Pacifism Study
Generally speaking, I am post-ideology. And we’ve now exited the 600 year period of modernity, into a post-political period of present history.
I read a lot, and I am ancient. So the more knowledge I gain, the less I particularly care about theory, ideology, or much of any particular doctrine. I militantly hate leftists, and their hordes of crying lies, and yet I am one.
I have been greatly influenced by Nietszche, Shopenhouer, Marx, Deleuze, Plato, Simone Weil, Albert Camus, George Grant, Patrick Pearse, Ortega, Ellul, and many others. I tend to say that I am a Simone Weil Communist or a George Orwell Communist of sorts, but truly I don’t think there is much in the thousand year span that really differs much from anything else. If we close one eye, and look through affect-only, I’m sure I can find beauty in everything that dies, or lives. Mankind is, otherwise, in a crisis of reason, as well as beauty. Man is lacking, and the world is not dear.
Of course both were extremely not violent, Weil a committed pacifist, but both fought against fascism in militant armed struggle. Weil had died due to complications surrounding her hunger strike behaviour in the refusing to eat enough war rations to sustain her life.
Some friend’s were asking me why, or how I differ from professor Dugin. The ex-Communist, ex-Nazi, Fourth Way Synthesis. And actually quite a lot actually, because on the basic premise of Platonism and a Republic, I think individuals need a conception of rights balanced by a nation state or a civilization state. Some do not believe that the individual level should have rights of any kind after we’ve seen Liberal Democracy in the modern period fail.
My whole life, I’ve been a human rights champion, and since the rise of crazed-wokeism, I’ve made the case that civil society is based in law and society, not identity politics. Do I actually believe this? During the ending of civil society, I’ve seen civilization begin to disintegrate, and I think comforting thoughts can sometimes deliver a mood to people that we need to be normal. However it is the Leftists who are violating each other’s rights more than anyone else, even actual Genocide victims are running around in perpetual descent from Civil Society. Today’s commitment to attention, and attention to the human spirit, is barely a project of civility.
Suffering is something so misunderstood in the Modern or peaceful post-war period, that it has come at our world views like a blade. We do not know what to do with it, and there is a moral crisis, whether we were to have civil society restored or not. Many will never assimilate, nor do they wish to develop themselves beyond the sixth century in the twenty first century, and at other times the devil turns out to be quite normal, and the lamb is just as often, the worst liar. The only constant amid Anarchy and Decline, is attention and grace. The probabilities or fractions of inverted power dynamics or falsehoods are irrelevant, but that you would be surprised, because you need to try.
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What I found fascinating about Simone Weil’s essay, was that she actually doesn’t care very much about rights. In Statement of Human Obligation (1943), she grounds ethics not in rights (which depend on power) but in unconditional obligations to all people, especially the vulnerable.
While speaking on radical idealism, there’s a material poetic to her objectivity. You need attention and grace to awaken to circumstances beyond your mental first ordering.
“There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man’s mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties.
Corresponding to this reality, at the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
Another terrestrial manifestation of this reality lies in the absurd and insoluble contradictions which are always the terminus of human thought when it moves exclusively in this world.
Just as the reality of this world is the sole foundation of facts, so that other reality is the sole foundation of good.
That reality is the unique source of all the good that can exist in this world: that is to say, all beauty, all truth, all justice, all legitimacy, all order, and all human behaviour that is mindful of obligations.” Simone Weil
True nonviolence demands absolute attention to human suffering, especially the “needs of the soul” (truth, liberty, justice).
Her pacifism is not passive but contemplative, grounded in “consent” to the good beyond the world and the refusal to desecrate others through coercion.
In the critique of Power (also of the far left’s views as well), Weil distrusted revolutionary violence, believing it often reproduces the very injustice it claims to oppose. Her pacifism includes a radical critique of state violence, propaganda, and any institution that obscures truth. Her Absolute Respect for the Human Being — Because every person is sacred in their link to inherent or divine good.
