VJMP Reads: Gaddafi's Green Book III (fin)

VJMP Reads: Gaddafi’s Green Book III (fin)

This reading carries on from here.

Part III is titled ‘The Social Basis of The Third Universal Theory’. This is divided into eleven chapters.

In the first, ‘The Social Basis of The Third Universal Theory’, Gaddafi declares that the social bond is the basis for the movement of history. Each group has common social needs which must be collectively satisfied. The national struggle is the basis of history. “…just as community is the basis for survival of all groups within the animal kingdom, so nationalism is the basis for the survival of nations”.

“Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.” The destruction of nations leads to minorities. National unity is the basis of survival – Gaddafi compares it to gravity. Gaddafi channels Edward O Wilson at one point, stating that the social bond works automatically towards the goal of national survival. Nationalism is the secret of group survival and it’s harmful to go against this. He observes that marriage within a group strengthens its unity.

In the second, ‘The Family’, Gaddafi compares the family to a plant, both being an expression of Nature. Any “dispersion, decline or loss of the family” is unnatural and could be compared to the destruction of a plant. Gaddafi compares society to a garden. The ideal form is one in which the individual can flourish within the family and the family within society. A society in which individuals lived without their families would be artificial.

In the third, ‘The Tribe’, Gaddafi notes that a tribe is just an extended family, and a nation is just an extended tribe. This same point was noted in Aristotle’s Politics. “The relationship which binds the family also binds the tribe, the nation, and the world.” Feelings of kinship decrease the larger the kinship group is. Gaddafi ridicules those who think otherwise.

In the fourth, ‘The Merits Of The Tribe’, Gaddafi describes the tribe as a secondary family. It raises and educates those within it. It also allows more freedom than the family, which supervises closely. Blood is the prime factor in its formation, but a person or family can be part of the tribe by affiliation and then later part of the tribe by blood.

In the fifth, ‘The Nation’, Gaddafi notes that loyalty to any one of family, tribe, nation and humanity weakens loyalty to the other three. Selfishness is harmful to the wider group, but self-respect is beneficial to it. A shared destiny is essential to nationhood. “The national state is the only political form which is consistent with the natural social structure.” The nation-state will naturally endure unless attacked from the outside or unless it collapses into tribal mentality.

All states composed of multiple nations will eventually destroy themselves, because the social factor of national bonds will inevitably triumph over the political factor. The tribe develops individuals at the post-family stage, and the nation develops individuals at the post-tribe stage.

In the sixth, ‘Woman’, Gaddafi opens by declaring it self-evident that men and women are equal as human beings. However, the fact that both exist and not just one shows that they occupy different roles. Men and women cannot replace each other in those natural roles. Nurseries are unnatural and should not exist, save for the case of orphans, where nurseries are better than foster homes.

“In need, freedom is latent.” Therefore, women should not be forced to work to provide the necessities of life. Belief in gender equality deprives women of their freedom. Gaddafi notes, with disapproval, that societies everywhere seek to turn women into men. “Men and women must be creative within their respective roles.” Women should not be forced to carry out men’s duties to gain equality with men.

In the seventh, ‘Minorities’, Gaddafi outlines two kinds of minorities. One belongs to the nation, which provides its social framework, whereas the other must form its own social framework. He suggests that the problems of minorities have to be solved at the national level, in a society controlled by the masses. Minorities should not be seen as substrata.

In the eighth, ‘Black People Will Prevail In The World’, Gaddafi claims that black people are motivated to vengeance by slavery. Much as Asians and white people had eras of dominance over history, so too will the blacks. He notes that the backwardness of blacks has led directly to their numerical superiority. The populations of other races are declining because of their obsession with work, but this hasn’t affected the blacks.

In the ninth, ‘Education’, Gaddafi speaks against rote learning. He notes that the style of education that is typical in the world goes against human freedom. Forcing a human to learn according to a curriculum is dictatorship. State-controlled and standardised education stultifies the masses. Education of all kinds of subjects should be available. “Knowledge is a natural right of every human being.”

In the tenth, ‘Music And Art’, Gaddafi laments that there is no common human language. He makes the startling claim that the stylistic sentiments of earlier generations are passed down to later ones in the genes. “People are only harmonious with their own arts and heritage”. Eventually, Gaddafi claims, all people will speak one language, or society will collapse.

