The Liberal Death Machine
How it works and why it's doomed
In this series I aim to explain how and why the liberal democratic system is a death machine, secured by mass deception, and intentionally created to plunder your life of everything of value.
WARNING
This post contains ideas. It will make you think.
If you would prefer not to, leave now.
The ideas presented here will show you why your thought leaders are morons, why your boss talks like a gay dalek and every normal human moral response is coded like a virus to be killed by the customer service economy.
This long post will show you:
HOW THE LIBERAL DEATH MACHINE OPERATES and
WHY IT IS DOOMED
BEWARE! It contains CAREER-ENDING MEMES
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HIT LIST
Why conservatism is a doomed ideology (LOL)
The Liberal Addiction Economy
How addiction works
Back to The Frankfurt School
Marxism, “Cultural Marxism” and Liberalism - 3 engines of death
Why peace in Ukraine spells Liberal DOOM
How to recivilise the West (YES WE CAN!)
In Part One I explained how the technique of mass society repatterns human behaviour - fostering what I called a cult of “machine worship”1.
In this second part I will explain how this has produced a world in which human life is universally degraded to a fuel source for a machine we were told would liberate us all.
I will also show why this machine is self-destructing.
But first, a spot of commie intellectualism.
LIBERALISM HAS BEEN DYING FOR YEARS
Corpulent tic-ridden Commie Cultural Critic Slavoj Zizek said that the global liberal idea was finished over six years ago.
If you do not know who Zizek is, don’t worry. The memes have got you. If you don’t know why I am going on about him, read on.
Sixty years after the Catholic Church, it was a bunch of Marxists who warned the liberal consumer economic model was a trap which dehumanised mankind.
Zizek knows this, and his interview of 2019 saw him presage a “whole series of new situations” which are now unfolding around us. The old liberal order and its means of containment by deception no longer works as it did. What does the comical commie say will come next - in an age transformed by online slop?
For Zizek, whose name I routinely mispronounce because I think it is funny, the new technology means we need new values.
This, as I explained in part one, is itself nothing new.
The Machine Mentality of Modern Man is to be led by his inventions into inventing new alibis for the crimes his technology now permits.
These are all ultimately crimes against himself.2
To be animated by his machines degrades the life of Man to an instrument - his time spent playing autotuned notes themed by the mechanism of mass society.
Here too is the pernicious fetish of novelty - the simple and alluring fallacy that what is new is necessarily better, as if mustard gas were better than bullets, or mRNA injections better than not dying of coincidence.
MANUFACTURING MANKIND
In the mid-machine age of the last century Herbert Marcuse wrote a book called One Dimensional Man3.
In it, he said the liberal consumer system reduces human life to one dimension - with you and everyone else playing a replaceable part in a manufactured theatre of cut price dreams. He was right.
Liberal democracy is an advert for economic nihilism - the world as global supermarketplace, and everything in it a product for sale.
The Frankfurt School was trying to explain why a new form of Marxism could remain relevant in a time when mass consumerism was buying off the masses4.
Cheap goods and the welfare state seemed to provide a better alternative to the workers’ paradise which had emerged in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, such as in Cambodia5 or China. How could Marxism argue men would be better off with it under these conditions?
The Frankfurt School answered this question by inventing a new discipline of Marxist cultural criticism.
This led later on to postmodern Critical Theory and to Gender Theory and Queer Theory.
These are non-materialist (and so not Marxist) critiques of society.
THREE ENGINES OF DESTRUCTION
The aim of critical theory is similar to Marxism - the complete dismantling of our civilisation.
Postmodern “cultural marxists”, actual Marxists and Liberals all seek the same end: to destroy our civilisation.
Each cult seeks to replace everything that was with itself.
Their motives and means are different6. The technique of liberal democracy assimilates these and other counter-civilisational destructive factions by reducing their political action to a lifestyle compatible with the demolition of our nations, culture, traditions, social norms and the belief in God which formerly made all this coherent.
The Frankfurt School came up with a new set of ideas to respond to the New Machine of Modern Society.
These new ideas were very good at explaining what was wrong with the new machine, but their purpose was ultimately to recommend another model of the reduction of human life to a component in a mechanistic system.
THE MASS MACHINE GETS A DIGITAL UPDATE
The digital age is an update to the manufacture of man by means of cultural production. Our desires, dreams, tastes, choices, political opinions and Intellectual Thoughts are delivered through digital platforms.
