Man vs. Many

Morning Thoughts #279

Man vs. Many. Perhaps the only battle that has ever really been, and certainly the defining conflict of postmodernity. The individual himself, only a late creation, is in danger of having his lands annexed again.

The differentiation, the individualization, the self-knowledge, you realize, right, that it consists of lands valuable enough to necessitate continual defense? You will lose them from weakness. You will lose the right to rule yourself.

Modernity makes the rarest exception seem the inevitable: self-rule, self-regulation, states that operate independently. For all of world history prior to 1945, such states comprised the extreme exception.

In a global and homogenizing world, so too will individuals, meaning a singular human being, be an extreme exception in the future. As such, recognizing this inevitable trend (unless technology and other current socio-political movements abate quite unexpectedly), the truly autonomous individual who continues to believe in democracy, preaching what has by now become a complete cult, the cult of democracy, is as if shooting themselves in the foot. They ask for those who no longer rule over themselves to have the dominant say in who rules over others.

Traditional absolute monarchy is not the answer either. As such, I call on the hardened visionaries, the creatives who lack neither courage nor strength. You who, in the previous century, may have aspired to write the next Great American Novel are, in this century only a quarter passed, tasked with something even greater: to write the next Great American Constitution.

All claimants, be forewarned, none need apply unless possessing an absolutely free spirit capable, and courageous enough, to follow truth no matter where it may lead, no matter how disagreeable its native lands may at first seem.

Be off, and let us begin.