, collective (i.e. the “plan”
of the apparatus) gave way to the entrepreneurs and farmers, the East – a
reservation - boundaries marked by world economy – became smoking
manufactory smokestacks, became social field of experimentation and
Empire of the Economic Czars: the continental prison yard.
The West, which could avoid the great social field of experimentation by
clever „Divide et impera“, added share dividend to monstrance: the
egotism of the individual was not to be redeemed but satisfied. The aim of
the progress of man was redefined as a play ground for egoism (Adam
Smith): The more egoistic the single individual acts, the bigger the use for
the community. This was the hour of birth of holy privatisation, which
ground into dust left over traditional values like a mill stone. (current Nota
Bene: The policy of Ex KGB Pustin in this film script correlates exactly
and symmetrically to US government policy.). In Russia the sate chief
intervenes against the oligarchs of privatisation, in the West economy
infiltrates and inspires the top positions of the state.)
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Thus, “European Identity” – wishful thinking, that wants to delude over the
loss of true identity? An euphoria, that make forget the sinking - and
drowning - of meaningful contents in ideologies of growing privatisation of
the world? Powerless old Europe, a giant spin-off of its former American
appendix, shattered and politically torn in the intrigant poker of UShegemony? Where is resistance of the unbroken optimism regarding
the other Europe ?
The paradox motto says: My kingdom is not of this world. „Europe“ is
synonymous for the permanent search for inner balance, the HOMO
EUROPAEUS a fighter against the global manufacture of the total market,
the hybris of possession and power. A seeker for „Right / Law“ and
„Justice“, visionary of a just social form which defines the framing
conditions of economic processes and guarantees independence to cultural
life. As a visionary the Homo europaeus needs to look for himself as a
INDIVIDUALITY, to fight against versions of anti-individuality. As David
he needs to stand up against Goliath, who not only expresses himself in old
and new collective structures but – primarily – errects himself in his own
being. Thus he is throw back on himself, on his „Internalisations“, back
into the mine field of his Psychology, the Faustian Drama of self
education. It is out of the question that each world design, each world
picture is contained in the psyche in the mind of single people, whichever
other social dimension it might take on later. Therefore the scene of
David’s fight against the matrix (of) Goliath is the personal psyche and its
working on its conceptual and emotional shape. Inner “system” relates to
outer “reality”, without inner work no outer change4. In the external fate
psyche (the mind) encounters itself – its weakness, its will power, its letal
courage.
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thus change is not a question of time but of inner energy. the „action“ of
thoughts is already a deed which is not directed to external success or failure.
Physiologically spoken thinking is a process of devitalisation, a partial death of
the organic make-up. Physical death is the “sum” of this anticyclic biographical
process.
Inner work, what does that mean?
From Kant to Schopenhauer to most modern system theory academic
science departs from the fact that man is a „subjekt“, opposed by the world
as an „object“. this reflects the ideology of privatisation in economical
areas: the propriétaire i.e. the entrepreneur makes the world to become
propriety of his subjects. (The „juristic person“ or „personne morale“ as an
enlargement of the concept of “subject” shows a kind of demonic
extrapolation.) This Kantian world picture is so grown in that only few
people know that it is really a theory, an abstraction which in fact is a
gigantic paradigma. One of the more important Homo europaeus’ fighting
vehemently against the theory of the «old man from Königsberg» was
Goethe. He wanted to carry out science not only as a “subject” but also to
be “at one with the world”. He knew himself as part of the world, not as
autosuggestion but from experience. In this context “Inner work” doesn’t
mean haphazard interpretation, not the construction of models “right
through a scheme of insight”, but most of all absolute patience and selfevacuation, self transcendence, Goethe’s „produktive Resignation“5.
This is the historical point where eastern renunciation an western
rationality shake hands, where the sources of knowing and contemplating
(believing) melt into one. Goethe wasn’t alone with this revolution of the
concept of science, the notion of the individual as a supporter of allpermeating “Weltgeist” flooded all of european Classics of Central Europe
(sic): Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Novalis, Spinoza, et al.. these are
representatives of a wave who conceived the self education of the
individual as an „activity of Weltgeist“, an individualisation of universal
world energy – in Christian terminology: as speaking of the world word by
the human individual.
That such an attitude towards life also introduced a basic change in
sociology was not primarily self-understanding: too enormous was the
fright aced with the fact that it was no more a transcendental unfathomable
God patronizing the individual, that the vertically hierarchical state had to
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Thinker and painter Karl Ballmer calls this paradox process: „ego-strong
selflessness“ Cf. „Deutsche Physik- von einem Schweizer (German Physics by a
Swiss“, Edition LGC, 1996.
give way for a new society with decentral principles, of which „Liberté,
Egalité, Fraternité“ was just a premonition.
