[P2P-F] Fwd: Qanon, Burning Man, the failure of Neoliberalism, and the Occult
Michel Bauwens
michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 16:58:30 CEST 2020
you don't have to agree with Daniel's esoteric premises to find this
analysis of interest
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From: Daniel Pinchbeck from Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter <
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Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 3:42 AM
Subject: Qanon, Burning Man, the failure of Neoliberalism, and the Occult
To: <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Ruminations on this current
moment
Qanon, Burning Man, the failure of Neoliberalism, and the Occult
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on this current moment
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Aug 20
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Burning Man, the failure of Neoliberalism, and the Occult
If Trump wins agains, one main reason will be that the Democrats forfeited
their working class base more than a decade ago. Clinton and Obama embraced
the empty promises and "social vaporware" of the tech sector, along with
the financialized capitalism model of Wall Street. These forces worked
together to eliminate millions of jobs while promising a future of
increased automation, self-driving trucks, etc. Rich neoliberal technocrats
love this vision, but working people hate it. Workers need jobs to survive
in the current system. Automation robs them of their future livelihood.
I have written a lot about Burning Man in the last decades, going from a
major proponent to a critic of the festival over time. There are many
things I love about Burning Man (which is canceled for this year due to
Covid), but I also feel it crystallized the Libertarian, Neo-spiritual
ideology of the Silicon Valley elite into something like a smug
pseudo-religion. I went there for the first time in 2000. During my early
years at the festival, I noticed a tension between two ideologies: mystical
anarchism the hedonistic libertarian Capitalism. The mystical anarchists
wanted to go beyond an ethos of purely personal liberation, endless
repetitive partying and self-congratulation. They wanted to take that
energy into the world as a socially and ecologically redemptive force.
Burners Without Borders was one great example. The hedonistic Libertarians
— in general, the wealthier contingent — ended up taking control of the
festival. They only wanted to continue the party. Flashy million dollar art
cars became like yachts in Ibiza: Status symbols of coolness.
Excess was always part of the in joke. Finally that joke wasn't funny
anymore. But the “Burners” didn’t notice. Partying became an addiction for
many, with the disassociative Ketamine the drug of choice. Meanwhile, the
world was starting to collapse around us — only most hadn’t realized it
yet.
Much like Facebook and many tech companies, Burning Man was largely built
by financially unrewarded volunteer labor, while the "brand" was controlled
by a small group who enriched themselves and treated it as not so different
than any other entertainment conglomerate. Those who got to determine the
main action at the festival were the wealthy elite, who could build million
dollar domes and art projects. It became a mirror of the mainstream
society, stratified by class. I deeply appreciate that Burning Man brings
so many brilliant minds and influencers together in an arena where it is
possible to meet them and talk with them about our future direction as a
species. What I learned from these conversations was that terrible futurist
ideas about the Singularity and transhumanism had taken hold.
I helped start a grassroots transformational movement, the Evolver Network,
from 2009 - 2013. We hoped to harness the positive aspects of what seemed
emergent in the festival culture at Burning Man and elsewhere. The new
paradigm included healing modalities, shamanism, esoteric disciplines,
consciousness, etc, but also permaculture, local economies, and a DIY
community-building ethos that was proto-political. Many of the camps and
"Neo-tribes" at Burning Man are, in themselves, miracles of
self-organization and intelligent social design. The camps evolve like
indigenous communities, working as functional meritocracies, with leaders
emerging organically, as communities identify and empower their master
problem solvers. This is actually "practical anarchism," made up of
fluidic, dispersive structures based on rational authority. I wanted to
help bring this emergent model of social organization into local
communities across the US and internationally.
Even in 2008, I felt that the United States desperately needed a new
visionary ideology and collective social mission as an antidote to the
increasing wealth stratification and "gig economy." I also saw that the
social elite in the US were abandoning the middle of the country for NY,
LA, and SF — and that millions of people in the "flyover states" were
festering in resentment which was slowly building into a fury. In my
idealistic vision, I imagined this social elite, charged up from their
ecstatic and proto-utopian communion at Burning Man and elsewhere, taking
it on as a spiritual mission to transform society as a whole. We could have
reversed wealth stratification by building autonomous and independent local
communities (using local currencies, Local Exchange Trading Systems, etc).
Tech could have been employed to help this in a holistic,
non-paternalistic, way.
Instead, of course, the opposite happened. Obama turned out to be a
disaster, brutally betraying the hopes of the working people who rallied in
great numbers for him. We can ask if this was simply a structural issue, in
that the military/Wall St/industrial institutional complex in the US had so
much power and inertia that nobody could change it, or if it was partly a
question of Obama's actual character compared to the idealization of him. I
tend to think both but certainly the latter played a part: After 2008,
Obama had tens of millions of people ready to volunteer in a nationwide
movement to transform American society and make it more participatory and
democratic. He disbanded his volunteer army rather than empowering it.
Eventually, Obama's failure to address our core issues, and essentially the
Neo-liberal "progressives" utter corruption by Wall St and seduction by the
social vaporware ideology of the Tech Sector led to its dialectical
antidote: Trumpism. Basically, by voting for Trump, the masses are voting
for the willful destruction of American society in its present form. The
Apocalyptic ideology of Christian evangelicals, who fall behind Trump
despite his personal history, adds fuel to the fire.
Qanon
Now we are seeing the rapid cancerous growth and surprise mutations of a
new culture virus: Qanon. Qanon is not only infecting the Right Wing
working class, it is making rapid inroads into the post-New Age or festival
/ "consciousness community". Anthropologically, this is both fascinating
and terrifying to watch. What makes it terrifying, frankly, is that one can
sense a kind of irrational fanaticism and fervor behind it that seems
similar to the weird delusional occult ideologies that culminated in the
Nazi Holocaust.
