{"id":222430,"date":"2020-12-07T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222430"},"modified":"2020-12-10T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T07:00:00","slug":"being-chosen-vs-being-ordinary-in-2020s-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=222430","title":{"rendered":"Being \u2018Chosen\u2019 vs. Being \u2018Ordinary\u2019 in 2020s America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk Dec 7, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

America is divided and the rupture is so deep that Americans can\u2019t even see across that which splits them in the middle. If there was a hope at one point that someone could unite the nation, this hope has faded away. In fact,\u00a0the American\u00a0mainstream media works relentlessly to sustain that cultural and even metaphysical separation. It is reasonable to determine that rather than delivering something that resembles news,\u00a0the\u00a0American\u00a0media operates as propaganda outlets. Like in the Soviet Union, American mainstream media manufactures stories that sustain premeditated narratives.\u00a0 The commitment to impartiality, truthfulness, honesty or any\u00a0journalistic\u00a0standard has\u00a0been replaced with blind adherence to a \u2018party line,\u2019 an \u2018ideology,\u2019 a \u2018worldview.\u2019<\/p>\n

On one side of that\u00a0dividing line\u00a0we find the so-called \u2018progressives\u2019: \u2018liberals\u2019 and\u00a0Identitarians\u00a0who are largely associated\u00a0with cities and the urban lifestyle. On the other side we find people who are conservative, nationalist and patriotic.\u00a0More than often, they are slightly\u00a0removed and even repulsed by urban culture.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t take a genius to gather that the progressive worldview is, in fact a celebration of choseness (exceptionalism). To be \u2018progressive\u2019 is to believe that someone else must be\u00a0\u2018reactionary.\u2019 To be progressive\u00a0is practically a\u00a0severe form of self-love. As such, progressives and liberals do believe themselves to be on the right side of history and this\u00a0belief legitimises\u00a0their\u00a0conduct, which often verges on hardcore authoritarianism. After all, \u2018reason,\u2019 progressives believe, is embedded in the\u00a0core of their\u00a0liberal perception.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ordinary\u2019\u00a0people, on the other hand, do not deny or refute\u00a0reason. They just accept that reason is merely one aspect of the human existence. To be\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0is to acknowledge that \u2018Being\u2019 is prior to reason. Unlike the liberal and the progressive who adheres to the Cartesian\u00a0Cogito,\u00a0Ergo Sum<\/em><\/a>; \u2018I think therefore I am,\u2019 the\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0accepts that you actually \u2018think because you\u00a0are<\/em>\u2019 (Heidegger). But it goes\u00a0further: to\u00a0be\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0is to accept that you actually\u00a0\u2018are<\/em>\u00a0where you do not think\u2019 (Lacan).\u00a0 To be\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0is to let the unconscious guide you to safety.\u00a0To be\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019, as such, is to accept that \u2018Being\u2019\u00a0proceeds rationality, to acknowledge that \u2018Being in the World,\u2019 transcends beyond reason and rationality.\u00a0Thus, true existential understanding is when\u00a0rationality comes to terms with its boundaries. \u00a0And\u00a0ecstasies<\/em>, as the ultimate form of existential celebration is the instant in which the reason lets off its guards and the soul is finally free to explore its true nature.<\/p>\n

While the \u2018chosen\u2019 sees\u00a0oneself as the shiniest product of enlightenment, the\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0is often unimpressed\u00a0by the enlightenment\u00a0and its \u2018achievements.\u2019\u00a0 For the\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019, family values, the church, the commitment to the soil and\u00a0even \u2018love\u2019 as a thing in itself do not beg for rational \u2018explanations\u2019 or analytical explorations. The\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0does not see oneself as the ruler of the universe. The\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0is\u00a0instead a\u00a0humble visitor: he or she embraces the climate and\u00a0accepts its\u00a0changes. The\u00a0ordinary\u00a0people also seem slightly less fearful of \u2018global pandemics.\u2019 They are often made of combatant fabric and like soldiers they accept that temporality is inherent to existence.<\/p>\n

People may oppose and mock Donald Trump for understandable reasons, but no one can deny the fact that Trump contributed more than anyone else to emphasise this sharp and unbridgeable divide between the \u2018chosen\u2019 and the \u2018ordinary.\u2019<\/p>\n