We are Satan’s Window Shoppers, glommed onto an endless stream of new things. We are supposed to buy into them, and the appeal to do so is perpetually refined. This is called technique - the refinement of the the process of producing a standard result. The standard result produced is a mass culture, and in tandem, it reproduces mass consumerism in human behaviour - making modern man a product of the system which rules him.
The meaning of human life in consumer nihilism is “I want therefore I am”. The wants are supplied by the machine. It supplies the lack of things you do and do not need, and also supplies the terms and conditions applied to the means of securing their purchase. This is called freedom of choice.
What do you buy these things with if not money? Your time, your beliefs, and aspects of your identity which motivate your actions. You could call this last category “Your Soul”. You cannot buy what it does not supply.
It cannot package the grace of God or a higher spiritual purpose for mankind, and so you will not find these on any of the air-conditioned aisles through which we ruminate, until we end.
Instead, you will find the ersatz - god-like offers, a religion of New Values, all produced by the machinery of mass cultural production.
ADDICTION ECONOMIES
The customer service economy is largely a series of efficiently marketed addictions.
At scale, liberal democracies are now addicted to importing millions of hungry new consumers, having suppressed their own populations by reducing the production of human life to a consumer choice.
The “right to die” and the “right” to end life before it begins are now moral paradigms of the New Machine Code of Values.
So is the “right to a family” - which means you can just buy a baby.
These are wrongs presented as rights. Human life is a consumer product to be acquired and disposed of according to convenience.
This is what nihilism means in practice.
All the policies of the global liberal consumer model are self destructive, and amount to a programme of moral and national suicide.
You can see the liberal regime as a criminal empire of lies, doing everything to death in order to survive.
Most food is junk, and so is most food for thought presented for mass consumption. What you consume consumes YOU, remember, and a diet of trash does not a Good Person Make.
The obvious addictions of phone glomming, gaming, gambling, pornography, drugs legal and not are partnered with therapeutic forms of compulsive buying such as pampering and wellness .
“Therapy” itself is a means of monetising your addiction by hiring someone to talk you into another form of dependence. All this is fuelled by debt, again fostering dependency.
Access to credit is of course increasingly contingent on compliance with the terms and conditions of the online and offline utopia we are told is reality.
The Machine produces components which depend on compatibility to function in the system.
This means you either fit into the slot or you are obsolete, and will be replaced.
THE MECHANICS OF ADDICTION
Most of this New Reality is mediated by screens, whose use is also habit forming.
Our consumer reality is delivered by addictive machine code. The algorithm presents you with things to fire up your reaction nodes. Ragebait and slopchurn keep you engaged.
Slopchurn is the pulping of information to pump out New Content. There are endless examples of Content Creators who use clickbaity headlines to present shallow, go-nowhere takes with a veneer of reflective allure. These digital puddles now constellate the information superhighway.
Ragebait is the digital update to the doom loop of conservatism. Conservatives have conserved nothing, because conservatism is passive. It is a spectator sport in which noises are made about a show which conservatives never do anything to stop.
CONSERVATISM: MARKETING DISCONTENT
Conservative politics is colour-blind rainbow market-worship: a form of liberal consumer nihilism. It is a product intended to fill the hole behind the mouth that complains about the excesses of liberalism.
Conservatism works by having conservative heroes point at things which make conservatives angry. The conservative gets angry. Rinse and repeat.
If conservatives did anything to stop the things which make them angry the business model would collapse.
Con. Inc. is a form of therapy - an addictive and profitable business model which only ever whines about effects and never explains causes.
It is therapeutic containment for a sort of indigestion produced by consuming a lifelong diet of lies and trash.
In the digital age, the conservative consumer types angry and sometimes sardonic witticisms beneath ragebait content to show other Conservatives how sensible and clever they are.
Conservative heroes like the mentally ill Jordan Peterson are stooges of a form of machine politics so obvious that conservatives could never understand it.
To be a conservative is to be content to complain about those crazy loonies on the left whilst enjoying tax cuts and doing nothing whatsoever at any time to win a single battle in the defence of Christian civilisation. That is because conservatives are liberal consumers addicted to shopping and fuming.
Happily, many victims of this addiction are now in recovery. Former c*nservatives are now realising their gay liberal debt nihilism has no solutions to the crisis we inhabit, and that it is in fact a major part of the problem.
