"Left" is that clade of political ideologies that have as their endpoint a state of normative equality as applied to every category of human distinction, economic, racial, sexual, etc. Leftism represents the secularization of the eschatological principles of Christianity, shorn of their transcendent significance. It represents the endpoint of a heresy which evolved out of late Calvinism, among other influences. Liberalism is a body of ideas that shares a relationship to leftism, but was born out of different Christian Protestant traditions (Anglicanism, English separatism) which emphasized compromise and the settlement of differences through consensus. Liberalism seeks to instantiate the progressive liberation of individual humans from constraints imposed by nature, social convention, and personal circumstances; in its current form, neoliberalism, this is achieved through scientific management on the part of credentialed elites. In America, right liberals are called 'conservatives,' and left liberals are called 'progressives.'
Over an against these are the "right," those philosophies that valorize transcendent order, reflected in religion, social hierarchy, family, and tradition. Rightist thought represents the continuation of philosophies that predates the Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment. This is why, in my view, only the right represents a credible challenge to the current order and the only source of human renewal.
I biked down to lake street in Minneapolis the day after those "fiery but mostly peaceful protests." My first thought when I saw the damage was, this looks like Syria. I know now what it feels like to be in an occupied city. I couldn't go for a walk in my neighborhood without my neighbors calling the police they wanted to defund. For months after, George Floyd square became the most dangerous place in the city. Homeless were thereafter allowed to turn the park system into a den of iniquity. People started acting like there was no law. Carjacking increased 500%. Working for the parks, every day I picked up heroin needles and broken car window glass.
I sold my beloved house I had been in for 16 years, with my twenty fruit trees, mushroom logs, the greenhouse I built with reclaimed lumber and sliding glass doors, my 1000 gallon pond and 200 species of plants, three days before the Fed started raising interest rates. I was not going to wait for the next Marxist firebombing and plandemic lockdown.
I'm very sorry for your loss, and I mean that in the same way I would say it for a deceased relative. I can barely recognize my own hometown, now enriched by diversity with a vibrant crime rate. It really is something to have one's past erased.
It's the same point I made in my posts about teaching- the path forward is creating local networks that sustain friendly political and economic systems. In the future, what is mandated in Bluetown will be illegal in Redville, and vice-versa, and it will be vital to live in the right place.
Thank you. Though I moved in with my parents in the house I grew up in, I started a 1/3acre garden and I designed and planted an orchard. Perhaps some day I will pick a peach off my own tree again.
Yes, if America "votes" for Brandon again, I expect gas to go north of $10gal, which will destroy rural economies. They will certainly plandemic us again to finish us off. I mean to become more self-sufficient with every passing year.
That's a good instinct; building on that, I would seek to become communally-sufficient. There's no more vital resource than a neighbor, especially if, as you say, travel becomes expensive.
Well here in Test Case Australia petrol ⛽️ is already $10 a gallon
Here in Victoria they’re banning gas from new buildings from next year
(we have plentiful Natural Gas). This is while coal fired power stations have been shut down. Smart Meters are compulsory for electricity and electric vehicles are being pushed relentlessly
Cameras are everywhere to detect speeding, red light infractions or if you touch your phone , not have your seat belt on properly etc
The control grid is well established
Also the age of criminal responsibility has been raised to 14 years so that the youths can’t be punished for their mischief
It’s a sad situation. But keep in mind, each one of those points of control adds another potential point of failure to the machine. It’s a lot to monitor, maintain, and enforce. It’s the sort of thing that builds a lot of resentment, a petty, daily irritation that keeps people in a constant state of anger, searching for an outlet. Sooner or later, the pressure will come, then the cracks, then the failure.
I’ve also noticed a lot of people have determined that we are in a spiritual battle between Good and Evil A sort of paradigm shift away from materialism. This has to be a good sign
I never imagined the Australians would allow such authoritarianism, but Covid certainly revealed such. I would agree with LC that the further they reach the closer they come to burning up in the sun. But then I never imagined how many would react here in America to authoritarianism with so much enthusiasm.
