Thomas Hobbes is a founder of the modern political philosophy. We can deny his conclusions, like laws of mathematics and physics are denied in some American schools, but this is unlikely to help comprehend the ongoing processes.
The human society, Hobbes argued, in its primitive, natural form, is no more than a Brownian movement, where “everyone is at war with everyone.” Such is the nature of man (no matter how disgusting it may be for progressives), striving to satisfy the basic animal aspirations – power, sexual possession, gain. To avoid extermination of all by all, people are forced to agree to a “social contract”: they give up unbridled individual freedom in favor of rigid laws that ensure safety for all. People can choose different forms of state power: monarchy, elite republics, democracy. However, in any case, the state must provide for the basic norms of human society: security and order.
For this purpose, such institutions as the prosecutor’s office, courts, and the police were established and improved. All other functions of the state – commercial regulations, the rights of minorities, the privileges of estates, the distribution of income, the protection of nature – are secondary and unimportant in comparison with law and order.
The human society has been undergoing this process transforming from the most primitive forms to those complex. At first, large clans arose, headed by a leader or tribal council; then they united into principalities; at the next stage, there was a transformation into centralized monarchies. At the present stage, they transformed into totalitarian states based on universalist ideologies (Communism, Nazism, Fascism) and developed democracies.
This development has been uneven. Some people, like most of the Arab and African countries, have not been able to completely abandon the tribal system of relations, and as the result, the artificially created states in those regions ended up being very fragile. Others, like Europeans and their colonies in the New World, were able to build democracies where people became full-fledged citizens protected by law, regardless of class, gender, ethnic origin, and accumulated wealth.
However, before our eyes, history turned back unexpectedly and rapidly. The very concept of law in the West has become ephemeral. On paper, laws improved and became more complicated. In practice, the judiciary system has become a hostage to progressive and globalist mythology and a tool for undermining democratic institutions. Political correctness and multiculturalism have paralyzed the police, judicial and legal institutions. Then, with the help of even more aggressive and zombifying ideologies, such as Critical Race Theory, Political Identity, Cancel culture, Institutional Racism, Intersectionality, “White Privilege/ Male Privilege” etc., the neo-Marxist elite began to destroy not democracy only, but the states itself.
The stake was placed on deconstructive parties, marginal groups and minorities living according to the laws of the patriarchal world. These groups, invited from outside, as in Western Europe, or nurtured from within, as with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement inside the African American ghettos in the US or Islamist parties in Israel, with their cult of power, became an open challenge to Western norms and culture. All their activities have been aimed at destroying the state as such. Everywhere in the Western world, like mushrooms after the rain, archaic formations took root and grew, as if emerging from the prehistory of mankind.
In the new surreal reality, “the cream of society” – professors and bohemians, lawyers and tycoons of high-tech companies, human rights activists and the media – supported and defended the rights of rioters, drug dealers, traffickers, rapists and pedophiles. Militant feminists, gender-neutralists and pundits have justified burqa, female circumcision and vendettas.
Lawlessness has become the norm. Entire cities, regions and American states have begun to turn into “no man’s land,” dark and sinister lacunae, where there is neither law, nor order. Giant Muslim ghettos such as Belgium’s Molenbeek, and metropolitan areas such as Malmö and Marseille in Western Europe; Seattle, California, Chicago, and it seems even New York in the USA; the Bedouin Negev and the Arab cities in Israel – many areas of these are “lost territories” today. The law of the jungle rules here: gangs, clans, radical groups, militant preachers. These “abscesses” expel rioters, rapists, psychopaths, lone Muslim fanatics.
The police don’t stop them. The courts justify and protect them. Public prosecutors initiate cases against those who dare to challenge them.
Legislative assemblies have become hostages of marginal parties, that under the veil of demagogy about human rights and democracy undermine state national institutions. BLM and Antifa in the USA, the “Muslim Brotherhood” parties in Western Europe and Israel, dictate the norms and rules of life, where the majority of the indigenous population is assigned the role of obedient, unfortunate Eloi, trembling with fear at nights before the bloodthirsty Morlocks. These parties and movements receive double support: from the ruling elites and external players – Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Pakistan, etc. The very state, the main task of which is to prevent chaos, instills the atmosphere of chaos, arbitrariness, the cult of primitive and fanatical beliefs. All of this is happening at a truly staggering pace.
