“The Open Society, by one of its Enemies”
The title is from Ernest Gellner (ref. Alan Macfarlane) a colleague of Karl Popper. The miasma of Open Society was a kind of palace of Oz, a short hour, a pseudomorphosis of reality in the North Atlantic. Let me make it stand for a sincere “esse delendam” against the West. Heidegger, the prince, purposes to look directly, without the eternal persistence of the light of the god of reason, of the setting sun of Plato, the king.
There are two forms of government (“management of disorder” Agamben), government by consultation and government by legislation. Montesquieu's principle is possible if there is aristocratic (“meritocratic”) consultation or deliberation (cf. Carl Schmitt and Lon Fuller) towards a decision about the truth. If the light is “unapproachable” (St. Paul) there is neither “Seyn nor Sollen” in governance. Instead, democracy or legislation. A few hundred persons “represent” the millions or billions, Der Untergang des Abendlandes, “The Setting of the West”, happens in the declining light of the “moral god” (Agathon, Platon).
Academy-archy comes to power in this situation. The history of the guidance of the people by the professors began in the period of the Terror when the Ecole Normale Superieure layed down its foundation. The disposition to command of the professoriate (they who “choose their own disciples” Jacques Derrida) with the “counter majoritarian” fact checker (the university) that supplies the Open Society with its standard for true information which alone can allow the mass to rule itself is now violently animated. Nobles, priests, professors, tech billionaires have long claimed to be interpreters of the god of Reason.
Into a defile of invasion into the trans-personal region of Dasein in the time of “X Fenty” and Harvard's policy of using people with developmental delays, not to say Down syndrome, such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, to push their Kultur Programme (cf. Kulturkampf and Hanns Johst). Nishi Amane made the surprising observation that the koan aims at showing what the Westerner calls "mind". This becomes intelligible only if thaumazein or wonder is no longer understood to stimulate a break from the shrunken soul of someone who merely says that “legislature means legislature” (”plain language” or the cult of popular consciousness) into the thoughtful region where the question “what is all the talk about” in the public square attempts to yield clarity is instead treated as the moment when investigation must hover in abeyance. So that East and West no longer strike out in radically different tacks, but look at Being directly.
Very well written post, my friend. I'm pretty sure most people would not understand what you have written here though... is there a TLDR version in plain, 5th grade reading level English? Are you trying to say that democracy has failed and the people should govern themselves? That fact checkers are gatekeepers to the future of democracy? That corruption runs deep and humans are fickle, selfish, corrupt creatures?