0035 A mystery resolves into a heresy.  An intersection unravels into a two-level interscope.  One nested form goes into the content level.  The other nested form enters the situation level.  Two configurations are possible.  Typically, one predominates.

What is a heresy?

You tell me.  The answer appears before you.

0036  In the heresy of technocratic progressivism₃, leviathan_1b virtually situates democracy_1a.

What is leviathan_1b?

Leviathan_1b is the potential of a state that will protect us (from one another)_1b.  Another way to describe this term is the potential of feelings of security_1b, in a world filled with sociopaths_2a.

0037 The implication is that human nature_3a coheres with purely calculated judgments_2cA, dispassionate perceptions_2bAand stoically accepted sensations and decodings_2aA.

Such dedication to reason means that humans are basically sociopaths, unable to register the emotional reactions of others.  There is no way that these sociopaths can govern themselves.  Therefore, democracy_1a, the potential of self-governance_1a or the potential of a state arising from people being reasonable or sensible_1a, must be virtually situated by a leviathan_1b, underlying a state of nature_3b. 

Human nature_3a is sociopathic_3a.

The state of nature_3b is a state of fear_3b.

0038 Yes, the state of fear_3b, which describes what the leviathan_1b apparently aims to prevent, becomes the normal context favored by technocratic progressivism₃, as it₃ brings the actuality of the unraveled individual₂ into relation with the potential of ‘remaking humans’₁.

0039 Surely, this does not makes sense.  Yet, it is precisely what Crawford witnesses during the lockdowns.

Human nature_2a is ruthlessly_3b suppressed by sovereign acts and decrees from a department of the leviathan_1b aiming to protect vulnerable people_2b, on the basis of a threat to health from the state of nature_3b.  Lockdowns and mask requirements violate commonsense_2a, yet anyone questioning the sovereign acts and decrees is regarded as a sociopath_1a, who does not care about the health of vulnerable people_2b.

I suppose that Crawford’s witness implies that the state of nature_3b is a state of fear_3b that, contrary to rational calculation_3a, arises from the potential of a state that aims to promote feelings of security_1b and to provide both material and psychological safe harbor for vulnerable people_2b.

Does that sound like lockdowns and stimulus checks?

0040 A suprasovereign liberal civic religion dies with the unraveling of the individual₂, defined as the intersection of commonsense_2V and vulnerabilities_2H.

In the normal context of technocratic progressivism₃, a mystery_2cC unravels into a two-level interscope.  But, the unraveled individual_2b does not make sense to humans in their natural… um… state_3a.

0041 The two-level interscope characterizes sensible thought.  However, the emotional judgments_2cA, phantasms_2bA, impressions_2aA and feeling_2aA of vulnerable persons is more like a religious experience_2b, compared to an exercise in commonsense_2a.

Yet, this religious experience_2b is sensible in the normal context of a state of fear_3b, where the leviathan has the potential to declare a state of exception_1b.  Consequently, in technocratic progressivism, the perspective level_c does not come into play.

Or, at least, it_c appears not to.

0042 Here is a diagram.

0043 How does Locke’s human nature_3a become regarded as sociopathological_3a?

How does Hobbes’s state of nature_3b manifest as a state of fear_3b?

The original normal contexts do not seem exceptional.

The latter normal contexts do.

0044 Crawford writes that, in the 1990s, social scientists dispose with the “rational actor” model of human behavior.  Cognitive psychology (and evolutionary psychology) sees humans as unconsciously employing evolved cognitive modules.

Along the same lines, bureaucratic criteria_1b, such as performance metrics_2b, replace commonsense judgments_2a.  Examples include so-called “evidence-based medicine”, standardized tests and curricula, and self-driving automobiles.  These policies are designed to protect vulnerable persons_2b, given the sociopathic (unconsciously employing evolved cognitive modules) nature of doctors, teachers and ahem… people who drive.

0045 Here is a picture of what human nature transitions to under the normal context of technocratic progressivism₃.  Evolutionary psychology informs us that human nature is full of sociopathic tendencies, due to our “selfish genes”.  Cognitive psychology models human thought processes as circuits of unconscious modules, working in tandem.