This is the picture today and, no matter how gloomy it may be, one should accept it as given, without giving in to vain illusions.
Democracy has become a fiction. The right parties, even having won the elections, are forced either to follow the path of the radical left, as Merkel did and Boris Johnson does today, or to oppose the full power of the new kind of totalitarian system, including the highest bureaucracy, the prosecutor’s office, the academy and the media. As the experience of Trump, Netanyahu, Matteo Salvini and Sebastian Kurtz has shown, this is a doomed war. A ruler trying to save his country will be bound hand and foot and then removed from power. The worldwide “Church of Progressivism” knows no mercy for heretics. And the fact that he will be eliminated with the help of not poison or a dagger, but accusations of sexual harassment in adolescence does not fundamentally change the matter.
Thus, before our eyes, modern states are falling into the void, and most Western countries have already passed the point of no return. Destructive processes can be stopped only through military dictatorship, which seems impossible, no matter how you feel about it. This means that Western civilization (with the possible exception of Eastern Europe) is rapidly returning to the Dark Ages, where people did not live, but rather survived in the conditions of “the war of all against all.” Hostages to spontaneous riots, maddened crowds, crazy leaders, Muslim caliphs in the south and steppe hordes from the East, the recent subjects of the Roman Empire were in perpetual motion, seeking shelter from the frenzy taking place around.
This is what is happening now before our eyes. Families are leaving San Francisco, Portland, New York, Chicago, London, Paris and Stockholm, fleeing banditry, anarchy and violence and leaving behind a “no man’s land” inhabited by all sorts of rabble – local and foreign. In the same way, the Jews of Lod and Jaffa are fleeing from their homes, seeking shelter from the Arab rioters.
The same what happened in Libya, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Mali and Somalia is now rapidly happening In Western countries : a state formally remains on the map, but ceases to be a state as such. It breaks up into ethnic and religious enclaves, zones of influence of clans and criminal groups, strongholds of drug cartels and armed militias. In this bizarre mosaic, the luxurious villas of local oligarchs with their own security forces exist side by side with enclaves of poverty and banditry, and sharia law ghettoes border with expensive boutiques, fine restaurants and postmodern buildings, where high-ranking officials rant about liberal values and the new world order.
In fact, the “new order” has already come to us. And its name is “the war of all against all.” History returns to its starting point.
Author of book Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger)
mortimer says
I agree that Islam is ‘archaic’. Its ideas are from the Bronze Age, including hand-chopping and crucifixion. Islam tries to REGRESS people to this idealized past tense. That is why Churchill call it ‘the most retrograde force’,
However, Islam has been under severe intellectual scrutiny for the last 25 years, and the results of that scrutiny are finally being seen, with about 10 million Muslims leaving Islam every year. Mullahs report that even those who have memorized the Koran and who teach and lead prayers in the mosque are confessing to their unbelief, even as they go through the motions of being pious Muslims. Islam is facing a massive collapse due to the intellectually hammering it is taking and which Islam is incapable of sustaining much longer. Muslims are realizing that Islam is not only ‘archaic’, but patent nonsense that is harmful to life, to its enjoyment and to human rights and freedoms. The Muslim leaders see that Muslims are quietly walking out the doors and not coming back.
There is something in computer hacking called a ‘brute force attack’. That involves going through every possible combination of words, keyboard letters, symbols and numbers in order to find the code (or password) that will unlock the system so the hacker may enter it and find the secrets.
Western scholars (e.g. Robert Spencer) and other lesser lights in large numbers have ‘hacked into’ Islam’s secrets and discovered almost all of those secrets, including how, where and when the Koran was fabricated by Arab con artists in the 8 century in particular. Muslim leaders realize that the jig is up and ordinary Muslims are seeing the errors in Islam’s primary texts that show Islam was entirely man-made by conniving, war-loving opportunists.
