Patrice Ayme's ThoughtsRule Of Evil, Submission Of The Sheep: Civilization As A Tale Of Two Moralities…
TWO MORALITIES, ACCORDING TO WHOM WILL SURVIVE AND HOW
Abstract: Any civilization must be a contest between two moral systems. Indeed, those immense groups called civilizations are not natural to our species and must be therefore forcefully imposed by an elite dictating the terms.
The ruling strata—the “lions”—survive through power, initiative, strategic realism and cruelty, while the masses are manipulated to embrace a self-defeating contrasting morality of obedience, humility, and submission. And our present society does not escape that dichotomy: a new contrition religion has replaced Judeo-Christo-Islamism..
This duality, explored by Nietzsche, appears throughout history under different religious, political, and ideological forms. Public doctrines of equality often conceal profound differences in power and agency.
The persistence of hierarchical societies with evil on top and bleating below suggests that moral systems are not merely ethical teachings but survival mechanisms adapted to social position. The essay further argues that elements traditionally decried as evil for evil’s sake, may contribute crucially to social stability, helping to explain the enduring prevalence of plutocratic structures throughout all of geography and history.
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Each morality is a survival manual.
But civilization has been organized as hierarchies with the Artificial Intelligence of self-obsessed elites which experience the world differently from the Commons. Human groups in feudal states and nation-states are divided between masters and subjects.
The key with the submission of the subjects is that they should NOT be aware of their abject submission to a higher class. Instead they should experience it as… noble: the lower classes live according to the inversion of all values. So call this subjection with glorious names, a celebration of what the lower classes do not have, omnipotence of the divinities.
Different groups survive in different ways. So morality is different according to circumstances, and in particular individuals, groups, tribes, sects, religions, ethnicities and civilizations.
Hence there are basically two modalities, two mentalities, two moralities in plutocratic civilizations… All civilizations have a leadership and thus a dark side, so talking of “plutocratic civilizations” is a bit of a pleonasm…
The morality of lions of the masters, contrasted with the morality of the sheep inflicted by the masters onto the sheep while the masters pretend to embrace it. The striking example noticed by a few, including Nietzsche is that of European leaders flying banners full of fire spitting lions… While preaching to their FAITHFUL SUBJECTS to behave like sheep, a flock which follows the good shepherd Jesus.
Roman emperors built up, starting with Constantine (after 312 CE), what they called “Orthodox Catholicism”, a religion with an omnipotent God naturally represented and defended on Earth by an omnipotent quasi-divine emperor.
Miscreants could be executed (Theodosius edicts, 380 CE).
I will spare you an exhibition of the arms of my family, wokists may not appreciate to its full worth a banner 12 centuries old, featuring three war dogs and the cut head of a Moor… (Address complaints to the long defunct king of Arago who made the noble ancestor a Count)
Here is Nietzsche using an analogy with lambs and birds of prey from Genealogy of Morals.
But let’s come back: the problem with the other origin of the “good,” of the good man, as the person of ressentiment has imagined it for himself, demands its own conclusion.—That the lambs are upset about the great predatory birds is not a strange thing, and the fact that they snatch away small lambs provides no reason for holding anything against these large birds of prey. And if the lambs say among themselves, “These predatory birds are evil, and whoever is least like a predatory bird, especially anyone who is like its opposite, a lamb— shouldn’t that animal be good?” there is nothing to find fault with in this setting up of an ideal, except for the fact that the birds of prey might look down on them with a little mockery and perhaps say to themselves, “We are not at all annoyed with these good lambs. We even love them. Nothing is tastier than a tender lamb.”
Scholars and partisans of Judeo-Christo-Islamism will bemoan the polemical tone, and claim ain’t so. Yes, the first nuance is that while Christianism helped to crush civilization in the Fourth Century, by destroying books and thinkers, when the Franks adopted Catholicism, they adapted it to insure the survival of Greco-Roman culture, science and education as much as possible. So actually the European Middle Ages was ruled by often somewhat illiterate lions advised by sophisticated owls often found in monasteries. A good example is Charlemagne, made into a superior warrior at a very young age by his father, and who talked several languages, but who could not make good progress on his writing skills (or at least so we are told). Charlemagne’s PM was Alcuin, a top British philosopher…
The apparition of an intellectuals or priestly class is a significant tweak in social organization found in all civilizations: it was found in ancient Israelite society with the Cohens (high priests line), or in Hindu society (Brahmans), or among the Aztecs. The leaders of the Conquistadores were stunned when Aztecs high priests, who were not warriors, made deep philosophical objections to Christianism.
