Exploring the Social Imagination

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Identity Lost in the One World Social Imagination...

Society at large takes for granted its identity and the individual identities within it.  Identity is a deeply complex construct that should never be taken for granted or assumed to be easily referred to and or transferred, replicated, duplicated, or extricated - freed from entanglement or disengaged.

There can never be one label "citizen of the world".  Such a label has no real depth of meaning or identity. One certainly can say that they are but that does not say much.  Because, being a citizen of the world is a wide and broad general term; it is the same as saying one is a citizen of the universe.

As a citizen of the world, one is actually an undetermined entity.  Being such is not the same as identifying as someone specific in the world from a certain place on a certain map as either one being among many or as many beings as one group in a certain place. Given that, and in the light of past discussions on globalism, being a citizen of the world is likely the agenda of the day and for exactly what was just pointed.

Within such a bland construct, at first one might feel liberated as in not tied to a place or to certain expectations often felt as imposed on from above or from around oneself in a given place. Then, as one steps fully into the construct embracing the label, losing oneself in it... one realizes that there is no sense of time or space or place. One has no face, no sense of who is who. One has no sense of being with others as they have no means to identify with anyone around them.

Yes, you can argue that one is a citizen of the world and identify with that. But, what would that look like? You say it can look like whatever you want it to look like. Really? If my view of or symbol for being a citizen of the world is different from yours, then there isn't any 'real' citizenship 'citizen of the world' as in belonging to the same country, state, town, or local community. Ironically, in saying that there is or there can be a citizen of the world (I am my own citizen and you are yours), we find an  isolated figure, nameless, faceless and placeless.

Yes, but 'so what' you say. Look at where we are now... conflicts and disparity world wide. You argue that being a citizen of the world would put a halt to all that and everyone would be the same and be happy or living in a harmonic symbiotic paradise. Well, to that all I can say is that we are back to nameless, faceless and placeless.

We deceive ourselves thinking that just because we are connected to the world, we are a citizen of the world as if that defines who we are. It does not. Identity is deeply profound and complex... the social imagination cannot exist as a nameless, faceless and placeless entity.


Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Globalism as in One World Order ~ How it Begins in the Social Imagination...

How does a one world order begin? It begins like anything that has a beginning in the social imagination. It is born in the social imagination. Such an event is largely born of the fundamental anxiety. In such state of anxiety, those that usually panic first are the social elites because they objectively and relatively have the most to lose. Hence, comes the desire to control every social imagination - the social reality/situation at hand which thus imagines the necessity to create a state of worldly security and unity since whatever was the prior norm for social security/unity appears to be slipping away to imposing or competing social imaginations.

What follows is a deconstruction of everything that was normal for anyone and everyone not only here but everywhere. Followed by a reconstruction of a new 'norm' which is put forward by the elites and they stress that it must be embraced by all in order to provide security and unity for all. Really? No, not really. That is the social pitfall. There can be no absolute or certainty for everyone's security and unity. This only works for them - the elites, at least for a short time or until the next panic attack.

Nonetheless, they move forward in their campaign "let the ends justify the means". Deconstruction usually starts with identity (who is who, why and what it means); why? Because, in any social imagination, identity of an individual member is as vital as his/her group identity membership. Both are fundamental constructs for the existence of social imagination - social reality. And, necessarily, from there deconstruction proceeds to deconstruct identity even further - the family.  Why? Because, this is the basic unit of individual identity and group identity.

After deconstruction, reconstruction follows and it begins with new imagery, and new jargon/phrases to label everyone with including new symbols/images all of which are necessary in the reconstruction of identity and those 'things' were certainly necessary in past identity constructions. Slowly, a new social imagination begins to emerge, a new social reality is constructed. Will this task be as easy as making and baking a cake or pie?

Certainly not. There will be rebels, rebellions, protests, and dissidents. Slowly and surely, they get weeded out by those who go along to get along; especially those that are open to new constructs. What about you?

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Globalism and the One World Order in the Western Social Imagination...

What a hot topic today, globalism and world order. Now, that is a hot topic in western countries with largely free market economies and democracy under the socio-historical influence of Judeo-Christ thought. Yes, it does stem from that kind of background whether you think so or not, agree or not.

It is the presentation of the individual in society in western civilization that is unique to the Judeo-Christ 'social imagination' mentality. Such mentality was a virtuous application by people for people. It was an active mental exercise rather than an ideology. But, not anymore. Now, it is turned upside to benefit a few and they know what moved it - virtue of the individual, the little man in the place where he/she finds themselves. Now, the elite have taken that and they virtue signal to get what they want which is more power and sustained power positions.

Virtue in the hands of the individual was for some time a common practice; but as some say, perhaps it had its time in the sun since it was a loosely practiced from the bottom up social exercise: found in townships, counties, small towns and even in small cities all composing the larger body of the state and so on.

Today, that once common practice has been declared an ideology and the only way to make it real and fair for everyone is to make every individual the same from the top down. That begins with the destruction of the individual or in the very least deliberately retards him/her in the place where they are. It makes all those in local places feel helpless, inadequate, unable to do anything for themselves keeping them just plain ignorant. It is the agenda of the ruling elite at the top and ironically they are the most ignorant. They are ignorant of the fact that people in the place where they are already know what to do for themselves, how to get along and just basically how to live their life in the place where they are - at home in their community, township, county, town/city and state. And to add - country!

One might ask, how could such thinking by the elites become such a problem in the west where the individual was vitally important? That's a good question. How does any corrupt information get in. Through pockets/packets, through venues, through holes in the very fabric that was thought to hold things together. And, because it comes from the top down the elites rather than from those at the bottom, one can only point to institutions of higher learning as they are controlled by the elite and now worldwide.

The long term agenda is to make everyone the same world wide. To make them think that they are important, elites are capitalizing on the Judeo-Christian thought with the intention to imprison it for their purposes. Yes, those at the top in universities, in government and corporate entities are the real villains. All such persons, want power and position and they want it for them and to last forever as they move into transhuman form.

How can they but better to say - how do they pull it off? They have tapped the very essence of western social imagination - the individual. They see themselves as the deserving group of individuals. And, thus, they cannot allow others the same freedom. Their agenda comes with virtuous wrappings and slogans. It makes people wary of others who don't want it. Those who don't accept the package will be persecuted... and it seems to be starting already.

Out of the social imagination that lifted up the individual will come the demise of it, the hatred of the one in favor of the many which can be controlled a the few.

Dare to take your head out of the sand????