Is Authoritarianism the cradle of Conformism?

charlie777pt (64)in #philosophy • 7 years ago (edited)

Before starting you should read my last post on this subject: Is the Blockchain an escape from Authoritarianism and Conformism?
My next post will be about - Conformity and Conformist Behavior and the distinction between False and Real Collectivism vs Individualism
Conformism will and always has always been a part of History since the advent of Humanity.

Against fascism, yes. But also against any type of dicatorship because, whoever exercises it, dicatorship is also fascism. -
Solidaridad Obrera, CNT (15 july 1936)

Conformism (comply with rules) and immobilism (I can't do anything) was always a plague for society and it got worst in the end of the XVIII century.
It started growing in the new industrialized titanic machine of Technique and the advent of the bourgeoisie family bringing the normalization of the behavior of each individual defined by "normalized" social laws of behavior.

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By defining social "acceptable behaviors" society started to repress any deviant actions from the Norms.
Since the birth of Humanity, conformism in people and groups were always part of History that in my view is always highly correlated with Autoritharism Regimes.

Everyone refusing to behave normally was (and is) considered an "anarchist", a terrorist or "mad man" and finishes in the hands of the Law, Psychiatry, and Psychology, the "Police Squads" of abnormal deviant behavior.

The growth of conformism is a product essentially of industrialized burgeois society, an actual disease of the "social animal", and an impediment for cultural openness.

"Conformism is a deteriorated aspect of the need for security and comfort present in all of us" - Alberto Oliverio - How is a Conformist Born - 1985
The conformist in biological, psychologic and social terms is the opposite of the indagator spirit of curiosity and search for a new stimulus that fulfills the motivation and forces in the basis of cultural evolution.

How is a conformist born? The genesis of conformism

The History of Conformism

Conformism was always a big component of human society that I have experienced and seen in all the fascist and social-fascist regimes I was in touch with.
The most scaring signs of our times is a growing conformist in a cultural massified society with the patterns of behavior resulting in and young people that seem to suffer more from conformity than the past generations.
During all my youth I've lived in a time of expansion of anti-conformism and explosions of new ideas and behaviors for alternative ways of living with a common goal against authoritarianism.
They all had in common an anti-authoritarianism attitude as well as the despise for the old values of self-emprisionment.
It seems that conformism is a model of society for centuries modeling people's behavior to accept, memetize and, mesmerize the dominant behavior to comply with the concept of "Normality".
As many authors like Oliverio says that security and conformism can't be confused.
Another problem of society is the convergence of massified conformist forms of praxis (social acting) from home, to schools and jobs, incentivizing a selfish individualism and a total lack of solidarity.
I 'll leave here the last questions to analyse in my next post:
Is society going in the direction of a State conformism and a normalized mass behavior?

Are "Mussolinisc" figures fighting for power of money and private property marrying the State for totalitarianism control of the crowds by propaganda?
Or is society becoming more tolerant and accept more diversified patterns of behavior and more respectful for the right to be different?
Is society prepared to embrace de principles of economic and society decentralization with a myriad of communities in direct-democracy throught consensus?.
Is there an evolution in the acceptance of society for deviant behaviors in the matter of sex, drugs consumption, infidelity, suicide, abortion are signs of a less structured society? .

There are new emerging cultural values mainly in the open-source-blockchained world communities populated by extremely generous humanists.

I've lived in a fascist-colonialist State during part of my youth and I visited other fascist countries like South Africa before the end of apartheid in the spectrum the right wing level.
I've been in countries of left wing social-fascism communist in West Germany before the fall of the Wall and conformism was the common aspect and main property of those regimes, mainly based in the fear of reprisals or a denounce to send to jail always supported by massive propaganda programs.

I've seen that Conformism as self-acceptance of voluntary servitude is the bride of Oligarchic Dictatorships .

