Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

—The difference is that Americans are not intentionally deceitful – just ideologically optimistic, naive, and desperate to preserve borders, human rights, and capitalism as a means of focusing states on inward transformation instead of expansion, in order to prevent another world war. Russia is a low-trust, poor, corrupt society that cannot build a modern economy, where it seems almost impossible to imagine that people have positive intentions. The most murderous and evil people the world has ever known. And the greatest mistake we have made in the west was not leaving Patton to conquer russia and save us from the continuance of russian brutality, deceit, and murder.—

***George Soros is the Natural Consequence of Popper’s Open Society.***

I am fixing it. But I did not seriously account for the idealism of the Popperians. I assumed it was a rational rather than intuitive choice. And for a small minority of critical rationalists / realists it is a rational choice (myself included). But the natural consequence of Popper’s open society is Progressive Tyranny.

I have been struggling with this problem of the half-truth of popperian thought for years now.

While the basic Critical Preference, Critical Rational, and Critical Realist propositions are true, it does not follow that the ANALOGISTIC application of those principles is true in a world where we are competitors by politics, production, trade, law, culture and norm.

The Open Society is an evil.

Which I find depressing as hell, but unable to counter.