Utilitarianism
"Utilitarianism: The idea that actions are right if
they are useful or for the benefit of a majority" - Oxford
English Dictionary
Philosophies have two components: an abstract
definition, and how they translate into reality. In the case of
utilitarianism, the concept of benefitting a majority quickly
becomes the concept of leadership by the majority, excluding
the concepts of both the individual and the collective in
favour of pleasing most of the people. Because individuals are
different, the only ideas upon which a majority can be found to
agree are those of the simplest and most basic values shared by
that majority: the lowest common denominator. This creates an
artificial norm out of a diverse society, and forces a judgment
of the average onto all individuals.
When this is applied to nations, it rapidly translates
into liberal democracy, or the idea that if most people can
vote on a topic, it will be best for everyone; as mentioned
above, this excludes both the collective good as defined in
terms of the whole of society, and the good of individuals who
do not fit the average. Since the crowd does not directly act,
strong central bureaucracies are created, because if one is
addressing an idealised average person, one can do it through
triplicate forms and fixed definitions of what the wants and
needs of that average are.
This is both soul-killing to the individual, and
destructive to the nation, as it sets aside higher goals in
favour of pleasing the lowest impulses of the crowd. If history
is observed in this regard, it becomes clear that every nation
goes from a period of leadership into an age of relative
comfort, after which utilitarianism arises; from this comes an
addiction to money as a value in itself, strong intellectual
and social taboos, and other aspects that reflect internal
division more than consensus; indeed, consensus is lost, and
thus ideas themselves fall prey to the lowest common
denominator, as there is no ideal to which one can point and
illustrate that an idea fulfils it.
In
Integralist
terms, this is the origin of passivity, in that one is no
longer striving for a higher ideal both inwardly and outwardly,
but is content to define reality solely by the terms of the
majority, which tend to be crude and unreflective, and
destructive of anything which might destabilise the individual.
For this reason, "equality" as a doctrine rapidly follows
utilitarianism, because with this concept one can defend the
individual against all criticism: the individual alone
determines what is valuable, and since consensus is lacking,
there is no way to criticise it. In this way utilitarian states
both benefit and breed low self-esteem individuals.
Passivity is incompatible with the creation of a great nation
state. At best, it creates a civilisation that is comfortable
for unstable and neurotic people, and then disintegrates. We
can see many examples of this, from Bolshevik Russia to the
ancient Assyrian people whose society collapsed in neurosis and
left its people landless, to the ancient Greeks who in a fit of
moral self-righteousness, during the beginning of the end for
their civilisation, crucified Socrates via hemlock for
educating the youth in "subversive thought." All unstable
civilisations become believers in authority for authority's
sake;
Integralism
in authority for the sake of achieving an ideal.
This ideal requires consensus, but not majority
approval, as the majority are inactive in the formation of
ideals; for this reason, all traditional educated societies
have had a specialised leadership caste whose role was to
understand the necessary ideals of the people and translate
them into social form. Consensus is the root of any growing
civilisation, and is felt most strongly when a civilisation is
new, as its ideal is obvious: create a civilisation and rise
above the mess of disorganised chaos that is proto-tribal
existence. Our goal is to resurrect consensus, but to look
toward the future and not the past, and to re-create a great
nation again in the ashes of our current one.
Possibly the worst aspect of utilitarianism is that it enforces
a linear measurement on all things, from zero crowd approval to
full crowd approval, and this linear system comes to dominate
all commerce, politics and learning. At this point, excellence
is no longer rewarded, but conformity is. Contrary to popular
belief,
Integralism
is a revolution against this conformity, and addresses
it by relegating leadership to its correct position and
breeding a stronger society as whole, such that all other
actions are liberated from having to conform.
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