Trump appeared on the world\u2019s political stage when it seemed as if the liberal agenda\u00a0had\u00a0prevailed. Trump\u2019s presidential victory in 2016 revealed that half of the American people weren\u2019t sure about the plan to \u2018revise\u2019 the \u2018World Order\u2019. Four years later, the battle zone is fully transparent.\u00a0On November 3, 2020\u00a0Trump and the Republican Party were destined to disappear electorally.\u00a0Many pollsters\u00a0promised us a\u00a0Biden\/Democratic\u00a0\u2018landslide victory.\u2019 This didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0The Democratic party lost seats in the house. The Republicans gained them.\u00a0And if this is not bad enough,\u00a0Trump increased his raw vote tally considerably, growing stronger\u00a0within diverse community segments that are traditionally associated with the\u00a0Democratic party. Judging by the election results,\u00a0many people\u00a0actually prefer to be \u2018ordinary.\u2019<\/p>\n

A legal battle is taking place at the moment over issues to do with the\u00a0integrity of the November election. The American Progressive media pretends\u00a0that this battle\u00a0isn\u2019t taking\u00a0place.\u00a0While Trump\u2019s legal team fights in the\u00a0swing states\u00a0not one American liberal mainstream outlet is brave enough to admit that half of America has drifted away to alternative outlets. In just a matter of days those outlets increased their\u00a0ratings\u00a0significantly. The\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019\u00a0doesn\u2019t buy into the\u00a0\u2018chosen\u2019\u00a0narrative. He and she actually prefer an\u00a0ordinary\u00a0tale.<\/p>\n

And yet, it is important to grasp the role of Trump in all of\u00a0this.\u00a0How did this real estate tycoon\u00a0emerge to\u00a0become the voice of America\u2019s Working Class? How is it possible that the Democratic Party, once upon a\u00a0time the\u00a0voice of\u00a0working America,\u00a0has\u00a0become the mercenary force of Wall Street\u00a0and Silicon Valley\u00a0while the Republicans are now the voice of the Ordinary people and working Americans?\u00a0Trump provides an answer.<\/p>\n

Peculiarly enough, Trump is that which Bernie and Corbyn pretended to be but never were. Trump, himself, an exemplary\u00a0\u2018chosen\u2019\u00a0character has become the\u00a0favorite of the \u2018ordinary.\u2019\u00a0Trump\u2019s communication\u00a0is existentially driven. The man has managed to excite tens of millions of voters\u00a0shaking his behind\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0the music of YMCA<\/em>. As opposed to the rationalist enlightened\u00a0\u2018chosen\u2019\u00a0who searches for the reasoning that connects\u00a0words to meanings, the\u00a0\u2018ordinary\u2019, reacts to the deafening silence between the words. Trump is a master of that deafening silence. He knows how to articulate his massage in between words.\u00a0I assume Trump has never\u00a0read\u00a0Lacan, but\u00a0he understands very well the role of the unconscious: you ARE where you do not think. You are your guts.<\/p>\n

That which progressives and liberals hate about Trump is\u00a0exactly what more than 74 million\u00a0American\u00a0voters love about the man. Liberals and progressives see Trump as a\u00a0reckless, failed businessman with a trail of bankruptcies and (pandemic) deaths\u00a0behind him. Yet, for his admirers, these facts make Trump into an\u00a0\u00dcbermensch, a resilient human hero who prevails against all odds. Like some military figures such as\u00a0MacArthur, Patton, Sharon\u00a0and historical\u00a0state leaders such\u00a0as\u00a0Hitler, Stalin and Churchill,\u00a0Trump, throughout\u00a0his entire adult\u00a0life,\u00a0has\u00a0been willing to risk everything to win a battle or fulfil a dream. Like the above historical\u00a0figures, Trump\u00a0manages to drive his troops into ecstasy yet, unlike many of\u00a0them, Trump\u00a0didn\u2019t start a single war. \u2018Ordinary\u2019\u00a0people appreciate this fact as it is often them who send their sons and daughters to fight and die in the so-called \u2018American wars.\u2019<\/p>\n

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