If you were to come up with a simple explanation for the difference between the modern era and the feudal era it would be about rules. The West went through a great transition from the 18th century into the 20th century in which the rules that govern society changed to be both clearer and universal. There were other things that happened during this transition that are important, like industrialization and urbanization, but the big one was the change in the rules.
The feudal age was not without rules. In fact, the feudal age had more rules than even the current age, but the rules were opaque and complex. The line between the law, custom and privilege was never all that clear. Privilege was often the thing that prevailed, even over written laws. Most important, the rules of life were not the same for everyone in feudal society. Feudalism was an interlocking set of rules and customs that governed relations horizontally and vertically.
The changes ushered in with the Enlightenment did two things. One is the separation between law, custom and privilege became formal and clear. The law was a separate body of rules that superseded custom and privilege. The latter was possible only when the law was universal. It applied to everyone. It did not happen overnight, but by the time the West moved into the 20th century, the prevailing morality said that the law must be clear and apply to everyone equally.
This change did not spring from nothing. The feudal order evolved out of necessity and circumstance, without too much thought. No one planned it. The Enlightenment brought along the concept of a planned society. We could consciously organize our societies around a new set of rules. The reason we could do this is the natural world was not some great mystery. Men began to see that the natural world operated by a fixed set of rules that could be understood.
What the philosopher John Locke bequeathed to the world was the notion that we could not only figure out the rules of nature, we could discover the rules of society that best comported with man’s nature. If we can figure out those rules and implement them, we will have a society that allows for the full blossoming of man. The debate since the 18th century has been about the nature of man. Communism, fascism, capitalism, libertarianism and so on are all based on this assumption.
Fast forward to this age and we appear to be in another one of those great transitions in how we look at the rules of society. You can see it in the language. Hardly anyone in power speaks of rights anymore. The term civil rights has morphed into a dog whistle by the race hustlers, stripped of any connection to natural rights. Of course, the systemic assaults on basic rights like assembly and speech are so common now, the repression of these rights and the people exercising them is now normal.
The reason for this is we are transitioning from a society based on rights codified in the law to a society based on privileges based on a terms of service. You get to do things promised in the terms of services, as long as you are compliant with the terms of service, which can change at any time. What we used to think of as rights are now privileges, no different from access to Twitter. You get to do things based on your level of compliance to the current set of rules.
The obvious example is Covid. The remarkable aspect of the Covid panic was just how easily the political and administrative state created new rules and imposed them on people without ever mentioning rights. In fact, it has become fashionable for politicians to mock those who mention rights. They point to community standards, trust and safety, much in the same way we see with internet platforms. Your rights do not count as long as they can claim to be protecting the community.
The other aspect of the terms of service society is that the terms of service are opaque and impossible to understand. To this day no one can explain the term “hate speech” yet it turns up in every terms of service agreement. It is turning up in an informal sense all over society. Men are sent to jail for hate crimes, even though there are few laws defining hate crimes. The concept of “hate” is now a spectral force that no one can explain, but it animates the terms of service of life.
One of things that clarity of the law requires is the clarity of the process. In the before times when the law was supposed to be clear, the process of adjudicating disputes was supposed to be clear as well. In other words, the rules defining the process were supposed to be as clear as the law. In the terms of service society, the process for adjudicating disputes is as mysterious as the rules. No one can explain how Twitter enforces its terms of service, not even Twitter.
The citizen in a rules based society is expected to live within the law, but in return he gets protected by the law. In the feudal order, protection was from the man to whom you pledged loyalty, because privilege transcended the law. In effect, the law was a one-way street that imposed rules on people but offered little protection in return. The liberal order was about making the law clear and reciprocal. Men would follow the law because it was in their interest, as the law was what protected them.
The terms of service society is much closer to the feudal order in that we have a proliferation of rules, but we are not in a rule-based society. Because the rules are always changing and their implementation is dependent on a privileged elite, people cannot depend on the rules at all. Creators on YouTube, for example, spend a lot of time policing their past in order to remain compliant. What matters is not the rules but the whims of the censors.
Another aspect of the terms of service society is that citizenship is no longer a thing that has any value. From the point of view of the people enforcing the terms of service, you are compliant or non-compliant. It is why the French president feels free to terrorize French people over the vaccine. They are non-compliant, so their services from the state have been terminated. This is the new relationship between people and those who rule over them. You are compliant or non-compliant.