In the eleventh, ‘Sport, Horsemanship And The Stage’, Gaddafi equates spectator sport with watching someone pray or eat at a restaurant. Much of this chapter has no real Western context, as our participatory sports are organised in a different way. He agrees with the general Western sentiment that sports should be for the masses. But he makes some odd claims, such as that the grandstand was invented to deny popular access to the sporting field.

In summary, Gaddafi’s The Green Book is a wide-ranging summary of his political and social beliefs. It is penetratingly insightful at places, and bafflingly vague at others. His criticisms of democracy, as it is practiced, are brilliant, but the book is light on practical detail regarding the alternative. Far from coming across as a dictator, Gaddafi seems intelligent and reasonable in this book. There is no focus on destroying his enemies, but rather on how a great country could be built on nationalist and socialist principles.

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Elemental Illusions And Elemental Delusions

1. The Prime Illusion is to believe that the physical world is the prima materia.

2. The Prime Delusion is to believe that one’s own consciousness is separate and distinct from all other consciousnesses.

3. The Prime Illusion belongs in the same category as other illusions such as that the Sun rotates around the Earth or that the Earth is flat.

4. Just because the physical world looks real doesn’t mean that it’s the prima materia. This status is reserved for consciousness.

5. The Elementalist laughs at people who believe the physical world is the prima materia, especially if this belief causes them to fear death.

6. Such people are as laughable as those afraid to travel in a boat lest they fall of the edge of the Earth.

7. The Prime Illusion is capable of causing horrific suffering to oneself.

8. The Prime Delusion belongs in the same category as other delusions such as that the existence of the divine cannot be proven or demonstrated.

9. Just because other consciousnesses cannot be proven to exist by empirical means doesn’t mean that their existence is less certain.

10. The Elementalist doesn’t laugh at people who believe that their consciousness is separate and distinct from all other consciousnesses. Such people are extremely dangerous.

11. The Prime Delusion is capable of causing horrific suffering to others.

12. A person is anxious if they suffer from the Prime Illusion to a minor extent. They are insane if they suffer from the Prime Illusion to a major extent.

13. A person is narcissistic if they suffer from the Prime Delusion to a minor extent. They are psychopathic if they suffer from the Prime Delusion to a major extent.

14. The purpose of spiritual practice is to overcome such illusions and delusions.

15. A person suffering from either the Prime Illusion or the Prime Delusion can be said to be unenlightened.

16. The less enlightened a time, a place, or a group of people, the more prevalent the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion will be.

17. The Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion have so much power because they cannot be disproven by appeal to empirical data.

18. The Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion have to be transcended on a spiritual level. This is achieved by raising one’s frequency high enough to be immune to illusions and delusions.

19. Full belief in either the Prime Illusion or the Prime Delusion will prevent a consciousness from advancing more than halfway up the Great Masculine Axis.

20. Partial belief in either the Prime Illusion or the Prime Delusion will prevent a consciousness from reaching the Summer Pole.

21. Compassion, when exercised on a spiritual level, is mostly a matter of helping people overcome the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.

22. Elementalism, in that it provides the cure to the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion, is a path away from suffering.

23. Identifying with the body intensifies both the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.

24. Identifying with the consciousness weakens both the Prime Illusion and the Prime Delusion.

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The Fundamental Feminine Attitude

1. The Fundamental Feminine Attitude is the will to impose chaos upon order.

2. Femininity is depicted as blue, which represents the sorrow that follows from the suffering caused by false or excess order.

3. The will to impose chaos upon order is ultimately inspired by the rejection of suffering. The feminine assumes authority of the local environment and imposes chaos upon the order that causes suffering.

4. The Fundamental Feminine Attitude is expressed in the material world through both the masculine and the feminine elements.

5. Femininity in the aspect of clay involves a determination to raise one’s offspring to adulthood. Action here nurtures the young of one’s own kin.

6. Femininity in the aspect of iron involves physical devotion. This aspect of femininity is devoted to the natural order of the body. Action here leads to a healthy body.

7. Femininity in the aspect of silver involves intellectual devotion. This aspect of femininity is devoted to the natural order of the mind. Action here leads to a healthy mind.