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The catastrophies of the 20th century reflect the fright, the manic
experimentation with the new, ‘horizonal society, the horror of leadership
principles traditionally legitimated with transcendence being replaced by
the paradigm of the self-administring human being. It was in Europe that
all the ideologies were hatched that first set rationality and instinct of
POWER PEOPLE above the manipulable mass – the madness of the
Herrenmensch6. The loss of religious or ethical identity by the homo
oeconomicus, the predecessor of the cloned mass creature, was the
necessary consequence of scientific materialism which conceived
consciousness as a function of „matter“ or „energy“. We live in this era of
the Primate of Theories on mind. That this era of the spirit-less power
people will not be over for a long time we can tell by the fact that –
globally speaking – we still live in the classical system of vertical power
distribution – under the following formula:
War against the evil
„Divide et impera!“ – you will find the whole wisdom of the chief bandit
Romulus, the founder of ancient Rome, in this formula. In the selfexultation of the “goodie” you will find hidden the essence of the bad. The
“bad“ is transferred into others, as ‘something strange’, ‘something
threatening’, even drives this projection home propagandistically, in
analogy of the hatred for Jews in Nazism. This is nothing less but the
perversion of Christian love, the commiseration, the brotherhood of Man –
the declaration of one people or one group of people being the chosen one.
6 Novalis, „Die Christenheit oder Europa (Christendom or Europe)“: „...Höchst
merkwürdig ist diese Geschichte des modernen Unglaubens und der Schlüssel zu
allen ungeheuren Phänomenen der neuern Zeit. ..(..Most strange, this history of
modern faithlessness and the key to all phenomena of monstrosity of recent
times..“ (rororo Klassiker No.130, Reinbeck/Hamburg 1963, p.45)
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The appraisal of the system appeals to archetypical instincts and naturally
chokes any thinking on basic and radical questions of society – under the
impact of bloody images flock mentality and the willingness of selfmonitoring will always grow without further doing.
It would be naïve not to ask the question of the shape of Europe in the year
2014 under the aspect of world instrumentalisation. The deficiency in
democracy in the EU structures (as compared to the relative transparency
of the single states) allows legislation newly passed by the EU-commission
to go into a phase of repressive armourment: Europol and Eurojust are
constantly gaining more competence , data exchange with the CIA and
NSA is being improved, the European warrant of arrest is to be decided on,
control points at the external borders of the Schengen-area are being
fortified, an EU Ministry of the Interior is being claimed, budgets for
security and secret services are being increased, biometric passports are
becoming the norm in 2005 already. Britains Minister of the Interior
Blunkett claims that solely security sevices are to determine the judges,
barristers and lawyers of new “special law courts” for any “accused
persons”. The authoritarian state gains shape in the context of horror
images, the propaganda of fear works almost automatically, civil structures
are infinitely fragile and vulnerable and not to be secured in real life. The
Culture of Fear is the magic wand of the armourment of the repressive
apparatus. Hegel’ian dialectics of thesis and antithesis functions like a fuelsaving combustion engine. 7
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Cf. on the syntax of violence and counter-violence the unemotional survey on 11
Sept.2001 by John McMurtry, Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Guelph, Ontario:
…. What goes against the grain of conditioning is experienced as not credible, or
as a hostile act. (….)
…In short, the more the dots of the officially unmentioned facts are tracked in
their interlocking frame across time and place, the more the lines of their
connection reveal a deep structure of values, choice and consequence which
crosses national borders as the universalising logic of a civilisation’s moral
corruption. “America is at war” has a meaning which has not yet been understood.
As long as it is not comprehended, it will continue to command its allies to loot
and destroy the planet, now all under cover as “the free world’s war against
terrorism”. (….) In this way, the English-speaking world acquiesces step by step
And yet: the motives of egotism and of political/economic control ore
merely counter images of deeper driving forces within European history.
As long as original Christian identity contrasts these “black areas” in
man’s mind with its healing, the formation of a horizontally structured new
social organism will merely be a question of time. The fundamental
structure of a future civilisation lies in the development of the concrete
individual, who grows above and beyond the culture of fear without getting
stuck in the fangs of the “apparatus” - secure existence, the reflex of
vengeance, self-indulgent and insatiable egocentrism. (It must be
mentioned here that wishy-washy esoterics belong to the general egomania
as well as all variants of fear and addiction culture. A trademark for the
counter force of cultural evolution is usually the destruction of
individuality – by acts of external terror or internalised addictive
behaviour. The counter image of individual “spiritual ability” is not just
lack of spirit but cold-hearted domination of spirit under lower motives like
the striving for possessions, for power, for satisfying addictions – the
arsenal of neoliberal “liberation”. The reversal of sense in language8 is
symptomatic for such “liberated” structures hypertrophying in
protectionism, isolationism – sociologically: in totalitary systems of a
central power, mirrored in the (non-adult) irresponsible reflex-behaviour of
the conditioned psyche.
Into the vacuum of the (often unconscious) fear a therapy for this
suggestively magic disease will place the concentration on „spiritual ability
(Geistfähigkeit)“, on the yet unimagined “universal“ dimension of the soul.
This therapy is not a passive cure but an energetic inner activity, increase
of consciousness by Dissolution of normal subjective contents of identity.