It is tempting to think this cannot work, but feudalism carried on for roughly a thousand years before things changed. At least a third of a human population is happy to be treated like a prisoner. For most people, freedom is terrifying. They want to be told what to do and some are happy to have no choices at all. To date, no politician has been hanged for imposing Covid mandates. What the last two years has told our trust and safety councils is they can go much further than they dreamed.
On the other hand, feudalism worked in an age where death from disease, violence and starvation was common. Feudalism was a survival response to the breakdown of order, rather than a replacement for it. The terms of service society can only last if it can actually follow through on the promise to turn society into a giant daycare center. If not, then the terms of service collapses and we have no order at all. Trust and safety, as it were, goes away entirely.
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That’s what doomed the Middle Ages, when it comes right down to it: Delusions of competence. The fighting man who has pledged to defend you is useless if you’ve got a crossbow or an arquebus. The aristocratic administrator who runs the shire on behalf of the king is useless if he can’t read or write (early Medieval version), or if the administrative process is too complex for him to handle (late Medieval). One imagines the arquebus-armed peasantry, and the spreadsheet-armed bureaucracy, having one of those Office Space type conversations with the Knight of the Shire: “What would ya say you do around here?”
I’m quite confident black markets are springing up all over the place to deal with “supply chain” issues, just as everybody everywhere has a sense of which stores have the mask zealots vs. which ones look the other way. When the increasingly incompetent government fails to deliver even the most basic services, local “contractors” will step in to fill the gap. Imagine a whole society organized like the day labor groups outside Home Depot: “Yo necesito dos hombres por el leaf blower,” except “el leaf blower” is now accounting, medicine, beef (as opposed to bugs), skilled work of all kinds…
Fun stuff.
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“Delusions of competence.”
What a perfect description for the current managerial class and their quota hire pets.
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Do the degree samizdat is different from a black market, we are getting plenty of it, too. It is jaw-dropping how quickly we not only became the Soviet Union but adopted its underground survival methods.
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Eloi, look what you started. Our social order is indeed re-organizing.
In Venezuela and Cuba, each block is controlled by a streetcorner boss.
I bet Layabout and Montefrio could tell us more about this rough order.
Me, I remember Victor, the King of the Lumpers.
I’d gone from 3-piece suits in high-rise offices to living in a battered $150 car, on the run from the Pinkertons, lumping for cash.
Lumpers are the street bums who unload freight trucks. You stand in the fog at 2 a.m. and wave down truckers, who pay you cash so they can sleep at the dock.
A fellow street bum took showed me the ropes, which meant an introduction to Victor. He was an old-timer, a lumper who assigned jobs, set the order, and dispensed a rough justice to troublemakers and disputes. His court and office was the fender of his car.
Victor was serious, firm, and fair.
Men who are about their business organize naturally in this way; I’m sure we’ll have a nation of these spontaneous fiefdoms with no need from the experts. In fact, I’m planning on taking advantage of that.
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PS- to illustrate Severian’s point, in LA, at a deadend by the railyards, we have El Real de los Mechanicos, Mechanic’s Street.
Any truck or trailer work you need can be done there. Their shops are vans, their shop floor is the sidewalk. I got my main transaxle replaced, between a guy who was rebuilding an entire trailer floor, and one who was having his engine overhauled.
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Very interesting, Lumpers. First principles say you are right, this will be a natural formation in a vacuum. I can’t help here thinking of the “prequel” to the Godfather movies. Vito Corleone became the “big man” by specifically filling in the gaps left by failure of the State to enforce law and right obvious infractions to societal norms.
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The worst part about this is the mainstream conservative reaction to it. It has always been (and continues to be), “Look at the hypocrisy of the Left.” “If someone on the right had threatened to blow up the White House like Madonna…” “The feminist group M19 literarily attacked the Capitol with bombs, and the Weathermen….” etc.
Someone should tell conservatives that when you point out the hypocrisy of your opponent, all you’re doing is pointing out that they’re more powerful than you. You’re not owning anyone but yourself, and it makes you sound weak. I’m not sure what the solution is, except to wait for the center to collapse then see how things shake out. But I know for a fact pointing out the hypocrisy of the Left, especially to the Left, tickles them pink.
