1855 || practice disobedience

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3:03It is always an institution or men who use force in one form or another and who fraudulently claim omniscience and omnipotence. My obedience makes me part of the power I worship and hence I feel strong. I can make no error since it decides for me. I cannot be alone because it watches over me. I cannot commit a sin because it does not let me do so. And even if I do sin, the punishment is only the way of returning to the almighty power. In order to disobey, you have to have the courage to be alone, to make mistakes and to sin. But courage is not enough. The capacity for courage depends on a person's state of development. Only if a person has emerged from a mother's lap and a father's commands, only if he is emerged as a fully developed individual and thus has acquired the capacity to think and feel for himself, only then can he have the courage to say no to power, to disobey.

4:05A person can become free through acts of disobedience by learning to say no to power. But not only is the capacity for disobedience, the condition for freedom, freedom is also the condition for disobedience. If I'm afraid of freedom, I can't dare to say no. I cannot have the courage to be disobedient. Indeed freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable. Any social, political or religious system which proclaims freedom but stamps out disobedience cannot speak the truth. He goes on to say, there is another reason why it's so difficult to dare to disobey, to say no to power. During most of human history, obedience has been identified with virtue and disobedience with sin. The reason is simple. As far throughout most of history, a minority has ruled over the majority. This rule was made necessary by the fact that there was only enough of the good things

5:08in life for the few, and only the crumbs remained for the many. If the few wanted to enjoy the good things and beyond that to have the many serve them and work for them, one condition was necessary. The many had to learn obedience. To be sure, obedience can be established by sheer force, but this method has some disadvantages. It constitutes a constant threat that one day the many might have the means to overthrow the few by force. Furthermore, there are many kinds of work which cannot get done properly if there is nothing but fear behind the obedience. Hence, the obedience which is only rooted in fear of force must be transformed into one rooted in man's heart. You have to convince a man to want and even need to obey instead of just fearing the disobeying. If this is to be achieved, power must assume the qualities of the all good, the all wise, the all knowing. It's very Godlike.

6:10If this happens, power can proclaim that disobedience is sin and obedience is a virtue. And once this has been proclaimed, the many can accept obedience because it is good. And detest disobedience because it is bad, rather than to detest themselves for being coward. From Luther to the 19th century, one was concerned with overt and explicit authorities. Luther, the Pope, the princes wanted to uphold it. The middle classes, the workers, the philosophers tried to uproot it. The fight against authority in the state, as well as in the family, was often the very basis for the development of an independent and daring person. This fight against authority was inseparable from the intellectual mood, which characterized the philosophers of the Enlightenment and the scientists. This critical mood was one of faith and reason. And at the same time of doubt and everything which is said or thought, and as much it is

7:10based on tradition, superstition, custom or power, there's this principle, dare to be wise, and of all one must doubt. These are the characteristics of the attitude which permitted and furthered the capacity to say no. Later in the book, he talks about how our political concepts have lost their spiritual roots. They've become more focused on expediency. Quote, the individual is managed and manipulated not only in the sphere of production, but also in the sphere of consumption, which allegedly is the one where we as individuals express our free choice, whether it's consumption of food or clothing or cigarettes or liquor or movies or TV programs, a powerful suggestion apparatus is employed with two purposes. First, to constantly increase our appetite for new commodities, and second, to direct these appetites into the channel's most profitable for industry.

8:12And so, while our economic system has enriched some men materially, it has impoverished him humanly. During our working hours, we are managed as part of a production team. During our hours of leisure, we're managed and manipulated to be the perfect consumer, who likes what we're told to like, and have the illusion that we follow our own tastes. We are constantly hammered at by slogans, suggestions, by voices of unreality, which deprive us of the last bit of realism we might still have. From childhood on, our true convictions are discouraged. There's little critical thought, and there's little real feeling. Only conformity with the rest can save the individual from an unbearable feeling of loneliness and lossness. Mark's work is alienated from himself and bows down before the work of his own hands. He bows down before the thing he produces, before the state, and before the leaders of his own making.

9:12So Mark's was right when he said, the place of all physical and mental senses has been taken by the self-alienation of all these senses, by the sense of having. Private property has made us so stupid and important that things become ours only if we have them. That is, if they exist for us as capital, if they are owned by us, eaten by us, drunk by us, that is used by us. We are poor in spite of all of our wealth, because we have much, but we are little. When we alienate ourselves, and we only worry about our productivity, we end up feeling incredibly lonely, incredibly insecure and depressed. And we suffer from a lack of joy in the midst of plenty. Life cannot make sense like this. And yet we are convinced that we can escape this feeling of joylessness and meaninglessness by following one of the innumerable avenues of escape that the system offers. We got TV, we got tranquilizers, we got anything that can help you forget that you are losing

10:15more and more of what is valuable in life. This was written in 1981, and he talks about how we are quickly approaching a society governed by bureaucrats who administer a mass man, who is well fed while taking care of, but dehumanized and depressed. We produce machines that are like men and men who are like machines. That which was the greatest criticism of socialism 50 years ago that it would lead to uniformity, bureaucratization, centralization, and a soulless materialism is actually a reality of today's capitalism. Everything they warned you socialism would be is what we have now. We talk of freedom and democracy, but an increasing number of people are afraid of the responsibility of both. We have no faith in democracy, and we are happy to leave it to the political experts to make the decisions. But those experts are corrupt, and that means we are too. We have a widespread system of communication, radio, TV, newspapers, and now the internet.

11:20Remember this was written in the 80s, but people are so misinformed and indoctrinated, rather than informed about political and social realities. In fact, there is a degree of uniformity in our opinions and ideas, because it is caused by fear. And instead of becoming the master of the machines we have built, we have become their servants. And this makes it difficult to solve our problems. It is hard to stop worshipping the things that we have used to worship. We do have a deep longing for something we can work for. Something to have faith in. Shit, our whole vitality depends on the fact that we can transcend the routine part of our existence, that we strive for the fulfillment of a vision which is not impossible to realize, even though it's not yet been achieved. If we're given no chance to strive for a rational, humanistic vision, we will eventually be worn out and depressed by the boredom of our life. In fall prey to the irrational, satanic visions of dictators and demagogues, our society offers

12:22no ideals. It demands no faith, and it has no vision, except for more of the same, which is profits over people. From ends by appealing to faith, hope, and imagination, a deep faith in man and a vision of a new human form of society. And we must be radical about it. To be radical and go to the roots and the root is us. As always, you can access the original resources in the show notes if you're interested. In the meantime, just know I love you so much. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and I'll talk to you tomorrow while you make your damn bed. Goodbye, cutie. Take-talk at NYDB Podcast for occasional updates, and if you could rate and review this episode 5 stars wherever you're listening, it genuinely helps the podcast at its core.

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