Brotherhood and Collectivism

One of the most essential aspects of Dominionist Integralism (DI) is the foundation in brotherhood or collectivism that it entails. DI is a philosophy that is totalitarian in nature. What I mean by totalitarian is that it is a "total" philosophy. It is all encompassing. Many political philosophies are narrow in nature. They are only concerned with the nature and functionality of the political process. DI is concerned with all aspects of society from the highest authority in government and even the universe all the way down to the merely pragmatic or basic minutiae of life.

The ideal of brotherhood is essential to this and collectivism is essential to the formation of this brotherhood. Humans are social by their very nature. Humans almost without exception work better using collective efforts. No one person ever builds an entire building. People can individually build houses but show me a person who can build skyscrapers or factories by themselves.

Efficiency is gained through specialization. It is well known through basic economic studies that specialization is far more effective for everyone when people specialize and work together as opposed to when people simply do everything for themselves and by themselves. People are not born through their own self determination or the act of a solitary person. People are born through the act of two people, a man and woman. This is rather basic biology. This is also something that really should not have to be explained to people because of how basic and fundamental it is to humanity. We are all quite familiar with this concept of social needs.

That principle can be extended however. We are connected to one another through blood and in a brotherhood that transcends physical or biological connections. People create families. Families come together and create a society. Through our society we create something far greater than the sum of its parts.

Our dominion over our world is nothing short of a divine mandate. Our need and longing for the collective is nothing short of indelibly burned into our very natures. DI seeks to remedy this disconnect created by the false hopes and misguided ideals of democracy and individualism. People gain their meaning through the collective. We gain also our identity and purpose in the collective. People foolishly believe that individualism or democracy creates independence and helps fight conformity but that is a lie. People will conform just as easily within a "free society" and they will become enslaved just as easily in a democracy. Becoming a slave to one's own impulses and the demagoguery of others is no different than enslavement to a tyrant or having ones identity subsumed within a group identity.

Simply wearing different clothes and believing in different but equally shallow ideologies is not being independent. The very search for individuality is in itself conformist. Using the long trumpeted but ultimately empty rallying cry of freedom is to simply follow a well worn path and to follow the lead of people before you who have done so for thousands of years.

Independence comes from meta-cognition. It comes from knowing the truth. It comes from subservience to righteousness. If you replace God with your own self made god of impulsiveness, shallow thinking, and self centered "morality" you are simply a slave to your own failures. Your freedom is an illusion.

With this DI seeks to unite humanity. We cast aside the false idols of materialism and individualism. We dedicate the self to the collective. We do not lose our identities we gain new ones that are more natural and more compassionate then the feeble identities we have now. We put the collective above the individual. Will this cause harm to the individual? No, of course not. Being part of the collective, this transcendent brotherhood, we benefit from the help and sacrifice of all the other members.

In the collective all are useful all have a place. No one is cast aside. No one is unloved. Those who would break this unity or who would leech off of the brotherhood will be punished as they should but even then repentance and redemption is always possible.

Society should work as one. Private enterprise and capitalism is nothing but a sham. It is exploitation disguised as freedom. Our wealth does not come from hard work and an increase in prosperity it comes from exploiting others. It comes from casting aside the unfortunate in society. We would trample those under us to gain more wealth and more material gain. As long as we don't have to deal with those who suffer we are fine. Most support this system because they are comfortable and complacent. They prefer to either leech of the system or they prefer to consolidate their power by taking from others. Capitalism is kleptocracy and nothing more. Our prosperity comes from technology and little pieces of brotherhood or a collective acting in furtherance of humanity in spite of capitalism. We have falsely attributed our wealth to capitalism.

A charge that could be leveled against DI would be charges leveled against communism. We know that communism failed. Just look at the Soviet Union. Will we simply be as they are? It is definitely a danger but there is more to it then the ignorant fears of the masses and the overzealous reaction to socialism or communism in today's society.

For one the Soviet Union was corrupt to begin with. They held unfailingly to Atheism and naive Humanism. The Soviet Union, or countries like North Korea among others, fail not because they are communist but because their philosophy is based upon a lie. Humanism is arrogance and ignorance dressed up in a belief in humanity. They hypocritically point out religious wars yet atheist governments in the past century have killed more people than the people killed through all religious wars combined. The Crusades pale in comparison to the Soviet purges. The Holocaust killed far more then the Inquisition ever did. The hundreds of thousands killed in the many religious wars does not compare to the horrendous industrialized slaughter of tens of millions within a span of only one hundred years imposed by secular or outright atheist governments.

They based their foundation on mankind and humanist ideologies. Therefore they were doomed form the start no matter what government they pursued. They put their foundation upon the quicksand of human pride.

DI will make no such mistake. We reject the corruption of secularism as we base our brotherhood on the ideals as given to us by God. We strictly recognize God as our Lord. We do not build a foundation on sand. We build our foundation on a rock that endures for eternity.

Our brotherhood is one which looks to our redemption and our savior. We build our families and our society to serve each other as God has commanded. We deny the self so we may love our fellow man. We sacrifice ourselves so that others may benefit from our blood and tears. We work not for selfish gain we work so that those we love may join us in eternal salvation with God. Selfishness will always exist. No philosophy or society can change that. What can be changed however is to reject a philosophy or societal structure based entirely upon self centered ideals.