Meta politics is the complex and multi-level philosophical study of the state composition of societies, the theoretical political study of politics or otherwise “the politics of politics”. More broadly, it is the theoretical political study, but also the method that analyzes political ideologies in their morpho-functional dimension. The concept of metapolitics refers to numerous and varied forms of non-political activities, working influentially in the direction of spreading certain ideas and values, which intertwine and compose a “worldview”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously and certainly metapolitics affects politics and human collectivities, but not through the usual political activity, (that is, with the functioning of parties, with political campaigns and elections), as it is particularly connected with philosophical and intellectual consideration and activity, that is, with functions that support an ideology or worldview. In addition, it practically includes the dissemination of ideas and values \u200b\u200bthrough means such as speeches, radio and online programs, work programs, journalism and various forms of propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Definitions of “Metapolitics”:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the American Michael O’Meara, intellectual and author of the New Right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “\u2026Post politics is to politics what metaphysics (paranormal) is to physics. (\u2026) As metaphysics (paraormal) concerns what is beyond the physical and has to do with the absolute reality (if such exists) on which the world of energy and matter rests, (\u2026) metapolitics is the one that deals with all this which make politics possible. For example, it can refer to ideology, culture, prevailing conceptual paradigms, the social hegemonies that shape the political field and the way we approach them, even the irrational and subconscious forces that influence public behavior\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wynand Vladimir De Beer \u2013 a South African philosopher and independent researcher specializing in Orthodox Theology, Greek Metaphysics (Paranormal) and Indo-European Studies, who taught in Cape Town until moving to Ireland, where he completed his studies on Erigen’s philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n [John Scotus Eriugena (Eriugena) was an Irish theologian, Neoplatonist philosopher and poet who created a very remarkable philosophical system, mainly expounded in his famous work “On the Division of Nature” (“De Divisione Naturae”)] .<\/p>\n\n\n\n De Beer – writes in this regard in his book “From Metaphysics to Metapolitics”, 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat is metaphysics? The term comes from the Greek phrase “Meta ta Physika”, which means “after physics”. It first appeared as the title of a collection of writings by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, which followed his writings on natural phenomena. Extrapolating from this we could say that the metaphysical follows the physical. In other words, if the physical denotes the “here and now” reality, then the metaphysical indicates those realities beyond the “here and now.” Therefore, the metaphysical includes the invisible and immaterial realities denoted by such terms as God, One, Spirit, Intellect, Reason, Forms, and Soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is Metapolitics? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Considering the previous paragraph, it makes sense to declare that metapolitics is in the same relation to politics as metaphysics is to physics. So we could say that from a metapolitical point of view one sees the political world “from above”, just as from a metaphysical perspective one sees the physical world “from above”. It should therefore be self-evident that metapolitics has nothing to do with the ridiculous spectacle of party politics, like metaphysics, has nothing to do with the futile practice of armchair philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the contrary, both metaphysics and metapolitics are decisively important issues, confronting in their conduct the nature of reality and, respectively, the way in which human societies must be ordered according to the imperatives of reality”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The great Alain de Benoist with the term “post-politics” defines a part of the strategy of the “cultural struggle” and the “cultural revolution of the right”. He says that Metapolitics means “the production of a dialogue with the claim to provide applied specifications for nothing less than the ‘meaning of life'”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n **the French militant Nationalist academic, philosopher, one of the greatest thinkers of our time, founder of the party “Nouvelle Droite” (“New Right”) and head of the French think tank “Group of Research and Studies of European Culture”, (” Groupement de reserche et d’etudes pour la civilization europeenne”, with the acronym “G.R.E.C.E.” – “Greece”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the idea of \u200b\u200bthe great Armin Mohler (Armin Mohler, 1920-2003, Swiss political philosopher, writer and journalist, scholar and apologist of the “Conservative Revolution”) that “the spirit rules the world”, a peculiar “linearism” is formulated by the nationalist Neo-Right. According to the Frenchmen Alain de Benoit and Charles Sabettier “history develops and with it the will and actions of men develop, but this will and this action are always expressed as part of a certain number of attitudes, beliefs and ideas that give them meaning and direct them”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the idea of \u200b\u200bthe great Armin Mohler (Armin Mohler, 1920-2003, Swiss political philosopher, writer and journalist, scholar and apologist of the “Conservative Revolution”) that “the spirit rules the world”, a peculiar “linearism” is formulated by the nationalist Neo-Right. According to the Frenchmen Alain de Benoit and Charles Sabettier “history develops and with it the will and actions of men develop, but this will and this action are always expressed as part of a certain number of attitudes, beliefs and ideas that give them meaning and direct them”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Benoit, the New Right in France had to renew “these ideas such as the people and the nation, in the form of ‘ideas’ or myths about the ‘collective consciousness’, indeed at the highest level, through new compositions, so that life to gain meaning again, with ideas capable of offering a coherent worldview [\u2026] through “intersect” combinatorial thinking”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charles Champetier, essayist and journalist-editor-in-chief of G.R.E.C.E.’s “Elements” review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evolutionary Chronicle of the Term “Metapolitics” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It was used for the first time in the work of the German historian August von Schl\u00f6zer: “General Constitutional Law and State Constitutional Theory” (“Allgemeines Staatsrecht und Staatsverfassungslehre”, G\u00f6ttingen 1793).