WHY RECOVERY IS PAINFUL
Recovery is painful because addiction changes your brain. Every repeat behaviour conferring a neurochemical reward has its corresponding structure. When you have grown new cells to cope with the flood of neurochemical reward that accompanies your favourite ritual of self indulgence you have become addicted.
Recovery from addiction is painful because in order to not be addicted these cells have to die. They have to die of deprivation.
This is hard for two reasons:
You now depend on the input of your repeated behaviour to feel “normal”
Every signal from the consumer nihilist paradise is telling you that depriving yourself of any pleasure is bad
The discovery that some pain is good is genuinely liberating, and can free you from the addictions you are sold with promises of liberation under liberal consumerism.
For more on this, see here:
Of course being free of any impulse control or moral restraint does not emancipate anyone. It imprisons them in desires.
These desires are commonly not even their own, but are programmed into them by a system whose economic model is based on selling them to you.
Thanks to bank crashes, Covid-19, and the enormous cost of the Ukraine war, the cheap consumer dream is over and most people struggle to live a decent life.
This reality, combined with the destruction of our nations by the mass migration industry of human trafficking, has compelled ordinary people to count the cost of saying nothing in order to lose everything.
The crisis of the liberal economy has led to the collapse of the shame economy. These two related and self inflicted disasters are two further reasons why the liberal postwar consensus is in its last days.
THE SHAME ECONOMY
The control of the self is also secured by the coordination of social control by attaching shame to sane and rational explanations.
Noticing race is real = SHAME
Noticing men are not women = SHAME
Noticing Israel’s crimes = SHAME
Noticing demographic replacement = SHAME
Noticing everything is sh*t = SHAME
Noticing the Liberal State is a criminal conspiracy against you etc…
…and so on
This shame economy is finished.
It is as bankrupt as the liberal system itself.
Its currency peaked during Covid-19, which saw the state mandate the persecution of sanity in its population in the service of “public safety”.
People can now see there is a higher cost to pay than being booed off the internet by people so broken by the system they hate anything and anyone good.
It is unlikely that the same number of people would comply with another lockdown, anywhere, for any reason at all.
The costs of compliance continue to mount.
It is now obvious that the cost of compliance is the loss of everything.
This leaves people with nothing to lose by saying “No”.
They no longer will tolerate being told what to do by an elite that has lied to them in order to plunder their lives into destitution. Their footsoldiers are all casualties of the war on reality - people too broken to adjust to anything other than the bizarre fantasy doom cult called Liberal Democracy.
LITERALLY A DEATH MACHINE
The liberal consumer system sees human life as a resource - to be mined, monetised and exploited for its own sustenance. It has destroyed the nation of Ukraine in an attempt to destroy and plunder Russia.
Instead, a series of unintended consequences now spell doom for the liberal death machine.
The Ukraine war will end and the truth will come out about it
People will realise they have been lied to and robbed about this war, too
NATO is disintegrating into irrelevance
The EU is likely to disintegrate too
National interests will replace the liberal globalist regime
The governments of Britain, France and Germany - as well as the EU - will be completely discredited when their populations realise that they have been lied to and cheated out of billions to service a bunch of crooks.
These crooks are not only in Ukraine - they are the political class of the liberal regime, whose policies are destroying your nation just as they have wrecked that of the Ukrainians.
One main reason everything costs so much today is not the lie of “climate change” - but that liberal sanctions destroyed Europe’s source of cheap energy.
It is unlikely another election will be won by a clique of international extremists whose unique selling point is that they are all wrecking their nations in the same way, using the same slogans.
ENDNOTE: WHAT NEXT?
I have said a lot here against the concept of “new machinery → new values”.
If this new situation is emerging, don’t we need new ideas to manage it?
No.
It is a droll fact that the slogan “New and improved!” sells well. It usually sells a substitute of lower quality at a higher price. There is no appetite for this type of chiselling neophilia today.
What people want is to live stable, fruitful and orderly lives which make sense - not to be ruled by deranged ideologues. Not to pay taxes to destroy their civilisation.
They want the truth, not lies. They want their lives to mean something.
The new values we need are the ones the New Improvers sought to abolish. They are the values of the Common Good, best expressed in the Social Teaching of Leo XIII, which provides a blueprint for the restoration of our Christian civilisation - and a life worth living for all.
For a guide on life after the death machine, read my series here:
There is life in the West yet, and we can see to it that the life we offer our children is one which will make them proud of us.
Never despair. Never give up. What men have done can be undone. Here I hope to have explained some of the infernal workings of the machinery which has delivered us into the state we are in today. This machine is breaking down.
