The capitalist will say (and do) anything that justifies the endless accumulation of profit. To this end, the emphasis of individualism is vital – as it is through this loss of collective identity that humanity learns to routinely brutalise its own existence and being. Inflicting pain and harvesting gain is the only permitted exchange which locks out all other modes of possible interaction. Love becomes a limited commodity which can be bought for a short time period before the clock runs out and it’s flow dries up.
For the working class – all is “alienation” from birth onward. Religion has its root in the idea that the State declares that the individual does not possess his or her own body. The body becomes an objective vehicle (subjectively occupied) that exists to be exploited and to produce benefit for others. From the moment of conception, a working class individual is alienated from their body and their existence. This permanent parallel identity is concretised through the birth process and is carried on into the material environment.
The cognitive and physical dissonance between alienated being and living person is exactly the space within which the bourgeois imagination runs wild – with no limitation. This inverted perception of reality can nolonger adequately distinguish between a fact in the environment and a thought in the mind. Any type of imagined reality is mistakenly thought to be real – and an entire profit-producing industry functions through it. As long as an individual can pay to indulge this false imagination – they may delude themselves and others to the limits of the law – and sometimes beyond – with regards to abuse (and even death).
Although materialist science is the key to every advantage the modern human enjoys – the bourgeoisie declare this mode of reality to be the “enemy” that must be denied whilst being thoroughly enjoyed. Of course, if the bourgeoisie is to retain its political power – then the nature of the means of production can never be allowed to be effectively challenged. Science can only be challenged in a type of State-sponsored theatre – a mocking of reality.
The oppressed must express the nature of their existential oppression in the language of religion – not necessarily any particular religion – but rather an illogical and disjointed conglomerate of all religious thought. The worker has two choices. One is to go along with this wave of delusion that frees no one and pushes the masses firmly back into the dark cave of deluded oppression (mistaking the lack of light as freedom) – or choose to carefully think and feel their way out of the endless maze of confusion and destitution.
Of course, the State can violently react at any moment and deploy extreme psychological and physical violence to reset the stage. The clever worker, however, can work on their freedom quietly and in the shadows. Everytime the State interacts with the worker – there is alienation – as nothing the worker experiences actually belongs to him or her. All is in transit for the benefit of the unseen “other”. Dispelling the “inverted” (false) consciousness is achieved by encountering the writings of those who have already corrected their mind. A true consciousness calls to a true consciousness by remedying a false consciousness.
Aliens and gods dissolve back into the shadows from whence they came. All the uncaring and abusive medicalised experiences on the UFOs just turn out to be the ruthless agency of private health and its lack of care for those who pay for its services – possibly experienced whilst riding on an aeroplane. Reading the thoughts of others turns out to be merely mistaking one’s own thought patterns as belonging to someone else. Universal love – experienced only inside the individual – is a narcissistic reaction to the mindless brutality and indifference projected by all others living in a predatory capitalist society. This is how a worker suffers from being abducted by a sense of alienation. Why – what did you think I meant?
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 