John Humphrey Noyes (19th century master of the Oneia biblical community)

Posted by Jan den Breejen on March 26, 2001 at 01:26:14:

John Humphrey Noyes (19th century master of the Oneia biblical community)

The ultimate drive with U.S.A. citizen Noyes seems to have been to tame his fears by fully controlling the people in his environment. A rebellious young man, he formed his own doctrine of right and wrong and a year after his ordination announced from the pulpit 'He that committeth sins is of the devil!'. He annoyed the church authorities to such an extend by his intolerance and self-righteousness that they dismissed him. For the next few years he wandered about, fanatically preaching his faith to whomever would listen - often hungry, often penniless. (compare: Hitler when he was inprisoned for his nazi preaching couldn't even stop preaching in his cell; in desperation the authorities and fellow-prisoners persuaded him to write it down, which resulted in the Mein Kampf book) Noyes considered his own view of the world as perfection and people could choose; either commit to his own rule system and thereby having their lives systematically intruded, checked and dominated. The idea of a 'pure' community (compare the nazi idea of superior Aryan life style and the Communist ideology en art describing 'pure' workers lifestyle) reflected Noyes intolerance of other people's opinions (Hitler couldn't stand other people's opinions too.) The Oneida community's moral system of 'mutual criticism' in fact was a totalitarian Big Brother-like design; a 19th century biblical cult group ('family'). One of the peculiar rules was the concept of Complex Marriage, a kinda relational communism; each person was married to everybody else. All rules were laid down by 'dictator' Noyes. I see a parallel between Hitler's plan to make Germany into an autarky (economic self-sufficiency; for example getting oil by conquering the Ukraine) and Noyes selection of adults of varied professions and trades which had to be sufficient to maintain the needs of the group. Underlying this attempt is the paranoid fear of/suspicion towards the 'outer world' which could not be 100% controlled.

Classification of Noyes: Vigilant Style/paranoid disorder

Jan

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