Why Monarchy？
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the Left vs Right Divide, and how it is a false dichotomy, and the real Left Vs Right Divide. I discuss the history of this false divide, and why it is necessary to destroy it.
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Monarchist. It's an odd thing to call oneself these days, isn't it? After all, we fought three
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world wars for the sake of democracy. Today we're all about freedom, the free market,
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the supremacy of the individual. And yet, here I am advocating for monarchy. It's a
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weird sort of stance to take, isn't it? To a certain extent, the reason I call myself a
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monarchist, like the term neo-reactionary, it's simply a way of cutting the Gordian knot
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of left-right politics. A lot of the argumentation going on today, it's this manufactured left-right
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argument, the left-right divide. People get all wrapped up in the puppet show of the left versus
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the right, liberals versus conservatives, and they never notice what's actually going on
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behind the scenes. You want a perfect example. We have had 40 years of conservative government
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here in Alberta, and yet they're passing all sorts of left-wing legislation. Partly it's
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just a way of cutting the Gordian knot, of stepping outside of politics and not giving your allegiance
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to one party or the other. But unlike the term neo-reactionary, which is a pure stepping outside
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of the mainstream, there's also some positive affirmations with monarchy, with monarchist,
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that we should have a divinely chosen monarch to run the country. Now it's important not to let this
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become just another hat. See, there's far too many political hats that people are wearing these days.
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Somebody reads a little bit of Atlas Shrugged, and they become an objectivist. They read some Mises,
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and they become an anarcho-capitalist. You know, so on and so forth. There's people looking for an
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identity, and they find a label, and they make that their identity, as opposed to just thinking about
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the system and asking valid questions and trying to come up with good conclusions, good theories based
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upon history, based upon political philosophy. So keeping that in mind, I try not to let monarchy
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become a hat that I wear. It's mainly a way of stepping outside the system, along with a few different
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positive prescriptions about what should be done, about how we should govern ourselves.
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And they're very hard to explain, simply because our vocabulary is so broken nowadays. The way we
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talk about things, the values that are instilled upon us are very modern values, and they are values
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that have happened before in the past, and in the past they did not lead to the survival of the
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civilization. But to actually talk about this, well, I think the best method would be to approach it
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with that false divide, with the left versus right mentality. Because although left versus right,
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it's not good politics, it does describe a very real condition in the human psyche, that psychologically
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some people are liberal and some people are conservative. And it's been the liberals controlling
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this dialogue for the past 60 years in the West, if not longer. So to get the, let's start to define
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this divide. Let's start with one of our enemies, a truth-hating Marxist, Eric Fromm.
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Eric Fromm was one of the intellectuals in the open conspiracy to take over the West known as the
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Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism. And if you haven't heard of them before, do your research on
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these guys. The Frankfurt School, so yeah, the original school of Marxism was that it was going to be an
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economic war between the exploited proletariat and the exploiting capitalists or landowners. And that
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never came to fruition. What Marx was looking at was a short-term imbalance in the economy, where all
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of a sudden, a huge amount of power went towards the capitalists, thanks to the industrialization of
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Britain. And this disenfranchised a lot of people. It hurt a lot of people economically, turned them
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into a step above slaves. But that corrected itself. Eventually, you did get the union movement,
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and you did get forward-thinking capitalists. Allegedly, Henry Ford was one of these guys who
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paid his workers well enough that they could buy his cars. It fixed itself. The hardcore Marxists,
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however, they weren't satisfied with simply greater equity in society. They needed to push the message
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forward. And so the Frankfurt School, full of intellectuals that got chased out of Germany by
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Hitler, because he absolutely despised Marxists, they came up with the idea that what we need to do
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is to destroy all the institutions in society, all the institutions that make people unequal. For
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instance, religion, marriage, the economy, the social order to things. We need to destroy all of this.
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And we're going to hurt a lot of people in the process. But once we have everybody down to an
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individual atom that is interchangeable with every other cog in society, at that point, we can build
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the new Marxist man. So the way they did it was by trying to undermine institutions by getting into
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them. The slow march through institutions is what they did. And one of the first steps was pathologizing
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conservatism. So this is a quote from Eric Fromm's book, Man for Himself. And a hat tip to Radish for
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finding this quote, by the way. It does a perfect job summing up the difference between liberals and
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conservatives, between rabbits and wolves, in languages very hostile to conservatives, but I think
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that most of you out there will identify with quite strongly. So the quote begins,
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In authoritarian ethics, an authority states what is good for man and lays down the laws and norms of
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conduct. In humanistic ethics, man himself is both the norm giver and the subject of their norms,
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their formal source or regulative agency, and their subject matter.
