The American Right Grows Up
Auron MacIntyre, The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies, Regnery, 2024, 208 pp. The American Right talks about power, realism, and human nature. It acts politically like a naïve child. The American Left talks about equality, empathy, and...
Regardless, more bankers should die in wars, you can't partake in a war via funding without sharing some of the risk. It's pretty obvious (to me at least) that this is why they fund both sides. Can't take out the source of the enemy funding if it's your funding too.
I try to avoid hyperbolic conclusions from things like this but I just don't see a solution to this.
Yeah, to your specific point about the people making the decisions having to know the pain inflicted by their choices, I think of Heinlein and service-based citizenship.
However, regarding the overall broken and diseased system, yeah, I don’t really see a way out but through... it probably involves a lot of people de-banking and forming parallel systems that operate in an autonomous, self-contained and self-sustaining manner and just naturally growing those out - just my gut feeling
A man of culture.
I am glad to see the discourse start to reach towards feeling for plans and/or ideologies to see us through.