Comments on: Fully enlightened means fully disenchanted

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:32:53 +0000

Jim, I agree the Founding Fathers thought factions were really bad. But political parties are not factions. Just competing crooks. “I Seen My Opportunities And I Took Them.”

Not factions in civil war, just competing crooks. That’s fine; it’s the best humanly imaginable. When one party grabs all the pork and junks the Bill of Rights, that’s bad.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:28:13 +0000

T. Beholder,

Dealer’s choice. History is, after all, dialectical.

To clarify, it’s not so much a recommendation as a description. Though I have had some rather distressing news as of late, which may be throwing off the balance of my comments.

I may try and refrain until things once again reach equilibrium…

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:34:34 +0000

Phileas Frogg says:

[O]n occasion you DO need to, “…bayonet all of the professors and throw them in ditches.”

Not literally mind you, but metaphorically, with some literal examples early on to fire the imagination.

Also known as Cultural Revolution.

Christian’s didn’t just co-opt the Roman state, we…

Which “we” would this be? I think Mark Twain had a classification…

…DEFACED IT UTTERLY AND HUMILIATED WHAT HAD BEEN IT’S BASIS.

Until we can enact a similar program on the secularists and their institutions, we have no chance at a true revival.

What’s cool about this post: it’s impossible to tell whether it’s

A. behind the mainstream totally-not-Puritanism? It perfectly fits in the “much retro” posturing of the conservatives trying to fit a caricature made by their enemies, or

B. ahead of it? It perfectly fits with the radicals consistently treating all their predecessor movements this way (both due to power grabs and trying to run away on the euphemism treadmill), and now it’s the turn of..?

Thus, exactly half a loop away.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:59:49 +0000

What Yarvin misses, by practical necessity due to the inherent tendency of all life towards self-preservation, is that on occasion you DO need to, “…bayonet all of the professors and throw them in ditches.”

Not literally mind you, but metaphorically, with some literal examples early on to fire the imagination.

Christian’s didn’t just co-opt the Roman state, we DEFACED IT UTTERLY AND HUMILIATED WHAT HAD BEEN IT’S BASIS. Until we can enact a similar program on the secularists and their institutions, we have no chance at a true revival.

Until we can do this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLiwd_5a8AYPO0u.jpg

to the gay pride flags and the abortion clinics, and the pornographic sites, and the books of Darwin, and the statues of their saints of secular liberalism, we aren’t done yet.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:45:21 +0000

I watched the interview (at 2X). Yarvin is hitting his stride.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:37:37 +0000

And by “American founding races”, I mean, of course, the patchwork of highly distinct white races from the British Isles settled in North America between 1620 and 1776.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:35:40 +0000

The Founding Fathers would’ve said that a two-party state is a state of failure. Judging by the profound pharasaism vis-à-vis the several constitutions and the generation-over-generation bodily replacement of the posterity of the American founding races, success is a poorly supported claim.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:04:54 +0000

This is twaddle, but it’s true that the fail state of a two-party system with a bill of rights is when one party wins and crushes the bill of rights. Like the D party since 1932. Call it fascism or sparkling one-party state, same difference.