Paradoxically spoken: by deliberately surrendering our reflexively fearcontrolled subjectivity, with the help of radical self perception (of the
Psyche / of the mind) and scrutinising the addictions of emotionality and of
body functions a new space will open up: Terra incognita of the „Spirit“.
in a pattern of fanatic absolutism not witnessed since the fascist interregnum. (see
www.globalresearch.org / Decoding …)
8
On the analysis of political semantics cf. the works of Prof. Noam Chomsky
(MIT) – www.chomsky.info - Cf. E.R.Carmin, Das schwarze Reich, Politik im
20.Jahrhundert(The Black EmpirePolitics in the 20th Century), Heyne Verlag
München / Verlag Ralph Tegtmeier, 1994.
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Death of the classic „personality identity“ is followed by the resurrection of
the human spiritual nature.
Or in older, theological semantics: In Cristo morimur, per Spiritus Sanctus
reviviscimus. In the sociological mirror image a fascinating process begins,
parallel to the agony of the repressive vertical structure: the monolithic
block, the diseased mega-State implodes through internal and external
aggression, from the periphery of the healthy individual power, from the
„Culture initiatives“ a new architecture of living together develops,
according to Schiller’s words from his play ‚Wilhelm Tell’: Das Alte stürzt
/ es ändert sich die Zeit / und neues Leben / blüht aus den Ruinen. The old
tumbles / times change / and new life / flowers from the ruins. Or
according to Novalis’ motto: Wahrhafte Anarchie ist das Zeugungselement
echter Kultur – unter Schmerzen wird die neue Zeit geboren. true anarchy
is the procreative element of real culture – the new time is born in pain.
The „new time“ emerges in the sculptor’s, the artist’s „studio“: Psyche (the
mind). Working the raw stone happens in stages, not lineary, in leaps,
according to the law:
Polarity and Progression
The French revolution was one leap, the cry for liberation from millenia of
spiritual and sociological childhood under God and nobility. Liberty! as a
motto was suffocated in the mania of abstract equity, brotherhood died in
the Restoration, in the militarism of the fugitive napoleonian Empire –
upcoming industry created the proletariat, class struggle. The upcomimg
economic bourgeousie tried to channel socialist revolution – with writtenoff ideals out of religious or national tradition of “values”, with the ghost of
“economic crises”. The mind (Psyche) of citizens and proletarians found its
fragile happiness materialist fortune, standard of living and well being, in
the interplay of „market“ and its twin the „social state“. The fight against
enemy images of external threat of all colours keeps together the fragile
stone block – until the internal and external carcinoms, the hollowness of
propaganda and personality structures, the aggression of hegemonial lusts,
the internal contradictions of ideals of happiness will cleave and weaken
the stone. Life in the chinks, in the thin lines between the waste products is
endlessly tough. From the polarities of despairing faithfulness to ego-force,
spiritual individuality (Ich-Kraft, geistvolle Individualität) and worldly
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happiness emerges the existencial progression: the leap to KNOW YOUR
SELF – as part of the world whole, as part of the cosmos and mankind – as
part, that simultaneously bears the whole in itself.9 The whole, being „not
of this world“ because it recognizes / acknowledges „this world” as one
stage – as life that steers towards death as a metamorphosis and as a sense
in itself: as ultimate identity. 10
Part III
The threefold resurrection
The differenciated living space
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Modern system theory pretends to have overcome the classic image of the whole
and its parts by the concept of the dichotomy system/environment – in connection
the Kantian world picture. However, de facto it still remains within the definition
of “science” as subjective illusion. Academic termini like „Autopoiesis“ (a
concept by Aristotele) and „Selbstreferenz“ (self reference) belong to the
nominalistic semantic of a technology-oriented „ design of theories“. The
programme of system theory is the radical elimination of the assumption of a
„Weltsein“ (mundial being), „to connect being and thinking“- thus the postulate
for consequent dualism. Theory regards the world as an imagined content on one
hand and as a principally non-cognizable „reality“ on the other, according to the
Kantian „things as such“.
This is a modern transcription of the classic ecclesiastic world picture, which
postulates an unrecognizable, transcendent godly being as a basis of the world
which is only accessible to faith. The same structure of thinking is represented by
Lenin, who relocated the „quality“ of the godly being into non-cognizable
„matter“, which is unaccessible to human consciousness (cf. his work
„Empiriokritizismus“). Modern science theories are normally waste products of
materialist or ecclesiastic dualism. (Cf.. Niklas Luhmann, Soziale Systeme (Social
Systems), Suhrkamp Taschenbuch No. 666) The solution of the dilemma of
precarious attempts of definition of „science“ lies in the survey of the KantSchopenhauerian doctrine of the Subjectivity of recognition.
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In the mythology of the fairy tale: the princess (spell-bound Psyche) is saved by
the prince (Pneuma). In Eschenbach’s Parzival-Epos this is the moment of „asking
the right question“, the moment of Parzival’s com-passion for Anfortas, the
wounded grail king. The grail, a real symbol of the ancient force of evolution,
takes the spell from spell-bound Psyche - from instinctive emotion and abstract
intelligence. In theological idioms: the holy ghost inspires nature-bound creature.
The cosmos „turns out to be“ a space of consciousness, a „habitat“ of nonincarnated human souls. – This opens the view for a cosmic sociology.
