Liberalism is the core of a snowball. Its one concept is that the individual is equal, therefore can do whatever they want independent of shared cultural values or reality itself. As a result, liberalism takes on any value that is compatible with a rejection of allegiance larger than the self. It can for example embrace [...]
Posts Tagged ‘crowdism’
Next revolution, don’t put the extraverts in charge
The hard part of a revolution is not the overthrowing. Any idiot can do that. It’s what happens when you win and you suddenly realize you have a country to run. For our next revolution, we really should put an introvert in charge. The extraverts have been in charge of the last dozen or so, [...]
Economic censorship
This blog post revisits a topic I started writing about long ago in the 1980s. Back then, Al Gore thought the flavor of the week was social conservative on the heels of the Reagan Revolution, and so he pimped out his crazy wife Tipper on a scheme to put obscene content warning stickers on music. [...]
Easy answers
This election cycle it is dismaying to see the Right again in disarray, unable to find a candidate who is a clear winner. There are many reasons for this but the primary failing is a lack of commonality of purpose among the right, which makes any candidate but a generic candidate a risky venture. Without [...]
Paradox
The Left is right. They have it sorted out. Sort-of… You didn’t expect to read that, here, did you? Go on: have a little giggle. You know you want to. Scoff a bit, and ridicule. Then settle down to some serious consideration of what it is you’re scoffing at. There’s something seriously slippery going on [...]
Leftist
In times of political confusion, people distrust the very words they need to use to explain what they want. For example, you will often hear that left and right no longer mean anything, or that terms like “leftist” are made-up nonsense. Even worse, people use terms like liberal, leftist, left-winger and progressive as if they [...]
The end of liberalism
Humankind can act quickly based on its own notions, but then we wait for nature and its natural laws to shape the end result. Even when we control the material means of our future, consequences are governed by the non-material interaction of forces, like information or mathematics. Starting with The Enlightenment, European society went liberal [...]
Fatalism
Once upon a time, the notions of Nietzsche made sense: when we threw out God, we lost all sense of value or struggling for truth and sank instead into a hideous mire of nihilism. As time went on it became clear that nihilism, or the denial of all truths or meanings, was more a refutation [...]
Vortex
Over the years and centuries, as the failure of the first world to discover inner stability continues, it has become increasingly popular to talk about the “many problems” of humankind. I submit that this is euphemism of the first order. This species does not have many problems. We have a singular problem, which is dishonesty: [...]
Redistribution
If you want to win votes, propose wealth redistribution. There are always few rich, and few truly happy people, so to the lonely and discontented voter your words will be like a balm for the soul. Except of course that much like heroin, “once is not enough.” Soon more is needed, and the one-time-fix of [...]
