The Ideology of Tyranny: The Use of Neo-Gnostic Myth in American Politics

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The Ideology of Tyranny: The Use of Neo-Gnostic Myth in American Politics

The Ideology of Tyranny traces the contemporary jargon of political correctness and the so-called 'politics of diversity' so prevalent in the academic and administrative discourse of the United States to the fantastic sociology of an obscure French pornographer, Georges Bataille (1897-1962). The celebration of violence sung in his works, re-elaborated in abstract form by the late followers of Bataille, has led to the creation of a peculiar talk emphasizing difference, antagonism, intellectual despair, and a profound political conservatism. As the so-called Left has lately come to adopt this troubling gospel of divisiveness, the consequence for a wholesome culture of dissent in our society have been a disastrous paralysis of its critical and moral faculties in the face of a new dawn of never-ending wars.

The concept of a duality or conflict of opposing two equally-matched sides pervades much of Gnosticism--its no wonder the types of societies that are bred (societies turned against themselves, mixed war, etc.)

Links:

• Michel Foucault
• Georges Bataille
• Gnostic Wars: The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality