There was a new
situation created, a new idea reigned. Even in the machine, there should be
equality. No part should be subordinate to any other part: all should be equal.
The instinct for chaos had entered. Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in
having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one
part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.
But the desire for chaos had risen, and the idea of mechanical equality was the
weapon of disruption which should execute the will of man, the will for chaos.
D.H. Lawrence – Women in Love (1920)
A strange idea - the
will for chaos, yet very much what we observe today. There are
numerous influential people who by their words and their actions seem to have
it in abundance – the will for chaos.
If so, then chaos is probably where we are headed.
Weird as it seems, there is a major political divide between
those who try to contain chaos plus the potential for further chaos and those
who do not even recognise it for what it is. The divide seems to have evolved far beyond the old
distinction between conservatives and radicals.
As if prosperity has eaten away genuine opportunities to be
radical and left us with only two options. Boring maintenance plus incremental
improvements or the exciting, progressive worlds of social justice and equality - the weapon of disruption which should execute the will of man, the will for chaos.
3 comments:
Chaos ensured by the banality of bureaucratic evil.
I suspect Corbyn is keen on a bit of chaos, because that's what his Marxist doctrine tells him is the precursor to a communist paradise. And lots of people in the media and the liberal establishment like it too, without being Marxists; they simply think that our culture is indefensible, so want to undermine it by any means possible. I certainly don't want more incremental bureaucratic fiddling as parties lie about who can get the most juice out of our lemon of an economy. But at least they keep the lights on, and manage to get the rubbish collected (most weeks).
James - yes it is evil and time it was more generally recognised as such.
Sam - I agree, but maybe if Corbyn was wiser he would see that the bureaucracy would be on his side and humiliating failure less likely if he took a more incremental approach. The destination would be the same but he and his cronies appear not to see that.
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