The main difference in form between a liberal democracy and a republic is that the latter is defined by a fixed set of rules. The former, in contrast, is formless as it is defined by the will of fifty percent plus one. The republic has clearly defined roles for itself, including limits on its power. In a liberal democracy, there are no limits, because truth itself is just a simple majority, so the roles and limits of the liberal democracy are whatever the people want at the moment.
When the truth is defined by the majority of the mob, this must inevitably lead to chaos, as we can no longer live in a world of fixed rules. Present experience suggests that rules themselves are seen as the enemy in a liberal democracy. We see this in the language used by the most pious of liberal democrats. They want to disrupt the status quo, break barriers and open everything up to the world. The end of this project is never mentioned, as it does not matter. They just like smashing things.
We see this most clearly in the transformation of the mass media. A generation ago the core of the media was a tool of the ruling class, but it had lots of tentacles that functioned as a check on the ruling class. There was a relationship between the media and the ruling class. The media could be very useful in promoting the interests of the ruling class, but it could also turn on its masters. The media needed to maintain some distance as the fourth estate in the republic.
That old set of arrangements are gone now. Today, the media operates like the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution in Iran. Their job is to hunt for heretics and witches, which they currently call white nationalists. Whether real or imaginary, they exist to root out these evil doers and expose them to the world. They have lots of names for these evil doers, but white nationalist is the official name, the one they chant when they seek to summon forth the arch demon of their faith.
In present day America, being a white nationalist is just about the worst thing you can be, as it includes all of the worst heresies of the age. It means primarily that you hate all of the things a good person is supposed to love. If you are accused of being a white nationalist, whether you are one or not, you are subject to the worst punishments we currently have now. You can be proscribed. This is a form of internal banishment in which you are treated as a pariah by society.
White nationalists don’t like this for two reasons. One is that they don’t think there is anything immoral about being a white nationalist. They point out that black nationalists do not suffer from this moral prohibition. Jewish nationalists are celebrated. The other reason white nationalist object to the current use of the label is they correctly point out that the definition used by our betters is a lie. White nationalism is just nationalism for white people, not a bundle of hatreds against others.
None of this matters, as the accusation is enough to cause real harm to the life of the person accused of being a white nationalist. This is why VDare sued the New York Times last year. If the label sticks, it basically places the accused outside legal protection, which at this time is limited to financial and cyber-attacks, but in the near future it may include physical attacks as well. How long before “he was a white nationalist” is a justification for intentional homicide?
Now, the VDare case was dismissed and in that dismissal we get a glimpse of why the truth has no place in a liberal democracy. The Times, you see, never accused Brimelow and VDare of being heretics. They repeated the claims made by others. This is how the game is played. A pipsqueak outfit like the Daily Beast circulates the accusation and then it is repeated by a major publication. The Times just has to pretend they are reporting the charge and they get away with libel.
This sleight of hand turns up all over the media. Mark Steyn, in his often amusing deposition in the Michael Mann case, pointed out that National Review is now claiming they are not a publisher. You see, because they allow highly filtered and censored comments, they now qualify as a public platform. They are protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This means they are free to libel anyone they like as long as there are some comments allowed on the post.
Of course, the big social media players have been exploiting this new truth for a long time now. They do all of the things that a publisher would do, like promote content, edit content and block content, but that is now proof that they are not a publisher. For example, they accuse rivals of having malware on their sites by posting warnings to their links. If you click the BitChute link in this tweet, for example, you are given a warning about BitChute’s shady technology practices.
What’s happened to the media in America is the result of living in a world where the truth is fifty percent plus one. In a world where the truth is defined by a majority, all the incentives shift from truth telling to persuasion. Facts become sparingly used props in the argument to persuade the public. Facts are sprinkled in to give the argument authenticity in order to trick the audience. The truth is therefore defined by who wins the argument and winning by any means necessary is now a virtue.
We now live in an age in which we are awash in mass media, but the only truth is that nothing in the media is true. Even provable fact is positioned as to be in service to some lie aimed at deceiving the public. Of course, a world without truth is a world without rules, which is a world without limits. Anyone can do anything to anybody if they can convince a simple majority of it. The law, which is about limits, ceases to exist because in a world where everything is possible, there can be no limits.
Perversely, every new law, every new effort to limit the assault on truth becomes a weapon against the truth. We see that with Section 230. A law to place limits on these platforms and their potential opponents, is now a license for the platforms and their former adversaries to wage war on the truth. The mass media is a defamation machine in service to the most gifted liars in society. Liberal democracy has become a theocracy in which the lie is the god and truth is Satan.
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“Of course, a world without truth is a world without rules, which is a world without limits.”