In this ultimate identity the part recognizes itself as a differenciated
trichotomy: It recognizes itself as psyche (mind) which awakens with the
worldly process of the senses of the „body“ into consciousness, which
grows with the liberated thinking process into the dimension of spirit
(Pneuma). The „part“ recognizes itself as brother and sister of equal
„parts“, of fellow humans meeting it in the form of fate or “me-from-theoutside”. „Brotherhood“ in this context does nor mean a moral postulate of
a quasi legal world ethics but real experience. „Dictatorship of privacy“,
the contradiction of freedom and equity finds re-surrection on a higher
level, the common sources of the religions will become obvious. The
psyche recognizes itself within the three part configuration of man (body,
soul, and spirit). This configuration is reflected within the body
(physiologically) as system of nerves and senses, circulation system
(perspiration, blood circulation), metabolism (warmth, movement). From
the vantage point of the soul this decentral organisation is experienced as
polarity of thinking – feeling – doing(actioning), as well as in the scale of
consciousness of waking – dreaming – sleeping.
Like the psyche is embedded in the single organism, made possible and
carried on through it, the single organism lives in the three realms of nature
(mineral, plant, animal)on one hand, on the other within the three distinctly
different areas of function: culture, law and the material satisfaction of
needs. Thus we will get the following correspondences:
physiological level – single organism
metabolism / limbs
rhythmical system
sensory-nerve - system
legal life
production/consumption
social level
Culture
psychological level (soul)
Doing/actioning
feeling
thinking
In the strict analysis of the middel level, the social physiology, lies the key
to a new “global” world structure that is diametrically opposite to the
centrally hierarchical world picture. (The pyramid as a symbol of outdated
hierarchical social culture is replaced by the image of system specific socio
organics.) The formation of society is not to be left to anachronistic
reflexes, to the chaotic interplay of affects and market mechanisms, to
Orwellian planned manipulations, but needs to be taken over by the
conscious will of responsible people to shape (society) – everything is a
question of long historical processes. The function principles within the
three areas of society are fundamentally different:
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Within the area of culture the ultimate maxim is freedom, the
individual „charisma“, the judgement and the creativity of the
individual is the fundament of all activity. In this domain of social
life everything lives from the free development of the single
personality, which fertilizes general life by being „culturally able“.
Science and art, pedagogics and jurisdiction live from the impulses
of ethos, of genius, of creative force and of the joy of creation of the
individual. Freedom is the ultimate rule, the conscious individual
being the „scene“, the centre is in the work of the conscious with
itself.
Within the sphere of legal life the general human encounter is
significant, the relationship from human to human, the feeling of
equity, of mutual respect: This is where democracy lives the
fundamental principles of the legal state. The elementary Human
Rights and how to secure them are prominent task for legal life,
which „animates“ abstract jurisdiction, rendering life and sensing.
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Equality is most prominent rule, the monitoring and implementation
of the constitution is the main task Like the light signals regulate
the traffic, the the legal sphere sets the framework for activities in
the cultural and economic sctors in social life. The basic laws for
developing of personality, housing, education, settlement, free
speech etc. are guaranteed by the constitution. Other than that thjs
legal state does not mingle with matters in other spheres.
„Deregulation“ is a most prominent rule when the framework for
the cultural and economic sector are unambiguously defined. The
state has no economic function, merely a security function. A
central task is the protection and the observation of a “productive
regulation of possessions” including the fixing of a basic income.
Within the economic sphere everything is based on common
judgement – the conditions of production, the consumers’ needs, the
possibilities of circulating and distributing goods can only be stated
and carried out in comprehensive exchange of all people involved.
In this sector everything lives from mutual perceptions which are
realised manifold in associative negotiations : In geographic and
factual connections of production, consumption, trade (circulation)
of all scales and sizes decisions are made, the basic law of these
processes are the extensive and multi-shaped Association of all
involved. All decisions are fixed in contract form, which is based
on the frame work conditions from the legal sphere. The basic
instrument is the contract. The administration of the (globally
conceived) economic area happens through ‚peripheral networking’,
avoiding competing blocks of power. Most prominent rule of action
is the exchange, the ‘common judgement’, the question of the
‚contribution of the others’, the achievement within the
“collective”, the perception by connections of all kinds:
associations, working locally to globally. The physiological
correspondence in the single organism is the sensory-nerve-system,
which, like coming from the outside, integrates the environment
into the organics of the body – best to be seen with the example of
the eyes.
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This, in fragmentary form is the basis of a social organism of the future, the
inhabitants of which take their fate into their own hands from participation,
life and shaping (society) within three social „identities“.
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The democratic ideal in the dialectics of human culture is primarily an
antithesis to the (formerly sacred) theocracy, to the fundamentalistic unity
state, to the historical and economical feudal state – democracy is a gesture
on the way to synthesis, the intelligent „social sculpture“ of the future.
