Thoughts during the plague № 4. Plague and Dasein

Thoughts during the plague № 4. Plague and Dasein


Alexander Dugin

Hello, you are watching the series “Thoughts during the Plague.” Today I would like to talk about philosophical issues related to the coronavirus epidemic.

We have already said that from Heidegger's point of view, Dasein is determined by the attitude towards death. In the era of a pandemic, an epidemic, death that comes to us and turns out to be in close proximity with us, enters our attention zone and becomes an active factor of our presence. From the point of view of existential philosophy, this increases the acuteness of our presence in the world. Our Dasein in this situation awakens to itself, coming to fixation.

Usually, when death is out of the question, Dasein spreads, scatters, disperses, forgets about its finiteness and, thus, about itself. Instead, the alienated Das Man mode is activated when Man denkt, Man trinkt. When instead of saying “I think,” “I drink,” they say - “drinking,” “thinking,” “eating,” “sleeping.”

In fact, Das Man is the one who does all this: eats, sleeps, thinks, is present, moves, walks, enjoys or is sad when we are absent. We think that this is us, but in fact this Das Man is someone, something that does not coincide with anything particular. It thinks, it sleeps, it eats, it falls... But it exists through us. This is when there is no death.

And when death becomes close to us, we are shaken from it, we do not agree - Man denkt, Man trinkt. We need it to be ourselves - because death is near, it is standing outside the door or is already climbing through the window. In this situation, we are no longer satisfied that Das Man is doing this instead of us - we are starting to do it ourselves. Maybe this is the last time we think, drink, eat, watch, walk, move, talk, breathe, etc.

Accordingly, from the point of view of existential philosophy from the point of view of Heidegger, such an existence in the face of death is more authentic, more genuine. At this moment, the presence in the world becomes ours, because before that it was not ours, but Das Man’s one. When death comes to us, we begin to truly perceive this breath as ours, this thinking as ours, this feeling as ours. We are returning to our Dasein.

THE POST-GLOBAL ORDER IS AN INEVITABILITY

THE POST-GLOBAL ORDER IS AN INEVITABILITY


Alexander Dugin

The crisis that humanity is experiencing as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic has taken on such a global scale that a return to the situation that existed before is simply impossible.

If the spread of the virus is not stopped within a month and a half or two months, the process will become irreversible, and overnight the entire world order will collapse. History has seen similar periods which were associated with global world disasters, wars and other extraordinary circumstances.

If we try to look into the future with uncertainty and openness, we can predict some of the most likely scenarios or individual moments.

1. Globalization collapses definitively, rapidly and irrevocably. It has long been showing signs of crisis, but the epidemic has annihilated all of the major axioms: the openness of borders, the solidarity of societies, the effectiveness of existing economic institutions and the competence of ruling elites. Globalization has fallen ideologically (liberalism), economically (global networks) and politically (leadership of Western elites).

2. A new post-globalist (postliberal) world will be created on the rubble of globalism.

The sooner we recognize this particular turn, the more prepared we will be to cope with the new challenges. The situation is comparable to the last days of the USSR: the vast majority of the ruling Soviet class refused even to think about the possibility of transition to a new model of state, governance, and ideology, and only a very small minority realized the true nature of the crisis and prepared to adopt an alternative model. In a bipolar world, the collapse of one pole left only the other, and so a decision was to recognize its victory, copy its institutions and try to assimilate into its structures. This is what led to the globalization of the 90s and the unipolar world.

Today,this unipolar world is the one collapsing,

CORONAVIRUS AND THE HORIZONS OF A MULTIPOLAR WORLD: THE GEOPOLITICAL POSSIBILITIES OF EPIDEMIC

CORONAVIRUS AND THE HORIZONS OF A MULTIPOLAR WORLD: THE GEOPOLITICAL POSSIBILITIES OF EPIDEMIC
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The global coronavirus pandemic has enormous geopolitical implications. The world will never be the same again. However, it is premature to speak of what kind of world it will end up being. The outbreak has not passed: we have not even reached the peak. The main unknown points remain:

- what kind of losses will humanity ultimately suffer - how many deaths?

- Who will be able to stop the virus from spreading, and how?

- What are the real consequences for those who have been sick and those who have survived?

No one can yet answer these questions even approximately, and therefore we cannot even remotely imagine the real damage. In the worst case scenario, the pandemic will lead to a serious decline in the world's population. At best, the panic will turn out to be premature and groundless.

But even after the first months of the pandemic, some global geopolitical changes are already quite obvious and largely irreversible. No matter how the subsequent events unfold, something in the world order has changed once and for all.

The thaw of unipolarity

The outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic has been a decisive moment in the destruction of the unipolar world and the collapse of globalization. The crisis of unipolarity and the slippage of globalization has been noticeable since the very beginning of the 2000s - the 9/11 catastrophe, the sharp growth of China's economy, the return to global politics of Putin's Russia as an increasingly sovereign entity, the sharp activation of the Islamic factor, the growing crisis of migrants and the rise of populism in Europe and even the United States that resulted in the election of Trump and many other parallel phenomena have made it clear that the world formed in the 90s around the dominance of the West, the US and global capitalism has entered a crisis phase. The multipolar world order is beginning to form with new central actors, civilizations, as anticipated by Samuel Huntington. While there were signs of emerging multipolarity, a trend is one thing, and objective reality another. It is like cracked ice in spring - it is clear that it will not last long, but at the same time, it is undeniably here - you can even move across it, albeit with risk. No one can be certain when the cracked ice will actually give way.

"If we recall the beginning of the Iliad, we will remember how we encounter a situation that is surprisingly reminiscent of what is happening to us now. Apollo is present and cast in sinister shade darker than the storm clouds - this shows that the god of light, the god of lightness, the god of clarity, the god of constancy, has been angered.

Interestingly, he has been angered by the disrespectful attitude towards his priest, a priest of Apollo, and the result of his irritation toward the Achaeans is a plague.

So the god of light, the god of muses, the god of harmony, the god of exalted beauty is also the source of the plague, the source of the pandemic spreading among the Achaean army.

Another rather important point is that when Apollo comes to the feast of the gods in the same section, all the gods jump up from their seats, as his arrival does not bode well for anyone. This ominous aspect of the god of light, the god of justice, the god of true judgment in the Greek tradition, is very revealing. He carries the plague, he carries the virus, he carries death and extermination. But why?

Here it is important to keep in mind: Apollo took action because his priest was treated disrespectfully. If we break away from the specific history of Homer, we can formulate this philosophical myth as follows: the god of light, the god of the vertical, the god of heaven, the god of Hyperborea punishes humanity, which has been distracted by some completely inappropriate matter, insulting the solar axis in each of us.

In light of this story, the coronavirus, the pandemic, the plague that decimates humanity, becomes understandable.

Apollo is a metaphysical symbol of our appeal to ourselves, to our inner dimension, to our immortal soul, and when people sin against this immortal soul, when they are completely absorbed in the elements of entertainment, the outside world, pleasure-seeking and constant swarming around material goods, things we are obsessed with acquiring, or think we haven’t been given enough of, or want more of, or feel compelled to use up faster...

As soon as people begin to swarm around non-Apollonian values, when this swarm reaches a certain critical point, Apollo sends a plague to humanity, and this is absolutely just and logical, as this plague makes people return to themselves again.

This was mentioned by Albert Camus in his novel "The Plague." He says that the plague is a way to think, it is an invitation for us to think about the most important and fundamental things."

https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/thoughts-time-cholera-part-1

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