{"id":5709,"date":"2013-01-29T01:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2021-01-29T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T05:06:38","slug":"everything-solid-melts-into-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"Everything Solid Melts into Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAll fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned. ~ Karl Marx<\/strong>, Communist Manifesto<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In these brief yet portentous sentences, Marx states the essence of the spirit of communism that haunts the West. All values and social relations that a well-bred man would have considered to be sane and normal are now denied. Yet even as new relations arise to displace the old, they in turn will give way to new ones before they can ossify. Thus, the progressive is never satisfied, there is always some novelty just over the horizon. No progressive held it against Obama, for example, when he opposed same sex marriage. As expected, Obama \u201cevolved\u201d on the issue, without explanation, without accusations of \u201cflip flopping\u201d.<\/p>\n

Everything solid refers to formal causes, the notion that people, conditions, things, and events are manifestations of fixed ideas. The ideas evaporate and take abode in some non-existent heaven, leaving their former manifestations without firm boundaries, and thus merge into each other in an ever increasing lack of manifestation. Of course, all that is holy also evaporates; however, it is insufficient to let it run its natural course, rather it must be mocked, profaned, and combated.<\/p>\n

At one time I knew many Marxists, but today no one admits to being one. However, I know how and what Marxists think, and many think the same thoughts today without realizing their true source. The genius of Marx is that he understood how this process would take root, not in undeveloped areas as Lenin and Mao presumed, but rather as the natural development of advanced capitalist societies.<\/p>\n

The Spectre of Communism<\/h2>\n

Marx perceived clearly the spectre of communism, or we would say its egregore<\/a>; he nourished it, defined it, promoted it, until subtly it has grown in psychic strength and manifested as the wandering influence in the minds of many in our day. An egregore is a psychic thoughtform infecting a like-minded group of human beings from whom it draws its life. It then amplifies the thoughts of its component members, returning to them much more strongly. That is why the thoughts of progressives have such a high affective element, while lacking intellectual coherence.<\/p>\n

The egregore controls their thoughts, which they are unaware of. That is why progressives can suddenly, and even simultaneously, adopt the same cause without outward collusion. As the Proverb says, the locusts fly in formation even though they have no king.<\/q> And the devouring locusts are relentless, sweeping aside indiscriminately every venerable and hoary truth and profaning anything holy.<\/p>\n

Social and Political Disorder<\/h2>\n

Now consider these general principles. Are they held only by open communists, or to some extent by anyone who calls himself a liberal or a progressive? The answer is clear. Of course, by the logic of progressivism, those who balk today at the more extreme elements of these principles may very well adopt them tomorrow.<\/p>\n