44. About you: Chapter - The mass man (18)

 

The low-quality quantity-driven person, the "mass man," has always been a tool of power enforcement, and still is. Without the masses, there is no power, and without power, there are no masses. It is similar to the chicken-and-egg dilemma, as it is part of duality. The mass man is the person who has sunk into matter without quality, and the more fully he materializes, the more unhappy and impersonal he becomes. He is no longer truly a person, but rather a tool of the material society's production. The time of massification has varied throughout history, but its source in every case is that we have forgotten the quality of our existence, the necessity to return to the fundamental position. The moment of materialization, objectification, or the sinking into matter—the moment of becoming material—is when we have switched from quality to quantity. The cause of this switch is our weakness and ignorance, which those backstage power take advantage of, as seen in the establishment of state religions in the 3rd-4th centuries, with the rise of the Roman imperial state religion, later with the establishment of the Protestant Church, first within the Anglican Church, then during the Lutheran Reformation. Luther was probably unaware of the political goals of breaking from tradition, from Rome, and this proved to be a useful tool in the hands of the German electors and the non-pagan Fuggers. Protestantism greatly contributed to the creation of modern democratic societies based on equality. 

Democracy and the mass man are inseparable, because the mass man is created by the democratic spectacle, but only so that it may serve him. Thus, the democratic bluff can, to some extent, be seen as a dictatorship, which deceives the mass man into thinking that he can vote and influence the processes of his life, that he has the necessary decision-making ability. But he does not. The decision is always made by those in power, as we saw, for example, in the 2020 US presidential election. Power’s visual techniques are transparent only to the extent that the mass man cannot recognize them; if he does perceive something, it is regarded by the mainstream as nothing more than scandalous, vulgar, or ordinary. In this manipulation, the media’s various tools help him. 

The invisible backstage power, the invisible hand, the financial and capital superstructure that holds power above states and nations, creates and finishes revolutions and wars, overthrow governments and rulers. It is the invisible state in the visible state, the deep state, the invisible church in the visible church, the deep church. The "great player," the backstage power, orchestrated the English and French Revolutions, started and ended both World Wars, divided Europe into northern and southern interest zones, capitalist and socialist blocs, and continues to maintain the modern slave society today through constant enemy-creation and fear. It was this power that established the Bretton Woods system in 1944, the gold-exchange system, the World Bank, and the IMF, and in 1971 abolished the gold-exchange system so that associated countries no longer needed to be financed in gold. Since then, the value of the dollar is floating. We must know that neither the doctrine of salvation, nor democracy, nor the invisible hand was created by the masses, but each of them was designed for the purpose of controlling and manipulating the masses. 

As a result of constant manipulation, the mass man easily abandons his independent thoughts, which power is ready to take over. The religious mass man, for example, enjoying the forgiveness of sins idealized by others, in his ignorance and instinct, imagines his life on the side of God. He does not realize that the power exercise called religion primarily camouflages itself with the doctrine of salvation, when it claims that biblical salvation (which it does not precisely define, and often confuses with happiness) can be attained without effort, because it is free. If it mentions happiness, it is more likely to be material, quantitative happiness, rather than any of the spiritual kinds of happiness already described, or perhaps all of them. 

The effortless attainment of salvation is most commonly found in predestination, where someone has already redeemed your sins for free, and you don’t need to do anything, just live your life. The democratic mass man, on the other hand, strives to participate in more and more votes to increasingly exercise the supposed right to intervene in his material life, which serves his own comfort. The invisible superstructure controls this deceptive game using media tools such as TV, the internet, and others. Power, in all cases, works to make manipulation appear legal, and therefore does not reveal to the masses that the laws are created by its apparatus. There are laws upon laws so that the power can navigate through them, always having back-stairs where its apparatus can enter and exit. That is why there is a well-paid army of lawyers—to serve this manipulative power.