The fatal flaw of Western Liberalism, is the selling by the elite class to the masses, of tolerance as the ultimate civilizational virtue. By convincing people to tolerate the intolerant you blind them in their ability to make the friend/enemy distinction until it’s too late to resist. The 2024 elections taking place across the West are the end of something, without a clear vision of what comes next, other than a possible period of anarcho-tyranny until the political/cultural sorting shakes out the new order of things.
I think most Western nations are too fractured from mass immigration to continue.
It amazes me people, especially women, think a country or nation can absorb anyone when the world is clearly made up of quite different people.
I agree this year feels like the end. I suspect this is the end of the west and from here on out it is kill or be killed. That is the inevitable outcome of liberalism, the ushering in of illiberalism.
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning."
- Louis L'Amour
“Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!”
Good summary. The effect is that liberalism identifies new wars to be fought, passes tyranical laws and raises new taxes to fight it, creating massive bureaucacies, all of which only makes the problem worse. Then declares that we need more draconian laws, more taxes, greater bureaucracies and more centralized state power to fight the problem it invented and made worse. Nice rackett.
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The fatal flaw of Western Liberalism, is the selling by the elite class to the masses, of tolerance as the ultimate civilizational virtue. By convincing people to tolerate the intolerant you blind them in their ability to make the friend/enemy distinction until it’s too late to resist. The 2024 elections taking place across the West are the end of something, without a clear vision of what comes next, other than a possible period of anarcho-tyranny until the political/cultural sorting shakes out the new order of things.
I think most Western nations are too fractured from mass immigration to continue.
It amazes me people, especially women, think a country or nation can absorb anyone when the world is clearly made up of quite different people.
I agree this year feels like the end. I suspect this is the end of the west and from here on out it is kill or be killed. That is the inevitable outcome of liberalism, the ushering in of illiberalism.
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning."
- Louis L'Amour
“Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Hate what liberalism has done to our civilizations, and this is why I wrote the article that I wrote the other day.
Good summary. The effect is that liberalism identifies new wars to be fought, passes tyranical laws and raises new taxes to fight it, creating massive bureaucacies, all of which only makes the problem worse. Then declares that we need more draconian laws, more taxes, greater bureaucracies and more centralized state power to fight the problem it invented and made worse. Nice rackett.
This is interesting but you really need to proof-read your work:
“Likewise, because usury was limited belligerents had reality small sums of money to fund their armies.”
There’s other examples too. I like your work, I’m just giving constructive feedback; also your podcast is wonderful!
What makes a friend and what makes an enemy?
Your episode with CJ Engel on rights and liberalism was one of the best podcasts episodes I have heard from the NRX.
If I may request future speakers:
Morgath (again) and John Sweeney from ScrumpMonkey
Idk. Any mutual aid society eventually finds politics when things get not mutual. An imaginary friend or an imaginary community is a matter of scale.