Modernism

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Radical Critique of Euromodernism by Rajani Kanth

Rajani Kanth:

"Modernism ‘creates’ a wholly mutant social form , alien to the anthropic essence, and antithetical to its hospitable survival in a relatively equable natural world.

It replaces the vital nexus of kinship with contractual relations, to the point of viewing society itself as a ‘contract’ rather than an affective compact.

It postulates, and idealises, an asocial ‘individual’ who is prompted with self-seeking conduct as the ontological ‘building block ‘ of this ‘civil’ society.

It also vests this luckless creature - doomed henceforth to live out the dual , if still monotonic, destinies of a producer/consumer - with illimitable material drives that keep it at the wheel ,like hamsters , for the duration of its days.

After performing this radical caesarean , it compensates this disabled, rootless entity with the promise of a slew of meretricious ‘rights’: equality, liberty, et.al.

Where/when these dubious benefices are found insufficient in themselves (as ever!) there is that standby, gaudy, glut of commodities that might help while away the idle, empty hour , where such time is available at all : away , that is, from the daily, lifelong, grind of laboring - usually for the profit of others, which is the abject lot of the vast majority.

Even were these ‘rights’ to be ‘real’ (i.e. realizable) they would only help solidify the alienated individual forlornly within his/her personalized domain of cold, ‘rational’ anomie, floundering without the crucial rudders of care and consideration , manifestly essential to anthropic well-being.

But they are tendentious promises only , run through , and razed, by the designs of the rich and the powerful who manage the ‘system’, one way or other, for their own ends.

To live and die within the solitary confinement of such a lightless, privatized , existence, formally ‘equal’ to others suffering similarly under the same common fate, does not , somehow, appear to represent a cornucopia of psychic riches to be envied, or marveled, at: let alone being the apex of human attainment, as EuroModernism views itself.

Indeed, it is a condition that , perhaps somewhat more obviously, moves sentient, feeling , creatures to the very margins of debauchery and destruction (of the Self, or Others) - as befitting a state of rudderless anomie.

Paradoxically, the more normless and amoral the real societal state of being, on average, the more glaring the Modernist flaunt of Constitutions, Codes, and Rulebooks (yes, it is an Empire , any time of day, blest with a commanding largesse of Laws).

In fact, even a casual glance at the civil/social statistics of EuroModernist societies would help confirm the very palpable psychic suffering, alienation, if you will, that accompanies a life spent - not lived! – in such an arid terrain of perpetual, pitiless competition, one-upmanship, and despoiling, extirpative conflict.

It becomes, inescapably, a nasty, boorish , Hobbesian world where, as has justly been remarked, ‘hell is other people’.

The urban jungles of the lead Modernist entity, the US, illustrate this ineffable quality of hellishness , almost in caricature.

Small wonder that desperation, existential angst, and coruscating, irrequitable , loneliness is the lot of so many of the true believers who still worship at the Modernist Altar(even whilst being sacrificed on it).

Indeed, the frantically utopian yearnings of the sensitized , within them, are a reflex only of the unbearable , destituting, burdens of that prostrating geist.

The conclusion may well be indefeasible: that EuroModernism is little other than sheer fraud, a scurrilous Libel upon the - admittedly slender reeds of beneficence of - the Human Race.

For desocialisation is , for us humans, dehumanization.

Stated differently , the eclipse of gemeinschaft communities by the hypertrophic gesellschaft formations so favored by Modernist Corporatism – for it is their choice creation !- presages only the slow , suffocating, extinction of the civilities, nay decencies, of anthropic life. With the latter, dies morality - a societal norm deriving from the domestic sphere of child-rearing (the domain, in extremis, of societal care and consideration).

Whence arises the amoral ‘human’ ( a real oxymoron) , now rendered fair game for manipulation , robotisation , and exploitation - by the powers that be.

I have tried to point out that deep underneath the unprecedentedly egregious Crises of our times is a real, titanic struggle between the ‘mammals’ (warm blooded/heat-seeking) and the ‘reptiles” (cold blooded/calculating).

I have no doubt that given time, our species-being will , eventually, assert itself: but it could be this very vital resource that may be insufficient to ensure such an outcome - given the overflowing Tribe of Dr Strangeloves (and worse) that today populates , in increasing overswell, the extant halls of Power and Governance.

EuroModernism is, in short, misanthropy, writ large." (email December 2014)