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"It was as if a slow, lumbering beast had finally managed to turn itself around after spotting a new target over its shoulder. With its eyes now firmly set on its next prey, their fate was already a foregone conclusion."
I'm already sad cause I feel where this might be going.
I think that "we" are far smarter, but less courageous than the cartels though, and also not solely based on wealth accumulation, but principles and political pursuits.
I don’t know what their definition of Classical Liberalism is BUT in 19th century practice until after WW1 it means EXACTLY Neoliberalism with the important difference of looting your own countries- for now.
Want Classical Liberalism? Sure. Post Catholic Mexico. Everyone for themselves and perhaps family. We can see how it works out, and see our future is NOW and it has nothing to do with open borders. Libertarian Hellscape- we’re here. It’s early yet, lets talk this winter 🥶.
As an ironic aside the Mexicans should have saved themselves the trouble indeed they’ve left 21st century Mexico 🇲🇽 for 1840s Ireland 🇮🇪, its all running itself now.
You should look into the 1840s Irish situation Nico, it wasn’t potato fungus it was the Rack Rents - many layers of interlocking debt. Just like now.
That and the problem of the wrong voters being culled then as now. Democracy needs to cull the herd as well from time to time. Its quite happening.
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That last story is why I think "To Die For" with Nicole Kidman might be the most important film of the 1990s. Great cast too, as Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix played loser teenagers.
One of the more interesting communist infiltrations in West Germany was of the Stasi-collaborating cop who kicked off the Baader-Meinhof movement by shooting a left-wing protestor in the head. The cop was assumed to be some sort of Nazi for 40 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Benno_Ohnesorg
The notion that the Right were the drivers of de industrialization is a good story if you think Clinton was Right Wing.
A point can be made this way about Papa Bush, but the hand was Clinton and the Democrats.
Bush 43 barely was in office when 9/11 hit so who knows what he would have done. He had to tell Hastert nothing would be vetoed in exchange for funding the war.
Someday if its not happening already they’ll teach Lincoln was a Democrat and the Republicans pro-slavery.
I think this piece from Paul Kingsnorth is an explication of that which Fukuyama does not see or at least is silent on. Kingsnorth likens progress to the antichrist or Satan; Fukuyama as a public intellectual in good standing daren’t go there. He is constrained by Curtis Yarvin’s “selective advantage of dominant ideas“ and a natural desire not to be a laughing stock,the “Cathedral” is viscous.
This piece is an order of magnitude higher, removed and above the colloquial fray. These big things, this sort of long view is my predilection but admittedly often not practical. Although not practical (guilty) I believe it is a proper diagnosis that we need, then, and only then can we fathom the prescription to fix that which ails.
The freedom to travel is in the Canadian Charter of Rights. Yet the government was able to sweep that away by declaring an emergency. So much for the Magna Carta.
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Anyone who's watched James Lyndsey's New Discourses will know it was your man Marcusse who was a leading "thinker" in the explicit push to convert black liberation over to Marxism. BLM seemed to have successfully pushed this into the mainstream during George Floyd mostly-peaceful not-riots, but their moment seems to have passed (though they did make lots of money, and bought expensive houses in white neighborhoods, so it's not all bad).
Marcusse was also a champion of so-called "repressive tolerance", which as far as I can tell, meant "tolerance for me but not for thee". Or, as I prefer to call it, "intolerance" - something that has also has been enthusiastically adapted by the hustlers and grifters of US politics.
While Neo-Conservatisim, and Neo-Liberalisim for that matter, has gutted the industrial heartland of America, I would say the biggest threat to liberalism is the Left's embrace of totalitarianism. The fact modern day leftoids' schemes keep getting undone by the hard-won liberties (achieved by the old left they claim as their own) has caused me no end of amusement, and a fair bit of relief too.
Kingsnorth again. He quotes the Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noche who posits Liberalism fails based on what it leaves out (evil) and replaces it with “radical immanentism”. My words: The arrogant elevation of human intelligence by liberalism is the flaw. The immanence of a perfect order - end of history - is their shibboleth and our eras myopia. Progress is a gnostic belief system: “The political Gnosticism of the liberal imperium” as per professor Patrick Deneen at the “post liberal order substack.”
The reason Canadians don't protest is because to protest against government(particularly a left wing one) is to be an American. The Canadian would rather shoot his own mother than risk being called an "American".
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Note: I chose the Brenes critique of Fukuyama's new book to inform readers here of just how done with liberal democracy progressives are.
I cannot think of any writer with such an ability to be at so many places at once; pith in service to the turnpike
back to the detour, where seatbelts can be tightened for the spaghetti highway, to grab the mask and snorkel for the mapping of the ocean floor.
It's good to see you again.
"It was as if a slow, lumbering beast had finally managed to turn itself around after spotting a new target over its shoulder. With its eyes now firmly set on its next prey, their fate was already a foregone conclusion."
