33. The Clique and the Critique
There is a clique originating in Britain whose unique malice in world history must be studied. The names of all of these men and women must be displayed publicly and associated with the utmost shame of their race and all mankind, for they have by their acts ensured the damnation of this Earth and all of the humans on it, forever. I have mentioned many of their names throughout these books and will continue to curse their names, but behind every name there is a family, relations, and a network of ghouls who aided and supported all of these efforts. For every thought leader, there are men and women down the ranks and among their peerage that carry out their religion. I warn the reader against viewing this clique and others like it as a "cabal" with a unique ability to drive history by insinuation and instigation alone. What is at the core of this clique is a simple and ugly truth about humanity; that this clique had what a poker player calls "want-it-more", and through their determination and the elimination of opposition, they were able to function much like a cabal is imagined to function. It must never be forgotten though that this "cabal" is not just the intellectual leadership, but the many hands and hearts that devoted themselves to what would become the eugenic creed. An army of teachers, social workers, officers, care workers, instigators, and agentur drawn from the laboring class and the lowest dregs of society, played their part alongside the program this clique recommended. What this clique did was not limited to having a "brilliant" idea, as if it were ideology that moved the world. There is a culture among this clique that is uniquely fanatical and essentially Satanic. They often claim in their family histories that their lineage is far more ancient and attached to some great magick or Working, as is the common habit of the Masonic Rites; yet many of these people were never "Masons" in the sense that such an association is commonly understood. They would not, and would not have had to, pass through the degrees of initiation, or conform to a uniform model of the ideal Mason. Many times, the members of the clique were too preoccupied with their true beliefs and mission to pass through the rituals of Masonry, and if they were exposed at all to it, it didn't take in the way it would for those who would rise to become Grand Wizards. The clique I describe could in principle stand on its own, for its own program and purposes, without any necessary interface with another "cabal" or association. It is a mistake to assume that there is among any of these cabals a "master key" or "king of kings" that functions as a world controller or similar figure. Whatever the mystique these people grant to themselves, the clique and the wider associations they make are united not by a leader but by a thought-form. It is not an "idea" or "ideology" as such, but a thought-form that has been made portable and dispensable in minute quantities or in vast waves of exultant shouting. The members of this clique appreciated this thought-form not as a "ruling idea" in the Hegeloid or Marxist sense, but as a thought-form answerable only to itself. What I have described in these books is in part a recounting of the thought process of this clique and what it wants to impose on history, rather than my own development or a critique of bad publicly available philosophy. There is for this clique a public facing, demonstrated in their writings and what they disseminate en masse, and a private facing for their families, where the secrets are kept.
As for how I know confidently some of their secrets, I only say that the thought-form of this clique has spread since its gestation during the 19th century, and I have seen closely enough the inheritors of such a thought form. Even if I did not have this dubious advantage in life and all of the horror it has inflicted on me, the thought-form of this clique became the policy of the Anglosphere technocratic order and a "special doctrine" for those who were to be initiated into the world order that Eugenics mandates. The only advantage I have, so far as I saw this beast, was that I saw it earlier than most, while most are initiated into its doctrines and ethos during their teenage years, first by passing through rituals particular to the clique and then learning their place in the grand imperial theory of the universe. Unlike the Masons, whose origins, practices, and doctrines are essentially the esoteric secrets of Christianity, the Talmud, and Babylonian Satan-worship, the clique does not premise what they are doing on any religious tradition that preceded them. The clique I describe is a newfangled thing, and insisted that it would be the only future. In parallel, another group would be established, which while it claimed to be oppositional could only have worked alongside the British clique. This latter group would be the critics, the Hegelians and the Germans generally and the Marxists, who were all collectively the "Reaction" to that infamous triad "Problem, Reaction, Solution".[1]
