Statism: When the servant rules the master
When the servant rules the master
Statism is a totalitarian, pseudo-democratic ideology embedded in an anti-individualistic monopoly of power in the name of false pretenses like the well-being of the masses, their safety, and their pursuit of happiness. Statism is exercised by a minuscule, hypocritical oligarchic group in the name of the masses, whose interests are not taken into account.
Statism is the appropriation by a few of the democratic power of the many. They were supposed to serve us, not for us to serve them. Government have an obligation of publicity and has no right to privacy, only individual citizens do, but the contrary happens. Government must be controlled by the citizens, but the contrary happens. This is all included in “statism.”
Ask yourself the question: “Why are taxes mandatory while voting is optional?”
Ask yourself why state terror is not considered terrorism, but only individual or non-government recognized group terror is labeled as such. They even control the vocabulary, ensuring it never applies to their own detriment. Why is “torture” by the government called “enhanced interrogation techniques”?
The government does not kill; it “un-alives.” It does not kill innocents; it “un-alives collateral damage,” as if those human beings were not people, but garbage.
Statism is the false antithesis of democracy, anti-individualistic, a liberticide, for the sake of the few against the interest of the many.
Statism works for the interest of a tiny minority of the population and is not a democratic dictatorship, because a democracy, while “a dictatorship of the majority,” theoretically works in favor of the masses and ultimately in the interest of the individual. Instead, statism is the worst totalitarian ideology because it is stealthily embedded in the totalitarian ideologies of the century: communism and far-right, racist, xenophobic, ultra-nationalism also known as Nazism.
These two are conflated by statism, which means state hegemony against the freedom of the individual, an extensive information apparatus, intolerance of any deviation from the official rule, elimination of critics, impossibility of changing the fundamentals of the system, and immense hidden suffering. The false pretenses were different, but the results were the same: the crushing of individuality and beating up of humaneness.
Nowadays, it is included in capitalism, where most of the economy is ruled by a few agents who consolidate their power against the interest of the masses and endanger their future. Nowadays, capitalism is inundating us with “goods” in a frenzy of economically unhinged output, cannibalizing not only our resources and destroying nature, but commodifying all aspects of human life. Everything has to be a product; everything is a business and everything is monetized, inducing a dichotomy in thinking and relationships.
If it is not “profitable,” nobody cares. That is how you downgrade all human values: solidarity, friendship, brotherhood, equality, respect, togetherness, empathy with the suffering and the helpless, privacy, everything that goes against capitalist logic is destroyed and slowly removed, so that we ultimately make a money machine of ourselves.
The recent spike in the statism of capitalism is a feverish response of the system to the increasingly obvious conclusion that “goods and money” are incapable of being used as an absolute universal concept replacing everything human. Humans in capitalist systems are living a poor, miserable life; not only is health crushed under mass fast-foodification of home-made food, fast-Tinderization of genuine love relations, and fast-pornographization of relationships, which offer temporary relief from loneliness and lack of intimacy.
The misery also comes from knowing that your government is the cause of most international human suffering through wars and man-made global catastrophes, the misery of loneliness, and humans lashed to their “smart” devices, with no privacy and total control and audit of every aspect of the citizen’s life. There is no power for citizens to express their grievances and be taken into consideration, due to the lock-in of political strictures that respond to profit strictures, not to collective interest structures.
All this is statism: the hegemon that crushes you, the many, for the interest of a sick profit ideology and a sick minority that holds the buttons of the power panel.
The last stage of statism in capitalist societies delivers only one thing: material “goods” that are mostly useless and toxic, with huge hidden immediate and long-term costs (externalities) at the expense of all the other aspects of the well-being spectrum: freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of being heard, a sense of safety, achievement of full personality and individuality, privacy, and the right to a qualitative environment, unpolluted and durable.
This statism is the nightmare for human rights, humanness, and humanity as a whole. Statism is the rule of humanity by a few ultra-technologized fools who run the machine to rule us all, like we rule animals; then, the machine has just a little step to take to remove these fools and supersede humanity. We are two steps away from the death of humanity as a whole, but who am I to tell?
Are you also an isolated, voiceless, powerless, privacyless workhorse, a nobody, an exploited citizen existing only on paper?