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Those right there are the two different perspectives. And both of them, at present,
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reject the concept of monarchy. But let's start with the second one. The humanistic ethic,
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man himself is born the norm giver and the subject of the norms. This is,
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modern liberalism. What happens when you appeal to the individual as the giver of all ethical norms?
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Let's think about ourselves as individuals. Let's think about ourselves as young men and women.
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When we were 15 or 20, we didn't know anything about the world. And we were desperate for guidance.
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And yet the guidance given to us was this, do what you want, do what makes you happy. Any type of
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lifestyle is okay, just as long as you're not hurting anybody else. And yet the guidance we need
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is, how do I not hurt myself? How do I make wise decisions to make sure I end up where I want to be?
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The whole Manosphere phenomenon is basically a group of Gen X men who have looked at all the
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mistakes that we've made in our lives and wish that we'd had somebody to guide us through those
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without making those mistakes. You know, it starts with the sex that nice guys finish last and we all
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got raised to be nice guys. But it starts rapidly growing into the fact that a lot of us got useless
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university degrees. A lot of us associated with people or kind of believed in things that wound up
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being detrimental to us. And there was nobody in our lives to give us a smack on the head and say,
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don't do that. We were looking for that mentorship, for that authority, and nobody ever gave it to us.
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Furthermore, when you focus just on the individual, when you raise up the individual as the arbiter of
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all that is good or true, you have no way of distinguishing one ethos from another. If everybody's
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equal, then the rapist is on par with the saint. The child molester is equal to the married man.
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If all ethics are purely arbitrary, then there are no ethics. There is just feelings. There is just
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the relative truth. And you get absolute social chaos. Now, in the case of Fromm, he advocated this
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stuff quite intentionally. All of these Frankfurt School cultural Marxists knew precisely what
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they were doing. If you tell an entire generation to go out there and do whatever feels good,
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you're going to wind up with young people going out and getting drug addictions. You're going to
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wind up with girls going out and dating bad boy after bad boy until they're a single mom,
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and then regretting the decisions in their lives. You're going to wind up with a generation of broken
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people who need the state to survive. In Fromm's case, it was completely intentional. These Frankfurt
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School Marxists are incredibly Machiavellian and quite, quite evil. But as for the rabbit person,
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the rabbit person reads this humanistic ethos, the humanistic ethics, and they see an opportunity.
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The thing about rabbit people is that they are scared of outright competition. They are scared
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of outright authority. This modern practice of giving everybody a trophy in a sports game, this
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is liberalism 101. This is because liberals are afraid to compete openly. They want everybody to get a
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trophy. And they're going to find a way to manipulate things to make it so that the best player on the
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sports team is somehow morally questionable. You're only the best player because you were born that
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way. Check your privilege. The rabbits seek out a hierarchy as well, but they seek out a covert
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hierarchy. Something as explicit as monarchy frightens them the same way the military frightens them
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because they know that they can't compete in an honest game. So they try and manipulate the rules.
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They try and work behind the scenes. They, on the outside, say that everybody's equal, while behind the
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scenes manipulating things so that they're on top. It's a competitive reproductive strategy. It's a rather
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vile one since we are a case-selected species overall, but that's why they are so intimidated by monarchy.
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It's the desire for freedom, but it's a sort of freedom that you use to subvert the rules.
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They don't like explicit rules. They like to manipulate them.
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The second big challenge to monarchy is the conservative side of things. So let's revisit
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what Fromm says about conservatives, which he calls authoritarians, because he is, of course,
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trying to associate conservatism with Nazism to discredit it. And what he says, the authoritarian
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ethics, an authoritarian states what is good for man and lays down the laws and norms of conduct.
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Now, even us wolves, us wolves like explicit hierarchy. We like knowing what the rules are.
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We play by the rules, and there's no victory if you don't play by the rules. That's the whole point
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of the game, is we want to hone our skills and get better. We want to know who the boss is and who we
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take orders from. We don't want to always be minding our P's and Q's because some overweight 40-year-old
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single mother is going to make a sexual harassment complaint about us when we weren't even speaking
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to her. That bothers us. We like the explicit rules. But notice the way that Fromm states it.
