Socialism, in theory if not in practice, is the attitude of thinking about the collective first and foremost. Aristotle emphasised in Politics that neither individuals nor even families were self-sufficient, and therefore were not independent political units: “He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.” They had to come together in the form of a polis to achieve the meaning of life, which was happiness.
The logic of socialism is that if people work together as a collective, they are more powerful than they would be as the same number of individuals. The same way that a bundle of sticks is harder to break than several individual ones, a group of people who come together in solidarity are strong. Any weaknesses present in individuals are compensated for by the rest of the collective. Socialism is thus a kind of social insurance.
There is a popular alternative attitude in society today, known as antisocialism.
Antisocialism is characterised by an extreme selfishness that puts the individual well before any collective interests. The antisocialist has no interest in society or in the greater good. They simply follow lower impulses, whether from their own bodies, minds or from kakodemonic forces. Other people’s suffering is a non-factor.
The left and the right both exhibit antisocialism, even though they point fingers at each other.
The right’s antisocialism manifests in its worship of money and the economy, and its willingness to import cheap labour to the detriment of their own working classes, whose suffering the antisocial right seems to enjoy. Right-wing antisocialism is also evident in how they give landlords a pass for their parasitic behaviour. They will rage all day about beneficiaries getting $400 a week, but have no problem with a landlord of inherited property getting $4,000 a week.
The favourite refrain of the right-wing antisocialist is that socialism led to the starvation of millions in the Soviet Union and China, and therefore we need to cut all welfare and leave the sick to die in the street.
The left’s antisocialism primarily manifests as resentment. As Morgoth pointed out, they believe society is evil, and should be destroyed so that we can start again. Most leftists are born ugly, stupid, weak or poor, a phenomenon known as Bioleninism. They resent everything healthy, strong, beautiful or sane, which is why they support anything that harms Western society, such as mass immigration of Muslims and Africans.
Where the right-wing antisocialist defends landlords, the left-wing counterpart defends criminals and gang members. For the left-wing antisocialist, criminals are deserving of more sympathy and tolerance than people who grew up in the same families but who did not become criminals. Nietzsche wrote in Beyond Good And Evil that “There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals.” The oversocialisation of the leftist makes him prone to this form of antisocialism.
The sneering aggression with which many leftists attack anyone proposing immigration restrictions reveals the extent they are antisocialists. Much like the Abrahamist, who destroys spirituality while claiming to be spiritual, the leftist destroys society while claiming to be a socialist.
Boomers are especially prone to antisocialism. This manifests as an extreme indifference to the state of society or the national finances after they pass on. Many Boomers hoard multiple houses, charge rent and claim fat pensions on top of that. They don’t care that younger people are suffering under the burden of having to work to pay for all of this, and most of them want even more houses and even bigger pensions.
However, large elements of the younger generations exhibit antisocialism as well, albeit in different forms. The prosocial response to Boomer apartheid is for young people to work together for the sake of each other, taking power and cutting pensions to the level of other benefits. In practice they don’t do this, preferring to abstain from politics and complain instead, or bog themselves down in identity politics, although sometimes they destroy things in protest.
The Palestine flag is the flag of the Gen Z antisocialist. It can be seen everywhere young antisocials gather. It signifies only that the bearer hates Western civilisation and wants it destroyed. Anyone waving this flag can be guaranteed to believe in mass immigration to Western countries.
Everyday antisocialism can be seen more and more in the form of several petty offences, such as littering, slovenly dress, bluetooth speakers at high volume, poor service in retail and hospitality, reckless driving, breaking promises, loud swearing in public, people stinking of piss, shit or sweat and in general hostility and indifference to the suffering of others.
Antisocialism is caused by several factors.
The chief reason for increasing antisocialism in Western societies today is the economic situation. It’s all but impossible for the average young Westerner to achieve the same standard of living their parents had. Many have reasoned therefrom that nothing matters and there’s no point in being prosocial. Might as well burn the whole thing down and start again.
Antisocial parents are also a major factor. People often talk about the ongoing fertility collapse but, unfortunately, the fertility of quality people already collapsed decades ago. Decent and respectful people seldom breed anymore, leaving the dregs of society to produce all the children, which they usually abuse and neglect. This widespread abuse and neglect has impacted great numbers of people today, who have become twisted, raging and bitter as a result.
The foremost reason, though, is materialist nihilism. The prevailing belief about the nature of reality is that we are apes that evolved out of amoebas, that consciousness evolved as part of this process, that consciousness is exterminated when the physical body dies, and therefore that life is meaningless. The vast majority of people in science, academia, politics, business and media believe that there is no ultimate purpose to human existence. This attitude has permeated throughout society and has made enormous numbers of people act like chimpanzees.
This attitude of antisocialism is one of the defining characteristics of the post-Covid age. It is a plague that is likely to continue for at least a few decades yet.
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