Theme: Governance

(to a friend who makes the common german mistake of conflating sentimental agreement with rational and empirical necessity, with the cost and ability to change the behavior of polities.)

Friend,

I think you are falling into the trap common of people with germanic backgrounds, and that is to attribute truth to that which just merely sounds right to you. Germans are germans because of the heavy social indoctrination of the culture, and genetics, and not because of the many hundred of ‘excuses’ philosophers make to justify german behavior as a good and to isolate german behavior from competition by foreign behaviors, models, and ideas.

These german authors are poets, romanticists, secular priests (opinion reinforcers), but they are not scientists (change agents).

German aristocratic ideas don’t spread if you haven’t noticed. Aristocratic ideas are never spread. THEY ARE IMPOSED

I know it will not help you to hear this. And it’s not that I don’t agree with your sentiments.

It’s that as intellectual work, excuse-making (the german rationalist model) and social engineering (the anglo legal model) are for different purposes: reinforcing the existing behaviors (germans) as a means of territorial defense, and colonizing new people (anglos) as a means of expanding commercial empires. Anglos and Romans dominated the world with Law and accounting, insured by arms. Germany never got to her empire phase because the Anglos and Russians (foolishly) stopped her. But if it had happened, then germans would have had to make the same transition from a philosophy of justification (how we should be) to a philosophy of law (we can be anything but what we must not be).

Once you understand this difference between justificationary reinforcement of existing ideas and operational transformation to new ideas, you’ll understand the difference between german domestic philosophy and anglo roman imperial philosophy and why germans use new-Christianity rationalism and anglos use rule of law.

So, in summary, you can only justify what exists. You cannot spread it.

Hence, german philosophy is nice only once you agree with it. It’s no use in converting anyone.

It’s possible to use anglo law and argument and science to convert by force of institutions, and then reinforce (make heroic) with german philosophy. But that’s all.

German justificationism(what to do), and Anglo Criticism (what not to do).

German culture is amazing for its oppressive inculcation of good behavior. But the philosophy just justifies the ancient germanic oath, and does not create it in the first place.

Sure, scribblers matter. I’m a scribbler too. But law is a method of involuntary persuasion, religion a method of social persuasion, and literature a means of intellectual suggestion for the middle classes.

Rule requires rule. And law provides the logic and method of ruling.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine