DCST Session 5 of 8: Subsidiarity — End of Mass Society

1. Video
2. Video Skeleton
3. Slides
4. Bibliography
5. Lecture Notes by Peter Berkman

• 0:00:00 Introduction
• 0:03:15 Question #1: What is Mass Society?
• 0:13:20 Question #2: What happened to the human soul?
• 0:18:45 Question #3: Where did Subsidiarity come from?
• 0:22:40 Question #4: How did the EU incorporate Subsidiarity?
• 0:31:05 Question #5: Can the New World Order survive?
• 0:39:45 Question #6: Is Social Media “digital”?
• 0:45:10 Question #7: Can DIGITAL break through?
• 0:53:55 Audience Questions

Session 5: Subsidiarity — End of Mass Society

As Electric technology overtook the world in the 20th-century, it 
generated a society that treated humans as mere elements of the 
“collective.”  Welcome to the Borg.  Mass psychology and psychological 
warfare based on the effects of “mass media” led to world wars and 
mass suffering.  In an effort to find stability, an avalanche of 
increasingly “soulless” mass consumption and unrooted “globalist” 
ideology followed.  But this is now coming to an end.  Indeed, as a 
result of Digital technology, we no longer live in the “modern world.”

Question #1:  What is Mass Society?

— Radio Research Project
— George Orwell and James Burnham
— Futureless Future
— Democratic Surround and the Family of Man
— Changing Images and the New Age

Question #2:  What happened to the human soul?

— Alienation and Marxism
— Star Trek’s “The Borg” and Plato
— Experimental Psychology
— Phenomenology
— Liberty and Negative Freedom

Question #3:  Where did Subsidiarity come from?

— Cardinal Virtues
— Justice
— Medieval structures
— Aristotle and Aquinas
— Responsibility and Rights

Question #4:  How did the EU incorporate Subsidiarity?

— What will we do with Germany?
— Bilderberg and Japan
— Maastricht Treaty and Beethoven
— Brexit and “populism”
— Five Star movement

Question #5:  Can the New World Order survive?

— Henry Kissinger and “The World”
— Paradigms and structures
— Formal causality and technology
— Rise of China
— Retrieval of SCRIBAL

Question #6:  Is Social Media “digital”?

— Advertising as a business model
— From demographics to psychographics
— One-to-one marketing
— Everyone a broadcaster
— Everyone a terrorist

Question #7:  Can DIGITAL break through?

— Recovery of the psyche
— From Fantasy to Memory
— Unity vs. Fragments
— End of “collectivity”
— Great Chain of Being