The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.
-Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political
It's good when friends do well and bad when enemies do well, simple as. Not to say that I would embrace a transhumanist government contractor as friend, at least not yet.
most interesting how they've been trying to stamp out "us vs them" mentality as something backwards and tribal then, isn't it? kinda like how they ruin language itself - they're trying to remove even the concept of having someone to fight from the mind of the eternal goy.
-Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political
It's good when friends do well and bad when enemies do well, simple as. Not to say that I would embrace a transhumanist government contractor as friend, at least not yet.
yeah. the friend-enemy distinction alone is enough to explain most of modern politics.
most interesting how they've been trying to stamp out "us vs them" mentality as something backwards and tribal then, isn't it? kinda like how they ruin language itself - they're trying to remove even the concept of having someone to fight from the mind of the eternal goy.
They've done something far more insidious. They've promoted it in some groups, discouraged and stamped it in others.