Dissolution

 

As far back the SNCC expelling whites from its ranks and through today when the popular racial debates are characterized by axiomatic essentialism, the left and the right have been moving in a helical spiral towards the same end. The left’s conception of race is based upon a certain type of essentialism, an ontology of a person where the individual is imbued with an eternal, immutable characteristic, their race, which separates them on a different plane of personhood with others by marking out the basic shape of them as a human. This basic concept is of course, packaged in leftist morality, which is unable to see it clearly in its objectivity-based blindness - of course people are on different planes, but all these planes are subsumed under the general leftist cosmology, where all people are still liberal subjects in the grand drama of christian morality.The contemporary right has done the work of the left for them. Lacking the proper upbringing into the left-liberal religion, the right has been taught this framework of race as eternally-othering ontology, without assuming it beneath the religion of leftism. As a result, the right has made the same arguments, only from the different side. Whereas the left takes for granted this framework and then uses it as a way to channel the religion of suffering and guilt, the right takes this framework as a point of investigation with which to begin thought, eventually creating a drama in which these great objects of white and black are in eternal war, something both sides are enthusiastic to participate in as the objects they make themselves into are teleologically destined for such conflict.

That this has been exploding alongside the internet is no accident, increased communication causing this viral ontological idea to spread, infecting individuals and making them into a transmitter, fragmenting and dividing individuals as they become infected by the viral spread, an idea that recreates their person into a race-object. This spreading is facilitated by the infinitely many transmission vectors due to an exponentially increasing amount of points of contact between individuals. Like a disease, fragmentation spreads. An individual infected is one lost, forever stuck in a flow based solely on their ontology, newly given, thereby disintegrating them.

The roots of this of course go back centuries, with the idea of racial ontology being the founding text of the settling of America. What this reveals as it destroys the ability of America to have a unified Way, a national identity, is the abomination of America. America is too large, geographically and in its diversity. The idea that such an amount of people who have a singular nation is absurd, as anyone who overviews the diversity now encompassed by former Roman territory would know. This notion of the nation, that one could be constructed on anything as ridiculous as the fantastical utopias of 18th century Englishmen who read too much Locke & Rousseau & Co, goes back to the radical tearing-apart of the world undertaken by the rationalists, who split the human apart from their surroundings in order to create the individual, the same one now susceptible to dissolution-viruses, and no surprise, such men were often the original creators of our modern strain of the dissolution-virus, with the invention of the racial caste systems of Imperialism. We look back upon this time, with only a faint, yet denied, ability to grasp what was taken from us. As Ezra Pound said of Confucianism, the world before the individual is a wholistic one (“interacting strains and tensions”), portrayed in the cosmological drawings of mystic artists, the world of the firmament and heavens. Such wholeness is also evident in the widespread in various invisible forces - witchcraft, fairies, religion, local deities, and all other manner of things emerge as a result of a worldview where the world is interlinked and wholistic, cultural flows moving to fill in the gaps of directly experienced knowledge.

Attempts to undo this rupture have been made since it first swept across the world, the Völkisch trends of the German Romanticists and Hippies, the American fascination with an image of the utilitarian lives of the Old West.. Lately, Xi Jingping’s China has instituted a social credit system in order to increase harmony and cohesion, attempting to artificially create a popular morality, hoping some form of greater Way could follow. It’s impossible for this to work of course. The rupture is permanent. The Yugas operate in only one direction, requiring the terminal end of the Kali Yuga in order for it to begin again as a cycle. The end of wholeness is something that can be never attained again, we can only attempt to make something akin to it in the wasteland before us.