Organising human living is a tightrope walk between agitation and
introspection, between economical Zeitgeist, moral appeals and ivory tower
wishful thinking. „The way is the goal“ being the motto – the needle of the
compass of social differenciation points the direction – in smallest and
extended connections, beyond ideological totalitarism. The most important
point here: Overcoming powerlessness of the inner psychological and
spiritual passivity, which does not hold up to „psychological hypertrophy“
through modern consumer techniques. The sentence of sentences is
strongest here: „My kingdom is not of this world“ – translated into today’s
meaning: In the external diversion, in the flush of intoxication in
technology’s fanatism the true ego of man cannot be born. „Art“ as
language of spirit and mind, as an expression of inner concentration needs
to overcome the void of the consumer’s world. This energy, flowing from
individual power exults meaning and beauty into a paralysed external
world. Whether we call that „Culture“ or „Art“ or „Light“ or „Love“ or
whatever, it is not of significance – it is the only answer to collective
depression and brutalisation, the only hope: the way first leads inside,
seemingly into nothingness, right through all egotisms, against all dangers.
Otherwise we will never grasp what „culture“ is, able to really fertilise and
give impulse to social life – the power of economy will eat up all life and
chaos will reign in the fight “All against All”.11
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In his novel „Cancer ward“(„Krebsstation“) Alexander Solschenizyn unfolds an
image of a „moral socialism“ as a salvation from Capitalism and Lenin’s magic
formula „Sovjet plus elektricity equals Communism“. The procession from the
polarity of seeming oppositions (Capitalism and Socialism) is developed in a
Europe, because of its cultural tradition is destined to become the studio of
the new social paradigm: The administration of the sectors of life sketched
out above is carried out system specifically, according to the physiology of
the single organism – this is the basic theme of the composition and its
variations. Permanent progression from the polarly organised “three-fold”
administration is the concrete life of the individuals.
In the current “democratic” state, i.e. in the supra democratic EU project, a
priori subordinating the three system sectors under the power play of the
parties (and their meta-political financing), no healthy build-up of organs
can take place, because the interests of the parties programmatically rest on
an objectionably chaotic linkage of the three functional sectors.12
The EU constitutional project of Giscard d’Estaing, attributed with antiburocracy is being promoted, a kind of UNO in smaller european format
context of public „mood“, not yet taken over by turbo-privatisation. The poison of
the doctrine of profit maximisation, the collective opposition, the isolated subjects
had not yet been spent; the atmosphere is characterised by the yoke of dictatorship
of the Party, the incapable apparatschics. into the place of the moral socialism
global supermarket came, the image of a society of total commerce overtook
Lenin’s Eschatology of the classless industrial paradise.
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In the thirties Europe-pionieer Denis de Rougemont developed a similar concept
under the key words „Federalism“ or „Depreciation of all economic, political and
military borders“. He points out that modern world develops into this direction “of
its own accord“: „The system of administrative and political borders, fortified by
police and custom-barriers, correlated to the real needs in no place. Furthermore
this means that the system of federalism is far from being a utopia in the negative
sense. On the contrary, on all levels it represents the only system that is not only
most desirable but would also make sense. Yet you provoke the accusation of
Utopia, as soon as you talk of federalism. Where does this resistance – in the
Freudian sense – in the face of a sensible solution come from? I think you have to
subscribe it to the resigned scepticism of the „realists“, who cannot believe that
the most sensible solution is also fit to realise. On the whole currently – especially
regarding the current spiritual state of people – they are right. It remains to be
found out whether we shouldn’t try the impossible – which would make
everything else possible as well – and direct our efforts to change the attitude of
the masses so that sensible solutions will become practical solutions.” (Denis de
Rougemont, Journal aus Deutschland, Paul Zsolnay Verlag Wien 1998)
announces. Behind this juristical installation there is Wilson’s matrix of the
nation as “subject to international law”, the false logic of political practice
which is self induced and relies on affective reflexes, statistical voters’
behaviour, medial presence and economic inspiration. Because this way of
politics corresponds exactly with the passivity of the mass culture of the
inner soul the formation of an autonomous European cultural organisation
would currently be a phantastic postulate, a pure utopy. Only in resisting
any form of destruction of INDIVIDUALITY (as true identity of Europe) a
protoplasma can form for a ‘federalistic’ environment. As a mirror image
of cultural creative impulses this FREE and autonomical space would also
be of physical nature: landscape architecture, agriculture, architecture,
urban planning, production plants etc. – all of this is the object of longing
for shaping the world, for “everyday” art. Because true art can only come
to exist according to de-central principles, „organisation“ of cultural life
can only mean secondary orchestration of autonomous, free initiatives.
This is the specific characteristic of the cultural sector, which does nor
function according to the same principles as the economic sector: the latter
functions according to the basic principle of “common judgement” – thus
the economic orientation towards a “European” group interest would be an
a priory desolate project, moreover one that reminds us of the destructive
causes of Central Europe in World Wars I and II.
