The Census

Hindu Goddess:
Shri Karni Mata (करणी माता)

The Census |
Wednesday – April 1, 2026

The Census or population registration is another modern practice that came about in the inception of the nation-state, and really even at the time of Napoleon no such thing was possible, but at that time the first moves in this direction were made, and the world has never been alike since. Today of course, it is common place for governments to record the population within its borders and then tie each individual to a national identification, a social security number, or some other means of quantification; the assumption here is of course that each individual should largely remain fixed in place, truly in a sedentary and settled life. Of course, for most of history one could talk about two kinds of people: nomads and farmers; the nomads were wandering and borderless people and they were guided by the ways and knowledge of the step; farmers on the other hand were less nomadic, though never as fixed as moderns, because they tended to need to settle the land in order to farm on it. Both of these kinds of people existed all over the world, but in the modern day, there are indeed very few nomads, as industry and modern civilization requires a kind of settled life. Of course, two examples of historically nomadic and wandering peoples are the vagabonds and the bohemians (the Roma) of Eastern Europe, and the Jewish diaspora both inside and outside of Europe; but beyond these two people's there are many others to speak of, such as the Tata Somba of Benin, although I should add that the Tata Somba are often actually settled, and this is because there are Tata Somba who are more nomadic than others, and then there are Tata Somba who are less nomadic than others. But for the most part, a nomadic lifestyle was just as common as a settled lifestyle, and there are actually historical indications that a kind of nomadic and wandering lifestyle was far more common than a settled lifestyle for large stretches of history. But what is clear here is of course that in the modern world, there are really only very few truly nomadic and wandering people, because the world has been closed compared to the world of the past, and then these same moderns have the courage to call this settled and fixed, truly solidified, life freedom. But the largest distinction between nomadic peoples and settled people has to be their different ways of understanding the world: if the settled peoples need a fixed habitat, villages, and continuity; the nomadic peoples crave the future and loathe the past. This is why settled people always make sure to keep records of heritage, pedigree, and patrimony, but you seldom see this with the nomadic peoples, mostly because they have no need to keep time. Essentially we are dealing with two different ways of living, but again the nomadic way of life has almost been completely wiped out in the modern world. But in order to understand where all of this talk about population registrations, censuses, and eventually the concept of a nation comes from, one must understand the confluence of all of these things, because they all serve to converge into the monstrosity that is the modern world. For nomadic people's, there was never such a thing as individualism on one hand or on the other a kind of collectivism; these are distinct characteristics of a settled people. So, if settlement could be understood as a kind of solidification, though only under present circumstances, it would be fair to assume that this kind of settled life is imposed on people, and many times on people who are manifestly unsuited for such a life. But it all makes sense: with the invention of nations and nation-states, it became necessary and possible for governments (temporal power) to control the flow of people moving in and out of the temporal realm, something that was not possible nor desired in previous times, and all this control over the land made the new king greatly more powerful and he was now able to issue laws, taxation, decrees, and raise enormous conscription armies, truly to solidify raw power; and apart from all this, he (the king) was now also able to enforce a certain kind of unqualified education on the people, a kind of uniformity, really ideological indoctrination – truly the formation of former Churlishly tributaries into so-called "sovereign" states was the final blow against Christendom, the complete rupture from the primordial tradition, at least in Europe.

    This kind of settled life is of course considered normal or average in the modern world, but only in our times of the Kali Yuga would such a lifestyle be considered "normal", and besides, the way the word "normal" is applied is entirely a modern invention, and in the modern conception it seems that "normal" means average, truly a quantifiable monstrosity. If average should be allowed to carry any meaning, it could only apply to the essence, as substance is identical, homogeneous, and uniform. How can the substantive be allowed to "represent" or "identify" an individual? This would of course be quite impossible, as each individual in the crudest and most corporeal sense is identical to every other individual and indeed to every other thing; the entire concept of a kind of substantive identity that could carry any meaning would violate the principle of the identity of indiscernible, truly the definition of identity or sameness.

    The political purpose of the census (population registration) is of course even more crude and offensive, something that I alluded to earlier: the main reason is that this substantive and cheap replacement of essence makes it easy for government to order the material in whatever way suits them the best, and a good example of this is mass mobilization and compulsory education; essentially, all of these steps towards a kind of "solidification", as scholars refer to it, serves to impose uniformity and to erase essence, true quality, and this can even be noticed in the evermore precise production of all sorts of things created in the industrial process; for each passing decade and year, you can notice more and more "standardization" and uniformity. Why would humanity ever need to partake in the industrial process, truly why would humanity need to be a part of civilization, read "Transhumanism"? I also direct you to my "Future series" at this point.

    Lastly, I encourage you to reject the attempts by government to register you, as this will inevitably be used against you; this means that you should seek to not become a citizen, and if you are unable to completely become "stateless", remember the trials of the nomadic people's, something that explains their prosecution and oppression in history.

Reginald Drax – April 1, 2026.