Circle Logic and Insane Degrees Of Relationship As Justification For Authoritarianism
Willem IV- Rooted in the dialectical thinking of Marx and Engels and made famous by the Frankfurt School, “critical theory” is both insanely opposite of critical thinking and a justification for authoritarian regimes. Basically, it uses circle logic and insane degrees of relationship to connect cause and effect in order to delegitimize historic institutions that stand athwart a path of radical atomization of individuals that renders them hopelessly dependent upon corporations and/or the state.
Circle logic is based on circular reasoning. If we say, “the Bible is true, therefore you should believe it”, this isn’t proof. We are using our conclusion as validation of itself without offering hard evidence.
In circle logic, the connection may be less direct, for instance if we say “people who think they are not human but animals are more suicidal, therefore society’s lack of accommodation for them is unust”, we are using a form of circle logic. The effect, being more suicidal, has no proven connection to the cause, the lack of society accommodating “species benders”, or whatever we want to call these folks, by refraining from using terms like “people” or even “human” for fear the species benders would be offended.
“Insane degrees of relationship” means you find multiple degrees of separation which connect people, groups, or events to other people, groups, or events and then make a causal statement of relationship between the two. If someone with the same last name as you, some 200 years ago, did a thing that wasn’t good, then you, despite perhaps having a name your grandfather adopted (so you are not blood kin to that family, which isn’t blood kin to the original malefactor), are “related” to the original misdeed and bear collective shame, if not collective guilt.
The effect is that those who wish to be a certain way, prefer a certain way, associate together according to their values and identity a certain way and those who see the world a certain way must be shamed and coerced into something not to their liking in order to assuage those whose preferences and etc. are in the decided minority. The majority must literally change how they refer to others and even themselves for fear of corporate or official entities doing real harm to their economy and/or social life.
In a society in which the great bottleneck of commerce and discourse or social life itself flows through monopoly corporations and their platforms and institutions, where most commercial and social activities demand access to these platforms and institutions, it is no longer necessary to invoke the state in hard authoritarianism. It is soft authoritarianism invoking the so-called “rights” of private platforms to regiment the culture and economy in ways that are harmful to individuals and that violate their human dignity.
Here are a few for-instances:
– Around 40% of eCommerce happens through Amazon, 67% of eCommerce flows through the top 10 eCommerce companies.
– 51% of all banking is dominated by the top 13 banks.
– According to this report, the top 5 social media platforms that DOMINATE social life and discourse, have a 98% market share, “The leading platform in the Social Media market is Facebook with 69% social media market share in 2019, followed by Pinterest with 14% Social Media market share Twitter with 8% Social Media market share, YouTube with 4% market share, Instagram with 4% share, and Other Social Media platforms with 2% social media market share.”
– Only 26% of transactions are by cash, while credit and debit cards, run by Visa, Master Card, and American Express, account for 51% of transactions.
– The top 10 retailers control over 45% of the retail market, the top 100 controlling more than 80%.
– PayPal processes over 54% of all online transactions and the top 14 online processors account for 89% of online transactions.
The fact almost ALL these corporations have woke communist adherants at the top and/or as owners, again understanding that woke communism is different from 20th century state communism, is alarming to be sure. If all of them agree you are persona nom grata, good luck surviving or having a voice or social life. The concentration of wealth and power and the stunning lack of ideational diversity within these entities is the very face of modern woke communism in America today.
The counter, using the state to “fix” the monopoly corporations and their platforms, may actually be as problematic as the disease. Our approach via unilateral change from within through absolutely freewill participatory association doesn’t change the fact we see the top 100 modern mega-corporations in same light as major landed sovereignties. Both entities exert societal control by degrees of authoritarianism, which may be hard, as in the state, or soft, as in deplatforming. Using one against the other is like casting out the devil in the name of Lucifer.
What leads to this soft to hard authoritarianism is the core concept that the only way to “solve” these “problems”, as proposed by “critical theory”, which defies all tenets of “critical thinking”, is to massively alter all societal structures. And the only way one can force a change in sociocultural norms, down to language itself and how people relate to one another, which runs counter to what people trust and are comfortable with, is some means of short-circuiting or suppressing the individual’s critical thinking and freewill. In short, some form of manipulation, fraud, or force must be used.
If you brainwash people through lies and coercion into accepting things not for their own good and without them being fully informed as to the cause, the potential risks, and the effect as well as long-term intent, then you violate their innate human spiritual sovereignty, agency, and dignity. Critical theory is itself an authoritarian assumption: it seems to say that society has been written this way by the coercive enterprise of corporate and state agencies and can only be righted by the same.
One critical theory advocate claimed that the emergence in the early 20th century of all-powerful superheroes like Superman was part of an effort to acculturate people to the all-powerful fascist state, like Hitler and Mussolini. This is circle logic and insane degrees of relationship gone awry and the only “solution” is to proscribe any such materials and to delegitimize those who peddle it as Nazis.
Critical theory, like communism, is a term that hardly portrays the underlying theory. Communism implies community, but in 20th century communism, community is meaningless and only the state matters. In 21st century woke communism, management of society by monopoly corporations and the state replaces community. Likewise, critical theory implies some form of multidisciplinary critical thinking approach to society, but in truth there is no real criticalt thinking.