You will see the actions of this clique referred to as conspiracy, attributed to various persons far away, or granted spiritual power or an ancestry they do not possess. This is done by mashing up history and the other conspiracies that exist in history. The clique I describe is a thoroughly modern construction. It mimics phraseology of the past, but the doctrines that would lead to the eugenic creed could only have existed once a few preconditions were met. The first, and this is what differentiated the eugenic creed from past aristocratic thought, is that corporate government had to bind the efforts of the new movement. This clique centered around the profits and ambitions of the East India Company and its interest in keeping a chokehold over India and the rest of Eastasia. No such corporate government was a viable imperial enterprise in the past. The prior colonial empire of the Spaniards was born of feudalism and the Crown's extraction of wealth from its colonies, where the royal 20% tax was dutifully collected by Crown officers up to the bitter end of Spanish rule on the American continents. The operations of the new corporate government were different. Not only would the trading companies not have to pay anything close a 20% duty on their activities, but the state was to grant to the corporate government immunity from taxation. This would not be enough, and the affairs of the trading company would in short order overtake the sclerotic bureaucracy of the Crown. The victory of corporate government was the victory of this new interest over the state as it was known at the turn of the 19th century, where the state was the greatly expanded court of what was essentially a warlord. The clique was comprised of those intellectuals and the families that raised them that argued for the abolition of "the state" in that sense, with the full understanding that the new state they aspired to establish would place corporate government above the will of any particular ruler. In effect, members of this clique called for a whole new aristocracy and nobility with themselves at the head of such an august Empire. The second precondition for the eugenic creed is an understanding of thought, language, and its history that could effectively "edit reality" and abolish the past, just as the pretenses of the old feudal state were abolished. This understanding did not exist until the 19th century. Part of the problem of doing this in the past is that the rulers took for granted that the broad masses were illiterate and ineducable, and so thought among the proles so to speak could be freely ignored. They had no intellect, and that was a sacred rule that required a conceit regarding intelligence that didn't exist for the pre-moderns. The reality of the past is that the vast majority of humanity were so far removed from politics that "changing the world" was not only impossible, but not even pined for. So far as most of humanity was concerned, humanity was a Satanic race born of ritual sacrifice. Nothing good could come from that, and there was no reason whatsoever to encourage this. Only when the disconnected masses of humanity were dragged into "society" for the first time did they have to account for the history of their enemies. The broad masses in the 19th century looked at human history, judged correctly that humanity is guilty without any possibility of reprieve, and asked a simple question: "Why must we die?" The bourgeois order had no answer to that other than exultantly shouting for more war and death, and that was what the masses of humanity had always seen from ruling orders for as long as they remember. And so, when writing history, the historical writers did not bother with the grand Lies and omissions that plague modern historical charlatanry. The political writers wrote frankly of contempt for the masses. This contempt is found in the first liberal writers and the writers of the Enlightenment. Writing of any sort was by the aristocracy and for the aristocracy, and that habit continued when the "aristocracy" in question were elevated commoners. This primordial faith of the ruling ideas that the masses were retarded would never be abandoned, and writing as late as the early-mid 20th century wrote openly and disparagingly about human intellect and potential. The difference that was discovered in the 19th century is that a program of habitual mass Lying was necessary that was something more than a spiritual Lying. In the past, all that was expected of the masses was token fealty to Christianity or the local religion, and the regular and routine humiliation of the lower classes by the nobility that became an expected tribute. In the future, the masses would have to be made retarded and nothing else, lest any of them circumvent the ruling program. The conditions of the new industrial society did not allow the lower classes to be confined to rural areas. They were now in the cities, and in theory they could read the same books and attend the same assemblies as their betters. That was in part how the nascent new aristocracy formed in the first place, and so the aristocracy of this corporate government was uniquely obsessed with intelligence and information in a way that past ruling classes were not. It did not take too long for the powers that be to develop a philosophical program of Lying and mass deception, and the invasion of private life of the most insidious mental poison began. This is where the ideas of what would become the German ideology, and eventually what I have called "The Retarded Ideology" incubated. They began among the same associations that fomented "revolution", creating beforehand an instrument that would prepare the world to be absorbed into such a beast. The origin of the "German" ideology is the same occultism that was found in Masonry and found among this very clique. It did not take long for the "opposition to Empire" in the continent to metastasize in Germany and among a certain group of intellectuals. This was the beginning of a most foul editing of history, which continues to this day. The third requirement of this clique was a theory of intelligence proper, for no philosophical or spiritual idea of the past was sufficient for understanding the world as we could easily see it at that time. This applied to the intellectuals, to the masses, to the nobility, and to every other interest. In short, what was needed, and what the clique loved to promote, was computerization and automation of thought, envisioning a grand clockwork that could be turned on at will. The final act would be to sever intelligence from humanistic conceits and superstitions, while the Germanic ideology would lock the lower orders into a false "dual system" where intelligence was inadmissible.