It’s not being told what to do that they like. Obedience, in its place and to the proper authority, can be virtuous. The maskers, the ones who weren’t actually crazy, squirmed out of the mandates at every opportunity. What they like is the sense of identification with naked power that they receive by signaling adherence to the dictates of the regime, the power they have by proxy to shame, punish, and distain those not so aligned. The mask was both a symbol of subservience and a license to enforce, and for the weak and petty mass-men of the world it was a chance to flex on their enemies. Like Bane, no one cared who they were until the put on the mask. Now they’re big guys, for you.
Before moving to Montana in 2016, I spent the first four decades of my life in Minneapolis. It was paradise in a way; so safe, clean, and beautiful. I didn’t want to move away, but we left for my husband’s career.
I used to own a house on 40th and Oakland, one of those beautiful Craftsman houses the city is replete with.
I hate the way the city is so unsafe now. I used to criscross Minneapolis and St. Paul any time of day or night, alone or with friends, starting from when I was 16, to go to concerts, dance nights at First Avenue, concerts, whatever. I definitely felt wary during the wee hours, but I never felt *unsafe.*
Even my diehard liberal neighbor who founded the Mixed Blood theater, who still lives in Minneapolis but rents a small cottage here in the summer, admits he has to offer an asterisk any time he talks about Minneapolis favorably. I love Minneapolis too, but I do not miss it and will never move back.
I miss Minneapolis, but I miss a city that doesn’t exist anymore.
Roller Garden was one of the best roller rinks in the country, with a huge maple floor to skate on. It’d been a rink since the 40s, in a building that was originally built as a hippodrome. It couldn’t survive past the pandemic restrictions.
I still visit often because my parents are there, in a shiny condo building right on the Mississippi. The Floyd protests took place on their doorstep.
They voted “yes” to defunding the police, AND ALSO they complain about the new level of crime. 🤷🏻♀️
This was excellent on so many levels! Masterful writing and analysis! If John Carter was still doing the Iron Ring awards, I'm sure this would be a winner!
There's so much to be angry about today -- the ruling class is so diabolically evil and cannot even pretend to hide it anymore, thus they enable every kind of petty villain while persecuting every virtuous person who stands against it -- so I appreciate your ability to highlight the silver lining in all this: the regime is desperate, not confident, and they (at least the ones at the very top) understand their own weakness far better than we do. Black swan events may be rough for everyone in the short term, but such unforseen challenges are our friend, for our enemy lacks the strength or resilience to overcome them.
I always aim for hope. Hope is not a belief, it’s a virtue, and like all virtues it’s cultivated by struggle and habituation. I need the reminders as much as the next guy.
Hard to articulate but I can feel a different vibe among the thinking masses. Even liberals are realizing that their part has left them for the communists. It’s my hope that this all gets resolved without violence, but it seems that it’s almost impossible to do so by just voting our way out of this mess. Things will inevitably go back to based human instinct, and consequences will be dolled out one way or another. You can’t escape the fact that eventually when decent people get pushed hard enough they will fall back on violence.
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms." -- Robert Heinlein
At the Battle of First Manassas, with two green armies colliding in the first major battle of the American Civil War, people were astonished at the ferocity displayed by the two sides. These were people who shared a common language, religion, and general culture going at each other like ancient blood enemies. Some of them were personally acquainted with their foes; all of the commanders knew each other to some degree. What people were witnessing was decades of tension and animosity come to the fore, given free expression as violence. I hope nothing like that comes in our time.
Me too. I spent 20+ years in the US Army in various shit holes. It would be very sad indeed to see those levels of violence. But it’s intrinsic to “our side” to just want to be left alone. It takes a lot more to get a guy like me to protest something when all I want to be is at peace, but they keep encroaching on that. It’s not headed to a good place, but there’s still hope, if only a fools hope. (credit to Gandalf the white)
I spent a couple days, during the late eighties, in Northern Ireland. No one here in the states truly understands what it means to live during a soft civil war, let alone one that grinds on for decades while infecting every single action you can take.
