Comments on: McCarthy, the Wilsonite https://www.isegoria.net/2011/01/mccarthy-the-wilsonite/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:48:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2011/01/mccarthy-the-wilsonite/comment-page-1/#comment-90892 Isegoria Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:04:27 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=23091#comment-90892 In reading about the 1918 flu, one thing that stood out was the paramilitary nature of the Red Cross. Men were expected to volunteer for the Army, where they’d serve as soldiers, and women were expected to volunteer for the Red Cross, where they’d serve as nurses.

The nationalism of the era is downright shocking to a modern American, especially given how peripheral a war in Europe could have — or should have — been to the Americans an ocean away from the trenches. As I recall, Philadelphia city officials refused to call off an enormous bond rally parade, despite warnings that the flu epidemic had just reached the city, and they didn’t have the resources to treat a surge in patients. It didn’t end well.

]]> By: Joseph Fouche https://www.isegoria.net/2011/01/mccarthy-the-wilsonite/comment-page-1/#comment-89269 Joseph Fouche Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:59:23 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=23091#comment-89269 The World War I featured the last gasp of traditional American mob repression that formed the primary pillar of American social control from colonial times up to the 1920s. As Mencius Moldbug has commented, that social phenomenon was one of the few manifestations of something resembling the ideal of American democracy. It’s decline led inexorably to the inefficiency of modern American social control since top down control from the State is far less efficient than emergent mob control on the local level.

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