Living Under Neocon Rule in the West
1. Introduction: Life Under Neocon Rule in the West
To live in a Western country today while rejecting Neoconism - the ideological engine behind endless war, imperial arrogance, and elite impunity - is to face a profound existential contradiction. You are a citizen of a system whose external policies you find abhorrent and whose internal decline you witness daily. Like the non-Zionist Israeli, you ask: How can I live truthfully under an empire I did not build, do not consent to, and cannot control?
2. What Is Neoconism?
Neoconservatism (or Neoconism) is not a religion, but it functions like one: a belief system with sacred myths, high priests, and sanctioned rituals of violence.
Key doctrines:
• Permanent military superiority
• The right to intervene anywhere, anytime
• Export of liberal democracy via war and regime change
• Disdain for international law unless it serves US interests
• Moral exceptionalism ('We are the good guys')
3. What You Might Feel: Internal Exile in the West
As a citizen who sees through this apparatus, you may feel:
• Disgust at the hypocrisy: preaching human rights while bombing hospitals.
• Despair at the media: recycling war propaganda with zero memory or shame.
• Impotence politically: real debate excluded, elections offer no alternative.
• Social isolation: your views marginalised, mislabelled as “conspiratorial” or “pro-Russian/Chinese/Iranian.”
• Moral exhaustion: watching Gaza, Ukraine, and Syria burn with your taxes.
4. Ways You Might Respond
A. Ethical Witness
• You remain within society but refuse its myths.
• You write, educate, share, resist soft lies.
• You support independent media, whistleblowers, anti-war veterans.
• You preserve your moral clarity, even in isolation,
• You demonstrate, object, parade in the streets
• "We are eirher sovereign and free, or we do not exist."
B. Parallel Citizenship
• You invest in local, cultural, familial meaning.
• You reduce dependence on official structures (off-grid living, homeschooling, local food).
• You treat your state like a foreign occupier: obey the law, but give no loyalty.
C. Strategic Withdrawal or Emigration
• You move abroad, seeking refuge in politically neutral or spiritually saner societies.
• You become part of an inner diaspora: expatriate in soul, even if not in body.
• But you may find disillusionment follows yo, because the empire is everywhere.
D. Internal Resistance
• You join anti-imperialist, anti-globalist political movements (some on left, some on right).
• You risk being surveilled, smeared, deplatformed - but retain your dignity.
• You work to rebuild sovereignty from below: town halls, independent schools, local economies.
5. Historical Analogues
• Dissidents in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era - “we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.”
• Non-Communist intellectuals in Tito’s Yugoslavia — apathetic, alienated, yet clinging to language, family, and books.
• Artists and thinkers under Fascism - choosing silence, exile, or coded resistance.
6. Glossary
• Neoconism: Ideology advocating for unipolar dominance through military and cultural control.
• Internal exile: The state of living within a country but mentally and morally estranged from its regime.
• Empire of lies: A regime that projects morality abroad but crushes it at home.
• Multipolarity: The idea of a world with several sovereign power centres - not one global hegemon.
7. Final Reflection: Dignity in the Ruins
If you are a Western citizen opposed to Neoconism, your position is not hopeless, but it is exilic. You must build truth, beauty, and meaning amid the wreckage. You are not alone, even if the system makes you feel so. The world is changing - and in that turbulence, there is space for resistance, renewal, and quiet rebellion.
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