Does anyone think they put someone like Al Sharpton on MSNBC for any reason except to incense any normie who happens along the channel while the oleaginous “reverend,” is smearing his grease across the airways? And they like that Biden is obviously senile. It shows their power.
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Ditto “muh Constitution.” No, Conservatard, it is “our democracy,” and it means whatever we want it to mean.
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I’ve often said that you can’t listen to a typical conservative pundit for 15 minutes before hearing one or more screeds illustrating an example of hypocrisy on the Left. I’ve always considered such a “tell” for a lessor intellect that has no ideas/alternatives to promote. It’s really very boring.
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Which is precisely why “Conservative” media is in freefall and will probably go extinct in the next ten years. When the Mueller “Report” came out, I had no subscription to XM radio and as such I listened to Hannity on the ride home. For almost two months I listened to him scream about this very thing every effing day and the only reason I did is because iHeart radio had purchased just about every station on the FM dial and all the music today absolutely sucks, but I digress.
My subscription was eventually restored and I got back to listening to whatever I wanted to. Around ten months later, I put on The Patriot Channel on the ride home , just to see what was going on and it was like I never turned it off.
This podcast and a few others is all I listen to now. The whole “hypocrisy” thing gets old real fast and is quite the cliché.
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Natural rights and individualism were necessary to capitalism. Not so much for managerialism. Compliant with terms of service is exactly suited for a society under the present regime.
Only problem is, the experts aren’t experting so well.
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Exactly! Capitalism needed protection for property rights etc. By contrast, Managerialism has fused State power with capital: they are now one and the same. The next software update will describe your new set of rights……..
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The experts aren’t experting so well because we’ve passed peak total societal competence.
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The Chinese language uses the same character for “rights” and “political power.” So Mao can be translated as “political rights, flow from the barrel of a gun.”
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Good to see you, TomC. I’d wondered where you’d got off to.
Coincidentally, the full form of the Chinese words for “right” and “power” are also homophones in Mandarin: 權利 and 權力. Makes it easy to be coy when speaking from a position of authority.
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And have no doubt that this “terms of service” society (just like hate crimes) largely pertains to White people only. No jogger, pajeet, tranny, muzzie etc., will ever be held to account in the same way, if at all.
A good example may be the young man back east somewhere who needs a heart transplant asap. But since he remains unvaxed, he is removed from the top of the list and basically condemned to death. The idea that a hospital can apparently get away with something like this with no recourse for the patient and family is breathtaking. We’re not too far from non-compliance meaning concentration camps or firing squads.
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And the sociopathic nurses went online and mocked him
https://tbdailynews.com/brigham-and-womens-nurses-mock-father-being-denied-heart-transplant-because-he-hasnt-taken-covid-vaccine/
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Judas f**king priest.
MSNBC is talking about him at this very moment. Ghouls.
Morning Joe went on an epic rant as the lead up. The EMT ambulances are waiting 6 to 12 hours to get into the ER.
The problem is the unvaxxed, you see. Hospital workers aren’t showing up because they’re afraid of the unvaxxed. Hail Baphomet!
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Check this out. The media so evil that they’re celebrating this guy’s death even though in the article they say he is fully vaxed. He had to be to compete. But he had the wrong opinion once. So that’s the story, not the fact that this fully vaxed healthy athlete died of covid
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/antivax-covid-szilveszter-csollany-hungary-b2000002.html
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Heart transplants, or any transplant, have been denied in the past due to patient specific conditions not being met. For example, a liver transplant being denied to an unreformed alcoholic due to the high risk of cancer and failure in the new liver (IIRC). The one case I remember sometime back was with Mickey Mantle who destroyed his liver through alcoholism and was denied transplant status. Mantle however was famous and that got him back on the list. He got his liver and died several months later from failure. His “new” liver obviously could have gone to a better candidate—but “privilege”.
Now as to being “vexx’d” with an inoculation now admitted/proven in latest current studies to be completely worthless wrt preventing current Covid strains is problematic. But hey, this is clown world where “follow the science” is but a myth told to the rubes. It also seems to me, a lay person, as illogical as the immunosuppressant drugs being used for a heart transplant will inevitably suppress the very system the vexxinne is designed to jack up against Covid.
