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RE: Why We Are Always Moving Left, And Not Likely To Stop
Some more reading on the subject from Moldbug. This is a book-length series of posts he wrote in response to Dawkins' "The God Fallacy" claiming that essentially, while Dawkins was right to reject "God" as nonsense, he is completely "pwnd" because his own belief system is just an evolution of Christianity which took out the whole "God" stuff, but is in fact more nonsensical.
The thrust of the argument is liberalism, progressivism, the belief in democracy itself, is all part of the same ever-leftward push that has been going on really since the Enlightenment. Moldbug defines it all as an evolution of Puritanism/Protestantism that just stopped mentioning "God" but continued apace with the rest of its program, and became able to take over the U.S. government by simply no longer being a "religion" as such because it no longer mentions "God" even though the same Puritan instincts are still seen everywhere.
This section is just a re-telling of American history in a less progressive light.
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In Reality #2, there is a clone of Planet 3, Planet 3.01, which is exactly identical and follows the
same orbit around the Sun, 180 degrees out of phase so that neither can see the
other.
On Planet 3.01, the temperate and subtropical latitudes of the northern continent in
the western hemisphere are a region called Plainland. (An English translation of
Vinland.) The inhabitants of Plainland are the Plainlanders.
Culturally, our Plainlanders fall into five major castes: the Brahmins, Dalits, Helots,
Optimates and Vaisyas. They can also be divided by descent: European, African,
Asian or Beringian. And their political conflicts identify them as either Coaster
(blue) or Middler (red). Of course, none of these categories is precise or complete. All
sorts of overlaps and subcategories exist. Nonetheless, these very rough high-level
abstractions are quite useful.
Plainland is owned by a sovereign corporation, or sovcorp. Its name is Washcorp:
the Washington Corporation. (I like this slightly better than one I tried earlier, Fedco.
It sounds even more neutral and enormous. Of course, Planet 3.0 has plenty of actual
companies named both Washcorp and Fedco, but none is particularly significant.)
A corporation is just a set of people working together with a common purpose -
basically, any organization. I should probably replace this word as well, but it is such
an effective offensive weapon that it would be a pity to just throw it out, and the
English meaning is extremely clear.
A corporation is sovereign - and thus a sovcorp - if there is no controlling legal
authority to which it can appeal, and it is responsible for enforcing and defending its
own law. Again, the English meaning of this word is extremely clear and historically
accurate.
Aside from the fact that it is sovereign, Washcorp owns Plainland in the same sense
that any person or organization owns any piece of property. It exercises absolute and
total domination and control. Plainlanders exist at Washcorp's sufferance. It can
expel them, kill them, or order them to obey arbitrary commands. There is no other
power to which they can appeal, and no Plainlander or combination of Plainlanders
has, or could conceivably have, even a thousandth of the military force needed to
defeat Washcorp. Nor does any such force exist anywhere else on the planet.
Note that Planet 3.01 remains identical to Planet 3.0 in all substantive details. Let me
add, however, the stipulation that on Planet 3.01, and within the boundaries of
Plainland, Washcorp is absolutely invincible. It is not even worth thinking about
thinking about a military strategy which could wrest Plainland from the eternal iron
grip of Washcorp. Also, the flag of Washcorp is a red W inscribed in a white circle on
a black field, and this sigil is honored with the Roman salute. Everything else is the
same, though.
I should also describe the history of Washcorp. It was founded by an aristocrat and
military leader, General Washington (hence the name), a prominent sympathizer of a
paramilitary gang called the Sons of Liberty. The Sons evolved into the first
identifiable ancestor of Washcorp as we know it today, the Continental Congress,
with its Continental Army under Washington, who swiftly established himself as
princeps.
This version of Washcorp is the First Corporation or the Continental Corporation.
The period of its formal existence, 1776 to 1789, is the Continental Period. The First
Corporation's goal was to use violent force to seize Plainland from its original
European owner, the sovcorp British Crown. Assisted by political divisions within
British Crown, it succeeded in this task and assumed ownership of Plainland through
adverse possession, winning the War of Atlantic Separation.
The original First Corporation was very weak and had limited power over its
subsidiaries, the provinces of Plainland, which retained much of their original
sovereignty as recognized in both its primary contract, the Articles of Confederation,
and its deed of cession as conceded by British Crown, the Treaty of Paris. In 1789, a
group of prominent managers wrested power from the First Corporation and
replaced it with the Second or Constitutional Corporation (1789-1861), which left the
relationship between Washcorp and its provinces informal.
The primary contract of the Second Corporation, the Constitution, was designed by
its primary architect Alexander Hamilton, one of Washington's cronies, to shift
sovereign power gradually, subtly and irreversibly away from the provinces and
toward Washcorp itself. (Compare to the similar approach of present-day Eurocorp.)
Interprovincial tensions always undermined this strategy, and in 1861 a group of
provinces joined forces and attempted to seize the southern half of Plainland in the
War of Southern Separation.
Under the messianic dictator Abraham Lincoln, Washcorp won this war and
subjugated the rebellious provinces. No more was heard about provincial
sovereignty. The War of Southern Separation effectively revoked the Constitution,
and converted Washcorp's management process to an informal system with no strict
textual basis, opening the Third or Nationalist Period (1861-1933). It is also notable
for its introduction of military slavery - ie, the draft - to Washcorp's playbook. All
major Washcorp wars through the 1970s were fought with Plainlander slave soldiers.
The Third Corporation retained many elements of the old Constitutional system,
notably the theory that Washcorp's sovereign discretion was constrained by a list of
enumerated powers. However, it also developed a state religion of transcendental
power worship, or Nationalism. The quintessential Nationalist tract was the sciencefiction
novel Looking Backward by the Social Gospel fanatic Edward Bellamy, which
predicted with remarkable prescience that by the year 2000, Washcorp would
exercise complete and detailed control over the lives and occupations of all
Plainlanders.
The essential idea of Nationalism was that Washcorp was deeply and fundamentally
good, and could bring this spirit of righteousness to everything it touched or did. If
this seems hard to understand, it is best explained as a continuation of the Protestant
postmillennial tradition, with its emphasis on achieving the New Jerusalem, the
kingdom of Christ on earth.
Nationalism can only be understood with respect to the system known as democracy,
in which Plainlanders reconsecrate their obeisance to Washcorp regularly and
indirectly, pledging their submission to one of several (typically two, but rarely one
or three) political gangs, or parties. The parties alternate in power according to
headcount of registered supporters. In the late Constitutional and early Nationalist
periods, Washcorp operated under the spoils system, in which the parties distributed
Washcorp's revenue to their supporters by disguising these dividends as the salaries
for so-called jobs.
Democracy, which had deep roots in the English Dissenter sects to which early EuroPlainlanders
subscribed, is best seen in terms of the system of ritual legitimacy it
replaced, divine-right monarchy. The older divine-right sovcorps legitimized their
ownership - that is, persuaded their subjects not to rebel - by attributing it to divine
intervention. Democracy arrived with the advent of new religious systems which
stressed the divine nature of humanity. This inner light, of which all adult males (and
later females) had exactly one, could be counted and summed. If Washcorp was
directed by this arithmetic, its actions could not fail to be righteous.
A PDF of the whole text is available here:
http://www.moreright.net/books/Mencius%2...0pwned.pdf
RVF Book Club February: Julius Evola - Revolt Against the Modern World
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