Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Zuby"
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I would argue that the American system is already largely fascist, given that the education and health care systems are basically run by the federal government, either directly, through mandates, or by threats of cutting off funding.
The third leg of the fascist tripod is state-run media, which the USA technically never had, but has had, as a functional matter, since (at least) World War II. It's not obviously state-run, but the Twitter Files are just the tip of the iceberg of behind-the-scenes pressure/coercion, inserted agents (Look at all the ex-CIA in top commentator spots across all legacy tv), and indoctrinated news agencies who deliver The Message of their own volition.
In fascism, you get to own stuff, but the government controls what you can do with what you own. The Krupp family dynasty owned Krupp Steel for a century before, then during, and ever since the Nazi regime. Krupp steel built all the tanks and guns for Hitler (and every German government since the 19th Century).
Anyone who hasn't read "The Arms of Krupp" needs to.
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Postmodernists see only the flaws in the past. Focus on how exploitative the Spartans were; whereas, historians USED to notice the democratic features of Spartan society and Greek society in general, and rightly saw the seeds of our own representative republic. We've never been blind to the flaws. In fact, seeing the flaws of the past informed the framers of the U.S. Constitution, who wanted to AVOID those mistakes.
Civilization has slowly muddled its way to a BETTER present, but never a PERFECT present. We may yet get to something close to perfect, but the one thing intelligent people are certain of is that those promising to use power to MAKE utopia, if only we would give THEM the power, are dangerous and misguided, at best, malevolent at worst.
Postmodernists want to dwell on the institution of slavery, and IGNORE the principles and people guided by those principles that eventually did AWAY with it! Reparations? Really? My ancestors got stepped on, plenty, too! And they embraced the opportunity to make their lives better. So did blacks, up until Lyndon B. Johnson came along and the narrative switched from "Give me an even break!" to "Give me something because you OWE me, because I'm black and you're white!" Before Johnson, blacks were closing the gap between blacks and whites. After Johnson, they started losing ground as a group. Of course that begs the question of the rationality of even seeing race as a group status. There are SO many mixed-race couples that it doesn't even matter.
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Regressive forms of Islam and Christianity must give way to more tolerance and reason. Islam's been more prone to regress, but there are also regressive features to Judaism and Christianity. In the last century, I think we saw "Christian" countries knocking Islamic countries on their asses, which fostered more regressive/reactionary forms of Islam. At one point, Islam was behaving in more enlightened ways (e.g. versus Goths in Spain).
Regardless, sincere individuals with the power to REASON will evolve the religions and their societies to more progressive (not left-wing wacky, but true progress) forms.
The danger in any religion is when it organizes itself, the wrong people tend to ascend to the top of the hierarchy(ies) and seek power in this world over others.
Some good things about Islam are the persistence of traditions that are GOOD, like family values. Islam and Judaism both are bulwarks against unwed motherhood. As society evolves, mothers are more capable of raising children without fathers around, but that's not a good thing. Children need to SEE healthy husband-wife examples to develop in healthy ways. The man is usually more physically powerful, so the kids need to see a calm, confident, gentle male figure.
What's interesting is that regardless of the dogma, good people living day to day under whatever structure, treat each other with respect and care for one another.
It's easy for Christians to see the Muslim "evangelism" and how the religion threatens to take over the culture and want ITS values entered into law. That's why there are/were Christian/Muslim countries in the first place. Christians were right bastards towards pagans during their "takeover" of Europe and U.K. in the single-digit centuries, thanks to Rome pushing its religion, everywhere.
I think we're evolving past that, now, but I also think that the problem with absence of faith in any religion leaves holes in the human psyche. People need to believe in something bigger than themselves, and religion is less dangerous in that regard than government or king or warlord. And of course, it turns toxic/political, when it marries up with government. Can't live with it. Can't live without it. Humans lose their way and their social systems can destroy themselves. The reason religions persist is because believers have children and pass on (semi-fucked-up but persistent) beliefs across generations.
Atheists? Look at the hedonism and self-absorption of the lunatic left of the modern day. They're suicidal.
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When liberalism attached itself to massive government intervention in society and the economy, it ceased being liberalism and became reactionary. He thinks this woke nonsense is something separate, but it's part and parcel of the choice to make the government the source of people's well-being, rather than as an obstacle to people's well-being, which the original liberals understood.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt took us across the philosophical Rubicon, and it's been downhill ever since.
Classical liberalism is liberty and limited government. These faux, big-government liberals, refuse to examine their base assumptions, and how their assumptions when implemented as policy, created the woke insanity we see, now. People who are entitled to government largesse are serfs. They just don't know it.
Schellenberger thinks he's a classical liberal, but he's a big-government liberal, and therefore not liberal.
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