The legal sector as the third functional link of a threefold social organism
is not identical with the western Idea of the State, insofar this state concept
overlaps with the two system areas (culture and economy) as explained
above. The “regulating” overlap of today’s legal state into the economic
sphere is primarily caused by the maxim of stinginess, of private return on
investment, of money-making, of economic power. Adam Smith’s doctrine
of the subject, of the profit-oriented entrepreneur as the highest category,
should in socialism have been replaced by the abstract collective as an
owner, i.e. as a matter of fact by the incapable State Party: the so-called
dictate of the proletariat. The promotion of the possessionless class to the
new owners induced the fiasco of plan economy, the figure of the incapable
burocrat. The radical remedy against the world patent of the English Adam
Smith proved to be a failure because the egoistic nature of the human
psyche was supposed to be violently forced to ego-less-ness and state
slavery. Together with the destruction of the bourgeoisie culture the
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bolschevistic state burocracy eliminated any individual ‘artistic drive’, that
innermost source of human joie de vivre, joy of activity. The mystry of
economy, the question of MOTIVATING Psyche to working within
today’s modern world economy based on division of labor, of synenergetic
organisation, this question could not be solved by the hatred of the Red
Czars. What’s left is a skeletal industrial desert, the mirror image of
Psyche, devoid of Light, devoid of Love, total destruction of live and
space…
Now that the socialist state and its burocrats have been replaced by the joys
of money-making and power of ever-winning investors and by anonymous
share capital, now that holdings and highly paid executive Officers have
replaced the burocrats of socialist avantgarde, now the disease shows in the
laboratory of society: social insecurity is becoming a permanent state,
structures are degenerating, the abyss between poor and rich is opening up
wide, banking business is booming, the state is rotating in the rhythm of
daily policy, “consolidating, reformimg, and flexibilising”. The everyday
motto: competition, strengthening of enterprises. The realm of socialist
plan production has converted to capitalism, the egotistic Psyche has
replaced the collective state, the “invisible hand” in the shape of world
wide fluctuating capital steers the fates of people who feel strangers in their
own house, there own country.
The integration of the old Central Europe into the realm of the Euro will no
doubt accelerate this development, the takeover of the GDR by West
Germany presents a model for such state-mergers. When Marx claimed the
“expropriation of expropriators” the central idea of temporarily limited
ownership of means of production had not yet been born, as a historical
antithesis the have-not stepped into the footsteps of the selfish capitalist,
and with the have-not came an anger for everything that reeked of culture.
The have-not in the shape of the advanced burocrat (“apparatschik”) soon
emerged as a caricature of his capitalist predecessor, with all the signs of
spiritlessness, corrupt egotism, irresponsibility.13 Overcoming and handling
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Under Stalin’s red terror the repression of individual personality as a source of
social shaping reached its peak, the fanatical destruction of individuality under
military and economical force replaced religiously tuned russian tradition. In
the plebejian class enemy by the „invisible hand“ of world capitals merely
brought to the switchboard of power a new species of opponents-toindividuality. Moreover, the executioners of restoration solely orientated
the right of ownership in capital, enterprise and settlement along
instinctively egocentric reflexes and means. The loss of ethos and
responsibility is more and more evident, more and more nakedly, the
destruction of culture is paradoxically continued by the creation of new
collective hollow shafts that combine the materialism of the 19th and 20th
century with magical contents. The doctrine and praxis of egotism becomes
more and more subtle, internalised, inconceivable, “magical”. The whole
living space is reflecting this process.
The earth as a mirror image of Psyche keeps loosing more and more
significance for life and living together, which is shifted into ‘virtual’
sectors of information and entertainment. The evolution of inner psychical
development (Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition) is jumped and paralysed
by respective technical and hallucinogenic surrogates (moving image
media, rhythm and sounds, psycho pharmaceuticals) The birth of a new and
ethically intelligent connection of factual competence and production in
form of a more differenciated right of ownership needs to wait until
longing for a cosmic dimension approaches the lost Psyche of mankind.
The reigning ethos, its spiritual core, is indestructable and non-abductable.
The virtual and hallucinogeic side paths are touchstones of ever new
evolutions taking their departure from the concrete individual.
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Awoken from the sleep of passivity, Psyche discovers itself as a part of the
whole, as a centre of a periphery where the sensually perceivable cosmos is
an external glimpse, as part of the „Weltgeist”, the spirit of the Whole,
named to Moses from out of the “burning thorn”: I AM WHO I AM. The
human ego is aware of itself as being part of the world-EGO, the ancient
shape of which is represented in every human body, in this mistaken
expression of divine harmony of the spheres. The fact to be experienced –
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that only a small part be identical with a huge whole, that the microcosm be
identical with the macrocosm – is founded in a logic that builds on
Decartes’ idea that all things happening happen within “space and time”.
When this logic is overcome by preconditionless perception working
according to no scheme of concepts in particular, the contradictory enigma
will be solved automatically: The part is identical with the whole, Europe’s
philosophical idealism and its highest condensation/expression – music –
lead the way into the future. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra may be reborn in
Psyche as a new „ venture of the mighty“. The mighty of the future knows
his/her home to be a real U-Topia, a non-place, for it is not of this world.
The “new Adam” is born, the dark time of the earth spirit is over, the true
being of the earthly world is resurrected from its origin.
The „Holy One“ de-radiates the carzinoma14
From the ashes of the narcisstically static intellect plastic or „dynamic“
intelligence rises. The economical intelligence, until now exploited for
commercial objectives, changes into “productive energy” in the light of
knowing about its cosmic origin and its cosmic target. This synergism is
reflected in the social sculpture as an enormous appreciation of the role of
art, the role of all culture.
