If there is one thing that a careful analysis of the past 100 years teaches us, it may be that Governments, tyrants and political parties may have done more harm, then good. This is of course not a plea to anarchy or any form of post-capitalist resignation, but to the spiritual power and resilience of human beings to use their psychological freedom for practical acts and ends.
I see this potential for a new form of spiritual re-orientation towards the instinct to preserve the sanctity of human uniqueness. Politically speaking, this spiritual evolution I make reference to may well end up playing a pivotal role in the future of how citizens decide to re-organize their own political structures.
Perhaps the alternative to total authoritarianism or total anarchy may be a found in the middle-ground in the form of a rational gravitation towards Civic Republican values. Civic humanism is slightly wider in scope and stresses the central role of civic virtue in the preservation of the classically Roman/Florentine ideal of political liberty.
As long as there is time, creativity and a collective conscious of the will to power, there will always be hidden possibilities to radically transform our civic attitudes towards blind obedience to authority, money, validation, status, exceptionalism and technological advancement. In short, a spiritual rebellion against what Marx termed, “Commodity fetishism.”
Humanity can either take a great leap forward, or three or four leaps backwards, but whatever the case may be, I am certain that Humanity has hope, as long as individuals formulate conceptual values grounded in some version of existential hope. Individuals as opposed to artificial groups or organizations are the foundations of true freedom and liberation.
It is in an effort to collectively seek to embrace and exalt the power of our differences and unique “life forces”, and see them as imperative to a collective heightening of spiritual consciousness that we can once and for all decide to move forward. It is all about the individual. And we can all become a better world if we become better, more loving individuals ourselves. There is no other way that will ever work better than love.” Not a whimsical or overwhelmingly romanticized platonic form of love, but rather a pragmatic love of all who are subject to the human condition.
This pragmatic solidarity can also be extended to all other living beings of the universe at large, and can be grounded in a form of pre-technological stoic rationality, which would then be able to reverse the existential errors created by an industrial and globalized world, which Herbert Marcuse makes much mention of in his famous 1964 work “One Dimensional Man“. Civic Republicanism infused with ancient and pre-monotheistic spirituality may be the illusive alternative to Western Liberalism.
The Contrarian Aquarian Platform 