Man is naturally a political animal…There is then in all persons a natural impetus to associate with each other in this manner, and he who first founded civil society was the cause of the greatest good; for as by the completion of it man is the most excellent of all living beings, without law and justice he would be the worst of all, for nothing is so difficult to subdue as injustice in arms: but these arms man is born with, namely, prudence and valour, which he may apply to the most opposite purposes, for he who abuses them will be the most wicked, the most cruel, the most lustful, and most gluttonous being imaginable; for justice is a political virtue, by the rules of it the state is regulated, and these rules are the criterion of what is right. — Aristotle, Politics
So, Australia had an election with no conclusion. The same thing happened in Britain a couple months ago, Germany and France in the last few years. In November, we’ll see the same thing in the US with the Reps taking control of the Congress, creating true stagnation, not the stagnation dressed as reform we’ve had over the last 18 months.
We are witnessing the death of industrial politics. One would be tempted to say Western politics is a dead medium, but that would be ahistorical. However, it would be completely accurate to say Western politics is insolvent, incapable at this point of meeting the challenges of the times, stuck in the clothes knitted for it two-centuries ago — representative government atop an industrial infrastructure. In fact, it is only in industrializing areas of the globe that politics seems, wrongly, to have any vibrancy, for it is in these areas industrial politics can incorrectly be construed as vital.
In the industrial West, politics has lost life. We have a politics of the status quo, upheld by “both” sides of the political spectrum. Western politics is controlled by large corporate interests, supported in the halls of government by a caste of political eunuchs. The cultural left and cultural right, indoctrinated in the same industrial pabulums, fight over the disbursements of diminishing returns based on various slave identities, the only real disagreement by the two sides is how active a role the government should play in societal looting.
Presently, events are the only real politics in the West. They act as a growing violent tide, each successive wave pulling out more sand, undermining the foundation. In reaction, our politics futilely attempts to replace the sand. This process can continue for a long time, but without a revitalization of our politics, a rethinking of the foundations of industrial society, politics will become increasingly reactionary.
We are political animals, we need a healthy politics.
Archein