It never occurred to me that Rittenhouse put a stop to the Kenosha riots. Contrasting him with Michael Byrd is also very interesting to consider. Thanks for the great poast!
Well said, so well written. I have said all along, this is making them look weak. If we realize that, lots of people do. Biggest political blunder of the decade: making a folk hero of your political rival.
Spotted you using a cyclical reference, or whatever it’s called when you mention something at the beginning and then again at the end. Very nice! Btw love your stuff and showed my mum, whose into teaching about your education series.
Fantastic piece. I've been feeling this for a while -- that the ongoing actions of the governing establishment are not those of strength but weakness -- but you really brought it home. Thanks.
Tolkien understood the psychology of tyranny well. Sauron had been the apprentice of Aulë the craftsman, and turned to evil out of a mania for order and control.
This is why "left" and "right" are utterly meaningless -- there is no variable to which these terms refer that is consistently in play from one side to the other. They invariably end up referring to team sports, and as such the managerial state most surely IS "leftist."
But if the proportion of the individual in relation to the state is the variable, then "left" and "right" most certainly do have a valid meaning, and in that context also, the managerial state again most definitely IS hard leftist.
Otherwise, this is another fantastic essay, one I wish I could properly set to music.
"Left" is that clade of political ideologies that have as their endpoint a state of normative equality as applied to every category of human distinction, economic, racial, sexual, etc. Leftism represents the secularization of the eschatological principles of Christianity, shorn of their transcendent significance. It represents the endpoint of a heresy which evolved out of late Calvinism, among other influences. Liberalism is a body of ideas that shares a relationship to leftism, but was born out of different Christian Protestant traditions (Anglicanism, English separatism) which emphasized compromise and the settlement of differences through consensus. Liberalism seeks to instantiate the progressive liberation of individual humans from constraints imposed by nature, social convention, and personal circumstances; in its current form, neoliberalism, this is achieved through scientific management on the part of credentialed elites. In America, right liberals are called 'conservatives,' and left liberals are called 'progressives.'
Over an against these are the "right," those philosophies that valorize transcendent order, reflected in religion, social hierarchy, family, and tradition. Rightist thought represents the continuation of philosophies that predates the Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment. This is why, in my view, only the right represents a credible challenge to the current order and the only source of human renewal.
Since I've nothing useful to add (because you "nuked the site from orbit", really), I'll nitpick instead.
Telling a fresh egg from a rock while blindfolded would be a doddle; the egg would smell of hen's ass for starters, and it would also be warm to the touch.
(Why yes, I keep chickens, how did you know?)
Not to mention that you'd have to find a type of rock with the same density as a hen's egg. Pumice, maybe?
Right, metaphor duly 'literalised', on to this:
"Twenty serious men could have cleared the whole street of insane, junkie chomo-communists."
And then they'd been arrested, sentenced for being in the wrong, dispersed and disappeared into a prison system where other inmates would have taken care of them, said inmates having been informed that NN "is a Trumper and a racist".
Not so funny, that. Rittenhouse would have suffered that, if the incident hadn't been covered so well.
But you are not wrong: look at moslemsin Europe. They get their every whim catered to, for free, or else.
Might makes right. Not in any moral or ethical sense and it's a rubbish model for such - but factually, it's one of the ur-truths, unchaging and un-changeable too. Or as Brecht put it:
"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
Well darn, that went to a dark place. On the positive side, the US is huge geographically speaking with lots of places suited to creating gated segregated communities. Just remember: the Good Society isn't based on who you let in, but who you kick out.
Thank you for the kind words. Your notes are all accurate. The twenty would back the one, the thousand would back the twenty, and the ten-thousand would in turn them.
"The managerial state is not itself leftist; it is not committed to a project of equality or the amelioration of social problems arising from capitalism. It is a neoliberal oligarchy focused on globalization, creating homogenous populations managed through the creation and provision of material desire, corporatist, statist, and bureaucratic, but above all committed to progressive ends through the benign rule of credentialed elites."
I think that's putting the cart before the horse. Aside from the fact that managerial states are and have always been Progressive, the idea of the managerial state itself seems to arise from the results of the Progressive worldview. The monitoring and regulating of all aspects of life is only possible once the universal solvent of Revolution has been applied to the normal bonds of society. The vast bureaucratic apparatus which serves mainly to create work for itself results firstly from Prog ideas about technocratic governance and the value of education. The cumbersome and brutal mechanisms of mass education that feeds the beast arises not from the needs of the state, but from the Prog dream of mass education (plus blank-slatism and a whole host of riders). The shape of the managerial state comes from Leftism, not the other way around as you seem to have it
This is, however, a quibble. Excellent essay overall!
Governments showing strength and resolve externally is the rock. Governments showing strength and resolve internally is the egg. One is unbreakable by any amount of pressure from the human hand. The other requires a well-crafted praectorian hand of protection begins to stink after a few weeks.
"Left" is that clade of political ideologies that have as their endpoint a state of normative equality as applied to every category of human distinction, economic, racial, sexual, etc. Leftism represents the secularization of the eschatological principles of Christianity, shorn of their transcendent significance. It represents the endpoint of a heresy which evolved out of late Calvinism, among other influences. Liberalism is a body of ideas that shares a relationship to leftism, but was born out of different Christian Protestant traditions (Anglicanism, English separatism) which emphasized compromise and the settlement of differences through consensus. Liberalism seeks to instantiate the progressive liberation of individual humans from constraints imposed by nature, social convention, and personal circumstances; in its current form, neoliberalism, this is achieved through scientific management on the part of credentialed elites. In America, right liberals are called 'conservatives,' and left liberals are called 'progressives.'
Over an against these are the "right," those philosophies that valorize transcendent order, reflected in religion, social hierarchy, family, and tradition. Rightist thought represents the continuation of philosophies that predates the Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment. This is why, in my view, only the right represents a credible challenge to the current order and the only source of human renewal.
I biked down to lake street in Minneapolis the day after those "fiery but mostly peaceful protests." My first thought when I saw the damage was, this looks like Syria. I know now what it feels like to be in an occupied city. I couldn't go for a walk in my neighborhood without my neighbors calling the police they wanted to defund. For months after, George Floyd square became the most dangerous place in the city. Homeless were thereafter allowed to turn the park system into a den of iniquity. People started acting like there was no law. Carjacking increased 500%. Working for the parks, every day I picked up heroin needles and broken car window glass.
I sold my beloved house I had been in for 16 years, with my twenty fruit trees, mushroom logs, the greenhouse I built with reclaimed lumber and sliding glass doors, my 1000 gallon pond and 200 species of plants, three days before the Fed started raising interest rates. I was not going to wait for the next Marxist firebombing and plandemic lockdown.
I'm very sorry for your loss, and I mean that in the same way I would say it for a deceased relative. I can barely recognize my own hometown, now enriched by diversity with a vibrant crime rate. It really is something to have one's past erased.
It's the same point I made in my posts about teaching- the path forward is creating local networks that sustain friendly political and economic systems. In the future, what is mandated in Bluetown will be illegal in Redville, and vice-versa, and it will be vital to live in the right place.
Thank you. Though I moved in with my parents in the house I grew up in, I started a 1/3acre garden and I designed and planted an orchard. Perhaps some day I will pick a peach off my own tree again.
Yes, if America "votes" for Brandon again, I expect gas to go north of $10gal, which will destroy rural economies. They will certainly plandemic us again to finish us off. I mean to become more self-sufficient with every passing year.