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I can understand the liver/alcoholic, lung/smoker issue, but this is completely different. As you said, it is a fact this “vax” does not prevent infection, transmission, or anything else, for that matter. Yet the NPCs continue to chant “safe & effective, safe & effective, trust the science…” It’s beyond evil.
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Even worse, the heart-transplant candidate is arguing that taking the vax might kill him (due to the heart swelling). Apparently, this is not enough of a reason to keep him on the list.
The pro-vaxxers are arguing “Post any transplant, kidney, heart whatever, your immune system is shut off … The flu could kill you, a cold could kill you, COVID could kill you. The organs are scarce, we are not going to distribute them to someone who has a poor chance of living when others who are vaccinated have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.”
Well, if a cold can kill you, what’s the difference?
The question of who gets the transplant reflects the politics-as-morality-play more than anything else. Failure to be compliant – even if compliance incurs serious risk – is the deciding factor.
Acute observation vis-a-vis feudalism Z; that’s Eva what the Left/Dems are attempting to install now, a feudal system with themselves as the lords & us rubes as the vassals.
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Everyone knows the definition of hate speech. It’s when a white person says something a POC doesn’t like. That’s it and everyone knows that’s the definition
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If hate speech/crime is assessed by formal charges and prosecution, rather than by reported incidents, then certainly hate speech/crime is only a White thing.
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Social media companies have consistently struggled with A.I. that can detect hate speech for the simple fact that blacks are the most common purveyors of it. Which of course requires the A.I. grant exemptions based on race. Which doesn’t exist in clown world.
If there’s one saving grace, its that our enemies don’t believe in reality.
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“Everyone knows the definition of hate speech. It’s when a white person says something a POC doesn’t like.”
It’s even worse than that. It doesn’t have to be a POC. It can be–and very often is–a white, self-appointed guardian of … well, of everything, really, these days.
It can be–and very often is–some white talking head on some TV network or other. Or a school teacher or preacher or, or, or you-name-it. The watchers and guardians are everywhere and they neither slumber nor sleep.
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Which is to say that as power concentrates in ever fewer hands with ever fewer “checks and balances,” those who exercise power are ever freer to be arbitrary in its exercise. The Church posed some constraint of the arbitrary exercise of feudal power. The new American peasantry has no such universal standard on which to rely in relation to our masters.
Still, the clash of identies, each collective against all as each seeks its advantage of the other, brings ad hoc constraints to bear. It’s the fear and greed trade off: greed to take what I can get balanced by fear of the harm that retaliation might inflict. Even in the past era of rights and rules, privilege was the final arbiter.
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Since Feudalism has really been the dominant system since the dawn of civilization, it’s worth contemplating that modern liberal democracy was just a brief experiment that has failed. (Many historians estimate that 50% of the population east of the Oder were serfs right up to the start of the 30 Years War. All of Latin America was a latifundium. China and Japan were feudal too).
So were just going “back to the future”. Of course, we’re going there without any of the protections of God or custom which featured in feudalism. We shall work the land or our laptops with the Angelus replaced by hip-hop and Tik-Tok ditties. St. George F. shall watch over us………
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And rather than vote harder we’ll need to max out on our compliance injections….
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Connecting dots.
The rule of law is giving way to vague & arbitrary privileges supervised by anonymous oligarchs that enforce their power via shadowy and secondhand acts of coercion. For the persistently non-compliant, the Stasi will step in and persecute you in the finest tradition of the Soviet NKVD.
If you bend the knee or sit on your hands, you get more of the above. If you poke your head up and complain, you get your head chopped off. If you join a militia and attempt to recreate the revolution of 1776, you get arrested because the nominal “leader” was a Stasi undercover operative duping the yokels into playing army in the woods. So what to do?
Smarter, not harder. Disappear, get fit, become anonymous, wait for the fog of chaos, and do the unexpected in all respects. The Stasi cannot guard everything all the time. Fifth Gen warfare is all about stealth, unpredictability, deception, & misdirection. We are all effectively located behind enemy lines and that is no trivial matter. Delivery men and repairmen have free reign to go everywhere and are ignored as if invisible. The Beast is not invincible, and they absolutely don’t want you to know that.
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“The rule of law is giving way … .”
The rule of law does not exist and never has.
