Oddbean new post about login | logout @2a48eef0 God, homeland, and family are the three things that psychologically root humans within the world. Those who abandon reverence for these things inevitably worship vain abstractions.
@Ardainian Right I see homeland and family as part of loving humanity. It makes sense that we are divided into smaller units. Trying to merge them destroys uniqueness, and nature lives by uniqueness. For me, it is not so much God per se as a willingness to be religious about life, that is believe that it is on the whole tending toward the good and not the random and disorganized like the minds of people who listen to Pantera.
@2a48eef0 Loving homeland and family are how you love humanity in a concrete manner. Those who abandon concrete love in favor of love in the abstract rarely manifest this abstract love in any useful way.
@Ardainian Right Abstract love... what an odd concept. I think one has to love humanity because of its potential and its best people, but nothing is binary or absolute. That is, one can love humanity, and an inalienable part of that is loving homeland, family, race, ethnicity, and local community. I am not an altruist/universalist... love is for the good, and hate for the bad.
@2a48eef0 I use the idea of God in a broad sense, in the sense of "transcendent reality all of existence is subject to."
@Ardainian Right Sure. I call that "Godness" in the shorthand. There is something alive about existence, more than the physical.
@Ardainian Right Merely for your consideration, but I think part of religiosity is believing in a purpose to each part of life. That is, it has a chain of causes leading back to some event that decided all of this needed to be... and so its variety is sacred.
@Ardainian Right I dunno where that calculates out in the end, but I have observed that modernity seems to hate small variations. They trust the solidity of the mass-produced, bureaucratic rules, written procedures, etc. and ways of manipulating people, but they do not trust the soul, either of individuals or of the world itself.
@Ardainian Right @2a48eef0 Not everyone has a homeland or a family. Saying that those are the most important things in the world is absolutely bigoted.
@hachi @Ardainian Right @2a48eef0 It's always the fucking mutts and fatherless faggots who complain.
@hachi @Ardainian Right @2a48eef0 I have a real question. Why should I consider your opinion when you are subversive?
@Ghost of Abu Ghraib @Ardainian Right @2a48eef0 What makes you think I'm subversive.
@hachi @Ardainian Right @2a48eef0 Your logic of abandoning the longest running safety feature, the tribe, religion and nation of a people. See, there used to be a law. Steal a man's horse, you die. Horse was how he made a living, and without it, he'd die. You know that horse is my lifeline but double down on demanding it's removed because you don't have a horse so we can both be miserable. I say fuck you.
@Ghost of Abu Ghraib @Ardainian Right @hachi There are two basic views: 1. Everyone owns everything 2. Each person owns his own production The latter is more consistent. The former not only attracts freeloaders but makes people less capable and induces a type of mental disorder. It is unethical and unjust.
@2a48eef0 @Ardainian Right @hachi The fact that we've devolved to arguing common sense is why all communists should be executed
@Ghost of Abu Ghraib @Ardainian Right @hachi There are always going to be egalitarians. Sad people tend toward this philosophy, along with those who have high mute load or hybridization load, or other reasons to hate the host culture.
@2a48eef0 @Ardainian Right @hachi Indeed they will, degeneracy will also exist in some format in whichever community. But it remains the duty of the guardians of the people to crush them.
@2a48eef0 @Ardainian Right @hachi Perhaps this is just the infallible truth that our scum, as a society, have hidden by establishing an excess of hedonism over the decay. Intellectualism is appreciated by few in the modern age. Where debates fail, rifles shine
Don't forget 3. The King owns everything
@Caek Islove 🍰 💖 @Ghost of Abu Ghraib @Ardainian Right @hachi This is a subset of the latter. Private property exists within a royalist system, but the aristocrats hold enough of the wealth to keep greed to a minimum.
@hachi @2a48eef0 If not everyone can be happy, we have to make everyone equally miserable.
@Ardainian Right @2a48eef0 Living like we are in Ancient Asia with no control of our own destiny will make us miserable.
@hachi @Ardainian Right Only some have the answers, which is why we need hierarchy. The Crowd makes poor decisions.
@Ardainian Right @hachi Equal misery is where "equality" always leads.