Like tone and music possess a secret directing-force (Richtkraft) in the
material world, the social “whole” will be fertilised and touched by this
procession of intelligence. The role of the intelligent “capitalist” will be
saved from the automatic process of gain, of simple “earning”, and elevated
to a neutral level, the genius of the entrepreneur, the leader proves to be a
social phenomenon – the passion of profit will transform into a passion of
factually “serving”. The genius is not social for sentimental or moral
reasons but because according to his / her essence there is a worldly,
cosmic intelligence.
This intelligence „sustainably“ strives for synergy of all kind, for a world
as a whole – it senses within the “parts” of economic processes the music
as a whole. The motto will then be: economy as a process of art,
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„Archipelago Gulag“ Solschenizyn calls Hitler an „apprentice“ compared to Stalin
!
Der Heilige zerstrahlt das Karzinom : cf. the nearly unknown work of another
‚ancient’ European, the early deceased lyricist Hermann Kükelhaus, „Ein Narr der
Held“, Verlag Urachhaus 1998.
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economical knowledge as a „Passion“ in the sense of „Inspiration“.
Through the smoke and dirt of all coming social cataclysms we see the
contours of a synergetical social sculpture. Again it is a „part“ within the
whole that is depicted by art, larger than the whole – because the whole
becomes possible by this part, like a musical orchestra only becomes a
whole through the „inner ear“ of the composer and conductor.
Naturally: This image of the future is only a subjective product of
imagination for a normal consciousness, for normality of today. Thus it is a
consolation that i.e. the idea of a petrol motor seemed as impossible 150
years ago.
Eastern Europe/Russia ? The east of the divided continent of Europe
shows that the restorative doctrine of privatisation evokes a new phase in
state interventions, in order to prevent the total ruin of society in a kind of
fire drill. What is symptomatic about this is that Putin recently reintroduced
the former national anthem of the Sovjet Union, a sign for regression to
ideological elements of state economy. The dialectic oscillation between
“left” and “right” therapies of possession and ownership is a symptom for
the infection of the social body with a proprietary concept that leads to the
wearing out of the state and finally needs the initially mentioned
inflationary means for its implementaton.15
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Until now Western democraties in the consciousness of the citizens used to live
from the faith in the protection of political basic rights. With a new fundamental
image of an enemy, the latent threat of terror, daylight of the media turns symbols
of the state, poloce and military, into central figures of alamed governments. The
basic elements of constitution evaporate behind the dclarations of fighting of the
bosses. This Orwellian development took on sharp contours in France with the
Sarkozy legal bill (February 2003) and the Perben 2 bill (11 February 2004). What
is planned is the introduction of “secret pre-investigations”, people concerned are
nor allowed to object to the procedure, because they are nor being informed in the
first place. Suspects can be held under custody for 96 hours without a jury
decision. Police is allowed to use means of the secret service, i.e. bug telephones,
infiltrate suspect persons or groups, use hidden microphones and cameras to
survey and finally to search private flats. The abandonment of the separation of
legislative and executive, backbone of the legal state concept, becomes a creeping
programme. – Discouraged by such examples of leading democracies, most
repressive regimes hurried to join the anto-terror-train. In Columbia, Indonesia,
Western Europe ? Multi national groups try with their own means to
render the expanding economic area of the union fit for the world,
sometimes under the suicidal postulate of automised striving for profit: The
fate of the Parmalat group teaches us to study new European dimensions.
(i.e. Grant Thornton or Deloitte&Touche, the auditing companies involved,
or large banks like Citygroup: Parmalat had even amounted as much as 11
Billion Euro of debts, which, through book keeping tricks, accounts hoaxes
and fictive profits had been kept secret for years.) The mentors of the
economic power Europe busily made propaganda. „Long live ethics in
economic life!“ – The basic melody of the last World Economic Forum in
Davos was vibrating with the message of an “ethical entrepreneurship”, a
catharsis of market-economy, capitalism, …. when suddenly the giant
finance scandal of the Parmalat group was being caught up with by the
fraud-bankruptcy of the US-American Enron (2001)
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So, on the back of the moral medal: fraud as a permanent provisorial status
quo ? boxed-in offshore companies, tax paradise, and enigmatic bank
account movements as a golf course of leadership of the world society?
Next to lip avowals for correction, for ‚corporate social responsibility’,
tragical wars for global resources and world hegemony. Again: with the
cult formula “War against Terrorism“ and ugly bloody ceremonies a postmodern religion is born, the altars of which are the living rooms and
monitors of the global media community. Fear and disgust, anger and
hatred are the necessary glue between centrifugal identities of egomania,
the conditioning of mankind will be a piece of art and will take a lot of
China, Birma, Usbekistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordania, Kongo
oppositionals are called sypathisants of terrorists“ bezeichnet. As the international
writers’ association P.E.N records it its report of November 2003, this
synchronistic chain reaction chokes any political dissens. (cf. report of I.Ramonez
in ‘Le Monde Diplomatique’ No.03 / March 2004)
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sources and intelligence.