Tomorrow belongs to us. It is our duty to do better than the evil made commonplace by the Liberal Death Machine. We no longer have anything to lose, as we stand to lose everything if we do nothing at all.
Prepare for the work of restoration. Our societies now resemble mass casualty events. Be capable of helping the wounded where you can, and remember that the fight can and will be won.
The dream of the machine is over. It is time for Man to learn how to live again.
What a time to be alive.
If you think your friends would benefit from this explanation of the liberal death machine and its demise, consider doing this:
If you like to experience the Good Pain of having to think better thoughts, consider doing this:
These things take time and if you think this was worth yours, consider paying me to help you recover from the mass casualty event of “liberal democracy”.
Have a blessed Octave of the Nativity - and a happy New Year!
For more on what “technique” means - see here
Also known as “sins”.
Marcuse was a member of the post-Marxist Frankfurt School. People who have never read any of their books describe them as “cultural Marxism”. This is a term which confuses the materialism of Marxism with the immaterialist fantasy narratives of postmodernity, combining two contradictory if equally objectionable currents of counter-sanity into a confusing jumble. We should know our enemy better than this.
If you do read the Frankfurt School you will find some of their ideas interesting and useful, to a point. The useful parts are the explanations - such as the foundational “Enlightenment as Mass Deception” of Adorno and Horkheimer, or Marcuse’s work on how liberal democracy is managed by manufacturing desires to match its consumer product line.
Where the Frankfurt School is good is in diagnosing the problem of mass consumer society and exploding the myths by which it rules. Their remedy (socialism) can be discarded of course, as this is simply another form of utopian state worship which is as equally nihilistic as neoliberal consumerism.
The Frankfurt School did not marshal the institutional capture of the West. The West allied with the Soviets before Dialektik der Aufklärung was written in 1947, and the internationalist liberal system itself was assembled almost three decades previously to dismantle our Christian civilisation and replace it with a global market governed by the rule by media and the mass production of liberal “culture”.
The poverty of the term “cultural Marxist” and of those who have grifted to gatekeeping prominence by using it is exposed in this interview between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson.
If you have ever seen my haircut you will know I am not a Marxism Appreciator. I think it is important to know what you are talking about so you can understand what others are on about. That is why I read books by people I do not agree with.
The title of the 2011 documentary Brother Number One refers to the soubriquet of Pol Pot, Communist dictator of Cambodia - and also to filmmaker Rob Hammill’s older brother who was killed by his reign of terror.
The film “explores how and why nearly 2 million Cambodians were killed by a fanatical left-wing regime known as the Khmer Rouge”, showing how the machine politics of Communism devoured millions of people. Again, it is to be remembered that the liberals allied with the Communists in WWII, cancelling their debts and handing half of Europe and much of Asia and Africa to them afterwards.
Marxists generally seek to dismantle capitalism, abolish private property and institute a compulsory universal equality by seizing the means of production, distribution and exchange (material power).
Critical Theory aims to destroy the basis of reality on the conceptual level - redefining the real as a form of structural oppression. It is a revolution in the head, an assertion of the power of fantasy and desire as currents of universal liberation, disregarding the fact that most people prefer to identify as normal.
Liberalism is a system of limitless consumer nihilism with global ambitions. It is a factory farm model of human management marketed as emancipation. It transforms humanity into grazing cattle - passive consumers of a mass manufactured culture with its ultimate aim being the establishment of a worldwide uniform liberal world order from which there is no escape. It turns Man and his world into a Standardised Product. The standards, of course, are Liberal.
To do this it combines revolutionary elements in the production of culture and ethics and technology with debt dependency and nation-wrecking wars.
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The underlying purpose of the consumer economy is the need to produce maximum velocity of money where purchasing power is introduced primarily by means of borrowing from banks. The borrowing produces an extra burden on the economy through the introduction of interest payments not covered by the borrowing. It's all a function of an economy controlled by private sector financial interests. I explain all this in my writings, including my book "We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform." These mechanisms have been known in detail since C.H. Douglas published his first book on economic democracy in 1920 but had already begun to be explored by economists in the US in the 1830s. So no one should pretend to be surprised at the catastrophes that have befallen society due to these principles having been ignored by a political system owned by the financiers. At the same time the situation could easily be remedied by measures advocated by the monetary reform movement. An example may be found in the platform of the US Green Party. If anyone wishes to learn more about all this, please consult my writings in the Three Sages Substack.