Why not utopia?

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By Florian Pinkert

Why not utopia?
Wednesday – November 5, 2025

Well, as I covered in my post on totalitarianism, because detachment from reality is the invitation of totalitarianism. Put in a perhaps more crude way: when you leap into the air from a cliff and expect to float in the air, you have turned your back in reality, thus only disaster awaits and this has surely been the case for all grand and fantastical ideas, at least that's what history has shown. Allow yourself to conjure up an image of a bombed out Berlin in May 1945: that was the logical conclusion of the Nazi fantasy, it had to end up there and that's not only the case for Nazism; that's the case for all ideologies, eventually in due time you'll also find yourself hunkered down in a bunker beneath a bombed out city, or at least that's a good metaphor. Reality doesn't care about you and reality certainly doesn't care about what you have to say or think about it: your ideology and your imagination won't win over reality. I believe that the man leaping into the air off a cliff should give you enough of a metaphor to understand what I'm getting at here: totalitarianism begins once men turn their back on reality, once men allow themselves to become governed by unreason, hysteria, fantasy, and speculation, and again as I've already mentioned, history has shown this and perhaps in a particularity compressed way history has shown this in the previous century, the 20th century. So you may go down that fantasy lane, but don't be surprised when you crash down to the ground and break your back, because you won't withstand the scrutiny of reality. I guess this insight, this fundamentally conservative and material insight is about as true as you can be about the material domain, but most people even though they may acknowledge this will still go on about their ideological future and about how much better everything would be if the world, just if, the world worked in the way they preferred the world to work. Perhaps this is true in particular for liberals who seem to never get tired and never lose hope in the ideas and assertions of the humanist axiom. In the end, the world works despite all of this noise and that's the only thing that also incidentally sustains politics, but we're still living in the era of mass politics, but that's not going to last forever and as I am writing this democracy is slowly but surely getting more and more disintegrated. After all, what is ideology to a dictator and strong man ruler, other than a poor excuse? Indeed, indeed. The serpent relies on imagery and manipulations and what's a better way to do that than to convince you, whom he considers a very low being, of the fantastical lie of the utopia? What even is a utopia? Well, utopia is the final victory over nature, in man's crusade against the natural order: singularity is the point of victory and that is utopia. Indeed, the central assertion is that progress tends towards the material victory and the perpetual betterment of man and while no man alive today may have a full image of utopia, at least we know where it tends and what has to be done to get there. All great ideologies: socialism perhaps in particular relies on your emotionalism, or put another way they rely on you acting out as the human animal. See, you are very predictable and that predictability is partly as well what makes ideological lies work and indeed ideologies shape the entire way you're thinking about the world, in this context perhaps especially liberalism. Why is individualism so important to you? Is it perhaps because you were born this way or is it perhaps, just perhaps, because you've been told nothing but how important you are your entire life? How come you be so important when everyone else is supposedly equally important? That seems at the very least somewhat contradictory, but this goes to what I've been trying to really get at in my "Collectivism & Individualism series". Of course, if you are a man of ascendant rank then you would know that there is no such thing as a perfect or even good world but the great delusion that the world is somehow moving in a good direction should and has to be dispelled once and for all and I feel that the most effective way of actually doing this would be to just allow reality to set in which is will do, you may read more about that in my post on Radical Peace.

    What should you do to protect yourself from all the nonsense? Well, the best way is probably to practice Radical Peace, because in the material domain you're never going to win; let reality do its thing. See, the great thing about reality is that you don't need to do anything: reality will do its thing with or without out you, it doesn't care so in the end the only prescription I have is to just allow nature to settle everything, allow nature to restore the scales of the celestial order without your effort and in the meantime practice discipline and seek the light. Idiotic people are the norm at the moment and that's merely another sign of this our era of the Kali Yuga. There's no such thing as a utopia and that has always been the case. Utopia was never real.

Reginald Drax – November 5, 2025.