Contents
section III-b: politics
'Be the master and maker of
yourself'
F.
Nietzsche
Ordering, democracy
and utopia
In section
III-a the practice of the personal was
discussed in the sense of meaning and
ritual. The idea was that wishing
respect for oneself, the other also
needs to be respected - nothing but a
fair deal. The religion of regularly
associating for the sake of a holy
person then, who, including a holy
scripture, really is worthy the full
respect, constitutes a school of
learning. In history the schools are
there in succession. From the
consecution of the schools one can
derive in what way they, each for
themselves, fell short and in what
respect the science of the person was
in need of an upgrade, of an
adaptation to time and circumstance.
To this upgrading there is never an
end, one unrelenting has to keep to
time; the dynamical nature reflected
in the culture, commands a constant
reorienting and readapting, which, as
we saw with the method, onlyprogressing non-repressively
truly entails the progress. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
in his Theological-political
Treatise said that God's
providence is to be understood as the
order of nature itself and
also
Vyāsa described it in the Bhāgavatam likewise,
calling nature the virāth rūpa
or the gigantic form of God. To the
need of the constant adaptation to
that personally understood God, the
dynamical element of the time of
living nature, as being the universal
object of worship, is recognized.
The idea of God as being a dynamical
natural reality at the disposition of
a personal choice, is also, in the
sense of an alternative paradigm,
mentioned by modern physicists like David Bohm (1917-1992)
in Wholeness and the Implicate
Order and Fritjof
Capra (1939), in e.g. his book The
Turning Point (1982). So
even though we may be erring with the
constancy of lightspeed, new physics offers a
helping hand, especially those
contributions that do not deny the
possibility of the existence of a
connecting element like the ether. And this is
politically of importance, because the
ideation of natural science happens to
form the basis for the rest of the
sciences, just like the story of
creation constitutes the basis for the
Bible and the Purāna (an Indian book
of holy stories). The idea of how the
world originated and functions is
indicative for the rest of the
cultural superstructure. Reasoning
from quantum-mechanics and pushing off
against a mechanical, fixed, singly
cartesian dimensionality outside the
dimension of the spacetime of the new
physics, Capra almost like the new-age
guru Osho most poetically arrives at
sayings like: 'There is motion but
there are, ultimately, no moving
objects; there is activity but there
are no actors; there are no dancers,
there is only the dance.' Also
new-age authors like Marilyn
Ferguson at length
dilate on the consequences of the
dynamical indeterminacy of the true
energetic self of the universe, in
which we, to her opinion, with that
premise being of selfrealization, are
all connected in what she (in 1982)
calls the 'aquarian conspiracy'.
Concerning the resistance against it
she states: 'It's not so much that
we're afraid of change or so in love
with the old ways, but it's that
place in between that we fear . . .
. It's like being between trapezes.
It's Linus when his blanket is in
the dryer. There's nothing to hold
on to.' The old shoes are
worn, but the new ones are not yet
comfortable, but it is another type of
consciousness, another way of seeing,
which we materially political,
technical and legal, or else
individually therapeutic, have to give
shape to following the principle, in
order to make the transition with the
order of time possible. Ferguson is
right in her option of connectedness
in this, of the basically operating
from the inside, with a 'trojan heart'
taking up the karma, as she put it in
an
interview in 1995; the same
old science time and again has to be
reformulated and adapted in faith with
the dynamical and personal nature, the
way we also, time and again, have a
new constellation of the same old
planets. Without that revaluing,
without that adaptation to place,
culture, person and time, one is fixed
and one fallen thereof has lost
one's way or is bewildered in
attachment, as Vyāsa puts it (S.B. 4.8: 54). It is,
varying to the classical themes of
wisdom, always an unfinished
structure. Historically we thus first
had the Vedic culture itself that, in
her rule defeated by the time, came to
a fall on the basis of the familial
attachments of the aristocracy, which,
having become a burden to mother
earth, had to wipe itself off the
planet at the battlefield of the great
war of the Mahābhārata. Greek
philosophy the same way, with the
philosopher Socrates being condemned
to drink the cup of poison, came to
a fall delivering the proof that
undermined the authority of the state
of the lesser wisdom of the
pretentious formalism of the ruling
class; with the morale drawn stated in
the Gītā (in 3: 39): 'one must not upset
the people
with ones wisdom'. Buddhism
came, with the foodpoisoning leading
to the death of the Buddha, to a fall
in the human tolerance for both
impurities and the negation of the
world as being an illusion; like an
Arjuna blowing the conchshell, one has
to hold one's ground. Judaism came to
a fall by it's impersonal,
institutional denial of the living
personal God, the nevertheless as
inevitable recognized Messiah or avatāra.
Christianity falls down from a poor
concept of time with an insufficiently
expressed Lord Jesus who in this could
not be more specific than stating that
it, with the then (45 v. Chr., 709
A.U.C) abolishing of the lunar
calendar since Julius Caesar, on earth
indeed had to happen as in heaven; for
the Lord, the Father happens to be
kāla, the Time. Islam, which
with the order of time for God and His
ether, with the times of prayer did
obey the sun - recognized as the will
of God, Allah - following, comes to a
fall by her fundamentalistic,
jihadistic lust for lording over, and
being of disrespect for, other forms
of belief; for he who always wants to
win will, by the golden rule, have to
loose it sooner or later as a
consequence. There irrevocably happen
to be different avatāras and
ditto devotional cultures that each
have their own historical purpose and
maintenance. Reformation, to the
self-willed of the compassion and the
integration of the social science,
must with the Christian fall-down in
theological opposition and
one-sidedness, next expand into a more
multicultural, rationalistic-empirical
enlightenment of expanding
consciousness, for the reformer S'rī Caitanya (1486-1543)
happened to conclude to an
'inscrutable oneness in diversity'.