I'm already sad cause I feel where this might be going.
I think that "we" are far smarter, but less courageous than the cartels though, and also not solely based on wealth accumulation, but principles and political pursuits.
Still, the beast is dangerous.
I don’t know what their definition of Classical Liberalism is BUT in 19th century practice until after WW1 it means EXACTLY Neoliberalism with the important difference of looting your own countries- for now.
Want Classical Liberalism? Sure. Post Catholic Mexico. Everyone for themselves and perhaps family. We can see how it works out, and see our future is NOW and it has nothing to do with open borders. Libertarian Hellscape- we’re here. It’s early yet, lets talk this winter 🥶.
As an ironic aside the Mexicans should have saved themselves the trouble indeed they’ve left 21st century Mexico 🇲🇽 for 1840s Ireland 🇮🇪, its all running itself now.
You should look into the 1840s Irish situation Nico, it wasn’t potato fungus it was the Rack Rents - many layers of interlocking debt. Just like now.
That and the problem of the wrong voters being culled then as now. Democracy needs to cull the herd as well from time to time. Its quite happening.
That last story is why I think "To Die For" with Nicole Kidman might be the most important film of the 1990s. Great cast too, as Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix played loser teenagers.
One of the more interesting communist infiltrations in West Germany was of the Stasi-collaborating cop who kicked off the Baader-Meinhof movement by shooting a left-wing protestor in the head. The cop was assumed to be some sort of Nazi for 40 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Benno_Ohnesorg
The notion that the Right were the drivers of de industrialization is a good story if you think Clinton was Right Wing.
A point can be made this way about Papa Bush, but the hand was Clinton and the Democrats.
Bush 43 barely was in office when 9/11 hit so who knows what he would have done. He had to tell Hastert nothing would be vetoed in exchange for funding the war.
Someday if its not happening already they’ll teach Lincoln was a Democrat and the Republicans pro-slavery.
Fukuyama was a triumphalist. Managers of the US empire are of the same ilk. Triumphalists always get what they deserve.
Politics is Power.
“far from following the science, the prime minister and his Cabinet were focused on politics.”
I ❤️ the appeal to Law.
❤️ it.
😂
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/what-progress-wants
I think this piece from Paul Kingsnorth is an explication of that which Fukuyama does not see or at least is silent on. Kingsnorth likens progress to the antichrist or Satan; Fukuyama as a public intellectual in good standing daren’t go there. He is constrained by Curtis Yarvin’s “selective advantage of dominant ideas“ and a natural desire not to be a laughing stock,the “Cathedral” is viscous.
This piece is an order of magnitude higher, removed and above the colloquial fray. These big things, this sort of long view is my predilection but admittedly often not practical. Although not practical (guilty) I believe it is a proper diagnosis that we need, then, and only then can we fathom the prescription to fix that which ails.
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/what-progress-wants
The freedom to travel is in the Canadian Charter of Rights. Yet the government was able to sweep that away by declaring an emergency. So much for the Magna Carta.
The F 🐝👁 oh lordy LOL.
Its like that 5 year old girl who got fined for running a lemonade stand
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/21/girl-fined-running-homemade-lemonade-stall
Anyone who's watched James Lyndsey's New Discourses will know it was your man Marcusse who was a leading "thinker" in the explicit push to convert black liberation over to Marxism. BLM seemed to have successfully pushed this into the mainstream during George Floyd mostly-peaceful not-riots, but their moment seems to have passed (though they did make lots of money, and bought expensive houses in white neighborhoods, so it's not all bad).
Marcusse was also a champion of so-called "repressive tolerance", which as far as I can tell, meant "tolerance for me but not for thee". Or, as I prefer to call it, "intolerance" - something that has also has been enthusiastically adapted by the hustlers and grifters of US politics.
While Neo-Conservatisim, and Neo-Liberalisim for that matter, has gutted the industrial heartland of America, I would say the biggest threat to liberalism is the Left's embrace of totalitarianism. The fact modern day leftoids' schemes keep getting undone by the hard-won liberties (achieved by the old left they claim as their own) has caused me no end of amusement, and a fair bit of relief too.
Kingsnorth again. He quotes the Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noche who posits Liberalism fails based on what it leaves out (evil) and replaces it with “radical immanentism”. My words: The arrogant elevation of human intelligence by liberalism is the flaw. The immanence of a perfect order - end of history - is their shibboleth and our eras myopia. Progress is a gnostic belief system: “The political Gnosticism of the liberal imperium” as per professor Patrick Deneen at the “post liberal order substack.”
I think I’m getting somewhere.
Laughed to Death
First they pretend to take you seriously because they’re being forced but paid but aren’t hearing a word.
….then you become Troublesome and they hear you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then you’re Dead.
The reason Canadians don't protest is because to protest against government(particularly a left wing one) is to be an American. The Canadian would rather shoot his own mother than risk being called an "American".