‘Humanity’ seems like a product because it’s advertised everywhere but, actually it’s the wrapping of another project. The power of the state. An averagely intelligent man buys into the states claim that it represents humanity and so sells his will, to the state which is being revealed as a mask, for a network of powerful families. Such a clan-based power has always been dominant in human history except in nations where truly violent peoples revolutions have formed the law.
I am in the dark as to which families branch out and how, what their unofficial gatherings look like and the exact decisions they make to control the herd and to protect their control. From what I gather though, they are relentlessly ambitious and this fits within the model of the world as will to power, so I have to applaud them for keeping the show going. As they try to keep the masses docile by giving them what they crave: bread and games or consumption products and spectacle, I think sometimes: everybody happy, no?
Well, no not actually, because the corporations could use a little help from the masses, otherwise they don’t work. It is in few peoples interest that the entire power structure of the world is reversed, even though it may seem a pleasant scenario to the weariest. In the atomic age we are forced to cooperate, which means to ascend in the ranks, to take responsibility of the machine.
Is this un-idealistic? Sure, being is not an ideal but the opposite. It only works in terms of its own power over itself, and in all other ways it perishes.
The only solution for the unambitious mass is to come to terms with itself, to stop pining for a world completely without rank differences. The word works by virtue of amounts of effort of which reason as we know it can only be a very thin shadow and helas not by anything like normal behavior. It definitely doesn’t give rise to “self-evident rights”. “Rome” was an impressive illusion, but the belief in the natural existence of moral rights takes the crown. Impressive, therefore I endorse it.
Where are we now? At a place where the weak are dominated or perish and the strong continue as part of the corporation which, absent the perspective of the weak, is perfectly healthy to itself. A healthy creature takes crises as opportunities and gladly incorporates internal revolutions as necessary changes of behavior to adapt to increased power.