The culture of Enlightenment next,
entirely predictable from natural
entropy*, comes to a
fall because of a lack of consistency
and philosophical unequivocalness,
with the French Revolution finding
fault with all the elitary and false
subjectivistic/empirical
individualism; for as we knew already:
the
philosopher must sing. Democracy
finally, in a social/revolutionary
sense defended with the French
Revolution, comes,
liberal/conservative finding itself in
opposition, to a fall in the degrading
of the dictatorships of communism,
militaristic fascism and
fundamentalism, for the cards of human
identity have been shuffled - as is
also Vedically confirmed. We
therewith, at the onset of the
twenty-first century, are awaiting
the definitive falldown of the, so
divinely lusty, but in particular
internationally most unjust,
capitalist dictate, with it's
sanctification of commercial strife,
with which then the limit will have
been reached of the possible forms of
corruption in the human
fields of action of the
nepotistic, viz. on friends and family
founded, democracy that constantly
runs into dictatorship, as was
discussed in section Ib. The Hindu
goddess of money, S'rī Lakshmī, in the
end is but a maid-servant of Lord
Vishnu, the Lord of goodness and
maintenance. The politics of friends,
the faulty combination of riches and
connectedness, and the democracy, do
not combine that well, so was shown
already by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
in his Leviathan. He only knew
three forms of state: the monarchy,
the democracy and the aristocracy,
viz. the people represented by one
man, by an assembly of all the ones
willing thereto and the representation
of a part of that gathering. Nepotism
makes democracy an aristocracy in
disguise, an aristocracy which Hobbes,
in case of dissension with the populace -
not so surprising with chosen 'nobles'
aiming at a more lucrative position in
industrial circles - , calls an
oligarchy, a culture of regents far
removed from the people and for the
countering of which one, in The
Netherlands e.g. notably, introduced
the monarchy. A monarchy which, with
many an illusory smoke curtain of
fake-democratic left-right changes,
proves itself to be a culture of
regents for which the populace has no
feeling but only dissent, is according
to Hobbes' logic then factually a
tiranny. In our case thus a capitalist
dictatorship: the confluence of a
faulty combination of capital and
philosophy on the one hand, with a
wrong notion of political power on the
other hand. It is only the complacency
of the consensus of the anxious,
capital-motivated majority,
repressing and violating minorities,
that thinks less of the volunteer in
service of God, calling him unemployed
by declaring him subservient to the
Mammon. And that being of an unjust
treatment neglects the rest of the
world; it makes one think one is a
democrat. False and ignorant
contentment with factual injustice
makes no stable state. And thus one
could say that the idea of the
majority of the voters, yet bears no
justice, and carries a false idea of
democracy. The republican democracy,
or else the monarchy, is only real in
case of justice, when everyone is done
justice and not just a 60% or 80%
majority. Thus we are faced with the
need of a general consensus about the
installation of election groups (see
also synopsis) in a
beforehand settled order not allowing
mutual repression with a
majority-vote: the majority must, on a
basis of consensus about this
self-knowledge, paradoxically manage
to protect itself against itself.
Rousseau (see also Charter of
Order) said about this in 'The
societal contract' II.3: 'In
order to really obtain the general
will, it is thus of importance that
there is no group split off in the
state and that each citizen only is
opinionated from his own stance.
Such was the case with the eminent
order of state of the great
Lycurgus. And if there would be any
groups split off, one must increase
their
number and see to it that they are
equally large as did Solon, Numa and
Servius. These measures of
precaution are the only right ones
to further that the general will (as
opposed to the specific will) for
sure shall clearly and constantly
surface and the people will not be
mislead.' The power is, divided
in a proportionate representation of,
classically tailored, fixed election
groups, thus to no one but to God (see
further 'A Small
Philosophy of Association').
It is the
'easygoing' fake-democracy of
nepotism which is wasting her
qualities, because
of a lack of a societal structure, a
structure of fixed election groups
representative for all the
vocational and professional groups
(that thus balance each other at the
level of the government). And that
way it in fact thus discourages
those qualities. Therefrom one sees
the political character declining.
It is thus paramount to educate
democracy anew,
or, as Alexis de
Tocqueville
(1805-1859) it right away in the
preface to his study on the democracy
in America stated: 'The
first duty, which is at this time
imposed upon those who direct our
affairs, is to educate the
democracy; to warm its faith, if
that be possible; to purify its
morals; to direct its energies; to
substitute a knowledge of business
for its inexperience, and an
acquaintance with its true
interests for its blind
propensities; to adapt its
government to time and
place, and to modify
it in compliance with the
occurrences and the actors of the
age. A new science of politics is
indispensable to a new world.