This archaic Death Cult will soon be finished and the mullahs and other Islamic leaders are starting to admit it. Islam’s leaders and gate-keepers can no longer herd the people with lies, threats of shaming, torture and death threats. The ordinary Muslims are tired of being lied to and threatened. Ordinary Muslims (due to the internet) can get accurate information about Islam and won’t take the absurd lies of their leaders anymore.
Hank says
It is frightening that you would need to revert to the days of Augustus, Trajan or Hadrian to get out of the instability, moral decline, paganism, chaos, confusion, and Islam described here. Yes, you would be able to walk from London to Syria and still be in the same country, but an inevitable Imperial Dictator may not be a benevolent type if such an event (collapse) is forced on society because of irresponsible, Leftist-Green-Islamophilic leaders of today who throw out God and country. This could have been avoided in the West if society stuck to its Judeo-Christian roots.
mortimer says
Agree with much of this by Hank. The breakdown of belief in our traditional Western values is by the design of the Frankfurt School. What we are seeing now is a people’s revolt against their theoretical and unworkable ideas.
Steve Turley (an academic himself) has been speaking out against the looniness of college teachers for years. He predicts a large scale revolt against the Frankfurt School which seems to be on the verge of happening now.
Ray Jarman says
As I have stated here at JW before, Islam in its truest form will destroy itself. Since each tribe believes that its vision of Islam is the only true interpretation, they will fight and only one tribe will be left standing which will then lead to internecine within the last tribe and only one person will remain. This is how Thomas Hobbes explained what would occur if man was left to his own without an authority in his whale of book called the “Leviathan.”
StacyGirl says
Yes, were it isolated the destruction would be quicker and not affect civilised peoples. I long for a return to the days of containment.
Walter Sieruk says
A jihadwatch.org article informs the reader that “The Black Lives Matter organization has embraced the movement known as the Red /Green alliance” which is the Communist -Islamic alliance.
So, it in the United Kingdom or the United States of America the BLM members don’t realize of know it but they are only what are called the “useful idiots” of the decadent jihadists in their quest for the advancement of Islam and the establishment of Sharia law in all nations.
If successful in their Islamic agenda those violent jihadists will turn on their BLM stooges who they use as their tools for they might get in the way of the enactment of Sharia law which is very strict harsh and cruel.
Related to all this it might be of interest to some BLM members that a scholar on Islam who is an Arab woman and speakers and reads Arabic and uses to live in one those countries on the Middle East had exposes in her book that the prophet of Islam, Muhammad referred to Blacks as “ ‘raisin heads’ several time in the hadith [1:663:9:256]”
Her book also reveals that “Throughout the hadith blacks are also referred to as abeds, which means ‘black in Arabic and is also synonymous with the word “slave’ and filth.” In fact, Arab Muslims have enslaved blacks for 1,400 years and the Black slave trade is still thriving in Sudan and Mauritania.”
Further in her same book the author reveals that “Most interesting, though, is the even though black slavery by Muslims began long ago, almost no descends of those slaves are alive today in the Muslim world. Why is there no black culture in the Middle East ? Most slaves were either killed or died from being worked to death.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 82, 183.
Walter Sieruk says
One of the “reasons” the hooligans of Black Life Matter burn the Bible is because the Bible has in it the Ten Commandments and commandment number six is “You shall not murder” Exodus 20:13. [N.K.J.V.] and BLM is a murderous group. As the following explains …
BLM is not a genuine or real civil rights organization but instead it’s an vicious,violent malicious dangerous an deadly terrorist entity.
For example, the murderous action of the BLM hooligans of shooting a young White woman dead for only telling them the truth that “All lives matter.” exposes many evil things about that vicious hate group.
This exposes the BLM thugs are so malicious and irrational that they can’t be reason with. In other words they are not rational and don’t understand reason
This also reveals that they are wicked in the true sense of being totally evil . They have proven that by the vicious murderous violence.