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Originally the word “metapolitics” was used as an “occult” technical term by post-Marxists and the various apologists, supporters, “merchants” and nostalgics of social democracy. In our days, metapolitics is the point of “confusion”, “condensation” and “fusion” of the collective pathology of the “liberal democracies” of the West. It names and denounces those regimes that fraudulently and formally maintain the shell of “liberal” and supposedly “democratic” institutions, supposedly “cut” for the social good, while at the same time the social influence on state power steadily declines, as does popular participation in party politics, mass mobilizations and trade unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The parties of the left and the “right” ceased to show any ideological and political differences, as they converged on the same, international or universal, but nevertheless anti-national and intertwined, economic interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consequently, some distinct dividing line between left and “right” has ceased to exist, while the interventionist or even managerial role of hoteliers and apolitical, so-called “experts”, in the political and economic governance of countries is constantly increasing. The imposition and dominance of economics over politics, (especially after the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”), led to a gross commercialization of the electoral process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time, it rapidly increased the expenses of parties and political figures, making their activity completely dependent on the “free” financing of big businessmen, as well as on the multiplying septic space of advertising, making political competition market-based, cashless, unequal and therefore essentially “anti-democratic”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond all logic and ethics, those decisive and critical decisions regarding the economy and politics have ceased to be products of the popular will, governance has been left in the hands of technocrats who manage societies with the mindset and perception of managers of multinational corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A typical example of this form of power was the choice of the American-educated Greek economic technocrat Loukas Papadimos, as a “savior” – “illuminate”, a prime minister who was not elected by the Greek citizens, but by the infamous “Markets” (!) who elected him they supported him in every way, placing at his disposal the (incontinent) state machine, as well as huge publishing and financial conglomerates as his obedient servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, in the globalized phase of the post-Cold War period, political disputes have turned into a sordid power struggle, essentially a meaningless and unsightly spectacle, used by the Dominators to meet the televised needs of the engrossed masses. They turned into a “fixed fight” between willingly co-existing opponents, without essential differences in their politics, so the political disputes “permitted” by the Regime turned into spectacular power struggles of “professional wrestling”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Culture is a mean of practicing metapolitics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The attempt to change the “Zeitgeist”1, the “Seasonal Spirit”, i.e. the general spiritual, cultural, moral and even political climate within the Nation or even within specific groups, parallel to the prevailing general atmosphere, morals, socio-cultural direction , looks almost like the foolish effort of someone . . . short-sighted romantic visionary or naive brat, trying in vain to change the weather or reverse the tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metapolitics is often presented in terms that are unthinkably grandiose and confusingly vague. In order to make it visible, reliable and practical, it is necessary to present it in terms that people can approach it. So far it has been presented in scholarly, literary and abstract terms. Thus, it seems to lack a definite purpose or direction, to deal with ideas as if they were sufficient in themselves, and ultimately to treat ideas as dilettante games rather than historical tools. Metapolitics must engage with great ideas and make them truly great and actively workable, increasing their influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conservative American historian and political philosopher Richard Malcolm Weaver Jr., a proponent of Southern “communal individualism,” formulated the profoundly comprehensive phrase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Real ideas have consequences”, recorded in his book “Ideas Have Consequences” (1948, University of Chicago Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This highly interesting book is largely a treatise on the harmful effects of “nomocracy” in Western civilization as this doctrine gained prominence in the Late Middle Ages, followed by a suggested “recipe” for a course of action by which Weaver believes that the West can be saved from its decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nominalism or Nominalism (Nominalismus) is called the philosophical system according to which the words and names we attribute to things, do not concern the essence, the truth or the objective reality of the phenomena, but their existence and properties. In essence, nominalism is the counter-philosophical system of realism (pragmatocracy). That is, it is any philosophical system that denies that concepts, ideas, mental constructions have objectivity or objective (or general, or universal) existence independent of their existence in the mind of the subject who forms them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Accordingly, the equally conservative American racial historian and journalist Samuel Todd Francis (Samuel Todd Francis 1947\u20132005), had clearly and aptly said that: \u201c\u2026. some ideas are more important than others!’ The American columnist and writer was an accomplished journalist and editor of the conservative “Washington Times”, until he was fired after some\u2026. his “racist comments” at the American Renaissance conference in 1995. Francis would later become the “dominant force” in the Council of Conservative Citizens, a “White Supremacist” group. where until his death in 2005 he was publisher and editor-in-chief of their newsletter “Citizens Informer”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Post-politics is presented in terms suggesting that it is independent of (or even hostile to) other forms of activism, so it must be seen as part of that successful politics, which the avant-garde post-war “National Democratic Party” of contemporary Germany (N.P.D.) calls “Three-Level Strategy”, i.e. cultural, community and electoral activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By carrying out this multi-level policy, each form of it complements and reinforces the others, obviously it is not the subject of the most skilled operators of speech. At the same time, metapolitics includes the struggle for cultural hegemony, manifested and carried out simultaneously in many areas and levels of collective life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meta politics is the complex and multi-level philosophical study of the state composition of societies, the theoretical political study of politics or otherwise “the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[988,7],"tags":[6095,6096,6091,973,6094,1119,2088],"class_list":["post-21039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-science","category-research","tag-ideologies","tag-meta-politics","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-post-politics-2","tag-propaganda","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21042,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions\/21042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}