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall eastern politicians hated the "opposites" of the Western world, because they used to print money by central banks, the use of brute force to control people, the "Revolving Door" between public state jobs and state owned enterprises and above all using illimited power abuse over the citizens living in total conformism .
Eastern politicians where suffering from the classical freudian "envy" problem , because nowadays they are making exactly the same actions and using the same methods they seemed to hate and critisize on the other side of the Wall.
The Post-Wall-Fall capitalism is now a socialist-savage-capitalism owned and controlled by the ones in Power sucking the flux of humanity wealth on people and Mother Earth.
Is Conformism a bio-psycho-social result or only a personal trait of caracter?
Think that we have two hipothetical gemini seeds of a tree that are totally equal in resilience.
If you plant one in a good environement it will grow to be strong and big and in a nice shaped form.
If we plant the other seed in an inospit top of a cold hill that is very windy the tree wil grow less and will positon and model with the wind.
If we are like "seeds" environement will shape the growth of any "tree".
Conformism is a psychological attitude, a predominant pre-disposition for behaviour molded by social interaction by the reference groups of belonging
There membership groups and reference groups.
The groups of belonging are the ones individual is attached, family, school, your companies, footbal clubs, for example.
The "reference groups" are the ones the individual does not belong, but wish to belong to, as references that they valued themselves.

These groups are the origin of social ascendancy, encouraging their will for identification and belonging.

Conclusion of the first part of this post

Is there today an high level of Conformism that is correlated with the actual Conservatism, Authoritatrianism and Censorship?
Is there an escalade of the fascist type leadership profile connected to the rise of conservative behaviour and ideals in the masses, by the fear of security exchanged by privacy and a sensation of self-immobilism ( I cann't do anything)?.

The second part of this post is called Conformity and Conformist Behavior -False and Real Collectivism and Individualism
Is there is a place for a non-competitive society, because everybody knows and feel the need for change pressed by the world growth of population and the limited number of environments with natural abundance and at the same time the increasing the number of territories with naturally scarce needs for survival of local communities.?

Is People capable of learn that autonomy, transparency, and awareness is a way to bring up the Truth and to make Utopias realizable and turned into Reality?
Today I received a present from a friend.
A double mini-CD of the dutch group The Ex 1936 the spanish revolution with a booklet that reminded me of the subject of real anti-conformist anarchists that most were slaugthered by their fellowfighters of the Left controlled by Moscow that always had hated anarchists.
I don't resist to put here one photo with wrintings and the cover of the book-CD tottaly credited to the group"The EX "from [1986] 1936-The Spanish Revolution 7'' (Ron Johnson Records) (see video and Lyrics in the end of the posts)

Get the feeling of the first real anarchists to believe in a decentralized society

''I wanted nothing and don't want anything to do with order, rank orders and commands. I am as I am, a peasant who learned to read in prison, who experienced pain and death closeby, who was an anarchist without knowing it, and today, now that i know, iI am even more anarchist than yesterday, when I killed to be free" - from Nosotros, anarchist daily, march 1937 .
Some music and lyrics of the double mini-CD of the dutch group The Ex - 1936-The Spanish Revolution 7'' (Ron Johnson Records).
The Track People Again

People again lyrics
We were peasants But we had no land We were peasants But we had no land
We were thin as rakes
Always hungry on the little food they gave us
Sleeping on straw on earth-floored sheds
The straw was the rougher stuff the oxen & mules
refused as fodder
We were working on the fields
Ploughing, sowing & reaping with our sickles
In a good year employment might last eight months
In a bad year perharps not even six and there was no
unemployment pay

We were peasants
But we had no land
We were peasants
But we had no land

We hated the bourgeoisie
They owned the land & treated us like animals
There was a hatred between us

They didn't have to work to earn a living
But we wanted them to treat us like human-beings
With respect!
With respect!
And there was only one way to achive that

We were peasants
And we took what was ours
We were peasants
And we took what was ours
We took what was ours
We took what was ours

The bourgeoisie was not needed and we proved it
No church, no masters, no guardias
Property collectivized
We took over the estates
No necessity for money to exist
Every one would work
Exchange with other collectives
No need for the state
Post on Steemit about this subject
Is the Blockchain an escape from Authoritarianism and Conformism?
References:

Do the test your self and find out if you have a Authoritarian Profile Type Online with an interactive F-Scale of Adorno (3 mins)
Walter Benjamin - Overpowering Conformism- Esther Leslie
Alberto Oliverio - How is a Conformist Born - 1985
double mini-CD of the dutch group The Ex the spanish revolution 1936

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