Europe then had an elite who ruled by instrumentalizing evil, but it had also an intellectual elite (that mostly church-born scholarly elite spawned the universities in the 12C when the professors were told they would have to become celibate if they kept their clerical status). So lions, owls and sheep. Something a bit similar happened in the Abbasid Caliphate, with the House of Wisdom. However, that ended in the river, thanks to the Mongols, and the river ran black from the ink of drowned manuscripts.
Similarly, partisans of Caesar pointed out with great outrage that Julius was wearing the sacred robes and apparel of Pontifex Maximus when he was assassinated (Caesar had been elected to that supreme office, for life, in his youth, in 63 BCE, when he was 37 years old; Caesar had taken earlier a moral position against Consul Cicero, objecting to the non-constitutional executions rushed by the latter) .
The dichotomy between an elite and a mob of sheep is not just a Middle Earth aspect pertaining to Moloch, Mithra and Judeo-Christo-Islamism. Olmec and Mayan elites kept jaguars as pets, Jaguars were awesome symbols of raw power, expensive and fatal, clearly signaling who was in total control of society and gastronomy. Mayan elites were deeply resented when the super drought and its attendant wars came. When Maya civilization collapsed, the elites burned .
So, in civilization, there will always be a tale of two moralities… Often under the guise of “equality”. Actually, in the best example of the hypocrisy of “equality”, the tiny upper crust of Sparta called itself the “Equals”. To have “equality” at the top of Sparta, assassination of any would-be rebellious minds would be the task of up and coming teenagers: if they did their secret death squad job well, they got promoted… To “Equals”….
In Carthage, the idea was to sacrifice the first born son, who was most treasured. Upper crust families bought a replacement: apparent equality in horror for all Punic citizens… but not in reality. Both the sheer horror of the publicly shared sacrifices and the privately allowed avoidance for the elite made the sick social contract stronger with follies and crimes that bind… .
https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/commonly-accepted-delusions-follies-that-bind/
The dichotomy of two classes the uppers and the lowers, with two different and opposed moralities is still happening today. However Christianism started to look too stupid and too marked by its collusion with the upper crust, colonialism, slavery, genocide and even Nazism (not only the Pope didn’t do much against Nazism before 1945, or even helped the fascists in Spain blatantly, but then the Vatican provided help for fleeing Nazis. Even Dr. Mengele was protected by the Vatican to the point that he could afford to take vacations in Europe from his home in Argentina; Mengele had personally killed thousands of small children generally in horrendous suffering). So out with Christianism,. .
Christianism has been replaced by modern wokism for the intellectuals and Islam ☪️ for the less sophisticated masses. This is why all top plutocrats have made a show of wokism or populism, or greenery at some point 👉 👈 full of righteousness and moralization…
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All the preceding is pretty much vanilla, it should have become classical among the elite .
Time to change pace and endorse our apocalyptic armor:
WHY ARE PLUTOCRACIES LEADING CIVILIZATIONS? BECAUSE EVIL STABILIZES!
Patrice Ayme mathematically demonstrated that evil stabilizes an ecology exploited by a civilization. That was the greatest advance in ethics in an extremely long time. Actually, it explains the ubiquitousness of the Dark Side.
The demonstration is mathematical, simple and thus strong. It founded the new field of MATHEMATICAL ETHICS.
So the mystery of why societies are ruled by lions and not sheep is explained: we need the lions to stabilize the sheep. Nobles of old would chuckle, and say they knew it all along. Well, we demonstrated it as a consequence of physical reality.
This also means that conventional humanism has to be significantly modified…
Morality is not primarily about truth or goodness. Morality is a survival technology adapted to the cultural-mechanical position occupied within a social ecology.
Patrice Ayme
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