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notroot's JournalAnarchy.
Hobbes' Leviathan was predicated on it:
Mankind craves order. Direction. We will choose fascism over anarchy, every time.
When was the last time we asked ourselves what "anarchy" actually is? Could the current failure of Enlightenment Liberalism perhaps be related to this overlooked philosophical concept?
It's made worse by Kropotkin, Proudhon, and later ideologically "anarchist" thinkers, who turned an observation into a forever unreachable ideal.
"Anarchy", the utopia was born, utterly divorces from its ancient Greek roots.
Severed from Hobbes' Leviathan like a lost cousin, this new idea of anarchy was promulgated as an "alternative" to communism. Something even more radical than communism.
It was a complete redefinition of a classical philosophical concept, and from which other concepts depended. Like Hobbes' Leviathan.
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Is fascism better than anarchy? Hobbes says, "Yes." He makes a good argument.
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Where is the counter-argument, if not in an equally ancient idea:
DEMOCRACY.
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It's the only government we've made so far that acknowledges the fundamental, natural, inescapable reality of anarchos as the ancient Greeks thought of it.
We create order. We create chaos. It's us. We break the speed limit. We murder. We break laws that can be broken, unlike the laws of nature -- gravity and the like. We can speed on the Interstate, but we can't break the speed of light.
We can't disobey nature.
That's the lesson of anarchy, as Hobbes and ancient Greeks thought of it.
Are Christians and Muslim extremists "teaming up" to exterminate Jews?
It's a psychology I've noticed among extremists of both religions -- the idea of an apocalypse.
Sure, the Torah has the Book of Daniel, but nothing like Revelations. Nothing like the selection of chosen few to survive a coming apocalypse. Maybe that's why the later religions hate their muse.
FINE... I'll be the first to say it: I wish Biden hadn't dropped out.
I know it was his choice, and he is elderly.
But America gave him 20 million votes we didn't give Harris.
Why? Because he's a WHITE MAN.
We gambled, like we did in 2016, that America had evolved beyond its sexist, racist roots.
And like 2016, we lost. This time we lost even bigger: we lost the popular vote?
Do the math.
Americans are garbage people.
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EDIT: You're right. Biden probably wouldn't have won either. Maybe he should've dropped out sooner so we could nominate a middle-aged wealthy white man.
Most Americans are garbage people, though. Would anything have made a difference?
They wanted their rapist racist. Now they've got him, and so do we.
I trashed my yard signs and brand-new made in the USA American flag.
I'm done. America knows who Trump is, and we voted him into office again.
Like being in a relationship with an abusive spouse, I just kept hoping I could change America. Make them a better "person". At some point, I was just lying to myself.
I'm done.
I no longer consider myself a patriot.
Landslide or washout, nothing will be the same next week.
This is the most pivotal, most consequential election since the American Revolution.
That's the thing... the Revolution never stops. We have to keep revolting in the same direction for this to work.
I believe we can win this. I believe we WILL win this.
Sooo.... basically now we just scroll the Internet for the next 36 hours?
Maybe do some last-minute phone-banking?
What?
Tristan Snell: This should be grounds for IMMEDIATE investigation
Republicans are desperate to overthrow democracy! It cannot stand!
Blatantly tampering with the election in it's final days like Leon Musk and now Chris Rufo is back like a case of the clap.
We have to overwhelm them at the polls! When we GOTV, we win! When we mobilize eligible voters to become actual voters, we win!
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