' In this context we stress the
notion of time and place, since in
this is found the essence of our
plea for the ether and the order of
time associated with it. This
re-education is, according Plato's 'The Republic' and his 'Seventh
Letter', the
responsibility of the philosopher
who then in fact is the boss, the
philosopher-king, or else the duty
of the king or ruler who then has to
be the philosopher. In the culture
of Vaishnavism around the works of
Vyāsa, one therefore speaks of the
spiritual master, or the ācārya,
who is the Mahārāja or the 'great
king', even though he stands more
for the liberation in devotional
service than for the enlightenment
of a sovereign power of
self-realization, which is more
reserved for the independent
esoteric guru. In the culture of
Christianity, which as yet was not
as conscious of the different types
of teachers as is explained section
III-a of the synopsis, this
would account for the difference
between the theologian preaching
liberation in being of service in
the religious community and the
psychologist/psychotherapist who
wants to educate the people in the
enlightenment of a philosophically
responsible way of self-realization
less of stressing outside
authorities. With the guidance
poised in between these two fires of
progress, it is clear that, without
the philosophically founded reform
or re-education of democracy,
without the constant upgrading of
what is supposed to be the
democratic order, and without the filognosy
thereto of the - by mediation of the
gnosis centering around the order of
time, thus mutually as being
dependent declaring of the
enlightenment of science and the
liberation in service of the person
of God, we inevitably will fall back
again into the darkness of
dictatorship and the moralism which
constitute the shadow-side of a
freedom ignorantly understood. The
competition between teachers of
initiation and teachers of
instruction along the dimensions of
the impersonal, local and person
minded, must, with the filognosy
and the respect therewith for the
enlightenment of the teachers
operating from within, come to a
stop. In terms of our filognosy each
must know
his place. It is like the japanese
confucianist philosopher Ogyu
Sorai
(1666-1628) said it in his Rules
of Study-6: 'A noble man therefore
is 'not prejudiced' in matters of
right and wrong, good and bad. Bad
is when something is not fed and
does not find its deserved place.
Good is to feed and let something
realize its full potential, and
see to it that it finds its place'.
This last section III-b is directed
at shaping this desired
revaluation of democracy
to the grace of our filognosy.
In
postmodern time, now, with the
synergy exhausted, being depressed
under the regime of artificiality
and fragmentation, we know faith as
such only as, the way the
philosopher Jean-Franēois
Lyotard
(1924-1998) put it, a negative,
cynical realization of lost
modernistic ideals, in which society
fell apart, like it was meat in the
showcase of the butcher, and the
hope for an all-embracing solution has been given up.
One could describe the postmodern
situation as the lamentation of the
grand but, about the human,
religious and moral freedom,
somewhat too negativistic, power
minded, philosopher F.
Nietzsche
(1844-1900): it concerns an
intellectual depression which,
literally in his case, with a brain
feverish of venereal disease seeing
a whipped horse in the street, in
tears falls around it's neck. On the
basis of the philosophers, who as
mere thinkers are not acceptable
anymore today, and with the social
activists among them, like Vladimir
Lenin
(1870-1924) and the early, equally
anti-religious Karl Marx
(1818-1883), postmodern man knows
but one belief and one
mantra: 'that's nonsense!'. In a
depression being disappointed about
the enduring abuse by the human
being,
Religion is
nothing but hypocritical nonsense.
But was it not
the ancient philosopher Epicurus who
(341-270 b. Chr.) in his 'Letter
to Menoeceus' already said
that 'Not the man who denies the
gods that are worshiped by the
masses, but the one who ascribes
to the gods what the mass believes
about them, is godless'? Marx
is not entirely without a form of
belief or a God. He also builds on a
connecting element: 'There is, in
every social formation, a branch
of production which determines the
position and importance of all
others; and the relations
obtaining in this branch
accordingly determine the
relations of all other branches,
as well. It is as though light of
a particular hue were cast upon
everything, tinging all other
colors and modifying their special
features; or as if a special ether
determined the specific gravity of
everything found in it.'
This he writes in his 'Introduction
to a contribution to a critique
of political economy'. But with
probably deeming himself, and the
adherents of his
historic-materialistic theory, the
impersonation of that ether, is,
with the atheistic cry of nonsense,
which classically after Epicurus
factually was pronounced over the
(dis-)believer and not so much over
God and His gods, nevertheless at
the onset of the twenty-first
century shamelessly worldwide the
materialistic doctrine put in
practice of the, now also
socialistically excercised, sex and
money belief, with the worship of
the idols called Mammon and Viagra.
In that disbelief then furthermore
everyone is written off who dares to
voice a not-to-realize ideal,
contrary to the misanthropic, but
factually perverse,
relativistic/cynical paradigm.
The
postmodern philosopher Jacques
Derrida
(1930-2004) spoke of deconstruction
when it is about the appreciation of
interpretation sensitive human forms
of existence, or 'texts', as he
calls it: each may see in them
whatever he likes, and so it would
be impossible to arrive at a
complete and coherent concept and
ditto society. He is correct in
saying that books alone do not
suffice and that, mutually
exercising respect, texts never
deliver one an all-embracing or
coherent image of reality. And it is
also certain that, in a depression,
without having a clear picture in
one's mind, there indeed may be
spoken of a literal deconstruction
of the image of time of the
observer. Man depressed is disturbed
to the triple nature of time: the
past is black, the future is
invisible and the present is
unpleasant. As a cultural institute
he breeds a no-future generation of
people suffering under what
psychologists like Martin
Seligman call
'learned helplessness', a mental
affliction of the self-doubting
kind, in which no solace is found of
an absolute reference we could
address with the name of God, and by
which we could pull ourselves out of
our pool of misery. We saw that also
relativism, as a
faulty combination of scientific
power and philosopical knowledge,
traditionally decried by the Pope
and exposed as a compensation, came
to a fall with the refutation of
Einstein building on a non-existent
limit of light speed, the man who
appeared to be the God and Prophet
of it, but who, according to the
different empirical results of
scientific experiments about the
speed of light at the onset of this
century, turned out not to be
irrefutable in it.
