Atomization

How does atomization and alienation occur? Why the mistrust? The distance? How does a foreign totalitarian political repressor disintegrate an entire people as it clamps down?

Perhaps on the micro level, individuals begin using one another as instruments to achieve what is so impossible to achieve as an honest individual. Perhaps individuals begin clamoring atop one another to reach a certain level of prosperity, and in doing so, they must subscribe to the very totalitarian culture that is alienating the population as a whole. Depression and anxiety should be pervasive. Depression is something that happens when an individual’s real presence fails to match up to an internal, ideal presence. Anxiety possibly happens when a person’s perceived failure rate is high in attempting to make the internal image and external manifestation congruent. These ailments serve to divide individuals from each other; they retreat to themselves to nurse their wounds. Eventually, we resort to physical and psychological narcotics, which act as a sort of cohesive agent, but it is only enough to hold us together in misery; it is not enough to reconnect us.

We self determine and associate to express a greater collective character based on current circumstances we find ourselves in. A national character should be changing and regenerating as our living circumstances change. Applying a restrictive, top down authoritarian power on these processes serves to freeze them temporarily into a portrait of the tyrant’s preference, but soon cultural and economic forces will serve to break this portrait apart as changing individuals no longer see themselves reflected in this static character. Soon the portrait shatters, and more and more force is required to keep it together as it breaks further apart due to shearing repulsive and attractive forces. This force manifests itself in lies and propaganda, and eventually physical coercion when that psychological suggestion fails to assert itself on the individual psyche.

Revolution occurs when the ruling class is 1) a minority, a highly shrunken and shrinking entity, 2) perceived to be exploiting the ruled beyond any tolerable standard, and 3) alien in character to the present national consciousness. This class will need to cloak itself in themes and rationales central to the fading character of the nation itself, and shut off more and more means of communication between the ruled and the ruling, for fear of revealing its true character. These lies and obfuscations will slowly become more transparent with repetition and the proliferation of counter examples (intact specimens of an alternate, more honest reality). The host can remove the parasite at any time. It is simply a matter of consciousness.