I cannot think of a better world for the wokeist to inhabit. After being fed years of ‘You can do anything!’ and ‘You can be anything you want!’ it’ll set their hearts ablaze. Then reality will intervene; well, at least for the ones lower down the ‘Totem of The Tolerant’.
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“When a man lies he murders some part of the world”
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And very quickly, “White nationalists” will be conflated with gun owners/ NRA members and vaccine skeptics among others. Second class citizenry will only be the beginning if this s*** isn’t soon nipped in the bud.
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They already do. I go on Reddit and there seems to be many characteristics they lump together as white nationalist or evil person:
– lockdown skeptic/anti covid vax
– trump voter
– climate skeptic
– evangelical Christian
– pro life
– gun owner / nra member
– living in a trailer park
Everybody who has some of those position is a meth addict living in a trailer park spouting conspiracy theories and hating black people. They clearly have no idea who “conservatives” are, let alone “white nationalists”.
Anyways, all these people are clearly pencilled in for genocide whether they are racist or not, would be nice if some took notice.
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To be fair, this is probably a half decent tactic. I use the same one. I am deeply skeptical of the whole MSM push of climate change, for example. But I am interested in amateur meteorology – facts! However: it does seem that most climate hysterics (even climate ‘normals’) are wokeist scum. I hate wokeist scum. Therefore it seems to be good practice to avoid most of these types.
Battle lines have been drawn, I suppose. Here we go again. As I have said to many a climate hysteric: “We’ve got a shed load of problems more imminent than that”.
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As with most totalitarian societies, truth is viewed as an existential threat here and is met with opprobrium, oppression and often violence. It was utterly predictable mass communications would be used to oppress. In fact, by the Fifties German nobleman and author Ernst Junger said the United States had become a totalitarian hellhole (Counter Currents alluded to this recently) due to its mastery of radio and television. Even he, to my memory, did not predict the media would transition from propaganda to chief censor.
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Der Sturmer was a weekly church newsletter compared to what I’m seeing now in the MSM.
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It’s a shame they had to pack up. Great cartoons.
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
Secret strength.
Your real superpower is a vanilla life well lived. Work hard. Pay your bills. Avoid controversy. Have predictable routines. Be devoid of publicly expressed opinions. Become a high school sports booster, buy Girl Scout cookies, help your neighbors, & occasionally volunteer for community service projects. Disappear into the ordinary and become reliably bland. The ideal man in this Brave New World is the competent cable installer that is ubiquitous & utterly ignored. Free range, aware, silent, and prepared. And all of above is actually very hard work that requires intelligence and dedication. Take it seriously. Your day will come. Probably sooner than you think.
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“The ideal man in this Brave New World is the competent cable installer that is ubiquitous & utterly ignored. Free range, aware, silent, and prepared.”
having to squeeze oneself into a stereotype is piece of shit life, maybe we don’t wanna fix cable and toilets for a living.
Any competent person should consider he’s being denied a good future because of some neo marxist zionist conspirators with a jogger fetish. Objectively speaking what’s the point of being a second lass citizen in your own country? There isn’t any.
People ought to seek out revenge, not cooperate with the enemy.
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First, lots of men make an honest living as cable installers and should not denigrated for it. Second, it was an example, not a mandate. Do whatever suites you, just endeavor to be invisible to the Stasi. Third, many cable installers are independent contractors and more than few are covert operatives that use their anonymity & access to homes/offices to install stealth monitoring equipment with direct access to the internet & concomitant ability to transit encrypted signals to any point on the globe in real-time. Not a trivial capability.
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Excellent.
FFS – I am so sick of mealy mouthed morons posing as dissidents. The open up with “I am not condoning or encouraging violence, but….”
Or, “The best course of action is to become The Grey Man…”
Read a bloody history book. When these guys get rolling, they start mass murdering people. They knowingly purge and murder innocent people to score political points. This is what victim and woke politics is all about: dispensing with people LIKE YOU. You may very well be active in community events, charities and harmless social groups. They will eat guys like you for lunch. Listen to them – dirt people like you can oppress and humiliate billionaires like Orca Winfrey. Or the millionaire black baboons that kneel for the national anthem. Your math is racist. Your science is racist. Your entire culture is racist. Blacks cannot possibly succeed because of evil white bastards like Mr. Rogers and Ned Flanders. Niggered gang bangers like George Floyd aren’t criminals, they’re heroes.
Get your head around it. Yes, these lunatics are Going There. They are not going to stop now, they are going to have to be stopped, probably with bloodshed. If they are not, it will be your blood that is shed. And that of your families and communities as well.
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Would it be fair to say your ideal is the Asian way of life?
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The leadership of the Stasi wants you to paint a target on your back and walk into their cross-hairs. That means they don’t have to work very hard to dispose of the vermin. Why make it easy for them?
