Excellent, incisive commentary that tackles the sacred cow of modern political discourse, i.e. the shibboleth of liberal democracy, daring to broach the possibility that there lies a metaphysical cankerworm at its very heart. A very unfashionable position, but one that will become more and more compelling, I believe, as modernity comes apart at the seams and reveals ever more starkly its ugly underbelly, its apocalyptically dysfunctional, demonic élan. Your musings are a welcome tonic and remind me of works like Legutko's The Demon in Democracy.
Iroquois saved Pilgrims' lives and >big p harm a> wasn't there PINE NEEDLES CURE TOO & The Republic was begun too >>modeled after Iroquois' REPUBLIC functioning quite smoothly
Good stuff, great info. Why articles like these are not everywhere is beyond me. Hate to break it to you, but Covid started in March 2020. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
I read The End of the Modern World. Guardini’s prophesies are meant for this moment now. Thank you for the recommendation. Sapientiae Christianae is a motivating coupler.
Hypodermic Union.
Is the needle really sharper than a two-edged sword?
The battleground is the very conscience of man, and there are gateways being opened left and right subverting, re-ordering and inverting the concepts of power and authority. The good news is that we can see everything working really, really well together badly. That means it’ll also work properly if operated as such, and we’re being shown where the gates are and who the keepers are. All the stuff you noted above is so hard to change specifically because the ideologies are based on falsity, but they inhabit functional mechanisms. City of God must conquer the City of Man by sanctifying the system. They will never survive if things work right properly. It’s literally impossible.
One man upset the power of the whole word before. He’s still here. What’s his next power move? Power over power.
“Democracy” is NOT what our Founding Fathers set up for us either. They gave us a Constitutional Republic, where the will of the people is supposed to be carried out by our public servants and representatives. But the people are now deceived into believing the delusion that “Democracy” will give “power to the people,” and that Socialism will bring about equality for all. So many are just CLUELESS. Meanwhile, our Constitutional Republic is now on life support and our nation’s capitol has become a swamp full of opportunists, shady back-room deals and lawlessness.
Thomas Paine said, “A Democracy is the vilest form of Government there is.” If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation’s two most fundamental documents, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. It’s Congress that poses the greatest threat to our liberties. The framers’ distrust is seen in the negative language of our Bill of Rights such as: Congress “shall not abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, and (rights) shall not be violated, nor be denied.”
America is a Representative Republic, Not a Democracy..
The word “Democracy” never entered the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States. The United States is not a democracy, and our founders used strong words to make clear that their nation should never become one.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long; it soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” (1814) John Adams
Because if we shifted the rest of the way into democracy things would be much worse economically and that would not be the worst of it. The worst would be that we would completely lose our God-given rights to life, liberty, and property.
Excellent, incisive commentary that tackles the sacred cow of modern political discourse, i.e. the shibboleth of liberal democracy, daring to broach the possibility that there lies a metaphysical cankerworm at its very heart. A very unfashionable position, but one that will become more and more compelling, I believe, as modernity comes apart at the seams and reveals ever more starkly its ugly underbelly, its apocalyptically dysfunctional, demonic élan. Your musings are a welcome tonic and remind me of works like Legutko's The Demon in Democracy.
So much food for thought here, I loved this.
Iroquois saved Pilgrims' lives and >big p harm a> wasn't there PINE NEEDLES CURE TOO & The Republic was begun too >>modeled after Iroquois' REPUBLIC functioning quite smoothly
Brilliant writing TY & LewRockwell too!!!
Good stuff, great info. Why articles like these are not everywhere is beyond me. Hate to break it to you, but Covid started in March 2020. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
I read The End of the Modern World. Guardini’s prophesies are meant for this moment now. Thank you for the recommendation. Sapientiae Christianae is a motivating coupler.
Hypodermic Union.
Is the needle really sharper than a two-edged sword?
The battleground is the very conscience of man, and there are gateways being opened left and right subverting, re-ordering and inverting the concepts of power and authority. The good news is that we can see everything working really, really well together badly. That means it’ll also work properly if operated as such, and we’re being shown where the gates are and who the keepers are. All the stuff you noted above is so hard to change specifically because the ideologies are based on falsity, but they inhabit functional mechanisms. City of God must conquer the City of Man by sanctifying the system. They will never survive if things work right properly. It’s literally impossible.
One man upset the power of the whole word before. He’s still here. What’s his next power move? Power over power.
Here this text translated into Spanish:
https://www.counterpropaganda.info/p/desde-la-democracia-liberal-al-totalitarismo
“Democracy” is NOT what our Founding Fathers set up for us either. They gave us a Constitutional Republic, where the will of the people is supposed to be carried out by our public servants and representatives. But the people are now deceived into believing the delusion that “Democracy” will give “power to the people,” and that Socialism will bring about equality for all. So many are just CLUELESS. Meanwhile, our Constitutional Republic is now on life support and our nation’s capitol has become a swamp full of opportunists, shady back-room deals and lawlessness.
Thomas Paine said, “A Democracy is the vilest form of Government there is.” If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation’s two most fundamental documents, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. It’s Congress that poses the greatest threat to our liberties. The framers’ distrust is seen in the negative language of our Bill of Rights such as: Congress “shall not abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, and (rights) shall not be violated, nor be denied.”
America is a Representative Republic, Not a Democracy..
The word “Democracy” never entered the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States. The United States is not a democracy, and our founders used strong words to make clear that their nation should never become one.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long; it soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” (1814) John Adams
Because if we shifted the rest of the way into democracy things would be much worse economically and that would not be the worst of it. The worst would be that we would completely lose our God-given rights to life, liberty, and property.