In the past several years – but especially since 2020, which saw the triply lethal combination of Covid-19, the US Presidential Election and the ‘mostly peaceful’ worldwide BLM protests – there has been an accelerated breakdown in social cohesion, moral unity, and regime legitimacy in Britain, America and across the West. Public approval ratings for current governments, whether led by Biden, Sunak, Trudeau, Macron, or whomever else, are at all-time lows. Public trust in government has never been lower. The social and moral consensus that held sway, in, say, 2012, has by this point now almost totally broken down. On the right, lingering doubts about the legitimacy of Biden, the aftermath of BLM and, the mysterious disappearance of Covid mandates with the advent of the Ukraine war, and the unprecedented obscene levels of immigration since Covid have created an atmosphere in which long-standing taboos no longer matter to anyone but the crustiest of establishmentarians. On the left, the issue of Israel has loomed larger, but many authentic leftists feel betrayed by the regime on a host of issues, not least their perceived abandonment of socialism for neoliberalism. All these issues have coalesced to discredit the established centre which has never looked more tenuous or fragile than it does today. Regime lackeys are now openly despised, and must be aware of the extent to which they are hated. Some seem to engage in an almost nihilistic and sadistic glee in clinging onto petty officialdom, but this is generally unhealthy for a social order. As there is now an almost complete break between the values and moral visions of the rulers and those they rule over, in this short article, I wish to revisit Gaetano Mosca’s comments on the importance of moral unity to regime stability. My view remains that unless the establishment can come to its senses and enact my containment plan (
I can’t remember a time when things have been worse. The moral and social consensus of the society I grew up in, has gone. I’ve disengaged from nearly all media and stopped reading the newspapers but, as it’s a public holiday, I thought I’d chance a peek at the dear old Daily Mail. Two top stories - the photo of a naked, mutilated victim of Hamas has won an esteemed prize from a US university, and a school photography firm is banning disabled or odd looking children from your child’s class photo for you. Reading the comments on both these news stories is utterly black pilling. So many people feel no connection to the society in which they live and have no faith in any institution. They have no respect for those that govern them and scorn any notion of Britain being ‘Great’ anymore. The ‘final acts of this tragedy’, as you put it AA will be ugly whichever way it plays out - containment or yet more repression. It’s hard to know how the country I now reside in, Australia, could get much more brutal and repressive - we set the bar very high here in Melbourne- but the Aussie government will give it a ‘fair go’ no doubt.
I think that you're right on the moral unity point. On Canadian social media, there is a flood of comments under basically every post of normies saying that we need to start mass deportations and that immigration is ruining the country. Not even from anons, but from normies with their faces and names attached to their accounts. I talked to my father about this and he's had several colleagues of his express the same sentiment to him on person. Things are clearly reaching a breaking point.
Have you yet considered that our ruling class degenerating into an absolute travesty is part of the regime's wider plan of demoralisation? It befuddles me when our prime minister and other such nonces are referred to as key regime actors when clearly they are not.
I can’t remember a time when things have been worse. The moral and social consensus of the society I grew up in, has gone. I’ve disengaged from nearly all media and stopped reading the newspapers but, as it’s a public holiday, I thought I’d chance a peek at the dear old Daily Mail. Two top stories - the photo of a naked, mutilated victim of Hamas has won an esteemed prize from a US university, and a school photography firm is banning disabled or odd looking children from your child’s class photo for you. Reading the comments on both these news stories is utterly black pilling. So many people feel no connection to the society in which they live and have no faith in any institution. They have no respect for those that govern them and scorn any notion of Britain being ‘Great’ anymore. The ‘final acts of this tragedy’, as you put it AA will be ugly whichever way it plays out - containment or yet more repression. It’s hard to know how the country I now reside in, Australia, could get much more brutal and repressive - we set the bar very high here in Melbourne- but the Aussie government will give it a ‘fair go’ no doubt.
I think that you're right on the moral unity point. On Canadian social media, there is a flood of comments under basically every post of normies saying that we need to start mass deportations and that immigration is ruining the country. Not even from anons, but from normies with their faces and names attached to their accounts. I talked to my father about this and he's had several colleagues of his express the same sentiment to him on person. Things are clearly reaching a breaking point.
Have you yet considered that our ruling class degenerating into an absolute travesty is part of the regime's wider plan of demoralisation? It befuddles me when our prime minister and other such nonces are referred to as key regime actors when clearly they are not.
This discussion feels like a good opportunity to take a closer look at vanguardism and lessons from Lenin.
Very interesting as always AA.