That's a good instinct; building on that, I would seek to become communally-sufficient. There's no more vital resource than a neighbor, especially if, as you say, travel becomes expensive.
https://t.me/Revolt888/620
We are patient. We will not forget.
Well here in Test Case Australia petrol ⛽️ is already $10 a gallon
Here in Victoria they’re banning gas from new buildings from next year
(we have plentiful Natural Gas). This is while coal fired power stations have been shut down. Smart Meters are compulsory for electricity and electric vehicles are being pushed relentlessly
Cameras are everywhere to detect speeding, red light infractions or if you touch your phone , not have your seat belt on properly etc
The control grid is well established
Also the age of criminal responsibility has been raised to 14 years so that the youths can’t be punished for their mischief
It’s a sad situation. But keep in mind, each one of those points of control adds another potential point of failure to the machine. It’s a lot to monitor, maintain, and enforce. It’s the sort of thing that builds a lot of resentment, a petty, daily irritation that keeps people in a constant state of anger, searching for an outlet. Sooner or later, the pressure will come, then the cracks, then the failure.
Thank you
I’ve also noticed a lot of people have determined that we are in a spiritual battle between Good and Evil A sort of paradigm shift away from materialism. This has to be a good sign
I’ve always loved Edith Hamilton’s translation of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon:
And he who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain which does not forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart
Until, in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
The more complex the system the more opportunities for "Irish Democracy" present themselves.
I never imagined the Australians would allow such authoritarianism, but Covid certainly revealed such. I would agree with LC that the further they reach the closer they come to burning up in the sun. But then I never imagined how many would react here in America to authoritarianism with so much enthusiasm.
It’s not being told what to do that they like. Obedience, in its place and to the proper authority, can be virtuous. The maskers, the ones who weren’t actually crazy, squirmed out of the mandates at every opportunity. What they like is the sense of identification with naked power that they receive by signaling adherence to the dictates of the regime, the power they have by proxy to shame, punish, and distain those not so aligned. The mask was both a symbol of subservience and a license to enforce, and for the weak and petty mass-men of the world it was a chance to flex on their enemies. Like Bane, no one cared who they were until the put on the mask. Now they’re big guys, for you.
A tyranny of the weak and feckless. I suppose all tyranny is like that, empowering those who should have none.
Even for a Liquor store clerk.
Before moving to Montana in 2016, I spent the first four decades of my life in Minneapolis. It was paradise in a way; so safe, clean, and beautiful. I didn’t want to move away, but we left for my husband’s career.
I used to own a house on 40th and Oakland, one of those beautiful Craftsman houses the city is replete with.
I hate the way the city is so unsafe now. I used to criscross Minneapolis and St. Paul any time of day or night, alone or with friends, starting from when I was 16, to go to concerts, dance nights at First Avenue, concerts, whatever. I definitely felt wary during the wee hours, but I never felt *unsafe.*
That’s all gone now.
Pls ignore sloppy writing (concerts AND concerts!). Haven’t had coffee yet.
Even my diehard liberal neighbor who founded the Mixed Blood theater, who still lives in Minneapolis but rents a small cottage here in the summer, admits he has to offer an asterisk any time he talks about Minneapolis favorably. I love Minneapolis too, but I do not miss it and will never move back.
I miss Minneapolis, but I miss a city that doesn’t exist anymore.
Roller Garden was one of the best roller rinks in the country, with a huge maple floor to skate on. It’d been a rink since the 40s, in a building that was originally built as a hippodrome. It couldn’t survive past the pandemic restrictions.
I still visit often because my parents are there, in a shiny condo building right on the Mississippi. The Floyd protests took place on their doorstep.
They voted “yes” to defunding the police, AND ALSO they complain about the new level of crime. 🤷🏻♀️
White erased.
This was excellent on so many levels! Masterful writing and analysis! If John Carter was still doing the Iron Ring awards, I'm sure this would be a winner!