All of these necessary components would form around the clique most attached to the fate of such an empire, and they would be shepherded into existence only at their guidance. Anyone who interfered with such a program was a Potential Trouble Source. The oppositional clique, which would be assigned to the conservative order, were always aware that they were never to actually "win" the struggle they brayed about. If they ever came close to winning, some saboteur among them would have to be blamed for the correction of history to fulfill the original imperial plan. Go-betweens communicate between the imperial clique, whose obsession was to control intelligence and make the masses retarded, and the "dissidents" who claim they are fighting such an Empire, so that everyone remains committed to the same program. Above all, the clique understands that they must snuff out all ideas inimical to their ruling ideas. Where would those ideas arise? They would arise from members of the commons whose mindset is political, and who want to do what the imperial "revolutionaries" did to seize the state and institutions, but for themselves. Sometimes the insurrectionists believe that they are establishing some system of justice. Nothing about the world and Nature prevents such a goal from being realized. It would have been a simple, almost trivial thing to reject this asinine dichotomy that was insinuated. The full program to realize this snuffing out of all potential in history required something more than the theory of history itself, and so it is outside the scope of the present Book. It is this snuffing-out that is part of what I had to write these books, as you can tell.
Throughout the events I have described when recounting modern history, this clique has been active, and they do so for a program that is particular to our time. They do not actually stretch back into the mists of the primordial, nor do they extend to the infinite future. They are motivated by a drive to realize the unification of the Earth under their dominion "before the return of the Christ". That is to say, they believe they are fulfilling a prophecy of their own choosing ahead of whatever prophecy is given to the general public. Everything about this requires a belief that they alone command the vanguard of historical progress and can drive it not just ideologically, but materially and scientifically. If the German ideology is the ideological "dissident" destined to lose, the new prophetic method would flip the method on its head. The material would be placed before the idea. So long as everyone plays by the same general plan and deviations are wiped out, then the same sort of people and the same mentality regarding history can be enforced among all actors, and within the Law such a theory prescribes, there can be nothing outside it. If this sounds like Marx's historical materialism, then gold star for you. It must be remembered that this method is not what the clique believes in total. It is, like the Hegelian method, a tool for a purpose, and its purpose is limited. It is not a revolutionary tool or a tool for understanding anything that happens. It is not scientific, and if a child saw this for what it was, the child would see the stupidity of its arguments. If however the whole society were consumed in this mission, and social promotion were contingent on accepting such a reality from cradle to grave, it would be locked in permanently and could, at long last, make reality conform to its predictions. This could be done for any imperative in theory, but in practice, it was for the imperial mission guided by the core clique, who were not Marxists but always "somehow" one or more steps ahead every time, until "The Science" caught up to what was already planned to be revealed to the public. There is an endgame, and it is not the endgame any of them wished for at the start or the endgame that "should" happen by their own conceits of what the world was. But, as we know in these Books, "history does not work that way", and so those who were not so pigheaded could foresee, without too much difficulty or really an effort to hide it, that the intended purpose was scientific despotism. In other words, the entire aim of the clique was to dissolve such a thing as a "republic". Who would want that above all else? The imperial masters who wanted to bring the "error of history" that is the United States to heel. The end of the United States, which is at hand as I write these words, marks the end of this clique's first and intended program. Now, though, that machine cannot be turned off, and it proceeds to do the only thing it can do, with nothing in the world that can stop it. Even if there were something in the world to stop it, the imperatives of the theory must make this inadmissible.
Before the theory was worked out, it was already at work among the core members of the clique, and the theories of education and human society they believed natural, eternal, inevitable, and desirable for their own sake. Make no mistake that the soul of Malthus, Darwin, and the rest of this clique is foul and beyond redemption. The thrill of torture must be maximized. That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from their conduct and the conduct of their followers. That is the only conclusion to be drawn to what they did to the world during the 1990s.
