GASLIGHTENMENT

The False Consciousness of Progress

I am writing a book on the liberal democratic system, which I argue was intentionally created to replace our civilisation following the First World War.

In this post I will try to explain why, being neither liberal nor democratic, this system requires its subject populations to believe in things that are not real, and to disbelieve in things which are.

If we look at the liberal ideology, we shall see strong similarities with another 20th century religion of man - Bolshevism.

Both belief systems are anti-reality, and seek to recast humanity in their own image. Both accuse their critics of a type of “false consciousness”.

Today we ask why the liberal anti-reality cult seeks to illuminate men by gaslight, showing the irrational roots of a movement which amounts to a large scale act of vengeance on what is there, in the service of what is not.

We live in an age of “Gaslightenment” - in which we are instructed and rewarded to disbelieve in the actual, in the service of the virtual.

Naturally, t…