Even though
it is indeed difficult to prove
materially, because of
paradigmatically being bound, it
must be said that the ether simply
exists, once we know why we in that
context have to speak of the
forcefield of the Milky Way existing
as a fixed frame of reference. Time
did not turn out to be absolute in
the velocity of changing with the
light, but time was absolute in the
quality of the changing itself. As Herakleitos (535-447
B.C.) said: everything is in flux, panta
rhei. The relativistic
depression, which after Nietzsche
was rampant in the political era to
the inability to supersede Marx'
atheistic, social idealism, is thus
unmasked as a form of attachment in
defiance of that change, contrary to
the absolute authority of our
dynamical Father of Time and His
sacred ether, the factual godhead of
the classics who by Nietzsche was
declared to be as dead as the mean,
mechanical time of the, from this
view seen, hopelessly outdated
clock. Even a schoolboy these days is capable
of lecturing the physicists of the
fallen and, all too linear
conceived, standard time paradigm.
So succeeded the talented young man
Peter
Lynds (born
1975) in 2003 by, (even before
Consoli's interpretation of
Düsseldorf already), stating that
there are no separate moments of
time therein,
and that only a continuous
change exists which one could
consider absolute. Furthermore the
cynicism, the canine variety of the
biting sarcasm, never turned out
to be a successful rule of state,
apart from the isolationism and the
paranoia of autarkies like Hitler's Germany
and the Cambodja of Pol Pot, but
rather constitutes a mental
aberration of possibly
sociopathically abreacting, like a
cactus as thorny, depressed people
mainly of interest for practicing
psychologists and psychiatrists. Being
intellectually perverted in the
negativism of a mutually confirmed
cultural pessimism, one, like a cult
leader e.g., loves to
keep up, and also be dutiful with,
the appearance of authority,
progress and civilization. But one
went, disturbed being postmodern, in
fact personally, intellectually and
socially bankrupt, uncertain about
one's identity therewith
philosophically being lost, like we
noted with the
declaration of order already.
That is the conclusion we from now
have to work with in this last part
of the filognosy
of our comprehension. It is, nearing
the end of our argument, perfectly
clear by now that, without a sober
methodical approach, a proper
knowledge of facts, an effective and
art loving analysis, a fine
disciplined sense for spiritual
unification according to the
principle, and a well organized
respect for the classical, meekly
and brotherly coexisting, and each
other succeeding, spiritual schools
of learning, there can be no mention
of a meaningful political approach
of respect for, and from, the
civilized person in all his
historical, social and scientific
glory. It is evident that, with but
a color sensitive ego desire, with
but an economic/judicial argument,
with but a conservative attitude of
private considerations of decency
and virtue, and with but a single
socialist ideal of sharing honestly,
in a humanistic understanding for
the weaknesses, we will not be able
to cope politically. None of the
dictatorships derived from a
narrowed politicized consciousness
will last, because of the inequity
they represent with their one-sided
dictates. The Tocqueville says
thereto: 'The consequence of this
has been that the democratic
revolution has been effected only
in the material parts of society,
without that concomitant change in
laws, ideas, customs, and manners
which was necessary to render such
a revolution beneficial.' If
democracy really wants to be a
blessing, we will have
to acknowledge that, for the sake of
her quality, a certain change of
mind, a change in the consciousness
of the people, is required. And so
we thus arrived at the filognosy
which, understood from the causality
of the person or the factual
substance of our investigation, more
or less as a precondition demands
the scientific sobriety and
principled spirituality, or else
presents these as the indispensable
elements needed to enjoy the fruit
of a beneficial political
disposition of emancipated people
taking responsibility.
With religion
as the study we never graduate from,
and politics as the right-minded
practice to it which time and again
has to recapitulate and adapt, confer
and revise, we have arrived
at the necessity of a reliable,
thorough vision for the future.
Without a clearly outlined ideal,
without a purpose in mind, as said,
postmodern mankind is not capable of
emerging, from it's narcomaniac,
anxiety-neurotic, obsessive depression
and cynicism, as being cured and thus
being capable of finding a
rational/democratic equilibrium
between the charitable enlightened
humanistic, and the materially
motivated, traditional
moralistic/pragmatic argument.
What should we do when we, whether
depressed with Nietzsche or not, have
to accept our responsibility, not
being able any longer to play hide and
seek behind the back of the
traditional authorities of in fact the
parson and the reverend? Who can tell
us, grown-ups of intellectual
independence, what we would have
learned and would have to engage in
next? Would that be science, so
divided in itself? That is, despite of
the behavioral side of science and
theology, not personal enough. With
the answer found in the commentaries
of oppositional, dialectical and
democratic politics, and therewith
theologically following in the
footsteps of Desiderius
Erasmus (1466 or
1469-1536) who stated that: 'It is
wrong like children to hold on to
the letter and not mature to the
freedom of the spirit',
we see the greek word of polis
emerging as the etymological root of
the concept of politics, meaning a
city or community determined by a
certain exercise of authority or form
of administration. It is evident that
we, from the scientific via the
spiritual and the religiosity of
personal confessions and conversions,
having arrived at the political
perspective, the 'talent to rule' the
polis, we inevitably have to
ponder over the authority and the
powers that be in holding together our
society(-ies) on this planet.