What is this clique? It is at its core the purification of the very approach to society I have described in the first three books and large parts of this one, starting from the thought-experiment I opened these books with, in which the first presumption is a strictly material and inhuman view of the cosmos. Up until this time, humans remained much as they were since they were habituated to civilization; they remained "human", with the capabilities expected of a human being a constant in the thought of ruler and ruled alike. As much as the ruling aristocracies of the past liked to believe they were a race apart and could point to material evidence proving this "law of nature", there was no getting around the simple truth of the human animal. The lowest of humanity remained humanoid enough, and could only be degraded with considerable effort, and the results of these depredations were limited. Even when the manners of men were made coarse and despicable, they still had a brain, emotions, and some will to assert their own existence, even if this will was never utilized or was seen as an unwelcome quality. There was no ideology of total self-abasement and abject humiliation that could propagate unimpeded. And so, no clique could exist that purified the thought-form in the way I have described it. History remained a history of men, and the most evident machines that moved history were armies that waged battles and wars. If you looked at a history of humanity up to 1800, it was a history marked by wars and more wars, and every period of peace was a short reprieve from a general rule that war or preparation for the next war was the chief demand of the state. As the productive sciences now required intelligent, scholarly people to build the new productive machines and describe the new science, this had to change. Where the state primarily served a martial function and its legal and administrative functions were of secondary importance, in modernity brought to the forefront a new type of beast; the manager-as-state-officer that could and had a great desire to regulate private life. The formation of this new clique and the thought-form it entails—the very thinking on cosmology, politics, and the state that I have described in these books—was the rise of a beast that I shall call managerialism. It is this managerialism rather than "capitalism" or a political-economic situation that the new Empire encouraged in its thoughts and deeds. The highest rulers styled themselves not as warlords or priests or wise sages, but as managers whose function was to rule your private life and squeeze all of the toil and profit they could from your broken body.
This change did not wholly consume the ruling structure overnight, as the proclivity of the warlords, proprietors-as-lords, priests, and the sentimentality of most of humanity had no reason to go away. By a peculiar mentality regarding science and technology, this clique would become not just a new aristocracy like the old, but a managerial aristocracy that glorified all of the excesses and cruelties of the aristocratic tendency. This is the core conceit of the ruling clique of our time; not only "Slavery is Eternal", but "You will love your slavery". Who is obsessed with making the ruled love the rulers? Managers. Rulers of the past could not care less whether the ruled loved the king, because the king's command was not "love me". The king's command was that he ruled the land, and the ruled just lived there and paid rent and tribute to the king. The feudal oath was to love what the king loved and shun what the king shunned, rather than an oath of emotional abasement and indulgence for the monarch's pleasure. The king was not so much a "boss", as he was the temporal authority the ruled were going to regard whether they liked it or not, and regardless of any transactional relationship. While the nobles might believe in some delusion that their relation with the sovereign was a transactional one in which the noble could usurp the king and in the meantime the relationship was quid pro quo, the reality is that the king possessed a unique command of both the army and the loyalty of the peasantry. This the peasants gave not because they were given any goodies to do so or some notion that the peasants had any rights or position in the feudal system, but because the peasants did not regard the petty bickering of the noble politicians as something to fear or regard as anything but a nuisance. The peasant's loyalty did not arise from a social contract where the king promised to protect the peasants from foreign armies. The peasant's loyalty was one part fear of a monopoly the sovereign held, and one part recognition that this was the way power worked; that at the end of the day, the king's court had the utmost authority, and there was no "bargaining" of the sort that might be imagined. In other words, the mindset of the peasant was where it should have been and regarded reality rather than fantasy; that the government was a despotic government and not a republican or aristocratic one.