Critical theory is simply and only authoritarianism and its underlying pretzel logic justifications used to fool or cow people into accepting chains of bondage. Critical theory is invalid from any spiritual, moral, or logical standard you might wish to apply.
While many aims and goals, such as fighting fictional bogeymen (such as “white supremacy”) or fulfilling utopian promises (like “free housing for all), are invoked by critical theory, in practice it points nowhere. Its only true aim is to grow power for those in power at the expense of everyone else, but as to societal aims, it points nowhere and will not acheive any good for society.
Unlike the totalitarianism of the 20th century, which rather explicitly stated that its totalitarian structures were intentional and necessary for society, the critical thinking, or woke communism, totalitarians of today do all they can to mask both the authoritarian roots of their ideas and the totalitarian intent of their agenda. Also unlike the authoritarians of the 20th century, who tended mostly to rely on the state as a monopoly holder of economic and political power, today’s woke communists are happy to use the corporation itself, the corporation in partnership with the state, or the state alone, all controlled by a single interconnected ruling class, to reach their goals.
The gender-bending, race-baiting, and Nazi-mongering are all merely a means of softening people up, undermining institutions which can resist corporate and government control and liberate individuals from dependency. The aim has nothing to do with protecting rainbow people or minority “races”, nor actually confronting actual Nazis. The aim is total monopoly comtrol as an end that justifies any means.
Modern monopoly platforms are to woke communists what the state was to Marxist-Leninists in the 20th century. The new politburo combines shot-callers in the corporate world and the political world into one loosely connected whole and “critical theory” provide the “validation” for this soft authoritarianism. The aim is still the atomization of the individual, the end of personal independence and private property by individuals, and the collectivizing of society under centralized hierarchical control.
The proposed “Great Reset”, touted by the World Economic Forum, for instance, started with the phrase, “you will own nothing, and like it.” This by an organization that is run by and for mega international corporations which purport to be capitalist enterprises. Herein is woke communism explained: the use of wokeness born by critical theory to soften up society for mass collectivization under the rule of a few monopoly corporations and governments.
It isn’t a conspiracy. The pervasive acceptance of this new totalitarianism by most shot-callers in every major institution causes an apparent comity of action that is born more from organic cohesiveness among the actors, who share the same worldview, than any planning or conspiring among them. The fact they are using the illogical methodology of critical theory to divide and soften up society, leading to an assault on institutions like marriage, family, and community, is merely an outgrowth of their own parochial interests and stems also from inflated egocentric grubbers who imagine they alone know what’s best for everyone.
They may indeed have “good” intentions, but their underlying assumptions, rooted in authoritarian nonsense like critical theory, prevent them from seeing that they are in fact “the baddies.” People of EVERY single racial, ethnic, or religious background in every country who embrace some varied form of the new totalitarianism acts almost as if in concert when no real coordination occurs.
This woke communism is somewhat like China’s new Maoism, only it also adds gender-bending and critical race theory aspects of critical theory to soften up society just as Mao’s “great leap forward” did in 1950’s China. China’s new Maoism uses the corporation and a limited free market to produce goods and services, maximizing efficiency, but remains as authoritarian as ever.
Critical theory is dangerous because wherever it gains purchase, human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing become untenable. Critical theory is authoritarianism, period.
If you want to know of a culture leader, politician, or corporate leader is a totalitarian loon, ask them to renounce critical theory and all its components. If they don’t unequivocally do so, mark them as totalitarians and do all you can to extricate yourself from their influence or dependency upon them.
If any leader who holds a position of public office or public trust or who is followed by millions refuses to name, renounce, and confront those who are using the techniques of critical race theory, calling everyone racist or Nazis, then they are nothing more than totalitarians. Moreover, if they refuse to defend the rights of individuals in free association to build and form marital, familial, and community bonds and relationships in preference to their own core beliefs, values, and convictions, then you automatically know this person is a totalitarian.
A holistic view of society, seeing how things and people are connected and interdependent, isn’t a bad thing. This multidimensional and multi-faceted kind of quantum thinking can be an excellent way to solve problems within the broader scope of logic, reason, and critical thinking. This kind of intersectionalism is logical and fact-based. But critical theory invokes intersectionality in tenous ways through circle logic and insane degrees of relationship. It does not identify real problems or real solutions and yet it demands all the tools of authoritarianism (censorship, canceling, deplatforming, criminalizing) applied by corporations and/or the state against relatively powerless people who depend upon them to survive.
Critical theory is, basically and simply, authoritarianism. Period. Full stop. It has no logic and it serves no common good. Its adherants are being fooled into accepting controls and dependency which violate their basic human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing. Its proponents are using this, albeit some of them unconsciously, to soften up society and gather power unto themselves.
It is necessary to confront critical theory as an authoritarian ideology, a modern form of woke communism, that must be confronted. Its innocent adherants must be liberated through peaceful persuasion and outreach. Its proponents who use it to advance their power must be treated with deserved contempt and every effort must be made to disassociate from them, especially from dependency upon them and anything they control.
