Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

CAUTION TO NEW FRIENDS

(quarterly repost)

Please keep in mind what I do. OK? I write political philosophy. Aristocratic, Conservative, Libertarian philosophy. I use Facebook as an historical sketch pad, where I try ideas out until I get them into compact and digestible form. There are all sorts of benefits to doing this. Not the least of which is that other people get to see how the sausage is made so to speak. But also because the act of speaking in public produces very different work from speaking in private. And when I just ‘write to myself’ in private, its even harder to comprehend the results.

If I offend you, you might consider that I’m trying to change your mind, by creating an emotionally loaded contrast. Not so much so that you agree with me about one solution or another. But so that you don’t believe in common ideas and assumptions about politics and society that are demonstrably false.

There is a difference between agreeing with solutions I might suggest, and criticisms that I levy. The solutions are theories. The criticisms are not. They are as close to scientific as it is possible to construct with the knowledge at our disposal. So it is not important that you agree with any solution that I, or anyone else, comes up with. But it is important that you not assume that we can have our cake and eat it too. The empirical content of the enlightenment was true. The political content of the enlightenment has proven not to be.

Thanks for your love and friendship.

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PRIOR WARNING TO MY FEMALE FRIENDS

I have to kill off the ideas of Universalism, Postmodernism and Democracy, not morally, but rationally and empirically. In doing so I must criticize feminism and democracy, and some of the emotions that women intuitively hold dear.

Unlike other reactionaries (aggressive conservatives) I don’t recommend returning to the past. Like a libertarian, I recommend freedom. But I also recognize the difference in reproductive strategies and moral sentiments between men and women.

Given that it is no longer necessary for women to be exclusively bound to home and child rearing, and that women both participate in the work force and dominate it’s middle ground, the past arrangement between men and women under agrarian society is no longer necessary even if it were preferable.

Given this change from a male economy and a female homestead, to a pre-agrarian female homestead, with transitory males, now that he feminists have succeeded in destroying the family, by forcing economic cooperation between men and women via marriage, through the proxy of the state via taxation. It seems prudent to attempt to construct a social order that recognizes the heterogeneity of our interests as males and females.

One thing is deterministically certain. If we the long term monogamous family is indeed a dead or at least marginal institution, the current remnants of family (child support and spousal support) will disappear along with that institution. Largely because large members of men will continue to lack incentive to work and pay taxes, or to signal status by familial conformity. And the increasingly disturbing rate of single mother hood will continue to reduce the majority of women and children into single parent poverty, until the system of redistribution is perceived as not only unfair but destructive, and overwhelms both the tax system, the economy and the political system.

We see this slowly happening now. And the economic luxury we possessed when first the socialists, then the feminists, then the multi-culturalists, banded together, no longer exists and is no longer possible due to the flooding of the world workforce with billions of laborers after the fall of communism and the failure of the socialist project.

So what does this have to do with me? I think it’s possible to take what we have learned from the market and technology and to produce a political order that allows us to cooperate on means even if we have opposing ends.

But in order to make a new idea both understandable, and desirable, I must criticize and show the failure of the existing ideas.

I must criticize it so that I can replace it with something better.