Insofar the ‚coalition of the willing’
encompasses Europe as well you could encounter the attitude of political
leadership already half a century ago, when World War I. had just drawn
the maps anew: “It had always been important for leading circles to try
and guess the most quiet wishes of entente, to make it more comfortable for
them, they always expected salvation and help.
.... One used to go in complete political passivity, fatalistically believing
„development would move on by ist own“, from disappointment to
disappointment.
Thus our politicians and governers, well drilled and schooled by the
entente, so they would make useful civil servants of their will. It didn’t
occur to them that something else could be possible than just
watching,....“17
Ludwig Polzer, a visionary European from Austria characterised the
situation as early as 80 years ago with these words. Some years later when
the mania of brown greed had installed itself, Denis de Rougemont wrote
16
www.thewaronfreedom.com: (….) A recent (2002) classified out-brief drafted to
guide the Pentagon "calls for the creation of a so-called 'Proactive, Pre-emptive
Operations Group' (P2OG), to launch secret operations aimed at "stimulating
reactions" among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction -that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to
"quick-response" attacks by U.S. forces." - The P2OG initiative is nothing new. It
essentially extends an existing apparatus of covert operations. Amply documented,
the CIA has supported terrorist groups since the Cold War era. This "prodding of
terrorist cells" under covert intelligence operations often requires the infiltration
and training of the radical groups linked to Al Qaeda. - Covert support by the US
military and intelligence apparatus has been channelled to various Islamic terrorist
organisations through a complex network of intermediaries and intelligence
proxies. Moreover, numerous official statements, intelligence reports confirm
recent links (in the post Cold War era) between US military-intelligence units and
Al Qaeda operatives, as occurred in Bosnia (mid 1990s), Kosovo (1998-99) and
Macedonia (2001). (….)
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into his diary: „You could be tempted to answer to the totalitarian religion
by opposing another religion to it. I am thinking of a catholic cult, of its
grand ceremonies (…) They are the traditional answer to the same need,
which – in elementary form – without any dogmatism, without
transcendence or stone old rites – unites the masses and unites them around
a liberating leader. And yet: If you put ceremonies against ceremonies,
Hitler’s ceremonies have the advantage of speaking to the aggressive core
of the people, or rather: their brutality. The catholic church nowaday is the
only power claiming to be universal, thus above national right, and under
this precondition it has been the refuge for millions of hopes. And yet: Can
the meaning of universalism be transmitted by a church that calls itself
“catholic”, but really is Roman most of all, unless it even accords with
most regimes? Or do we have to put all our hopes into new Christendom
that wouldn’t be universal by its unifying organisation but because it knew
how to give people the accustomed and personal feeling of their original
belonging to Spirit that transcends each nation and group of people ? (....)
You will hold against me that would mean to asl for a miracle, but please
show me how something less than a miracle could help me. - And if you
still held against me: This is not a solution! I will answer that in that case
there is no solution.“ 18 These words characterise the precondition of the spiritual part of a society
in a similar situation than today’s. Cultural life does not suffer central
change. This is the one basic law. As opposed to a centralistic world
culture and world religion – out of individual achievements of the spirit –
the cultural experience wants to be lived without any notion of spatial
limitations. Art, as blossom of cultural life, evolves in the radical antitesis
of any form of central organisation.
The tragic of modern Europe consists of its inability, to differenciate
organisations. The function of a possible European legal state must
necessarily fail when economic interests on one hand and spiritual claims
of power on the other will not keep out of the constitution entirely.
Spiritual claims of power are those, as Denis de Rougemont cites in the
quotation above, that will nor permit the spiritual weakening of an
17
Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz, Politische Betrachtungen, Internationale Bücherei für
Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, Stuttgart.
18
Op. Cit. S.136
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individually impulsed cultural life (a “new Christendom”). The EU as a
monolithic block, characterised by the paradigm of global competitiveness
is an unpermissible mix of economical life and cultural life, without the
regulatory function of legal life. Economical life and cultural life – out of
their own ‘endogenous’ priniciples which are not to be mixed – have the
tendency to absolute world integration. Spiritual life as well as economic
life must not be closed off on the borders of West / Central European
groups of interest, the EU. The belief in a “competitive” Europe builds on
thoughtless activism that gets its motivation out of anachronistic sources.
An all European legal life on one hand needs to “release” the economical
life (or, purport the peripheral legal conditions for various contract
regulations), on the other hand it needs to pass the spiritual life over to its
own de-central administration and self-organisation.19
Any suggestive fallback to traditional concepts of the formation of national
states will not only be a „sin“ against the spiritual evolution of European
identity but will lead into a new phase of inner and outer catastrophe in the
long run, despite all illusions. The fundamental story of Europe is mankind
finding themselves, the dynamic search for the light, the abandonment of
atavistic-egotistic reflexes.
30 March 2004
19 In international organisations like Human Wrights Watch, Amnesty
International, Green Peace etc. there is a sense of will for ethically impulsed
„legal life“, which could be the basis for a world wide regulation of constituencies
an a real “world parliament”, which only sets frame conditions, merely ‘police
measures’, merely (prematurely published) publicist measures, to economical and
spiritual life.