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Americans used to love freedom. Now Americans say they want to be pushed into ovens by government agents.

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@h4890 @freepatriot

I think it's the DKE all the way down.

Some can understand more than others, and therefore can use the tools for understanding.

In the hands of the rest, the tools become bullshit generators!

@evillarry @freepatriot But older and with fewer wrinkles

@h4890 @freepatriot

This is cynical, but I think actual philosophy shifted over to literature as the academic version became encrusted.

@monarchist @freepatriot one that comes to mind. His style of writing is short and to the point. And you do get the feeling that there is depth, although I find him more difficult to understand than Nietzsche and his writing is of course more dry and technical.

@freepatriot eat right live right die anyway

@freepatriot

...but democracy is a disaster.

Well, on one hand there are those modern scholars, mostly of the Mises Institute, who think the Sons of Liberty arrived at the American system precisely because it wasn't fully democratic but slightly closer to the chevalier culture of Virginia, promoting the idea of extraordinary gentlemen of fine breeding being called to serve their communities in good faith. On the other hand we, just like Jefferson and his compatriots, are products of our time, and what we, or more specifically I, associate with the word republic is a cabal of violent tyrants in a faraway capital city who can exercise any type and amount of power over me, my family, and my "property" at any given time without fear of consequences, whereas back then, most of them, except Alexander "Cesar" Hamilton, would've thought of a republic as something of an extension of their estates, helping to defend their life, liberty, and properties against the likes of the Kings of England, France, and Spain. And democracy to them would likely simply have been the absence of aristocracy while I think of it as the de facto absolute tyranny of the 50%+1 over the 50%-1, but de iure direct votes on the most important issues that concern everyone while maintaining everyone's individual liberty.

Now that I've written all of the down, I think that maybe the terms democracy and republic aren't so different after all, both imply that I have no right to manage my own affairs and can legally be called upon to give up any good or render any service at any time someone whom I don't know personally so chooses. 🤔

So in conclusion Anarchism - being the absence of institutionalized coercion and legal initiation of violence - is neither democractic nor republican as defined above and I therefore deem it a necessary prerequisite to personal liberty and peaceful and voluntary cooperation.

If you define yourself into choas as order, you will find no order in choas.

A one-liner is a reduction for those who use many words to explain simple concepts. A mother has a definition. Liberty, on the other hand, lacks the distinction: http://jbschirtzinger.beiteshelpublications.org/2025/07/14/replacementtheology/

@monarchist @freepatriot Well, that would be a charitable interpretation. I am not at all certain that that is what buddhists actually mean when they talk about life as suffering. But suffering now, can lead to good things later, so not all suffering is bad either.

As you surely know... what doesn't kill me makes me stronger! ;)

@monarchist @freepatriot At one level, it is entirely true. We are biological creatures, so everything is ultimately determined by our DNA, but in terms of _potential_. It's like the hard limit.

Within that, we have mental techniques, study techniques, mnemonics, IT, technology etc. that allow us to reach more and more of that potential, and depending on the topic, technology can actually expand on our biological hard limits, for instance, when it comes to how much information we can store.

Well, if we're reduced to one-liners: "Liberty - not the daughter but the mother of order"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/11/what-happened-to-our-moral-compass/

@monarchist @freepatriot Exactly. That's the thing, if you look at the actions/consequences, it quicky becomes meaningless.