Commonsense_2a gets redefined.

Some call this progress.  Others call it, “dehumanization”.

0046 During the 2000s, theatrical political initiatives introduce a perspective-level actuality_2c, the state of exception.  Astate of exception is declared in order to confront emergent vulnerabilities_2b.  These declarations do not need to satisfy commonsense_2a, in the old sense of the word, because “commonsense” has been redefined.  In fact, the original concept of human nature_3a has been narrowed by scientific inquiry into a suite of sociopathic tendencies_3a.

Technocratic progressivism₃ dons the mantle of science in its pursuit to remake humans₁.

0047 Here is a picture of the transitioned unraveled individual.

Figure 19

0048 Of course, the most recent theatrical incident coincides with a complex sequence of conjunctions among Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in the Houses of Capricorn and Aquarius.  See Razie Mah’s blogs for March and April 2020.  A novel coronavirus (the common cold) rages through Wuhan after the New Years Festival celebrating the Year of the Rat, then spreads to the world.  The virus’s progress is marked by the technocratic implementation of a polymerase chain reaction test.

Never mind claims that the test also shows positive for influenza.  Hospitals in China and Italy are overwhelmed with old people in the middle of winter suffering complications and the doctors are calling for experts to save them with medical protocols.  Corporate television reports the breaking news.

Disease translates into data.  Data feeds panic_2b.

0049 The federal government responds.  But the term, “federal”, is now delocalized.  It used to refer to a federation of sovereign states in America.  Now, it means a federation of sovereign states in both America and Europe, even though the Europeans have not recognized the subtle shift in terminology.

Technocratic progressivism knows how to shift the meanings of words.

0050 Here is a picture of the plague-unraveled individual.

0051 The normal context of the federal government_3c brings the actuality of a medical state of emergency_2c, complete with quarantines of healthy citizens, into relation with the potential of ‘biosecurity’_1c.

The normal context of a state of fear_3b brings the actuality that the novel coronavirus endangers vulnerable persons_2b into relation with the government apparatuses of subsidiary states, such as Germany and Italy, as well as America and Canada_1b.

The normal context of the sociopathic reactionary resistance_3a brings the actuality of common folk denying the well-publicized dangers_2a into relation with the potential of a countervailing democratic initiative_1a.

Of course, the federal government_3c and the leviathan_1b can manage the anticipated_3a commonsense_2a democratic_1ainitiative.  That is where the control files on politicians, influencers, corporate media celebrities, religious leaders, and so on, enters the picture.

0052 How about some anecdotal evidence?

Crawford describes his observations of people in the California Bay Area, a technocratic progressive heartland.

First, people wear masks outdoors, not so much for personal protection, but because zero covid is a heroic battle, requiring a literal effacement of the individual.

Ah, wearing masks_1a signals one’s virtuous solidarity with vulnerable persons endangered by the virus_2b.  It is an expression of democracy_1a in support of the leviathan_1b, rather than common folk, who do not care about those designated as “vulnerable”_2a.

0053 Here is the virtual nested form in the category of firstness.

The normal context of biosecurity_1c virtual brings slogans from the leviathan_1b into relation with the potential of affirmation by democratic expression_1a.

Here is a diagram.

0054 What about lockdowns?

Does staying home during a lockdown show democratic assent?

Here is a picture of the virtual nested form in the realm of actuality.

0055 Crawford describes how lockdowns force social isolation.  Social atomization is one of the conditions that support the rise of totalitarian movements.  The Party offers the only way to… um… party.

Also, social isolation purifies the citizens of the Bay Area, who democratically assent_1a to the leviathan_1b rather than what used to be called “commonsense”_2a.  Those wearing masks outdoors dance to the cultish vibe of hygiene maximalists.  Here are the uncontaminated spiritual warriors of a nascent hygiene state.

Crawford waxes eloquent about a social scene that makes common folk want to puke.

0056 Here is a picture of the virtual nested form in the category of secondness.

0057 Need I continue?

The denizens of the San Francisco Bay Area abandon commonsense_2a and embrace medical tyranny_1b.

Denizens?

Well, they aren’t individuals anymore, are they?