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WHY WE NEED THE “DARK ENLIGHTENMENT”

Why was anglo objective, universalist empiricism intuitive and acceptable to the British, while a duty-bound subjective hierarchy intuitive and acceptable to the germans? Why are order and duty more important to germans than to the english? Is Raico right that it’s just geographic?

I can understand why the counter-enlightenment (the continentals) fought against the anglo social construct, although I cannot really grasp why they didn’t simply try to solve the problem empirically rather than mystically. The germans at least, were correct. Anglo civilization degenerated rapidly, while german society at least for now, survives. Anglo civilization I suspect, without some event, will survive only in the protestant religions. We are, without our insular island, fragile.

Isn’t providing a RATIONAL and EMPIRICAL institutional solution to uniting germanic order and duty with anglo individual empiricism something that can reunite the two strains? I don’t think so. They are fine. We’re in trouble. I don’t see how to unite us.

Are we forced for some reason, into a choice between anti-rationalist socialism, and scientific and rational, individualist, universalist, self-destruction?

Or, is it possible to solve our cultural problem by creating institutions that acknowledge that the universalist property of the enlightenment was a failure? That equality and universalism are incompatible, just as freedom and democracy are incompatible?

Science and Reason, Naturalism and Correspondence need not be abandoned. But it appears that we must abandon the belief in universalism and equality, in exchange for nationalism and relative equality within a meritocratic hierarchy?

But given the lack of our individual power under capitalism, and the presence of mass political and economic power under all forms of representative government, can we create a hierarchy of meritocracy rather than pure political power? I don’t see how that can be accomplished without violence.

Our political history is masculine – the paternal family with private property. But women, in the work force and in politics, try to restore the feminine – the socialist model of common property. So that they need not form micro tribes of one man and one woman but instead, can force the support for their children onto the rest.

It must be visible that the system will not work before an alternative is an acceptable compromise. Monogamous marriage was a compromise. One that must return for a society to be economically viable, I think. I do not see it possible any other way, for the high costs of single parent families to compete with the lower cost of double income families. Nor do i see double income families continuing to support those who breed without double incomes. This is just a recipe for a caste system.

In the end, the family structure provides the morality that sustains the society and fulfills the demands of production. So I cannot see how

The reason that we need the “Dark Enlightenment” is because we need to use MORE science, not less. We need to use science to demonstate that the german social model is correct, but that anglo ratio-empiricism is correct. We need the common law. But germanic morality, community and duty.

Because we anglos have no community at all any longer.

And without community we are dead.