This poor young woman was so naive as to try to reason with those who aren’t rational but only vicious brutal cruel and murderous.
This alone exposes that BLM is not a real political action movement but an extremely violent terrorist/ criminal, murdering entity.
The BLM hooligans by celebrating the malicious murder of this young person by one of their thugs have expose that they and their group are not a genuine political organization but domestic terrorist group spiteful, hateful malice ,wicked thugs.
Those BLM supporters who celebrate the murder of this innocent young woman shall ,in time, be punished for their hate and malice
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As the Bible informs in reader in Proverbs 17:5. “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
That Black Live Matter SUV truck mass murderer, Darrel Brooks, has revealed the malicious, vicious, bloody murderous fruits of that criminal racist hate organization. This is not the first time a BLM terrorist murdered an innocent non-aggressive person that deadly affront was obviously a racially motivated hate crime.
Therefore, “hate crime charges in addition to a murder and assault charges should be filed against the domestic terrorist, Darrel Brooks.
As for the riots and other forms of violence, malice-filled are the fruits of BLM the Wisdom of Jesus does very much apply for Jesus taught “ By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [N.K.J.V.]
No wonder the BLM hooligans burn Bible’s, they don’t like that the teachings of Jesus reveal about them and their violent and murderous Marxist organization.
Such heinous thugs as Brooks and other MLB criminals in the Bible in Proverbs 4:16,17 Which reads “”For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.”
Likewise, in the New Testament such vicious lawless hooligans are found described in Romans 3::15 ,16. “Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known.”
Walter Sieruk says
The heads of Antifa have joined with the leaders s of BLM it hey will both fail to achieve to goals of their scheming Marxist agenda in the end.
Also in time, this demonic cult alliance of the leaders of Antifa and BLM will have it all comeback down hard on them. For the Bible Informs tits reader “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21. [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
With the problem and plague of dangerous sand vicious gangs in American cities, as MS -13, there is yet a different “breed” of violent malicious lawless hooligans as from the Marxist favoring thugs who make the band” called Antifa.
As exposed by the book UNMASKED: INSIDE ANTIFA’S S RADICAL PLAN TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY by Andy Ngo on page 98 the reader in informed that during January 2017 “In Washington DC, marauding gangs of Antifa overwhelmed police by braking window sand hurling projectiles.”
Likewise, in another places “masked Antifa extremists started fires on campus, destroyed property, threw incendiary devices hurled rocks at police…”
Those aren’t isolated incidents of Antifa violence and mayhem, it occurs in different cities, towns and place time and time again. Sometimes with murderous outcomes. Those criminal bands of Antifa hooligans have proven by their actions that there’re a malice-filled violent brutal gangs of domestic terrorists’ thugs and should be dealt with as such. As Thomas Jefferson had so wised written “With every barbarous people… force is law”
Furthermore, the author Mr. Ngo further reveals in his expose’ that “The militant far-left movement and ideology have existed for over half a century in Europe. It has had decades to develop a coherent ideology in both violent and non-violent strategies to undermine democracy under the guise of fighting fascism.”
To reiterate the last part of that sentence “to undermine under the guise of fighting fascism.” This only proves the old wise saying to be true. Which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Walter Sieruk says
In THE EPOCH TIMES A7. 1/26/22 article entitled “Antifa Shuts down College Event in New Hampshire.”
It informs its reader that “Dartmouth College moved and event online after far-left extremist threaten violence…”
It further reads “The live even scheduled at the Ivy League university in New Hampshire was called ‘Extremism in America” and was to feature conservative personality Andy Ngo, who has been violently attacked by Antifa in the past. Antifa and its sympathizer made several threats against the event.”
So much for freedom of speech. Actually, the lawless ruffians who made up Antifa really do believe in freedom of speech but only as long as it’s them doing the speaking.
This really shows not only who completely in tolerate Antifa is of those who differ from them, this likewise reveals to weak the platforms of the agenda people are for because they must fear, balance, as an opponent speaker will expose the terrible fragile flaws in what they believe.