Man
wrestling with the moral authority
and the exercise of power is, with
the duty assume of adulthood, rather
eager to God's position. But
we are in trouble assuming that
power, with problems one inevitably
has to face in politics. In the
cinema there was of the director Tom
Shadyac, 2003, a nice story about it
called 'Bruce Almighty'. It
describes how a frustrated reporter,
who sees everything working against
him in life, thereupon challenges
God to prove that not He Himself is
the lazy, unemployed ass not doing
his duty. God then proves Himself by
handing His powers over to him, but
not without the message that he has
to abide by two rules: he cannot say
he is God, and he must respect the
free will of the people. And thus
being engaged, our hero,
hilariously drawn by Jim Carrey,
ends up finally turning in his
absolute power, realizing that the
love for the goodness of reality as
it is, is ruling the world, and not
so much the special abilities with
which one cannot subdue the free,
human will anyway. The combination
of the concepts of freedom and
authority constitutes a
philosophical problem. In his book
Leviathan the
philosopher Thomas
Hobbes
(1588-1679), in 1651, clarifies
that to accept a certain form of
authority, whether of God or not, is
something inevitable if we do not
want to end up in a chaos of
'everyone against everyone'. So
stated, next to that, on a later
date the australian archeologist V. G.
Childe,
(1892-1957), in following after the
about the - in the personal and
collective history alternating -
thought systems dialectically reasoning
philosopher G. W. F.
Hegel
(1770-1831), that each rule of
state, implies a dominance of
hierarchy, a pecking order, a
stratification in societal classes,
which he observed as emerging from
the free, gathering and hunting man
of nature who managed to organize
himself in a 'revolutionary' way
from being agricultural into having
cities and thus arriving at a
division of labor. As seen from his
marxist vision, therein an
evolution of the forms of state took
place, in a 'struggle about the
means', means like stone, bronze and
iron, with the thereto belonging
eras, which still generally accepted
carry those names. From T. Kuhn
(1922-1996) we now know that that
'struggle' must be considered
paradigmatical, and not directly
social. It is more the stir in the
upper regions than in the lower ones
what is going on, even though
matters misapprehended, may
sometimes work maliciously out in a
downward direction. Plato, as early
as in the
Republic, already
from his side spoke, more refined as
Hobbes, of a hierarchy of rules of
state offering the perspective of an
aristocracy of nobles, which by a
timocracy directed at (military)
honor and a 'happy-few'-oligarchy of
higher officials, slides down in the
direction of a tardy bureaucratic
democracy, of politically
belligerent representatives, of a
doubtful heritage, which,, desperate
in a general call for authority,
eventually corrupts into a
dictatorship of 'I am God'. Also the
Vedic option offers the vision of
such a state of affairs with the
sliding down of the noble rule in
the chaotic chronic quarrel of kali-yuga,
even though they see it as something
cyclic in ages, covering many
thousands of eras. The sociologist Max Weber
(1864-1920) used a division in
three, in discussing the legal
authorities, and this division can
be recognized as a further insight
into this process of historically
sliding down, or eroding, into the
immoral chaotic and impersonal
uncertainty of authority. 
Departing
from the traditional authority
of the Church and the nobles, with
respect for the person of God,
according Weber the charismatic
authority of dictators evolved. like
that
of Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin and Mao
in defiance of the holiness, which,
once turned over, results in the
authority of the legal-rational
authority of an
institutionalized government, of
which the power of rule controls
itself, rather than the individual
person at it's service. And thus we,
with the historical sense for the
order of time, sociologically arrive
from personalism at formalism, the
reality of a culture of settled
state officials, which so nicely was
decried in e.g. the book and the
motion-picture 'A
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' of
Douglas Adams 1979/2005. Fallen in
ignorance about the impurely lived
(religious) remedies and being fixed
on the problematic only, we are
again ripe for the psychologist,
just to notice that we, this way,
still, with all kinds of
schizoidisms, are entangled in a
certain ego-determined form of being
split within. Fro the angle of
social psychology one may discern
five forms of exercising power in
this: the power of rewarding,
the power of punishing, the
power to delegate, the power
of merit and the power of expertise.
The postmodern dissension and
fallenness is then characterized by
the eroded state, which, by delegation
to local authorities, rewards
the ones adapted and punishes
the transgressors, while, it
being impersonal, in its
administration is faced with a
popular compensation of charismatic
celebrities of a doubtful breed, who
only then are really a
threat to the establishment of the
legal order, when they have acquired
a certain expertise in
relating to the popular vote upon
which, democratically, the state
itself thus also is building. With
all scientific analysis of the
problem we thus have not yet gotten
out of the postmodern depression of
the modern intellect. We may, being
of denial about the depression or
not, see the matter as inevitably
inherent to the spoilt nature of
the, by Niccolņ
Machiavelli
(1469-1527) already described, man
of a dubious moral fiber lusting for
power, without realizing that the
ideal of an utopian state was never
lost, despite the reprehensible
formulations of utopists like Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) ('promiscuity is your
duty' in Brave
New World) and B. F. Skinner
(1904-1990) ('no individual
parenting' in Walden Two),
who were not as effective in
reasoning out the matter as did the
original and canonized utopist Thomas More
(1478-1535) in his Utopia
('Neverland') of 1516. The ideal
of a god-conscious world without
tyranny, superfluous wealth, land
owners, however difficult to attain,
cannot really perish, because it
serves a basic psychological need
and thus, like we saw with
discussing the self-ideal in section
III-a, it constitutes a reality
integrally part of our existence,
which, also postmodern, surfaces in
S.F. t.v.-series like Startrek e.g. Man
without his dreams is as good as
dead. However unrealistic the utopia
of the God Mythra of More may seem
to be, still it constitutes, with
the Vedic god of time Kāla, and the
thereto belonging avatāras
of Vyāsa, the indispensable aim and
cultural root where all political
movements with their programs, more
or less consciously, depart from and
strive for. Each has, as taken from
the passion, or else from the
goodness, in politics an ideal of
order and authority in mind on the
one hand, and an ideal of freedom
and happiness on the other hand,
which is not strange to the person
but rather of justice to him. But
with the relativistic splitting up
of time and place in modern time, as
done by the standard time politics
of using pragmatic/economic
arguments, no justice done is
to the person in his control with
the ether and in his natural
functioning with brain halves,
'hemispheres', that, on the
contrary, are fully occupied with
linking space to time. The, with all
goodwill therewith conflicting,
indeed wishing to doing justice to
When, motivated for the good, one in
opposition therewith wants to do
justice to that natural order of the
person, that does not imply that one
immediately agrees about what that
order exactly would be and in which
way it should be respected, about
how those two elements of freedom
and bondage would have to be
combined in a coherent policy
acceptable to both (natural) science
and spiritualilty (the reality
according to its principles). Even
though Jesus said that for God the
Father things on earth had to happen
as they are in heaven, still is one
not immediately of acceptance for,
or familiar with, the verse of Vyāsa
in which the respect for
specifically the place and the time
is combined with the respect for the
person (S.B. 4.8:
54): 'Om namo bhagavate
vāsudevāya [my respects for
Vāsudeva, the Supreme Lord]; with
this mantra [called the dvādas'āksara-mantra]
the learned one should exercise
respect for the physical nature of
the Lord, the way it should be done,
with the diverse paraphernalia, and
as someone conversant with the
differences to place and time [des'a-kāla-vibhāgavit].'
