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	<title>Comments on: That’s more pleasant to live through than Nineteen Eighty-Four</title>
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		<title>By: Senexada</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2020/10/thats-more-pleasant-to-live-through-than-nineteen-eighty-four/comment-page-1/#comment-3272456</link>
		<dc:creator>Senexada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2020 13:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous Handle has reappeared with &lt;a href=&quot;https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/review-of-rod-drehers-live-not-by-lies/&quot;&gt;a 10,000+ word review&lt;/a&gt;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The famous Handle has reappeared with <a href="https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/review-of-rod-drehers-live-not-by-lies/">a 10,000+ word review</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Harry Jones</title>
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		<dc:creator>Harry Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 22:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It worked for the Amish. For the Branch Davidians, not so much. Seems it&#039;s a crapshoot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It worked for the Amish. For the Branch Davidians, not so much. Seems it&#8217;s a crapshoot.</p>
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		<title>By: Isegoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 20:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Dreher wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://amzn.to/3joe5Vv&quot;&gt;The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation&lt;/a&gt;. It has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isegoria.net/2018/10/far-more-catechized-by-popular-culture-than-by-the-church/&quot;&gt;come up&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.isegoria.net/2017/02/the-benedict-option/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; before.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Dreher wrote <a href="https://amzn.to/3joe5Vv">The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation</a>. It has <a href="https://www.isegoria.net/2018/10/far-more-catechized-by-popular-culture-than-by-the-church/">come up</a> <a href="https://www.isegoria.net/2017/02/the-benedict-option/">here</a> before.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Sykes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Sykes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed, the Founders feared the tyranny of the majority, and installed many obstacles to democracy: the Electoral College, the Senate, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court. Well, maybe not the Supreme Court. Marshall turned that into an anti-democratic bulwark, but everyone had the good sense to let him do it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indeed, the Founders feared the tyranny of the majority, and installed many obstacles to democracy: the Electoral College, the Senate, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court. Well, maybe not the Supreme Court. Marshall turned that into an anti-democratic bulwark, but everyone had the good sense to let him do it.</p>
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		<title>By: RLVC</title>
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		<dc:creator>RLVC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;a href=&quot;//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Rod_Dreher.jpg/1200px-Rod_Dreher.jpg”&quot;&gt;They aren’t sending their best.&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Rod_Dreher.jpg/1200px-Rod_Dreher.jpg”">They aren’t sending their best.</a></p>
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		<title>By: Lucklucky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lucklucky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Democracy can be Totalitarian. If the majority votes that everyone must wear only yellow(or other) color cloths what you would call it?

Totalitarianism is absence of Individuality.


There is also this definition by an Israeli historian J.L.Talmon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_democracy

J. L. Talmon&#039;s 1952 book &lt;a href=&quot;https://amzn.to/34ps32W&quot;&gt;The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy&lt;/a&gt; discusses the transformation of a state in which traditional values and articles of faith shape the role of government into one in which social utility takes absolute precedence. His work is a criticism of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose political philosophy greatly influenced the French Revolution, the growth of the Enlightenment across Europe, as well the overall development of modern political and educational thought. In &lt;em&gt;The Social Contract&lt;/em&gt;, Rousseau contends that the interests of the individual and the state are one and the same, and it is the state&#039;s responsibility to implement the &quot;general will&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Democracy can be Totalitarian. If the majority votes that everyone must wear only yellow(or other) color cloths what you would call it?</p>
<p>Totalitarianism is absence of Individuality.</p>
<p>There is also this definition by an Israeli historian J.L.Talmon</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_democracy" >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarian_democracy</a></p>
<p>J. L. Talmon&#8217;s 1952 book <a href="https://amzn.to/34ps32W">The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy</a> discusses the transformation of a state in which traditional values and articles of faith shape the role of government into one in which social utility takes absolute precedence. His work is a criticism of the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose political philosophy greatly influenced the French Revolution, the growth of the Enlightenment across Europe, as well the overall development of modern political and educational thought. In <em>The Social Contract</em>, Rousseau contends that the interests of the individual and the state are one and the same, and it is the state&#8217;s responsibility to implement the &#8220;general will&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Kentucky Headhunter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kentucky Headhunter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 18:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Dreher the guy who supports the &quot;Benedict option&quot;? The idea that we could build our own communities and the government would leave us alone? Yeah, fat chance.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Dreher the guy who supports the &#8220;Benedict option&#8221;? The idea that we could build our own communities and the government would leave us alone? Yeah, fat chance.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;&quot;Is there another outcome?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

A parasite can either (A) grow unchecked until its host dies, (B) provoke an effective immune response, or (C) acknowledge its parasitic nature and moderate its taxation to a level that the host can bear. &quot;We must preserve capitalism to pay for socialism&quot;, said Lula da Silva after becoming President.

The problem with (C) is that Communism is like a shark: If for any reason it cannot swim forward, it dies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;Is there another outcome?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>A parasite can either (A) grow unchecked until its host dies, (B) provoke an effective immune response, or (C) acknowledge its parasitic nature and moderate its taxation to a level that the host can bear. &#8220;We must preserve capitalism to pay for socialism&#8221;, said Lula da Silva after becoming President.</p>
<p>The problem with (C) is that Communism is like a shark: If for any reason it cannot swim forward, it dies.</p>
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		<title>By: Adar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YES. Authoritarian wants you just to comply. The totalitarian wants you to comply and also be an enthusiast for the new way. 

Black Lives Matter. All the companies without coercion just making enormous contributions to the cause and overtly expressing support over and over.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YES. Authoritarian wants you just to comply. The totalitarian wants you to comply and also be an enthusiast for the new way. </p>
<p>Black Lives Matter. All the companies without coercion just making enormous contributions to the cause and overtly expressing support over and over.</p>
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		<title>By: Wang Wei Lin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wang Wei Lin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 02:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Similar points are made by Eric Hoffer in his book &lt;a href=&quot;https://amzn.to/3jt0HiJ&quot;&gt;The True Believer&lt;/a&gt;. He touches on the individual issues. The prominent characteristic being that the rioters are misfits and losers seeking purpose. Being incapable of creating anything useful they choose to destroy. Just like Antifa and BLM.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Similar points are made by Eric Hoffer in his book <a href="https://amzn.to/3jt0HiJ">The True Believer</a>. He touches on the individual issues. The prominent characteristic being that the rioters are misfits and losers seeking purpose. Being incapable of creating anything useful they choose to destroy. Just like Antifa and BLM.</p>
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