Walter Sieruk says
A number of members of the Democrat party actually approve, but not often openly approve, of the violent looting shooters and arsonists of the hooligans who are members of Antifa.
Those members of the Democratic Party who condone and even encourage the violence of arson looting and shooting by Antifa have conveniently forgotten the truth spoken by their Democrat hero President, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Who in a speech declared “There is no American right to loot stores, or to burn buildings, or to fire rifles from the rooftops That is crime – the crime must be dealt with forcefully and swiftly, and certainly –under the law.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those violent and lawless hooligans who makeup Antifa have embraced and joined the Communist –Islamic alliance which is called the “Red/Green alliance.” Those Marxist leaders of Antifa also lead their members of this domestic terror organization to join with the jihadists against Western civilization and Western society.
Little do those Antifa ruffians know, realize or understand that they are just serving as “useful idiots” for the jihadist to achieve their Islamic goal advancement of Islam and the establishment of Sharia law of the nations of the West.
It most likely will not happen but if, and that is “If’ the jihadists succeed is achieving that Islamic agenda for the West, by using as Antifa “soldiers”, as their tools and stooges, in their Islamic quest, they will turn on and their Antifa tools and eliminate them.
Those Antifa ruffians would never be tolerated in any Islamic country.
What fools those Antifa people, truly, are.
Walter Sieruk says
In America’s’ s “cultural war” between the conservatives, of the Right, and the vicious enemies of the far- left, Antifa which is the Marxist /Islamic alliance also called the Red /Green alliance. Those Antifa hooligans do poses a danger.
Hooligans they actually, for the have proven this, many over by their action’s violence and mayhem.
Those violent, criminal and lawless characters who compose Antifa have also proven by their own behavior that they are people of a very low intelligence level. For intelligent people are don’t carry on in awful violent ways
. People of intelligence use reason and logic by lobbying wit petitions Therefore people of intelligence, reason and logic the Antifa hooligans are not with their vicious assault’s chaos, mayhem, vandalism and other forms heinous violence.
In sum, in this Cultural War the brutal ruffians of Antifa are, somewhat of, a reminder of the 1979 movie which is entitled TIME AFTER TIME. In which the hero in that movie said, “The first man to raise his fist is the man who has run out of idea’s” So those of Antifa and other of the radical left are those in this cultural war are those men who “have run of Ideas.
Walter Sieruk says
A very fitting way to counter those violent thugs of Antifa is by the police using their strong might to come down hard of those Antifa hooligans. This is because the Antifa ruffians will not respond or understand the language reason and logic.
The Antifa characters will only understand the language of strong might. As Thomas Jefferson had, so well, declared “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
Walter Sieruk says
The vicious and destructive hooligans of Antifa and Black lives Matter show a little thought power in the most sinister and insidious ways of scheming evil .
Other than in that way they obviously have little and no reasoning ability ,as seen in the horrendous bedlam and chaos they raise in American cities maliciously harming people and destroying the infrastructure.
BLM isn’t a real civil rights group and bands of deadly terrorists.
The BLM thugs are too unintelligent to understand that by their deadly violence, vicious assaults they are only giving themselves a very bad name and thus harm their “cause” They might cause some people to fear them but not respect them , at all.
As one very intelligent Black man had had said “Fear without respect is terrible.”
As for the Marxists of Antifa ,they and their malice- filled violence most always being the one to strike out in violent actions first as a clear reminder that it had been said “The first man to raise his fist is the man who has run out of ideas.” Therefore those Artifa men striking out first are showing that they have run out of ideas.
Furthermore, the violent disorder and terrible mayhem those Antifia thugs commit in their deconstructionist ideology, then masquerading a a real “civil rights organization” in some kind of totally unrealistic fantasy and daydream tearing everything down to establish a “classless and stateless society” are showing their violent nature and irrational mindset
In sum , the Antifa and BLM hooligans can’t ever create or make anything that is good of value of worthwhile . They are completely useless for those excellent things
They just kill, maim and destroy.