Beyond the Political (Into the Spiritual)

“Right wing discourse seeks to create hierarchy” as the opening phrase of 0HP’s directory-thread states. Not entirely a lie, though it belies the nature of any politics which can be summarized under “wings”. The very invention of this model, that of the parliament was the defeat of the right, and the enthronement of the left as the dominant mode of politics. Once debate was ratified, rationality was made the law of the land under which the state was subsumed.

The domain of the political has since then, been wholly liberal, as the very conception of there being a “political” is in itself, a foundation of liberalism. The left and right both often rail that power is against their interests, to which they’re only half-right. The lines of flight drawn from liberalism on the far left and right are the cause of both of their oppositions to the power in which they exist. Ultimately, being in-reference-to liberalism, they find themselves again and again at a crossroads with their own agendas and the philosophical tendencies built into their politics by virtue of being underneath the discourse of Politics.

On the right, this tendency is expressed in the Reddit Right, as shown by that phrase of 0HP’s. “To create hierarchy” as shown in taxonomizing, as shown in imperializing, the instinct of the liberal and the rational to construct the objective atop the existing, such was the work that required the ideological religion of liberalism to occur in the first place. It’s this creation of hierarchy that is the business of rational thought, to construct the floating-world of the objective atop the actual, the platonic ideal to which all things are in-reference-to - the disciplinary power Foucault was so fixated on.

Politics is in all this, the very way that liberalism reaffirms itself, where all forces that my contest it after forever subsumed into it, by its encompassing of the terrain in which they are often forced to attain their goals. To be Political is to be liberal - such is the way in which, time and time again, movements are captured and nullified. The promise of power-within seduces the movements in organizations, into parties, into voting, and in time, they are wholly inducted into the apparatus of power. Their ability to contest has vanished, as the very thing which once posed the threat of being breakaway is no longer such.

To escape from Politics, to escape from movements, from ideologies, from compass tests, is the only true form of praxis that the right can take, the first step, in exiting the liberal order. Politics is a mind-virus, a circular maze of endless games which only refer to itself, a constructed view from the outside, certainly, one that must be taken into ones worldview in order to exit it. Politics is a trap of liberalism, where liberalism may never be escaped as long as one is within it. The praxis of ideological detoxing is one of removal from all memberships, from joining things, from participating at all except in reference to power, to wield and not to discipline, to read fiction and use money, not to construct utopias and secure votes, to leave the enclosed center for the infinite Outside of Spirituality.