Cracking the Cosmic Code, Part 4

[In this informal series, I will consider the all-important subject of “Cracking the Cosmic Code” – meaning demystifying and transcending the cosmic domain (multi-dimensional manifest existence) in the context of realizing (or awakening to and coinciding with) the unmanifest Di-“vine” Domain (Infinite Being, or Consciousness-Spirit), wherein Consciousness (or timeless Awareness) is one “vine” of the Divine Domain, or Infinite Being, and Spirit (or spaceless Clear-Light Energy) is the other.

I will consider this subject through the five essential “portals,” or branches, of classical philosophy – metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and esthetics. In this Part, the fourth of the series, my focus will be on sociopolitics and its relation with spiritual life. Part 1-3 of the series can be found in the archives of my blog: electricalspirituality.com]

In order to “crack the Cosmic Code” and awaken sociopolitically, one first must grok the four fundamental “isms” -- capitalism, socialism, individualism, statism – which, to varying degrees, characterize every modern sociopolitical system, state, or order.

These four fundamental “isms” can best be considered via Hegelian dialectic, meaning the application of thesis/antithesis/synthesis in order to explicate their respective sociopolitical natures and functions. These four fundamental “isms” are perfectly suited for Hegelian dialectic, because the respective pairs of capitalism/socialism and individualism/statism represent polar opposites on the sociopolitical scale. Hegelian dialectic makes clear the fundamental distinctions between these pairs and provides us with a logical synthesis or “solution” for integrating them.

Capitalism is generally considered an economic system, but it is fundamentally a social system based on the “free trader principle,” meaning that it allows independent contractors or agents to freely trade their (privately owned) goods, services, and monies amongst each other. Because these trades or contracts are entered into voluntarily, sans coercion, this social system allows for free choice, and thus represents true freedom. The polar opposite of capitalism is government socialism (a.k.a. Marxism and Communism), which arbitrarily denies or restricts the right to private property, which it forcefully expropriates to itself (under the guise of “for the common good”) and then redistributes in part to those whom it chooses. Just as it restricts or denies the right to private property, socialism likewise denies or restricts the trade of goods, services and monies amongst individuals. Whereas capitalism represents freedom, socialism represents slavery (to the dictates of the ruling State). Whereas capitalism is diametrically opposed to the initiation of force, State socialism is all about force (and the theft of private property). In short, free-market capitalism (which opposes crony “capitalism”) is non-violent, liberating, and good, while socialism is violent, tyrannical, and evil.

Politics refers to the governing laws in a particular geographical area. Those laws, in a truly free society, pertain equally to all individual adults, regardless of their race, sex, or sexual orientation. As soon as the ruling government begins to enact laws (such as affirmative action) that favor one group of individuals over another, it is guilty of fascist social engineering in the form of identity politics. In a free society, the government likewise has no business dictating what kind of social relations consenting adults can practice. To politicians who have outlawed prostitution (the right to own one’s body and freely “rent” it to others), I say, you are human vermin, not worth the oxygen you breathe. All drugs should also be legal, because the government has no business dictating what substances an adult can and cannot put into his or her body. The fact that the government made/makes marijuana -- a plant that grows freely in nature – illegal reflects the extreme fascist, anti-Constitutional control exercised by these government despots.

Individual rights not only should include the legality of drugs, gambling, prostitution, and all forms of victimless “crime” (a gross misnomer), but also economic freedom from the government’s greedy, grabbing paws. Just as there should be separation of Church and State, likewise there should be separation of Economy and State. Big MoFoBro (the Mother-Fucking Federal Government) has no constitutional right to tax individual income and property. Moreover, the fact that Big MoFoBro arbitrarily tiers tax rates to steal proportionally more money from those making more money spits in the face of their ideal of Equality. Furthermore, the fact that Big MoFoBro can arbitrarily raise these rates and seize your private property if you don’t pay these taxes bespeaks of violent (Marxist-Fascist) control of your life.

Statism is a war on individualism. If individual rights are honored by the State, then the State, rightfully, becomes subservient to the Constitutional rights of its governed people. And because the evil, tyrannical, Leviathan State does not wish to subordinate its power and control to the people, it brainwashes them to believe in the ideals of democracy (mob rule) and the (undefinable) “common good,” instead of the ideals of Constitutional republicanism and (inviolable) individual rights (which protect the individual from the anti-Constitutional dictates of the State).

Now for the synthesis of the thesis/antithesis involving capitalism-individualism/socialism-statism. Capitalism/individualism subsumes socialism/statism, meaning that the former allows for the voluntary practice of the latter, while the latter does not allow for the free practice of the former. In other words, in a true constitutional republic, individuals can opt to establish or join a statist or socialist collective, but in a statist democracy, individuals cannot opt for capitalism/individualism, because the State’s dictatorial dictates prohibit it. Consequently, capitalism/individualism represents the synthesis as well as the thesis, because it allows for the existence of both itself and voluntary socialism/statism.

The Politics of Spirituality

The majority of individuals involved in New Age and Eastern spirituality maintain a left-wing, or socialistic, bias, because they believe that socialism is more liberal, progressive, and humanistic than free-market capitalism, which they associate with greed, exploitation, and racist, regressive sociopolitics.

But the truth is that socialism is inherently un-liberal, because it is about enforcing the repressive dictates of the State, Big MoFoBro, over the free will of individuals. In other words, it is power over the people rather than power to the people. Likewise, socialism isn’t progressive, because it forever puts the brakes on free-market entrepreneurism through onerous laws, regulations, and taxation. Socialism isn’t about creating new wealth; it’s about legally stealing and arbitrarily redistributing it, while taking out a hefty “middleman’s cut” in the process. Innovation is a product of capitalism; wasteful, ineffective government programs are the product of socialism. Capitalism is the most humanistic social system, because it doesn’t dehumanize and divide individuals by reducing them to racial, sexual, or economic identities. Socialism, by contrast, emphasizes divisive identity politics and economic class warfare. Hence, it is racist, sexist, and fascist.

In short, government socialism is, violent, immoral and anti-spiritual. It embraces the anti-ethics of forceful theft of private property, class, race, and sexual warfare, and the suppression of individual, constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.

The only sociopolitical system compatible with spirituality is libertarianism, because its ethos - “Do not initiate force against others” – is the only inherently non-violent one. Only libertarianism absolutely respects each individual’s right to do what he/she wants, so long as those rights don’t infringe on anyone else’s right to the same. The only socio-economic system compatible with libertarianism is free-market capitalism, which is the libertarian credo applied to work and enterprise in the social sphere.

To sum: Those who “crack the cosmic code” realize that the only libertarianism (capitalism/individualism) accords with true, or enlightened, spiritual life, while its antithesis, anti-libertarianism (socialism/statism) diametrically opposes it.