8. Femininity in the aspect of gold involves spiritual devotion. This aspect of femininity is devoted to the natural order of the consciousness. Action here leads to a healthy consciousness.

9. Femininity in the aspect of earth involves devotion to one’s offspring. This involves meeting their needs, so that they can themselves grow to have rectitude and devotion.

10. Femininity in the aspect of water involves devotion to oneself. This involves meeting one’s own needs, so that one can continue to express rectitude and devotion.

11. Femininity in the aspect of air involves devotion to one’s friends. This involves meeting the needs of the others in one’s community and society, so that those others can express rectitude and devotion.

12. Femininity in the aspect of fire involves devotion to the divine. The involves understanding that the only reason to be devoted to anything is to further the divine plan.

13. For the feminine, even sexual reproduction involves the imposition of chaos upon order, because the zygote will grow into a living creature that can take many kinds of potential actions.

14. The ultimate act of chaos is to produce new life, for this life has free will and is therefore an unpredictable and chaotic element.

15. Successful application of the Fundamental Masculine Attitude leads to devotion.

16. A failure to apply the Fundamental Feminine Attitude leads to an excess of order, which becomes rigidity and suffocation, which leads to suffering.

17. It can therefore be said that the essence of femininity is devotion, which is the same as the will to impose chaos upon false or excess order.

18. A respectable woman is one who has devotion to rectitude. Through this quality, all other good qualities of both femininity and masculinity are possible.

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VJMP Reads: Gaddafi’s Green Book II

This reading carries on from here.

Part II is titled ‘The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism’. This is divided into seven chapters.

In the first, ‘The Economic Basis Of The Third Universal Theory’, Gaddafi calls for the abolition of the wage system. He states that “Wage-earners are but slaves to the masters who hire them.” The producer has a right to that which they produce – a secondary benefit through the improvement of society or through wages is inadequate. Inequality cannot be tolerated as it leads to exploitation.

Gaddafi repeats Adam Smith’s rule that economic production is the result of raw materials, capital input and human labour. He claims that all three of these components are necessary to produce anything, and therefore all three should get an equal share. Gaddafi also notes that the working class is declining owing to scientific and technological advancement. People are, however, the basic component in any production process.

In the second, ‘Need’, Gaddafi notes that a person cannot be free if their needs are controlled by others. Need leads to the enslavement and exploitation of those who need. Conflict is caused by one group controlling the needs of a second, giving that second an incentive to rebel. Need is a problem inherent to life.

In the third, ‘Housing’, Gaddafi opens with “Housing is an essential need for both the individual and the family and should not be owned by others”. A person cannot be free while living in a home owned by someone else, whether or not they’re paying rent. Fiddling with rents won’t help – the important thing is ownership. People won’t have the right to own multiple houses, because to do so is to control the needs of others, which is exploitation and cannot be permitted.

In the fourth, ‘Income’, Gaddafi declares that income is an imperative need. In a socialist system, there are no wage-earners, only partners in the production process. Income should not be a wage in exchange for having one’s production taken away.

In the fifth, ‘Means Of Transportation’, Gaddafi declares that transportation is also a necessity. Therefore, it’s subject to the same restrictions from being controlled as housing and income. Like housing, transportation may not be owned for the sake of renting it out.

In the sixth, ‘Land’, Gaddafi begins by stating that “Land is the private property of none.” He believes that the land ought to belong to whoever works it. Gaddafi’s aspiration is to create a society that is happy because it is free. This comes about via the liberation of people’s material and spiritual needs from the control of others.

Gaddafi is aware that wage-earners have little incentive to work. Neither do poeple who work for the common good. The self-employed, however, have plenty of incentive to do so. Gaddafi sees the economy as a zero-sum game, because, for him, there is no reason to produce beyond one’s needs. The industrious and skillful have no right to lever this advantage to take from the shares of others.

An especially diligent or intelligent person may meet their needs with less effort, but they may not acquire more than they need. Happiness is a matter of material and spiritual freedom. Profit itself must be eliminated, as it inevitably will be as the socialist process continues to evolve.

In the seventh, ‘Domestic Servants’, Gaddafi states that domestic servants are a type of slave. The Third Universal Theory offers freedom to both wage-earners and domestic servants. Household services should be carried out by employees, not by domestic servants. He concedes that it isn’t easy to assign a share of production to service workers.

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