In our recent displays of modern decadence in society, we have been so burdened by these notions that impotent people are somehow important, and that they can truly create culture, or even direct themselves en masse, without realizing they are beholden to the wills of the elites they follow, and are agents of their personal lives, exclusively, as they are increasingly unaware that the only escape from this is total disengagement from modernity.
Just recently, some MSNBC loudmouth pseudoculturemaster, Rachel Maddow, has complained about Doug Burgum daring to delegate his staff to menial labor, with Maddow saying “His office leadership … once instructed political appointees to act as servers for a multi-course meal,” (https://www.rawstory.com/doug-burgum-cookies/), as if this matters at all. This junk news is just the mere symptom of mass politics, I fear, the shadows of the cave worshipped by the impotent, as Plato would describe, “And if he were forced to look at the fire-light, would not his eyes ache, so that he would try to escape and turn back to the things which he could see distinctly, convinced that they really were clearer than these other objects now being shown to him?”. This junk news is predicated on the egotism of these people, these masses who believe that they are more important than they truly are, and that they are those who buy Trump/Kamala flags, chant “Make America Great Again”, or “Vote Blue No Matter Who!”, as if they don’t jump at the clap of their leaders, the elites who are the exceptional (Carlyle), who rightly rule due to their philosophical prowess, which entitles them, in a metaphysical sense, to some kind of leadership, though this is not to condone kraterocracy, as I too am a moral absolutist and evaluate leadership on moral adherence.
In truth, many of these people do not realize their subordination, not out of some malevolence of the elites, but rather, as an innate psychological attribute.
In these matters of junk news, one must surely ask this insisting question, “of what necessity is this? Is this not superfluous to the matters of adequate government?”, as if reporting on the president’s breakfast, or Doug Burgum’s cookies, are somehow going to change anything, or that they are a philosophical matter which is imperative to understanding the philosophy which is imposed by the president and his cabinet in their will to power (Nietzsche + Carlyle). These people, such as Maddow, such as every pundit, as every activist, exemplify this point of the recipient masses. They may attempt to create crude art about people such as Donald Trump. Recently, I saw this crude art of the Power Puff Girls accosting the President, and I kept thinking, “he’s not going to see this, this is a futile endeavor. Why draw such a thing when it is entirely irrelevant to everything beyond serving as mere propaganda against a regime which is already in power? There is no more vote to sway, the election is over.”. I suppose I have just become so bored of politics, as every scandal is meaningless, whether classified documents stored improperly, or an incriminating laptop, it is all meaningless, and the only matters which should indeed be worthy of the news on a national level, in a political context, would be matters of philosophy and ideology.
In conclusion, I think political action from the bottom-up is generally futile, as all true change is derived from the top-down, elites commanding their forces, their followers, or otherwise to impose their philosophies. I leave with this final question: Is populism truly the expression of the masses, or the product of leadership exercised over large populations?
