Sociology of Alienation

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 2.2       Sociology of Alienation

Dictatorship of Autocracy  

By his own nature each man aspires to greater power in order to accomplish greater benefits. The man becomes aware of his power by comparing himself with another man. This act is probably alienated but has almost always existed as such and it has, therefore, to be accepted as long as the society will have found an orientation how to overcome it. On the way to reaching more power, the alienated man can easily avail of his abilities for accomplishing superiority over another man. Successful individual exercises greater rights than other individuals, imposes his will upon the society or, in brief, exercises the power in the society.  

The power brings great-alienated conveniences and this is the reason why a no-quarter struggle is waged among people for accomplishment of the right to power in all fields. In the history of mankind, most blood was shed in the struggle for power. In this struggle, a stronger, more skilful, more cunning or wiser wins and rules the society. The power established by force is irrefutably autocratic and represents a dictatorship. Dictators organize the exercise of the power in the society on a determined territory by forming or by re-arranging a state. They fully independently establish the state order, laws, regulations and rules for regularizing the social relations. They have irrefutable legislative, executive and judiciary power in the state, and ensure implementation of their decisions by using the physical force, and by the proclaimed ideologies.  

Dictators form or use ideologies as a means for imposing subjective visions about the rules for the movements in nature. Ideologies often give an alienated answer to all questions that a frightened “society that does not know” may ask about the unknown nature. They also often determine rules for social behaviour that brings stability and conveniences to society. "The society that does not know" accepts any idea that rids it of the inconvenient tension of its existing in nature. Thus ideologies bring large conveniences to the people but also they are the foundation of alienation of society.

Under the impact of ideologies the followers respect dictators on a lasting basis, with a great-alienated respect and even with awe. Such a society may be highly stable and homogenous. The characteristic of the relationship between the power and followers is that of supplements in the impotence, which mutually brings a great alienated power that is able to accomplish grandiose acts, a great stability of the society and illusory conveniences. Due to the strong links, the relationship of the power and followers may give an impression of love; however, it is not the love. Love is the product of the man's freedom, knowledge, potency and belief in the conveniences. The relationship between the power and followers is precisely opposite. It is characterized by great dependence, lack of knowledge and impotence and permanently represents, therefore, a sort of a sadistic-masochistic relationship, and necessarily develops the same.  

On his route toward accomplishing major benefits a dictator exploits the society. He takes away from the followers the freedom in expressing their views, in decision-making and acting. This form of exploitation is markedly inconvenient for the followers, as it penetrates into the basic man's essence, into what makes him the man. That form of exploitation allows an unhampered material exploitation of the society, that is deprivation of the benefits that arose from the products of social work.  

Authoritative power is privileged. Privileges provide an artificial confirmation of overcoming of the impotency that forms a narcissistic feature of the character. A narcissistic dictator reduces the possibility of reaching the conveniences in natural relationship of people, and tries to accomplish major benefits in greater exploitation of the society. Naturally, greater exploitation cannot result in satisfaction of the needs since alienated needs are, as a general rule, insatiable. Non-satisfied alienated needs create an inconvenient tension that the man cannot get rid of in a natural way and, therefore, the man's organism finds an illusory satisfaction and relaxation in the perversion of the needs. In such circumstances the authoritative power finds the benefits in a forced relationship toward the followers.  

If alienation in the society is greater, the followers find the conveniences in sacrificing in favour of the dictator, which inevitably develops the disease of the society. In a markedly authoritative society, constructive activity cannot bring benefits. In such a society, only illusory benefits can be accomplished; in fact, the society lives a biologically inconvenient life.  

Autocrats never find the sources of inconvenience in their own attitude vis-à-vis the society. Instead, they assign them to subordinate members, and it is more convenient for them to pass them onto other social groups. False causes of the inconveniences and the impotence of the society to accomplish benefits develop a group-narcissistic form of alienation.

By definition, such orientation glorifies one's own social group against others. As such presentation is false, it easily develops intolerance vis-à-vis other societies, which creates nationalisms, chauvinisms, racisms, fascisms and other inconvenient phenomena. Such phenomena, combined with large destructive energy of the non-satisfied alienated society, create a programme for aggression and all social conflicts. Non-satisfied society finds illusory liberation from the inconvenient tension, and also the conveniences in the superiority accomplished by destruction. As group narcissism develops to the extreme the subjectivity by which it overvalues the potency of its own group, it thus always overlooks the objective potencies that surround the group, which ends up catastrophically for the one's own social group.  

The less social knowledge is the greater authoritativeness it creates and alienation is greater; the less satisfied the natural needs in the society are, the stronger the need for destruction in the society is, and thus the destruction of the society and of social accomplishments is greater. Destructiveness in the society lasts until the elimination of the protagonists of the destructive needs, because it is very hard for such a society to comprehend the way of its own constructive orientation.  

The society with more knowledge seeks greater freedom, because it is the only way to accomplish greater benefits. It seeks a share in the decision-making about the rules of collective development. The dictator does not allow such requirements as they represent a loss of their vision of conveniences. Keeping of the power equates with the vision of survival in the alienated consciousness of the dictator.  

When the requirements of autocrats significantly oppose the nature of a society, tension develops in the society that forces it to rebel against the power, because there are the limits that "the society that knows" cannot stand. It then directs its energy to toppling the authoritative ruling class and its ideologies. If new forces sufficiently develop in the society, and the power sufficiently gets lulled into its potency, new forces take over the power and form new rules of social behaviours that bring greater benefits to the society. 

 

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