A Quest For Faith In Phoniness
One of the main tenents of Marxism is that “religion is the opiate of the masses” and that “human history is a history of material struggles”. With these in mind, one thing Marxists seem to forget is that the core center of any economy is money, save for utopian depictions of socialism where money is eventually abolished. Money is central to most, if not all functioning economies, which holds power over those who wield it and those who don’t. However, is money defined by its own analytic judgement to be self-evidently powerful or is it just a symbol of power? One can look at a dollar bill and say “this has value”, but does a dollar bill have value beyond what is assigned to it? I would wager the answer is no, and even when currency is backed by gold or silver, those only have value based on how rare they appear in the world, a synthetic judgement. Aesthetically, either representative money (paper currency) or actual money (coins, gold bars) are only as valuable based on either analytic or synthetic judgements placed upon them by synthetic judgement only. No amount of exchange currency has value analytically, its all based on how it relates to the world around it. Which brings us to our next topic….
If money has no objective value beyond what society gives it, then it must be phony beyond a synthetic judgement. it aesthetically holds no value. certain cretins such as Mark Fisher, have made various claims that no matter what religion one might follow, one is not free from the socioeconomic claims society has established. However, if money holds no intrinsic value beyond mere synthetic judgements, why should anyone care about such frivolities? If there is no God, as many Marxists claim, I propose that socioeconomic conditions are a product of society, and hold no value beyond what humanity places upon it, then there is no reason I should not hold faith in something that they will claim is not real, either, since something is only powerful because of how much power and value we place upon such things. For instance, the historical myth of “cursed words”, words that by their mere utterance, would damn a person to misfortune or to even burning in hell for all eternity, that we’re slowly regressing back towards due to the Spenglerian notion of cyclical civilization with certain individuals and institutions trying to control public discourse in lieu of sentimental values certain groups place upon language and rhetoric, words like “nigger” and “faggot” become forbidden words due to aesthetic reassessment by how they relate to the world in this current epoch, just like certain other words carried the same weight in ancient times due to their association with invoking demonic spirits. But back to the economy, The reason that everyone is a tangle over rising costs is because we let synthetic judgements dictate reality, Marxists would rather just let the demiurge control us, rather than ascending beyond it, so the next time a Marxist tells you that you believe in fairy tales, tell him “you put too much faith in money, and its your God. That is why you are poor in spirit” Nevermind the fact that the love of money is the root of all evil, and that this kind of material theism has led to so much death and destruction justifying its metaphysical claims. Not to say capitalism is much better, since it is also a worship of money, a synthetic judgment for its positive attributes, so hence, giving it a value at all is the heart of the problem. Same with credit cards, debit cards and whatever else a synthetic value is placed upon by society, positive or negative. But it will take a long time before society stops putting a value judgement on money or any kind of currency., negative or positive. How about we put a value judgement on things that actually matter (like friends and family) instead of letting a piece of paper or plastic control our lives.
J./Adolf Stalin