No, it’s not about being Asian. It’s about staying alive. You can’t fight back from a prison cell, detention camp, or the grave.
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Don’t buy Girl Scout cookies; Girl Scouts supports abortion & leftist causes.
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You beat me to it.
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For crying out loud. We’re not at war with adolescent girls or even their useful idiot mothers. We’ve got much bigger fish to fry than throwing down with children.
Some Dead White Guy (boo! hiss!!) addressed this a while back. Note the word “may” in the last line — our totally legitimate, not at all fraudulent regime seems to be betting the farm on it: “It is necessary…to inquire whether these innovators can rely on themselves or have to depend on others: that is to say, whether, to consummate their enterprise, have they to use prayers or can they use force? In the first instance they always succeed badly, and never compass anything; but when they can rely on themselves and use force, then they are rarely endangered. Hence it is that all armed prophets have conquered, and the unarmed ones have been destroyed. Besides the reasons mentioned, the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion. And thus it is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.”
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Yeah, but the problem with this analysis is that “liberal democracy” these days is *not* ruled by fifty percent plus one. If that were actually the case, we’d probably still be okay. Instead, LD now means the imposition by administrative fiat and judicial decision of certain “human rights” that were never considered such previously and are routinely inimical to the will of the electorate. Did anybody vote for gay rights or mass immigration? No, those were imposed by court rulings and the intentional decision in Washington and elsewhere to abandon any enforcement of the actual laws pertaining to immigration.
We should be so lucky as to have rule by fifty percent plus one.
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This is something that I thought about while writing the post. It needs a post of its own, but I agree with you that we are in fact ruled by a narrow minority.
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It’s possible that you conflated the “manufactured consent” machine of the Media, which you describe so well in the essay, with the peculiar weakness of LD (50%+1). These are two separate phenomena, but of course the interplay between them is crucially important.
It’s true as Eye of Sauron observes above that we’d be better off if the 50%+1 actually had been in effect. But that doesn’t negate your important point that a Republic is all about constraints, limits and protections for the 1-(50%+1). 50%+1 can end up anywhere the “manufactured consent” machine takes it.
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We are a ruled by a minority, but they pretend they are championing 50%+1. See Bloomberg, worth $60 billion, funding Stacey Abrams’ “voting rights” scams.
The thing I get hung up on though is although, say, 50+1 wouldn’t vote for open borders if given a direct vote, 50+1 also don’t care enough about it to do much of anything.
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It’s the combination of liberal democracy with representative government. Nobody voted for all that, but each of the representatives was elected by 50+1, and each of the judges was appointed by someone who was elected by 50+1 — so we’re supposed to accept what they do as legitimate. What is missing is the restraint on power. Under the republic, most of these things were never within the power allowed to the government.
But over time, they discovered that the more they ignored the limits, the less penalty there was for doing so.
“When the truth is defined by the majority of the mob, this must inevitably lead to chaos, as we can no longer live in a world of fixed rules. Present experience suggests that rules themselves are seen as the enemy in a liberal democracy. We see this in the language used by the most pious of liberal democrats.”
“The law, which is about limits, ceases to exist because in a world where everything is possible, there can be no limits.”
I’m just getting into Game Theory. One concept I was chewing on yesterday: top competition always takes place at the limits of the rules. You are going to skirt the rules just enough as will be allowed. The problem is, in a closed procedural system (a game), if one side starts to cheat and is allowed to get away with it, that cheating becomes a new vector of the game, a new rule unto itself. The other side, the cheater’s opponent, will now either have to cheat or essentially lose every time.
“Cheating” becomes its own rule of sorts. Cheating isn’t cheating if you don’t get caught.
That’s effectively where we are now. We are in a game. The game is rigged. There are rules, but they are constantly changing so that a certain side always loses. Furthermore, one side is allowed to cheat. They are not policed. While the other side either refuses to cheat, or else is policed extremely hard. I’m not sure what choice we have left but to create our own game with our own set of rules. We can pretend we are participating in the game, but really, we are concerned with constructing our own one.
We aren’t going to win in this game. We won’t be allowed to. That’s basically the only rule of the game at this point.
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All true. Now mentally step across the fence and think as if you were in charge of the cabal. You hold all the levers of power, you enrich yourself at will, & you understand that the price of losing power is the guillotine. What’s your strategy?
Hide behind the illusion of a functioning democracy. Keep the plebs fighting among themselves. Own the police & immediately kill off any hint of rebellion. If a real leader arises in the resistance, buy them off, or make examples of any non-compliant heretics by burning them at the stake. You play for keeps while enticing the opposition to play by the illusion of rules.
This is the landscape of the coming battles. Start there.
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The guillotine needs to come before the people in charge have a chance to react.
Theoretically, of course.
