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Industrial society is a dead thing, a zombie being. Human intelligence, spirit and awareness are paralysed and the population decays into numbed, dead-eyed, dull-witted subservience.
No comment is generally provided on why such-and-such statement is considered unacceptable – it seems the groupthink consensus is sufficiently tight to make this self-evident to every member of the flock.
There is another tradition of resistance to the modern world that has very different ideals and can serve as the basis of an old-new radical philosophy of natural and cosmic belonging, inspiring humanity to step away from the nightmare transhumanist slave-world into which we are today being herded.
Although we can certainly identify criminocracy as the culprit, it is industrial development which is the actual physical act of violence with which it is carrying out the murder of our natural world and of human freedom and well-being.
Because industrialism is the means by which the system exists, our rulers have gone out of their way to ensure that most people never question its domination.
Chesterton wants to insist that no matter how hard or unlikely it might be for us to reestablish a decent human society, it is possible, if very difficult, to get there from here.
We can educate and coordinate ourselves, we can refuse the system ourselves. What’s more, demands, like leaders, can be managed. The greatest threat to the system is un-needy silent action.
The entity of death’s societies are dead things, in which its top-down control stamps out any possibility of choice, self-determination or the expression of a culture which comes from the shared human heart.