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.
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.