Where We Disagree

 

There are many ways that a Mavellonialist--like I am--disagrees with Postmodernist Marxists. Here are two salient ways.

 

First, I accept the Western axiom that the individual is sovereign. With my philosophy of self-interest and self-realization, this axiom is carried close to its logical end, namely, that the sovereign self asserts its positive power by living as God commands and expects.

 

I also assert that individual-living as a supercitizen anarchist is the mode of social, economic, and political existence that best promote self-development and enjoyment.

 

The Postmodernist Marxists claim that the group, not the individual, is sovereign, and that the individual must always yield to community interest and obey what the State commands.

 

Second, I do not accept that the fundamental reality of the universe is conflict, an unending power struggle between oppressor groups and oppressed groups. The totalitarian state, the communist economy, the pervasiveness of group-living and joining, the nonindivudating by indiviudals, the caste system, the political arrangement of elites ruling over the many in the lower ranks of society—this bleak view of the world is immoral, blighted, shortsighted, mistaken, nihilistic and cynical.

 

My alternative view is that a democracy or constitutional republic, with sovereign individualized anarchist-individuating supercitizens (running it and agreeing to be ruled by elected leaders) can live together in ordered liberty, with free market economics, limited government, and much personal power and wealth to self-realize as upper middle-class citizens. This optional way that things can be is much preferred and comports with what the Divine Couple desire.

 

Where rational egoists work together, and live alone more than as joiners, and as maverizing individuals more than mediocre groupists, the power relations can be transformed by spiritual and moral goodness: people can be loving, cooperative and compete while growing freedom, happiness, peace, liberty, lawfulness and order.

 

This second point is where Stephen Hicks and Jordan Peterson have influenced me: there is hope that people can use their natural power and desire to get more power for constructive social goals.