Posted on 12/19/2022 8:52:42 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
Very insightful (and witty) article. The author "gets" our current dilemma in American government in the following excerpt:
In every country in the developed world, representative democracy is dead. In its place, we have oligarchy. The way our oligarchy works is very simple. While hymning “democracy,” it has to disable actual representative democracy. It does this by disabling the control of the chief executive over the executive branch.
Broadly speaking, the procedure, budget, and personnel of the agencies is specified by law. Law, of course, comes from the legislative branch. What does it matter if the Founders would never have recognized a 12,000-page appropriations bill, voted on without being debated or even being read, as “law”? The Founders are dead. (Also, they were racists.)
The legislative branch is still nominally democratic, of course. But the nominal power of the voters over Congress is attenuated by five factors. Together these tame the stormy waves of open-ocean democracy to gentle glassy harbor swell.
The first is that incumbency exceeds 98 percent in the House and 90 percent in the Senate. The second is the seniority system, which ensures that sporadic breaches in incumbency produce no serious changes in policy. The third is the fact that Congress has delegated its authority broadly to the agencies. The fourth is the internal continuity of the Hill staffers, plus the external continuity of donors, lobbyists, and activists. The fifth is that no one has any real emotional connection to any election besides the presidency; so the Congress is largely chosen according to who has the largest budget for lawn signs. The sixth… do we need more? The whole Hill is one great fortress against democracy.
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They can either turn to Jesus or burn forever, choice is theirs.
I don't think that was the case in Pennsylvania with Fetterwoman vs. Oz.
In Fetterwoman, Democrats elected a candidate who is the equivalent of that horse an ancient Roman emperor installed in their previously august Roman Senate.
The Emperor (Caligula?) did it to mock the Senate and old republican Romans.
Just as Democrats did with Fetter-whatever.
I think the author is exactly right in his conclusion.
“No, they do not believe in democracy or oligarchy. They believe in nothing. Nothing is true to them, unless it is useful. Nothing is useful, unless it makes them powerful. History and law and logic and the Constitution and morality have one lesson for them: Might makes right. Whatever is strong is true, legal, constitutional, and right.
Ultimately, Rothkopf and his party are practicing Nietzcheans and Machiavellians—not in the philosophical sense, but in the colloquial sense. Power has consumed them.
Their faith is nihilism—and only nihilism can defeat them. To pretend that they believe in anything, even to offer contrary arguments, is simply to play their game.”
Do we really have a ruling class?
Where do they come from?
Are they shot out of the wombs of goddesses and raised in the nurseries of Olympus?
Can they leap tall buildings in a single bound?
He’s right until you get to the last sentence. If everybody on both sides becomes a nihilist it will be hard to get back to anything good.
WHY do I not know this Curtis Yarvin? His essay on Roskopf’s kafkaesque book is sheer brilliance. This is a long read; but if you are philosophically inclined, well worth it.
Here’s the Reader’s Digest version — he sums up the deepstate’s nihilistic rationale thusly:
“Nothing is true to them, unless it is useful. Nothing is useful, unless it makes them powerful.”
I choose to believe that what the author meant is that their nihilism will be their downfall. Not that we become nihilists to fight them.
Yeah, I don’t recognize his name either, but will be keeping it in mind in the future.
It is a very good essay.
All matter is energy.
Energy cannot be destroyed.
Energy can only be changed.
Why should the human soul be any different?
The human soul cannot be destroyed.
The human soul can only be changed.
Everything around us tells us that.
The human soul is not nothing.
Our human experience is not nothing.
Where does our soul go when our body fails?
Where does the log go in the fire?
The energy is released.
Why should we be any different?
To ignore the physics of metaphysics is to ignore all of reality.
To ignore the soul is to ignore the universe.
These “rulers” do so to their eternal loss.
Let it burn.
Bump for Ender’s siblings.
You have some great and pithy postulates. They make eminent sense. Here’s another:
Nihilism is self-decapitation.
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Wealth sovereigns must be prohibited from politics and government.
They are too powerful and too detached from the common man to be rulers over them.
The first American Revolution removed royalty from government.
The second American Revolution must take the next step and remove wealth sovereigns from government.
“ He’s right until you get to the last sentence. If everybody on both sides becomes a nihilist it will be hard to get back to anything good.”
It is now actually impossible, not just “hard” but impossible, to get back to anything good. He is not wrong here.
Which is why I believe that a Russian nuke going off over D.C. (and likely New York, Chicago and LA too), or the equivalent thereof, is the only real chance the country has to survive as anything other than a fascist dictatorship.
Ping to post 18
I read it. Some of it is from the point of view of detractors who want to pigeonhole him in overly simplistic ways. He seems very complex. He could greatly simplify his spot-on analysis if he weren’t so anti-Christian.
Philosophically, he is a realist and a pragmatist. It’s his fearlessness about telling the truth about race and gender that puts him in the crosshairs of lefties.
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