Left out of your game analogy is the situation where the cowboys throw down their cards in disgust, and start shooting.
Cheating is great if you are strong and have enough bullies at your back to make sure you get away with it. But look at “the bullies” we have now: the bullies are faggots, cat ladies, soi bois, elderly degenerates and doddering fools. The red pilling now is reaching exponential growth. The second the normie masses discover the weakness of their opponents and rulers, it’s all over. There’s a reason they are cowering behind tanks and barbed wire in the nation’s capital.
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Better still is the anvil falling through the ceiling to crush the skull of the cheater. Who saw that coming?
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I think it should be the truth is luciferian because our elites seem to want be gods. Though it does appear that the efficiency and speed of all the interlocking parts that are precipitating is global takeover does have to be the result of a preternatural intelligence so Satan’s a likely choice. And John did predict it a couple Millennia ago.
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John’s work was interesting because it is amazing to read a Christian predict that Christianity would fail. I don’t think there is another religion that had that insight.
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BTP,
You mentioned John predicting Christianity would fail. Is that the Book of Revelation or is it something else you’re getting at?
(Thanks in advance.)
50 plus one in the court system: daytime tee-vee is playing non-stop, across all channels, the “Evil White Cop Murders Gentle Giant” show.
Not sure what they will do for season two, after they throw the contestant in a volcano.
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Rinse, lather, repeat. Given the high number of encounters blacks have with police, and their propensity to violently resist arrest, there will always be plenty of content to keep the scam going.
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Your penultimate paragraph stands out to me. It makes me think that most of us would be happier – and most certainly the wokeist – in a rigid hierarchy. The falseness of democracy is almost too cruel to believe; telling the folk that they can change the course of things. Giving them a say in immensely complicated issues like climate change or geeing them up over oil, fracking, veganism or whatever you fancy only for them to peep behind the veil to see they’ve been had. Mind you, that most don’t even want to peep behind the veil makes them fit for serfdom. They would be happier. Someone mentioned it yesterday that many of these people do seem to hate what few freedoms they have left.
I really think that plenty of this stems from the sheer comfort such people enjoy now. Many never even take the trouble to consider the immense work, hardship, death, ingenuity and disease that went into building what they have. Years ago we’d have scholars who would consider this very deeply. Many of them were also our politicians and they did seem to take things like people’s liberty quite seriously. Now, freedom is no doubt seen by a lot of people as something to be sneered at. Freedom (or at least freedoms) will be called ‘white supremacy’ soon.
The bright side to our crummy social experiment is that if voting is to be allowed at all, then we know it must only extend to a subset of people. We also have some idea of how such a subset could be decided: race, property ownership, employment, standing in local community, sex. Although it is also interesting to point out that this, even applied now, would not exclude ‘woke males’. Even with my half arsed reasoning, I can see how hard it is to build a Utopia. So I doubt a dumber wokeist has much chance.
It is all a man can do at this time to stay sane, raise a family, and try to network as much as possible. There’s too much choice, old son. And we know too much.
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I’d find a rigid hierarchy just as distasteful. You get a lot of scumbags who find Jesus and get a promotion
I’d prefer a monarchy and return to the aristocracy tbh. But then I’m a little biased.
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monarchy or not, the people in charge better be martial people, I’m sick of woman/non-whites panderers and safety concerned dorks.
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On a lot of issues, we would be better off if the people in charge in Washington paid attention to the 50 percent + 1 and more. On immigration, trade and manufacturing, they’ve always ignored the will of the people. Poll after poll showed that the vast majority of Americans didn’t want to be flooded with foreigners and didn’t want to see the industrial base hollowed out. Today I don’t see where the plus 50 percent want boys pretending to be girls playing girls’ sports or supporting forever war on the other side of the globe.
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That was my thought, maybe 50+1 of the nomenklatura with the media just running cover after the fact for that 50+1. (As like true propagandists, our “media” doesn’t lead, it follows, like the good dog that it is).
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Another legacy item from the Clinton days
I remember distinctly then that his “people” were always on the airwaves making the claim that what matters is perception — perception is truth.
Clinton lived by it, a little trick he learned in the academe
It was essentially a world of sleazy lawyers remaking the world in their image where truth is the winning argument by any means necessary
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The old word for this is chaos. Take a look at origin myths and they are all about bringing order to chaos. Even the story of Noah is simply that the people become so wicked and unconstrained that absolute chaos consumes everything, which is, of course, the punishment that comes from living in opposition to the truth.
In the OT, the idea was that chaos was almost entirely complete, and that it was the establishment of religion that emerged from the end of all things, religion being the means by which chaos is averted and order assumed.
Of course, the Aztec built a religious order from chaos, too. Theirs required industrial levels of human sacrifice.
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??? Where did my comment go?
They are still around:
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