Laws are abstractions. They do not enforce themselves. The only physical manifestation of “the law” is ink on paper. They do not enforce themselves.
It is true that that ink and paper might be the finest quality and that those inky pages may be bound in fine calf skin and reposed on mahogany shelves inside marble buildings, but laws do not enforce themselves. They are abstractions, just as “rights” are.
Laws do not enforce themselves. Men rule other men. There is nothing else, nor has there ever been.
We hire and pay a segment of the general population to enforce “the law,” but if those hirelings don’t do that for which they are paid (lookin’ at YOU, James Comey), then there is no law. If they *do* enforce the law, then there *is* law.
But laws do not enforce themselves. Men rule over other men. Period.
Otherwise a first-rate post with first-rate advice.
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What happened to General Michael Flynn is the clearest and most concrete evidence that the Stasi in DC is nothing more than a political thugocracy owned lock, stock, & barrel by the power players that rule from the shadows. You cannot run a successful criminal enterprise without owning the police. And the Gestapo tactics used in the arrests of Manafort and Stone (dawn raids with full SWAT and terrorizing elderly & infirm wives for the sport of it) is despicable beyond words. I sometimes think that the Stasi moniker is too lenient with respect to the betrayal by persons in a position of trust in this country. The original Stasi was composed of true-believers. The current infestation is mostly craven crooks and poseurs hiding behind an wall of arrogance and SWAT assassins.
Read together with yesterday’s WOKE DAWN, this is simultaneously a massive Black Pill and a fantastic analysis of modernity. The mental pushbacks I had against WOKE DAWN pretty well have been eliminated via this installment. Of course this will last until it is no longer tenable and that may be a long time, which seems more likely after reading this. What a dreary, terrifying and electrifying time to be alive.
“What the last two years has told our trust and safety councils is they can go much further than they dreamed.”
Absolutely, and as long as they desire, as you pointed out yesterday, until:
“[T]he terms of service society can only last if it can actually follow through on the promise to turn society into a giant daycare center. If not, then the terms of service collapses and we have no order at all. Trust and safety, as it were, goes away entirely.”
That indeed could last a 1,000 years. Or, and this is the potential White Pill, it could be later today. The universal daycare could come crashing down with an economic collapse and/or major military defeat, and both look as probable as not in the near term. The Rulers have attained what they desire. Can they keep it? Their impulsivity and increasing stupidity still makes that an open question, hence the potential White Pill. So here I am, late in life, hoping for a horrific military humiliation and willing to scrounge for bugs and berries. So even the potential White Pill is a Black Pill.
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With Putin and Lavrov well on their way to calling O’Biden’s bluff I think we’ll see tensions pull back in Ukraine.
No one in the world is impressed with the F-35 crash that injured 7 on the USS Carl Vinson, which is currently deployed to the South China Sea.
People are rapidly realizing the DC regime is a paper tiger, not to be taken seriously.
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Agreed. China and Russia have known for some time the United States is a paper tiger and just want to wait it out. Our problem, here in the belly of the paper tiger, is it will lash out as us as its position economically and militarily recedes throughout the world. Eventually, though, the “United” States will be more or less a loose confederation of polities. As Z pointed out yesterday and today, this could muddle on in its current state a long time barring a catastrophe, which easily could happen.
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I suspect the role of the “afterlife” went a long way to preserving the various feudal systems. Spending 40-50 years as a dirt farmer, knowing your kids have the same lot in life, and their kids too, is moderated by a fancy man singing songs in a language you don’t understand who tells you your reward is in heaven.
I suspect that the breakdown of the belief in a next life where the good and bad will be sorted accordingly may nudge this thing closer to a conclusion more quickly.
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The afterlife has been a staple of just about every civilization at every stage of development. The great experiment of the West is what will happen when this belief disappears, along with the belief that life is worth living at all. Even the utopians who look forward to creating a paradise on earth are losing their faith, seeing value only in extinction itself.
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Well, some think that the lunatic Left are outright evil, and that ruin and chaos are their real end goal.
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2022/01/theyre-demons-they-want-destruction-of.html?m=1
Given that so many lunatic positions contradict each other, or even reality itself, the argument that endless chaos is the point is not out of the question.