As we saw
with the discussion about the
fields of action in section
I-B, there is, to begin with, no
immediate agreement about how the
political field should be described.
The left-right spectrum is described
by e.g. the Eysenk model, the
Nolan-distribution, the Political
Compass, de Pournelle-chart, the
Inglehart-values and the Frisian
Institute (see Wikipedia: Political
Spectrum); they are
rather structuralistic. All these
models have in common that they fail
in a certain philosophical lead of
unequivocality and clarity. That
clarity though does exist ever since
Aristotle, who in About the
cosmos stated: '... that
this is the most admirable of
political solidarity: namely that
she from the diversity brings
about a oneness and from
inequality an equality, capable of
withstanding each natural or
coincidental occurrence. .....In
matters great like these nature teaches us
that equality is the guardian of
solidarity and that solidarity is
the guardian of the cosmos, which
is the progenitor of each and all
and of beauty to the highest
degree.' As early as in A
Small Philosophy of Association we
concluded accordingly, that we
axiomatically - Vedically thus and
not just european with theoreticians
of democracy like Aristotle en
Alexis de Tocqeville - deriving from
the dictum 'unity in diversity',
were dealing with a quantitative ąnd
qualitative dimension, on the basis
of which we have the two dualities
of the quantitative - individual as
opposed to the social, and the
qualitative - concrete of matter as
opposed to the abstract of having
ideals, as if it concerned two
intertwined yin-yang-symbols (see
the fields-table). Also incorporating
the Chinese philosophy of the
balance in nature of Lao Tzu (6th
century B.C.) and the balance in the
reflection thereof in the culture of
rule of Confucius (551 - 479
v. Chr.), as also the japanese
Shinto philosopher Kanetomo
(1435-1511), who said that
equilibrium is divinity, with this
original clarity now,
filognostically correct of
reference, and thus being certain of
our matter, the confusion of the
thought models concerning the
political order and the exercise of
authority of the modern state must
come to a close. It may be clear
that, reasoning from the Vedic root,
with the false ego - the
identification of oneself with the
material self-interest - a political
struggle has ensued of
interestgroups that no longer are
fully in touch with their
status orientation, nor
integer with the fields of action,
the way it, more or less, with ease
can be recognized in the
rational/legal authority of state
departments. The political, the
official and the lawful powers
happen to be different options of
rule - like Charles
Montesquieu
(1689-1755) recognized it in his trias
politica of the legislative,
executive and judicial powers 0f
state -, even though all three of
them receive an income from the same
state. We simply have officials of
discussion, who with laws engaged
have to play their roles in the
chambers of discussion, and there
are officials of order, who simply
for a state department execute the
matters of state, whatever their
personal, political preference, ąnd
we have judges, who have to guard
the human rights in this, to
preclude a dictatorship of officials
or civil initiatives. The ideal
consists of a healthy common sense
in relating to this (political)
reality, and the problem in going
for it consists of the illusions
(the māyā and moha)
of people caught
in the notions of the false ego (ahankāra),
in
-isms, in which one is not
able to find the balance between the
end of a vision served and the means
of the opulence fundamental to it.
between the vision cherished and the
quality or opulence aimed, at cannot
find the balance or the proper
entry. That is what appears to be
the only clear logical/filognostical
answer to the matter. And if we face
reality as being the holy purpose,
the holy grail of democracy, in such
a scientific way that there is also
understanding for all the escapades
of the modernist ego, we neither
have to be afraid of what the
psychologist/philosopher Karl Popper
(1902-1994) warned against with his
plea for the 'open society' of a
liberal democracy. 
