Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

http://www.amerika.org/politics/equality-creates-politics-and-the-public-private-text-subtext-dichotomy/ON THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE RIGHT’S RESTORATION OF THE WEST

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Brett,

Well, I’m pretty certain that I’m producing New Ideas by the truckload. So much so that it’s taking a year or more for the best people to learn to articulate them.

I think it might be interesting to talk a bit, because you’re prolific as hell, you cover the entire spectrum so you’re getting and giving a synthetic opinion in your writings, but on the flip side you’re still working under the assumption that you can (or anyone can) create ‘shared belief’ (shared values, models, and objectives) as a ‘via-positiva’ method of obtaining our (shared) goals, instead of attempting to suppress antithetical propaganda, arguments, actions, as a ‘via-negativa’ means of eliminating opposition the same way we have elminated oppositions via violence, theft, fraud, conspiracy, propaganda, organized propaganda (religion/conversion), immigration, migration, and conquest.

Throughout our history we have successfully avoided the trap of conflation. we have maintained separation between truth(testimony), literature(advocacy), law(decidability), technology(science), festival(profane), and religion(sacred). We have acknowledge the classes (nobility, soldiery, burghers, laborers, and ‘women and children’) – and we have succeeded in developing via-positiva for the different classes: science, law, philosophy, literature, and religion: storytelling for each of the classes, in the most advanced language that they could comprehend: we have maintained a poly-liturgy as much as we have a polytheism. And it has been the competition between these ‘models of thought’, genders, classes, families, tribes, and nations, that has allowed us to calculate through trial and error so much faster than all other nations and empires that have ever existed.

We have avoided conflation and monopoly just as we have succeeded in deflationary truth and competition in all aspects of life. It is through competition we create inclusion without sacrifice of innovation, specialization, and complexity of wants and goods, services, and information.

So when I see the right continuing to attempt to create the WEAK MONOPOLY of the church through via-positiva shared belief in the positive, rather than the STRONG MARKET OF COMPETITION of the aristocracy through via-negativa of shared belief in the negative, leaving positives as the only possible means of survival, no matter how richly diverse those goods may be, and more suitable to each family, gender, class, tribe and nation, I see the tactics of the left: monopoly shared belief leading to the necessity of authoritarianism, not the ancient tactics of the right leading to the elimination of demand for authoritarianism in anything other than the decidability of law in matters of dispute. In law we do not dispute the good, we dispute only the bad: the imposition of costs upon another or others.

As Hayek spent his life discovering, understanding, and explaining, the source of western excellence is western law: the religion of sovereignty. Christianity was merely the most recent mythology of submission to the consequences of that law. Philosophy the long standing means of attempting to circumvent it. And literature a long standing means of attempting to celebrate it – until the 20th century.

Only once we limit the bad do we have opportunity for the good – truth, productivity, innovation, excellence, familism, tribalism, nationalism, transcendence.

So my analysis of conservative(burkean) history, is that they were not conservative enough. The scientific enlightenment was correct, but the social and political enlightenment was not. It was folly. Of all the european nations only the germans preserved it until the world war was caused by its competitors. The germans had almost restored the arts, sciences, and religion of the past. But they had done so without social science – on purely cultural intuitions under which they preserved the oath, the truth, the duty, the hierarchy, of western civilization. And we defeated them for it.

Anglos have been wrong throughout the enlightenment. We looked to recreate the via-positiva of the church in secular terms, rather than grasping that the via-positiva existed already in truth, oath, duty, hierarchy of the classes, and the markets we had constructed in voluntary association, marriage, production of goods services and information, and production of commons, and production of many small nations.

The church supplied an administrative but non-competitive class for the hierarchical aristocracy, and accumulated lands the farming of which sustained them in addition to a small tax upon the followers, and by selling ‘virtues’ to the aristocracy in exchange for gifts and donations. In exchange the aristocracy obtained a management service that half-educated, disciplined, and occupied the peasantry with narratives that submission was a virtue.

As our via-positivia, exists not in the return to eastern mysticism for our mental, social, and political ‘mindfulness’, nor in the ‘philosophy’ of the middle class begging for privilege by unwieldy verse, but in our return to sovereign natural law and truth in its utterance, from which only personal stoicism, the civic sacred, the public literature, the national festival, civilizational monuments, and human transcendence.

We make the good by denying the bad. By specializing in the monopoly denial of the bad, the distributed creation of the necessity, and the individual preference for the good.

Monotheism, via-positiva, and authoriatrianism are the tools of those who defeat us. Poly-literature, via-negativa, and markets in everything are that which made us.

Why? Not because of the falsehood of individualism(via-positiva) as an aspiration for the positive. But because of the Sovereignty(via-negativa) as a prohibition on the negative. Because once we choose sovereignty – the distributed dictatorship of peers – the only possible means of achieving ends is through contractual agreement in markets for everything in every walk of life.

I hope I’ve managed to convey the difference between monopoly religious literary rallying via positiva under democracy, and legal scientific rallying via negativa under sovereign markets in everything.

The reason conservatives failed since Burke is was solved by Hayek. In our attempt to seize political power from the church and aristocracy for the middle class, we used the tactics of the church to sell the middle and working classes and eventually women, and eventually underclasses and now minority underclasses. And we cannot sell the truth, nor our civilization’s prior strategy, because it is incompatible with democracy and the search for large numbers: that western sovereign aristocratic man, domesticated animal man from beast, to slave, to serf, to freeman, to citizen, to peer through a process of incremental suppression of parasitism in all its forms, leaving the only means of survival competition in the markets for association, reproduction, production, commons, and states. And the extermination through winter starvation, hanging, manorialism, war, and upward redistribution of production to increase the rates of healthy reproduction of the better classes.

The west’s legacy is kinder than the east’s. But we cannot lie about our past if we are to recreate it: the church trained beast man to slowly filter out those who could survive the process of domestication, just as the aristocracy trained the beast man to slowly filter out those who could survive the process of domestication.

And therefore man was not oppressed, but converted from beast to domesticated animal, to near human, to human, to sovereign (transcendent) man through no different a process but more complex than that which we used to domesticate animals, plants, and … as uncomfortable as it may seem: women.

So let us rally around truth if we wish to restore our civilization to that which created europe as a vast open air museum, and that which by force of domestication, by a thousand complex means, dragged the beast man out of superstition, ignorance, labor, poverty, and disease – kicking and screaming all the white.

Our purpose is to rule or be ruled. Rule as sovereign men and transcend man as no other civilization has come near to. Or to be ruled and extinguished for having failed to: a domesticated animal can only defeat large numbers of undomesticated animals by the use of technology and organization to compensate for their small numbers.

We do not need many men to restore the west.

We just need sovereign men willing to spill enough blood using organization and technology to prevent any alternative to sovereignty. No other civilization in history has been able to extend this much credit as a means of organizing a society for fragility-inducing ends. We are more fragile – the world by consequence – than at any time in our history. As such, we do not need large numbers to believe. We need moral authority for a small number of men to disrupt the complex machine that preserves our economic and political momentum. We need a set of institutional solutions that do not require BELIEF but provide INCENTIVES regardless of belief: a market for benefiting from the suppression of the un-sovereign. And a plan for the means of transition so that the expectations of the defeated can envision the process of meeting our demands and then granting them rather than suffering the consequences of not meeting them. And we need to act to demand them until they are met – without mercy.

We do not need numbers of domesticated animals. We need a small number of Transcendent Humans.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian institute

Kiev, Ukraine