There's so much to be angry about today -- the ruling class is so diabolically evil and cannot even pretend to hide it anymore, thus they enable every kind of petty villain while persecuting every virtuous person who stands against it -- so I appreciate your ability to highlight the silver lining in all this: the regime is desperate, not confident, and they (at least the ones at the very top) understand their own weakness far better than we do. Black swan events may be rough for everyone in the short term, but such unforseen challenges are our friend, for our enemy lacks the strength or resilience to overcome them.
I always aim for hope. Hope is not a belief, it’s a virtue, and like all virtues it’s cultivated by struggle and habituation. I need the reminders as much as the next guy.
*silverpill
Proper manners call for due respect to clever coinage our hon'ble Master-of-stacks lays claim to 😇
PS Kinda fits in the gap in pill pyramid, but not quite 🤔 --> i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/623/140/bdc.jpg
Hard to articulate but I can feel a different vibe among the thinking masses. Even liberals are realizing that their part has left them for the communists. It’s my hope that this all gets resolved without violence, but it seems that it’s almost impossible to do so by just voting our way out of this mess. Things will inevitably go back to based human instinct, and consequences will be dolled out one way or another. You can’t escape the fact that eventually when decent people get pushed hard enough they will fall back on violence.
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms." -- Robert Heinlein
At the Battle of First Manassas, with two green armies colliding in the first major battle of the American Civil War, people were astonished at the ferocity displayed by the two sides. These were people who shared a common language, religion, and general culture going at each other like ancient blood enemies. Some of them were personally acquainted with their foes; all of the commanders knew each other to some degree. What people were witnessing was decades of tension and animosity come to the fore, given free expression as violence. I hope nothing like that comes in our time.
Me too. I spent 20+ years in the US Army in various shit holes. It would be very sad indeed to see those levels of violence. But it’s intrinsic to “our side” to just want to be left alone. It takes a lot more to get a guy like me to protest something when all I want to be is at peace, but they keep encroaching on that. It’s not headed to a good place, but there’s still hope, if only a fools hope. (credit to Gandalf the white)
I spent a couple days, during the late eighties, in Northern Ireland. No one here in the states truly understands what it means to live during a soft civil war, let alone one that grinds on for decades while infecting every single action you can take.
It never occurred to me that Rittenhouse put a stop to the Kenosha riots. Contrasting him with Michael Byrd is also very interesting to consider. Thanks for the great poast!
Man, I'm glad I found you. Hell of a thinker and writer.
You’re very kind. I enjoy your work as well.
Have you read the one about koalas yet? An all-timer.
Well said, so well written. I have said all along, this is making them look weak. If we realize that, lots of people do. Biggest political blunder of the decade: making a folk hero of your political rival.
Spotted you using a cyclical reference, or whatever it’s called when you mention something at the beginning and then again at the end. Very nice! Btw love your stuff and showed my mum, whose into teaching about your education series.
Thank you. In movies the term they use is 'callback'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bSmAsswg0
I am especially grateful that your mom likes my series on teaching. I would love any feedback she or you might care to post.
Fantastic piece. I've been feeling this for a while -- that the ongoing actions of the governing establishment are not those of strength but weakness -- but you really brought it home. Thanks.
Tolkien understood the psychology of tyranny well. Sauron had been the apprentice of Aulë the craftsman, and turned to evil out of a mania for order and control.
>The managerial state is not itself leftist
This is why "left" and "right" are utterly meaningless -- there is no variable to which these terms refer that is consistently in play from one side to the other. They invariably end up referring to team sports, and as such the managerial state most surely IS "leftist."
But if the proportion of the individual in relation to the state is the variable, then "left" and "right" most certainly do have a valid meaning, and in that context also, the managerial state again most definitely IS hard leftist.
Otherwise, this is another fantastic essay, one I wish I could properly set to music.