He stated that the
reality of evolving forms of state
as being a lawful one, like e.g. is
envisioned by the evolutionary model
of Marx and Hegel, does not imply
that one thus can design oneself a
future. According to Popper the
utopia is potentially a dangerous
and totalitarian vision of reality,
for it implies that repeatedly the
freedom of the individual must be
sacrificed for the sake of the
higher purpose, because if one
leaves man the choice in his lusty
nature, nothing will come of the
envisioned state. From the Vedic
axiom seen that must be
confirmed. It is not so much about
creating another world and pushing
oneself off against the rule of a
doubtful form of freedom by means of
overturning the regime with a
violent revolution. What is of
interest is to cast off
individually, and thereafter also
subculturally or even collectively,
in the end the shackles of the
illusions upheld from the profit
mind, and face the original reality,
thus finding the happiness, even
though that would not directly be
the happiness of each, and
ultimately indeed possibly might be
another time or world. One cannot
better the world turning oneself
away from it, neither socialist nor
individualist, or push oneself off
against it; one has to see it as it
is, and then, with bettering one's
own life, also as an example and
support for others being of service
with it, be happier with that, in
the sense of finding a life better
in agreement with one's own nature.
And so it is, not just as
Vyāsa put it with his concepts of svadharma
and svarūpa (one's own nature
and form), but is it also like
the philosopher Seneca in his
selfrealization stated it in 'A
Happy Life' III.3, later on in
history talking about that better
life. Like Popper indicated it with
his idea of the 'piecemeal
engineering' of a gradual
realization of politically set
targets, also with Vyāsa already
that idea is found in his per paramparā,
or disciplic succession, handing
down of spiritual authority, which
thus allows for but a step by step
(B.G. 6: 25) cultural
evolution, in which the individual
first of all is faced with a
'bitter' hangover from the lesson
learnt, and only later on may
harvest the 'sweet' of a better
practice (B.G. 18: 36-38) - a
practice of a filognostical,
personally conveyed, virtuous way
and proper life habit of gratitude
and servitude, equal to the moksha
of individual liberation or else the
individual/subcultural attaining on
this planet of vaikunthha,
the Vedic heaven of that order of
life, in which there is no (vai-)
dullness and sloth (-kunthha)
any more, and one therefore has
nothing to fear.
The fake democracy must,
as we before saw in the Small
Philosophy of Association, be
remedied with a self-certain sense
of order, with a certain settled,
representative democracy in which
the concept of freedom is no longer
bound to chaos as it is to order; as
it was also confirmed e.g. in 2003
by the muslim-writer and journalist
Fareed
Zakaria in his
book the Future of Freedom.
Filognostically that gradual 'soft'
revolution, that conversion of
societal opinion and develoment of
democracy, does not look very
different from what e.g. Seneca
likewise already concluded
in e.g. his dialogues (III.3) out of
love for the ethereal integrity: 'wisdom
is: not to stray away from her
(viz. nature) and conform oneself
to her law and the example she
offers'.
Thus
it was so at the violent onset of
the French
Revolution, in which a
clockmaker led the storming of the
Bastille in 1789 when, be it
unsuccessful, a decimal system was
introduced with the revolutionary
clock and calendar, with the purpose
to restore the authority of nature
over man. And thus it will also
always be, like Seneca said it, in
the renewed, less violent efforts to
make that revolution of time yet a
success. It is, with the soft
revolution of gradualness, more the
observance of inevitable facts and
trends, and the prominence of
natural and social realities that
cannot be denied or compensated
away, what determines the future.
Even so it first of all concerns the
highly personal, selfrealized future
of an individual, emancipating
person who gradually, also being a
beacon for others, thus learns to
live closer to the happiness of the
natural God. Therewith in the
political era - which Vedically
rules ever since the battle of the
great war of the Mahābhārata and
as said is called kali-yuga
- there wil be an ongoing discussion
between the doubters and skeptics
who, on the basis of their own
betrayal of the regulative
principles of the game of order,
have to face the karma thereof. For
without the philosophy they miss
what Seneca, in The Way to
Wisdom, called her most
important achievement: gratitude and
the correct way to express it.
The duty of loving one's
fellow man consists of keeping the
door open to
that Vaikunthha, to that utopia and
to clear the path leading there, and
not so much to impose that by means
of law. To speak with Niccolņ
Machiavelli
(1469-1529) and his book The
Prince, it is not
proper or of political leadership to
have in mind anything else but the
practical use - eventually even in
defiance of the ethical code - of
the maintenance of the, till then
evolved, status quo, to which one
consequently must not try to improve
the citizen or tempt him into
further corruption. The moral finger
is reserved for the intellect and
not so much for the ruler taking
advise from him. The utilitarian, at
practical use directed,
notion of the power of state
consists of making the best of the
state with the way people happen to
be, and not so much in the effort to
teach them enlightenment and educate
them for the sake of another world,
even though one, on the other hand,
cannot object to it as a
manifestation of 'free enterprise'
and 'free organization'. Each has to
follow his own dictate, for only
then we will be
free from dictatorship. Only then
there is understanding
for the fact that the jailhouse of
standard time which keeps all,
politically opposing, materialists
imprisoned in a relativistic denial
of the ether, cannot be broken down
just like that, the way one neither
would with any other jailhouse. Only
then are we can understand F.
Nietzsche as being of goodness with
his plea for the self-realization of
the individual. With the game of
order, as we explained it in the
previous section, is not so much the
human being educated, as, rather,
respected in both his fallen state
and in his elevated state, by
relativizing the concepts of being
higher and lower, abstract and
concrete, and the being directed
upward and downward, so as to have
them as free and equal options open
to a personal evolution. The
blessing of God is there with the
faculty of right discrimination.
Only with such a respect for the
fullness of life of as well the
common man, who living a concrete
and material life can be saintly, as
for the man of education, who very
abstract and high of commitment,
with or without much experience, can
be just as saintly in his
selfrespect and respect for the
(filognostic) person of God, one may
speak of a truly successful policy.