The ontology, metaphysics, and approach to the world I have described is the one I believe operative among this clique, roughly speaking, rather than "the Absolute truth" to be imposed on history. All I have described thus far is really a way to understand the thinking of this clique, so that the aristocratic germ—the aristocratic values—can be distilled and then granted to a class apart from the rest of humanity. The other castes are then segregated, naturalized as inferior castes, and then violently made into what they are "supposed" to be by torture, intrigue, and the right of transgression. It would only be in the technocratic polity that this purification could be fully realized, and there was no certainty that such a polity could exist or be viable in this world. The greatest problem was educational; the vast majority of humanity, including many in positions of rule and luxury, had no reason to go along with any program to regiment society in accord with these castes, or any caste system. The political ideas during the technocratic period remained those of humanity since classical Antiquity, with the same emphasis on personal virtue and obligation. The only idea of the eugenic creed was to violently strip away any political or religious education and any study of history that would entail the ruled having any context to compare their existence with the political obligations of any human society. Just because those obligations were not taught did not mean they didn't exist. The feudal peasant may have preferred ignorance of a political matter that did not pertain to him, but he certainly felt the consequences of the political class when war happened and when his life was ruined so that rich assholes can crow about being glorious soldiers. Now there was a new ontology and cosmology that was in force, propagated by the interests of caste that were held by this clique rather than a true need of the universe for such a condition to prevail. I remind the reader that all politics, all of the ways in which the general fear can be resolved, are affairs of human beings before they follow any generalized "system"; and this in turn imposed a singular model as the only way we really can see these things within political society.
Science in the genuine sense was necessary to verify that such a cosmology could be imposed. Science itself was never reliant on any cosmology as such. To arrest history, the name and practice of science had to be captured completely, and nothing less would do. Not one iota of "science" may be conducted independently from this clique. And so, the understanding of science I gave in Chapter 25 was understood, if not explicitly then by the implications of their chosen beliefs regarding humanity.
If there is to be an escape from this clique, then we will in the long term need to escape their cosmology, their ontology, and their entire philosophy. This does not mean we need to make assertions about the universe founded on nothing but our fear of Them. What I have endeavored to do in these books is to take the eugenic creed's own cosmology at face value and explain why it is so farcical, rather than play the denial game that was seeded in the failures of our time to give them a "slave morality" or some Germanic faggotry of the lowest sort. The cosmology of the eugenists is profoundly anti-human, and so is mine. I have and will continue to make clear that such a world as the one they want will not turn out the way their theory insists it will, with eternal victory and life for the faithful of the creed. It only creates faggotry, for faggotry, and can do nothing else. If however there is to be a truly useful understanding of what humanity might be in the distant future, we must first dissect the origin of this ruinous Hindoo caste system and why it was advanced by the East India Company clique in the most aggressive form yet known. We then ask ourselves where the proper genesis for our thought is, and undeniably it is in the lowest class rather than the conceits that aristocracy fomented that are opposed to it. If though the lowest class is for something other than torture and suffering, then we too may diversify, and we are not locked into a singular ontology to describe the world and be able to communicate intelligibly with each other. Nothing about the core cosmology of the ruling clique required the particularly ruinous ideology to appear. Ideology is for the slaves, and a vicious tool that brought nothing good to the world. Eugenics chose ideology not because the ruling clique needed this tool for their own sake, but because ideology was a weapon known to destroy thought so thoroughly that nothing could grow. The true direction of the critique against the eugenic creed is for the lowest class to be something more than "the lowest class" and something outside caste or the hitherto established methods of thought given to us by this cycle. How that can be done is not a trivial topic to discuss, and to begin it in earnest detracts too much from what I must write in The Retarded Ideology. I have given some hints to it throughout this book, and perhaps another day the necessity of revelation, prophecy, and higher knowledge, a thing outside the disgusting beast that is this Hindoo caste system, can be described, whether by me or better people. So too does the bitterness of the critique, the dogged opponent of all such schemes to regiment the world, have a place among us. This, the other orders can all in their own way appreciate. It was not a given that aristocracy, despite its proclivity for low cunning and avarice, had to go down the path it did. Ideology and the utmost slavery it entails has been a choice. So too is the exultant screaming for death that defines the eugenic creed in all of its aspects, when it has been fully developed. The clique I describe are evil men and women who have nothing else in them and not a single shred of consideration for anything but their Satanic faggotry. The ideologues, at least, can claim they had a system for a purpose, however ruinous it was. If someone believes "ideology", this poison, can be a tool for liberation, they are doing something far worse than deluding themselves.
