Posted on 02/16/2022 5:08:19 PM PST by Noumenon
The liberal conceit is that no man labors under any natural ontological requirement that he should submit to some authority, and so nor therefore can there be any legitimate authority; ergo, it is wrong, as unjust, to exert or submit to any authority, and eo ipso good to transgress against authority of every sort, and to undermine it.
The propositions in the foregoing can be rearranged ad libitum, without undermining their joint agreement or their moral effect – or their morbid consequences in human lives.
Reality being what it is, that liberal conceit tends in action always to the centralization of all power in a tyrannical … *authority,* against whom no liberal man may – or can – stand.
What is that obdurate reality? It is that, no man being him than whom no greater can be conceived, then every man is less than some other – whether an other man, or an other institution, or an other god. So the liberal who prides himself (the word is chosen advisedly) that he is himself the sole master of his fate is in fact willy nilly the servant or slave of some master far greater than he, whose existence he may not even suspect, but whose dictates he witlessly obeys.
This perhaps accounts for the spooky unanimity of our divers disparate adversaries, who all as one of an evening begin using some new phrase or proposing some new crisis or solution – or demonizing and scapegoating the victim of the hour, subjecting him to the two minute hate that destroys his life. They are of one mind because they serve one mind.
Whether you know it or not, you serve a lord. Better then for you to know who he is, and decide willy whether he is worthy of your fealty.
As the Bob Dylan song goes, you've got to serve someone. The only thing a liberal serves is the prevailing narrative and their own narrow self-interests. The true liberal conceit is that they believe themselves to be gods. With all that entails.
I don’t care what they say/do.
I will not comply.
Nietzsche was a tad more efficient in his description of this phenomenon:
“God is dead.”
Self-autonymy, in a civil society must have limits. That is essentially what government “of the people” etc. is for.
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