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Your understanding of early Christianity needs expanding. Strange looking men “singing” about a beautiful “afterlife” would have gotten the faith nowhere!. Many cultures had a concept of gods and an afterlife. What set the early Christian faith apart was the precept of caring for the worse off in society—an early promotion of a social safety net. In the time when gladiator combat in the colosseum was an acceptable pastime, Christianity was appealing to the masses for its earthly role as well as its spiritual role—perhaps more so.
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Did it start with The Bomb?
One thing the last three generations had looming over their head was the literal end of the world.
Generations before that expected to be as their fathers and grandfathers were. That’s why foreigners don’t have generational divides like Boomer, Gen X, Gen Z, etc. The young’ens grew up expecting to take up their parents’ role.
Nonsense.
The major flaw in your piece is that to run a successful feudal state you had to be strong and smart. Your people had to as well; else you wouldn’t hold your place among your peers. Our current overlords are weak, pathetic and stupid. Joe Biden needs diapers. The managerial class is increasingly comprised of psychotically unhappy women, unqualified vibrants, Every day people tell Twitter and Facebook to take their terms and conditions and go screw – and turn them off for good, or go in search of other platforms. (I strongly recommend Gab).
The current ruling elite are pretty much finished. As you note, they may stagger on for a bit… but you can’t run a country like this. I think a balkanization is in the cards and what happens from there is anyone’s guess. All we can predict for sure is that hard people and hard times are in the immediate future.
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You have a point. Z says that this system could stagger on a long time since the feudal system lasted a thousand years.
No way. A feudal leader’s job was to protect his people from invaders and to keep his own henchmen in check so that the peasants could mostly just live their lives.
Our leaders can’t do either.
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“What the last two years has told our trust and safety councils is they can go much further than they dreamed.”
It’s intriguing to speculate on this statement.
This statement is a bit broad, for these shenanigans were by no means general. There are entire states where “two weeks to flatten the curve” was the entire extent of the whole silly business.
The intriguing part is speculating on why that is so. Did the governors of the free states not try to jerk their populations around because those governors were not lunatics? Or did they not try to abuse their populations because they knew full well that their populations would not tolerate it?
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De Maistre stated that when laws become long, it’s because of an unwritten custom or tradition being forgotten by a people in a society. In other words, the more laws, the larger the cultural degradation. Read the constitution, and it’s apparent there’s a multitude of details and definition that they took for granted would be universally understood. As our culture rotten, so did our ability to communicate clearly. The rule of law is breaking down because the laws have become so strange and self-contradictory, and the laws have become strange and contradictory because there is no common custom or tradition to call down upon.
In a country with not common ancestral and cultural bonds, the only option for the managerial elite is massive social engineering and rule by experts, whether they wear judicial robes, a lab coat, or a business suit, who tell us what the words they use mean, and who is inside and outside of them.
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We let capitalists feed on social capital for so long, Western civilization is collapsing.
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“… the laws have become strange and contradictory because there is no common custom or tradition to call down upon.”
How true, but let’s not forget “regulations”—which have the force of law—in the managerial state. Regulations, even written down, allow a human interpretation that is so vague and arbitrary as to never hold up in the courts. Of course, the bureaucracy has its own lengthy appeals process which rarely can be bypassed before you can have your day in court.
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This is all so true
I don’t think the managerial class gets any bigger psychosexual thrill than being able to tell that someone “access denied” in big bold letters
Or “this page is forbidden!”
The language these websites use to tell someone they simply made a wrong turn has always had a threatening ominous tone about it.
Moral of the story: kill all the former hall monitors
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Revenge of the Nerds was a tragedy, the jocks were the good guys.
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“Your rights do not count as long as they can claim to be protecting the community”.
From a legal perspective, the courts can always rule that arbitrary infringements of a citizen’s rights are consistent with the “general welfare” clause of Article I, section 8 of the U. S. Constitution. This grants Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States.” And we know how much evil people like to do things “legally”. Not lawfully, of course, but, “Hey, what we did was legal!” Anything health or climate related can be interpreted as effecting the “general welfare.” And we thought they were just idiots that had no idea of what they were doing.
“The concept of “hate” is now a spectral force that no one can explain, but it animates the terms of service of life.”
Why, “hate” is the opposite of “love”. Everybody knows that! This is just another consequence of allowing women to vote. In a patriarchal system, hate is just as valid as love. In a matriarchal system, “love” always wins, even when it destroys the system by which society functions.
