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Caresmatism: a Useful Image in Politics!? (Populism!)

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Throughout history, influential politicians have often been seen as shapers of destiny and architects of society. However, some may believe that, behind their visible authority, they function more like puppets controlled by unseen forces than as independent leaders. This view suggests that true power lies elsewhere, with politicians serving as public faces for deeper, more ingrained interests.

Certainly, some independent individuals with strong personalities have risen to the top to realise their ideas, such as Napoleon and Hitler. However, the modern political landscape is shaped by complex networks of corporations, lobbyists, and special interest groups that wield significant economic and informational influence. These groups often set policy priorities and legislative agendas. Politicians, even charismatic ones, depend on them for campaign funding, media support, and advice. In return, their decisions may be subtly or overtly influenced to benefit those maintaining the political machinery.

You may have come across this (real!) depiction of Iran’s new leader of the Islamic regime!

Furthermore, bureaucracies, party apparatuses, and global institutions further diminish individual agency, ensuring that politicians follow established paths rather than forge new ones. Dissenters risk marginalisation, while conformists are rewarded with stability and progress.
In conclusion, although influential politicians seem to possess significant power, their actions and decisions are often dictated by external forces; they frequently serve as puppets on the public stage—animated not by their own will, but by the hands that pull their strings. If we examine their behaviour and interpret their language through their speech, we can easily read between the lines: they speak clearly and directly when they are prepared for what they need to say, but when caught unawares by a new, unexpected topic, they start babbling and repeating themselves.

In my view, the world aims to dissolve the individual into the crowd, with personality fading away under the “New World Order” to facilitate control.

As you might know, yesterday marked the arrival of the Spring Equinox and the Persian New Year. I feel a twilight sensation between grief and bliss. However, I could just be hopeful that the coming year will be filled with peace, freedom, and justice.

I hope that next year, flowers will blossom instead of bullets, bombs, or executions. 💖🌹

Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

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Peoples and Fatherlands, Para. 242 (Or a word about a common Europe!)

In Iran, I put a lot of value on the West and its people, especially the Europeans. After WWII, the engagement by England and France to make a common Europe, which came to fruition by Germany and France, made me sincerely wish to belong to this intellectual and cultivated community. I had a dream in Iran of seeing people in all of Europe holding books in their hands as they walked on the streets, and yet, when we escaped and arrived in Germany, I realized that it was a dream after all! Great expectations? It might be; in any case, I still had high expectations from European society. But as I followed this beloved idea wholeheartedly, I became increasingly upset. I found those gatherings of the European governments, apart from significant fundamental differences in understanding freedom, a group under solid influence by lobbyists trying to get their own wins on their business.

Long story short, I want to present the opinion of the great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche here. As we will notice, he recognized, however tough, the problems of this idea and predicted them beforehand.

Translated from “Werke in vier Bänden, Band 3, Jenseits von Gut und Böse”

Call it “civilization”, “humanization”, or “progress,” where the distinction of Europeans is now sought. Let’s simply call it, without praising or blaming, with a personal formula, the democratic movement of Europe: behind all the moral and political backgrounds that are pointed out with such a formula, an enormous philosophical process is taking place that is becoming more and more fluid – the process of similarity between Europeans, their growing detachment from the conditions under which climatically and class-bound races arise, their increasing independence from every particular milieu that for centuries wants to inscribe itself in soul and body with the same demands – i.e. the slow emergence of an essentially supranational and nomadic type of human being who, physiologically speaking, has a maximum of the art of adaptation and – strength as its typical distinction. This process of becoming a European can be delayed in speed by significant relapses. However, perhaps because of this, it gains and grows in intensity and depth – the now still raging Storm and Stress of the “national feeling” belongs here, as does the anarchism that has just emerged -: this process probably leads to results that its naive promoters and eulogists, the apostles of “modern ideas”, least want to count on. The same new conditions under which, on average, a levelling and mediation of people will emerge – a valuable, industrious, multi-purpose and employable herd animal; humans -are highly capable of giving rise to exceptional people with the most dangerous and attractive qualities. While that power of adaptation, which constantly tries out changing conditions and begins a new work with every gender, almost with every decade, does not make the power of the type possible at all, as the overall impression of such future Europeans will probably be that of many talkative, poor-willed and extremely employable jobs that require the master, the commanding one, like daily bread; while the democratization of Europe amounts to the creation of a type prepared for slavery in the finest sense: In individual and exceptional cases, the strong person will have to become stronger and more prosperous than he has perhaps ever been before – thanks to the unprejudiced nature of his training, thanks to the enormous diversity of practice, art and mask. I wanted to say that the democratization of Europe is simultaneously an involuntary event for the breeding of tyrants – the word understood in every sense, including the spiritual one.

Sincerely appreciate your interest.🙏💖

The title image by Michael Cheval