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Man as God
Marxism
“Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze,in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man”…
- Vladimir Lenin - Former Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
As the West increasingly embraced Marxism [ LINK ] - literally - Man as God [LINK] - God is Dead - [ LINK ] - it was inevitable that metaphysics would reorientate towards - Nominalism - [ LINK ] - and - all the subjectivity of Umwelt [LINK ]- and - the relativism of Post-Modernism [ LINK ]- How could there possibly be objective and eternal truths when there is no "other" - Man without God - the temporal without the eternal [ LINK ] - the material without the spiritual [ LINK ] - physics without transcendental metaphysics [ LINK ]- reason without faith [ LINK ]- hence - it was also inevitable that metaphysics would drift away from realism [ LINK ] - and the pursuit of objective truth [ LINK ] - But was this drift towards Marxism [ LINK ] and Nominalism [ LINK ] a Modern Sophism? [LINK] - Did the pursuit of Truth still matter? [ LINK ]- not only for human survival [LINK] and knowledge [ LINK ] but also for human freedom and flourishing [ LINK ]- What are the implications of Marxism and the notion of Man as God ? [ LINK ] - the awakening of an Übermensch [LINK ] - the apparent overcoming?
Various questions emerge as Western Civilisation accelerates the deconstruction of +2,000 years of intellectual thought anchored in Judeo Christian Theology, Ancient Greek Philosophy and Roman Law & Governance [ LINK ] as it embraces Marxism [ LINK ] [ LINK ] [ LINK ] and Education becomes about indoctrination [LINK ] and social & cultural transformation [ LINK ].
“Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party” …
- George Orwell
The implications of Man without God are profound.
For example, the 3 questions below illustrate the reorientation to a World where Man alone literally shapes Reality through a Nietzschean Will to Power [ LINK ].
Are “just” laws simply about social and political consensus ( a positive law) or is there something more eternal or natural to such a law? [ LINK ] - beyond the ego - beyond Man and the Primacy of Human Consciousness? [ What if in the ideology of Marxism, the eternal or natural no longer matter? ]
Are Human Rights derived by Man ( & the State) or by Natural Law? - [LINK] [What if in the ideology of Marxism, the eternal or natural no longer matter? ]
Is Money a Price for Risk? - compensation for uncertainty - a bet against the Gods [ LINK ] and a measuring stick for wealth and knowledge creation [LINK ] - or - Is Money just a subjective Social Construct? (for example - Modern Monetary Theory [ LINK ] and Central Bank Digital Currencies [ LINK ] [LINK ] [ LINK ] ) [What if in the ideology of Marxism, the eternal or natural no longer matter? ]
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