Since the Jacobin terror, a trend of creeping equalization has been carried out amongst the societies infected with it. The bacterial spread of Jacobinism can be seen in countless evolutions over the years. Cultural commentators today take notice, through the wave of Disney acquisitions of countless properties that “everything you love” will be bought, stripped, and prostituted before your eyes. The bourgeois of today clothes themselves in uniforms descending from a great stripping-down, the pomp of the gentry reduced to the dull black and grey of a business suit, of which the slightly more colorful business casual shows only the faintest hope of being a recovery from. Continual demands are made in the service of this, often through the leftist - the speartip of liberalism - before descending into the mainstream liberal, for culture, for life, to be continually standardized and made suitable for the dull greys of the autistic palette. When strikes occurred, leftist activists cried out on Twitter for the strikers to halt, as the poor and disabled make such use of the corporate infrastructure in question. When movies outside the canon of Marvel and Star Wars come out, an ensuing battle occurs where the same cadre of Picrew avatars, representing themselves via the functionally identical variations of a premade asset-manipulation toy, come out to war alongside cookie cutter bluechecks against any who would dare defend plurality in Hollywood.
The left’s theodicy lays this creeping destruction at the feet of neoliberalism, capitalism, or some other evil interchangeably. While correct, it assumes that there would be any one at the front of this. Negating this human-centric theory of origin for the Jacobin terror, is the fact that the system of terror operates on logic of its own accord, without reference to the whims of any human controller who might see it in a particular direction. Such is evident in the creation of the bourgeois. Originally a peasantry, they became empowered through being taken up into systems larger than themselves, systems of economics far beyond any of their own imaginings. It was this which “empowered” them by turning them into the servant of the creeping poison, the first models of standardization to roll out upon the landscape and remake the world in their image. It is from them, in the service of capital via what they had been made into, their autistic ettiquetes and petty hoardings, that the first true horrors began to be known, as the interior was colonized by the industrial workhouse and the exterior was trod upon by the pith helmeted “empire” of capital.
These machines are, in aggregate, what creates the effect of “poison” in the modern world. Expressed in the song MKULTRA Victim, any who desires to be beyond this feels as though the entire universe around them is covered in spikes and thorns, seeking to drag them under, wrap around and inject, infest. The bourgeois empower themselves by colonization, the highest of them empower themselves by creating engines of automatic colonization. All around, are systems which attempt to entrap and automatically colonize the subject, turning the individual into the bourgeois, creating the capitalistic man out of what was previously.
In order to resist these constant snares, in order to at the very least carve out a living sovereign from the misery of mediocrity, one must return to ways of carrying oneself from before the terror began. The modern world offers no help for personal ascension, to higher states of being, of interacting with the world, towards bliss and at the very least, a life of true fulfillment. Rather, all its paths are designed to create misery and any who should buy fully into them is destined to be remade into the bourgeois subject by them. It’s here that there is the strongest argument for tradition. Not in the proactive, pseudo-communistic sense of conservative vanguardists, the Fuentes and Shapiros of the world who demand that everything cater to their specific dollhouse view of how things ought to be, but in the reactive and the self-centric. Tradition is, more than anything, a way of the individual, resisting and empowering themselves above and through the terror surrounding them, a plague mask worn against the Jacobin bacteria.
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