Overthrow

 Translated from MSZ 5-1982 FOR MERIT! Democratic rulers—like all rulers—have always enjoyed adorning themselves with the works, or even personal acquaintance, of various artistic and intellectual luminaries. Not that they personally found the works particularly appealing. Their aim is to imbue the exercise of state power with a veneer of culture and humanity. Thus, a good German can elevate the dreariness of everyday democratic life with the certainty of belonging to a cultural nation. Depending on its current concerns, democracy selects the intellectual figures that best suit its agenda. While during the heyday of reformist ideals, the likes of Grass and Böll were showered with honors and cocktail parties in Bonn, this year one of the republic's most prestigious literary prizes—the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main—went to Ernst Jünger, a World War I and II front-line officer and writer. Contrary to rumors, this is not a misuse of the birthplace of the first German de...

AI, Robotics, warehouse fires, strikes? Yet again, factory, warehouse, and office owners, investors, those hedging their bets on AI, sing its praises to the high heavens: the latest technological advance is a reason for optimism! Rejoice! Everybody in this wonderful consumer society will reap the benefits. Think of all the applications: surgery, detecting cancer, faster delivery, hands free driving, no more people getting maimed at dangerous jobs like oil rig workers, welding, electrical linemen, truck drivers, fire fighting, machine operation, soldiers, tree cutters, and on and on. And even the non dangerous jobs, the expensive "brain workers" responsible for culture-- it turns out they use their brains so much pumping out recycled homogenous shit, standardized cultural commodities, the same stories, the same art, music, and so on over and over and over that a computer with a fancy program can now ape the generic products and pump them out without having to pay a screen writ...

According to the modest small townsfolk, the immoral decay and rot of the liberal big cities has finally reached where it doesn't belong: the rural areas on the outskirts.  In my hometown, Mercer, PA a substitute teacher recently went viral for wearing a modest dress which went down to the knees. A student took a photo and posted it online. A torrent of outraged parents expressed consternation that the school administration would allow THAT around children. That might seem odd, and maybe even a breach of that teacher's privacy. Who likes to have candid photos snapped of themselves and posted online without one's knowledge? But that was not what people were upset over, and it didn't figure into their moral outrage.  The plot thickens.  So, what were they outraged about? The person in the photo taken by the student, it turns out has a shaved head, and a fading hairline. It turns out they are a trans woman (male to female), and this caused a huge outpouring of moral outrag...

 "Communism is quite incomprehensible to our saint because the communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically either in its sentimental or its high-flown ideological form; they rather demonstrate its material source, with which it disappears of itself. The communists do not preach morality at all, as Stirner does so extensively. They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that egoism, just as much as selflessness, is in definite circumstances a necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals." -Marx, German Ideology “By taking away also property” (!) “the socialists do not take into account that its continuance is safeguarded by the peculiarities of human beings. Are only money and goods property, or is not every opinion also something that is mine, that belongs to me? Hence, every opinion must be abolished o...