I’m Going to Overthrow This Government
“If we are individuals, what is a society? - Francis Furet
I was with a mentally ill man, who suddenly said: “I’m going to overthrow this government.” And he continued: “When there is crisis and disillusionment, people are willing to change; we should infiltrate and look for allies, buy the necessary weapons, or plan the introduction of influences from Cuba or Russia.”
When asked if his goal was to proclaim himself leader of the revolution, he replied: “I want to be the master of the world.” He said that, by overthrowing this government, the first thing he would do would be to close the bars and put people to work the land and eat its fruits, he would close the brothels and the prostitutes would be the workers’ laundresses.
He reminded me of Hitler. You have to be crazy to go to extremes: kill and kill yourself for the lust of power.
If Hitler lived in this era and had told his family that he wanted to be the master of the world, they would have immediately taken him to a psychiatric consultation. But politicians usually surround themselves with other politicians, with the same crazy ideas of power and collectively perceive irrationality as something very normal.
In the story, as in every revolution, man seeks a change in the human being. The great political movements have had as their goal, to build a new man, socially happy, who fits into the tangled “social machinery”. To achieve this, they prescribe an “ideal life”: consume, work, fornicate, procreate, raise children like sheep, love halfway because we no longer know what it means to love (they have confused sexual union with love).
The sexual revolution has been a tactic to subjugate the world: recipe books have been created so that people reach orgasm and they do not realize that with an abyss in the middle, there is no possible orgasm.
Returning to the theme of the revolution, we find a contradiction; man was supposedly born free and is chained everywhere. Society and its mandates are the opposite of the intrinsic nature of man: freedom. It is like wanting to turn an African-American into an Aryan. History shows that the real struggle has been against human nature, striving to denature it.
According to Rousseau, the answer is: to deprive oneself of a little freedom in a conforming manner, in order to build “social well-being.” So far, this has not been achieved. Perhaps the error lies in the proposition.
And what is worrying are the consequences of this attempt to change the way man is: I observe that those who let themselves be completely swallowed up by the system are automatons. I would call it “the computerization of feelings,” it is the ultimate social manipulation; feeling joy for no reason, or feeling sadness for no reason, or feeling rejection for those who are different, exactly like computers prepared for everything.
