I don't believe that human beings are autonomous individuals.
Our actions have consequences. We have ancestors and descendants and exist within a certain context shaped by those who came before us. We have a duty as individuals and as a society to take account for the big picture and make wise decisions that are good for the totality, not the individual. Individualism is philosophically no different than Satanism.
I don't believe in elections and democracy.
Democracy favors screwing over the future to buy votes in the present. All our economic growth, all our job creation over the last 50 years is based off a taxpayer sham that our country will never recover from. We're about to pay for every "good economy" past presidents gave us at the expense of our future. Great.
I don't believe in equality.
No two men have ever been created equal. Meritocracy unfortunately breeds rulers who are far more jealous of their power than any aristocrat of the past. They know what it takes to gain power, and they truly resent those at the bottom.
I don't believe in the primacy of markets or the economy.
This one will probably be controversial. Modern capitalism has morphed into something truly despicable. It has usurped every facet of life. Dating is now a market. Everything's a damn market. And yet there are so few jobs that offer dignified labor that can sustain a life worth living. Capitalism has rendered everything transactional. It sucked every bit of genuine love out of this world and made life a miserable chore. People are slaves and prostitutes under this system.
Leftism is dead and unviable. Communism was a horrible experiment but our own experiment is about to go out just as shamefully. There is no return to the old ways. We need to seek what works and what has truly worked and cast aside everything else, regardless of how sentimentally attacked to it we may be. We live in a world where 60% of teens are suicidal and everyone's mentally ill. Classical liberalism knocked down the first domino and doomed us all.
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Lol that's funny
"Individualism is philosophically no different than Satanism."
Derp.
No it's not. God made each of us unique individuals. He doesn't require us to put others needs before our own. This is semi communistic bull malarkey.
I don't think people understand how important it is to grasp this.
You may be right.
Sounds to me like you need to strengthen your connection to God.
Ultimately, there is nothing other than God. Your job is to overcome this world, not fix it.
It's noble to take responsibility for "sins of your father" and that line of reasoning. But it's a complete setup for failure given the fact you've only got 3 score and 20 to fix everything.
Isaiah 45:6
Isaiah 45:7
This WHOLE JOINT is a complete setup. GOD only knows his reasons for setting us up. Probably so we can ultimately see that this place is dumb, evil is repugnant and the absolutely ONLY thing worth pursuing is strengthening your connection to God. It's there AND ONLY THERE that you'll find the unity that you desire.
Once it's realized that money is complete made up bullshit, and is simply not required for anything aside from keeping the herd slaved up. That advertising {propaganda} is the cause of 90% of our mental issues, and that all men are created equal, but the minute their toes hit the floor, they are then graded by their actions, only then we will live in the society meant for us.
Nice to see you admit your smallest unit of measure is the Group , as it has always been until AMERICA . When a much finer unit was determined to be the individual.
All are created equal , but all do not put it use the same(NOT MY PROBLEM).
What matters is the relationship between each level, not that one is abstractly smaller than the other. Human beings are made up of cells and atoms but that doesn't mean we should disregard our humanity. That's what I mean by these arguments being the precursor to leftism.
Think of it like this. If you eat to nourish a cell, the whole organism benefits because the cell is part of the whole, and also other cells are nourished by the same food.
If you leave the cell malnourished, you cannot heal the whole.
Focusing on the whole can often damage all the individuals’ needs. We are individuals. If we are happy, the group is happy. If the group is happy… no such thing as group needs. Groups are multiple individuals connected. We are individuals. If we all make it, the group makes it by default.
This fails to take short term pleasure and hedonism into account.
A guy who uses drugs, TV and pornography to fill the void might be "happy" but if that behavior is widespread the whole society falters. Human society needs more than the economic whims of individuals being met. It needs to be oriented towards something and have some kind of coherence.
I meant healed and happy. Not synthetic “happy”. The human drive and human connection is only stronger for those healed and happy. The drugged up people are depressed.
Only marketers make them think of themselves as getting happy.
Marketers working to advance their rational interest as private individuals right?
Morality means nothing if the self is your center of gravity. Every trans person believed the same thing you're espousing at one point and look what the end result is.
They wanted to be part of a community. Nobody can be trans without the community encouragement. They want to belong to something. These people are a pronoun or a sexuality. They have no individual identity.
All you need is the golden rule to be a moral individual when there are others around. You see others are other selves. Not as some group outside of you. Other “me”s. That’s why we have empathy, and it’s already built into our brain.
Sorry but individuals are not abstract......so no need to consider the remainder of the falsity
What do you belive in?
A civilization oriented towards purpose that serves humanity in light of the Absolute
That clears everything up.....
You lost me after the first paragraph. Western society wouldn't exist without the emergence of the individual vs the state. You are omitting from all of your analysis the manipulation of the citizen by the government and corporations who are the definition of greed.
Western society is now on the brink of extinction because it followed those principles to their logical conclusion. Europe was more alive before the enlightenment than it's been since.
Technically speaking every Human society is at its core. Irregardless of the window dressings. Is fundamentally either an aristocracy or an oligarchy. Those with resources, normally financial but not always. Will always eventually rise to the top. And those same resources usually mean they have the better odds of producing directly, or indirectly, the upcoming Leaders.
Main difference between the Aristocrats of the past and those we call CEOs, Moguls, Bankers, or some other term. The Nobility was obligated to at least pretend to care. As their wealth was tied to their Country and land. So they had a vested interest in the long term success of their country. And not some loose idea of international “Free Market”
The current American and to a lesser extent Western Corporate World. Which more or less is the Western economy. Is in large part where the U.S and much of the West sources it’s leaders. Whether they’re out in front leading or the one’s pulling strings in the back. And One of the markers indicative for the wild financial success the Top earners enjoy. Is Sociopathic, narcissistic or psychopathic traits.
It’s not impossible to be a moral person and rise to such highly successful heights. You’ll just have a harder time than the lunatics who wouldn’t mind dumping toxic waste in a river and poisoning a few thousand downstream. Or deliberately lacing their products with toxic but addictive chemicals to ensure repeat customers just to squeeze those extra percentage points out on an earnings report.
Where as before. The West could source leaders from 1 of 3 places. The named and titled nobility. The Christian Church, and the Merchant Caste.
We’re largely left with the Merchants. And then we promptly built a system that incentivizes and rewards the absolute worst traits you could possibly have in leaders. Which are the leg of the Triumvirate that was never particularly well liked by anyone to start with
Somewhat amusingly. Western Society doesn’t seem to have quite gotten over the loss of the Nobility and the Christian Churches fall from prominence.
Stories, tales, and legends of Noble Kings, Chivalrous Knights, and the Wise Council of Courtly Advisors often religious figures remain enduringly popular. Even if they wax and wane somewhat with passing ages. The most famous modern example being the Lord of the Rings.
But the stories of King Arthur, Beowulf, and others remain stubbornly popular. Even if perhaps a tad obscure in modern day.
Can you elaborate on how individualism is no different than satanism?
Just look at the ruling class, serving only themselves at the expense of everyone else. Service to self is satanic, service to others and cooperation are divine.
Interesting
Because God has provided a way to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior - as an individual. 🧐
This is all black pill bs.
Not at all. We can still create a beautiful world that's worth living in, it just has to adhere to reality.
This fella is doomer pilled. Some truly PDW stuff. He needs some love and healing.