The critique thus far has been given by the pedagogues to the slaves, with dripping contempt and mockery in every statement, every thought, and every deed. In their hearts, none of the so-called social critics have any conviction to fight Eugenics, and have gone far out of their way to defend the eugenic creed where the ordinary men and women of mankind have freely stated, for perfectly reasonable reasons of their own, what an abomination this disgusting movement has been and will always be simply from the premises it advances about what humanity and the world should be. The "critique" of the ruling ideas has grown to something far greater than mere ideology. A whole system of false teachings and theories are established, and in the 21st century, these systems are constantly reinvented out of whole cloth. They always deny the centrality of Eugenics to the ruling ideas and the clique that established them, and deny that there is a monopoly at all despite the obvious truth and history that has yet to be edited. The most elaborate of the systems offer slivers of truth, only to redirect the adherents to a central lie of the false system. Marxism was the first and most successful of these systems of habitual Lying, starting from premises that were inoffensive and reasonable enough; that history was the result of material beings, human beings and all that they encompass being among those material forces. Since the middle of the 20th century, Marxism has ceased to be an effective intellectual force, and it has been superseded by new, institutionally-mandated systems that are backed by a vast preponderance of violence. Since those systems are peculiar to the technocratic period while Marxism was not, they can only be described partially here, and I do not have enough time to describe the vast systems of Lying that were taught to the children. In the biggest systems of such Lying, their fidelity to the eugenic creed is made prominent and visible, for they love to create out of fools a display of "true belief" in the power of this clique to Lie and continue Lying. As the eugenic monopoly becomes more total over the world, the systems of Lying must show their sworn loyalty to the eugenic creed above all and no Other, while this was not true of the Marxists. The Marxists could just as well have repurposed their program for some other objective, or chosen to retrench the technocratic polity for its own sake without regard to any other vision, in which case the nihilism inherent in that disgusting method would have led to the demise from within of the Marxist school, for it could never survive on its own terms without a "host" to destroy. If Marxism had never been invented or never caught on—and Marx's ideas were marginal until the critical period during the 20th century where they were globally ascendant—the same sort of habitual Lying could have appeared, with the same hypocrisy and destructive ends, and it would have been more or less inevitable given what the clique that seized true power wanted. The Marxists, whatever they hoped to accomplish, were still a force unto themselves with some agency, however fickle it was, rather than a thing animated into existence by higher powers alone and shamelessly beholden to them. It was never too hard to see the Masonic hand animating the Marxists much as they directed the precursors of the Fascists and every "revolutionary" party since the American Rebellion; but by drawing in many useful idiots who had no fidelity to Masonry or the usual faggotry associated with such, who would have been repulsed by the very mention of Jabulon and all its stench brought to humanity, the Marxist method produced a strange base of true believers who, unaware of what the fuck they were doing, envisioned a uniquely critical view of the world and humanity that would endure to spite the primordial ritual sacrifice that defined their race, their nations, and the whole of human history up to now. A few scattered remnants of that base remain as of this writing in the 21st century, but their hopes and aspirations, which were always given over to a system of Lying, are diminishing. They are old, and in the place of the old spirit of communism—which had an existence prior to and outside Marx or any system of habitual Lying—a new, ghastly, mocking creature has been created, a parodic form of Marxism itself that is a fitting end to the incessant mockery that was at the heart of the Marxist method.
The true critique arises not from any theory or instigation or insinuation. All of those things have been creatures of aristocracy, and as we will see in the sixth book of this series, monopolizing instigation and insinuation and the taboo was at the very heart of Francis Galton's revolutionary strategy. Francis Galton is perhaps the most astute student of revolutionary theory yet known to Man, and he did it all to ensure that there could be no revolution, no challenge whatsoever to Empire and the foulest conceits of his race, his nation, and the foul clique to which he belonged. Where did the true critique exist? In the lowest class, who have throughout history lived too miserable and short a life to leave behind any record. There is only one time in human history where it was different to any noticeable degree. That time is the present in which I write, and yet there is no critique or anything close to that. All of my efforts here have been descriptive rather than prescriptive, and I cannot give a great prescription until the cycle of these books from the first method to the endgame of scientific despotism has been described. I still have no great answer. I can only speak of what might have been in another time, another existence, and perhaps that existence was never meant to be for humans. All I can say for now is that history does not work that way, and I hope the chapters describing the theory of history itself have been helpful for the reader, so that the reader may discover for their self how it went so wrong, rather than rely on regurgitation of my own rather pitiful life story or the account I reconstruct here.