It is, being unafraid about utopian
thoughts of the future, as Seneca
also said it in A Happy Life (V):
'Thus one force will come about,
one harmonious potency, and thus a
reason that is dependable will find
it's existence which is not
divided in itself and is not
caught in ideas, concepts or a
conviction. And when this has
spread itself throughout the
complete and is connected with her
parts, and, if I may use the
figure of speech, when everything
sings the same song, she has
attained the highest good. For
nothing low awaits her anymore, no
lubricity, nothing from which she
would reel or slip.' And
Vedically again we have to add to it
that the utopia is there always for
those individuals successful in
living up to that filognostic notion
of order, the order of the
views relating to the order of
nature, but is never there
realistically - and possibly even
constitutes a threat - for the ones
who. not so conversant with it, do
not cherish such a lucid mind about
the ultimate filognostic reality,
the way it, as is proven by the
oldest Vedic scriptures and also by
the later Greek and Roman
scriptures, as such existed always,
is there now and will there also be
a bright and radiant future. With
the filognostic revolutions - at
present taking place on a basis of
love for knowledge in the different
societal realms as discussed here -,
the saying goes, politically: stand
up for your rights, and stop
fighting each other; do not fight
each other with illusions, but
rather fight illusions with each
other. For the name is
Homo
sapiens, knowing man.
Originally
time, from a societal perspective, was
a religious concept and politicians differed little
from priests in e.g. ancient Rome.
Plato and Socrates had said that the
ultimate settlement of the order of
things was to the god Apollo, with
which they indicated that time and the
ether, and the concept of societal
order associated with it, essentially
is a matter of religiosity, as
something which in science nowadays is
known as the apollonian principle -
with which it also factually, with
them as the philosophical founding
fathers of that idea, consciously
commits itself to the divine. Plato in
'The
Republic' put forward with it the
political values of wisdom, courage,
moderation and justice, but what did
we have as a precursor of values
before them and what evolved
therefrom? The
Filognostic Manifesto this section
opens with, begins with, an historical
overview of the human values, which
clarifies the (r)evolution of the
knowledge in and about time.
Ultimately we will, if we thus with
our filognosy in the thereafter
following pages take a sober look into
the future, have a world order that,
having arrived at a galactocentric
consciousness, is based on
a
systematic and programmed respect for
human rights and one's civil identity.
We will have an order in which the
cultures of the
solar and lunar calendars both will be
reflected, an order in which the year
count is no longer linked
exclusively to this or
that religious preference, an order in
which, in a
non-repressive dualism of governance, there will
not be a single ruling and commanding
time system, but rather an attitude
more naturally conscious of social
relativizing and multicultural
solidarity based on freedom of choice,
an order in which political parties no longer
will struggle for being elected but rather
an order in which the people, all
together more structurally aware of
each others -isms, in stead of defying
each other, together will fight to
overcome the illusions of false
unification and unemployment that they
have in denial of the diversity. The
(post-)modern disease of estranged
materialistic cynicism and anarchistic
relativism will be overcome to the
benefit of the splendor and the
ethereal quality of a more realistic,
rational, identity conscious and
personally bound, representative world
democracy, a system of state
management which, with the option of a
better balanced, good and natural
order of time, will be of
recollection, of a
respectful remembrance, with her (also
digital) citizens. It therewith will
offer everybody, in the
harmony of a filognostic self control
with the force field of the primal
ether - nowadays called the
Higgs field -, a life free from fear and
confusion.
Footnote:
*:
Entropy: based on the natural
propensity for disorder of all
material systems.
Pictures:
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The first untitled
painting of an unfinished structure is
of Keith Haring (site), 1989, acryl on canvas, 39
1/2 x 39 1/2, and is © of the Keith
Haring estate.
- The
picture of a seashell represents a
conch or conchshell. It is
used as a signal horn in vedic
sacrifices and represents one of the
standard attributes of Lord Vishnu by
means of which He summons for the
fight.
- The
nineteenth century young man is a
picture of Alexis de
Tocqueville, it is a
photograph of an etching of the 1899
edition of "Democracy In America".
-
The man with the mustache is Friedrich
Nietzsche
(painter unknown), the way
he is also seen on many a photograph.
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The picture of the man with the folded
hands is of Johannes Moreelse
(1602-1634) and titled: Herakleitos.
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Redon, Odilon: the Cactus Man
1881, charcoal, 49 x 32.5 cm, The
Woodner Family Collection, New York.
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Holbein d. J., Hans 1497/98 1543: Portrait
of
Desiderius Erasmus.
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The picture of 'the king of the world'
is an etching from the book Leviathan
of Thomas More.
- The
picture of the serious man is a
photograph of Max Weber
(1864-1920).
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The Island of Utopia,
1518, woodcut, 17,8 x 11,8 cm.
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel.
- The
friendly looking man following after
the yin-yang-symbol is a picture of
the philosopher/psychologist Sir
Karl Popper.
- The
painting with the castle is of
Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houel
(1735-1813), and is titled 'Storming
of the Bastille'. At home
in the Bibliothčque Nationale
Franēaise. Catalogue number 07743702;
water colors; 37,8 x 50,5 cm.
Published 1789. In the middle one can
see how Bernard René Jourdan, marquis
de Launay is arrested (1740-1789).
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Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (Ridolfo
Bigordi detto, Firenze, 1483 - 1561) Portrait
of Niccolņ Macchiavelli,
Oil on panel, cm. 85 x 67. London,
private collection.
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