Qanon takes the deep wellsprings of anger against the neoliberal
progressive and mainstream liberal establishment in the US and transmutes
it into something depraved and Satanic. It is quickly moving from cult to
religion. It is weaponizing people's sensible moral feelings about child
abuse and pedophilia, and making this the core of a new ideology. The
problem is that there are elements of truth mixed up within it in very
confusing ways. The weaponizing of Qanon and other conspiracy theories
(like those around George Soros and Bill Gates) is an intentional Psy Op
benefitting the hidden international criminal syndicate propping up
Trumpism and the forward-march of cynical authoritarianism around the
world.
What is to be done?
I tried to answer that question in depth in my 2017 book, *How Soon Is Now
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and also in my recent online course, *Building Our Regenerative Future
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I addressed it also, philosophically and metaphysically, in my 2006
book, *2012:
The Return of Quetzalcoatl*.
In general, the "Big Lie" cannot be counteracted with lesser forms of
hypocrisy and modulated cynicism. People need to reach a bedrock foundation
of truth together — we need to rebuild our consensus reality from the
ground up, phenomenologically, politically, spiritually, and ecologically.
The problematics of gender, patriarchy, and human sexuality also need to be
authentically addressed, as part of a new cooperative movement. The
"destiny" of technology also needs to be corrected, philosophically: We
need to redirect the creative and technical capacities of human society
toward a new vision, based on a new humane and empathic ethos.
We do need the current ossified institutional structures to break down and
collapse, as they are currently doing. But if these structures collapse too
quickly and without an alternative in place, this will only lead to worse
catastrophe.
I also feel compelled to state what I know to be true: There is an occult,
esoteric aspect to reality: This is not something specious or fake. It is
as real as anything else. However, the occult and esoteric domains function
according to their own laws and principles. These must be learned,
understood, and transmitted, at least to a small or elite contingent of
humanity. I find the suppression of occultism (the domain of the Psyche in
Jungian terms) by the mainstream liberal / materialist orthodoxy to be one
critical issue, at this point. Until we can find a coherent way to speak
with each other about these hidden aspects of reality, we are unable to
respond effectively to what is underway. This is why I am so excited about How
to Explore Other Worlds
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and why I sincerely you will join us for this adventure.
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We must realize that occult forces and agendas ("powers and
principalities") move through our world, making use of human agents and
drawing energy from our emotions, intentions, and actions. As indigenous
people like the Kogi have been warning us, there is a deeper intrinsic
relationship between our internal state of being (our level of spiritual
and self development) as individuals, and the reality we see reflected
around us in the apparent material realm.
Everything we experience is interdependently co-arising, out of a
primordial unity which this universe will eventually subside back into.
Therefore our individual karma and actions are inextricably connected to
everyone and everything else. As primate beings emerging from more
primitive forms of social organization that functioned well enough for us
at previous evolutionary stages, humans tend to see the world in terms of
our immediate self-interest, which extends to our family or
clan/tribe/community. Nation-state organization relies on this in-group /
out-group primate mentality through the ideology of patriotism, which can
be used to mobilize men for warfare or other forms of organized violence.
For humanity to survive, enough of us must integrate and anchor this
mystical and occult realization and make the shift from a self-interested
or clan-based mentality to thinking and acting with a truly planetary frame
of reference. We must come to see ourselves as sentient agents of a larger
biospheric collective, encompassing all life on Earth, and work, in the
Buckminster Fuller mode, for the comprehensive success of everyone. People
often realize this, at least briefly, when they have their initial deep
psychedelic experiences, as with ayahuasca, mushrooms, or LSD. The problem
is that they need a cultural / initiatory context or container which
supports them in fully integrating the influx of new knowledge and wisdom
that comes into them during these journeys. Otherwise, the ego structure
finds ways to distort these revelations for its own purposes, in a variety
of subtle ways. This is how the Neo-spiritual and psychedelic movement have
gone off track.
Fascism is a kind of low-grade occultism: It satisfies the ego mind's
desire for a simplistic unity and gets rid of all the nagging paradoxes and
contradictions of reality. Trump, himself, is an occultist. He grew up in
the Church of Norman Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking (a
pragmatic American form of occultism), and lives according to this
philosophy to an extraordinary degree, combined with a nihilistic belief
that "nothing matters," as he has stated he believes. In a strange dark
way, this gives him more access to something real than many of his
political opponents, who play by outmoded rules. He truly doesn't give a
shit not just on a materialist but also on a metaphysical level.
If we are going to build a movement that leads us beyond this present
impasse which may be fatal for most of humanity (due to the imminent
ecological collapse), it has to begin with the truth of our human
condition, as conduits of an infinite consciousness that takes individuated
forms to explore its possibilities. We also have to realize ourselves, not
as members of a county or self-interested clan, but catalytic agents of the
biosphere itself, with a responsibility to protect and steward all forms of
life (as indigenous people know). By evaluating our individual skills and
talents objectively, we can discover how to apply ourselves to the mission
of salvaging and redeeming our Earthly situation.
This movement must recognize that capital is a form of energy — based on a
set of beliefs, money is reified ideology. Through a mass awakening, we can
reinvent and redirect our creative, technical, and financial toward
life-sustaining and life-supporting goals. If we can’t accomplish this
quickly, the future does not look bright for our species. Right now, this
opportunity still exists. I hope we take it.
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