Post-Modern Kierkegaard: The Eradication of Self and Perverted Justice
For libertarians.
Kierkegaard bemoaned the loss of identity in the frothing mass of the public. He held an ideal of community which preserved individuality, and utilized the individual in ways beneficial to the community without destroying the freedom and identity of the person. He detested the mechanization of man.
This phenomenon which caused him so much angst is still very much alive in present society. In perhaps the greatest realm of personal importance, justice has been stripped from the individual and subsumed by the machinery of society. The party, the wronged, has been utterly abandoned in favor of what works best "for society". The hurt and damage of the individual is ignored in favor of harmony, and the continued operation of the gears and wheels of an empty, soulless society.
We have been trained and indoctrinated with the ideal of the Public Person. A selfless individual, whose morality and ethics are mere ingredients for the fuel of the masses. There is no justice outside of the group. There are no morals outside of the body. The individual has been so thoroughly emaciated, retarded and subsumed that crime is no longer an offense against a person, but an infraction against the State.
The criminal is no longer guilty of hurting and destroying another person, he is simply guilty of working against the machinery of the State. The consequences of this ideological domination by the Mass over the Person are quite apparent. Criminality is soon diverted and transformed into a political abstraction, and entire populations are wiped out in the name of socialism, communism, democracy or representation. They are beasts feeding upon our souls, whose only distinction is method.
An injustice causes many things, and in the enslavement of the individual to the People we have lost all sight of the pain and suffering of wrong. The wronged party cries out for relief from this sense... this pain of great injustice that needs satisfaction.
Just what does justice serve, exactly? Is it mere food for the masses? Is it simply a benefit for the State? Is justice then derived from, instituted, and sustained by society for society's purposes? No, justice has one master, one purpose, one service.
One judge.
"Hark, your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground."
Kierkegaard bemoaned the loss of identity in the frothing mass of the public. He held an ideal of community which preserved individuality, and utilized the individual in ways beneficial to the community without destroying the freedom and identity of the person. He detested the mechanization of man.
This phenomenon which caused him so much angst is still very much alive in present society. In perhaps the greatest realm of personal importance, justice has been stripped from the individual and subsumed by the machinery of society. The party, the wronged, has been utterly abandoned in favor of what works best "for society". The hurt and damage of the individual is ignored in favor of harmony, and the continued operation of the gears and wheels of an empty, soulless society.
We have been trained and indoctrinated with the ideal of the Public Person. A selfless individual, whose morality and ethics are mere ingredients for the fuel of the masses. There is no justice outside of the group. There are no morals outside of the body. The individual has been so thoroughly emaciated, retarded and subsumed that crime is no longer an offense against a person, but an infraction against the State.
The criminal is no longer guilty of hurting and destroying another person, he is simply guilty of working against the machinery of the State. The consequences of this ideological domination by the Mass over the Person are quite apparent. Criminality is soon diverted and transformed into a political abstraction, and entire populations are wiped out in the name of socialism, communism, democracy or representation. They are beasts feeding upon our souls, whose only distinction is method.
An injustice causes many things, and in the enslavement of the individual to the People we have lost all sight of the pain and suffering of wrong. The wronged party cries out for relief from this sense... this pain of great injustice that needs satisfaction.
Just what does justice serve, exactly? Is it mere food for the masses? Is it simply a benefit for the State? Is justice then derived from, instituted, and sustained by society for society's purposes? No, justice has one master, one purpose, one service.
One judge.
"Hark, your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground."