“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.” ~ Chris Hedges
Just need to write a quick intro to a concept I’ve had brewing for weeks now, possibly months: The Counter(feit) Kulture
In the 60’s there was a “counterculture” present in North America and other parts of the world. It was antiwar, antiauthoritarian, and antiestablishment. I think what we’re seeing now is something of a new “counterculture” taking shape. Not a counterculture founded on honourable, noble principles related to our liberation as a human family, but a counterculture based upon simulcra and the subversion of virtue. I’m talking about the unreal, the phony, the disingenuous, the deceptive. Counterfeit phenomena, brought about by a decentralized yet coordinated network of clandestine forces.
I suggest this counterfeit kulture may be the “simulation” we hear spoken of by technocrats, a system where the Shadow or Copy has come to replace the Original in its entirety. Where the appearance of say, Health, stands apart from the actual substance or essence of health, insofar that it is actually sickness in disguise.
This may be nothing new in the underground, but that word “counterfeit” describes so well how I’ve come to view civilization in this brave new, absurd fucking world unfolding before my very eyes.
I’m reminded of Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism describing how "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”