[1] Some people will say this "Problem, Reaction, Solution" idea is a "conspiracy theory", so let your boy Eugene educate you on its real origin. The real origin of “Problem, Reaction, Solution” is in psychotherapy seminars and methods like Erhard Seminar Training, in which a crisis is miniaturized and repeated ad nauseam to create a preferred outcome, and then this method is applied to everything and everyone that a human being could possibly do. It is a modification of methods found in the Hegelian dialectic and in “theory of mind” work of the psychoanalysts, hence why Hegel is invoked. Hegel’s thought pertained to a type of political thinking regarding the state and the subject’s relation to it rather than a micro crisis. There is a lot of bile I can write about Hegel, but effectively, Hegel’s system put a stopper in science, thought, and rationality, so that thought would be terminated if it challenged the state and the ruling power of that state, which in his case was the arch-conservative Prussian monarchy. The latter “Problem, Reaction, Solution” is the full realization of that stopper; but, crucially, to get to today’s “Problem, Reaction, Solution” requires a thorough cataloging of all social information and a theory of society that is entirely alien to Hegel. Hegel’s thought (and consequently Marx’s thought) could not process “systems” in the way that became common in scientific approaches during the 20th century. There are arguments about what debt if any systems thought owes to Hegel and Kant and the German idealists, since part of the seminal literature of general systems theory came from the German Academy and the Soviet Academy that was self-consciously emulating German philosophy and education. Mostly though, “Problem, Reaction, Solution” is only sensical if someone envisions a society that is automated and computerized, and that is a late 20th century development.
This isn’t a “conspiracy theory”. This method, first trialed in corporate seminars like est to train a new class of managers, would be rolled out in education, especially during the 1990s. I saw in high school such a seminar that specifically invoked “Problem, Reaction, Solution”, and it was the nastiest shit you can imagine. Things like this were done flagrantly, and then you were told that it wasn’t actually happening. The verbiage was picked up by David Icke and “mystified” or “shitcoated” to make it appear as something you weren’t allowed to talk about, but the method is very simple. The method is similar to that used in “struggle sessions” to break down the resolve of an individual against some imagined collective institution. Crucially, the collective institution is always impersonal and utterly alien to the individual, rather than one that the individual could be a member of in any capacity. Since Hegel’s thought is explicitly anti-democratic and contemptuous of freedom, you can see the resemblance, since that is the purpose. This sort of thing also became very big in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, when the political class was ready to tear down the USSR from within. Because everything in the USSR was centralized under the Party, it spread far more rapidly and by 1992 the USSR was no more. It didn’t help that this method was tailor-made to use the Marxist method against the state, and perhaps that was always inherent in the construction of the Soviet Union.
After 2000 this method was refined and deployed in online communication, and it has rapidly accelerated the invasion of every online space, since it can be deployed by bots, selective boosting, and implied threats behind the words. The other thing about this method is that it essentializes the symbolic word itself as power “in of itself”, once again returning to German idealism and Hegel, and so the mere statement of the method is believed to always be operative, rather than it being something that happens in a world that could be understood, where the individual or any scientific thought could preempt the instigation.
What we are seeing now is the downfall of this method, because, as anyone who can think can tell you, it is designed to drive subjects insane and make society ungovernable and intolerable. The power that instigated this, much like the Nazis in Germany did, is ready to step into the vacuum and do its nastiest work. It’s also failing because human beings do preempt it, and the method doesn’t work to actually change people. It only terrorizes them into temporary silence since it’s “improper” to act against the system, and everyone knows the consequences of turning against the prevailing system entirely. The only way this method worked is because a very terrible threat was held over the people to make them accept it no matter what, and once the threat was made, many more threats immediately followed. What happened in response is that those who resist preempt these statements and instigations entirely. The main function of doing this is to make institutional society with legal order impossible, so it can be replaced with a new form of government.