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“Public health,” has proven to be a far more effective legal cudgel than, “climate change.
We may see them pivot back to, “national security,” depending on how Ukraine plays out.
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No, they’ll stick with public health. They’ll just define everything under that banner.
Climate change will be described in public health terms. Racism/hate speech harms the mental health of blacks. Etc.
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Ukrainians unhappy with their US-installed puppet government drop by their legislature:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-ukrainians-attempt-storm-parliament-building
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“Your rights do not count as long as they can claim to be protecting the community.”
That’s when I knew it was over, at least regarding Covid and, really, going forward. Our rulers had found their moral loophole to the rule of law. So long as they could say that your right to whatever hurt the community, you lost that right.
Don’t want to wear a mask or get vaccinated. Too bad. You could hurt others, so you lose those rights. (Btw, the facts don’t matter or, at least, can be obfuscated enough not to matter.)
This protection against you harming others will be the basis going forward.
Want to drive a gas-engine car. Too bad. It hurts the climate, so you’ve lost that right.
Want to live around other whites. Too bad. It hurts blacks, so you’ve lost the right to free association.
Etc., etc., etc.
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Here in Canada, “emergency” rules supersede any rights given to us by the “constitution.” It is why the federal and provincial (especially provincial) governments keep extending their emergency orders.
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“Emergency” even lets them use drugs on us that aren’t FDA approved. Emergency Use Authorization.
And what are the emergency rules based upon? The safety of the community.
The community now has precedence over the individual. Sound familiar?
Another difference is the Catholic Church was deeply intertwined with feudal society, and to some extent helped create it after the fall of Rome, especially through the Benedictine monasteries. But today the Church hardly is involved at all, still mired in its post-Vatican II funk, with the current pontiff trying to get rid of its most faithful and growing membership, traditional Catholics.
“The debate since the 18th century has been about the nature of man. Communism, fascism, capitalism, libertarianism and so on are all based on this assumption.”
However, this is not the case with the postmodernism that rules the West’s intellectual roost, and has done so since the 80s. The farthest the pomos will go regarding human nature is to say that all peoples are linguistically structured. What they mean by this is that the reality of every linguistic group or culture is ordered and defined by the language they use. What’s more, different cultures cannot comprehend the thought-world of one another. People can learn different languages, but they cannot understand the reality of people who were born into other linguistic groups.
Radical relativism naturally flows from this postulate. If peoples cannot truly understand one another, then there can be no universal standards of right and wrong, good and evil, beautiful and ugly. Our realities and our values are so different that we might as well be different species. In a theoretical construct such as this, it’s hard to see where a common human nature exists.
PS–The belief that language structures reality explains why Leftists censor, de-platform and control language so monomaniacally. They believe that by preventing whites from uttering the unspeakable, and in turn, by enveloping whites in a miasma of anti-white/pro-black signs and symbols, white consciousness can be subverted and we will become subservient to blacks.
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To set the record straight on rights:
1). Rights never really did exist. Only what the people, alive today, will accept from their authorities, and this is always changing like a Kaleidoscope.
2). There is especially no such thing as a “God given right” as conservatards say. God may know every sparrow that falls to the ground, but he leaves them there to die. Christianity especially does not claim this even remotely. Paul himself, many times quoting Jesus, told us basically we have to eat sh t in this hell-scape, but don’t worry, we’ll get to heaven and they won’t.
3). The enlightenment created great things, but it also created a new conceit as to the perfectibility of man, which is a lie. The Catholic Church, which I despise, was actually the last hold out against this lie until the 20th Century, never let it be said that I didn’t say something nice about them.
4). The state grew from the designs of Victorian era punks to bring about the full ambitious project of man’s perfectibility. The project having sprung into action at the dawn of the 20th Century.
5). As the state grew, it smothered all true free thinking. We look to the 1950’s as the pinnacle of what it could do, but each generation has been more boring and tedious than the next. The land is barren of original thought and in its place we have a secular theology, with politicians, and “experts” like Fauci as the new clergy.
6) The state, now a dysfunctional behemoth, will fail, the experts will be shown as liars and frauds, and all the promises of this secular theology will be obliterated. A newly poor population will see the this clergy and its secular theology as the god that failed.