Yesterday in Prague I briefly attended a meeting of people who are dissatisfied with the current state of our society and are looking for some other “alternatives” to change it. The discussion there said that the highest type of power is the legislative power. Yes, that’s what they teach us. They teach us that there are three types of power, the legislative, which creates rules for the functioning of society, then the executive, which implements those rules in real life and enforces them, and then the judicial, which punishes those who break those rules.
Just as they teach us these three types of power, they also teach us not to think about it and to blindly accept it. And no one thinks about it any further. Like, for example, on what basis the legislative power creates those rules. After all, those politicians have to create those rules, laws, directives, regulations, and so on, based on something.
Yes, they create them on the basis of ideologies. There are many of them. For example, capitalism, communism, liberalism, neoliberalism, Christianity, Islam and many, many others. We often hear people say that we belong to the West, that we belong to Europe, that we cannot survive without the EU, that we are a society based on Christian values and many, many more. And they create the rules and laws accordingly. It logically follows that there must be another power above the legislative power. Yes, it is an ideological power.
Ideologies often arise when a scholar, writer, professor or philosopher writes down his thoughts, experiences, opinions, ideas and various works are created that are considered the fundamental work of this or that ideology. For capitalism, this could be Adam Smith and his An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Or another ideology based on the work The Communist Manifesto, authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
And how is it possible that different ideologies prevail in different parts of the world? How is it that one thing is better for one society and other one for another? Why does one society profess one ideology and other one another? On the basis of something, they had to choose one ideology or another. They had to choose a concept for the development of their society and accordingly they chose the “right” ideology for themselves. It follows that there must be conceptual power above ideological power.
Someone decides in which direction they want society to develop and establishes the appropriate concept of development. Accordingly, they set the appropriate ideologies for society and the legislative power then functions as it should.
So the highest type of power is not legislative power, but conceptual power. Simply put, society can be governed in two directions. For the benefit of the ruling minority, at the expense of the majority. Or for the benefit of the majority. When we look at today’s global society, it must be absolutely clear to everyone that global governance has been seized by a group that governs processes in its own interest at the expense of the majority. And most countries in the world have never chosen their own concept. They were only forced into ideologies so that the country would function precisely in the interests of those who control the conceptual power.
And now back to us. If we want to change our society for the better, we must change the concept of the development of our society. Nothing will change if we try to change something at the level of the legislative power. It is useless to argue that nothing will change through politicians and political parties and only civil initiative through direct democracy will help. We must establish a concept of the development of our society, choose the right ideology for this, and then the legislative power will work correctly with politicians. The pitfall of this today is that most people in society have completely resigned themselves to actively managing themselves and our society. And this is exactly what those who understand management and use it for themselves want. For people to give up management and be able to manage them. For example, through unelected managers of multinational corporations.
We must therefore change from the object of management (the one who is managed) to the subject of management (the one who manages) and take over the management of our country, our nation. We live in a global world with global management, which is literally murderous for us. Introducing management changes that are beneficial to us will of course cause a lot of complications and problems when confronting global management. However, we live in a time when conceptual changes are taking place at the global level as well, and we have a huge chance to take advantage of this.
But we must do it for ourselves, and not wait for someone else. Whoever comes from the outside and wants to introduce some management for us, it will always be management that is beneficial to them, not to us.
Václav Kupilík, 25.1.2024
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