"Left" is that clade of political ideologies that have as their endpoint a state of normative equality as applied to every category of human distinction, economic, racial, sexual, etc. Leftism represents the secularization of the eschatological principles of Christianity, shorn of their transcendent significance. It represents the endpoint of a heresy which evolved out of late Calvinism, among other influences. Liberalism is a body of ideas that shares a relationship to leftism, but was born out of different Christian Protestant traditions (Anglicanism, English separatism) which emphasized compromise and the settlement of differences through consensus. Liberalism seeks to instantiate the progressive liberation of individual humans from constraints imposed by nature, social convention, and personal circumstances; in its current form, neoliberalism, this is achieved through scientific management on the part of credentialed elites. In America, right liberals are called 'conservatives,' and left liberals are called 'progressives.'
Over an against these are the "right," those philosophies that valorize transcendent order, reflected in religion, social hierarchy, family, and tradition. Rightist thought represents the continuation of philosophies that predates the Protestant Reformation and Enlightenment. This is why, in my view, only the right represents a credible challenge to the current order and the only source of human renewal.
Since I've nothing useful to add (because you "nuked the site from orbit", really), I'll nitpick instead.
Telling a fresh egg from a rock while blindfolded would be a doddle; the egg would smell of hen's ass for starters, and it would also be warm to the touch.
(Why yes, I keep chickens, how did you know?)
Not to mention that you'd have to find a type of rock with the same density as a hen's egg. Pumice, maybe?
Right, metaphor duly 'literalised', on to this:
"Twenty serious men could have cleared the whole street of insane, junkie chomo-communists."
And then they'd been arrested, sentenced for being in the wrong, dispersed and disappeared into a prison system where other inmates would have taken care of them, said inmates having been informed that NN "is a Trumper and a racist".
Not so funny, that. Rittenhouse would have suffered that, if the incident hadn't been covered so well.
But you are not wrong: look at moslemsin Europe. They get their every whim catered to, for free, or else.
Might makes right. Not in any moral or ethical sense and it's a rubbish model for such - but factually, it's one of the ur-truths, unchaging and un-changeable too. Or as Brecht put it:
"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
Well darn, that went to a dark place. On the positive side, the US is huge geographically speaking with lots of places suited to creating gated segregated communities. Just remember: the Good Society isn't based on who you let in, but who you kick out.
Thank you for the kind words. Your notes are all accurate. The twenty would back the one, the thousand would back the twenty, and the ten-thousand would in turn them.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy
Being the eponymous "aktcherly"-voicing person comes with being a teacher. I tend to think of it as a work-related injury. :)
"The managerial state is not itself leftist; it is not committed to a project of equality or the amelioration of social problems arising from capitalism. It is a neoliberal oligarchy focused on globalization, creating homogenous populations managed through the creation and provision of material desire, corporatist, statist, and bureaucratic, but above all committed to progressive ends through the benign rule of credentialed elites."
I think that's putting the cart before the horse. Aside from the fact that managerial states are and have always been Progressive, the idea of the managerial state itself seems to arise from the results of the Progressive worldview. The monitoring and regulating of all aspects of life is only possible once the universal solvent of Revolution has been applied to the normal bonds of society. The vast bureaucratic apparatus which serves mainly to create work for itself results firstly from Prog ideas about technocratic governance and the value of education. The cumbersome and brutal mechanisms of mass education that feeds the beast arises not from the needs of the state, but from the Prog dream of mass education (plus blank-slatism and a whole host of riders). The shape of the managerial state comes from Leftism, not the other way around as you seem to have it
This is, however, a quibble. Excellent essay overall!
Great commentary. If we lose faith because of all the lies, we are lost. We have to stand up together. I suggest everyone reading this start a substack and mail every contact in their phones. Here's how: https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/198-this-is-your-conscription-notice#details
“chaotic nihilism of the underclass” perfect description.
Fantastic!
Governments showing strength and resolve externally is the rock. Governments showing strength and resolve internally is the egg. One is unbreakable by any amount of pressure from the human hand. The other requires a well-crafted praectorian hand of protection begins to stink after a few weeks.
Excellent post.