WELTANSCHAUUNG – a #prose #poem by David Sparenberg

NIHILISM – a worldview (a Weltanschauung) which negates the value of life. In particular, the value of individual life.  Of persons existent and becoming, with privatedesires, thoughts, choices.

Nihilism and the absurd. The Nihilism of denial. Nihilism of authoritarianism, of dictatorship. The Nihilism in the guts of an aggressive death-wish. The existential threat and the Nihilism of boredom and the collective Nihilism of diseased and deranged egos.

The Nihilism of gender. The Nihilism of Thingness.

FASCISM - a political ideology of power and privilege, of the superior over against the inferior, of Popularism (of Volkisch Bewegung), the cultic cauldron of Nationalism versus the enemy within and enemies external, of hatred, dehumanization, enforcer thugs, executive orders, of courts and war; the forging and twisting together of power and privilege with wealth and industry, constantly driven unto the total weaponization and militarization of ordinary, everyday functions. The Fourth Reich.

The Fascism of propaganda. The Fascism of patriotism and the revolving door of inclusion and exclusion. The Fuhrer Principle. Dictating, throughout the Reich, the content of the Fascist psyche. Conditioning, throughout the racist Nation-State, the legality of Fascist citizenship and the normalization of malignant Fascistchoices. Oligarchy: elitism, virulent mobocracy. Identifying who is loyal and who deserves to be pacified within the Technocratic Matrix. Who is garbage, who is blood polluting garbage, and who deserves and needs to be thrown out.

The Fascism of existential time. The Fascism of Lebensraum (of living space). The Fascism of violence. Of war. Of race. Of gender, binary gender supremacy. The Nihilism of Fascism.  The negating of life, individuals crushed, verboten!and lost. The walking dead. Schlafwaldeln (sleepwalking): somnambulant. The Fascism of Zombie Apocalypse. Of social pathogens. Of wealth. Sex. Of color.

The Fascism of Thingness.

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David Sparenberg, Vetaren’s Day, 11 November 2024