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The authoritarian, one man dictates what all the rules are. One man gets to tell you what the good
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life is. And so here you get the other half of the coin, that the conservative mind does not like
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the idea of people being born into wealth. When the conservative wolf person mind, when that psychology
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sees monarchy, they see that, that unjustified privilege, that being pushed around by somebody
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who didn't earn their position. What we like, what we admire, is somebody that earns their position,
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somebody that justifies being leader of the tribe, and then we are perfectly happy to follow them.
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The liberal will make snarky comments behind their back and try and undermine their authority.
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The conservative mind respects somebody that earns their wealth. This is why we love the free market.
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It's a fair and open competition, in theory. And monarchy seems like it isn't that thing, right?
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But again, that's a fake divide. This is the manipulation that people like Fromm have introduced
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into our language. That we think that monarchy is unjustified totalitarianism. When what monarchy
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actually is, it's the acknowledgement of explicit power structures, of explicit rules. In a monarchy,
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there are rules to play by. The monarch has limits put upon them, and you as an individual have
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opportunity to rise throughout this system. It's not the Indian caste system where you're born into it,
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you have to be this for the rest of your life. It's simply a system of explicit rules.
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And so with this manipulative language, which makes conservatives constantly apologize for being
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leaders, for being authorities, because you don't want to be authoritarian, it's this manipulated
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language that drives the conservative-minded individual to reject the system of monarchy.
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Basically, we've mistaken monarchy for communist tyranny. The leftists, with their occult hierarchy,
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create the authoritarianism, except the language has been manipulated, so you conflate authoritarianism
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with the right. Now, one final justification for monarchy is the fact that any system that you
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have is eventually going to have people in power. So let's take a really brief and somewhat unfair
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analysis of anarcho-capitalism. In an anarcho-capitalist society, eventually you are going to get a 1% of elite,
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wealthy individuals. What is the guiding ethos of this society, however? In anarcho-capitalism,
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the guiding ethos is all about the individual and free will. That so long as an individual in an
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anarcho-capitalist state is choosing something, you have no right to criticize it. And so, the 1% elites
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at that point start selling fake catharsis, fake independence, fake freedom, which is where we are
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right now. You buy the video game, and you're the hero. You buy the Nikes, and you're an NBA player.
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And they become absolute slaves to the system, being progressively brainwashed and manipulated to be
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cogs in the machine. You get an irresponsible elite when you have anarcho-capitalism, because the
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foundational myth is the primacy of the individual. With monarchy, on the other hand, with monarchy,
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it's an upward pull. Rather than the downward pull of the individual as sacrosanct, you have an
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upward pull to create the best possible society ever. What is the monarch supposed to do? If the monarch's
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chosen by god, the monarch needs to be godly. So even if, in a monarchy, you have a bad monarch,
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you have a sociopath, well, on a purely economic scale, they have everything they want. So there's
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really no need to exploit everybody, because you can only sleep with so many concubines in a day,
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you can only play so many video games. But more to the point is that the underlying ethos of this society
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is that the nobility sets an example for the peasants. And even if the nobility is actually
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a bunch of psychopaths, they are going to pretend not to be.
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Somebody once said, comment on my blog, that monarchy is a very primitive form of government.
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I agree. And we are a very primitive people. Trying to design a system that only works for
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saints is going to result in absolute monstrosity. Whereas something like monarchy, it accepts the
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broken nature of man. How the vast majority of people are selfish, are cruel, are short-sighted,
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and it creates a system that pulls them into being something better than themselves. And rather than
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being worried about their material well-being, which leads to slavish consumerism, it worries about their
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spiritual well-being. The foundation of the government is trying to be godly. Whether or not
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you believe in God, it's a good thing to try and pursue. And so that trickles down from the very top.
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Right now, we have trickle-down economic prosperity, which is why everybody in the ghetto probably makes
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more money than I do. But we don't have trickle-down spirituality, value in the self, and an explicit
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hierarchy that allows one to climb the ladder without finding the ladder secretly leads to a pit.
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Why monarchy? Because it's good for the human soul. Irini out, folks.
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So that I can't think that's not the hardest part of it I have to make you segue
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